# 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:** 250
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4981 "2026-04-26T17:09:18Z")
> [@bobsmom101](#): > > Epstein? Who’s Epstein? I saw a meme today: “Another distraction, for the Epsteinth time” ---
**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 26, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4982 "2026-04-26T17:16:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s easier to believe that this was pre-arranged. Maybe 'cuz of this: > ---
**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 26, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4983 "2026-04-26T17:27:04Z")
I’m not buying the conspiracy hypothesis, I am buying the administration’s ability to exploit any situation to frighten their core group into lockstep (must have a ballroom now for …reasons); now with added paranoia. Trump (and followers) persecuted by the the evil left/press/Soros???. Ooohhh the victimhood! Makes a great Epstein distraction. ---
**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 26, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4984 "2026-04-26T17:28:32Z")
Wait, wait. I’ll concede that there’s small chance that someone in the Trump administration might be behind the assassination attempt. There is, however, no way in hell that they’d _tell_ _Karoline Leavitt_. ---
**Author:** ![doomtastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@doomtastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doomtastic)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4985 "2026-04-26T17:34:04Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I am buying the administration’s ability to exploit any situation It is the one thing I’ll credit them with mild competence in - seizing any opportunity that presents itself and (attempting at least) to exploit it for their own gain. This is not a group to sit around dithering - when a potential opportunity raises its head they strike and worry about the consequences… well probably never, but certainly afterwards. ---
**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 26, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4986 "2026-04-26T18:00:38Z")
Orangeman on ballrooms, ““They’ve wanted a ballroom at the White House for more than 150 years. There’s never been a president that was good at ballrooms.” Made up but probably true - " I’ve had many Presidents tell me how much they needed a massive ballroom." “President Lincoln would be alive today if the play was performed in the White House ballroom.” ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4987 "2026-04-26T18:08:54Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Made up but probably true - " I’ve had many Presidents tell me how much they needed a massive ballroom." LBJ said that to everyone Donny. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4988 "2026-04-26T19:04:12Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > LBJ said that to everyone Donny I laughed. Seriously, there’s that famous recording of LBJ talking about needing room for his “bunghole”. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S3GT9UN7nDo/hqdefault.jpg "LBJ: “Down where your nuts hang…[belch]…back to my bunghole”") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3GT9UN7nDo) He called his penis Jumbo. > **[An Exceedingly Historical Account of ‘Jumbo,’ LBJ’s Very Large Penis](https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/lyndon-b-johnson-penis)** > > He pulled it out so often that he pretty much reduced much of his presidency to a literal dick-measuring contest And even he didn’t try to build this stupid addition to the White House. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4989 "2026-04-26T19:06:28Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > And even he didn’t try to build this stupid addition to the White House. That’s because LBJ had a better tailor than Trump does. ---
**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 26, 2026, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4990 "2026-04-26T19:31:36Z")
So Donald Trump posted to say that the shooting is a reason why his ballroom needs to be built, “This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House.” How top secret can it be when it’s this enormous thing right next to the White House? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4991 "2026-04-26T19:33:42Z")
The, formerly, top secret part is deep underground. ---
**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 26, 2026, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4992 "2026-04-26T19:35:14Z")
I guarantee that he will give everyone tours of the top secret facility. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4993 "2026-04-26T19:38:46Z")
Putin and Xi have already been invited to the first movie night. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4994 "2026-04-26T19:42:05Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I’m not buying the conspiracy hypothesis, I am buying the administration’s ability to exploit any situation to frighten their core group into lockstep (must have a ballroom now for …reasons); now with added paranoia. Yep it was reported that he had a shotgun. When he squirted through security he certainly wasn’t holding a shotgun. Just more fear for everyone. ---
**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 26, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4995 "2026-04-26T21:17:33Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I’ll concede that there’s small chance that someone in the Trump administration might be behind the assassination attempt. There is, however, no way in hell that they’d _tell_ _Karoline Leavitt_. Well, she is at a stage of pregnancy at which a panicked run or fall could result in miscarriage. Which might make her angry enough to spill a LOT of very inconvenient beans, in revenge for not having been warned in advance about the planned WHCA-Dinner ‘entertainment.’ ---
**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 27, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4996 "2026-04-27T01:14:09Z")
@crowmanyclouds PY Loverboy isn’t invited? That’s scandalous! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4997 "2026-04-27T02:16:06Z")
That’s for the first date night in the Top Secret bunker. ---
**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 27, 2026, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4998 "2026-04-27T02:22:26Z")
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a rapist.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mkgq3ds7dq2t)** > > TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody > > O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you? > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mkgoyxszjx2n)** > > O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, & traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' > > TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from a sick person. You should be ashamed... ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/4999 "2026-04-27T02:43:27Z")
Photo of Cheryl Hines running behind RFK during the evac: [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkfN7-W3BaDgPgz9PPUFlUbjfb3wFj8Y1Jf6VnjSHWurJVxCTuru0nsBYk&s=10) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkfN7-W3BaDgPgz9PPUFlUbjfb3wFj8Y1Jf6VnjSHWurJVxCTuru0nsBYk&s=10) “Cut through the kitchen, Bobby!” ---
**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 27, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5000 "2026-04-27T03:14:49Z")
[World Leaders condemn political violence](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/world-leaders-condemn-unacceptable-violence-140400443.html) The key here is they condemn the political violence in the United States. So we are now just like any other banana republic or (as a friend’s wife referred to her home country) twelfth world country. From the article linked: > [@](#): > > World leaders across the globe swiftly condemned political violence and expressed relief that President [Donald Trump](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump) was unharmed after a chaotic armed attack Saturday night disrupted the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. > > Their responses poured in on X after a man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby of the Washington Hilton and charged toward the ballroom, where Trump, [lawmakers, journalists and foreign dignitaries](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/correspondents-dinner-chaos-hits-high-profile-guests-already-marked-political-violence) were gathered, prompting Secret Service agents to open fire and guests to dive under tables. > > The suspect — later identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance, California — was taken into custody, and Trump was rushed offstage unharmed. Officials said the suspect was a guest at the Washington Hilton, where the dinner was being held, and was taken into custody at the scene. He is expected to appear in court on Monday. > > In their reactions, world leaders emphasized both [solidarity with the United States](https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-praises-press-after-whcd-shooting-says-unity-dinner-beautiful) and concern over rising political violence. Feel free to read the quotes in the article. I don’t want to quote the whole thing. @Smapti Did you notice he denied being a rapist and a pediphile; however, he did not deny being a traitor. Baby steps (to along with his baby fingers). @Happy_Lendervedder Who did the “evacuation run” better, Killer Kennedy or George Costanza? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=249) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=251)