# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298 "2025-12-01T20:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2181 "2026-02-03T05:55:14Z")
I would have gone with _Langston Mews_ myself, but I suppose that doesn’t work for a wide street… ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2182 "2026-02-03T10:26:04Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I feel like this is kind of burying the lede that a bunch of rich and influential people in government and finance are white supremacists who throw a private party on Lee’s birthday. I had the same thought. (More) shame on them. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2183 "2026-02-03T11:41:29Z")
I’m still disappointed that West 61st Street between West End and Amsterdam Avenues in Manhattan was named “Alvin Ailey Place” instead of “Alvin Ailey Alley.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2184 "2026-02-03T11:54:21Z")
Quoting Trump: > [@Monty](#): > > “Noah, a total loser, better get his facts straight, and get them straight fast,” the post continued. “It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$.” Oh please do. Because discovery should be fun. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2185 "2026-02-03T12:04:56Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Because discovery should be fun. If there is no subpoena sent to Mnt. Arrarat, I wil be disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2186 "2026-02-03T12:58:07Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Federally supported municipal bonds to pay for forced busing of Soviet communists to come into your homes to kill your puppies! It won’t help. People still won’t call in to your talk show. > **[SNL Transcripts: Buck Henry: 05/22/76: Talk Back - SNL Transcripts Tonight](https://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75utalkback.phtml)** > >  Saturday Night Live Transcripts  Season 1: Episode 21 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2187 "2026-02-03T14:07:38Z")
It’s hard to slip a cultural reference past this group. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2188 "2026-02-03T16:46:59Z")
(Quoting a quote within **Monty** ’s post.) > [@Monty](#): > > FIFA president Gianni Infantino has defended his organization’s controversial decision to [award Donald Trump its inaugural Peace Prize](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/05/trump-fifa-peace-prize/87589592007/). Can something really be “controversial” when everyone in the world knows it’s just plain bullshit? Eye-roll inducing? Sure. Laughably stupid? Yes. Glaringly obvious ass-kissing? Definitely. Controversial? I don’t think so. People need to actually care about something for there to be a controversy. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2189 "2026-02-03T18:54:14Z")
Is it a pre-emptive strike when you award someone a peace prize in the hope that they **won’t** start WWIII? That should be called not the _peace_ prize but the _appeace_-ment prize. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2190 "2026-02-03T20:44:12Z")
The Neville Chamberlain peace prize. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2191 "2026-02-03T21:01:09Z")
“Neville Again!” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2192 "2026-02-03T21:02:33Z")
Not in our time. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2193 "2026-02-03T23:06:49Z")
DOJ lawyer asks judge to find her in contempt because she’s sick of what the admin is making her do and she’d like to get some sleep. > **[Jaws drop at Trump DOJ prosecutor's 'unbelievable' courtroom admission: 'This...](https://www.rawstory.com/doj-prosecutors/)** > > An assistant U.S. attorney in the Trump administration made an admission to a Minnesota federal judge in open court on Tuesday that left legal experts open-mouthed.According to FOX9's Paul Blume, when U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell pressed DOJ... ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2194 "2026-02-04T01:33:56Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > DOJ lawyer asks judge to find her in contempt She actually sounds like someone on the verge of opening her eyes to the cruelty. Plus, now that she’s publicly dissed how the program is being run, she’ll probably get canned. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2195 "2026-02-04T02:07:36Z")
This is going to merge with his major metal illness. He is unfit to be president at a mental level and ought to be removed, at least temporarily, on the orders of those most likely to suffer and who will do not, as they are most likely to be candidates. Just draw a circle, and hold it up for all to see, Mr. President. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2196 "2026-02-04T03:42:04Z")
Today’s presser had another abruptly “everybody out, grandpa’s having an episode” ending after Trump went on a tangent about how Kaitlan Collins would be prettier if she smiled more. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdycvgguak2o)** > > MIKE JOHNSON: America is back! The hat is appropriate > > > TRUMP: It's a new hat. Just came out. 'America is back.' Look, CNN is thrilled. She never smiles. Someday I'll see her smile. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdyeas6qyg2o)** > > KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo--- > > TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdyegcw5jt2d)** > > Trump can be heard still complaining about Kaitlan Collins not smiling as reporters are ushers out of the Oval Office ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2197 "2026-02-04T05:07:48Z")
[Even following ICE freaks them out.](https://www.aol.com/articles/immigration-agents-draw-guns-arrest-181633239.html) > [@](#): > > MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested some activists who were trailing their vehicles on Tuesday in Minneapolis, a sign that tensions have not eased since the departure last week of [a high-profile commander](https://apnews.com/article/shooting-minneapolis-protests-ice-immigration-lawsuit-5bd12d70d3c76bfe5eacd802ce7480a7). > > At least one person who had an anti-ICE message on clothing was handcuffed while face-down on the ground. An Associated Press photographer witnessed the arrests. > > Federal agents lately have been conducting more targeted immigration arrests at homes and neighborhoods, rather than staging in parking lots. The convoys have been harder to find and less aggressive. Alerts in activist group chats have been more about sightings than immigration-related detainments. > > Several cars followed officers through south Minneapolis after there were reports of them knocking at homes. Officers stopped their vehicles and ordered activists to come out of a car at gunpoint. Agents told reporters at the scene to stay back and threatened to use pepper spray. Explain to me how following them is a felony. [Democrats have a message the dictator won’t listen to.](https://www.aol.com/articles/gop-pushes-clintons-testify-democrats-210549552.