# 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:** 197
**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:** [April 2, 2026, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3921 "2026-04-02T23:03:39Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > The man is truly the soul of wit… The dim of wit? ---
**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, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3922 "2026-04-02T23:03:43Z")
Well, until President Pritzker convenes the tribunals a few years from now, anyway. ---
**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, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3923 "2026-04-02T23:05:04Z")
Oh, you mean it does not really end badly for the toadie, but only for the subordinates? You may have a point there. Still President Ineptstein does not get what he wants. Apart from the fake adulation and the ass kissing and the brown-nosing, yes, that he gets. ---
**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, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3924 "2026-04-02T23:05:29Z")
They don’t think it will happen to them, if they did they wouldn’t do the things they do. I hope they are wrong, for all our sakes. ---
**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, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3925 "2026-04-02T23:06:57Z")
Well, it may very well end up badly for him too, but he will not believe it will happen until the wheels of the bus are flattening him against the pavement. These are not brilliant people precisely. ---
**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, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3926 "2026-04-02T23:07:10Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > 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. Yeah. One of the most puzzling things for me has how there’s just this endless line of people who seem to think _they_ are the special ones who won’t be thrown under the bus. Nobody seems to _learn_; there’s just this endless flow of scumball-lemmings. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3927 "2026-04-02T23:16:52Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > One of the most puzzling things for me has how there’s just this endless line of people who seem to think _they_ are the special ones who won’t be thrown under the bus. I think part of it for all of them is how badly they want to be in the history books. Look at Kevin McCarthy. All he ever wanted was to be Speaker of the House. Once he achieved that, he quit politics. Because it was never about service, just personal glory. If they have to be humiliated in the process, so be 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:** [April 3, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3928 "2026-04-03T00:25:42Z")
Trump is ballroomposting again. This time his AI render appears to have some sort of ziggurat in the background. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreievhrqprsvxkfd4kxqxjwlkuawkabharhllg36hzm5a72arhhj2ne) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreievhrqprsvxkfd4kxqxjwlkuawkabharhllg36hzm5a72arhhj2ne) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3929 "2026-04-03T01:13:47Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > 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). Nah, he’s been pretty obsessed with her foe awhile. He’s talked about her “low IQ” plenty. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3930 "2026-04-03T02:12:09Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > 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! > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > 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. It was pushback against Kegsbreath. The general refused to pull back the promotion nominations of two black and two female officers to one star general. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3931 "2026-04-03T02:26:22Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > How hard can ot be to find a general down the line with no spine or morals? In this particular case I don’t think it’s about having a spine or morals it’s about competence. Trump will eventually find a general who doesn’t realize they don’t have the ablity to lead an invasion and he’ll say yes. It might be a matter of hubris on their part rather than a lack of spine or morals. I think most competent generals don’t want to be seen as the next Westmoreland, Gates, or McClellan. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3932 "2026-04-03T02:30:11Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > How hard can ot be to find a general down the line with no spine or morals? Get me Michael Flynn! ---
**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 3, 2026, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3933 "2026-04-03T02:42:32Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I think most competent generals don’t want to be seen as the next Westmoreland, Gates, or McClellan. Or they could try for Quintus Servilius Caepio (according to Britannica). He sounds like a pretty typical Republican general: (bolding mine) > Caepio rashly attacked the Cimbri army on October 6, 105 BCE. The Cimbri destroyed Caepio’s force and, emboldened by their success, marched on Maximus’s camp. Maximus managed to form up his men but to no avail. The Romans lost an estimated 80,000 infantry and perhaps 40,000 auxiliaries and cavalry. Although he managed to escape the battle unharmed, Caepio was stripped of his Roman citizenship and exiled). Caepio reportedly lived out the remainder of his life in luxury, however. **Some 15,000 talents of gold (the so-called Gold of Tolosa) had vanished under his watch,** ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3934 "2026-04-03T02:53:37Z")
I just hope the idiot-in-chief is not thinking of this: > **[Davy Crockett (nuclear device)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device))** > > The M28 or M29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War. It was the first project assigned to the United States Army Weapon Command in Rock Island, Illinois. It remains one of the smallest nuclear weapon systems ever built, incorporating a warhead with yields of 10 to 20 tons of TNT (42 to 84 GJ). It is named after American ... ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3935 "2026-04-03T02:56:23Z")
Oh. Jesus. That’s a pretty good approximation of how his lurching mind drivel works. You may – scarily – be onto something. ---
