# 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:** 177
**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 23, 2026, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3521 "2026-03-23T19:11:39Z")
"Sir, could I have a little breakfast so we could discuss this bill?’ You know, like a perfect bill, like voter ID or something. But Bill didn’t have to be too great to do it. He said, ‘Can we maybe have a little breakfast at the White House, sir?’ ‘Come on over for breakfast, Bill.’ > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhql6vfjdz2b)** > > Trump: "'Sir, could I have a little breakfast so we could discuss this bill?' You know, like a perfect bill, like voter ID or something. But Bill didn't have to be too great to do it. He said, 'Can we maybe have a little breakfast at the White House,... “We have some wonderful people outside. We have some of the biggest politicians in American outside, and when they heard about Elvis, they said, ‘We’ll do that.’” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhqpsf3bhh2w)** > > Trump at Graceland: "We have some wonderful people outside. We have some of the biggest politicians in American outside, and when they heard about Elvis, they said, 'We'll do that.'" “Do you know the story of the paperclip? 182 years ago a man discovered the paperclip. It was so simple. And everybody that looked it thought, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ ICE was my idea.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhqfehobuk2k)** > > COLLINS: Who's idea was it to put ICE in airports? > > TRUMP: Mine. That was like the paperclip. Do you know the story of the paperclip? 182 years ago a man discovered the paperclip. It was so simple. And everybody that looked it thought, 'Why didn't I... ---
**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 23, 2026, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3522 "2026-03-23T21:26:26Z")
About Trump’s supposed “productive conversations” he had with Iran in the last day or two. Conversations that Iran denies took place. Many commentators have mentioned how ironic it is that we now generally believe the spokesman from Iran over the president of the USA. However, a question - is it possible that the folks behind Trump are creating AI “conversations” for him to take part in? Or possibly just get actors to pretend to have these conversations? It would be pretty easy to do. And would explain why Trump thinks he’s talking to people who don’t exist. (Helps explain why he thinks he talked to some former President who agrees with his war). Or is it just Trump being Trump and lying about every single thing in the world? ---
**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 23, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3523 "2026-03-23T21:36:25Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I hadn’t seen that particular statement. He sure is scared of a group he deems incompetent. It’s right out of the fascist playbook; the enemy is both contemptible and a deadly threat at the same time. ---
**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 23, 2026, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3524 "2026-03-23T21:37:06Z")
I am fond of the idea that trump is being led through a “Potemkin Presidency” by his keepers. But even they have to know that him talking about these things he’s doing with fake leaders will eventually get exposed. Won’t it? ---
**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 23, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3525 "2026-03-23T22:10:26Z")
Looks like the ICE agents [“ramming the manparts”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-6OpkqNn4M) have no idea what they’re supposed to be doing there either. > **[Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mhqr27i5lk2k)** > > NEW ORLEANS: ICE agents overlook the security area on the lower level (photo shared w/ me) > **[Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mhqsi2u2hc2k)** > > LAS VEGAS: Federal agents in Terminal 3. They had just taken a brisk walk down the hall and back. > **[@vae12.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/vae12.bsky.social/post/3mhqsr6yzh227)** > > EWR this AM > **[Claude Taylor (@realclaudetaylor.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/realclaudetaylor.bsky.social/post/3mhr225ig4k2y)** > > ICE is hard at it at major airports-this is Atlanta. > **[The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mhqfk2ytms2d)** > > Atlanta Airport… looks like ICE wandering around aimlessly has solved everything… 🇺🇸 > **[Defector (@defector.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/defector.com/post/3mhqnu323sn2f)** > > ICE agents deployed to nation's swamped airports to stand around and do nothing: https://defector.com/ice-agents-deployed-to-nations-swamped-airports-to-stand-around-and-do-nothing On the plus side, the fact that Trump isn’t letting them wear masks means it’s going to make it a LOT easier for people to ruin their reputations for life. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3526 "2026-03-23T22:19:43Z")
Re: TSA & ICE at airports: has anybody in the US remarked that we could actually do without airport security altogether, as we did for many decades? We could save money AND make flying better, all without dramatically affecting actual airport security. ---
**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 23, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3527 "2026-03-23T22:46:29Z")
Becky sent me Jello that makes more sense than this asshole. It’s the “Often Talked About Seldom Seen” Peach flavor, so they are the same color. ---
