# 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:** 251
**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 27, 2026, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5001 "2026-04-27T03:27:16Z")
Damn! I never get called for Jury Duty! ---
**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 27, 2026, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5002 "2026-04-27T03:59:16Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > 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. Typical. Political violence is fine as long as it’s aimed at the common people - such as Trump is doing to Americans - but aimed at a _leader?_ One of the demigods who rule over the subhuman rabble? Unacceptable. Especially absurd given that Trump has more than once demonstrated that _he_ has no scruples about ordering attacks at leaders. Trump would be happy to kill any of them if it profited him somehow. ---
**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 27, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5003 "2026-04-27T18:58:02Z")
A hit dog’ll holler. ---
**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, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5004 "2026-04-27T20:34:20Z")
[The felon’s finally lost his sole remaining cracker.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-supports-bizarre-name-change-143605768.html) > [@](#): > > Donald [Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-shooting-white-house-political-violence-b2965512.html) has shared a supporter’s bizarre social media post suggesting ICE is renamed - for the media coverage. > > The X post by a self-professed MAGA journalist said she wanted the president to rebrand [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement) to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement “so the media has to say NICE agents all day every day”. > > “GREAT IDEA!!! DO IT . President DJT,” Trump added as he reposted the message on his Truth Social platform. The user’s original post has been viewed more than 800,000 times and won praise from other MAGA supporters, as well as the president himself. > > While it is not clear whether Trump’s apparent endorsement should be taken seriously, the president has advocated a number of name changes since returning to office. I swear I heard SNL’s Church Ladies’ voices when I read that. [Squirrel! I mean, look, it’s another thing the felon wants you distracted from.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-rants-over-claims-administration-224531806.html) > [@](#): > > The federal government quietly awarded a no-bid contract — with a massively inflated price tag — to one of President Donald Trump’s [favorite construction firms](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-white-house-national-trust-for-historic-preservation-secret-service-washington-b2962609.html), according to a new report, which the president has strongly disputed. > > The contract was to fix a pair of decades-old fountains in [Lafayette Park](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-touts-progress-multi-million-234732829.html), located across from the White House, which have sat idle for more than 10 years due to deteriorating equipment. > > In 2022, the Biden administration reportedly estimated the work would cost $3.3 million. But, in January, the Trump administration agreed to pay [more than five times that figure](http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&xcust=b2965009&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2026%2F04%2F25%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Flafayette-park-fountains-trump-contract.html&sref=/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-secret-construction-contracts-fountains-b2965009.html) — $17.4 million — to Clark Construction, a Maryland-based firm that is also building the massive White House ballroom, according to _The New York Times_. > > “They just took the cover page of my estimate and just added a bunch of money onto it,” Stephen Kirk, an independent consultant who calculated the cost of the refurbishment for the [National Park Service](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/national-parks-sued-threatening-revoke-202851543.html) in 2022, told the outlet. “I didn’t add those extra millions on there." > > The significantly higher cost estimate was reportedly partly a result of inflation being accounted for twice. > > The National Park Service awarded the lucrative contract to [Clark](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/companies-involved-white-house-ballroom-213855851.html) without soliciting competing bids, invoking a rarely used “urgency” exception typically reserved for natural disasters or wartime needs, the paper said. Contracting experts described this as unusual. There you have it, folks. The state of decorative fountains is a national emergency. ---
**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 28, 2026, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5005 "2026-04-28T00:13:43Z")
So much for “no taxpayer money will be spent on my big beautiful ballroom”. > **[Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3mkj4davlle2b)** > > Lindsey Graham says they are going introduce legislation that’s going to authorize 400 million dollars to be spent on building the ballroom: We pay for it by offsetting it with customs fees. The sooner we get the ballroom built, the better it is for... ---
**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 28, 2026, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5006 "2026-04-28T01:48:49Z")
How much do you want to be those customs fees are going to be from tariffs? ---
**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 28, 2026, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5007 "2026-04-28T03:10:01Z")
He’s entitled to a safe space [![](https://i.ibb.co/tMgB50M7/file-00000000e24c71f8b8ced7790579ef36.png) ](https://i.ibb.co/tMgB50M7/file-00000000e24c71f8b8ced7790579ef36.png) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5008 "2026-04-28T11:56:30Z")
Was that made by someone mocking Trump or someone worshipping Trump? It is literally impossible to tell. ---
**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 28, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5009 "2026-04-28T12:32:24Z")
I just thought “Ballroom of Solitude” was funny. > Create an image in the style of a comic book cover titled, “Ballroom of Solitude”, featuring Trump as a superhero flying in front of his crystalline fortress. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5010 "2026-04-28T12:41:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > So much for “no taxpayer money will be spent on my big beautiful ballroom”. Wait… I thought he’d gotten 400 megabucks from private donors. Why doesn’t he use _that_ money? Is it gone? Where did it go? Shy should _taxpayers_ be on the hook for this boondoggle? ---
