# 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:** 114
**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 6, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2261 "2026-02-06T23:18:38Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > [@scudsucker](#): > > > > I guess he could also ask the Congolese, the Zambians, the Angolans, the Zimbabweans, the Mozambiquans. We all pronounce the word the same. > > > > But no. > > But definitely not the Nigerians! Nor the [Nigeriens](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nigerien)! > [@DesertDog](#): > > Of course not – he hasn’t the skill. But one of his underlings did and _The Buck Stops Here_ or at least it used to. Oh, the buck is stopping in his greedy tiny-fingered grubby hands. It’s just not referring to responsibility, but rather to money. [Speaking of which…](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-asked-hell-commit-sending-022536401.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) said he could promise Americans would receive the $2,000 tariff rebate checks, but he hasn’t “made the commitment yet.” > > In an interview with [_NBC Nightly News_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qpkmzaRXo)’ Tom Llamas on Wednesday, Feb. 4, the anchor, 46, asked Trump, 79, about the “idea of $2,000 rebate checks for Americans from tariff revenue,” adding, “Who’s gonna get that and… when is that gonna happen?” > > “We’d make it — I — I’m gonna — I’m looking at it very seriously,” Trump replied, per [NBC News’ transcript](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-interview-nbc-news-extend-transcript-tom-llamas-super-bowl-2026-rcna257410). “I’m the only one can do it because I’m takin’ in hundreds of billions of dollars of money from tariffs…” > > “But you can promise some Americans will get those checks?” Llamas asked. > > “Oh yeah, sure. I can — I can do that. I haven’t made the commitment yet, but I may make the commitment,” Trump said, before claiming that he “just gave $1,776” to U.S. military servicemembers. [Entering legally means nothing to the felon and his flacks.](https://www.aol.com/articles/us-moves-deport-5-old-200241547.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Friday it is **seeking to deport ​a 5-year-old Ecuadorean boy** who was detained in Minnesota last month. > > The ‌department, which has federal oversight of immigration enforcement, denied that it was seeking expedited ‌removal after a lawyer for the boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, told the New York Times that the Trump administration was seeking an expedited deportation. > > The lawyer, Danielle Molliver, **described the move as “extraordinary” and possibly “retaliatory.”** > > “These are regular removal proceedings,” ⁠department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin ‌said, adding, “This is standard procedure and there is nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.” > > Lawyers for Liam and ‍the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comments. > > **Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, who both entered the U.S. legally as asylum ​applicants, were detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention ‌facility in Dilley, Texas, until a judge ordered their release on January 31.** [Just a few days shy of nine months away and the felon’s already planning on screwing up the election.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hoo-boy-trump-asked-whether-134016832.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump) said Wednesday he’d accept a GOP midterm loss to Democrats “if the elections are honest.” > > It’s an [ad nauseam](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-donald-trump-debate-live-updates_n_667c473ce4b05521a7f0538b/liveblog_667e236ae4b0415858d6678a)[refrain](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-accept-2024-results-fair-legal-airing-false-2020-fraud-clai-rcna159372) that the president [has leaned on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjzYS2ke68k) to boost future claims of rigging if elections don’t go his way ― but no less chilling. > > In an interview with [NBC](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/nbc)’s Tom Llamas, Trump railed against Democrats’ opposition to voter ID, accused several blue cities of voting corruption and in pot-calling-kettle-black bombast declared, “We can’t allow cheating in elections.” As [he did earlier this week](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donanld-trump-nationalize-voting_n_69826d18e4b00e89c72f4de6), the president **again hinted he would impose federal controls if states can’t conduct elections “honestly.”** Let’s see if he can manage to get 50 mobs to storm 50 capitols. Sadly, that’s likely something he can do. ---
**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 6, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2262 "2026-02-06T23:22:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > he’d accept a GOP midterm loss to Democrats “if the elections are honest.” Or else what? There’s no way he’ll call any election honest, having suffered “rigged” elections in the past. I know we’ve long thrown out the Constitution, yet is he going to set up a military Politburo? I reckon “Some republicans” will be okay with that. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2263 "2026-02-06T23:31:29Z")
If no Democrat wins any seat, any where, that will still be evidence that the Democrats committed voter fraud. ---
