# 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:** 167
**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 17, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3321 "2026-03-17T13:55:45Z")
He has tended to worry about Ivanka catching flak in the past, and has expressed a willingness to throw one or both of his elder sons under the nearest bus to save her. These days, I’m not even sure if he remembers who she is. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3322 "2026-03-17T15:02:49Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > relief spending would be amply covered by tariff income Are you sure you didn’t mean to say “hotel income?” ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3323 "2026-03-17T15:51:57Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > > > Oh, dear! Former presidents have to worry about their careers? Just wait till the current one has to worry about jailtime. If not for him (thank you, SCOTUS!) for his family. > > You think he worries about his family? Oh, you sweet summer child. Wouldn’t you, in his place? Consider that: > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > They might start talking if they went to jail. Particularly Fredo. ---
**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 17, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3324 "2026-03-17T16:03:48Z")
[After begging other countries on social media to bail his ass out of this Strait of Hormuz situation, Trump now realizes that no one’s coming to rescue him, so he returns to social media to say he never wanted anyone’s help anyway.](https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/trump-iran-war-nato-strait-of-hormuz-b2940306.html) > The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon. > > I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need. Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military — Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again! > > Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer “need,” or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea. In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE! He’s been telling world leaders for the better part of a year to eat a bag of dicks, and now he can’t get any of them to help him out of his collosal fuck-up. What a surprise! I just can’t beleive it’s all playing out on social media. When my dad was losing control of his mind due to dementia, we took his phone away so he wouldn’t embarrass himself. It’s unfortunate for the United States that Trump has no one in his life that loves him enough to do the same. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3325 "2026-03-17T16:06:19Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > When my dad was losing control of his mind due to dementia, we took his phone away so he wouldn’t embarrass himself. It’s unfortunate for the United States that Trump has no one in his life that loves him enough to do the same. As many people have pointed out over the years, Trump _needs_ an audience. He can’t stand not having attention. He’d never put up with being deprived of it for long. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3326 "2026-03-17T16:08:22Z")
There’s also this: _“I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.”_ –Donald Trump ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3327 "2026-03-17T16:26:00Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder - quoting Trump](#): > > despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, I assume he is referring to NATO countries, because I don’t think Benin, Guyana, Lichtenstein, Namibia, and many others really care too much about American adventures in self harm, aside from perhaps a sardonic hand wave, when he fails. Egotism is quite a strange mental illness. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3328 "2026-03-17T16:50:54Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > [@atrupar.com on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mh6xde2mp42m) > > I can’t tell you that. It would be very bad for his career > > Oh, dear! Former presidents have to worry about their careers? Just wait till the current one has to worry about jailtime. If not for him (thank you, SCOTUS!) for his family. The fuller quote I read was: > “I’ve spoken to a certain president, who I like, actually,” he said. “A past president, a former president. He said, ‘I wish I did it.’ But they didn’t do it. I’m doing it.” > > Trump declined to identify the former president: “I can’t tell you that. I don’t want to embarrass him. **It would be very bad for his career, even though he’s got no career**.” Bolding mine. He lies like a 2 year old. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3329 "2026-03-17T16:54:21Z")
Could be talking about 45. I’ve heard he has a rather high regard for that asshole ---
**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 17, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3330 "2026-03-17T17:31:34Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Ask your druggist or historian if Pertinax is right for _you_ In a similar vein, [Antidepressant or Tolkein](https://antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app/). > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Bolding mine. > > He lies like a 2 year old. Or a thirteen year old. “Yeah, I talked to a President. You don’t know him – he lives in Canada.” ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3331 "2026-03-17T18:02:36Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Could be talking about 45. Or, the President of Puerto Rico. Can’t remember who that is. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3332 "2026-03-17T18:21:27Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > In a similar vein, [Antidepressant or Tolkein](https://antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app/). Mad magazine once had a Medication or Kaiju? quiz. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3333 "2026-03-17T18:29:21Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Mad magazine once had a Medication or Kaiju? quiz. I’ve also seen several “Pharmaceutical or Pokemon” quizzes. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3334 "2026-03-17T18:30:48Z")
SUV or Bruce Willis’s child? Food or martial art? ---
**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 17, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3335 "2026-03-17T18:41:30Z")
> **[Streetwear Brand or Eighteenth-Century Skin Condition?](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/streetwear-brand-or-eighteenth-century-skin-condition)** > > 1. Bleb > 2. Etnies > 3. Furuncle > 4. Stussy > 5. Mormal > 6. Kith > 7. Lues > 8. Vetements > 9. Milk Leg > 10. Cav Empt > 11. Icterus > 12. Huf > 13. Dropsy > 14. Temu > 15.... ---
**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 17, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3336 "2026-03-17T19:14:20Z")
Dementia Donny endorses (checks notes) Irish reunification? > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhbksk7deb2c)** > > Trump: "Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, and you get along so well. I don't know if I should be promoting mergers. I love mergers but we're gonna get in a little trouble. We're gonna get in more trouble with that." Plus: Bad news for President Newsom! > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhb4ni5zz62y)** > > Trump: "The president of the United States, Gavin Newsum, admitted he has learning disabilities" ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3337 "2026-03-17T19:17:17Z")
> Trump: “The president of the United States, Gavin Newsum, admitted he has learning disabilities” Maybe Trump is just practicing the demented tweets he’s going to use in 2029. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3338 "2026-03-17T19:27:21Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > He’s been telling world leaders for the better part of a year to eat a bag of dicks, and now he can’t get any of them to help him out of his collosal fuck-up I know that NATO Article V says that an attack on one of us is an attack on all; but does it also say that if one of us runs off half-cocked in some total FUBAR boondoggle, we all have to go along for the ride? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3339 "2026-03-17T19:38:43Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I know that NATO Article V says that an attack on one of us is an attack on all; but does it also say that if one of us runs off half-cocked in some total FUBAR boondoggle, we all have to go along for the ride? Nope. But the only relationship Trump understands is “Trump is God, everyone else submits” so an arrangement like that is beyond his comprehension. ---
**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 17, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3340 "2026-03-17T19:53:32Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I know that NATO Article V says that an attack on one of us is an attack on all Specifically, an attack within Europe or North America. > **[The North Atlantic Treaty](https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resources/official-texts/1949/04/04/the-north-atlantic-treaty)** > > The Parties to this Treaty reaffirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments. They are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=166) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=168)