# 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:** 153
**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:** [March 8, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3041 "2026-03-08T21:16:40Z")
Karoline Leavitt says reinstituting the draft is a possibility. > **[Karoline Leavitt’s stunning admission on Trump war plans sends shockwaves:...](https://www.rawstory.com/karoline-leavitts-stunning-admission-on-trump-war-plans-sends-shockwaves-unbelievable/)** > > White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sparked a frenzy on Sunday after making a startling admission as to President Donald Trump’s plans for the ongoing U.S.-Israel military siege on Iran.“Mothers out there are worried that we’re going to have... ---
**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:** [March 8, 2026, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3042 "2026-03-08T21:55:07Z")
Hilarious. Leavitt has to guard against the possibility of her idiot boss saying, well, anything, so “all options remain” seems safest. There ain’t gonna be a draft, and she’s not sharp enough to recognize there’s only one right answer to that question. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3043 "2026-03-08T22:23:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Karoline Leavitt says reinstituting the draft is a possibility. Well, that would solve the problem of what to do with all the _illegals_ under age, say, 25… Cheaper than warehousing them in prison camps. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3044 "2026-03-08T22:59:23Z")
Yeah. Give them guns and train them to work together. No way that could possibly backfire - so this administration will do it, guaranteed. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3045 "2026-03-08T23:09:48Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Cheaper than warehousing them in prison camps. Here Donald, as usual, would be following the example of his beloved Vlad. (Of course Vlad’s prison-inmates aren’t migrants, but other than that, same thing.) > [@Smapti](#): > > Mad King Donald proclaims that he’s not signing any more legislation for the rest of his presidency unless the SAVE Act (which doesn’t even have 50 votes in the Senate, let alone the 60 needed to break a filibuster) passes. Hey, he’s included the '_utterly essential to election-integrity’_ anti-trans provisions!!!1!!! What more could people want??? > [@Kimstu](#): > > …Jessup’s speech there has always struck me as dictatorial and illogical. Of **course** civilians are entitled to question and challenge, in appropriate contexts, the actions of the armed warriors who safeguard their freedom: that’s part of what freedom **means**. **A society in which civilians mustn’t say anything about soldiers’ actions except “thank you” isn’t freedom, it’s a military junta.** My bolding. Of course Hegseth would respond ‘_so what’s wrong with **THAT**?!??!_’ ---
**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:** [March 8, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3046 "2026-03-08T23:28:31Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Hey, he’s included the '_utterly essential to election-integrity’_ anti-trans provisions!!!1!!! …which aren’t in the bill, which is DOA anyway, but he has no clue how Congress works and thinks they can somehow use a filibuster to _pass_ legislation. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3047 "2026-03-08T23:38:10Z")
Only the best people. Treasonous, racist, evil. Should ‘lil Marco’ ever run for office again this will be in the oppositions campaign playbook. Just boys hanging out together at the Shield of the Americas bullshit event. > **[emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3mgkv3mlkqc2s)** > > Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist. > > \[contains quote post or other embedded content\] [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s2jiq5q6f5uhl7ywqbxtsvmu/bafkreigmhee356tszu6lpfum3ixl5sejdc7k3pozmgzga2kyctns3dutpa) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s2jiq5q6f5uhl7ywqbxtsvmu/bafkreigmhee356tszu6lpfum3ixl5sejdc7k3pozmgzga2kyctns3dutpa) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3048 "2026-03-09T00:05:17Z")
Trump in 2024: I will lower the price of gas on day one Trump in 2026: Paying $10 a gallon is patriotic actually [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qwookovhsxtm4h63ih3tcxg4/bafkreibdsjxelyi3mfdkdd66gacyzphet6tgp26xldzodt2np6uf44yicm@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qwookovhsxtm4h63ih3tcxg4/bafkreibdsjxelyi3mfdkdd66gacyzphet6tgp26xldzodt2np6uf44yicm@jpeg) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3049 "2026-03-09T02:30:06Z")
I’d trade a New York Minute for a few Pennsylvania Inches ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3050 "2026-03-09T03:45:55Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump in 2024: I will lower the price of gas on day one > Trump in 2026: Paying $10 a gallon is patriotic actually I’m surprised he didn’t just say… “GAS AND OIL PRICES ARE THE LOWEST THEY’VE EVER BEEN! NO ONES EVER SEEN GAS AND OIL PRICES THIS LOW! DON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES! BELIEVE ONLY ME! BLAH BLAH BLAH DEMOCRATS! BLAH BLAH BLAH BIDEN! BLAH BLAH BLAH OBAMA! BE AFRAID OF EVERYTHING! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!1!” It’s worked for him so far. Gah, I hate him so much. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3051 "2026-03-09T04:53:20Z")