**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 3, 2026, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3936 "2026-04-03T05:01:10Z")
So Bondi’s out? My guess is he wanted to demote her to attorney colonel or even attorney private. Then I remembered he’s already turned the entire Department of Justice into the latter. [Ah, so this is how the felon plans on stopping federal tax increases.](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-gaffe-war-daycare-epitomizes-170336399.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump delivered [one of his most extensive sales pitches](https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/trump-speech-iran-war-oil-prices-analysis?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) for the Iran war in a primetime address on Wednesday night. > > But comments he delivered in a closed-door Easter lunch just hours earlier epitomize why he has utterly failed to make the sale. > > In rambling hourlong remarks — video of which was briefly posted on YouTube by the White House and [preserved by a reporter for Business Insider](https://x.com/metzgov/status/2039462014968316313)— Trump riffed on how the federal government should focus more on funding defense and less on health care and day care, which should be left to the states. > > And at one point, he even set it up as a choice between funding war and funding day care — while apparently choosing the former. > > The president began by recalling a conversation he had with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. > > “I said to Russell, ‘Don’t send any money for day care,’ because the United States can’t take care of day care. That has to be up to a state,” Trump said. “We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people.” > > Trump then added, in quick succession: “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care.” > > He said states should raise their taxes to pay for day care and health care. Leave it to the states! What a genius move! The stablest! The geniusest! [Some of us remember these tips from your youth. The out of control felon has caused them to be resurrected.](https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/experts-10-steps-could-save-123500267.html) > [@](#): > > Nuclear explosions sound like something out of a sci-fi blockbuster, but the terrifying truth is that they aren’t confined to fiction. The sheer scale of energy released in a nuclear blast can wipe out entire neighborhoods in seconds, and the invisible aftermath of radiation can linger long after the fireball fades. Experts warn that understanding survival strategies isn’t just a matter of curiosity—it can be the difference between life and death. Survival isn’t luck; it’s preparation, quick thinking, and knowing exactly what to do before chaos takes over. > > This is not a drill. While the chances of a nuclear blast hitting a populated area remain low, the consequences are so catastrophic that taking steps now could save lives later. From shielding yourself from radiation to knowing how to manage panic and scarcity, every action counts. Read the article for the full list. Then try to find [_The Day After_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After) for some real “feel good” viewing. [Gomer Pyle voice]Surprise! Surprise! Surprise![/GPv] The convicted felon’s very own DoJ (aka _attorney private_ (see above)) [says he gets to keep all of his presidential records](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/justice-department-says-trump-keep-230901317.html). > [@](#): > > [Donald Trump](https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/donald-trump) does not need to turn over his presidential records to the National Archives, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded in an opinion this week. > > Rejecting a decades-old law enacted after the Watergate scandal to ensure the preservation of presidential records, Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser stated that the Presidential Records Act was unconstitutional and “untethered from any valid and identifiable legislative purpose.” > > “The PRA exceeds the oversight power because it serves no identifiable and valid legislative purpose. It exceeds any preservation power because Congress cannot preserve presidential records merely for the sake of posterity,” the 52-page opinion said. [Holy delusions of grandeur, Batman! He really does think he’s deity.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-tells-palm-sunday-story-185455044.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) elicited laughter at a White House Easter lunch when he seemingly compared himself to Jesus Christ. > > At the annual event on Wednesday, April 1, Trump spoke about Palm Sunday and said he could relate to one of the monikers that people use when referring to Jesus. > > “On Palm Sunday, Jesus entered Jerusalem as crowds welcomed him with praise honoring him as king,” he said in [footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Ay6bTN1yU) that has since been deleted from the White House website. > > “They call me king now. Can you believe it?” he added with a smile. ---
**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 3, 2026, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3937 "2026-04-03T05:31:04Z")
> [@Monty (quoting AOL.com)](#): > > Experts warn that understanding survival strategies isn’t just a matter of curiosity—it can be the difference between life and death. Survival isn’t luck; it’s preparation, quick thinking, and knowing exactly what to do before chaos takes over. Ugh. I see Brandon Marcus of [AOL.com](http://AOL.com) is using ChatGPT to write his articles for him. Those two sentences just between them contain all three of the earmarks of AI-generated writing - an emdash, comparison by negation (“it’s not X, it’s Y” / “it isn’t just X, it’s Y”), and a list of three. We live in the dumbest timeline. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3938 "2026-04-03T12:18:06Z")
Who can challenge this disturbing claim about the Presidential Records Act? Congress? We can’t let this criminal shit be covered up forever. ---
**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 3, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3939 "2026-04-03T13:46:56Z")
Off topic aside (but after all, this is the Pit, land of asides…) > [@Smapti](#): > > …all three of the earmarks of AI-generated writing - an emdash, comparison by negation (“it’s not X, it’s Y” / “it isn’t just X, it’s Y”) 💡 That’s the lightbulb that just appeared over my head I watch a LOT of YouTube videos on many different topics-- history, food/cooking, biographies, travel, music, writing, decorating, you name it-- and this particular construction comes up over and over again! The close cousin is “it’s not about _this_–it’s about _that_.” I haven’t noticed (but I will now!) whether it’s mostly in videos that are narrated by an AI voice. These are easy to pick out after they speak for a while because they mispronounce words, especially names, by saying them phonetically instead of the way they would be said by an intelligent native-speaking human. And they pause inappropriately in the middle of phrases. I like to learn new stuff and if the source is AI, so be it, if the information is correct. It’s a new world, and goodness knows I use AI. Just used ChatGPT this morning to help me sort through all the brands of panty liners on the market to find a brand that’s made of cotton and won’t irritate my skin. GPT’s ability to search and sort information is definitely superior to mine. /aside Carry on. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3940 "2026-04-03T14:11:17Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Is that his attempt at sarcasm? He hates Jasmine, right? Maybe he’s workshopping a new insulting nickname? Jasmine “Davy” Crockett? Implies she’s both transgender and white, which he thinks she’ll take as an insult? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=196) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=198)