# 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:** 122
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2421 "2026-02-12T12:19:20Z")
AIUI, still clinging to that song for some semblance of relevancy 40 years later ---
**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 12, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2422 "2026-02-12T14:49:22Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “Elvis the Pelvis” fear is alive and well! That do they think of his brother, Enos? ---
**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 12, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2423 "2026-02-12T17:49:59Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi launched into a passionate defense of President Donald Trump Wednesday …snip…during a combative hearing in which she postured herself as the Republican president’s chief protector. Talk is cheap, Pam. The important thing, is would you take a bullet for him? ---
**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 12, 2026, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2424 "2026-02-12T17:54:05Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi launched into a passionate defense of President Donald Trump Wednesday …snip…during a combative hearing in which she postured herself as the Republican president’s chief protector. This is maddening, though absolutely par for the course for this damned administration. Bondi is the _ **United States Attorney General.** _ You job is to be the _country’s_ legal protector, lady, not your boss’s. ---
**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 12, 2026, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2425 "2026-02-12T19:34:00Z")
I watched some youtube videos of that hearing. That woman is unbelievably hostile and defensive of Trump. “Unproffessional” doesn’t even come close to describing her. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2426 "2026-02-12T19:52:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Pam Bondi This ATTACK MODE has become par for the course for administration officials testifying before Congress. Attack the questioner; deflect; talk over the representative; throw out sound bites and dog whistles for the cult. And above all, don’t answer the question. Contempt citations - alas not while the Republican chairmen are sitting on their hands or have them clasped over their ears. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2427 "2026-02-12T19:55:54Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Talk is cheap, Pam. So is she. He bought her for 25k. ---
**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 12, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2428 "2026-02-12T19:58:17Z")
ICE is retreating from Minneapolis. > **[Federal immigration operation in Minnesota is ending, Homan says](https://www.ms.now/news/federal-immigration-operation-in-minnesota-is-ending-homan-says)** > > Trump’s border czar said the last of the additional officers sent to the state for “Operation Metro Surge” will be gone by next week. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2429 "2026-02-12T20:13:35Z")
I’ll believe that when I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2430 "2026-02-12T20:23:41Z")
Trump says he wasn’t aware that SecComm Howard Lutnick was on Epstein Island, but he heard that he was there with his wife and kids. So…he wasn’t aware he that was there, but he heard that he was there. > **[Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads](https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DUq1jobCRXf?xmt=AQF0utNNzqL3do1JT2pcygYqTgVFz1F58rGtN-zLvWv1dDiBVncSjJFgIobxsLU3k_VdLA6s&slof=1)** > > Q: Were you aware that Lutnick visited Epstein's island? > > TRUMP: I wasn't, but from what I hear he was there with his wife and children. I was never there. Ok, Trump heard that Lutnick brought his kids. To the island home of Jeffrey Epstein. A convicted child rapist. Who raped kids on his island. And Trump was aware of this. And we’re all aware that Trump was aware of this. And that somehow makes Lutnick’s presence better? Even though Trump wasn’t aware of Lutnick being there in the first place. Sounds about right, Don. Go take a nap. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2431 "2026-02-12T20:38:00Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Bondi is the _ **United States Attorney General.** _ You job is to be the _country’s_ legal protector, lady, not your boss’s. Laudable, if not quaint notion. But the US AG’s role has been to make a full-throated defense of the President regardless of the political colour of the administration for way longer than my memory. ---
**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 12, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2432 "2026-02-12T20:40:47Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > But the US AG’s role has been to make a full-throated defense of the President regardless of the political colour of the administration for way longer than my memory. I should point out here that, love her or hate her, Janet Reno, as AG, personally authorized investigations of her “boss,” Bill Clinton, for both Whitewater and the Lewinsky affair. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2433 "2026-02-12T20:47:00Z")
Conceded. And there is a line between “full throated defense” and “attack dog”. But you know, partisans gotta partisan. ---
**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 12, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2434 "2026-02-12T20:50:12Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > And there is a line between “full throated defense” and “attack dog”. And a line between “full-throated defense of Administration policies” and “acting as the President’s personal lawyer” – which is something that Trump has overtly stated he expects out of his AGs. ---
**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 12, 2026, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2435 "2026-02-12T23:47:26Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I watched some youtube videos of that hearing. That woman is unbelievably hostile and defensive of Trump. “Unproffessional” doesn’t even come close to describing her. Care to name even one person in the upper echelons of this embarrasment off a administration who is professional? [The felon’s war on the environment continues.](https://www.aol.com/articles/epa-rescind-landmark-2009-finding-175106741.html) > [@](#): > > The Environmental Protection Agency has [walked back](https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/president-trump-and-administrator-zeldin-deliver-single-largest-deregulatory-action-us) a landmark environmental decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. > > Calling it “the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” the EPA announced Thursday that it was “eliminating both the Obama-era 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding and all subsequent federal GHG emission standards for all vehicles and engines of model years 2012 to 2027 and beyond.” > > For more than 16 years, the EPA’s endangerment finding served as the scientific and legal foundation for federal regulations on carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The [2009 decision](https://www.epa.gov/climate-change/endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a) found that certain greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The regulations that resulted cover everything from vehicle tailpipe emissions to the release of greenhouse gases from power plants and other significant emission sources. [Rumplethinskin wants to punish some Republicans who grew spines.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-threatens-consequences-6-house-013022182.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump) is threatening to back election challengers against the six House Republicans who joined Democrats in voting to reverse his tariffs on Canada. > > The president sent out an ominous warning to GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate just before his agenda suffered a blow on Capitol Hill Wednesday evening. > > “Any Republican, in the House or the Senate, that votes against TARIFFS will seriously suffer the consequences come Election time, and that includes Primaries!” Trump posted on Truth Social. ---
**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 12, 2026, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2436 "2026-02-12T23:53:58Z")
I see that I used an extra f there. That sucks, those things ain’t cheap. ---
**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 12, 2026, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2437 "2026-02-12T23:56:06Z")
Hah! I accidentally used an extra f also. But, to be fair to both of us, there’s a lot of f’s being used in any discussion about Rip van Simple. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2438 "2026-02-13T00:56:10Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I see that I used an extra f there. You made me scroll back to see what the fuck you used an extra f in and now… there goes more f’s ---
**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 13, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2439 "2026-02-13T01:02:57Z")
I’m telling you, those things ain’t cheap. ---
**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 13, 2026, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2440 "2026-02-13T01:26:12Z")
What are you guys on about? I got boatloads of cheap f’s over here. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. I could do this all day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=121) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=123)