# 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:** 205
**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 6, 2026, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4081 "2026-04-06T20:42:32Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > It’s the very escalation you refer to that could give them pause. Russia nukes Ukraine…and then what? Does a NATO nation get caught in the crossfire? If the US drops a nuclear weapon on Iran, Russia might not immediately drop one on Ukraine, instead choosing to point out that the United States would have done so three times. ---
**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 6, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4082 "2026-04-06T20:44:44Z")
I’m not sure that calm, strategic thinking is the standard once mushroom clouds commence. ---
**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 6, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4083 "2026-04-06T21:02:58Z")
And now it’s time for _The President’s Brain Is Missing_, special “I dare one of these reporters to just ask him what year it is right now” edition. "Q: You message has moved from ‘the war is coming to an end’ to ‘we’re gonna be bombing Iran to the stone ages.’ So which is it? TRUMP: I don’t know" > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mituv63yp627)** > > Q: You message has moved from 'the war is coming to an end' to 'we're gonna be bombing Iran to the stone ages.' So which is it? > > TRUMP: Can't tell you. I don't know “We want Greenland. NATO doesn’t want to give it us. And I said, ‘Bye bye.’” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mitvsoolmt2h)** > > Trump: "We want Greenland. NATO doesn't want to give it us. And I said, 'Bye bye.' Okay, thank you very much everybody." “Somebody said, ‘Oh, he doesn’t have a plan.’ I have the best plan of all, but I’m not going to tell you what my plan is.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mittoaexfr2u)** > > Trump: "Somebody said, 'Oh, he doesn't have a plan.' I have the best plan of all, but I'm not going to tell you what my plan is." “[The Iranians are] willing to suffer that in order to have freedoms. We’ve had numerous intercepts – ‘Please keep bombing. Do it.’ These are people that are living where the bombs are exploding.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mittuiiap42d)** > > Q: Why would Iranians want you to blow up their infrastructure, to cut off their power? > > TRUMP: They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedoms. We've had numerous intercepts -- 'Please keep bombing. Do it.' These are people that are... “We’ve got 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect them from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well. He said very nice things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mitvr7ntau2u)** > > Trump: "You know who else didn't help us? South Korea didn't help us. We've got 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect them from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well. He said very nice things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a mentally... “God is good. And God wants to see people taken care of. God doesn’t like what’s happening. I don’t like what’s happening. I’ve ended eight wars.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mitvikb2mz2d)** > > Trump: "God is good. And God wants to see people taken care of. God doesn't like what's happening. I don't like what's happening. I've ended eight wars." “I’m going to Venezuela. I’m gonna run for president.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mitvckg5cd2u)** > > Trump: "I'm going to Venezuela. I'm gonna run for president." “How Israel can vote for a Democrat is-- if you’re Jewish in New York City or anyplace else in this country, how you can vote for a Democrat is unbelievable” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mituggpx4w2h)** > > Trump: "How Israel can vote for a Democrat is-- if you're Jewish in New York City or anyplace else in this country, how you can vote for a Democrat is unbelievable" “This should’ve been handled by seven presidents. And those presidents are saying now, every one of them, to their friends, ‘We should’ve done this a long time ago.’” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mitufxutym24)** > > Trump: "This should've been handled by seven presidents. And those presidents are saying now, every one of them, to their friends, 'We should've done this a long time ago.'" “Iran was a great country if you go back 25 years ago or so” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mittx665um2q)** > > Trump: "Iran was a great country if you go back 25 years ago or so" > > (the Iranian Revolution was in 1979) “They came in so fast and so hard. ‘Let’s go – bwaaaa!’ They came one right after another. Not as the same time. They don’t want to come at the same time. They had to come right after each other. There was barely any room to land. A tiny little patch of very wet earth.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mits4wod3v2h)** > > Trump: "They came in so fast and so hard. 'Let's go -- bwaaaa!' They came one right after another. Not as the same time. They don't want to come at the same time. They had to come right after each other. There was barely any room to land. A tiny... “How did I do with the voters that do eggs?” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mitmk54xif26)** > > Trump: "How did I do with the voters that do eggs? Did anybody in the egg industry vote for Kamala? A low IQ person. She's a low IQ person." “It was a big thing to our great First Lady, who’s here someplace. Let’s see. I think this is our First Lady.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mitjy3njiq2x)** > > Trump with Melania standing directly next to him: "It was a big thing to our great First Lady, who's here someplace. Let's see. I think this is our First Lady." ---
