# 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:** 281
**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 23, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5601 "2026-05-23T12:27:02Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > _Lays in his grave_? Oh, please. We’re discussing the convicted felon-in-chief. The proper expression, therefore, must be _lies in his grave_. Hell, he lies in his grave, out of his grave, and anywhere else he happens to be! 😎 ---
**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 23, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5602 "2026-05-23T13:21:30Z")
There are times I have to remind myself that however flawed other administrations have been, none behaved like mean middle schoolers. We live in weird, awful times. ---
**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 23, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5603 "2026-05-23T14:00:39Z")
I like to point out that they called the sport “Golf” because “Mierda” was already taken. ---
**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 23, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5604 "2026-05-23T14:39:11Z")
How many ways can the Trump phone fail to succeed? > **[Trump Mobile investigating potential exposure of would-be customers’ personal...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/23/trump-mobile-investigating-potential-exposure-of-would-be-customers-personal-information?CMP=share_btn_url)** > > Phone company launched by Donald Trump’s family says names and contact details appear to be affected, but not credit card or banking information ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5605 "2026-05-23T15:42:03Z")
At first I was surprised that they were doing the due diligence of informing customers and investigating it. rather than just sweeping it under the carpet. Then I read… > An Australian programmer – who has been working in IT for nearly 20 years and asked not to be identified out of fear of being the target of personal attacks – told the Guardian they had incidentally discovered the site’s possible security flaws and reported them to Trump Mobile. So they only did it because the cat was already out of the bag. Which reassures me that the world has not turned upside down and all other Trumps ventures remain purely untainted by even the hint of a scruple. ---
**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 23, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5606 "2026-05-23T16:58:13Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > all other Trumps ventures remain purely untainted by even the hint of a scruple They are nothing if not consistent. 😡 ---
**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 23, 2026, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5607 "2026-05-23T19:11:40Z")
These must be the “circumstances relating to government” that Trump had to miss his son’s wedding for. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreifsassdcf5dhivcpicgnsyfi2aflth7l3jv2zviwcrunbc5rxbhby) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreifsassdcf5dhivcpicgnsyfi2aflth7l3jv2zviwcrunbc5rxbhby) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreia3f3qz5jbv5jabutnzgrezwzkec6iu6qmpmc7glz77cb5nq3lcpu) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreia3f3qz5jbv5jabutnzgrezwzkec6iu6qmpmc7glz77cb5nq3lcpu) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5608 "2026-05-23T19:27:48Z")
“The Huckster” was the disparaging nickname the WWF gave him after he left for WCW. Also the name of a satirical character, along with the Nacho Man and Scheme Gene. ---
**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 23, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5609 "2026-05-23T19:50:55Z")
OK, someone explain that map to me, please, like I was a dumb foreigner (I am, incidentally). Does the US flag over Iran mean Iran has won, and does now own the flag? Do you have to pay royalties to the mullahs from now on to use your flag? Or does it mean the USA has won, and will impose the flag on Iran, whether they like it or not? Is Iran now the 50-somethingst state of the USA, after Greenland, Venezuela, and Canada? Is that the reason there are suddenly four red stripes below the blue square with the stars? Why do some countries on the map have names but others do not? Or in plain, simple English: What the everloving fuck is this all supposed to mean? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5610 "2026-05-23T19:51:17Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > I don’t know what will. In semi arid regions of Spain golf is consuming so much water that other food and feed crops suffer regularly, and sometimes even people. I mention Spain because I know it best, but it is the same all over the world. Fuck **[golf](https://schumanchu.eu/html/l/l_00002elgolfo.html)**. And to add insult to injury, here in Florida we have so many _former_ golf courses that you can sometimes spot them from randomly looking at Google satellite view, yet there is still a desire to build new courses. I think it is because golf technology has increased drive distance so the old courses are no longer challenging enough and indeed may put the surrounding houses at increased danger from longer yet still erratic drives from new players. And the governor had a wacky plan last year to put new golf courses in _State parks_ of all places. It wouldn’t be so bad on the environment if they just kept the old courses open. The one upside is that they are turning some of the old courses into parks themselves. (The bad side of that is that golf course looking parks are my least favorite type of park scenery, only beating out parks that are only used for sports. I guess golf course style parks would be ideal for a family picnic on the grass in front of a pond.) ---
