# 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:** 261
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5201 "2026-05-08T00:16:07Z")
Ooooh! Terrorists among us.Soon there will be lists of names, more concentration camps, am I being alarmist? The Christian fascist takeover of America continues. Who knew treating trans people as human made you a top level terrorists? Soon we will be just as tolerant as Iran. > **[Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among...](https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/politics/trump-administration-now-classifies-antifa-and-left-wing-groups-among-major-terror-groups)** > > The Trump administration has classified left-wing networks like Antifa among “three major types of terror groups” the US faces, according to a counter-terrorism plan released Thursday. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5202 "2026-05-08T01:08:26Z")
There’s no such thing under US law as a “domestic terror group”, so this, just like when Trump issued an executive order saying the same thing last year, is just empty bluster designed to intimidate people into not criticizing Dear Leader. In other news, we’re all going to die! > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mlciqfsgs523)** > > Q: Have you been briefed on the hantavirus? > > TRUMP: Yes I have > > > Q: What have you learned? > > TRUMP: Ahhh -- it's very much we hope under control > > > Q: Should Americans be concerned it's going to spread? > > TRUMP: I hope not. We'll do the best we can. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5203 "2026-05-08T01:51:17Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > There’s no way in hell that anyone will be investigating and prosecuting this. Yes, I am sure you are 100% correct. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5204 "2026-05-08T04:22:26Z")
Kash “Walk into the club like what up I got a big cock” Patel has been frantically polygraphing his inner circle trying to figure out who keeps telling the media about his boozing. > **[Kash Patel ordered polygraphs of more than two dozen members of his team,...](https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-ordered-polygraphs-of-more-than-two-dozen-members-of-his-team-sources-tell-ms-now)** > > The FBI director is said to be looking for leaks and has ordered polygraphs to be taken of current and former members of his security detail, as well as other staff. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5205 "2026-05-08T04:50:39Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > > > There’s no way in hell that anyone will be investigating and prosecuting this. > > Yes, I am sure you are 100% correct. What’s the statute of limitations? The usual seven years? Of course, nobody went to prison for driving the world economy into the ditch in 2008, even after an administration change. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5206 "2026-05-08T04:59:03Z")
[You know the Reflecting Pool is soon to be a goner.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-drives-across-lincoln-memorial-002736450.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — President [Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) on Thursday went on an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the [Reflecting Pool](https://apnews.com/article/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-trump-997dd3be8d5f33d67c1dbef5ac4ae271) after he had it coated in a color he calls “American flag blue.” > > He did more than just see it — the Republican president was driven across the new coating before he got out of his SUV to make a statement and answer questions from reporters who had been taken there to await his arrival before the sun set. > > The new blue coating will hide the pool’s gray stone, a color Trump said was “never good.” The project cost nearly $2 million, he said. > > “It never had the color people wanted, but now it’s going to have the great color,” he said, standing in the pool surrounded by some of his Cabinet secretaries, including Doug Burgum of Interior and Markwayne Mullin of Homeland Security. > > Trump had similar feelings about the gray granite exterior of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, describing it as a “really bad color” last year. The president wants to [cover the building in white paint](https://apnews.com/article/trump-eisenhower-building-paint-planning-commission-5e6e920004648c3e08a2beff5b3bdd79) and two federal agencies are reviewing his proposal. > > Trump said he is also working on the memorial to President Abraham Lincoln itself, but he offered no specifics, saying only that “we have a beautiful plan” in mind. [The ~~beatings~~ polygraphs will continue until morale improves.](https://www.aol.com/entertainment/fbi-boss-kash-patel-orders-231248807.html) > [@](#): > > FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly ordered polygraph testing for more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail and other staffers. > > According to those close to the Federal Bureau of Investigation [director](https://www.themirror.com/all-about/kash-patel), the polygraphs come as he attempts [to save his job](https://www.aol.com/entertainment/donald-trump-fed-kash-patel-202347871.html) at the nation’s top intelligence agency. Three sources close to Patel, who were granted anonymity, revealed that the polygraph tests are part of the spy chief’s