# 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:** 253
**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 29, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5041 "2026-04-29T00:00:05Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > James Comey has been indicted…again. And if you thought the last one was stupid: > > He’s indicted for posting that picture of seashells that spelled out “86 47”. That old adage about indicting a ham sandwich may literally be true. > > I look forward to seeing how quickly this gets laughed out of court.. So are they going to indict EVERYBODY who reposted this particular picture, and/or EVERYBODY who posted anything with that particular number combination? I don’t think it will make it to court - I think it will be laughed out by the grand jury (if it even makes it that far) ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5042 "2026-04-29T00:09:38Z")
Too late. Indicted means a grand jury has already ruled. Too bad it didn’t go the same way as when the DoJ tried to indict the six senators who said military members do not have to obey lawful orders. IIRC not only was there no indictment, not a single grand jury member voted to do so, incredibly rare. ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5043 "2026-04-29T00:13:05Z")
> **[Comey: ‘What Can I Say, I’m Just A Catty Bitch From New Jersey And I Live For...](https://theonion.com/comey-what-can-i-say-i-m-just-a-catty-bitch-from-new-1825295514/)** ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5044 "2026-04-29T00:14:08Z")
Ahh my bad… I can’t believe a grand jury would indict on this. It’s clearly a bullshit charge, applied only to a single person for the purpose of intimidation. I mean it’s plainly obvious. ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5045 "2026-04-29T00:17:12Z")
No argument there. “The Department of Justice” would be renamed “The Department of Revenge” if there was any justice. ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5046 "2026-04-29T00:37:55Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Barrack Hussein Obama Have you noticed only one group of people persist and even insist on highlighting President Obama’s middle name? > [@Smapti](#): > > > [@dougrb](#): > > > > The subject of Rock’s address at the headquarters of the Department of Defense was not revealed. > > I’m guessing it was “How To Memorize the Age of Consent In All 50 States”. Isn’t the “crossing a state line to get busy” AOC fedeerally mandated at 18? > [@DesertDog](#): > > Too bad it didn’t go the same way as when the DoJ tried to indict the six senators who said military members do not have to obey lawful orders. _Unlawful orders_. They said members of the military are prohibited from following _unlawful_ orders. That’s the law, too. > [@DesertDog](#): > > “The Department of Justice” would be renamed “The Department of Revenge” if there was any justice. The entire cabal at the top operates as dictators, so why not call it the Department of Just Do It? ---
**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 29, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5047 "2026-04-29T01:07:31Z")
The same reason we now have a Department of War. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5048 "2026-04-29T08:26:10Z")
We do not, in fact, have a department of War. It’s still the Department of Defense. Just because a day-drunk martinet likes the word “war” does not make it so. It takes an act of Congress to change the name and as we’ve all seen this Congress is incapable of acting. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5049 "2026-04-29T14:33:24Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Isn’t the “crossing a state line to get busy” AOC fedeerally mandated at 18? That initialism made my brain slip off the rails this morning. More coffee good. ---
**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 29, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5050 "2026-04-29T16:12:55Z")
While the Department of Justice files briefs in support of their case against the National Trust for Historic Preservation that sound like they were cut and pasted from a Trump social media post (or as the [New York Times article](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/elections/ballroom-filing-trump-truth-social.html) suggested, “written in President Trump’s recognizable online voice”), the Department of Justice is expected to defend against a lawsuit filed by Trump against the I.R.S. (asking for _$10 billion_) because his tax returns were leaked to the New York Times in 2019. As [the Times reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/politics/trump-justice-department-lawsuit-tax-returns-disclosure.html), the judge in that case asks whether the Justice Department can be sufficiently independent. “Accordingly, it is unclear to this court whether the parties are sufficiently adverse to each other.” > As the judge explained in her order, the Constitution requires that the two parties in a lawsuit are genuinely opposed to each other — and not colluding to engineer a legal ruling favorable to both sides. Without a conflict, the lawsuit is void and the judge must dismiss it. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5051 "2026-04-29T16:22:31Z")
You know I dislike candace owens _like a lot_, but that is so over the top disgusting. He’s such a flatulent bag of racist, misogynist shit; I wish he would explode at his next junk drawer meeting, and rain all that gooey, stinky, pollution over all of them. ---
**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 29, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5052 "2026-04-29T17:30:13Z")
> **Jason Nesmith:** What? What was that? > **Alexander Dane:** Uh, nothing. > **Jason Nesmith:** I heard some squealing or something. > **Gwen DeMarco:** Oh, no. Everything’s fine. > **Teb:** But the animal is inside out. > **Jason Nesmith:** I heard that! It turned inside out? > [the pig-lizard explodes] > **Teb:** And it exploded. > **Jason Nesmith:** Did I just hear that the animal turned inside out, and then it _exploded?_ … Hello? > **Gwen DeMarco:** [Flipping a bit of pig-lizard off her communicator] Hold, please. The _Protects sex-offenders_ on the fake cover is especially rich. ---
**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 29, 2026, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5053 "2026-04-29T19:24:02Z")
> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mknq6rj5d323)** > > COLLINS: Do you really think that Comey was threatening your life with that post? > > TRUMP: Well if anybody knows anything about crime, they know '86' is a mob term for 'kill 'em.' You ever see the movies? It’s true. Back when I managed a fast food restaurant we had to 86 a guy who was drunk and obnoxious. The grill cook dragged him out back by the dumpster and executed him. ---
