# 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:** 171
**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 19, 2026, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3401 "2026-03-19T08:18:16Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Hey, it looks like he’s forgotten about making Canada a state. Well, those ingrates whined and kvetched about it so much, no wonder he dropped the idea. ---
**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 19, 2026, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3402 "2026-03-19T08:27:29Z")
Whining? Kvetching? They’re cutting into his act! ---
**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 19, 2026, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3403 "2026-03-19T08:46:48Z")
He dropped the idea like a ball. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3404 "2026-03-19T08:59:48Z")
Actually, it’s really interesting, what’s happening in Canada. TV commercial breaks have Canadian-government commercials done by Canadian celebrities from all walks, talking about our country and the great times they have had here. Private companies, even those that are nominally American (e.g. McDonald’s), stress their Canadian connections (“100% Canadian beef in our burgers”). And of course, our athletes are totally Canadian in international competitions: Winter Olympics, and the World Baseball Classic. Somehow or other, we keep going, just as we did through the Great Depression, and the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s, despite Mr. Trump’s efforts to grind us into economic submission to the point where we’d be begging for statehood. Yet our prices at the supermarket, while rising, are reasonable in most cases; gas prices have, in the past, been higher than now (Aside: Why do Americans care so much about gas prices?), and our government keeps on keeping on, protecting our borders, funding our defense, celebrating our history, and acting as if we’re going to be around for the next few hundred years. Good attitude to have. Sorry, Mr. Trump. You’ve made that classic mistake that so many Americans do: you think everybody in the world wants to be American. Well, Canadians do not want to be American. No way, no how, never. The sooner you realize that, the better. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3405 "2026-03-19T13:28:37Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Sorry, Mr. Trump. You’ve made that classic mistake that so many Americans do: you think everybody in the world wants to be American. Well, Canadians do not want to be American. No way, no how, never. The sooner you realize that, the better. And yet, of course, the irony in all the efforts Trump has made to prevent millions of people from becoming Americans. He assumes everyone _wants_ this, yet he delights in making those that actually do want it, to suffer from never _attaining_ it. Wrong about the first part, and needlessly (nay, self-destructively) cruel about the second. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3406 "2026-03-19T14:38:47Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Canadians do not want to be American. Well, except for **Uzi**? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3407 "2026-03-19T14:50:54Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > He dropped the idea like a ball. Nah, that’s not Trump’s favorite metaphor (the only one he knows): he dropped the idea like a dog. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3408 "2026-03-19T14:57:45Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [The 51st state! Or is it the 52nd? The 53rd? The Infinitiest! That’s it! The Infinietiest!](https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/trump-fires-off-one-word-034112053.html) (The formatting is from the original.) > > > [@](#): > > > > “Wow! Venezuela defeated Italy tonight, 4-2, in the WBC (Baseball!) Semifinal,” he [wrote](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-hails-venezuela-win-world-034322326.html). “They are looking really great. Good things are happening to Venezuela lately! I wonder what this magic is all about? STATEHOOD, #51, ANYONE? President DONALD J. TRUMP.” > > Hey, it looks like he’s forgotten about making Canada a state That noise you heard was the Republican (and pro-PR-statehood) Governor of Puerto Rico screaming out the window of her residence at St. Catherine’s Fortress. I mean, really, here’s somewhere you COULD make a 51st state by this midterm if you could just get the votes in Congress, and he keeps ignoring it 😅 ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3409 "2026-03-19T15:08:30Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > I mean, really, here’s somewhere you COULD make a 51st state by this midterm if you could just get the votes in Congress, and he keeps ignoring it But that’s not new territory. Although even odds on Trump remembering PR is part of the US, even after throwing paper towels at people back in his first term. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3410 "2026-03-19T15:18:37Z")
Trump definitely does not want a state full of brown people who talk funny. ---
**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 19, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3411 "2026-03-19T15:52:35Z")
“I mean, if they’re going to be Murrican citizens, they should damn well learn the language!” Oh…wait… ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3412 "2026-03-19T16:48:40Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Trump definitely does not want a state full of brown people who talk funny. You mean like … Venezuela? ---
**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 19, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3413 "2026-03-19T17:03:51Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > (Aside: Why do Americans care so much about gas prices?) Well, when your big-ass pickup – the one that’s never had anything more than a six-pack in its bed – gets single-digit mpg… ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3414 "2026-03-19T17:26:58Z")
> [@DJT](#): > > I wonder what would happen if we … let the Countries that use it, we don’t, be responsible for the so called “Strait?” Well, for one, they wouldn’t have gone out of their way to antagonize Iran into closing it in the first place… ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3415 "2026-03-19T17:27:46Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > anything more than a six-pack Around these parts, the big-ass trucks are hauling 30 packs of Keystone Light, thank you very much. ---
**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 19, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3416 "2026-03-19T17:30:31Z")
Well, it takes 30 cans of Keystone to equal a six-pack of PBR. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3417 "2026-03-19T17:32:59Z")
Furthermore, American cities are designed around the individual car, I discovered with horror when I visited that some don’t even have _sidewalks_. Without a car you can’t do anything outside your house and cars, specially the aforementioned big-ass pickups (or big ass-pickups?) need gas, a lot of gas. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3418 "2026-03-19T17:33:03Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Trump definitely does not want a state full of brown people who talk funny “It’s bad enough we already have New Mexico!” ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3419 "2026-03-19T17:33:29Z")
The primary wildflowers that blossom along the forest service roads in these parts of Idaho are Keystone Light and Busch Light cans. With the snow going away, the side-by-sides will soon be out in mass to revel in the beauty of those flowers. ---
**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 19, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3420 "2026-03-19T18:06:26Z")
Remember the “don’t mention the war” episode of _Fawlty Towers_? > **[Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3mhgfqvx5qh2g)** > > Reporter: Why didn't you tell allies about the war before attacking Iran? > > Trump: We wanted it to be a surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=170) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=172)