search for leakers within his organization. > > Sources revealed to MS Now that Patel has distanced himself from several of the bureau’s senior leaders after multiple media reports slammed his leadership of the organization. Two sources stated that the director ordered testing of past and present members of his security [detail and several members of the IT staff](https://www.aol.com/entertainment/kash-patel-shamelessly-showers-trump-093340400.html). > > It was also reported that Patel has been dodging meetings with key operational leaders of the bureau, which has raised the alarm inside the FBI about Patel’s ability to stay ahead of situations and investigations that warranted the attention of the bureau. [Yes, Killer Kennedy, your anti-vax nonsense is killing babies.](https://www.aol.com/articles/babies-bleeding-death-internally-preventable-202404715.html) > [@](#): > > The babies developed [vitamin K deficiency bleeding](https://www.cdc.gov/vitamin-k-deficiency/fact-sheet/index.html) (VKDB), a rare but potentially fatal condition that can be averted with a single vitamin K shot. > > Vitamin K plays an essential role in our bodies, and it’s especially important for newborns. > > “Babies are born with a limited amount of clotting factors that get used up pretty quickly,” [Dr. Candice Foy,](https://doctors.stonybrookmedicine.edu/provider/candice-m-foy/2248738) a pediatrician and medical director of the newborn nursery at [Stony Brook Children’s Hospital](https://www.stonybrookchildrens.org/), previously told [The Post](https://health.yahoo.com/conditions/articles/routine-shot-newborns-becoming-controversial-170104839.html). > > “Vitamin K helps them make more clotting factors to help prevent significant bleeds,” she added. > > Babies lack vitamin K at birth, as it’s not readily passed from mother to fetus through the placenta or breast milk, which only contains small amounts. > > And, unfortunately, babies don’t start getting more of the vitamin until they begin eating purees with [leafy greens](https://nypost.com/2023/08/10/this-common-vegetable-could-protect-your-lungs-from-asthma-study/) like spinach around 6 months. > > According to Foy, vitamin K deficiency greatly increases serious bleeding risks in the first six months. > > Despite the life-saving benefits, parents continue to decline the vitamin K shot either out of medical misinformation that the vitamin injection is a vaccine or [growing distrust](https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/rfk-jr-says-he-ordered-cdc-language-change-on-vaccines-autism-not-supported-by-science/) in healthcare systems. And what’s the population affected? > [@](#): > > The vitamin K shot has been recommended to all newborns shortly after birth since 1961, according to [the American Academy of Pediatrics](https://publications.aap.org/hospitalpediatrics/article-abstract/9/1/55/26668/Newborn-Vitamin-K-Prophylaxis-A-Historical?redirectedFrom=fulltext). > > But between 2017 and 2024, [National Institutes of Health researchers](https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/protective-vitamin-shots-newborns-decline) discovered that almost 200,000 newborns did not receive a vitamin K injection at birth. [Not content calling for Jeffries’ impeachment, the felon wants to charge him with inciting violence.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-demands-hakeem-jeffries-charged-175418316.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump) accused House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., of inciting the most recent assassination attempt against him, further escalating his feud with the top Democrat. > > Trump argued in a [Truth Social post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116533436964740040) on Thursday that Jeffries should be arrested after promoting “warfare” against Republicans just days before the assassination scare at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April. > > “This lunatic, Hakeem “Low IQ” Jeffries, should be charged with INCITING VIOLENCE!” Trump wrote on social media. > > He included images of Jeffries standing with a sign displaying the words [“maximum warfare”](https://www.aol.com/news/hakeem-jeffries-declared-maximum-warfare-131528672.html) and the faces of Trump and his aide James Blair alongside an image “three days later” of alleged assassin Cole Allen storming the Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton. > > “Should Hakeem Jeffries be charged with inciting violence?” Trump’s post asked his 12.6 million followers to ponder. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5207 "2026-05-08T06:05:53Z")
“Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave!” Waxing poetic tonight. > [@Truth Social](#): > > Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire. There was no damage done to the three Destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers. They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats, which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated Navy. These boats went to the bottom of the Sea, quickly and efficiently. Missiles were shot at our Destroyers, and were easily knocked down. Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave! A normal Country would have allowed these Destroyers to pass, but Iran is not a normal Country. They are led by LUNATICS, and if they had the chance to use a Nuclear Weapon, they would do it, without question — But they’ll never have that opportunity and, just like we knocked them out again today, we’ll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST! Our three Destroyers, with their wonderful Crews, will now rejoin our Naval Blockade, which is truly a “Wall of Steel.” President DONALD J. TRUM ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5208 "2026-05-08T06:15:31Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air. _“These Iranian drones are only cheap Russian junk, costing a few thousand. So they are just easy peasy to shoot down using our world class USD4mil/shot Patriot missiles. Provided we don’t run out of them, or they are required elsewhere we will continue to win biggly.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5209 "2026-05-08T07:07:30Z")
