# 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:** 195
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3881 "2026-04-02T02:09:50Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Supremes will rule on this 9-0. I’m not so sure about Thomas and Alito, but I don’t see any of the others joining them. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3882 "2026-04-02T02:14:34Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Exactly the kind of person trump would love. Especially since he looks the part, right out of central casting. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3883 "2026-04-02T02:17:55Z")
Whew. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3884 "2026-04-02T02:34:20Z")
And now, _The President’s Brain Is Missing_, Major Announcement Edition. “The whole world is watching and they can’t leave the power, strength, and brilliance.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mii25xlgll2c)** > > Trump: "This is true investment in your children's and grandchildren's future" “We have so much gas” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mihzt7tgyb2r)** > > Trump: "America has plenty of gas. We have so much gas." “We just learned that out” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mihzkvki3t2z)** > > Trump: "With the longest range possible and they had some weapons that nobody believed they had. We just learned that out. We took 'em out. We took 'em all out so that no one would really dare stop them." “There would have been no Middle East and no Israel right now” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mihzipojax2z)** > > Trump really cannot pull off the primetime speech that he has to read. He sounds addled. “On the batterfer” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mihz7ofybo25)** > > Trump is really struggling to read “I will never let that happen, and neither should any of our past presidents” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mihzeu2wqy2h)** > > Trump: "I will never let that happen. And neither should any of our past presidents" ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3885 "2026-04-02T02:53:48Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > It’s a new world. It’s the same constitution. — John Roberts > > Love it. You are saying that like it’s a good thing. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3886 "2026-04-02T03:30:59Z")
In the context of the admin claiming that the Constitution doesn’t say what everyone has agreed for the last 160 years that it unambiguously says, it certainly is. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3887 "2026-04-02T03:42:25Z")
Given the SCOTUS case load, it would seem that a whole lot of Americans have been arguing/litigating the ambiguities for most of those 160 years. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3888 "2026-04-02T07:57:30Z")
Speaking of litigation, [the felon’s administration doesn’t want a 5-year old on the outside](https://www.aol.com/articles/federal-government-appealing-order-releasing-223039788.html). > [@](#): > > The federal government may try to send 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos back to detention. > > The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal Wednesday in federal court in Texas, challenging a January [ruling that freed the 5-year-old Minnesota resident and his father](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liam-conejo-ramos-released-ice-custody/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17), Adrian Conejo Arias, from an immigration detention facility. The father and son [were taken into custody](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-school-children-ice-arrests-columbia-heights/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during a crackdown in the Minneapolis area earlier this year, drawing nationwide attention. > > The filing, obtained by CBS News, takes the fight to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. If the government succeeds, the two could find themselves back in detention. > > “The first time they came for us it was unjust. The second time they came for us is unjust. We are not giving into their fear,” Adrian Conejo Arias told CBS News through his attorney, Danielle Molliver. He also sent a message of gratitude to people around the world who have advocated on their behalf, saying, “Thank you to all those who continue to support and love us.” [He can be sued! Shout it from the mountaintops!](https://www.aol.com/trump-isnt-immune-civil-claims-143223207.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — [President Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) is not immune from [civil claims](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.227536/gov.uscourts.dcd.227536.1.0_4.pdf) that he incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol on Jan, 6, 2021, a federal judge [has ruled](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.227536/gov.uscourts.dcd.227536.219.0.pdf) in one of the last unresolved legal cases stemming from the riot. > > U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Tuesday that Trump’s remarks at his “Stop the Steal” rally, held on the Ellipse near the White House shortly before the siege began, “plausibly” were inciting words that are not protected by the First Amendment right to free speech. > > The Republican president is not shielded from liability for much of his Jan. 6 conduct, including that speech and many of his social media posts that day, according to the judge. But Mehta said Trump cannot be held liable for his official acts that day, including his Rose Garden remarks during the riot and his interactions with Justice Department officials. > > “President Trump has not shown that the Speech reasonably can be understood as falling within the outer perimeter of his Presidential duties,” Mehta wrote. “The content of the Ellipse Speech confirms that it is not covered by official-acts immunity." _Go, tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and everywhere. Go, tell it on the mountain That the felon is liable!_ [Democratic Party leaders sue the felon over his DPRKesque takeover EO.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-sue-trump-administration-over-014919718.html) > [@](#): > > Democratic Party leaders filed suit Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s attempt to limit voting by mail ahead of the midterm elections. > > Democrats argue that an executive order Trump [signed at the White House](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/trump-executive-order-limiting-mail-in-voting-00853296) on Tuesday, which creates an approved list of absentee voters among other actions, is an unconstitutional interference in the power of states to regulate elections. > > Senate Minority Leader [Chuck Schumer](https://directory.politicopro.com/member/51231) and House Minority Leader [Hakeem Jeffries](https://directory.politicopro.com/member/196306) joined the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Governors Association in suing to challenge the order. > > “President Trump possesses no such authority to order such a sweeping change to American elections,” [the suit argues](https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1-2026-04-01-Complaint-2.pdf). [Yep, the felon’s going to try to pull us out of NATO.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-suggests-us-considering-leaving-111420659.