**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 23, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3528 "2026-03-23T23:09:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > On the plus side, the fact that Trump isn’t letting them wear masks means it’s going to make it a LOT easier for people to ruin their reputations for life Plus the longer they spend twiddling their thumbs, the fewer working people they can harass ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3529 "2026-03-23T23:10:28Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Re: TSA & ICE at airports: > > has anybody in the US remarked that we could actually do without airport security altogether, as we did for many decades? We could save money AND make flying better, all without dramatically affecting actual airport security.. Of course they are floating the idea of closing a number of smaller airports which I think would simply put more pressure on the system and cause more incidents/accidents. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3530 "2026-03-24T00:46:12Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > ’m traveling to Europe in a couple of weeks, but I don’t have to go through the US to get there. But about half of the group I’m traveling with are Americans, and I’m betting at least a few of them will have this BS screw up their whole trip. I’m on the same trip and have added several hours to make my connections just in case. ---
**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 24, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3531 "2026-03-24T00:51:37Z")
> # ICE Agents Are Now Patrolling U.S. Airports. Here’s What to Know. > > _The deployment comes as a battle over Department of Homeland Security funding has led to closed security checkpoints, long lines and missed flights._ > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/travel/ice-agents-tsa-airports.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.VlA.HUgf.yKBlFZjyTxU0&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/travel/ice-agents-tsa-airports.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VlA.HUgf.yKBlFZjyTxU0&smid=url-share) > … > Mr. Trump wrote on social media on Saturday that ICE officers’ duties at airports would include “the immediate arrest of all illegal immigrants who have come into our Country.” But there have so far been no reports of arrests connected to the deployment. > … How is that helping TSA with long lines, hmmm? ---
**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 24, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3532 "2026-03-24T01:53:08Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > > [@Horatius](#): > > > > trip. > > I’m on the same trip and have added several hours to make my connections just in case Good to know. I’ll see you in Lisbon! ---
**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 24, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3533 "2026-03-24T01:53:46Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > How is that helping TSA with long lines, hmmm? Clearly, the lines are all illegal immigrants! ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3534 "2026-03-24T02:14:24Z")
I don’t even like flying when everything is problem free. ---
**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 24, 2026, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3535 "2026-03-24T02:38:06Z")
Isn’t _that_ the truth! I’m old enough to remember when flying was fun and a little bit glamorous. Your vacation began when you got to the airport. No more. And, sadly, never again. ---
**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 24, 2026, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3536 "2026-03-24T02:51:29Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > I said it before and I said it again, you couldn’t get me to visit the U.S. in this era for love or money. Very wise. ---
**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 24, 2026, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3537 "2026-03-24T04:05:08Z")
> Apparently an actual tweet from the Iranian embassy in South Africa (thus the address), mocking one of Trump’s claims about the war. ---
**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 24, 2026, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3538 "2026-03-24T04:33:56Z")
[The Imperial Corps of Enforcers (ICE) isn’t reducing wait times.](https://www.aol.com/articles/ice-arriving-airports-help-tsa-141314021.html) > [@](#): > > Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have [arrived at some U.S. airports](https://www.usatoday.com/live-story/news/nation/2026/03/23/airports-tsa-ice-donald-trump-government-shutdown-live-updates/89279213007/) aiming to [help with long waits](https://travel.yahoo.com/advice/articles/tsa-lines-minutes-others-hours-185408017.html) amid the partial government shutdown, but at least one traveler at John F. Kennedy International Airport tells USA TODAY that so far, “It’s not helping.” > > Both masked and unmasked ICE agents in marked vests were seen at JFK and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where travelers were still reporting long airport security waits. > > In a [post on social media](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116278600245530358), [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) weighed in on agents wearing masks, saying he’s a “BIG proponent of ICE wearing masks,” but said he’d “greatly appreciate, however, NO MASKS, when helping our Country out of the Democrat caused MESS at the airports.” [Maybe this is why it’s not working out as planned. Or is it?](https://www.aol.com/articles/california-democrats-condemn-immigration-arrest-213148779.html) > [@](#): > > Video footage of