# 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:** 265
**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 12, 2026, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5281 "2026-05-12T00:20:29Z")
“What a job our military is doing with respect to drugs coming in by sea. Meaning, drugs coming in by water. A lot of people know what I mean by ‘sea.’ They think I’m taking about vision.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mlmimyiixz2m)** > > Trump: "What a job our military is doing with respect to drugs coming in by sea. Meaning, drugs coming in by water. A lot of people know what I mean by 'sea.' They think I'm taking about vision." “I’m going to join you for dinner. I’ll set aside the Iranians for an evening.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mlmis6u3c226)** > > Trump: "I'm going to join you for dinner. I'll set aside the Iranians for an evening." ---
**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 12, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5282 "2026-05-12T00:55:36Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Since Americans pay the tariffs, is that how he views us? As marks? You know the answer, of course. > [@Smapti](#): > > What a job our military is doing with respect to drugs coming in by sea. Meaning, drugs coming in by water. A lot of people know what I mean by ‘sea.’ They think I’m taking about vision.” It’ll be great when he finds out the Vatican is called the Holy See. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5283 "2026-05-12T00:56:14Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Numbnuts is now proposing a suspension of federal gas taxes. You know what I would do if I were an American capitalist who owned a gas station? I’d keep gas prices exactly the same (or even raise them!) and then I’d pocket the difference. While doing so I’d blame Biden or wokeness or et cetera. ---
**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 12, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5284 "2026-05-12T00:58:18Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Numbnuts is now proposing a suspension of federal gas taxes. Isn’t that illegal? (Yeah, I know.) ---
**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 12, 2026, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5285 "2026-05-12T01:00:30Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Unless they’re now going to claim that because Donald is so superior a being, his blinks last five or six minutes apiece… He was in the middle of a blink and lost interest. ---
**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 12, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5286 "2026-05-12T01:01:46Z")
Oh, I buy their story. After all, he’s a blinking idiot. ---
**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 12, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5287 "2026-05-12T01:08:17Z")
The White House answer for everything: “National Security”, an emergency, dontchaknow 🙄 ---
**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 12, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5288 "2026-05-12T01:41:08Z")
Survey: 43% of Americans Don’t Have Savings to Pay for a $1,000 Emergency [Survey: 43% of Americans Don’t Have Savings to Pay for a $1,000 Emergency | Banking Advice | U.S. News](https://www.usnews.com/banking/articles/2026-financial-wellness-survey) ---
**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 12, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5289 "2026-05-12T02:18:40Z")
… and think Trump is a genius and can’t wait to send him some of their money and vote for him again next time when that part is figured out. ---
**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 12, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5290 "2026-05-12T02:35:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > It’ll be great when he finds out the Vatican is called the Holy See. 🤔 He’ll probably think it’s Holy **Sea** , and that it means salt water that’s been blessed by the Pope. ---
**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 12, 2026, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5291 "2026-05-12T02:43:52Z")
Ballad of Pistol Pete Kegsbreath. Project Pete’s latest banger…“Don’t Save Ore” Pete on TV with a mission and a grin, Talkin’ ‘bout uranium like he gonna reel it in, Map upside down, sharpie circles on the screen, Sayin’ “Boys, pack it up, this’ll be clean.” Fox panel clappin’, everybody nodding hard, Meanwhile the Pentagon staff pullin’ extra guard, One dude whisper, “Sir… respectfully… no,” Pete already orderin’ camo for the glow. Don’t save ore… it don’t wanna be saved, Flyin’ through the desert like a drunk parade, Don’t save ore… it don’t wanna be found, Half the damn convoy lost and circlin’ around. Don’t save ore… it don’t wanna be touched, Trump on Truth Social yellin’ WAY TOO MUCH, Don’t save ore… just leave it where it lay, Before somebody turns Nevada into Tehran Bay. Trump called Pete like, “Make me look strong,” Five minutes later everything already wrong, One guy brought a magnet, another brought tongs, One marine askin’ why the playlist all Kid Rock songs. ---
**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 12, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5292 "2026-05-12T02:59:40Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He’ll probably think it’s Holy **Sea** , and that it means salt water that’s been blessed by the Pope. Or he’ll order a missile strike on St Peter’s on the suspicion that it’s running drugs (other than sacramental wine). ---
**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 12, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5293 "2026-05-12T03:14:40Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Numbnuts is now proposing a suspension of federal gas taxes. Federal taxes on gasoline are 18.4¢ per gallon. So, instead of $4.60 per gallon the price would be $4.42. A real game changer. ---
**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 12, 2026, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5294 "2026-05-12T03:32:18Z")
Trump is now retweeting (checks notes) Tiktok videos about rude people in restaurants. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mlmspmflk22t)** > > Why is the president sharing these videos on social media? (1/2) > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mlmsqywbf22t)** > > (2/2) It’s a shame he doesn’t have any family who love him enough to get him the help he needs. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5295 "2026-05-12T04:04:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump is now retweeting (checks notes) Tiktok videos about rude people in restaurants. Well duh, they are cherry-picked viral videos showing some Black individuals behaving impolitely and/or irresponsibly. That’s the basic worldview-reinforcement that Trump and so many MAGA Republicans are desperately craving in these days of chaos and uncertainty. ---
**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 12, 2026, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5296 "2026-05-12T04:27:35Z")
Sometimes I’m reminded of Logan Roy’s piss madness in _Succession_ when I witness the insanity coming out of the White House these days. At least Logan’s kids gave a shit about his well-being. Trump’s just out there just dropping his fucking marbles in front of the whole world and his family seems like they’d rather stay in the will than stand up to (for) him. ---