[Someone’s not invited. Where’s that teeny tiny violin?](https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/donald-trump-isnt-invited-obama-201708505.html) > [@](#): > > There will be more than one former president at the opening ceremony of the [Obama Presidential Center](https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/barack-obama-previews-presidential-center-145053131.html), just not the one who’s currently in office. > > The center — which is located on the South Side of Chicago, in the city’s Jackson Park neighborhood — will officially open to the public on June 19, and it is bookended by various celebrations running from June 18 to June 21, the Obama Foundation announced on Saturday, March 7. > > The dedication ceremony for the community-based center will be held June 18, and it will feature “legendary performances by global icons and powerful remarks from today’s most prominent voices,” the foundation said in a press release obtained by PEOPLE. > > Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett told [MS NOW](https://x.com/EugeneDaniels2/status/2030283810193965165?s=20) that President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) is not invited to the grand opening, but former [President George W. Bush](https://people.com/tag/george-w-bush/) will be. [Speaking of the Sadim Touch…](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/oil-guru-amazed-trump-turbocharged-043639230.html) > [@](#): > > A longtime oil trader expressed amazement at President **Donald Trump’s** decision to go to war with Iran, because doing so “was the only way” to drastically upend global crude markets. > > The U.S. and Israel commenced airstrikes on Iran last Saturday, during which Supreme Leader **Ali Khamenei** was killed, along with dozens of top officials. More than 1,000 [Iranians have been killed](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/residents-flee-irans-capital-as-agency-says-death-toll-in-tehran-tops-1000), including more than 175 people – [mostly young girls](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/world/middleeast/girls-school-strike-iran-video.html) – in an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school. U.S. officials reportedly [believe](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-believes-u-military-likely-034946207.html) the American military was responsible for those killings. > > Iran has responded by attacking U.S. military installations in the region, including one in Kuwait that killed six U.S. service members. Additionally, Iran has also essentially shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passageway connecting the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The strait is absolutely vital in global trade. In 2025, [31%](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/strait-of-hormuz-closure-which-countries-will-be-hit-the-most.html) of all seaborne oil sailed through it. Predictably, oil prices have spiked. Over the past week, U.S. crude prices [jumped 35%](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/iran-us-war-oil-prices-brent-wti-barrel-futures.html), which is the most in trading history going back to 1983. > > On Friday’s _All In_ on MS NOW, **Chris Hayes** spoke with **Dan Dicker** , a longtime energy trader. > > “Oil prices have been low,” Dicker said. “Even post-pandemic, when everything was getting crazy, eggs were getting crazy, milk was getting crazy, oil prices didn’t spike that much. They spiked a bit, it’s true. Most of the reason that I’m around and twiddling my thumbs for the past three years is because oil prices have had systemic supply glut and have been flat basically since the pandemic ended.” > > Dicker went on to say that war with Iran was basically the only way to completely reverse the situation: > > > The only way possible to destroy those flat prices is would be to get into a stupid war with Iran. And he’s chosen this. This was the one thing that was going right for his economy that he could point to and say, “I’m keeping gas prices low,” whether it was his fault or not. We know it’s not. But this was the only way to screw it up – and he found it. [The felon’s out golfing while people die in his war.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-blasted-golfing-more-die-203743007.html) > [@](#): > > The president’s love of golf has once again found him under fire. > > President Donald Trump was spotted playing golf at his Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida, on Sunday morning, as updates about the devastation in the Middle East due to his surprise war that began last week continue to roll in. > > In a [video](https://x.com/patriottakes/status/2030699300792025393) shared to X by the user PatriotTakes, Trump, 79, is seen returning from a round of golf on his favorite course, wearing the same baseball cap he sported during Saturday’s dignified transfer of remains for the six American service members killed in his war with Iran. [And what dignity did he display at the transfer of the remains?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fox-news-apologizes-airing-old-164333661.html) > [@](#): > > Fox News apologized, Sunday, for airing a clip showing footage of an old dignified transfer ceremony — rather than the one that took place on Saturday honoring six U.S. service members killed in Iran. But critics accused the network of intentionally misleading viewers by airing the old footage, which omitted a gesture many took as a sign of disrespect from President Donald Trump. > > The incorrect footage was aired in the first hour of _Fox & Friends_ Weekend on Sunday. Host **Griff Jenkins** introduced the clip — which purported to show [Trump at Dover Air Force base](https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/politics/dignified-transfer-us-service-members-iran-war) in Delaware at the dignified transfer ceremony honoring Maj. **Jeffrey O’Brien** , Chief Warrant Officer 3 **Robert Marzan** , Capt. **Cody Khork** , Sgt. 1st Class **Nicole Amor** , Sgt. 