# 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:** 202
**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:** [April 5, 2026, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4021 "2026-04-05T16:35:07Z")
That unhinged tweet was written by a man who is clearly in full control of his war with Iran. ---
**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 5, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4022 "2026-04-05T16:36:35Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Mocking the religion of the people that it would be useful to have as allies in the excursion is a choice. Trump lost the allies in Europe and Canada a little while ago with his insults. Now he’s working on losing the allies in the middle east. America first = America alone. About Europe; The US bases in Europe are not there only to provide protection for those countries - they mainly exist so that the US has the ability to project power around the world. So you know what? Pack your shit and get out. Bye. ---
**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 5, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4023 "2026-04-05T16:59:26Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Write your congress critters. I just did it again. I keep doing this, but all I get back are form letters without any hint that anyone read, much less understood, what I was even writing about. Is writing at all effective, or just a waste of my time? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4024 "2026-04-05T17:06:49Z")
Yeah - my congress critter is Andy Fucking Ogles. Writing to him is an exercise in futility. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4025 "2026-04-05T17:11:58Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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) Oh, I saw that in high school and it stayed with me for a _long_ time. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4026 "2026-04-05T17:56:16Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > I keep doing this, but all I get back are form letters without any hint that anyone read, much less understood, what I was even writing about. Is writing at all effective, or just a waste of my time? I donno. But it is another layer of protest. Trumps gonna try to steal the vote of course. He may use the USPS to do this, not sure. ‘Lose’ mail in ballots from blue areas. I’m sure it’s in the works. Make sure to just drop your ballot off at a box. Should be a county government building. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4027 "2026-04-05T18:31:16Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP Oh no, he swore at them! That means he’s really mad! I guess he must have seen that Lego rap video that Iran put out calling him a pedophile cocksucker. And that’s a sentence I’d never thought I’d write. The whole thing would be funny if Trump didn’t have access to nuclear weapons. ---
**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 5, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4028 "2026-04-05T18:44:26Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Mocking the religion of the people that it would be useful to have as allies in the excursion is a choice. He doesn’t want _allies;_ he wants _supplicants,_ who will do as he demand in return for nothing and accept any level of mistreatment. Just look at the people he surrounds himself with and how he (mis)treats them. That isn’t a “deal” that many outside the US want to take, however. ---
**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 5, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4029 "2026-04-05T18:45:16Z")
I continue to think that Andy Ogles is a parody account, not a real human being. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4030 "2026-04-05T19:02:05Z")
Unfortunately, he’s real. I’m meeting his replacement\[1\] in a couple of weeks. * * * 1. Please, please, please! ---
**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 5, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4031 "2026-04-05T19:03:41Z")
He sounds like a walking talking Onion article. He’s a caricature of the worst possible interpretation of a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4032 "2026-04-05T19:42:17Z")
“Worst possible interpretation of a Republican” could describe the entire party at this point. This is unabashedly who they are and what they always wanted to be. It just took Trump to rip the mask off. ---
**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, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4033 "2026-04-05T19:42:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > About Europe; The US bases in Europe are not there only to provide protection for those countries - they mainly exist so that the US has the ability to project power around the world. So you know what? Pack your shit and get out. Bye. Yes, the great irony. He consistently complains that NATO is a bad deal for the U.S., then realizes he can’t effectively reach the Middle East without European cooperation. > **[List of countries denying US-Israeli military access](https://www.newsweek.com/list-countries-denying-us-israeli-military-access-11762423)** > > Spain, France and Italy have either closed their airspace to aircraft or denied use of military bases during the Iran war. > **[Austria bans US military planes from its airspace](https://thehill.com/policy/international/5815053-austria-defies-trump-war/amp/)** > > Austria is rejecting a request from the U.S. to use its airspace for military flights related to the war against Iran, with the Austrian government reaffirming its neutral stance and separating its… ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4034 "2026-04-05T19:55:52Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > If he went to Sunday School at all, big deal. That’s just where the kids get dumped while the adults are in Church. That’s where my sister and I were dumped so my parents could have sex once a week. They didn’t go to church but maybe once a year. ---
**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, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4035 "2026-04-05T20:19:50Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > That’s where my sister and I were dumped so my parents could have sex once a week. Gives new meaning to the phrase “Oh come all ye faithful” ---
**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 5, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4036 "2026-04-05T20:28:22Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Yes, the great irony. He consistently complains that NATO is a bad deal for the U.S., then realizes he can’t effectively reach the Middle East without European cooperation. In Trumpworld, a “bad deal” is one where the _other_ party gets something. So the fact that NATO isn’t a tributary arrangement where the other nations unilaterally support the US in return for nothing, that makes it a “bad deal” in his eyes. Of course, this is an attitude that is incompatible with alliances, and rapidly falls apart as soon as he has to deal with people he can’t bully or con into taking his one-sided idea of a “deal”. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4037 "2026-04-05T20:32:52Z")
Also, NATO is a defense alliance, not one that is obligated to sign onto whatever dumbass war Trump decides to engage in. ---
**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, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4038 "2026-04-05T20:40:21Z")
> [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > Yeah - my congress critter is Andy Fucking Ogles. Writing to him is an exercise in futility. One of mine is John Fetterman. It would be useless although I have written quite a few times. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4039 "2026-04-05T21:07:24Z")
Not completely useless for you. If you wrote in single syllables it might provide Fetterman with some reading practice. ---
**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 5, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4040 "2026-04-05T21:19:18Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > 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. Are you talking about trump, or Nixon? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=201) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=203)