**Author:** ![billy-jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@billy-jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billy-jack)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5297 "2026-05-12T04:47:41Z")
I think that if anyone gets the money back, it will be the companies who already passed the tariffs, at least for the most part, on to the consumers. We will never see a penny of our money coming back. ---
**Author:** ![billy-jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@billy-jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billy-jack)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5298 "2026-05-12T04:52:19Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Or he’ll order a missile strike on St Peter’s on the suspicion that it’s running drugs (other than sacramental wine). It’s being reported that he wants to make Venezuela the 51st state. (I wonder what he’d say about Venezuelans having the legal right to move into the other 50 states at will if that were to happen.) Could the Vatican be the 52nd state? ---
**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 12, 2026, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5299 "2026-05-12T05:08:50Z")
> [@billy-jack](#): > > It’s being reported that he wants to make Venezuela the 51st state. (I wonder what he’d say about Venezuelans having the legal right to move into the other 50 states at will if that were to happen.) > > Could the Vatican be the 52nd state? You don’t math the way the stable genius maths. Canada, Venezuela, _and_ Vatican City will _all_ be the 51st state. I don’t mean they’ll be a combined state, but rather each one of them will be the 51st state, all at the same time! [The war criminal against the military hero saga continues.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/panicked-pentagon-pete-picks-fight-082239621.html) > [@](#): > > An increasingly desperate Pete Hegseth threatened fresh legal action against a Democratic senator for his criticism of Donald Trump’s war on Iran. > > The defense secretary’s campaign against Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona was dealt a blow on Thursday, when a federal appeals court [signaled](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-pete-revenge-plot-hit-130739027.html) that it would not support his effort to punish Kelly over a [video](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stephen-miller-melts-down-dems-111306232.html) in which he and other lawmakers told servicemembers they could refuse illegal orders. > > In February, another court [blocked](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/war-hero-skewers-pentagon-pete-105944103.html) his attempt to censure and demote the 62-year-old senator, who flew 39 combat missions over Iraq during the Gulf War before serving as a NASA astronaut. > > Determined to defeat Kelly by any means necessary, Hegseth issued a new threat on X on Sunday evening in response to comments Kelly made on CBS News’ [_Face the Nation_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZrGCk8fTFw). > > Speaking to host Margaret Brennan, Kelly said that it was “shocking how deep we have gone” into U.S. weapons stockpiles during Trump’s war on Iran. > > “Because this president got our country into this without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline… because of that, we’ve expended a lot of munitions. And that means the American people are less safe,” Kelly said. > > Responding to a post from Brennan on X about Kelly’s claim, Hegseth [wrote](https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/2053614979899601214), “‘Captain’ Mark Kelly strikes again. Now he’s blabbing on TV (falsely & dumbly) about a _CLASSIFIED_ Pentagon briefing he received. Did he violate his oath…again?” He ended his post with a note that the Pentagon’s legal counsel will review whether or not Kelly violated his oath. [The war criminal’s acting like the senator did something terrible like revealing the location of a nuclear submraine.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-reveals-location-nuclear-armed-171703119.html) > [@](#): > > The Pentagon revealed the location of a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed submarine in a rare move a day after President Trump rejected the latest peace proposal from Iran. > > The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine arrived in Gibraltar, a British territory on Spain’s south coast, on Sunday, the U.S. Sixth Fleet said on Monday. > > “The port visit demonstrates U.S. capability, flexibility and continuing commitment to its NATO allies,” the Sixth Fleet [said](https://www.c6f.navy.mil/Press-Room/News/Article/4482914/a-us-navy-ballistic-missile-submarine-arrived-in-gibraltar-may-10-2026/) in a press release. “Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines are undetectable launch platforms for submarine-launched ballistic missiles, providing the U.S. with its most survivable leg of the nuclear triad.” > > The Pentagon did not disclose the name of the submarine, one of the U.S. military’s most secretive weapons. In general, the locations of the U.S. nuclear-armed submarines are highly classified. [Canadian numbers down by 42%](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/staggering-drop-canadian-visitors-u-162757680.html) > [@](#): > > Visits by Canadians to major U.S. cities have crashed by a staggering 42 percent during President Donald Trump’s second term, new research has found. > > The eye-watering slump in cross-border travel comes amid mounting fury north of the 49th parallel at Trump, 79, who has slapped tariffs on Canadian-made goods, ramped up immigration enforcement, and repeatedly threatened to swallow Canada as America’s “51st state.” > > U.S. border towns whose cash registers depend on Canadian visitors have been left reeling as families and business travelers shun the trip south, [The Guardian reports](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/canadians-visiting-us). > > The 42 percent figure—uncovered by a University of Toronto research tool that tracks cellphone activity—dwarfs the roughly 25 percent drop captured by official border-crossing data, the newspaper said. The researchers said they had been struck by “the marked decline in visits to large metropolitan economies.” > > It is not just the obvious tourist traps that are feeling the pinch. The team flagged sharp declines in New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont, as well as in marquee destinations like Las Vegas and Walt Disney World. [42](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton) is the answer to everything, isn’t it? ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5300 "2026-05-12T05:21:02Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [The war criminal against the military hero saga continues.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/panicked-pentagon-pete-picks-fight-082239621.html) Later in that article is the money quote: Kelly’s response. > [@](#): > > Kelly was quick to respond, sharing a video of an interaction he had with Hegseth during the Pentagon chief’s [appearance](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-pete-hearing-descends-chaos-043609631.html) in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month. > > “We had this conversation in a public hearing a week ago and you said it would take “years” to replenish some of these stockpiles,” Kelly [wrote](https://x.com/SenMarkKelly/status/2053652824760742133). > > “That’s not classified, it’s a quote from you. This war is coming at a serious cost and you and the president still haven’t explained to the American people what the goal is.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=264) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=266)