Isn’t that rather like using a 12-gauge shotgun to take care of a mosquito? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5210 "2026-05-08T07:19:25Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > like using a 12-gauge shotgun to take care of a mosquito? Considering the difference in cost, it’s more like using a rocket propelled grenade to take out the mosquito. If the destroyer keeps using Patriot missiles to shoot down cheap drones, the Iranians will take that any time. The destroyer will run out of Patriots long before the Iranians run out of drones. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5211 "2026-05-08T09:30:13Z")
A reminder that the “maximum warfare” reference was Jeffries quoting a Trump administration official who said that in August 2025 to describe the Republican redistricting strategy for the midterms. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5212 "2026-05-08T10:02:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > There’s no such thing under US law as a “domestic terror group”, so this, just like when Trump issued an executive order saying the same thing last year, is just empty bluster designed to intimidate people into not criticizing Dear Leader. The law has not been a consideration to this maladministration. If the Trump cabal decide to go after the Left (as _they_ define it) then, just like deportations, the law won’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5213 "2026-05-08T12:08:08Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Isn’t that rather like using a 12-gauge shotgun to take care of a mosquito? I am informed by ChatGpt that even the smallest guage shotgun shells would be inadequate for mosquitoes. > [@our new AI overlord](#): > > The smallest shotgun shot sizes, often called “dust shot” or “snake shot,” are #12 shot, which measure approximately 0.05 inches (1.2mm) in diameter. These are typically used for pest control at very close range My own solution to the problem of mosquitoes at my boarding school was to choose to launch a pillow at the roof, repeatedly, killing several dozen at a time. Obviously not an ideal deterent, but given my lack of resources, adequate. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5214 "2026-05-08T12:47:34Z")
I hate the bloodstains mosquitoes leave when squashed on a wall or ceiling. My suggestion is to use a vacuum cleaner. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5215 "2026-05-08T12:52:10Z")
I, now, an adult man, would agree with you. But my former adolescent self from about 23 years ago would beg to differ. Also, we did not have vacuum cleaners at school, we had, at best, brooms and mops, neither of which have the efficacy or reach of the pillow. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5216 "2026-05-08T12:55:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Patel has been frantically polygraphing his inner circle I’m getting a strong “Who ate the strawberries?” vibe from him lately. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5217 "2026-05-08T13:17:36Z")
He can now, _mathematically_ prove who’s behind the leaks! ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5218 "2026-05-08T14:28:34Z")
Was there another key to the ~~wardroom icebox~~ liquor cabinet? ---
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5219 "2026-05-08T14:29:32Z")
I should not be surprised that an administration (and I use the term loosely) and its members who are all for performative theater without any regard for truth or effectiveness resort to the public use of polygraphs, but fact is that those things do not work like in the movies. In fact, they don’t work at all. Which may be a feature, not a bug, in a more rational collective of evil doers. With those incompetent bastards, I am not so sure. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5220 "2026-05-08T14:37:13Z")
trump, in a recent meeting with his advisors (ok, in my imagination, but I’m probably not too far off): GODDAMIT we started the Iran war, uhhh.. excur… um, ‘mini-war’ to distract from the Epstein files. Now the war and rising gas prices are hurting my ratings even worse! (throws a mini-bottle of ketchup against the wall; his advisors are splattered with it, in what looks like a horror scene). What do we do now to distract from that? Advisor: I got an idea! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rZGpE7oKcaQ/maxresdefault.jpg "WATCH: New UFO footage released by Trump admin #shorts") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZGpE7oKcaQ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=260) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=262)