# 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:** 289
**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 28, 2026, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5761 "2026-05-28T14:40:29Z")
Whenever I check the reply count on this thread and there are more than 10 replies in close succession, I know that means a hijack is underway. It’s okay, we have to expend our pent-up energies someplace, amirite? Sigh. ---
**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 28, 2026, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5762 "2026-05-28T14:52:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > that means a hijack is underway. How do you hijack a clusterfuck? It being pointless and chaotic is kind of the point 😃 ---
**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 28, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5763 "2026-05-28T14:53:35Z")
The bi-and-a-half-centennial concert should have music from every American or american-adjacent genre. If I were President! it would be three days, like Woodstock, and have everyone from Stephen Foster songs, though bluegrass, Gershwin, Copeland, Jazz, blues, rock, hip hop, disco, rap, show tunes, modern pop, metal, new wave. Hell, even Kpop. It would be in the center of the country, not DC, so more people would have a chance to go. And it would be FREE! And televised! Hi def and stereophonic sound. It would have a mall of Americana and history. Food of all ethnicities! A car show, and a major league baseball game on the grounds (unfortunately it would have to be the Yankees, and probably the Dodgers, but hey, I can skip it). That’s how you celebrate America! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5764 "2026-05-28T15:13:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > People where I lived painted the barrels of fire hydrants in red and white stripes, and the tops blue with white stars. I was pretty young for the bicentennial, but I remember these fire hydrants, and the general excitement. I made myself a vow that I would live to see the tricentennial, because I so badly wanted to experience that again. At the time, I didn’t give a thought to 250. We should have been hearing about preparations last year. This summer should be something the entire country was looking forward to. It’s only a birthday, and a somewhat arbitrary one at that, but it’s a real missed opportunity at a time when it’s sorely needed, even more than after Vietnam. ---
**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 28, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5765 "2026-05-28T15:27:43Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > That’s how you celebrate America! AND! I want a flyover. but not military hardware. You get that all the time. No, I want a 787, a 747, an L1011, a 707, a DC-3, Ford tri-motor, a Piper Cub, a V-tail Bonanza, a VariEze, though they don’t all have to fly over on the same day. The Cub would have a hard time staying in formation with the 747. Let’s celebrate the every man aspect of flying. Not the killing things aspect. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5766 "2026-05-28T15:30:06Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > How do you hijack a clusterfuck? _Un_cluster it into a _widely distributed_ fuck. Spread out the damage. ---
**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 28, 2026, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5767 "2026-05-28T15:34:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I remember a year of excitement as the Bicentennial approached. There were news segments (I think even on the kids’ new show, _In The News_) and articles on the upcoming celebrations. I remember a gathering of tall ships from around the world. The Freedom Train toured the United States, displaying American artefacts. (Somewhere, I have a penny that was run over by it.) People where I lived painted the barrels of fire hydrants in red and white stripes, and the tops blue with white stars. So soon after the Vietnam war, it was something that helped bring the country together. I completely agree. I was 11 in 1976, and the year-plus lead-up to the Bicentennial was exciting and so cool. I got to see the [American Freedom Train](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Freedom_Train_(1975%E2%80%931976)), I religiously watched the _[Bicentennial Minutes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicentennial_Minutes)_ segments on CBS every evening, and it seemed like there was patriotic tchotchkes and promotions everywhere. It definitely felt, at least to a kid, like it was something that Americans were all getting behind. 