**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 23, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5611 "2026-05-23T20:04:13Z")
This is just my opinion, but I believe that map is trump’s wet dream about the USA taking over other countries. Like Greenland, like Cuba, like Canada. Reminiscent of when “the sun never set on the British empire.” He wants to be able to say the sun never sets on where the American flag demonstrates our sovereignty. Except he doesn’t know the word _sovereignty_, because it’s more than one syllable. As far as the stripes and stars and colors, he can’t count and he’s probably color blind, and has no idea what an authentic American flag looks like so those are just petty details. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5612 "2026-05-23T20:34:12Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > hint of a scruple Band Name! ---
**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 23, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5613 "2026-05-23T21:58:48Z")
DEMENTO Don wants to have a remembrance of him in all these places. I agree and would love to see one of his arms here, a leg in this country, some organs interred in that country, butt cheek buried there, … ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5614 "2026-05-23T22:01:25Z")
Sir, here is a pencil and paper. Yes, sir, erasing is allowed. Your task is to draw a clock-face, with the numbers 1 through 12 placed correctly, sir. Once you are content with your clock-face, sir, please draw in what it would look like if the time was four-forty, sir. You have fifteen minutes. To assist you, keep in mind the minute hand is longer than the hour hand. - one part of the Montreal Cognitive Test, which he claims to have “aced” at least four times. He phones in to the Stern Show, and I assume Stern didn’t go on to ask what the answer is. Yet doing math in your head is part of no cognitive test that I know of. I just want to see him draw a clock. Not sure who could convince him of the challenge. I’m sure he goes to his Doctor, and says, “I aced this test. Repeat that back to me.” And the doctor quacks back, “You aced this test.” ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5615 "2026-05-23T22:37:18Z")
[The Department of Justice has officially scrubbed its public website of all historical news releases documenting the criminal prosecution of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-doj-scrubs-jan-6-prosecution-records-from-federal-website-in-latest-reversal/ar-AA23ToNQ) > We are proud to reverse the DOJ’s weaponization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5616 "2026-05-23T22:38:52Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > The one upside is that they are turning some of the old courses into parks themselves. (The bad side of that is that golf course looking parks are my least favorite type of park scenery, only beating out parks that are only used for sports. I guess golf course style parks would be ideal for a family picnic on the grass in front of a pond.) Maybe turn the old golf cart path into a walking/jogging/bicycling path. ---
**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 24, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5617 "2026-05-24T00:04:43Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > It wouldn’t be so bad on the environment if they just kept the old courses open. Except that after the environmental damage caused by constructing the courses in the first place, the maintenance of them to keep them open is an ongoing and horrible disaster for the environment. > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Is Iran now the 50-somethingst state of the USA, after Greenland, Venezuela, and Canada? Is that the reason there are suddenly four red stripes below the blue square with the stars? Evidently Rip van Simple can only count to 51. Iran is yet another 51st state. And regarding the stripes, I’m more interested in why there’s an extra white stripe at the bottom. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > As far as the stripes and stars and colors, he can’t count and he’s probably color blind, and has no idea what an authentic American flag looks like so those are just petty details. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with being colorblind! But you know the felon isn’t because he’s first and foremost a racist. But of course he doesn’t know what it looks like, just like he doesn’t know what anything or anyone else he’s raped looks like. First the felon gave us _cofefve_. Now secretary of war crimes Hegseth has demonstrated a brand-new concept: [_clusterfuckup_](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-tears-hegseth-targeting-wrong-192111961.html). > [@](#): > > Pete Hegseth apparently created a huge mess for Donald Trump in his rush to keep the 79-year-old president happy. > > Insiders have revealed that the defense secretary’s abrupt maneuver to cancel the deployment of U.S. troops to Poland triggered an angry phone call from Trump, who was forced to explain that Poland was not one of the European allies that had earned his wrath. > > Hegseth, 45, blindsided officials on both sides of the Atlantic last week when he canceled the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland at the eleventh hour. The decision stirred confusion within the Pentagon and quickly sparked a firestorm of criticism from American lawmakers and European allies. > > Even the president was stumped by the move, a current and a former U.S. official told [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-says-poland-will-get-an-extra-5-000-u-s-troops-d71d6d6e?st=mQvt31). > > Trump phoned Hegseth to demand an explanation for his decision to cancel the troop deployment, according to the outlet. During the conversation, Trump also told Hegseth that the U.S. shouldn’t treat Poland poorly, given its close ties to the White House. & (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > **But Hegseth’s decision was a headscratcher for some officials because it was Germany—not Poland—that had criticized Trump’s war, the Journal reports.