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump suggested in two new interviews that he’s considering withdrawing the US from NATO after repeatedly criticizing a lack of support from members for the Iran war. > > Asked by the right-leaning British publication The Telegraph in an interview published Wednesday if he would reconsider the US’ membership of NATO after the war, Trump said: “Oh yes, I would say (it’s) beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin knows that too, by the way.” > > The president doubled down in an interview with Reuters, saying he is “absolutely” considering trying to withdraw the US from NATO and previewed that he will be criticizing the military alliance during his primetime address to the nation Wednesday night. > > “They haven’t been friends when we needed them,” Trump told Reuters. “We’ve never asked them for much … it’s a one-way street.” Having served in western Europe during the NATO vs Warsaw Pact days, I’ll have to say, the felon is, as always, full of it. [Vance talks being Catholic; doesn’t know what a Catholic church buildling is.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/eek-jd-vances-upcoming-book-203747219.html) > [@](#): > > Vice President [JD Vance](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/jd-vance)’s upcoming book is set to detail his “personal journey” back to [Catholicism](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/catholic-church), but the cover of his work embarrassingly appears to depict a church of a different [Christian](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/christianity) denomination. > > “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” — [announced by the veep](https://x.com/JDVance/status/2038982807536492876) on Tuesday and set to be released in June — features a cover that includes a church below a dreamy sky nestled somewhere in a country, hill-ish environment, seemingly an effort to bring the Vance family’s roots in Appalachia to mind. > > The church in the image, [as noted](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/track-aipac-methodology-is-just-vibes-israel-lobby-color-cards) by The Bulwark’s Joe Perticone on Tuesday, is not so Catholic. > > In fact, it depicts [Mount Zion Church](https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7333262,-81.2374887,3a,42.6y,288.48h,89.57t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMR6l6EMwsf2NOUBox8qfAQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0.4257593060380458%26panoid%3DMR6l6EMwsf2NOUBox8qfAQ%26yaw%3D288.4842901423829!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D), a United Methodist place of worship in Elk Creek, Virginia. [Alex Jones no longer supports the felon.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/alex-jones-says-time-cut-021152102.html) > [@](#): > > Conspiracy theorist and podcaster **Alex Jones** said on Tuesday that President **Donald Trump** was in “freefall,” claiming that it was time to “cut the bait” on the president before the upcoming midterms. > > Jones, a longtime [supporter](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/us/politics/alex-jones-jan-6-trump.html) of Trump in his first term, has frequently criticized the president in recent months over everything from Trump’s [attacks](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/alex-jones-urges-trump-stop-013659046.html) on Rep. **Marjorie Taylor Greene** (R-GA), his administration’s [handling](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/alex-jones-goes-scorched-earth-183228382.html) of the documents relating to convicted sex offender **Jeffrey Epstein,** and the aging president’s [health](https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/we-have-a-crisis-alex-jones-warns-that-trump-is-headed-for-health-collapse/). > > The podcaster upped the ante on Tuesday’s [edition](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-alex-jones-show-infowars-com/id1748515625?i=1000758509249) of _The Alex Jones Show_, claiming Republican candidates needed to distance themselves from Trump while campaigning in the midterm elections. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3889 "2026-04-02T08:12:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > > > Supremes will rule on this 9-0. > > I’m not so sure about Thomas and Alito, but I don’t see any of the others joining them. Ann Telnaes agrees about Thomas and Alito. > **[SCOTUS hears birthright citizenship arguments](https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/scotus-hears-birthright-citizenship)** > > The head mobster makes an appearance at the Supreme Court ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3890 "2026-04-02T15:54:24Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Vance talks being Catholic; doesn’t know what a Catholic church buildling is. I’d strongly suspect that he (or, more likely, his publisher) picked a piece of licensed photography of an attractive church building, and gave no thought to whether it was a Catholic church. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3891 "2026-04-02T17:40:32Z")
And Illegally Blonde is out the door. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreifgucsevtac75qlvwr3jjuztorizqgvq7itd67cq3nym2kfowe6qe) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreifgucsevtac75qlvwr3jjuztorizqgvq7itd67cq3nym2kfowe6qe) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3892 "2026-04-02T18:09:04Z")
“I will never let that happen, and neither should any of our past presidents” You got that Washington and Lincoln? Don’t let that happen! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3893 "2026-04-02T18:13:21Z")
Quote from article below: > …[trump] doesn’t think she has “executed on his vision” in the way that he wants. Translation: she didn’t persecute / prosecute his enemies in the way that he wants. > **[Pam Bondi out as attorney general, Trump says](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/bondi-fired-attorney-general-trump-rcna266378)** > > Trump has been increasingly frustrated with Bondi in recent days, sources told NBC News. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3894 "2026-04-02T18:16:14Z")
Best comment from Reddit that I saw: > Trump doesn’t have a cabinet. He has a junk drawer ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3895 "2026-04-02T18:19:18Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > “I will never let that happen, and neither should any of our past presidents” > > You got that Washington and Lincoln? Don’t let that happen!. So the president of the United States does not appear appear to be oriented to time, space or person (and other functional categories). And it is broadcast on international media! What a disaster! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3896 "2026-04-02T18:41:06Z")
That’s a good one! 🤣 👍 ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3897 "2026-04-02T19:04:04Z")
I’m… not even sure WHAT’S going on with this one. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4g4laxkmsrczwvnvbbgsm7g/bafkreig75dvvwpuot7n3r27yikinypj225vfomxjxvqrais3emwuzzjo5e) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4g4laxkmsrczwvnvbbgsm7g/bafkreig75dvvwpuot7n3r27yikinypj225vfomxjxvqrais3emwuzzjo5e) ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3898 "2026-04-02T19:12:41Z")
That…makes no sense whatsoever. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3899 "2026-04-02T19:26:18Z")
Sure it does. Davy Crockett, an exceptionally white person from the past as depicted on 50s television whose political opinions aren’t much discussed, would be proud of a random Texan politician who happens to share his surname. The fact that Jasmine Crockett is a black Democrat is immaterial. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3900 "2026-04-02T19:39:45Z")
Well Davy Crockett did die at the Alamo fighting for Texas Independence, so it could be said that Davy should be proud of Jasmine as part of his Texas legacy. I just have a hard time believing TFG would make that compliment, at least intentionally and rationally. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=194) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=196)