# 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:** 115
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2281 "2026-02-07T09:55:12Z")
Allies? We don’t need no stinking allies! Unless they’re nice to us, like Quatar, and not mean, like Canada (soon to be called Northern Minnesota! What’s Poland ever done for us? Look up Roman Giertych‘s letter mentioned in the article to Rose, it’s very good. > **[US embassy cuts off Polish House leader after jab on Trump’s Nobel bid](https://thedeepdive.ca/poland-us-trump-nobel-row/)** > > US envoy to Poland Tom Rose cuts contacts with Włodzimierz Czarzasty after Nobel refusal; Tusk warns allies must respect. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2282 "2026-02-07T13:00:08Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Why does this remind of the joke about the farmer’s son returning home from college? “Fantastic, Dad; just fantastic!” Let’s hear the whole joke! (We can withstand a one-short-post diversion.) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2283 "2026-02-07T14:13:54Z")
Better hide the truth, hide reality, NBC! As long as reality is hidden, Republicans can act like everything is fine! So weak and fragile that reality is painful. Pathetic. > **[NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast?CMP=share_btn_url)** > > The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2284 "2026-02-07T15:05:31Z")
_“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”_ –George Orwell, “1984” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2285 "2026-02-07T15:07:49Z")
[MeidasTouch: Trump didn’t know about the ‘ape’ video. Also, Trump knows everything.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7x0LRD4Gkw&start=594) Should be cued to 09:54. From an Occupy Democrats post: > “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 immediately gets FURIOUS and desperately tries to bully his way out of it. > > “I know what’s going on. I know what’s going on. Joe Biden didn’t have a clue. But we know everything.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/C7x0LRD4Gkw/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump LOSES IT on AIR FORCE ONE as COLLAPSE ACCELERATES!!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7x0LRD4Gkw) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2286 "2026-02-07T15:22:00Z")
Now, I could see going to watch _Melania_ as team building even. Everyone just MST3Ks during the showing. Good jokes get big laughs, and they become a better closer unit. ---
**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, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2287 "2026-02-07T21:20:51Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > Why does this remind of the joke about the farmer’s son returning home from college? “Fantastic, Dad; just fantastic!” > > Let’s hear the whole joke! (We can withstand a one-short-post diversion.) A farmer had a wife and two sons. He worked hard and had enough money to send just the older son to college. There wasn’t even money for the son to return home for visits. Finally the farmer’s son graduated and returned home. At dinnertime, the older son asked his father what had happened while he was away studying. The father told him, “You should have been here last month son! I was out plowing the field when I heard the thundering sound of hooves. I turned around and what did I see? Two wild horses racing straight at me, neck and neck. I jump right between them and punched them both at one time, knocking them out.” The older son responded, “That’s fantastic, Dad, just fantastic.” He then turned to his brother and asked, “What’s been going on with you while I was away?” The youner son said, “You should have been here last week. I was driving the old truck to market with 10 50-pound bags of corn. I was five miles away from the market when that old truck just stopped working. So, I grabbed all the bags, put them on my shoulders and ran all the way to the market in just twenty minutes.” To this the older son responded, “That’s fantastic, brother, just fantastic.” And before he could ask his mother the same question he put to his father and brother, she asked her older son, “Son, you were gone four years and I’m sure you worked and studied hard. Can you tell me what the most important thing is you learned while you were away at college?” The older son pondered for a moment, then looked his mother straight in the eye and told her, “Mom, I think the most important thing I learned was to say ‘fantastic’ instead of ‘bullshit’.” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2288 "2026-02-07T22:15:02Z")
Ha! Rather _a propos_, after all. (And, though I’ve been a college professor for thirteen years, only now can I accurately interpret what some students say.) ---
**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, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2289 "2026-02-07T23:43:18Z")
[The felon accidentally tells the truth.](https://www.aol.com/articles/didnt-mistake-trump-says-post-011716413.html) > [@](#): > > [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) declined to apologize for sharing [a video](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-posts-video-meme-showing-134450274.html) depicting former [President Barack Obama](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/obama-calls-trump-administrations-tylenol-174949878.html) and first lady [Michelle Obama](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2026/02/05/melania-movie-michelle-obama-becoming-documentary-netflix/88528030007/) as apes, telling reporters “I didn’t make a mistake.” > > Trump [told reporters](https://www.youtube.com/live/UUf_KtCoMvg) while traveling on Air Force One to Florida on Feb. 6 that he only looked at the beginning of the roughly one-minute long video, which starts off talking about unsubstantiated voter fraud claims regarding the 2020 election, and didn’t see the portion with the Obamas that has been widely condemned as racist. > > “I just looked at the first part… I didn’t see the whole thing,” Trump said, indicating he gave it to someone else to post and “somebody slipped and missed a very small part.” > > “I guess probably nobody reviewed the end of it," Trump said. You’re right, you convict. You didn’t make a mistake. You posted that racist trash on purpose because, get this, you’re a racist. [He doesn’t say he’s not racist, just that he’s the least racist.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-declares-am-least-racist-015927593.html) > [@](#): > > During a Friday gaggle with the press aboard Air Force One en route to Mar-a-Lago, President **Donald Trump** declared that he is “the least racist president you’ve had in a long time,” amid uproar from both sides of the aisle after he posted a video to Truth Social depicting former President **Barack Obama** and former First Lady **Michelle Obama** as apes. > > “I’ve done great with black voters,” declared Trump. “They’ve been great to me, I’ve been great to them.” > > “I am, by the way, the least racist president you’ve had in a long time, as far as I’m concerned,” he added. I can believe that. After all, it’s been one mighty long year thanks to him. [And here’s another court order the felon and his flacks are refusing to obey.