# 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:** 196
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3901 "2026-04-02T20:22:06Z")
And one of the reasons Texas wanted independence was because Mexico was trying to deny them the “right” to keep black people enslaved… ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3902 "2026-04-02T20:24:12Z")
Is that his attempt at sarcasm? He hates Jasmine, right? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3903 "2026-04-02T20:27:30Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > And one of the reasons Texas wanted independence was because Mexico was trying to deny them the “right” to keep black people enslaved… Not that he would disagree if he knew that, but I would be flabbergasted if he knew anything about the history of Texas. Or if he were able to succinctly relate any detail of such. > [@Stratocaster](#): > > Is that his attempt at sarcasm? Who can say? It just doesn’t make sense. But for what it’s worth, his style seems to be much more juvenile - name calling and direct insults. Even sarcastic semi-intelligent allusions are a bit too intellectual for him and, so, usually outside his milieu ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3904 "2026-04-02T20:28:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > That…makes no sense whatsoever. The picture doesn’t look so much like Fess Parker, or even John Wayne, but more like Charlie Sheen in a photoshopped wig. I am befuddled. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3905 "2026-04-02T20:29:24Z")
As close as I can figure it, I think he was going for “they have the same last name, they’re both from Texas, and he’s a white dude, drr hrr hrr”. Note the “High IQ” bit. He usually pulls the IQ thing when talking about minorities. Anything else would involve more thought than he’s exhibited in several years. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3906 "2026-04-02T20:29:48Z")
The man is truly the soul of wit… ---
**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, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3907 "2026-04-02T20:31:16Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I would be flabbergasted if he knew anything about the history of Texas. I am sure he used to watch the odd episode of Dallas back in the late '70s and the early '80s. After that the plot became too convoluted for him to follow, but he still pretended for a while. ---
**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, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3908 "2026-04-02T20:33:21Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The picture doesn’t look so much like Fess Parker, or even John Wayne, but more like Charlie Sheen in a photoshopped wig. Someone in the comments of the Bluesky post I got the screenshot from says it’s actually of Parker as Daniel Boone, which makes as much sense as anything else in that post. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3909 "2026-04-02T20:42:37Z")
nevermind ---
**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, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3910 "2026-04-02T20:48:53Z")
Pete “Secretary of War Crimes” Hegseth has fired the Army Chief of Staff, presumably for not meeting his quota of dead civilians. > **[Hegseth ousts Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-ousts-army-chief-of-staff-gen-randy-george/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=925967183)** > > One of the sources said Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement President Trump and Hegseth's vision for the Army. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3911 "2026-04-02T20:49:58Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Parker as Daniel Boone, Wait! What? Parker played both Crockett AND Boone? Mind blown. When I was young, I used to think Crockett was real and Boone was a cheap TV knockoff of him. Or the other way around. I forget. Now I image search for Fess Parker “as”, and they both show up in the results, and I can’t tell which one is Crockett and which is Boone. I need to go lie down now. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3912 "2026-04-02T21:05:25Z")
Hint from a friend: don’t look in the bottom drawer of your dad’s bureau any time after Thanksgiving. 🫣 ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3913 "2026-04-02T21:11:30Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Is that his attempt at sarcasm? He hates Jasmine, right? He would if someone showed him a photo of her. But if he just came across her name somewhere, he may well have assumed she was Decently White (as well as related to Davy Crockett). Either way, we’re talking about this and not the price of gas or the Epstein Files or the Americans who died because Donald thought attacking Iran would be a Glorious Adventure. > [@solost](#): > > Translation: she didn’t persecute / prosecute his enemies in the way that he wants. This, I’d guess, as well as the fact of those inconvenient-for-Donald Jack Smith revelations last week: > [@](#): > > …Last week, the Department of Justice produced a January 13, 2023, memorandum to the Judiciary Committee, as part of its regular document production in service of Judiciary Republicans’ campaign to smear Special Counsel Jack Smith and the career prosecutors and agents who investigated Trump’s criminal conduct. > > This particular production contained a memorandum detailing non-public information about the classified documents Trump stole when leaving office. … > **[Damning New Documents Obtained By Judiciary Democrats Reveal Trump Stole...](https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/damning-new-documents-obtained-by-judiciary-democrats-reveal-trump-stole-classified-documents-to-advance-his-business-interests)** > > Washington, D.C. (March 25, 2026)—Rep. > [@Smapti](#): > > I really don’t see how anyone can still believe Trump has some Secret Master Plan and he’s just biding his time until all the pieces fall into place. I try to be patient with your fantasizing, but sometimes it’s a bit of a challenge. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3914 "2026-04-02T22:07:03Z")
This may be more ominous that it seems. Trump: I want to invade Iran to end this war once and for all. Chief of Staff: That would take months of preparation and hundreds of thousands of troops more than we currently have in the theater, plus… Hegseth: You fail to show the right macho attitude, you are fired! ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3915 "2026-04-02T22:32:26Z")
I suspect it was probably something along these lines. The next in line needs to give the exact same advice. And so on down the line. ---
**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, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3916 "2026-04-02T22:47:52Z")
How hard can ot be to find a general down the line with no spine or morals? I was born in a military dictatorship, and **Frodo** knows something about that too, so we may be biased (not that I am talking in his name here, just extrapolating from former posts of his plus some optimistic assumptions. He also used the word _ominous_). But I don’t believe your hopes, commendable as they are, are going to turn out to be the right strategy. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3917 "2026-04-02T22:53:04Z")
Yeah, on any organization you’ll eventually find a spineless toady if you fire enough people, and the next Chief of Staff will be selected precisely for his (it would be absolutely be a him) lack of spine. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3918 "2026-04-02T22:58:00Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > How hard can ot be to find a general down the line with no spine or morals? The issue is less spine or morals, but the ability to do it at all. If Trump is making impossible demands even the most sycophant officer can’t give him what he wants. ---
**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, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3919 "2026-04-02T23:02:19Z")
Some amoral general asshole will think that he can fake till he makes it and believe he can lie his way through the mess until then. When he finally fails President Ineptstein will call him a loser and move to the next one. Isn’t this the story of his life? Why the toadies don’t know by now that this is ending badly for them but not for him is beyond me. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3920 "2026-04-02T23:02:48Z")
Ah but he can bask in the recognition for a time and then live of the RW gravy train denouncing the traitor liberals who backstabbed the war effort in front of adoring audiences of terminal idiots. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=195) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=197)