# 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:** 184
**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 27, 2026, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3661 "2026-03-27T06:03:59Z")
[The hypocrite-in-chief talks about his mail-in vote.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-explains-why-cast-mail-165618675.html) > [@](#): > > Just days after calling mail-in voting “mail-in cheating,” President Donald Trump on Thursday explained why he [decided to cast a mail ballot](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-casts-mail-ballot-florida-calls-method-cheating-rcna264762) in a recent Florida special election. > > “You know what, because I’m president of the United States, and because of the fact that I’m president of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot for elections that took place in Florida,” he told reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House. > > “I decided that I was going to vote by mail-in ballot because I couldn’t be there, because I had a lot of different things,” he added. And not a word of that appears in the exceptions in the SAVE for Jesus act as he calls it. [The convicted fraudster is going to kite some federal checks.](https://www.aol.com/articles/missed-paychecks-airport-delays-pressure-053051588.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — [President Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) said Thursday he would sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents, while senators worked late into the night trying to [end a budget impasse](https://apnews.com/live/tsa-government-shutdown-ice-trump-03-26-2026) that has [jammed airports](https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-houston-airport-travel-impact-c46f4d6f49383bc9a457f3ebe001fbc1) and left workers without paychecks. > > Trump announced his decision in a social media post saying he wanted to quickly stop the “Chaos at the Airports.” > > With pressure mounting, the White House and senators, who have been engaged in on-again, off-again talks to resolve the stalemate over [Department of Homeland Security](https://apnews.com/hub/us-department-of-homeland-security) funding, appeared to be narrowing in on a endgame in the final hours before TSA workers miss another paycheck Friday. > > Trump’s order will pay TSA agents using money from his 2025 tax bill, according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss it publicly. They compared the move to actions Trump took during a past shutdown to pay troops. The rationale is that Democrats have created an emergency by declining to approve funding, the official said. > > The White House had floated the extraordinary move of invoking a national emergency to pay the TSA agents, a politically and legally fraught approach. Legally fraught. Those are the two most apt words for the felon’s mal/misadministrations, if not his life. [Whoopi Goldberg gives the felon’s newest award a proper title.](https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/whoopi-goldberg-slams-needy-trump-173152046.html) > [@](#): > > The ladies of [_The View_](https://ew.com/the-view/) are not impressed by [Donald Trump](https://ew.com/person/donald-trump/)’s latest accolade. > > On Wednesday, the President became the first-ever recipient of the “America First Award,” with House Speaker Mike Johnson presenting the trophy at the National Republican Congressional Committee, where Trump went on to deliver a lengthy speech. > > While discussing the news on Thursday’s episode of the morning show, panelist [Whoopi Goldberg](https://ew.com/person/whoopi-goldberg/) appeared baffled by the idea of Trump receiving the newly created award. > > “I’ve never seen someone who’s so needy,” the 70-year-old Oscar-winning icon said, after laughing in disbelief. “This is the most snowflakiest president I’ve ever seen.” > > Shaking her head, Goldberg exclaimed, “I mean, you need an award? You’re the head of the country— why do you need an award? What the hell?” To answer Ms. Goldberg’s query: yes, he does, and it’s because other dictators, most especially the North Korean ones he adores, constantly get awards. But not even they got the _Most Snowflakiest President_ award. [The felon’s writing fan porn.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-just-posted-weirdest-195401934.html) > [@](#): > > “They are Great American Patriots, they just happen to have much larger, and harder, muscles than most — which is what they’re supposed to have.” & > [@](#): > > And don’t get me started on their massive packages! Look out ladies! Don’t let ICE grab you by the pussy or you’ll need to ICE it down afterwards. Golden Age!!! I’m thinking he forgot how to spell _shower_. Either that or the word’s one syllable too long for him. [Rip van Simple’s building a great big ballroom because he loves the military and is giving them what they want “more than anything”.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-says-military-wanted-201814911.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) claimed the U.S. military wanted the new $400 million, 90,000-square-foot [White House ballroom](https://people.com/trump-insists-future-inaugurations-will-be-in-white-house-ballroom-11903859) structure he is building “more than anybody,” following reporting that the new East Wing will include [a revamped top-secret bunker](https://people.com/trump-east-wing-renovation-top-secret-bunker-below-ballroom-11888674). > > “Now it’s no secret the military wanted it more than anybody,” Trump said at [a Cabinet meeting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sse9HAmQtD0) on Thursday, March 26. “It was supposed to be secret but it became unsecret because of people that are really unpatriotic saying things. But, it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter. It’s going to be great.” > > The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why the U.S. military wanted the ballroom more than anybody. [And what–exactly–does the war criminal-in-chief think of his brand-new war?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/perfect-trump-picks-wrong-word-173627799.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > At an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump took a moment to publicly praise Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. military leaders, at which point the president briefly added a five-word phrase, in apparent reference to the war in Iran. > > **“It’s a perfect, amazing thing,” Trump said.** > > A variety of words come to mind when describing the latest U.S. military offensive in the Middle East, but “perfect” isn’t one of them. We are, after all, talking about a war that has included, among other things, an [apparent American missile strike on an Iranian girls’ school](https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-claims-ignorance-as-preliminary-finding-blames-u-s-for-strike-on-iranian-school) that killed 175 civilians, most of whom were children. > > Nearly a month into the war, U.S. service members have been killed and injured, the world has struggled to respond to a predictable energy crisis, violence has spread well beyond Iranian borders and Iran’s leadership remains largely intact. > > Marveling at the White House’s lack of planning and apparent inability to think strategically, The New York Times’ [Jamelle Bouie noted](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/opinion/trump-iran-opposition-solipsism.html), “Neither Trump nor his aides, according to recent reporting, planned for Iran to target shipping and close the Strait of Hormuz. They also do not seem to have planned for serious and sustained retaliation against America’s Gulf state allies. They did not plan for an energy crisis and the potential disruption to the global economy, and they did not plan for America’s European allies to, by and large, reject their call for support.” Perfect? I guess that’s accurate in the _perfect storm_ sense of the word. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3662 "2026-03-27T11:43:29Z")