**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 6, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4084 "2026-04-06T21:13:13Z")
> **['Iran can be taken out in one night, and that might be tomorrow night,' says......](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/06/iran-war-live-updates-trump-hormuz-oil-netanyahu-israel?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69d3e9a88f086bcf9a2a16ce#block-69d3e9a88f086bcf9a2a16ce)** > > Oil prices have begun to rise since Trump began his address. US crude oil leapt from $112 to about $114 per barrel, while Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, which had been roughly flat for the day, rose too, though less so. | President... ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4085 "2026-04-06T21:39:31Z")
What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson? Sleepy Joe has left and gone away Hey, hey, hey ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4086 "2026-04-06T22:13:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Trump](#): > > > > “I’m going to Venezuela. I’m gonna run for president.” So he’s going to run for President of Venezuela? Has anyone checked his poll numbers there? ---
**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 6, 2026, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4087 "2026-04-06T22:24:22Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > But I think even the most morally bankrupt have to realize that using nukes creates the possibility of devastation beyond the first launch. I often wonder about our billionaires, oligarchs, heads of major corporations, etc. I get that they’re thrilled with Donald’s blessing on lawlessness and fraud. I understand that they love the ‘no regulations’ Trump Regime. But I wonder how they think their business will do when the nukes start destroying cities. I guess it’s the power of optimism!!! ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4088 "2026-04-06T22:45:41Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Has anyone checked his poll numbers there? He said he has overwhelming support. ---
**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, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4089 "2026-04-06T23:47:49Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I often wonder about our billionaires, oligarchs, heads of major corporations, etc. I get that they’re thrilled with Donald’s blessing on lawlessness and fraud. I understand that they love the ‘no regulations’ Trump Regime. > > But I wonder how they think their business will do when the nukes start destroying cities. They [literally](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff) have fantasies about living in ultraluxurious post-apocalyptic bunkers. Complete with things like security troops kept in line with shock collars. And it _is_ a fantasy. There’s no chance it’ll work like they imagine. They are just too irrational to acknowledge it. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4090 "2026-04-06T23:57:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > "Q: You message has moved from ‘the war is coming to an end’ to ‘we’re gonna be bombing Iran to the stone ages.’ So which is it? > > TRUMP: I don’t know" Third base! ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4091 "2026-04-07T00:34:11Z")
I hadn’t heard the word “decimate” in a while. Probably since I learned it came from the supposed act the Romans had of killing one of every ten treasonous soldiers. Apparently trump is going to decimate Iran. It’s going to be a favorite word of trumps. It’ll be a perfect decimation of power plants, people and every kind of flora and fauna. Do they have minarets? Decimate! Had he thought of blowing up the Strait of Trump? Blast a ship-wide canal alongside it. Perfect! ---
**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 7, 2026, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4092 "2026-04-07T03:12:45Z")
Trump to the Artemis II crew: I saved NASA and I did Space Force and it was the bigliest thing ever > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3miuqlgxxcm2h)** > > Trump is doing a rally speech to the Artemis II astronauts ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4093 "2026-04-07T04:52:38Z")
