# 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:** 134
**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 24, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2661 "2026-02-24T12:37:30Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > … a piece of shit that did not fall far from the horse… Whoa. Step aside, acorns, there’s a new meme in town. 🤠 ---
**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 24, 2026, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2662 "2026-02-24T13:58:08Z")
I like it better as the apple did not fall far from the horse. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2663 "2026-02-24T14:02:01Z")
Okay, did Trump actually make a public statement saying that Queen Elizabeth should pardon her son Andrew or was that a parody site I was reading? It’s getting so hard to tell. ---
**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 24, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2664 "2026-02-24T14:59:35Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Okay, did Trump actually make a public statement saying that Queen Elizabeth should pardon her son Andrew or was that a parody site I was reading? [**Parody/satire**](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-andrew-queen-elizabeth/) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2665 "2026-02-24T15:25:53Z")
He did, however, demand that Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog pardon Benjamin Netanyahu pre-emptively for his corruption charges. Herzog was not amused: > **[President Isaac Herzog reacts to Trump's Benjamin Netanyahu pardon request |...](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-886544)** > > President Isaac Herzog responded to US President Donald Trump's push to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu mid-flight as he returned from a four-day visit to Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2666 "2026-02-24T15:27:57Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The criminal-in-chief got another court to roll over for him. Not “another court”. That’s a story about Judge Cannon, who is so deep in Trump’s camp that I’d get a well-deserved mod note for sexism/misogyny if I used the terms I want to to describe her. ---
**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 24, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2667 "2026-02-24T16:00:00Z")
Any time you are following Captain Blackadder’s advice, you would be wise to turn to Corporal Baldrick for some relatively sane advice, albeit from a man whose descibed intellect, “wouldn’t cover a water biscuit” ---
**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 24, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2668 "2026-02-24T16:18:12Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Shaver had been holding his Glock 19 aimed toward his own body as he worked to pry off its backstrap—a grip piece on the rear of the handle—when the weapon fired. I don’t shoot, I just know how to make a weapon safe. I mean, how hard is it? Drop the magazine, rack it, and either a round will be ready (and removable) or you can put a finger into the chamber to make sure it is emply. It is gun safety 101. The lack of gun knowledge that persists in the idiot wing of the USA is astounding. I know this, and I don’t even own a gun. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2669 "2026-02-24T16:31:41Z")
We’re a nation where bored idiots don body armor and shoot each other for fun. And familiarity breeds contempt. And there’s no contempt like gun nuts have for gun safety ---
**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 24, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2670 "2026-02-24T16:51:20Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I don’t shoot, I just know how to make a weapon safe. Oh, dummies like this _do_ know how to make a gun safe. They just don’t think they _have_ to. Gun safety is for other people, you see. I, on the other hand, am much too smart and careful to ever shoot my gun accidenta—- oops. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2671 "2026-02-24T17:08:12Z")
“When the weapon fired” and similar claims sound to me like “the tree jumped out into the road and hit my car!” I’m aware that a dropped firearm may go off by itself, but aside from that (or similar “trauma”), it will only fire if someone takes definite action. Anything else is bushwa. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2672 "2026-02-24T17:14:50Z")
Yeah, really. He was futzing about with the firearm, and his futzing caused it to discharge. It didn’t “just happen”. …and I guess there goes another hotel who’s not going to be rooming ICE in the future 😅 ---
**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 24, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2673 "2026-02-24T17:15:15Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I don’t even own a gun. I believe it’s pronounced “ **ah** gun.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JGyJOX5wFFg/hqdefault.jpg "Wayne's World- Gun Rack Scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGyJOX5wFFg) ---
**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 24, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2674 "2026-02-24T17:37:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Too bad the guys didn’t have the balls to turn down the invitation. Many of them are likely full on MAGA. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2675 "2026-02-24T20:02:53Z")
…off the top of my head - the Tkachuk brothers, Dylan Larkin, JT Miller, Jack Eichel. These are among the elite NHL’ers - and there’s definitely more. ---
**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 24, 2026, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2676 "2026-02-24T21:52:03Z")
Trump’s unhinged declaration that he was sending a hospital ship to Greenland was reportedly inspired by a conversation Jeff Landry had with a 52-year-old bricklayer at Mardi Gras. > **[Bricklayer's casual chat sparked Trump's bogus promise to send Greenland...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-greenland-2675327617/)** > > President Donald Trump's bogus promise to send Navy hospital ships to Greenland didn't originate in the Pentagon or State Department —it came from a casual chat with a bricklayer, according to a report.Jørgen Boassen, a 52-year-old Greenlandic... ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2677 "2026-02-24T22:09:57Z")
