# 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:** 206
**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 7, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4101 "2026-04-07T14:51:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And Congress is in recess this week, right? Yes, the Duma is not there to rubber stamp whatever Dear Leader says. ---
**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, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4102 "2026-04-07T14:55:59Z")
And afterwards the wimps can always say, “Well, we didn’t think he would go **through** with it!” ---
**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 7, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4103 "2026-04-07T15:27:22Z")
Well, I was a day early on predicting a stock market plunge in response to Trump’s blustering threats. The Dow is down over 400 points at this moment. Expect a wondrous negotiations breakthrough fantasy to be announced by early to mid-afternoon, to fuel a big rally before the market closes. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4104 "2026-04-07T15:49:31Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Trump is threatening to annihilate the Iranian people tonight. Yeah, what the everloving fuck? > [@Jackmannii](#): > > Expect a wondrous negotiations breakthrough fantasy to be announced by early to mid-afternoon, to fuel a big rally before the market closes. It _ **may** _ be another example of TACO trump blustering, then backing off and calling it a big win, but this rhetoric is absolutely insane. I thought one of the dozen or so oft-conflicting reasons for starting this war was so that we could protect the Iranian people against their leaders. That’s a little difficult if we annihilate their entire civilization. > **[Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' ahead of deadline for Iran](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-threat-whole-civilization-will-die-iran-war-deadline-hormuz-rcna267059)** > > Trump's threat is among his most extreme rhetoric toward Iran since the war started. ---
**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 7, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4105 "2026-04-07T15:56:26Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Trump is threatening to annihilate the Iranian people tonight. > > [https://www.threads.com/@repmikelevin/post/DW1VO70AOP7?xmt=AQF0\_9GCHkONnH5NF4aPWr5Ib4qiz8ZmfvqMmiRXkngBtiq06t2G9pgeTZXQMzFxhKKLNfhP&slof=1](https://www.threads.com/@repmikelevin/post/DW1VO70AOP7?xmt=AQF0_9GCHkONnH5NF4aPWr5Ib4qiz8ZmfvqMmiRXkngBtiq06t2G9pgeTZXQMzFxhKKLNfhP&slof=1) Now now, let’s not exaggerate, may be he means not to kill them all but to brutally occupy their country and brainwash them until they lose all Iranian characteristics… ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4106 "2026-04-07T15:58:16Z")
> [@solost](#): > > annihilate their entire civilization. and how is this different from genocide ? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4107 "2026-04-07T16:04:27Z")
I certainly don’t think I said anything to suggest that it _ **was** _ any different from a genocide. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4108 "2026-04-07T16:13:06Z")
Sorry, I wasn’t criticising you! It was a clumsy attempt at highlighting the increasing nazification of DJT’s rhetoric – how they say “genocide” without using the “g” word. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4109 "2026-04-07T16:15:28Z")
Ah ok, cool-- thanks for the clarification. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4110 "2026-04-07T16:36:59Z")
I watched The Day After. It was decades ago, and there’s a lot I don’t remember about it, but lots I do. The most depressing movie I’ve ever seen, scary as hell right now, and I’ll never watch it again. Hopefully no one ever has to live through that scenario. ☹ ---
**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 7, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4111 "2026-04-07T17:20:03Z")
Remember, it’s TACO Tuesday. Tucker Carlson is unhappy though. From ABC News: > [@](#): > > “It is vile on every level,” Carlson said of Trump’s Sunday post during “The Tucker Carlson Show” on Monday. > > Carlson scolded the president directly, saying, “how dare you speak that way,” adding that Trump’s post was a “mockery of Christianity.” > > Trump fired back at Carlson in a social media post on Tuesday morning, calling him a “low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on.” When you’ve lost Tucker Carlson _and_ MTG, the end is surely near. 😵‍💫 😱 ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4112 "2026-04-07T17:29:39Z")
My deepest sympathies. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4113 "2026-04-07T17:40:41Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > When you’ve lost Tucker Carlson _and_ MTG, the end is surely near. I feel like when I start _agreeing_ with Carlson and MTG, the end must surely be near! In a ‘hell must be freezing over’ sense. And it’s not just Carlson and MTG… > **[Trump’s MAGA allies revolt over his threat to destroy Iranian civilization](https://www.ms.now/news/trump-iran-civilization-threat-maga-backlash)** > > Some of the president’s most loyal and ardent supporters are denouncing his threats to destroy Iranian civilization as “evil” and “genocidal.” ---
**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 7, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4114 "2026-04-07T17:52:42Z")
None of the dipshit Republican parrots at my job have complained about gas and grocery prices lately, which is weird. A few years ago they were practically foaming at the mouth over them. Real weird. ---
**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 7, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4115 "2026-04-07T18:00:13Z")
A major Congressional ally is backing away… > [@](#): > > Republican Sen. Ron Johnson broke with President Donald Trump on his threats to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran, saying in a podcast, “I hope and pray” he is “using this as bluster.” > > “I do not want to see us start blowing up civilian infrastructure … We are not at war with the Iranian people. We are trying to liberate them,” Johnson, a Trump ally who rarely breaks with the president, said on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast out on Monday. > **[Trump ally Sen. Ron Johnson breaks with president over Iran threats, as...](https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-ally-sen-ron-johnson-breaks-president-iran/story?id=131800928)** > > Johnson warned about attacks on civilian infrastructure. The leading Trump sycophants in Congress, though, are quiet on Trump’s latest lunatic turn. Nothing heard from House Speaker Mike Johnson or Sen. Lindsey Graham. The reliably groveling Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is silent too, even though Trump already endorsed one of his opponents in the upcoming primary. ---
**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 7, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4116 "2026-04-07T18:03:40Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > None of the dipshit Republican parrots at my job have complained about gas and grocery prices lately, which is weird Apparently, it’s now Patriotic to pay more for gas. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4117 "2026-04-07T18:47:00Z")
I truly appreciate this reporter, but I worry for his sanity. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4118 "2026-04-07T19:01:08Z")
Aren’t all of these people the same ones who said the Democrats take him literally and not seriously, the Republicans take him seriously but not literally? NOW they’re realizing that neither option is good here - either he will literally commit war crimes, or his serious attitude will get thousands (millions?) of people killed. ---
**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 7, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4119 "2026-04-07T19:09:59Z")
Just wait until we find out how indifferent Republicans will be to either of those. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4120 "2026-04-07T19:26:10Z")
Trump has his back against the wall. He’s losing and lashing out. Iran is committing the worse sin imaginable; they’re ignoring King Trump and making him look bad. I think tonight is the night that Trump will order a nuclear strike on Iran. I think, if he does so, the people in the room with him will try to talk him out of it in favor of any other option (likely still bad). If that works, it will just be a Tuesday like any other. If Trump absolutely insists that “I’m the President and I order a nuclear strike NOW!” then I think it’s probable the 25th amendment will be used tonight. It would be foolish, given Trump’s clearly diminished mental state and uncontrolled rage, for JD Vance and the powers that be to not be prepared for this possibility. If Hegseth goes along with the order and agrees to launch nukes, then I think we could see a coup in the White House. I can’t imagine top military brass actually agreeing to use nukes in the circumstances that Trump has created. If I were to give odds, I think there’s a 66% chance that Trump is removed as President tonight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=205) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=207)