I’ll raise you with “shit”. It’s a perfect shit storm. ---
**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 27, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3663 "2026-03-27T14:47:43Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > In colors! Be Best And the color choices makes it look like “BF BFST”. ---
**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 27, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3664 "2026-03-27T19:10:13Z")
Kash “wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy” Patel’s personal email account has been hacked by Iranians who have posted photos of him partying in Cuba. > > **[‘Couldn’t even lock down his own inbox’: Kash Patel hammered after email hack](https://www.rawstory.com/stringr/kash-patel-2676630545/)** > > The Justice Department (DOJ) confirmed Friday that the personal email of FBI Director Kash Patel was compromised by an Iran-linked hacking group, sparking an uproar from critics who noted the irony in a top national security official not securing... ---
**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 27, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3665 "2026-03-27T19:19:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Kash “wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy” Patel’s personal email account has been hacked by Iranians who have posted photos of him **partying in Cuba.** (emphasis added) Looks to me like you misspelled Kash “Kommunist” Patel. Clearly he’s been compromised by Fidel Castro! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3666 "2026-03-27T20:49:33Z")
Being the Admin head of ICE has to be a stressful job, but I’m not as sympathetic towards him as perhaps I should be, and for that I do feel a little sad. > **[Trump admin ICE chief has been hospitalized for stress: Report](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-ice-chief-has-been-hospitalized-for-stress-report-11749530?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main)** > > Todd Lyons was reported to have been hospitalized twice due to stress-related issues. ---
**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 27, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3667 "2026-03-27T21:17:43Z")
Hey, if you had a 39-year-old who looks like he’s in his early 60s and would’ve send his own grandparents to Auschwitz yelling at you to purify the volk in the name of the Fatherland, you’d be stressed out too. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3668 "2026-03-27T21:22:01Z")
Maybe he just needs to blow off a little steam by throwing some tear gas at kids on their way to school. That’s Republican style stress relief. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3669 "2026-03-27T21:23:08Z")
Perhaps he ran into that guy named morality. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3670 "2026-03-27T21:39:23Z")
According to his [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Lyons), Todd Lyons joined the Air Force when he was just twelve years old. Give the man a break! ---
**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 27, 2026, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3671 "2026-03-27T21:47:29Z")
Weirdly, that is what his [Congress.gov biography](https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118240/witnesses/HHRG-119-AP15-Bio-LyonsT-20250514.pdf) says; started with the US Air Force in 1993. Wikipedia says he was born in 1981. Perhaps that should be 1971? ---
**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 27, 2026, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3672 "2026-03-27T21:53:58Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > According to his [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Lyons), Todd Lyons joined the Air Force when he was just twelve years old. As what, a wheel chock? ---
**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 27, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3673 "2026-03-27T22:10:06Z")
Matt “Statuatory” Gaetz has turned on Trump. > **[Disgraced ex-GOP rep goes rogue at CPAC over MAGA's 'slavish loyalty' to...](https://www.rawstory.com/republican-2676631731/)** > > Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called out MAGA followers and President Donald Trump, ripping into the president's war in Iran and the people supporting it. Gaetz spoke Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Texas when he... ---
**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 27, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3674 "2026-03-27T22:19:54Z")
He’s still an A-1 Asshole. ---
**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 27, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3675 "2026-03-27T22:32:30Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > I’ll raise you with “shit”. It’s a perfect shit storm. I second your proposed amendment. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3676 "2026-03-27T22:46:12Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > He’s still an A-1 Asshole. Even a blind asshole finds a nut. 😉 ---
**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 27, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3677 "2026-03-27T22:52:07Z")
Matt Schlapp asks the crowd at CPAC if they want to see Trump get impeached. They respond by cheering. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mi2jraxpzk2f)** > > SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? > > CPAC CROWD: \*cheers\* > > SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer. ---
**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 27, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3678 "2026-03-27T22:55:15Z")
Hmmm… maybe heads will start exploding soon. Must stock up on popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3679 "2026-03-27T23:37:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Matt Schlapp asks the crowd at CPAC if they want to see Trump get impeached. > > They respond by cheering. Even better: After saying, “No, no. Wrong answer,” he asked again. There were still cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3680 "2026-03-27T23:40:04Z")
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