# 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:** 203
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4041 "2026-04-05T21:45:24Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > That unhinged tweet was written by a man who is clearly in full control of his war with Iran. It’s OK though. After stock prices crash Monday morning, Trump will announce his threats worked and _really really serious_ negotiations to end the war are underway. The Dow will rebound sharply, while savvy investors who bought at the dip will profit. Then TACO Tuesday will arrive and what do you know, Iran won’t be bombed back to the Stone Age. More 5D chess by our Leader! ---
**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 5, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4042 "2026-04-05T22:11:41Z")
How on earth would that apply to Nixon? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4043 "2026-04-05T22:19:09Z")
I have James Comer and Mitch McConnell. ---
**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 5, 2026, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4044 "2026-04-05T22:24:01Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > After stock prices crash Monday morning, Trump will announce his threats worked and _really really serious_ negotiations to end the war are underway. The Dow will rebound sharply, while savvy investors who bought at the dip will profit. Then TACO Tuesday will arrive and what do you know, Iran won’t be bombed back to the Stone Age. More 5D chess by our Leader! It _could_ go that way. But **not** if anyone within Donald’s hearing floats the “resign with dignity by claiming to have brain cancer” theory (mentioned 50-or-so posts up-thread). He’s not leaving voluntarily, no matter how Dignified an excuse is offered him. And if anyone says “25th” where he can hear it, he’ll call for the nuclear football. (I do think it likely that he’s no longer in the ‘_play the Market_’ phase he’s been in recently. He’s so far gone now that he might really think nuking Iran would work out swell for him.) ---
**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, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4045 "2026-04-05T22:45:41Z")
“Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.” > ---
**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, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4046 "2026-04-05T22:53:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > How on earth would that apply to Nixon? Seriously? Well, not _now_, that he’s dead, but that is a perfect description of Nixon in 1972-73. ---
**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, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4047 "2026-04-05T23:44:24Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > He’s so far gone now that he might really think nuking Iran would work out swell for him.) I am terrified to agree with you. He may well think “Well a nuke ended the war with Japan so it’s bound to work again!” ---
**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 6, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4048 "2026-04-06T00:03:08Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I am terrified to agree with you. He may well think “Well a nuke ended the war with Japan so it’s bound to work again!” And very importantly to _him,_ it would let him end the war with a “win”. Killing a few million Iranians would be more than worth it to him; none of them are Trump, and therefore by definition their lives are worth nothing. Along with punishing the Iranians for not bowing down to him like they are supposed to. Don’t they understand that _he’s_ the purpose and center of the Universe? ---
**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 6, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4049 "2026-04-06T00:53:48Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I don’t know how to post these things (the way @Smapti does) with decent formatting and NOT force anybody to go to his social media site, but/so … > > > [@](#): > > > > Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP > > > > 901 ReTruths > > > > 3.29k Likes > > Apr 05, 2026, 6:03 AM > > He seems nice (/sane). If you read this with Roman Troy Moronie’s voice, it sounds exactly like something from _Johnny Dangerously_. > [@Moriarty](#): > > I certainly don’t doubt your integrity, but I was so gobsmacked that I had to verify that he actually posted this. Of course he did. > > On mortherfucking Easter. Ditto. > [@WalterBishop](#): > > That’s a real post. We are so cooked. How can we expect anyone to ever do business with us again? We elected this donkey-brained unwashed asshole _twice!_ Once, you could forgive, _maybe_, as a terrible but isolated lapse in judgement. But _twice?_ No. Sorry. There’s no unringing that bell. No putting that glass back together again. We’ve shown the world that we’ll elect the _stupidest motherfucker we can find_ so long as we find him entertaining, and we’ll do it as often as we want. We might do it again in 2028, or 2032, or _any_ election, from now until the end of time. How can we possibly convince the rest of the world that we’re trustworthy allies when we knew he was like this but we picked him anyway?! Shortly after I moved to China in 2012, I was on the phone with my oldest brother. I told him I was surprised the Chinese news media were doing wall-to-wall coverage of the U.S. election. I forgot what scandal was highlighted in said election. My brother said it made perfect sense because the Chinese authorities could point to that and tell their people how screwed up the U.S.'s system is and thus they should appreciate how the Chinese authorities are selected. Little did we know. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Isn’t one of the signs of dementia that Grandpa loses his filter? One cannot lose that which one has never had. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Maybe the fat wad will be fatwad. Very good! > [@bobot](#): > > hat unhinged tweet was written by a man who is clearly in full control of his war with Iran. I’ve taken to calling it his vanity war. Prove me wrong. > [@Dr.Drake](#): > > > [@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? Count yourself lucky. When I write mine (a Georgia republican, sadly, Barry Loudermilk), I actually get a response that’s obviously not a form letter. It’s gushing Rip van Simple idolatry, but, hey, it shows he cares. Of course all he cares about his worshiping his tan-in-a-can conman idol. > [@Moriarty](#): > > > [@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” Remember the hymn title game? After the title, just add “in bed” or “between the sheets” to it. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Also, NATO is a defense alliance, not one that is obligated to sign onto whatever dumbass war Trump decides to engage in. Which he has been told by said NATO countries in exacty those term, IIRC. Here’s a fun stunt. [Grant someone asylum, start a war against their home country, then arrest them.