**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 28, 2026, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5011 "2026-04-28T12:50:24Z")
Because that’s how Republicans roll. “Should” and “will” are at odds in this situation. (The same people that will pay for Trump’s murderous foray in Iran.) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5012 "2026-04-28T13:22:24Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Wait… I thought he’d gotten 400 megabucks from private donors. Why doesn’t he use _that_ money? Is it gone? Where did it go? Well, they _did_ have to pay Trump for his consulting work, for having the _idea_ of the ballroom. That shit ain’t cheap! Even if it’s actually worthless. ---
**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 28, 2026, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5013 "2026-04-28T13:26:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Wait… I thought he’d gotten 400 megabucks from private donors. Why doesn’t he use _that_ money? Is it gone? Where did it go? Shy should _taxpayers_ be on the hook for this boondoggle? I expect Trump simply pocketed it, and the taxpayers are going to pay for it because that’s what they voted _for._ Voting for Trump meant that they were voting to become resources to be exploited or toys to be broken. Why sucks for those of us who _didn’t_ vote for him. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5014 "2026-04-28T13:50:23Z")
It’s time to play “ **Actual Legal Document Written By The Current Attorney General of the United States, Or Deranged Truth Social Post** ”? The answer will probably not surprise you… [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreidnb4msxn5gxwapanoirjucsx6js47e3guvdjt75dgnvwvgynio7q) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreidnb4msxn5gxwapanoirjucsx6js47e3guvdjt75dgnvwvgynio7q) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreidvtez4m4rptzdwwsypyzfc7ktstlrkl5i6kicfzctnyvuyy4xzvu) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreidvtez4m4rptzdwwsypyzfc7ktstlrkl5i6kicfzctnyvuyy4xzvu) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiao5q4hpyyixftey4wka4nxk3ctofvnejovrvymg5os677ynxyv3y) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiao5q4hpyyixftey4wka4nxk3ctofvnejovrvymg5os677ynxyv3y) Apart from the…well, _everything_ about it, there is the question of why, if they think the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States is “FAKE”, were they “shown detailed plans and specifications” by the military and Secret Service? Seems like a significant security breach, no? Also, note that none of the three lawyers listed on this were on the original notice of appeal. This is just stupid grandstanding for an audience of one, and I hope it results in sanctions against any or all of the parties involved. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5015 "2026-04-28T14:27:13Z")
An attorney wrote that screed? It looks very Trumpish, but it’s got some big words in it, so it’s not from him. He had a hand in it for sure though. And Trump is asking for 400 million dollars for his ballrom that was funded by donations. It will soon be 2 billion. OK, not yet approved. ---
**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 28, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5016 "2026-04-28T15:42:34Z")
Do you have a link to the filing, please? I’d like to show that around. ---
**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 28, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5017 "2026-04-28T16:15:32Z")
My God - this is what an ivy league education is supposed to look like? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5018 "2026-04-28T16:18:32Z")
Sure reads like it was written by a plant. The green kind. ---
**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 28, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5019 "2026-04-28T16:27:56Z")
It seems to be eligible to work in Trump’s legal universe, you need to be able to code switch into Trump Vernacular English. ---
**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 28, 2026, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5020 "2026-04-28T16:48:37Z")
[Your incurable medical condition better be gone within a year, Marine!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/marines-required-grooming-standards-within-204656947.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > The U.S. Marine Corps announced that established uniform and [grooming standards](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/air-force-amends-medical-shaving-190655069.html) must be met within 12 months, regardless of medical conditions, in accordance with the [Department of Defense’s](https://www.yahoo.com/news/hegseth-orders-review-military-grooming-183000140.html) previous guidance. > > The statement says that temporary uniform or grooming standards exceptions for [medical conditions](https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2025/03/14/marine-corps-tightens-rules-on-shaving-waivers-for-medical-conditions/) are limited to 12 months and gives guidance on the separation process for Marines unable to comply with the order, according to a [Marine Administrative message](https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/4470481/change-1-to-maradmin-12425-uniform-and-grooming-standards-for-medical-conditions/) signed Friday. > > **The release mentions this update includes those who experience Pseudofolliculitis Barbae, commonly known as razor bumps and mainly affects those with tightly curled hair, like Black men.** > > Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has consistently sought a clean-shaven force, calling for [“no beardos”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/troops-know-hegseth-memos-force-172814500.html), pushing for a review of military fitness and grooming standards and tightening the guidelines for those who request exemptions. > > Marines who require exemptions for more than 12 months will be evaluated for administrative separation, which the Corps say they are revising the timeline for. > > “This change provides our leaders the necessary time to ensure updated policies, training, and educational materials are fully implemented, and that all affected personnel are properly counseled before any final administrative action is taken,” the message reads. Why am I not surprised he’s making it difficult for Blacks to serve? [But, hey, let’s not single out the Department of War Crimes when the once lauded FBI says “Hold my Beer!”