federal officers detaining a crying woman at San Francisco International Airport drew outrage Monday from local officials, although it was unrelated to President Donald Trump’s [deployment of immigration officers](https://apnews.com/article/ice-tsa-airport-security-shutdown-mullin-lines-772fd0e633c5d069bfa41b24a6c1481a) to short-staffed airports during a partial government shutdown. > > One video posted on social media showed a woman crying and yelling as officers held her down and attempted to handcuff her while her child looked on. The Department of Homeland Security said in an email that officers arrested Angelina Lopez-Jimenez and Wendy Godinez-Jimenez at the airport Sunday as the family had an outstanding final order of removal to Guatemala from 2019. > > State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco and candidate for Congress, held a news conference Monday outside the airport to denounce the actions of federal authorities. Several Democratic candidates for California governor also sharply criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to the video. > > “We don’t want ICE here and when ICE descends on our communities, it only creates fear,” Wiener said. Unrelated? Yeah, right. [Oh, my, my, my. Let it be. Please let it be.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-throws-cabinet-member-under-201318924.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump on Monday appeared to set up Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to take the blame should the president characterize the Iran war as a failure. > > During a roundtable on crime prevention in Memphis, the president recounted how he made the decision to launch the strikes on Iran late last month. > > “I said, ‘let’s talk.’ We got a problem in the Middle East. We have a country known as Iran that , for 47 years, been just a purveyor of terror, and they’re very close to a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. > > The president then explained what he viewed were the options. > > “We can keep going and get that 50,000 up to 55 and 60, there’s no end,” Trump said, referring to the military’s goal to recruit 60,000 soldiers, “or we can take a stop and make a little journey into the Middle East and eliminate a big problem.” > > “And I think, Pete, you were the first one to speak up,” Trump said. “And you said, ‘let’s do it.’ Because you cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.” I’m dancing in the street over this part. > [@](#): > > The president’s remark toward Hegseth was laying the groundwork to blame the defense secretary for the unpopular Iran war, according to Trump critics and other political observers. > > “Hegseth about to give his next briefing from under the bus,” [tweeted](https://x.com/jonfavs/status/2036126241536057367)“Pod Save America” co-host and former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau. > > David Stockman, who has nearly 49,000 followers on X, shared a similar sentiment. > > “Would you like a Greyhound bus or an 18-wheeler coming your way, Pete?!” he [tweeted](https://x.com/DA_Stockman/status/2036142403006996739). [He’s not joking.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bessent-responds-trump-post-mueller-233732014.html) > [@](#): > > Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said people need to give President Trump more empathy after Trump posted that he was “glad” former FBI Director Robert Mueller [was dead](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mueller-led-2016-election-interference-175214195.html). > > “I think that given what has been done to President Trump and his family it is impossible for either of us to understand what he has been through,” Bessent said during a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” I’m really looking forward to this November’s elections. As a matter of curiosity, exactly what procedural members does the new congress have to deal with before it can do something of substance such as, say, IMPEACH!! THE FELON!!! I will thank you for your attention to that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3539 "2026-03-24T04:47:40Z")
> [@Euphonius\_Polemic](#): > > Or is it just Trump being Trump and lying about every single thing in the world? That’s the default explanation. Lying has worked consistently for him, so why not keep doing it? Goosing the stock market into a temporary gain for political advantage by floating nonexistent talks (plus the pleasure of manipulating investors like marionettes) probably has appeal as well. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3540 "2026-03-24T05:31:37Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Or is it just Trump being Trump and lying about every single thing in the world? For what it is worth, I don’t think Trump lies like other people lie. Most people consider a question and decide that the honest answer would lead to an undesirable outcome so they come up with something different to keep the odds in their favor. But Trump has not a fuck to give in this category so he never needs to analyze what is being said and come up with something better than honesty. Instead, he just says whatever is true for him at that moment. Note that while “true for him” might occasionally, accidentally overlap with actual, verifiable truth, it tends not to because DJT is a whimsical son of a bitch whose brain is increasingly turning to soup and leaking out his ear. Note also that “true for him” can change from moment to moment but should anyone ever point this out they are only doing so for nasty fake news purposes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=176) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=178)