Ack, I watched it and immediately rolled my eyes/ cringed. When his voice came on I kind of stopped paying attention, but as we all know, there’s no way to block out that grating sound coming out of his puckered butthole of a face opening. The astronaut from Canada was as gracious as, well, a Canadian 😘. Thanked him and the U.S. for leading the way. And I may have imagined it, but it looked like Christina Koch was biting her tongue or trying to keep her Tang and Space Sticks down while he was blathering. I don’t think she said anything 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 7, 2026, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4094 "2026-04-07T06:20:25Z")
@WOOKINPANUBv.2 I’m wondering how much credit the magaflatearthers will give him and how much he will tkae when, thanks to his weaponizaiton of space, Russia does it faster, better, and more lethally than the US. Are you a journalist? [Pack your bugout to prison bag](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-threatens-jail-journalists-hunt-182511708.html). (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump threatened to jail journalists at the media outlet that first reported a second airman was missing following the shoot-down of an American fighter jet in Iran on Friday. > > Both the pilot and the “back seater” were [recovered by American forces](https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/second-airman-f-15e-was-shot-iran-rescued-safely-us-officials-say-rcna266688) in what the president, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine described as separate, daring operations during a White House news conference on Monday. > > The pilot was recovered within several hours, while the second airman was stranded in Iranian territory until early Sunday, when U.S. forces landed and rescued him. > > Trump said that he would pursue whoever leaked information about the second airman — which the U.S. government had hoped to keep secret in order to prevent him from being captured or killed by Iran — and pressure the news media to assist in that investigation. > > “We think we’ll be able to find it out,” Trump said. “Because we’re going to go to the media company that released it, and **we’re going to say, ‘National security. Give it up or go to jail.’”** > > **A White House official declined to name the news outlet in a text exchange with NBC News, citing a desire to avoid tipping off the journalists.** [The Suppliant Court of the US gives the felon yet another pass.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/supreme-court-clears-way-trump-134133058.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON – The [Supreme Court](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/supreme-court/) on April 6 paved the way for the Trump administration to wipe out longtime Trump ally [Steve Bannon](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/justice-department-wants-overturn-steve-223254174.html)’s contempt of Congress conviction. > > At the [request of the Department of Justice](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/justice-department-wants-overturn-steve-223254174.html), the court effectively erased lower court rulings upholding the conviction and sent the case back to the district court, where the department has asked for the case to be dismissed. > > Bannon, now a host of a popular MAGA podcast, [was convicted](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-ally-steve-bannons-contempt-155929071.html) in 2022 for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the [Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2022/07/01/trump-jan-6-breakdown/9959018002/). [I sure hope the Kurds aren’t counting on the US to be their ally.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-us-sent-lot-170633309.html) > [@](#): > > U.S. forces sought to arm Iranian protesters earlier this year after the country was rocked by demonstrations over dire economic conditions but saw those arms largely fall into the hands of Iran’s Kurds, President [Donald Trump said on Sunday.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-trump-missing-pilot-strait-of-hormuz-b2952018.html) > > The president began his Easter Sunday with a series of revelations and proclamations about the Iran war, including a bizarre, cursing threat to begin targeting Iranian power plants on Tuesday if a deal was not reached to open the Strait of Hormuz. > > “Open the F_ **in’ Strait, you crazy b** _\*\*ds, or you’ll be living in Hell,” [he warned](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-threatens-bomb-iran-power-125123881.html). > > But in an interview over the phone with Fox’s Trey Yingst on Sunday morning, the president made another piece of news: The U.S. was directly involved in efforts to destabilize and overthrow the Iranian government weeks before strikes were launched across Iran, and as U.S. negotiators were engaging with senior Iranian governmental officials in Europe. Those protests began shortly before the new year and lasted for weeks, ending in the violent subjugation of protesters by the Iranian government. > > “We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds, and the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them,” Yingst said on Fox News, paraphrasing the president. [Sergeant’s new wife arrested by ICE after