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi-raids-minneapolis-childcare-facilities-124006365.html) > [@](#): > > Federal authorities raided more than 20 locations, including childcare facilities, in Minneapolis on Tuesday as part of a [sweeping fraud investigation](https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/minnesota-fraud-exposed) into largely Somali-owned businesses, sources confirmed to Fox News. > > “Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a Department of Justice spokesperson said. > > Authorities executed 22 federal search warrants in Minnesota on Tuesday morning as part of the operation, which is not [immigration-related](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration), sources said. > > The raids center on federal fraud investigations into largely Somali-owned businesses, including childcare facilities that registered their daycare with the state but were allegedly billing for care that was not provided. This is essentially a government-funded continuation of this nonsense mentioned in the link. > [@](#): > > The Quality Learning Center received national attention after [blogger Nick Shirley visited](https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-quality-learning-center-featured-nick-shirley-video-shuts-down-state-says) several childcare addresses only to find an assortment of vacant or non-operational storefronts, closed businesses or angry Somali occupants who refused to answer questions or entertain the pair’s mock efforts to “register” a child with the supposed daycare. [Calls for Canning Killer Kennedy!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-facing-calls-fired-090453115.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > [Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-blames-migrants-measles-172006082.html) is facing calls to be fired over [rising measles cases](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/south-carolina-utah-american-academy-of-pediatrics-arizona-florida-b2965863.html) across the United States. > > Over 1,700 [measles cases](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/state-epicenter-measles-america-182249055.html) have been reported in the U.S. this year, despite the disease being declared eliminated in the year 2000. ​Experts have pointed to falling vaccine rates as a [possible reason for the increase in cases](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/measles-elimination-status-outbreak-states-b2904274.html), with several U.S. health advocacy groups accusing Kennedy of [undermining longstanding vaccine policies](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-cdc-refuses-release-154426049.html).​ > > ​“RFK Jr. should be fired immediately,” Reverend Raphael Warnock, the junior senator for Georgia, [wrote on X Monday](https://x.com/ReverendWarnock/status/2048866948616798496?s=20). > > During a Senate Finance Committee hearing last week, Warnock grilled Kennedy about his “draconian cuts” to the Health Department. > > **“I think you’re dangerous to the American public,” Warnock said. “You ought to be fired. “And, if you’re not fired, you ought to have the decency to resign.”​** > > Around 1,792 measles cases have been reported this year, with 2,288 being recorded last year, according to the [CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html). [War criminal Hegseth’s put the fear of God into top military officers.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-pete-faith-push-senior-210920887.html) > [@](#): > > Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is rattling troops across all ranks by pushing a hardline religious agenda onto the military, according to a top military advocacy group. > > President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Mikey Weinstein, said morale in the military has nosedived since Hegseth’s appointment and the rollout [of his religious policies](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-pete-peril-republicans-turn-183704371.html). > > “They’re terrified right now,” Weinstein, [whose organization](https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/) is dedicated to protecting religious freedom within the U.S. military, told The Daily Beast. > > He said the number of complaints the organization has received since Hegseth became Secretary of Defense had tripled–and a large share of them come from Christians in uniform. > > “About 95 percent of our clients are actually Christians who are being tortured for not being Christian enough by their chain of command,” Weinstein said. [Evidently he was too busy doing that to do his actual job.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-pete-accused-shocking-failures-132028900.html) > [@](#): > > A group of senators has accused [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-pete-regime-hit-mean-154916526.html) and the Department of Defense of failing to protect its troops in the Middle East. > > Six U.S. service members were killed in Kuwait in the first hours of President Donald Trump’s [war with Iran](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-pete-ignites-fury-pushing-233738828.html), after their command and control trailer was struck by a drone. > > Senators Elizabeth Warren, Mark Kelly, and Kirsten Gillibrand, all Democrats, have written Hegseth a letter, suggesting the blame for their deaths lies with him due to a lack of preparation. > > “We are concerned that this is part of a larger pattern in which this administration has failed to protect Americans in the region from Iranian retaliation,” the letter said. > > Speaking to ABC News, Warren said Hegseth “must be held accountable,” adding, “Hegseth’s leadership has been one betrayal after another.” > > They said there were insufficient “plans to prevent possible harm from foreseeable attacks,” the senators argued, ”like retaliation with drone strikes.” > > They added, “Accounts from survivors and other officials with knowledge of the situation make clear that the risks to service members in the region were known. > > “[B]ut leadership at DoD failed to take steps to prevent harm that could come from Iran’s retaliation,” they said. 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