**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 6, 2026, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2264 "2026-02-06T23:49:43Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > the president **again hinted he would impose federal controls if states can’t conduct elections “honestly.”** There’s that word again “honestly”. And here he is saying “federal controls”, which itself isn’t in the Constitution. He’s not going to accept any results. If Thomas Jefferson meant for the president to “approve” of elections else enact martial law, Benjamin Franklin, Adams, Washington or any of those other morons, would have said “You are telling a King we just want our own King”. trump has already “rigged” the November elections. Will **any** republican speak out against this government treachery? I keep hoping the “Trump is dying” thread title is changed ASAP. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2265 "2026-02-07T00:10:21Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > _Underlings_. Always linging about in our unders; why aren’t we deporting _their_ asses? Well, it’s a _unnamed_ underling. They don’t even know who it is! Probably Antifa. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2266 "2026-02-07T00:15:02Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Probably Antifa. ‘I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.’ ~ Karoline ‘A girl can only make up so much bullshit on her own’ Leavitt ---
**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 7, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2267 "2026-02-07T00:58:40Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > trump has already “rigged” the November elections. The key word in all of this is “says”. Trump SAYS he’ll “nationalize” the elections. Trump SAYS a lot of things. Many of them have no connection whatsoever to reality or what he or his admin are actually going to do. He SAID last May that he was banning mail-in voting. He then said it again in October and last week. He SAID he would not allow Zohran to become mayor of NYC. He wound up calling in love with him in the Oval Office. He SAID there would be $5000 DOGE checks and $2000 tariff checks. My bank account is still looking kinda slim. ---
**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 7, 2026, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2268 "2026-02-07T01:46:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Well, the racist Obama video has now been taken down, and the whole unfortunate incident, which was initially vigorously defended by Trump’s communication team, has been blamed on some unnamed underling. Trump is now going with “Nobody knew that was in the video”. > **[Trump won’t apologize for sharing since-deleted racist video depicting Obamas...](https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/donald-trump-obamas-apes-truth-social)** > > President Donald Trump refused to apologize Friday after posting and then deleting a racist video depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle, insisting he hadn’t seen the final frames containing... > “I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine,” he said, referring to the first part of the video that contained debunked claims about fraud in voting machines. > > “It was a very strong post in terms of voter fraud,” he went on. “Nobody knew that that was in the end. If they would have looked, they would have seen it, and probably they would have had the sense to take it down.” ---
**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 7, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2269 "2026-02-07T02:02:59Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > But there was a condition: In exchange for the money, Schumer had to agree to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles International Airport after Trump. A judge has now blocked Trump from holding up the funding. > **[Judge rules in favor of New York and New Jersey for now in $16B tunnel fight...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/judge-rules-favor-new-york-new-jersey-now-16b-tunnel-fight-trump-rcna257865)** > > The construction on the tunnel, which will connect New York and New Jersey, was expected to end Friday night. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2270 "2026-02-07T02:47:46Z")
> [@](#): > > “Nobody knew that that was in the end. If they would have looked, they would have seen it, and probably they would have had the sense to take it down.” Now, now Donny. Don’t lie. Everyone that saw that knows that that was in the end. “take it down” do you mean platforms should censor people’s speech? Because even someone as challenged as you are must realize that the people that put it up, put it up with intent because they knew that that was in the end. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2271 "2026-02-07T03:25:43Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > And why he constantly takes it out on Obama I have no clue. [The White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011](https://youtu.be/Htt91G2qDwM?si=jx6tcvrFVQT_YrVF), where Obama needled Trump and infuriated the thin-skinned egotist. ---