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — Facing the threat of being held in contempt of Congress, Bill and Hillary Clinton on Tuesday [agreed to testify](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/clintons-agree-testify-house-epstein-probe-ahead-contempt-vote-rcna257143)before the House Oversight Committee about convicted sex offender [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-releases-new-trove-long-awaited-epstein-files-rcna256714). > > Democrats now say Republicans have established a new precedent when it comes to Congress’ ability to subpoena and haul in past presidents, first ladies and family members under threat of criminal charges if they refuse — a precedent they warn the GOP and Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., will soon regret. > > **“We are absolutely going to have Donald Trump testify under oath” when Democrats take back power** , California Rep. Ted Lieu, a member of Democratic leadership who for years has been highlighting Donald Trump’s ties to Epstein, told NBC News on Tuesday. > > “It is a big deal,” added Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., a former House majority leader who is retiring after serving more than 45 years in the chamber. **“And it’d be interesting to see what former President Trump thinks of that premise.”** [Former Prime Minister Harper lays it out for Canada and for America’s toddler.](https://www.aol.com/articles/ex-leader-harper-says-canada-233654300.html) > [@](#): > > TORONTO (AP) — Former [Canadian](https://apnews.com/hub/canada) Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday the country should make “any sacrifice necessary” to preserve the independence of the country in the face of threats from U.S. President Donald Trump. & > [@](#): > > Harper didn’t mention Trump by name but urged Canada’s two major parties, the Liberals and Conservatives, to unify in the face of threats to the country’s sovereignty. > > “We must make any sacrifice necessary to preserve the independence and the unity of this blessed land,” Harper said. [The felon really wants the courts to allow war criminal Hegseth punish a sitting senato.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-incredulous-trump-lawyer-asks-225859468.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, DC–Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon expressed shock Tuesday that the Trump Justice Department was asking him to break new First Amendment ground, the better to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for speaking out against the administration. > > “You’re asking me to do something that the Supreme Court has never done — that’s a bit of a stretch, is it not?” the George W. Bush-appointed judge asked DOJ’s John Bailey. > > The Trump administration tried during the hearing to argue that the diminished speech rights that apply to the active duty military — meant to preserve obedience and discipline — should apply to Kelly, who is retired, as well. > > “That’s never been done before,” Leon said. > > Kelly sat in the front row during Tuesday’s hearing in a bright blue suit, flanked by staffers. And I like this question from the judge. > [@](#): > > “How is a member on the Armed Services committees supposed to do his or her job?” Leon asked lawyers for the administration. > > He also pointed out that the chilling effect the Trump administration’s position has on Kelly extends to “many, many other” retired members of the military as well. The answer to that question, of course, is _the felon and his flacks simply **do not care** _. All they care about is doing what they want and to Hell with such niceties as the law and even the constitution. Let’s think about it for a moment. I’m retired military. I criticize the felon-in-charge and even call his so-called Secretary of Defense a war criminal. So, according to those idiots, I’m violating the law and my comments are bad for good order and discipline. That’s utter nonsense. And that’s why this is going to get laughed out of court(s). [Minnesota’s four Republican representatives want Congress to abdicate their jobs to the felon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/minnesota-republicans-propose-withhold-federal-164707168.html) > [@](#): > > Minnesota’s four Republican members of Congress are supporting new legislation designed to force the state’s election officials to turn over private voter data to the Trump administration, withholding federal funding if it doesn’t. > > Rep. Pete Stauber introduced the [Minnesota Voter Integrity Act of 2026](https://stauber.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/stauber.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/staumn_034_xml-2.pdf) in the U.S. House on Monday, with Reps. Tom Emmer, Brad Finstad, and Michelle Fischbach as co-sponsors. > > If passed, the bill would allow the Trump administration to withhold federal election funding from Minnesota until the state shares voter information requested by the U.S. Department of Justice. > > The [Trump administration is suing election officials](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-sues-minnesota-secretary-164952075.html) in Minnesota and at least 19 other states who have refused to provide voter roll information, including the full names, dates of birth, residential addresses and driver’s license numbers of voters. Remember, folks; _Every day is Day One of the rest of the dictatorship!_ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2198 "2026-02-04T05:38:28Z")
> [@Ted Lieu](#): > > We are absolutely going to have Donald Trump testify under oath Quoted from **Monty’s** post. Are they so delusional as to believe he would tell the truth under oath? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2199 "2026-02-04T05:43:27Z")
Nope. That’s why they want him to be there. Perjury will be a wonderful charge to add to his résumé. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2200 "2026-02-04T05:44:49Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Are they so delusional as to believe he would tell the truth under oath? I kinda doubt it. Assuming that he doesn’t leave office in a casket, I imagine that they already anticipate, if they ever got him to that point, his responses would be either: - “I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights” and/or “I cannot recall,” which was the strategy that many of his followers used when testifying before the January 6th Committee - Delusional blabbering Either way, it’ll make him look like either guilty AF, or insane. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=111)