# 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:** 200
**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 4, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3981 "2026-04-04T22:51:37Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > For just a moment now I found myself hoping he gets the money for this project and it’s finished just in time for him to be the very first inmate. That would certainly be justice of a poetry-adjacent kind. > [@DesertDog](#): > > It’s not only his nibs but also those oligarchs who’ve given a ~~kickback~~ bribe who will get rich(er). Yeah. Though Donald may be all in for “war not social services” out of his general bloody-mindedness and desperate need to be seen as a Tough Guy, he’s also in it because grifting defense spending is a lot easier than grifting pre-school provision. (More time-honored, at least.) ---
**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 4, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3982 "2026-04-04T22:58:23Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Though Donald may be all in for “war not social services” out of his general bloody-mindedness and desperate need to be seen as a Tough Guy, he’s also in it because grifting defense spending is a lot easier than grifting pre-school provision. Also, social spending helps people, while the military hurts people. Only “losers” help people, while “winners” hurt people; therefore cutting social services of all sorts is a worthy goal in itself, because it prevents other people than Trump from benefiting from society. Trump’s worldview is a black hole of malignant narcissism; all benefits must only go one direction, to him. ---
**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 4, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3983 "2026-04-04T23:01:32Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Also, social spending helps people, while the military hurts people. Don’t forget how he’s managed to also hurt the military and their families under the guise of helping them by stealing from them. ---
**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 4, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3984 "2026-04-04T23:01:50Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Trump’s worldview is a black hole of malignant narcissism; all benefits must only go one direction, to him. Yes, very much so. And as you say, the ‘being a loser/being a winner’ “distinction” definitely is crucial to him. But none of this will be an asset to Republicans running in just a few months. Can Donald really assure them that he can rig elections _enough_ to overcome the disadvantage he’s imposing on them with the ‘war only’ message? ---
**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 4, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3985 "2026-04-04T23:09:38Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > of Trump not having an easy off-ramp in this war. Easy off-ramp: 25th Amendment. Announce that Trump has brain cancer: not his fault, affects his otherwise perfect decision-making. President Vance sues for peace, and spins the cost as something that our newfound economic freedom (=the old status quo) will buy us. ---
**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 4, 2026, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3986 "2026-04-04T23:10:33Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Trump not having an easy off-ramp in this war. It will happen if he can ~~squirm~~ march triumphantly out of this war while declaring himself the winner. All it will take will be denying reality and lying with all the conviction of his narcissistic ego. I can see it happening. Truth and reality mean nothing to him, so no prob. 🙂‍↕️ ---
**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 4, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3987 "2026-04-04T23:11:01Z")
That’s an easy off-ramp for the U.S. but not for Trump. And is also not so easy, who in that bunch of spineless wonders will have the huevos to event think about that?. ---
**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 4, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3988 "2026-04-04T23:18:44Z")
Yeah, I know. Just dreaming. You’re right that there’s no easy off-ramp for Trump: he’s painted himself into a corner, here and elsewhere, by making big decisions intiuitively instead of with preparation and diligence. Turns out, bullshitting and bullying aren’t as effective success strategies as he and his followers had hoped. ---
**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 4, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3989 "2026-04-04T23:20:34Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > But none of this will be an asset to Republicans running in just a few months. Can Donald really assure them that he can rig elections _enough_ to overcome the disadvantage he’s imposing on them with the ‘war only’ message? Sure he can. He’d be lying, but it’s not like that’s ever bothered him. Also, the Republicans are not _Trump;_ therefore, their welfare is of no importance to him. They are in the same position as all the _other_ people who have sucked up to Trump in hope of advancing themselves, only to be casually discarded the moment they irritate him. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3990 "2026-04-04T23:40:34Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > 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. > > Also _Threads_ for some additional “feel good” viewing. And, if you can find it, the first and best of the lot, **The War Game** [The War Game - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game) Not the Matthew BRodserick _WarGames_ ---
**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 4, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3991 "2026-04-04T23:52:05Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > You’re right that there’s no easy off-ramp for Trump: he’s painted himself into a corner, here and elsewhere, by making big decisions intiuitively instead of with preparation and diligence. Turns out, bullshitting and bullying aren’t as effective success strategies as he and his followers had hoped. This is why I am extremely nervous that Trump’s next big idea will be dropping a nuke somewhere in Iran. And this is why Generals are being shown the door; they are saying not just no, but hell no. I’d put the odds at 10%, which is way, way too high for my liking. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3992 "2026-04-04T23:55:16Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This is why I am extremely nervous that Trump’s next big idea will be dropping a nuke somewhere in Iran. And this is why Generals are being shown the door; they are saying not just no, but hell no. That was my first thought when I read his post. ---
**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 5, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3993 "2026-04-05T00:23:56Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > And this is why Generals are being shown the door; they are saying not just no, but hell no. Fundamentalist Protestants baulking at nuking fundamentalist Shia Muslims? Things have improved from way back in the day, no? ---
**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 5, 2026, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3994 "2026-04-05T00:42:42Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > And, if you can find it, the first and best of the lot, **The War Game** I mentioned _Threads_ to a coworker recently. Later that night he messaged me “10 out of 10, will never watch again”. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3995 "2026-04-05T01:09:38Z")
I am too nervous about this as well as you are. Also worried that our troops are injured/killed before a maga bomb attack, thus killing innocent people again and again, as already happened with the children’s hospital bombing I’d be happy with a US withdraw and still claiming a false victory than this continuing. ---
**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 5, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3996 "2026-04-05T01:13:10Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I am too nervous about this as well as you are. > > Also worried that our troops are injured/killed before a maga bomb attack, thus killing innocent people again and again, as already happened with the children’s hospital bombing > > I’d be happy with a US withdraw and still claiming a false victory than this continuing. I am a bit nervous about all of this as well. Trying to stay calm. I think that trump’s mysterious disappearance makes it a tad worse. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3997 "2026-04-05T01:26:42Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This is why I am extremely nervous that Trump’s next big idea will be dropping a nuke somewhere in Iran. And this is why Generals are being shown the door; they are saying not just no, but hell no. Word is Tulsi Gabbard is the next to go. > **[Trump polled advisors on whether to fire Tulsi Gabbard as well as Bondi: report](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fire-replace-tulsi-gabbard-pam-bondi-b2951027.html)** > > Following Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi's dramatic exits, president was said to be mulling dismissing Gabbard as well She doesn’t agree with him regarding nuclear war with Iran. > [@](#): > > “She’s a little bit different in her thought process than me, but that doesn’t make somebody not available to serve,” he [said](https://youtu.be/NOdbd3yjFt0?t=1002 "undefined") late Sunday. “I would say that I’m very strong in the fact that I don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, because if they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it immediately. I think she’s probably a little bit softer on that issue, but that’s okay.” > **[How Trump and Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard Differ on Iran Nuclear Issue](https://time.com/article/2026/03/30/trump-tulsi-gabbard-differ-on-iran-war-nuclear-capabilities/)** > > "She's a little bit different in her thought process than me," Trump told reporters when discussing Gabbard's approach to the Iran nuclear issue. The acknowledgement comes amid debate over differing views among top U.S. officials. ---
**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 5, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3998 "2026-04-05T02:05:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Frodo](#): > > > > Trump not having an easy off-ramp in this war. > > It will happen if he can ~~squirm~~ march triumphantly out of this war while declaring himself the winner. All it will take will be denying reality and lying with all the conviction of his narcissistic ego. I can see it happening. Truth and reality mean nothing to him, so no prob. That’s exactly how he’s treating the election he lost. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This is why I am extremely nervous that Trump’s next big idea will be dropping a nuke somewhere in Iran. And this is why Generals are being shown the door; they are saying not just no, but hell no. Right. There’s no way Rip van Simple wants to take a chance on the US having our very own Yevgrafovich Petrov. [Continuing on the theme of good military officers.](https://www.aol.com/articles/ousted-army-chief-staff-says-194630310.html) > [@](#): > > Ousted Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George, told Pentagon officials in an [outgoing email](https://x.com/rArmyReddit/status/2040459752770064589?