**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 7, 2026, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2272 "2026-02-07T03:44:43Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Shrodinger’s President; > Reporter: What is your message to the many Americans who are offended by the video? > > Trump: I didn’t know about it. I really have no message. > > Reporter: You frequently criticized Biden for not knowing what was going on in his name, this racist video that was posted on your social media— > > Trump: You don’t know what’s going on. I know what’s going on. We know everything. > > ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2273 "2026-02-07T04:53:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > We know everything. except for what I said 10 seconds ago. ---
**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 7, 2026, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2274 "2026-02-07T05:28:47Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > I keep hoping the “Trump is dying” thread title is changed ASAP. I keep vacillating between limiting the damage and him watching his edifices dismantled, or at least having his name chiseled off of them. ---
**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 7, 2026, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2275 "2026-02-07T05:49:29Z")
Military officers are ordering troops under their command to buy tickets to Melania. > **[Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/military-pressured-to-see-melania-whistleblowers-warn/)** > > A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater. ---
**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 7, 2026, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2276 "2026-02-07T06:27:33Z")
From the link @Smapti provided: > [@](#): > > one of the three “unit activity events” service members are required to attend each month. Such events are designed to promote bonds within combat units and their families. What? I served active duty Army, drilling Army Reserve, and active duty Navy and I never heard such a thing. And why three instead of four. Let’s go ahead and ruin every weekend not just 75% of them. Seriously, when did this nonsense begin? As it is, it’s certainly not having the supposedly ostensible effect. (From the same link.) > [@](#): > > Weinstein said that manipulating troops to spend their lesiure time on ideologically-driven activities negatively affects unit cohesion. > > “It tears it down,” he said. “It’s like injecting cancer into the body of the military unit.” And in evident answer to my query just above: > [@](#): > > In a statement to The Daily Beast, the Department of Defense said that there “is no Department of War [sic] directive requiring service members to see this film, though the film is fantastic.” Why does this remind of the joke about the farmer’s son returning home from college? “Fantastic, Dad; just fantastic!” Oh, and just in case you thought (hahaha) there’s no grift here (and the bolding is mine). > [@](#): > > Amazon’s extraordinary expenditure on the hour-and-forty-minute film has made it one of the most expensive documentaries of all time. > > $35 million was spent on marketing alone, while **$40 million was handed to Melania Trump’s production company** for the “rights” to use her image and likeness in the film. > > \*\* Melania herself is expected to personally pocket $27 million from the Amazon deal, [sparking claims](https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jimmy-kimmel-melania-documentary-bribe-amazon-1236643268/) that the entire project is, in fact, a massive bribe paid by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to curry favor with the Trump family.\*\* ---
**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 7, 2026, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2277 "2026-02-07T07:13:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What? I served active duty Army, drilling Army Reserve, and active duty Navy and I never heard such a thing. And why three instead of four. Let’s go ahead and ruin every weekend not just 75% of them. > > Seriously, when did this nonsense begin? It might be something specific to this one officer. Here’s the whistleblower’s email; > **[Unit Commander makes Melania film a designated UAE](https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2026/02/unit-commander-makes-melania-film-a-designated-uae/)** > > From: (Active Duty Enlisted Military Member/MRFF Client’s email address withheld)Subject: Unit Commander makes Melania film a designated UAEDate: January 31, 2026 at 9:15:14 AM MSTTo: Information Weinstein > > > > This email is to confirm a phone call I... > Our unit is a combat outfit. Our unit commander requires active participation from our unit members at what he determines to be official “Unit Activity Events” or UAEs which are supposed to create a bond within our combat unit and its families. > > His UAE events have been everything from unit softball games, flag football contests, barbecues and picnics and “movie nights” for our unit members and their families. He has also held Bible studies and given these “UAE” status for those of us who attend. > > Attendance at all of these UAEs is not mandatory but our unit Commander requires attendance at least at 3 of the 4 these each month. He is the person who decides what is a UAE and what is not. Failure to attend the minimum of 3 UAEs per month will be negatively reflected in our fitness eval reports. ---
**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 7, 2026, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2278 "2026-02-07T07:50:27Z")
Bible studies, huh? Let me guess. Ethiopian canon, Orthodox canon, and Roman Catholic canon aren’t “approved”. ---
**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 7, 2026, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2279 "2026-02-07T07:52:45Z")
I’d be tempted to show up with a JPS Tanakh and suggest we discuss this week’s parshah. 🙂 ---
**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 7, 2026, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2280 "2026-02-07T08:21:50Z")
I kind of wish I were in that unit now. I’d show up with a [JST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_Translation). That would be fun! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=113) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=115)