honeymoon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-arrests-newlywed-army-sergeant-124232978.html) > [@](#): > > A U.S. Army staff sergeant who reported for duty at a military base in [Louisiana](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/louisiana) with his new bride last week was shocked to see her arrested by [ICE](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/ice) agents shortly after their arrival. > > Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank, 23, had driven from Houston, Texas, to Fort Polk with his wife Annie Ramos, 22, and his parents in time for a 2 p.m. registration appointment on Thursday April 2. > > Ramos is an undocumented migrant who was brought to the U.S. by her parents when she was a toddler and had understood that she would receive a green card through her marriage, which would entitle her to apply for citizenship within three years of its receipt, as is customary under [U.S. immigration law](https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-g-chapter-3). [It’s almost like he knows he’s committing war crimes.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-taunts-failing-york-times-203416755.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump broke from a press conference on the ongoing war with Iran to criticize The New York Times as a “failing” and “fake” news outlet after he was asked about whether he’s concerned about committing war crimes. > > Trump was taking questions Monday when he appeared to snap when [asked by](https://x.com/Acyn/status/2041219324959166850/video/1) a Times reporter about whether his threat to bomb Iranian infrastructure would amount to war crimes under international law. > > “The failing New York Times. Your circulation, way down at The New York Times,” he interrupted the reporter’s question upon hearing which outlet he works for. \*Aside: some years ago, I was eating lunch at a restaurant in Incheon. Some jerk started smoking in the restaurant. I told him in Korean that there’s no smoking in the place. His response was to ask me what country I’m from. FUN FACT: the country I’m from and the outlet the journalist work for have no bearing on the sitution. [What do you know? The felon can multitask. The war on education is combined with the war on Transgenders.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-terminates-agreements-protect-200019380.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department said Monday it has terminated agreements with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding protections for [transgender students](https://apnews.com/article/transgender-athletes-sports-title-ix-california-trump-921cada31395db33105316fe0e198c12), backing away from requirements negotiated by previous administrations that took a different interpretation of civil rights. > > The decision removes the federal obligations for the schools to keep up measures such as faculty training on abiding by a students’ preferred name and pronouns and allowing students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity. > > One of the school systems, Delaware Valley School District in rural eastern Pennsylvania, received notice of the change from the Trump administration in February and has since voted to roll back its antidiscrimination protections for transgender students. Another district, Sacramento City Unified, said Monday it "remains committed to the support of our LGBTQ+ students and staff.” [Isn’t this part of a B-movie plot?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/gop-governor-reveals-trump-begged-040822992.html) (The link is a video.) > [@](#): > > Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that Donald Trump once asked him for dirt about his future in-laws to try to break up his daughter Ivanka’s wedding to Jared Kushner. Christie, speaking at a Harvard event on Monday, said the alleged request came when he was still U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, an office he held from 2002 to December 2008. Jared and Ivanka got married in October 2009. ---
**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 7, 2026, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4095 "2026-04-07T10:37:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Are you a journalist? [Pack your bugout to prison bag](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-threatens-jail-journalists-hunt-182511708.html). (The **bolding** is mine.) We know who the journalist is - Amit Segal, a prominent Israeli journalist and right-wing pundit, co-anchor of the Israeli _Meet the Press_, who’s considered close to the Netanyahu administration. > **[Who is Amit Segal? Journalist identifies himself after Trump's jail threat](https://www.newsweek.com/who-is-amit-segal-journalist-trump-jail-threat-11789802)** > > Israeli journalist Amit Segal identified himself as the first to report a missing U.S. airman in Iran. He probably will not be turning himself over to the U.S. authorities. ---
**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 7, 2026, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4096 "2026-04-07T11:20:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump to the Artemis II crew: I saved NASA and I did Space Force and it was the