** > > Last month, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz drew Trump’s ire when he said “the Iranians are clearly stronger than expected, and the Americans clearly have no truly convincing strategy in the negotiations either,” adding that “a whole nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership.” [A Republican representative called the felon’s slush fund what it is: reparations for the felon’s supporters.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/republican-gives-away-game-settlement-212112822.html) > [@](#): > > “Reparations” is the term that Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., used on Friday to describe the taxpayer-backed settlement fund of more than $1.7 billion that President Donald Trump wants to use to pay people he and his allies perversely claim have been wronged by the federal government. > > The administration has [refused to preclude](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/trump-doj-irs-fund-blanche-payouts-jan-6-rioters.html) Jan. 6 rioters and other extremists who stormed the Capitol in 2021 from potentially qualifying for money from the fund. That means, thanks to Trump, people who waged a deadly and [fundamentally racist effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss](https://www.allrisenews.com/p/big-lie-racist-trump-obama) could end up raking in piles of tax dollars. Meanwhile, his war against Iran [has devastated the U.S. economy and Americans’ wallets](https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-peanuts-economy-iran-war) with it. A bunch of right-wing activists [already have their hands out](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://abcnews.com/US/trump-allies-jan-6-defendants-lining-apply-17/story%3Fid%3D133202234&ved=2ahUKEwjVkZ-_zc2UAxUI3PACHTLTIHkQFnoECB0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2Uieyx1VFkA7LPVyQ8vWMV). > > Even some members of the typically obsequious Republican Party [seem unnerved by the prospect of the fund](https://www.ms.now/news/republicans-revolt-trump-1-8-billion-compensation-fund-delay-reconciliation). > > But not Meuser, who told pro-Trump outlet Newsmax that the fund is about “reparations” for people supposedly wronged under former President Joe Biden’s administration. > > The phrasing lends credence to the perception that Trump’s taxpayer-backed fund of more than $1 billion for people purportedly wronged by the government is actually just a Trojan horse to funnel [“reparations” to white criminals](https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/january-6-slush-fund/). Mind you, he thinks it’s a good thing. [Department of Just Believe What I Tell You is erasing the insurrection.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us--justice-department-jan-6-125533895.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the [Jan. 6, 2021, riot](https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/), calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.” > > The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically rewrite the history of the assault on the Capitol, when hundreds of supporters of Republican President Donald Trump stormed the building in an effort to halt the congressional certification of his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. > > [Trump, on his first day back in office in January 2025](https://apnews.com/article/capitol-jan-6-pardons-trump-justice-department-8ce8b2a8f8cb602d5eaf85ac7b969606), pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes during the Capitol assault, including those convicted of attacking officers with makeshift weapons such as flagpoles, a hockey stick and crutch. > > On Monday, [the Justice Department announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund](https://apnews.com/article/trump-doj-fund-irs-trump-family-lawsuit-c9aaa94c59988508c253d7200043cecc) meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted. [Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche](https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-blanche-fbi-89a2334ef3ca9ac1398975d6a3528bff) has not ruled out that rioters convicted of violence will be eligible for payouts, prompting bipartisan anger in Congress. > > After a journalist on Friday observed on the social media platform X that the Justice Department was “quietly” removing news releases on its website that were related to the Jan. 6 attack, including about a Texas man who pleaded guilty to assault and also faced separate state charges of soliciting a minor, the department responded through its “rapid response” account that there was “nothing ‘quiet’ about it.” ---
**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 24, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5618 "2026-05-24T00:29:53Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > He phones in to the Stern Show Huh. I looked him up, and he’s still alive. Haven’t heard anything about him for years. ---
**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 24, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5619 "2026-05-24T00:56:36Z")
Shot and chaser. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lr6iksszhlvlvp6ci7cy5frb/bafkreig5vrhxs4xz5eknozuxcvy5ct3ntmvbkypdqghbdftmj7ri6lp7wu) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lr6iksszhlvlvp6ci7cy5frb/bafkreig5vrhxs4xz5eknozuxcvy5ct3ntmvbkypdqghbdftmj7ri6lp7wu) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5620 "2026-05-24T00:59:46Z")
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