# 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:** 208
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4141 "2026-04-07T22:20:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I thought Congress is the entity that does it. No. It is initiated by the Vice President, wirh the Cabinet. That’s why it will not happen. ---
**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 7, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4142 "2026-04-07T22:20:32Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Notified by whom? I thought Congress is the entity that does it. no snark, please review. > **[The 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution](https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxv)** > > SECTION. 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. ---
**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 7, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4143 "2026-04-07T22:27:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > It is initiated by the Vice President, wirh the Cabinet. Though Congress can also create a means to invoke it, though the exact mechanism for such is not laid out, other that must be done “by law” (emphasis mine): > [@](#): > > Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments **or of such other body as Congress may by law provide** , transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. ---
**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, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4144 "2026-04-07T22:30:29Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > No. It is initiated by the Vice President, wirh the Cabinet. That’s why it will not happen. Oh. Thanks, y’all. You’re right. Not a freakin’ ice cube’s chance. 😕 ---
**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 7, 2026, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4145 "2026-04-07T22:33:01Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > 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. Yeah, I know a lot of the tech bros have these bizarre (and unworkable) fantasies. They are infamously ‘wired-up funny.’ But I do still wonder about other giant corporations—the old legacy ones like Walmart, United Health Group, Berkshire Hathaway (with Buffet gone), etc. Do THEY think they will go on prospering with Donald literally wrecking the economies of the entire world, not to mention our own? ---
**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, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4146 "2026-04-07T22:41:26Z")
Anyone for tacos? [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreifo5o7iozwjkokq5rygybuew5gjfc6julujhynfpnxkvyrbsxoc4y) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreifo5o7iozwjkokq5rygybuew5gjfc6julujhynfpnxkvyrbsxoc4y) > **[Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116365796713313030)** > > Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to... ---
**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 7, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4147 "2026-04-07T22:45:14Z")
TACO Tuesday it is! How long is the delay? TWO WEEKS. Gee where’d he get that time frame? ---
**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 7, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4148 "2026-04-07T22:45:34Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gO0jiJw7GaY/maxresdefault.jpg "Oh, THERE'S a big surprise! I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from that surprise.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO0jiJw7GaY) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4149 "2026-04-07T22:49:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > But they still can’t escape his voice. “Oops. I unplugged that cable in the middle of his call.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4150 "2026-04-07T22:50:17Z")
Trump successfully manipulates the financial markets yet again. > Dow futures jump 700 points, oil tumbles after Trump suspends Iran attacks for two weeks > **[Dow futures jump 700 points, oil tumbles after Trump suspends Iran attacks...](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/stock-market-today-live-updates.html?__source=androidappshare)** > > Traders waited to see if a last-minute deal could be reached between the U.S. and Iran on the eve of President Donald Trump's deadline to Tehran. He will TACO every day if he can churn the market to line his pockets. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4151 "2026-04-07T22:50:32Z")
What a fucking joke Trump is. TACO Tuesday indeed. Fuck’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4152 "2026-04-07T22:52:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > WHOA! Talk about taking one for the team. I know, and within our community, if I knew @Smapti 's email I’d PayPal a sawbuck. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4153 "2026-04-07T22:54:34Z")
“Two weeks” is a nice touch. Play the hits. ---
**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, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4154 "2026-04-07T23:04:10Z")
Thank God Trump learned his lesson that spouting unhinged statements on the internet about death, destruction, and annihilation only to back off at the last minute makes him look like moron. From this point on I think we’ll see rational and thoughtful content coming from the White House. ---
**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 7, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4155 "2026-04-07T23:09:48Z")
There has been no negotiation. There is no agreement. This is, once again, Trump making shit up off the top of his head and trying to declare what reality is to his sole benefit. Iran will not open the Strait. They have no reason to give up their one and only significant bargaining chip. And reporting has been that they have completely cut off negotiating partners, at least for the time being. When Iran fails to open the Strait Trump will claim they are “bad and evil”, because he talks like a child, and they have violated a non existent agreement. Trump will once again manipulate the markets with bullshit threats and proclamations and continue bombing them to no real purpose. We’ll go through all this again in a week. ---
**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, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4156 "2026-04-07T23:14:22Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > We’ll go through all this again in a week. I guess the cabinet will all have their brokers on speed-dial. ---
**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 7, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4157 "2026-04-07T23:15:17Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > There is no agreement. According to the AP, as of a few minutes ago: > [@](#): > > Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Wednesday it had accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war. > > Its statement said it would negotiate with the United States in Islamabad beginning Friday. > > “It is emphasized that this does not signify the termination of the war,” the statement said. “Our hands remain upon the trigger, and should the slightest error be committed by the enemy, it shall be met with full force.” This, of course, does not necessarily mean that Iran did, in fact, provide a “10 point proposal,” as Trump’s post claimed. ---
**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, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4158 "2026-04-07T23:45:27Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > We’ll go through all this again in a week. No, _two_ weeks. That’s how long they have to unconditionally open the Strait of Hormuz. But they’ve already agreed to everything, well, almost everything Trump wanted, according to Trump. > [@Stable Genius](#): > > Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran ABC News reports: “Responding to President Donald Trump’s ceasefire proposal, Iran declared victory Tuesday”. \*TACO Tuesday is next due on April 21st. ---
**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, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4159 "2026-04-07T23:48:56Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > He will TACO every day if he can churn the market to line his pockets. As I said earlier in this thread: > [@](#): > > I think these back and fort, up and down, yo-yo threats (spewed by the Big Yo-Yo himself) are generating stock market profits, and that may be his real “plan.” ---
**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, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4160 "2026-04-07T23:49:21Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > This, of course, does not necessarily mean that Iran did, in fact, provide a “10 point proposal,” as Trump’s post claimed. You’re correct. I think what it means is that Pakistan suggested this cease fire, and Trump agreed, even though Iran had not agreed to anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=207) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=209)