1st Class **Noah Tietjens** and Sgt. **Declan Coady**. [Critics slammed the president for wearing a baseball cap](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-finds-jaw-dropping-way-to-disrespect-his-own-war-dead/) at the ceremony as the caskets were marched past him. But in the footage viewers were shown, Trump was not seen wearing the hat. > > “President Trump, First Lady **Melania Trump** , Vice President **JD Vance** and [Second] Lady **Usha Vance** attending a dignified transfer to honor the final homecoming of the six US service members killed in Kuwait,” Jenkins said, narrating the clip. “The solemn ritual returns the remains of troops killed in action. It is considered one of the most somber duties of a commander in chief.” > > But [critics quickly spotted](https://x.com/BadFoxGraphics/status/2030621454627123568?s=20) that the video was incorrect. And so during the 9 a.m. ET hour, Jenkins delivered an on-air correction. Nothing like a tacky political rally baseball hat accompanied by a sloppy salute from a draft dodging military insulting convicted felon to show a nation’s gratitude, right? [But, hey, let’s one down it anyway.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-more-dignified-transfers-us-231905979.html) > [@](#): > > President Trump on Saturday said attending more dignified transfer proceedings for slain U.S. service members is a “part of war” after attending the [dignified transfer](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-honors-fallen-members-died-224306825.html) of [six service members](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-identifies-5th-member-killed-024554420.html) killed in Kuwait following the start of the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. > > A reporter asked the president while aboard Air Force One if he will attend more of these proceedings. Trump replied, “Sure, I hate to. But it’s a part of war, isn’t it?” He asked if the reporter thought it was a part of war, and the reporter agreed. > > “It’s a sad part of it,” Trump added. “It’s the bad part of it.” Not that he would know, of course. I wonder what year the felon and his flacks think we’re in now. [Check out when they think the American Revolution (that’s the one with the airports, remember?) began.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/giving-drapery-3-days-war-171625860.html) (#20 in the list) > [@](#): > > The revolution that began in 1776 has not ended ---
**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:** [March 9, 2026, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3052 "2026-03-09T05:00:45Z")
What could possibly go wrong - From the mouth of Oppenheimer himself (not really). [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/a5aed957-b077-4593-a51d-064b3e14ca43) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/a5aed957-b077-4593-a51d-064b3e14ca43) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2026, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3053 "2026-03-09T06:06:48Z")
Turns out Skynet didn’t become self-aware and declare war in self-defense - it hallucinated a Martian invasion. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3054 "2026-03-09T16:27:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump in 2024: I will lower the price of gas on day one Well, TBF he didn’t say what he was going to do after that. Suckers. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3055 "2026-03-09T20:49:11Z")
I saw this and I said to myself: “This must be a joke. This HAS to be a joke. There is _no way_ this is not a joke.” It’s not a joke. Trump is guessing people’s shoe sizes and then buying them **Florsheim loafers**. They are afraid not to wear them. > **['Everybody’s afraid not to wear them': Trump buys shoes for admin officials](https://www.alternet.org/trump-shoes-fashion/)** > > President Donald Trump is buying expensive shoes for his advisors, and people are scared of not wearing them. According to a bizarre Wall Street Journal report, during meetings, the 79-year-old president starts guessing people's shoe size and then... ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3056 "2026-03-09T21:03:02Z")
My father bought and wore Florsheim shoes in the 1970s and 1980s. I’m pretty sure there are better shoe brands out there now. (And $145 loafers aren’t at all high end.) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3057 "2026-03-09T21:06:31Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Trump is guessing people’s shoe sizes and then buying them **Florsheim loafers**. They are afraid not to wear them. Seriously, how often do you really look at a man’s shoes? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3058 "2026-03-09T21:23:28Z")
I just checked a couple of department store websites. Macy’s and Nordstrom still sell Florsheim men’s shoes but Neiman-Marcus and Bloomingdales do not. Seriously, Donald Trump’s ideas of fashionable brands are decades out of date. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2026, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3059 "2026-03-09T21:59:09Z")
I mean, have you seen this guy’s suits? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3060 "2026-03-09T22:07:24Z")
The linked article from AlterNet mentions that his suits are poorly tailored (“Trump’s fashion has been mocked over the years, with suits that are too big, shoulder pads, and his signature red tie that is abnormally long. While Trump frequently wears a blue suit, he pairs it with black shoes, whereas most would pair blue with brown shoes.”) For a billionaire (who’s on his third former-model wife), he sure dresses like a poor guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=152) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=154)