# 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:** 262
**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:** [May 8, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5221 "2026-05-08T14:44:49Z")
If there are aliens out there, I wish they would hurry down here and put us out of our misery! 👽 🖖🏽 ---
**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, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5222 "2026-05-08T14:46:36Z")
Aliens: Take us to your leader. Us: Take our leader, please! Disclaimer: In case the FBI reads this, ‘Take our leader, please!’ means, take our leader on a friendly diplomatic away visit to a distant planet where he will be lavishly praised, awarded shiny alien trinkets and served replicated fast food. It in no way implies cliched alien rectal probes, ‘To Serve Man’ style ironic denouements, or any other form of harm be done to him. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5223 "2026-05-08T14:51:20Z")
Thanks, Henny 🙂 👏 ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5224 "2026-05-08T15:09:28Z")
CALVIN: **Aliens** , Dad! Big, evil, bug-eyed monsters from Pluto! They did it and made me swear not to tell! ---
**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, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5225 "2026-05-08T18:37:26Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Aliens: Take us to your leader. > > Us: Take our leader, please! The version I saw during Trump 1.0 was along the lines of: Aliens: Earthlings! We have arrived to conquer you, eliminate your government leaders, and rule over you! Earthlings: Oh thank god, what took you so long? ---
**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, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5226 "2026-05-08T19:26:18Z")
“Pew pew pew! Thank you for your attention to this matter.” [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e7gbntp2tzobn7cfi37viei3/bafkreic7gnhdwj2tftoyobttpq5km34km3db2mwycydooqbanllkefwlya) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e7gbntp2tzobn7cfi37viei3/bafkreic7gnhdwj2tftoyobttpq5km34km3db2mwycydooqbanllkefwlya) ---
**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 9, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5227 "2026-05-09T00:44:58Z")
New series follows the Duffy’s what? Follows the Duffy’s waste of taxpayer money? Even the chyron writers at Fox News are stupid. And the Duffys are stupid with their Road Rules bullshit. [![](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-SywgaamM-4PzOnUMghPb1jQPEFRcRwy8b6XRWrpaxUYxAxctV9otsmDLGHF6MpvX5cYdfB3jRoL_VZILaXEufg?cn=THISLIFE&res=small&ts=1778287117116&ts=1778287061) ](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-SywgaamM-4PzOnUMghPb1jQPEFRcRwy8b6XRWrpaxUYxAxctV9otsmDLGHF6MpvX5cYdfB3jRoL_VZILaXEufg?cn=THISLIFE&res=small&ts=1778287117116&ts=1778287061) [Sean and Rachel Campos-Duffy launch ‘The Great American Road Trip’ | Fox News Video](https://www.foxnews.com/video/6394970597112) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5228 "2026-05-09T01:23:01Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Aliens: Take us to your leader. > > Us: Take our leader, please! So many years ago that I can’t Google up the image, a two-panel cartoon showed an alien saucer just landed, aliens walking down a ramp, humans reacting, with the caption for each panel “Save us!” The top panel is headed “1950”, the bottom “1980” I think, maybe “2000”. Top: People are fleeing the saucer. Bottom: People are rushing toward the saucer. Yeh, it worked a lot better as a visual joke. ---
**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 9, 2026, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5229 "2026-05-09T01:49:19Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Earthlings: Oh thank god, what took you so long? I am reminded of P.J. O’Rourke’s pocket review of _Independence Day_, Aliens destroy Washington, D.C. Then they get hostile. ---
**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 9, 2026, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5230 "2026-05-09T06:51:06Z")
[Son of a gun, he’s Sharpying the war!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/desperate-trump-rolls-inaccurate-chart-072738002.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump urged his followers to “study” a chart comparing the duration of his war on Iran to that of other conflicts involving the U.S. > > But Trump’s chart failed basic math by miscalculating the true length of the conflict with Iran. > > The 79-year-old went on another Truth Social posting spree on Wednesday night, including sharing clips from his favorite network Fox News [praising him](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116530338790021746) and [slamming](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116531055588403909) former President Barack Obama. > > Trump also posted [a chart](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116530958523656778), featuring his 45:47 presidential logo, titled “Length of Wars.” He wrote, “Wow. Study this Chart!” The chart says the vanity war is now in its sixth week. Any amateur horologists want to weigh in on why that’s incorrect? [The felon’s war on refugees claims another life.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/refugee-detained-ice-missed-vital-222429241.html) > [@](#): > > Oudone Lothirath was just a child when he arrived in the United States as a [Laotian refugee](https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/trump-ice-milwaukee-laos-ma-yang-deported-b2721619.html) in the early 1980s, in search of a better life. > > But some 45 years later, while he was supposed to be undergoing life-extending [chemotherapy for his terminal Hodgkin’s lymphoma,](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/cancer-cause-ageing-alcohol-smoking-hair-dye-b2870982.html) Lothirath found himself languishing in a federal immigration detention facility. > > His loved ones now say that missing [vital chemotherapy sessions in January](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/blood-test-brain-tumours-glioblastoma-b2938845.html) cut the 57-year-old’s life even shorter, and he is now on his deathbed, receiving hospice care. > > “He was responding quite well to the chemo,” Lothirath’s friend and care assistant, Christina Vilay, said. “He probably had another good year.” > > Vilay spoke to _The Independent_ in a phone interview Friday from [her home in Minneapolis,](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/more-no-kings-protests-targeting-041744734.html) Minnesota, where she and her husband are caring for Lothirath in his final days. Too sick to speak, Lothirath listened in on the call with Vilay at his bedside. > > In early January, Lothirath was caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration surge in Minnesota, where agents swamed his Minneapolis home the day before Renee Good was shot dead by an ICE officer, the _Minnesota Star Tribune_ first [reported](https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-detainment-harmed-immigrants-with-chronic-health-problems/601588583). He lived one block away from the street where ICU nurse Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents less than two weeks later. > > Despite being gravely ill, he was taken to a detention facility more than 1,300 miles away in El Paso, Texas, where he mostly slept on an uncomfortable bunk bed in a large tent with approximately 60 other detainees, until he was sent back to Minnesota, his family said. [You’ll just love Rip van Simple’s excuse for misnaming his own wife.