bigliest thing ever The crew of Artemis II have gotten farther away from Donald Trump than anyone else in history ever has. But they still can’t escape his voice. ---
**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 7, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4097 "2026-04-07T11:24:53Z")
Pete Hegseth continues to mix the military with religion: # **[Hegseth Compares Airman Rescue to the Resurrection](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/6/2376704/-Hegseth-Compares-Airman-Rescue-to-the-Resurrection)** > In his account of the rescue operation, Mr. Hegseth drew parallels between the airman’s ordeal and the account of Christ’s death and Resurrection given in the Bible. > > The F-15E fighter jet, he noted, was “shot down on a Friday — Good Friday.” That is the day Jesus was crucified. > > After the airman bailed out over Iran, he hid, Mr. Hegseth said, “in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday,” reminiscent of the tomb cut into a rock in which Jesus was buried. > > Then, he said, the airman was rescued on the day Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus — “flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday.” > > “A pilot reborn, all home and accounted for, a nation rejoicing,” the defense secretary said. “God is good.” > **[Hegseth Compares Airman Rescue to the Resurrection](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/6/2376704/-Hegseth-Compares-Airman-Rescue-to-the-Resurrection?utm_campaign=recent)** > > It was bad enough for Trump to issue an Easter message so laced with profanity and insanity that even Republicans are hesitating to defend him (this counts as improvement). Now Trump’s Wielder of the Flaming Sword of Jesus (aka Pete Hegseth) has... ---
**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 7, 2026, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4098 "2026-04-07T14:25:25Z")
From Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack today. She quotes Aaron Rupar, whom @Smapti regularly cites in his (much appreciated) _The President’s Brain Is Missing_ updates. > “It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of _Public Notice_ told George Grylls of _The Times_\* about President Donald J. Trump. Rupar explained that political journalists are trained to think, “‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you…convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch his rallies, you see that they’re full of hatred, he’s lying constantly, and a lot of it is incoherent.” > > **Rupar spends as much as eighty hours a week watching Trump and members of his administration** , clipping videos of their noteworthy statements into a few minutes at a time. His work is indispensable for translating Trump’s long, meandering speeches to people who need shorter versions of them. In this quotation, he nails the real problem of this moment in which the president of the United States is threatening “obliteration” if another nation doesn’t do as he demands: the noteworthy story is not what the president says; the story is the president himself and his obvious mental deterioration. > … My bold. WHOA! Talk about taking one for the team. * * * * * * \* That would be _The Times_ of London. Here is a **free link** to the Rupar article, courtesy of H.C.Richardson: > **[The man who watches Trump all day, every day](https://www.thetimes.com/article/dd968023-2bcf-42e9-9433-d315c60c476a?shareToken=268eae9758a25bba5da53bfe44346e21&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)** > > Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says it’s ‘pretty bleak’ ---
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Trump is threatening to annihilate the Iranian people tonight. > **[Mike Levin (@repmikelevin) on Threads](https://www.threads.com/@repmikelevin/post/DW1VO70AOP7?xmt=AQF0_9GCHkONnH5NF4aPWr5Ib4qiz8ZmfvqMmiRXkngBtiq06t2G9pgeTZXQMzFxhKKLNfhP&slof=1)** > > Threatening the annihilation of an entire civilization is dangerous beyond words, and hearing it from the person commanding our military should alarm every American. >   > This language is completely unacceptable from any president, let alone one who... JD backs up the president’s threats, saying that we deserve a world where oil and gas flow freely, and if we don’t get that world, the president’s got tools in his tool box which he hasn’t used yet but will use. So: give us oil or we nuke you. > **[Headquarters (@headquartersnewsroom) on Threads](https://www.threads.com/@headquartersnewsroom/post/DW1QBP4iYDE?xmt=AQF0HMFITjMObielzgyY6XDgbvLxxd0LVmh0uxqWyV64iJt3G0kghzYNHKzPU15e2pD84I8&slof=1)** > > JD Vance doubles down on Trump’s new post threatening “a whole civilization will die tonight” and implies Trump might use nuclear weapons ---
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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Trump is threatening to annihilate the Iranian people tonight. Well, it IS Tuesday…so there’s that. * * * ETA: And Congress is in recess this week, right? Not that that would make any difference on either side of the aisle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=204) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=206)