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-admin-declines-judge-request-012645543.html) > [@](#): > > A federal prosecutor in Massachusetts said Friday that the federal government will not return a 19-year-old college student who was [deported over Thanksgiving](https://abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-college-student-deported-despite-judges-order/story?id=127914941) despite a court order blocking her removal. > > Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was [deported to Honduras](https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyer-student-removed-despite-court-order-deported-shackles/story?id=128016773) in November shortly after she was detained, even though a federal judge had ordered the government not to remove her from the U.S. or transfer her out of Massachusetts. > > After the college student’s removal, U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns said he was giving the government an opportunity to “rectify the mistake” and recommended that she be issued a student visa. > > But on Friday, U.S. Attorney Leah Foley argued in a court filing that the Secretary of State lacks the legal authority to unilaterally issue visas. Foley said that if Lopez Belloza were returned to the U.S., she would remain subject to immediate detention and removal based on a final deportation order. > > “ICE has considered returning Petitioner to the United States to the status quo that existed immediately prior to her removal, but respectfully declines to pursue this course of action,” Foley said. [Felon the felon pardoned avoids jail for felony.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pardoned-jan-6-rioter-dutchess-190602756.html) > [@](#): > > CLINTON - A pardoned Jan. 6 rioter will avoid jail time after he pleaded guilty this week to harassing House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. > > Christopher Patrick Moynihan, 35, was [charged in October for making felony terroristic threats](https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/january-six-rioter-arrested-terrorist-threats-21113180.php) against Jeffries and threatening to “eliminate” the Brooklyn congressman at an event in New York City. He accepted a plea deal this week that reduced the charges to aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor, Dutchess County District Attorney Anthony Parisi said. > > Under the deal, Moynihan will spend three years on probation. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2290 "2026-02-08T08:22:05Z")
> [@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. What next - the Trumpanooga Choo-Choo? ---
**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 8, 2026, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2291 "2026-02-08T08:35:27Z")
A train? That would be in the Epstein files. ---
**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 8, 2026, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2292 "2026-02-08T10:50:16Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > A train? To my shame, I chortled. ---
**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 8, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2293 "2026-02-08T11:19:24Z")
I’m proud to say my mind is not in the gutter. It’s right here in the sewer! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2294 "2026-02-08T13:19:21Z")
From one of Monty’s links: > [@](#): > > CLINTON - A pardoned Jan. 6 rioter will avoid jail time after he pleaded guilty this week to harassing House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. > > Christopher Patrick Moynihan, 35, was [charged in October for making felony terroristic threats](https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/january-six-rioter-arrested-terrorist-threats-21113180.php) against Jeffries and threatening to “eliminate” the Brooklyn congressman at an event in New York City. He accepted a plea deal this week that reduced the charges to aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor, Dutchess County District Attorney Anthony Parisi said. > > Under the deal, Moynihan will spend three years on probation. They’ll also be naming part of Penn Station after him. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2295 "2026-02-08T14:13:55Z")
Wow. We use the word “permission” almost metaphorically, to refer to how Trump’s behavior enables dangerous assholes. But this is just straight-up permission. Please, sir, commit as many crimes as you’d like. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2296 "2026-02-08T15:37:36Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > That fucker is still - and will never stop - arguing the 2020 election. Have you heard this one? The sole reason for abducting Maduro was to get him to admit that he rigged the 2020 election. It’s batshit crazy, but then what isn’t these days. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2297 "2026-02-08T16:52:49Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Have you heard this one? The sole reason for abducting Maduro was to get him to admit that he rigged the 2020 election. Who’s 2020 election? Trump is fishing for ideas. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2298 "2026-02-08T17:26:35Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Who’s 2020 election? Trump is fishing for ideas. You don’t remember there were conspiracy theories about Venezuela helping rig the 2020 election? > **[Election Deniers Think the Venezuela Attack Is All About 2020](https://www.wired.com/story/election-deniers-think-venezuela-attack-about-2020-election/)** > > Conspiracy theorists claim the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is proof that the Venezuelan government rigged the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor. There’s also one about Italy, so if the Italian PM (or the Pope) is abducted too, that’ll be why. > **[Italygate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italygate)** > > Italygate is a pro-Trump, QAnon-affiliated conspiracy theory that alleges the 2020 United States presidential election was rigged to favor Joe Biden using satellites and military technology to remotely switch votes from Donald Trump to Biden from the U.S. Embassy in Rome. The conspiracy was also rumored to involve the Vatican. Fact-checkers at Reuters and USA Today, who investigated these claims, described them as "false" and "baseless". > Maria Strollo Zack, a Georgia-based lobbyist and leader o... ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2299 "2026-02-08T17:29:14Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > [The White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011](https://youtu.be/Htt91G2qDwM?si=jx6tcvrFVQT_YrVF), where Obama needled Trump and infuriated the thin-skinned egotist. Exactly. Everyone laughed at the jibe and it stung. He can’t abide being the butt of even a small roasting. If you want to be a true patriot and show your true appreciation for the 250 year celebration that’s coming up, you can now join [Freedom 250](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/freedom-250-trump-donors.html) (NYT article) for a mere $1M. It’s the latest Trump grift, promising White House access to those poor folks who are mere millionaires instead of billionaires. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2300 "2026-02-08T17:32:13Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > You don’t remember there were conspiracy theories about Venezuela helping rig the 2020 election? No. We know Russia did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=114) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=116)