**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 29, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5054 "2026-04-29T21:23:04Z")
[The felon loses in yet another court.](https://www.aol.com/articles/us-appeals-court-rejects-trumps-170248542.html) > [@](#): > > April 28 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s practice of subjecting most people arrested in its immigration crackdown to mandatory detention without ‌the opportunity to seek release on bond. > > A three-judge panel of the New York-based 2nd U.S. ‌Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration had adopted a novel but wrong interpretation of a decades-old immigration ​law to support a mass detention policy. > > That ruling came after two other appeals courts ruled the other way, overturning rulings that favored detainees who were denied bond hearings before immigration judges. The differing decisions increase the odds that the U.S. Supreme Court will be forced to weigh in. > > U.S. Circuit Judge Joseph Bianco, writing ‌for the court, acknowledged the other ⁠appellate courts’ rulings. But he said the panel was parting ways with them and instead joining with over 370 lower-court judges nationally who have rejected the ⁠administration’s position and held it is misapplying the law. > > His ruling upheld an order by a judge in New York that had led to the release of Brazilian national Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha, who was arrested ​by immigration ​officials last year while driving to work after ​living in the United States for over ‌20 years. [War Criminal Hegseth told he’s a child during congressional hearing.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hegseth-clashes-democrats-over-iran-174452794.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with Democrats throughout a House hearing on Wednesday, with tensions flaring over the Iran war, the Pentagon’s whopping $1.5 trillion budget request and his ouster of top military officials. > > Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), a former Air Force officer and member of the Armed Services Committee, pressed Hegseth on his firing of Gen. Randy George, the widely respected Army chief of staff. > > “Why did he get fired?” Houlahan asked. > > “First of all, I thank them for their service, and ultimately —” Hegseth responded before Houlahan cut in. > > “My impression is you thanked him by a text or a phone call. You didn’t even do it to his face,” she said. > > “Out of respect for these officers, we never talk about the nature of their removal,” he replied. > > “However, I will note it’s very difficult to change the culture of a department that has been destroyed by the wrong perspective,” he added. > > **“You have no way of explaining why you fired one of the most decorated or remarkable men,” Houlahan said, “and your answer is a very immature way of responding to my request.”** As each day goes by, I find myself wanting more and more to see this toddler’s toddler’s officer evaluation reports during his “so-called” service. [Just in case you don’t know what to say to your wife before Mother’s Day, Rip van Simple sets an example.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-pauses-televised-speech-165218549.html) > [@](#): > > [Donald Trump](https://ew.com/person/donald-trump/) temporarily paused a live TV speech honoring the arrival of the United Kingdom’s King Charles to make a joke about the length of his marriage to [Melania Trump](https://ew.com/person/melania-trump/). > > Speaking to attendees Tuesday outside the White House, where King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived for a state visit to the United States, Trump reflected on his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born in Scotland. > > “She came to America at 19, met my incredible father, we loved him so much, we all loved him, we loved her, we loved him: Fred. And, they were married for 63 years,” Trump said as King Charles, Queen Camilla, and his wife sat behind him on stage. > > The president then turned toward his spouse, telling her, “And, uh, excuse me, if you don’t mind, that’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling.” > > Attendees and those on stage laughed at the joke, which the president leaned into in the moment. > > “I’m sorry, it’s just not going to work out that way. We’ll do well, but we’re not going to do that well,” he said, before moving on to reveal that his late mother had a keen interest in British public figures. What a romantic! [Best summarization of why one should not vote for the pubbies in November.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/house-democrat-trump-ballroom-push-140105916.html) > [@](#): > > Rep. Rob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Monday criticized a push from some Republicans to use taxpayer money to [fund the construction](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/senate-republicans-push-bill-authorize-002338753.html) of the White House ballroom, slamming his counterparts for “doing whatever they can to appease” President Trump. > > “They’re so misaligned with what the American people need and what they want, right?” he [told reporter](https://x.com/Acyn/status/2048905105442029743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2048905105442029743%7Ctwgr%5E6e019cb40b61171a4f461e772455720032f1944a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fpolitics%2Fno-one-gives-a-sht-house-democrat-unmoved-by-trumps-post-shooting-ballroom-defense%2F) Pablo Manríquez outside the Capitol. “There’s an affordability crisis out there. No one gives a s— about the president’s ballroom except the president, right? That’s the reality.” ---
**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 29, 2026, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5055 "2026-04-29T22:24:09Z")
They are all Ballroom Republicans. That should be in headlines from now until the mid-terms. ---
**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 29, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5056 "2026-04-29T22:29:41Z")
Ballroom Republicans. Ballroom. Ball room. Room for ball. Room for balls. Room for whose balls? (Rhetorical) ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5057 "2026-04-29T22:32:31Z")
This is what it’s come down to. Just sign a non-nuclear deal and let’s be done with it. Wasn’t that what Iran asked for? But, of course, now it’s his idea. So much winning. [![](https://unstuckpolitics.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/6/16ba592115e4feab29d16ebb68c2cc05053aa7e8.jpeg) ](https://unstuckpolitics.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/6/16ba592115e4feab29d16ebb68c2cc05053aa7e8.jpeg) ---
**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 29, 2026, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5058 "2026-04-29T22:37:23Z")
And he stole Joe Biden’s sunglasses. ---
**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 29, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5059 "2026-04-29T22:44:44Z")
Well, perhaps we could just go back to the 2015 deal. HOWEVER, Iran now holds more cards, so they will probably want more concessions than were given back then. From Wikipedia, my bolding: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action more commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, was an agreement to limit the Iranian nuclear program in return for sanctions relief and other provisions. The agreement was finalized in Vienna **on 14 July 2015** , between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)—China, France, Russia, the U.K., U.S.—plus Germany) On **8 May 2018** , the U.S. officially withdrew from the JCPOA after Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum ordering reinstatement of sanctions. ---
**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 29, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5060 "2026-04-29T23:18:21Z")
They looked so much cooler on Joe. [![](https://i.imgur.com/8VyynYK.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/8VyynYK.jpeg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=252) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=254)