There was a fairly bad TV movie with just this same plot. The Prez is stuck in a snowstorm in a little Colorado bar, provokes the world into a shooting Nuke war, only for them all to find out their shit is no good and all fail. We “Win”. Like I said, it wasn’t a real good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2678 "2026-02-24T22:40:12Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I’m aware that a dropped firearm may go off by itself, but aside from that (or similar “trauma”), it will only fire if someone takes definite action. Anything else is bushwa. Not to defend the gunidiots, but there is a rare phenomenon known as [slamfire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slamfire), where a semi-automatic weapon will continue to fire by itself. I was fortunately taught about this in a gun safety class. Fortunate because when it happened to me with a .22 rifle, I knew what to do. Instead of freaking out and dropping the weapon, I just aimed it safely and let it carry on firing until it was done on its own. Still, it’s a very unnerving thing when it happens. Wouldn’t happen in the scenario described, though. ---
**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 25, 2026, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2679 "2026-02-25T01:19:11Z")
[DOJ = Dumping on Justice](https://www.aol.com/articles/doj-withheld-epstein-files-including-213222621.html) (Epstein related) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/)’s Department of Justice may have withheld certain documents from their trove of [evidence against Jeffrey Epstein](https://people.com/heres-how-to-see-the-epstein-files-released-11873922) that included allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor. > > A new report from [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell) alleges that, despite Attorney General [Pam Bondi](https://people.com/pam-bondi-confronted-doj-hiring-capitol-rioter-jared-wise-11905878) claiming earlier this month that the DOJ had released all of the Epstein files, they may have withheld some documents, including 50 pages of FBI interviews and notes. > > Those documents, the outlet reported, were regarding allegations made by an unnamed woman who claimed that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor. > > “NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails, and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January,” the report detailed. “NPR’s investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.” [Muppet Mike lives in a fantasy world.](https://www.aol.com/articles/johnson-calls-democrats-boycott-trumps-190532146.html) > [@](#): > > House Speaker Mike Johnson said he thinks it’s “detestable” that [some Democrats are boycotting](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-of-the-union-2026-democrats-boycott/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) President Trump’s [State of the Union address](https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/state-of-the-union-2026/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17)on Tuesday, adding that “we’re all for America.” > > “I think it’s detestable that members would boycott the speech,” Johnson told “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil in an exclusive interview ahead of the speech. “We’ve never done that. It doesn’t matter if there’s a Democrat president, you go and respect the office, you respect the decorum, the institution, the tradition of having had this speech made.” Let’s roll the tape, Mikey. (Same link) > [@](#): > > In 2024, former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted “liar” at former President Joe Biden. [War criminal petty Pete still wants to punish a sitting senator for telling the truth.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hegseth-revives-push-punish-sen-205723873.html) > [@](#): > > Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday ramped up his public spat with Sen. [Mark Kelly](https://directory.politicopro.com/member/163882), appealing a federal court ruling that blocked him from punishing the Arizona Democrat for advising troops not to follow illegal orders. > > The case, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, asks a panel to set aside the ruling this month from U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who issued a preliminary injunction halting [the Pentagon’s effort to demote](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/court-hegseth-kelly-senator-00778449) the former Navy captain and reduce his retirement pay. > > The move reveals that Hegseth has no plans to tamp down his battle against Kelly, a potential 2028 presidential contender who has fought the allegations against him as a threat to free speech. This should be the slam-dunkiest defense ever. “Your honor, I urged Americans to not break the law.” But, hey, given who punky Pete’s boss is, I can see how that’s lost on certain members of the mis/maladministration. ---
**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 25, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2680 "2026-02-25T01:22:38Z")
A third of Republicans believe Trump has become “erratic” with age. > Overall, 61% of respondents in the poll said they would describe Trump as having “become erratic with age.” Some 89% of Democrats, 30% of Republicans and 64% of independents described him this way. [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-americans-say-trump-is-growing-erratic-with-age-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-02-24/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-americans-say-trump-is-growing-erratic-with-age-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-02-24/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=133) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=135)