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) that U.S. soldiers deserve “courageous leaders of character,” after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked him to step down and take immediate retirement. > > CBS News exclusively [reported earlier this week](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-ousts-army-chief-of-staff-gen-randy-george/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) on the general’s ousting, with one source saying Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement his and President Trump’s vision for the Army. > > An outgoing email, attributed to George and confirmed as authentic by CBS News on Saturday, circulated online after his ousting. A U.S. official told CBS News that George sent the email to Hegseth, the undersecretary and assistant secretary of the Army, as well as to the three- and four-star generals and officers on his staff. [Doo-doo-doo-doo…](https://www.aol.com/articles/waffle-house-employees-didnt-see-223308740.html) > [@](#): > > A senior official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) claimed [he teleported 50 miles to a Waffle House in Georgia](https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/far-fema-official-charge-disaster-184717802.html), but nobody can back it up. > > Gregg Phillips made the bizarre claim in a since-deleted podcast episode and, after it was met with backlash and doubt, he [doubled down on it, citing Biblical miracles](https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/far-fema-official-doubles-down-173412323.html). However, nobody can seem to back up his story, according to _a_ [_New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house-teleportation.html) report published on Friday, April 3. > > The _Times_ interviewed about two dozen Waffle House employees and regulars across the three locations in Rome, Ga. — where Phillips, who leads FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, said the teleportation took place — and the response was unanimous: Nobody saw anyone teleporting into the breakfast chain. > > Or as the outlet phrased it, none of the interviewees “said they were aware of anyone traveling to the 24-hour restaurants by paranormal means.” > > “I’ve seen it all,” longtime Waffle House server Shastoni Burge told the outlet. “But I’ve never seen that.” Rome? Three locations? Coincidence? @Moriarty It makes me quite nervous to hear the felon talking about “if Iran had a nuclear weapon they’d use it immediately”. Why? Because you know everything he accuses others is wha he’s doing himself. The US already has nuclear weapons. This is tantamount to him announcing he’s going to turn his vanity war nuclear at the first opportunity. [Another day, another departure, another wish for a pardon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pam-bondi-reportedly-hopes-president-210708284.html) (The formatting is from the original.) > [@](#): > > **Pam Bondi** is apparently hoping **President Donald Trump** will throw her a lifeline [after he fired her](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pam-bondi-reportedly-begged-donald-192826307.html) as United States attorney general on Thursday, April 2. > > According to the Friday, April 3, edition of journalist **Rob Shuter** ‘s [_Naughty But Nice_ Substack](https://robshuter.substack.com/p/exclusive-pam-bondi-seeking-full), the politician, 60, is hoping for “a full presidential pardon.” > > “She’s scared,” a source told Shuter. “There are multiple investigations, lawsuits, and real exposure closing in fast. And now she doesn’t have the same protection.” > > “Subpoenas, lawsuits, ethics complaints — this is escalating,” the source revealed. “It’s not going away.” > > The source explained the former attorney general of Florida “was already vulnerable,” seemingly from how the Department of Justice has [handled the Epstein files](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-president-194024932.html), “but once she lost Trump’s support, the shield disappeared. Now she’s exposed.” > > “In that world, protection is everything. Without it, you become a target — and she knows it,” the source added. “She’s no longer protected. And now she’s looking for a way out.” [Patel’s now threatening to kill everyone who touches a cop.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbis-patel-delivers-blunt-warning-213437125.html) > [@](#): > > FBI Director [Kash Patel](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/kash-patel) issued a direct warning to anyone who attacks law enforcement, vowing Saturday that those who “touch a cop” will be tracked down and arrested amid growing concerns over violence against officers. > > The comments came while Patel was speaking on SiriusXM Patriot’s “Breitbart News Saturday,” discussing [violence against federal officers](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement). > > “You have to back the blue,” Patel said. “I say the following to as many officers and Americans that I get in front of: If you touch a cop, we’re going to put you down. And that’s what we’re doing.” “We’ll put you down.” Yeah, that’s some real community policing and coalition-building there. ---
**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 5, 2026, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/3999 "2026-04-05T05:01:39Z")
Paula White claims that when Trump (who cannot name a single Bible verse or even say which testament he likes better) was a boy he went to Sunday school three times a week. > **['I'm sorry, what?' White House faith advisor stuns with gaffe about Trump at...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-faith/)** > > White House Faith Advisor Paula White-Cain's attempt to rehabilitate the president's religious image during a Fox News appearance backfired spectacularly Saturday night, triggering a wave of mockery after claiming he attended Saturday and Sunday... No word on whether he had to walk 10 miles in the snow, uphill both ways, clutching a baked potato for warmth. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4000 "2026-04-05T05:23:09Z")
If he went to Sunday School at all, big deal. That’s just where the kids get dumped while the adults are in Church. It’s a crèche, not an indicator of Faith. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=199) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=201)