# 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:** 237
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4721 "2026-04-17T18:01:46Z")
> "So I can disagree with the pope. I have a right to disagree with the pope.” This is coming from the man who thinks it’s illegal for people to disagree with him. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4722 "2026-04-17T18:10:04Z")
Man… this is.. fucking Poetry! Made my day! Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4723 "2026-04-17T18:32:35Z")
Let’s try this one: > **[¿Qué significa 'pechear' en el futbol y cuál es el origen de la palabra? |...](https://www.goal.com/es/noticias/significado-origen-pechear-palabra/bltbc2109f622dd3c91)** > > En GOAL te explicamos qué es pechear en el futbol y cuál fue el origen de la palabra. [**English translation**](http://www-goal-com.translate.goog/es/noticias/significado-origen-pechear-palabra/bltbc2109f622dd3c91?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=tru) ---
**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 17, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4724 "2026-04-17T19:06:59Z")
So I was right, I also can proudly say that I never accused Messi of that, and when he eventually proved me right I had this to say: > [@World Cup 2022 - discussion, predictions, and thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2022-discussion-predictions-and-thoughts/974476/1735): > > Well, what can I say? I would be at the Obelisco celebrating but I’m still recuperating from covid, also cannot let my wife who today was feeling ill alone. (we were in a clinic until 1 hour before the game). This is the first time in my life than a futbol player made me cry, I’ve cried countless times for futbol, starting on the 1990 final, but never for only one player. Never. Lionel Andres Messi Cuccittini, the man who came back to the seleccion, time after time. They said he wasn’t Argent… ---
**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 17, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4725 "2026-04-17T19:30:54Z")
“Things that never happened” for $1000, Ken. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreibrjb6hqcpi3m5phtladunxqkiixunbelnajpcxl74n6zwqcif3xa) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreibrjb6hqcpi3m5phtladunxqkiixunbelnajpcxl74n6zwqcif3xa) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreieje2o4k4x5g2terzabkckvx7pa3hapmv6c6xancck3vaqzlwjmji) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreieje2o4k4x5g2terzabkckvx7pa3hapmv6c6xancck3vaqzlwjmji) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreiahzfhey5poqn2m4pboavsp532dkmh4mx2ssq7hyboqmn6xg2kyu4) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreiahzfhey5poqn2m4pboavsp532dkmh4mx2ssq7hyboqmn6xg2kyu4) ---
**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 17, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4726 "2026-04-17T20:04:55Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > (sniip)… > > that he simply doesn’t know he’s spewing counterfactual assertions. > > The man is a deliberate liar who knows he’s lying. I will not absolve him of responsibility for that. You are, of course, correct. It’s his _supporters_, the uneducated (read: _stupid_) people he “loves”, who do not bother to check the facts because they believe his vebal diarrhea. @Smapti Israel is prohibited by Trump from bombing Lebanon? Yeah, right. I’m thinking another bedfellow is getting kicked onto the floor mighty soon. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4727 "2026-04-17T20:43:13Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > You are, of course, correct. It’s his _supporters_, the uneducated (read: _stupid_) people he “loves”, who do not bother to check the facts because they believe his vebal diarrhea. I don’t think we should assume the guy who’s currently dealing with the “Hezboolah” situation is the smart one. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4728 "2026-04-17T20:46:50Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Israel is prohibited by Trump from bombing Lebanon? Yeah, right. I’m thinking another bedfellow is getting kicked onto the floor mighty soon. Trump’s approval ratings are down since he started this war. Obviously this is not Trump’s fault. Somebody else must be to blame. I’m sure Hegseth has spent the last couple of weeks telling Trump that it was Netanyahu. ---
**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 17, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4729 "2026-04-17T21:09:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I’m thinking another bedfellow is getting kicked onto the floor mighty soon. Considering that Mossad almost CERTAINLY has kompromat on Trump, that’d be a pretty dangerous move on his part, but it seems the dementia has advanced to the point where he doesn’t understand that turning on Bibi means the world gets to see the uncensored pics of him raping 12-year-olds. ---
**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 17, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4730 "2026-04-17T21:14:15Z")
Donald has apparently awarded the international-waters Strait of Hormuz to Iran—blindsiding the other nations fronting the strait: > ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4731 "2026-04-17T21:21:23Z")
WTF is “Nuclear “Dust””? Is that what Donny snorts to keep him conscious during Cabinet meetings? ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4732 "2026-04-17T21:22:41Z")
At last, the USA has achieved its war aims of opening the Strait of Hormuz! Now we can declare victory and go home, secure in the knowledge that the Strait of Hormuz will remain open, just like it was before we killed a bunch of people for no reason. ---