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-autocorrect-kept-renaming-111459354.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump shared a humorous story at the White House about how autocorrect repeatedly changed Melania Trump’s name to “Melody,” leading to online ridicule and confusion. > > The president made the remarks during an event honoring military mothers ahead of Mother’s Day, where he drifted into a lighthearted explanation about his experiences posting on social media. > > Trump said the issue stemmed from the autocorrect and predictive text features on the devices he uses to post messages online. > > Speaking to the audience, Trump explained that every time he attempted to type Melania’s name into a post, the device would automatically replace it. > > “I love the name Melody because for a long time, you know, they have spell correct and word correct on these crazy machines that we use to put out truths or they used to be called tweets,” Trump said. Nah, the truth, if you will, is he’s a moron. [Secretary of War Crimes is out panhandling.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/pentagon-pete-debuts-bizarre-animated-221026314.html) > [@](#): > > Pete Hegseth has resorted to using cartoons in a bid to justify the Defense Department’s eye-watering budget proposal.The self-styled “secretary of war” made a two-minute, 35-second video plea for funding after lawmakers flamed the Trump administration’s bid to boost the Pentagon’s budget to $1.5 trillion for 2027, a staggering 50-percent increase from this year as the U.S. continues to wage war on Iran. No word if he posed for [this](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4tlQFRrHRejPXA5XatAXf6G-BKpQGh3LN6A&s) in person. [The war on the military and the war on the government have meshed yet again.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/demotion-case-against-sen-mark-132432312.html) > [@](#): > > The U.S. Department of Defense’s appeal against a court order blocking[U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly’s](https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/sen-mark-kelly-suing-secretary-hegseth-over-censure-arizona/75-e2343144-1379-47d8-b727-dd5a67fb7ea2) demotion will be reviewed Thursday in an appellate court. > > A panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals was scheduled to review a case between the Democratic senator from Arizona and Secretary Pete Hegseth that stems from Kelly’s statements made in a social media video. > > The Pentagon sought to punish the senator after Kelly appeared in a video with other Democrats that called upon service members to defy “illegal orders.” Hegseth then issued a censure letter, which could result in a demotion to Kelly’s rank. ---
**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 9, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5231 "2026-05-09T15:40:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > he Pentagon sought to punish the senator after Kelly appeared in a video with other Democrats that called upon service members to defy “illegal orders.” Hegseth then issued a censure letter, which could result in a demotion to Kelly’s rank. (from **Monty’s** link) Isn’t the obvious conclusion from this that Hegseth WANTS the service members to OBEY illegal orders? I would like the appeal judges to point this out. ---
**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 9, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5232 "2026-05-09T16:59:55Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Son of a gun, he’s Sharpying the war! _So let it be written. So let it be done._ [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcROUPT-z1-BpZSmZ6LL3kDwC1vRzbbUisyAmA&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcROUPT-z1-BpZSmZ6LL3kDwC1vRzbbUisyAmA&s) Why settle for king when you can be pharaoh? ---
**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 9, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5233 "2026-05-09T22:04:03Z")
Trump says people whp are overweight and eat fast food can’t be president, because irony is dead. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreif6gasrxprmn5bv4iu763ogzxlwnkbb4nfw4grf246bjah5l32ioy) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreif6gasrxprmn5bv4iu763ogzxlwnkbb4nfw4grf246bjah5l32ioy) Plus: whatever the hell this is. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreihzqokipru3knaiwxzobhqsfdbwgvjfytu5vc67rimb5folmqxmmi) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreihzqokipru3knaiwxzobhqsfdbwgvjfytu5vc67rimb5folmqxmmi) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5234 "2026-05-09T22:16:32Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Disclaimer: In case the FBI reads this, ‘Take our leader, please!’ means It can mean “take him with extreme prejudice”, because, as the MAGA are so fond of telling us, illegal aliens are not subject to the laws of this country. Therefore they cannot be prosecuted for crimes, only deported. So what you might be suggesting the aliens do is not illegal. ipso facto justo. ---
**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 9, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5235 "2026-05-09T22:36:53Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > Son of a gun, he’s Sharpying the war! > > _So let it be written. So let it be done._ I pointed that out way back in March 2020 in [The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41922): > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41922): > > He thinks he’s Pharaoh. Didn’t you see _The Ten Commandments_? “So shall it be written; so shall it be done!” ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5236 "2026-05-10T00:55:38Z")
He’s been busy posting some real deep shit! Nothing says presidential than his latest round of posts. [![](https://i.imgur.com/1VRNEdo.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/1VRNEdo.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/DDxAkGL.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/DDxAkGL.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/uEQzFca.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/uEQzFca.png) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5237 "2026-05-10T01:06:55Z")
Usually, with Trump, when he says something stupid, I can parse what he’s trying to say, or how he got to where he is in his ranting. I got nuthin’ on the butterflies, though. They’re not really known for falling. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5238 "2026-05-10T01:07:40Z")
And pollinators falling from the skies isn’t usually considered to be a good thing. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5239 "2026-05-10T01:20:22Z")
He must have gotten wind of those Iranian Lego videos. He’s trying, but on a level playing field he always performs outstandingly poorly. ---
**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 10, 2026, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5240 "2026-05-10T01:26:50Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > He’s trying Oh, he is certainly quite trying! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=261) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=263)