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-authorities-arrest-relatives-iranian-162525057.html) > [@](#): > > US federal agents have arrested the niece and grandniece of the late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after the Trump administration’s top diplomat, [Marco Rubio](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/marco-rubio), revoked their lawful permanent resident status, officials said on Saturday. > > “Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” or ICE, the state department said in a [statement](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/04/secretary-rubio-revokes-green-cards-of-foreign-nationals-with-ties-to-iranian-terror-regime/). > > In his own [statement](https://x.com/SecRubio/status/2040444536455942315) on social media, Rubio, the US secretary of state, confirmed that the mother-daughter pair are “pending removal” from the US, a development that came after the US and Israeli militaries began waging war on Iran in late February, in part citing an Iranian history of terrorism sponsorship. > > Saturday’s development with respect to Soleimani Afshar also came as the Trump administration has sought to revoke the legal immigration statuses of people it has determined to be aligned with enemies of the US. > > Rubio’s statement said that the Trump administration “will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes”. > > Officials allege that Soleimani Afshar celebrated military strikes against American personnel and praised Iran’s new supreme leader after the US and Israel killed his predecessor, [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ayatollah-ali-khamenei), in a large-scale air attack at the beginning of the war. They also accused her of labeling the US the “Great Satan”. > > The statement about Soleimani Afshar further claims she voiced “unflinching support” for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – all while maintaining a “lavish” lifestyle in Los Angeles, with US officials pointing at her Instagram account as evidence. > > In addition to the revocation of legal permanent resident – or green card – status for Soleimani Afshar and her daughter, her husband has also been formally prohibited from entering the US, officials said. ---
**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 6, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4050 "2026-04-06T01:15:59Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I have James Comer and Mitch McConnell. Yeah we have the worst of the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4051 "2026-04-06T01:19:09Z")
Trump said today in a phone interview with Fox News that if Iran won’t deal, he is “considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil.” "But in his phone interview later Sunday with ABC News’ Rachel Scott, Trump pushed back on that characterization, saying “there could be a deal, and there could also not be a deal. I don’t know. I have no idea what these people, they’re getting the s— beat out of them, and that’s, that’s all I can tell you. There’s been no country that’s ever taken a pounding like that.” > **[Trump says 'we're blowing up the whole country' if no Iran deal is reached in...](https://abcnews.com/International/trump-blowing-country-iran-deal-reached-48-hours/story?id=131744086)** > > President Donald Trump told ABC News if Iran doesn't make a peace deal in the next 48 hours, "we're blowing up the whole country." A stable genius and an accomplished student of history, Donald is. ---
**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 6, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4052 "2026-04-06T02:18:04Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Does Trump normally swear - in Tweets or otherwise - in public? > > I don’t regard his communications as having any value so don’t read or listen to him much but I see the odd thing - and can’t think I’ve heard or read him swearing before. Could be another sign he’s decompensating mentally. ---
**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 6, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4053 "2026-04-06T02:48:25Z")
Or decomposing. ---
**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 6, 2026, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4054 "2026-04-06T02:52:33Z")
I’d prefer that. Wonder if it would smell worse than he does now? ---
**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 6, 2026, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4055 "2026-04-06T06:01:19Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Does Trump normally swear - in Tweets or otherwise - in public? He’s often been coarse in the past, but in the last year or so, yeah, it’s seemed to have ramped up, and he’s dropped several F-bombs in public. Examples: > **[User Clip: President Trump Drops F-Bomb at Press Conference](https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-president-trump-drops-f-bomb-at-press-conference/5176112)** > > On October 17 2025 at a press conference with Ukranian President Zelenskyy in attendance US President Trump used an expletive when answering a question from a reporter about Venezuelan President Maduro. [https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/nx-s1-5443337/trump-expletive-israel-iran](https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/nx-s1-5443337/trump-expletive-israel-iran) ---
**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 6, 2026, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4056 "2026-04-06T06:01:57Z")
REGIME CHANGE JOB #1. “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4057 "2026-04-06T07:32:27Z")
Trump and Hegseth will fire every general who opposes a ground invasion and predicts it will be a disaster. Then, when the invasion does turn into the disaster as predicted, they’ll fire the generals in charge of leading that invasion, calling them incompetent. ---
**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 6, 2026, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4058 "2026-04-06T07:36:25Z")
Don’t forget his tried and true method of creating a problem for his successor to deal with. He’ll end up making a deal with Iran and when the next president follows the terms of the deal, more Americans will die and the felon will blame that next president. _And the magatlatearthers will lap it up just like they did with Afghanistan._ ---
**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 6, 2026, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4059 "2026-04-06T08:53:51Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > creating a problem for his **successor** to deal with. [**bolding** mine] I admire your optimism. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4060 "2026-04-06T09:10:01Z")
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