**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 17, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4733 "2026-04-17T21:24:11Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > At last, the USA has achieved its war aims of opening the Strait of Hormuz! Donald WILL expect a trophy, and lavish ceremony of thanks and celebration. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4734 "2026-04-17T21:33:56Z")
This was my reaction as well: that international relations between Iran and others are pretty much back to where they were before the ~~war~~ ~~police action~~ expedition began. But since I consider myself somewhat naïve where geopolitics are concerned, I then thought that it couldn’t be that much of a comedown for the US. Then I remembered who we’re talking about, and it makes sense after a fashion. (More and more I’m coming to agree with Goldstein’s reasoning behind perpetual war: that it’s a way of consuming what he called the “products of the machine” without allowing them to enhance the lives of the masses, who can be kept repressed.) ---
**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 17, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4735 "2026-04-17T21:34:21Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > WTF is “Nuclear “Dust””? My WAG is that it’s the alleged remnants of Iran’s nuclear program and uranium stockpile, which Trump and co. keep claiming that they have destroyed via bombing. ---
**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 17, 2026, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4736 "2026-04-17T22:22:13Z")
Is this when the victorious plundering starts? Do I get a cut? ---
**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 17, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4737 "2026-04-17T22:29:51Z")
Everybody has a share, everybody gets a cut. Milo Minderbinder ---
**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 17, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4738 "2026-04-17T23:32:35Z")
_The President’s Brain Is Missing_, Paging Dr. Christ Edition “His movement is forget it. It’s not gonna happen any other way but success.” [https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjpwckbmzt2w](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjpwckbmzt2w) “Mutilization” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjpwvdapiz2i)** > > Trump: "We banned the transgender mutilization of our children" “We will make Lebanon great again” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjpwohtvld2i)** > > Trump: "We will make Lebanon great again" “The USA will get all nuclear dust, you know what the nuclear dust is? No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form. How are we going to get the nuclear dust? We’re going to get it by going in with Iran, with lots of excavators” > “They were clapping for everything I said” – Trump completely makes stuff up about Democrats clapping for him at the State of the Union > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjpxbylrqu26)** > > "They were clapping for everything I said" -- Trump completely makes stuff up about Democrats clapping for him at the State of the Union It’s everybody’s fault except mine that Republicans are going to lose in November > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjpy6hj23a2z)** > > Trump: "I think I'm doing the best job of anybody. But for some reason, a president, the party does poorly in the midterms. It doesn't make sense. We're ending wars all over the place. And wait until you see prices fall." “We’re actually cooling as a planet” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjpy2dvfng2i)** > > Trump: "Global warming -- we're actually cooling as a planet" “We suspended all refugee resettlement, except for prosecuted South Africans. There’s a genocide. They kill people if they’re white.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjpxxww7fo26)** > > Trump: "We suspended all refugee resettlement, except for prosecuted South Africans. There's a genocide. They kill people if they're white." “I love Danica [Patrick]. I love her hair. I always liked her hair. I always liked the little widow’s peak.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjpyi3fyxu23)** > > Trump: "I love Danica \[Patrick\]. I love her hair. I always liked her hair. I always liked the little widow's peak." “We will begin releasing government files relating to UFOs and unexplained aerial phenomena and you’re really into that. I don’t know if I am. I thought I’d save it for this crowd. Because you’re a little bit out there.” > “Maine is so bad, but we’re right on their ass.” > ---
**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 18, 2026, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4739 "2026-04-18T00:09:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > We’re ending wars all over the place. Starting them, then ending them. The Circle of Life. ---
**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 18, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4740 "2026-04-18T00:50:06Z")
The Atlantic reports that Kash “Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy” Patel is a blackout drunk who on one occasion had to be awakened after breaking his door down with a battering ram and had a public freakout after he forgot his password and assumed he’d been fired. > **[The FBI Director Is MIA](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oRxNmK3jnX3wl-J-XKJbu_nU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)** > > Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=236) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=238)