# 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:** 266
**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, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5301 "2026-05-12T05:55:26Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > 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. According to Anthony Scaramucci (remember him?), Trump’s entire family hates him. > ---
**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, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5302 "2026-05-12T09:44:31Z")
> [@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? Maybe if he’s working backwards alphabetically. (Next: Vanuatu!) ---
**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 12, 2026, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5303 "2026-05-12T11:15:49Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > and his family seems like they’d rather stay in the will than stand up to (for) him. Are you surprised? They’ve dealt with his bullshit every day of their lives, with the expectation that they’ll finally get paid when he finally kicks it. No way do they pull up now, just short of the finish line. ---
**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 12, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5304 "2026-05-12T11:19:51Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > 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. I don’t know how aware Americans are of Canadian travel news, but all of our Canadian air carriers have been scaling back flights to US destinations, while increasing flights elsewhere, like Europe, Mexico and Caribbean islands. There’s definitely a market for Canadians who still want to travel, but don’t want even a connecting flight in the US. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5305 "2026-05-12T11:22:28Z")
I’m sad about that, but don’t blame our Canadian friends one bit. One of the greatest, perhaps the greatest, alliances in history, destroyed by a maniac. Hopefully we can go back to being best buds one day. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5306 "2026-05-12T11:29:23Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > 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! That sounds reasonable. They’d be the _joint_ 51st state. The next country to join will be the 54th state. Unless more than one join together in which case they will be joint 54th etc. That’s how it usually works ! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5307 "2026-05-12T12:51:04Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > I’m sad about that, but don’t blame our Canadian friends one bit. > > One of the greatest, perhaps the greatest, alliances in history, destroyed by a maniac. Hopefully we can go back to being best buds one day. Nor do I blame them. One ‘man’ destroyed all of these allegiances. One pitiful stupid man that congress won’t stop, what in the hell are they afraid of? They would be heroes if they put an end to this and impeach him. He was never fit to ‘govern’, now he’s sacking the USA and the world. Basically destroying things and picking up a few pieces to put in his pocket. ---
**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, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5308 "2026-05-12T12:53:13Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > One pitiful stupid man that congress won’t stop, what in the hell are they afraid of? Not getting reelected. ---
**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, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5309 "2026-05-12T13:09:51Z")
The standard argument (“If I’m not reelected, the public won’t see the benefit of all the wonderful things I have in mind”) falls flat given the amount of sheer insanity the GQP in Congress has rolled over and played dead for. Were I Canadian\*, I wouldn’t trust the US as far as I could drop-kick it without legislative and judicial safeguards instituting the traditional norms and practices which kept the country on a more-or-less even keel, and which Napoleon Bone-aspurs has shredded with such glee. And since the forces of darkness teems with experts in finding microscopic loopholes to justify their assholery, I’m not sure that’s possible. \* And I kind of am, courtesy of my Quebecois _grand-mère_. But that’s beside the point. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5310 "2026-05-12T13:15:23Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Not getting reelected. Yes, I know. But it’s difficult to realize they don’t have any scruples or backbone. What a cowardly bunch they are. They are twiddling their thumbs while Trump destroys the USA. And now the GOP wants voting records. They are gonna come after all of us. Trump created his ICE Gestapo. MAGAs are his brown shirts. What’s most aggravating is that Trump is a monkey with a machine gun. Well, he’s not that smart. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5311 "2026-05-12T13:35:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “We’ve taken people that were dead, and started them on this drug. And the person became better.” I’m so glad that we have an option to share posts to Facebook. > [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Are people denying that Trump is having cognitive issues? Do they just not address it? My pet MAGA cultist denies it, or she just reacts (on FB) with a laughing emoji. ---
**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 12, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5312 "2026-05-12T13:36:35Z")
“We’ve taken people that were turned into newts, and started them on this drug. And the person got better.” ---
**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 12, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5313 "2026-05-12T13:37:36Z")
So, just more Democratic witch hunts, then? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5314 "2026-05-12T13:42:13Z")
Don’t worry, Trump’s government is tackling one of the biggest issues facing the USA: people being “under-babied.” What does that mean? > **[Dr. Oz Tells the Country It’s Not Procreating Enough: ‘Americans Are...](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dr-oz-tells-country-not-030359060.html)** > > Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, said the U.S. is experiencing a fertility crisis because "one in three Americans are under-babied." ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5315 "2026-05-12T13:45:40Z")
Isn’t that the Musk thing? The right (white) sort of people are at risk of being overrun by all the wrong (dark) sort of people outbreeding them and need to do their part. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5316 "2026-05-12T13:50:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “We’ve taken people that were dead, and started them on this drug. And the person became better.” So now he’s taking advice from RFKjr. They are competing to see who can be the dumbest person on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5317 "2026-05-12T14:45:14Z")
Trump admin forces out High Representative to Bosnia-Hercegovina (a post under the 1995 Dayton Accord) over his opposing Serbian separatism in B-H German: > **[Bosnien-Beauftragter Schmidt kündigt Rücktritt an](https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/balkan-bosnien-beauftragter-schmidt-kuendigt-ruecktritt-an-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-260511-930-63708)** Google Translate: > **[Bosnien-Beauftragter Schmidt kündigt Rücktritt an](https://www-sueddeutsche-de.translate.goog/politik/balkan-bosnien-beauftragter-schmidt-kuendigt-ruecktritt-an-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-260511-930-63708?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp)** > … Washington’s rapprochement with the Bosnian Serb separatist could be linked to his support for pipeline and gas-fired power plant projects being pushed by businesspeople close to Trump. The “FAZ am Sonntag” also reported this. According to unconfirmed information from the Bosnian news portal “istraga.ba,” the Americans even threatened to place Schmidt on their sanctions list if he did not resign. Good prep for B-H blowing up again. ---
**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, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5318 "2026-05-12T15:26:00Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > our Canadian air carriers have been scaling back flights to US destinations, This is why I have a chuckle when some moop declares “I was on a flight from Toronto to Miami and it was full, so this news about a travel boycot is FAKE!” Ya buddy. You were on the ONE full flight per day, when there used to be four. Idiot. ---
**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, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5319 "2026-05-12T15:32:23Z")
I saw yesterday (honestly I don’t know if it was here, but it really made me laugh), RFK claimed that teenage boys have half the sperm count that men in the 70s had. > **[Threads • Log in](https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DYNHvshiX4c?xmt=AQG0SLIz3ySTg8b-na3pNX5yr1e4z_WxhpycQS-SaJy1p-sFw7QGR4xTTUvqI2t-XCdotZBz&slof=1)** > > Join Threads to share ideas, ask questions, post random thoughts, find your people and more. Log in with your Instagram. Now, how in the fuck would this roadkill-eating cokehead know what teenage boys’ sperm counts are? Seriously, this man is what happens if you bury a three-day-old roller hotdog in the Pet Semetary, but somehow he knows teenage boys today are shooting blanks? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5320 "2026-05-12T15:36:54Z")
That whole crew really is just plain weird. A grown man, much less a cabinet official, shouldn’t have so much interest in children’s semen. Yet here we are [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=265) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=267)