50 years later, 250 feels like an afterthought, for a country that has other things on its mind. ---
**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 28, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5768 "2026-05-28T15:39:34Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > [@Odesio](#): > > > > Young MC? Goddamn it! I love Bust-a-Move! I’m so disappointed. > > He posted this on FB about an hour ago > [@Horatius](#): > > Someone will have to tell him, that’s not how dictatorships work. Performing in the Capital City without explicitly kissing Trump’s ass is _automatically_ politically charged, because that’s the environment in which we’re all now living. This is apparently a common thing. Many events and shows will not use their actual name and use some sort of shell company to book guests and entertainers. Like “Freedom Day Events” or some other generic sounding outfit will call up agents and say they want to book a celebrity and avoid mentioning ‘unimportant’ things like it’s for some guy whose guts you hate. So some act will show up at an event they never would have approved of otherwise, and it’s a massive hassle to filter those out and figure out what the event actually is. Upstanding organizers or at least ones that don’t want to get publicly embarrassed don’t try to pull that crap. But “upstanding” has never described Trump or any of his toadies. There’s no guarantee this is what happened in this case, but it sure sounds like it is. It often works for small private parties or events but doesn’t scale up to massive public events at all. Total amateur hour BS. ---
**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 28, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5769 "2026-05-28T15:54:10Z")
There was a college girl in a nearby town who celebrated the bicentennial by having sex with 200 different males of college age and older She’s about 70 now. I doubt she tries that again. ---
**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 28, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5770 "2026-05-28T15:55:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [The felon’s war on foreigners has cost the US over $8 _ **billion** _.](https://travel.yahoo.com/news/articles/tourists-boycott-u-record-rates-154737034.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > Aside from the collapse in travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, it represents the sharpest annual drop in international tourism in roughly 20 years. Yes, roughly 20 years, i.e. the Great Recession. So, economic performance on the level of global economic crises ---
**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 28, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5771 "2026-05-28T16:53:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m curious as to how Milli Vanilli are supposed to perform, given that they didn’t sing their own songs in the first place and one of them is dead. They’re a total fraud and half dead-- a perfect act to perform for trump. ---
**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 28, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5772 "2026-05-28T17:28:51Z")
> [@billy-jack](#): > > She’s about 70 now. I doubt she tries that again. Don’t be ageist. ---
**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 28, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5773 "2026-05-28T17:30:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Americans should be proud of 250 years of the United States. I used to feel like that. Fuck us, what’s so great about us? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5774 "2026-05-28T17:59:54Z")
I assumed that poster with acts was a joke. I guess I’m kinda half right. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5775 "2026-05-28T18:10:40Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The bi-and-a-half-centennial concert should have music from every American or american-adjacent genre. If I were President! it would be three days, like Woodstock, and have everyone from Stephen Foster songs, though bluegrass, Gershwin, Copeland, Jazz, blues, rock, hip hop, disco, rap, show tunes, modern pop, metal, new wave. Hell, even Kpop. It would be in the center of the country, not DC, so more people would have a chance to go. And it would be FREE! And televised! Hi def and stereophonic sound. And if the Democratic Party is not working the phones frantically to put something like that together, the entire bureaucracy there should be cashiered. IMHO of course. YMMV. Press on. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5776 "2026-05-28T19:05:06Z")
Let’s celebrate what made America great. A series of televised Central Park concerts to raise money for the A.C.L.U. and other immigrant’s rights groups. Springsteen, Beyonce, Olivia Rodrigo, Billy Joel, Rihanna, Pharrell Williams, Bad Bunny, Madonna, Neil Young, Green Day and many more. Oh yeah, also a one-time R.E.M. reunion. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5777 "2026-05-28T19:12:07Z")
Now Donald Trump wants to mint a new $250 bill featuring none other than his own ugly mug. Apparently, the sole purpose of republicans in office is to one up each other on satisfying Trump’s ego. The ultimate snowflake. [Trump officials preparing for $250 note featuring Trump’s face](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypeyx6nemo) ---
**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 28, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5778 "2026-05-28T19:17:48Z")
Milli Vanilli is out. > **[Milli Vanilli and Morris Day say they won't perform at Trump-linked Freedom...](https://apnews.com/article/freedom-250-milli-vanilli-young-mc-bb9c58cb68d3af91cd8aeb5c5c5d26a1)** > > Milli Vanilli and Morris Day have announced they will not perform at “The Great American State Fair” in Washington's National Mall. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5779 "2026-05-28T19:36:58Z")
I just saw a funny quote. This list of bands is veritable who’s who of who? ---
**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 28, 2026, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5780 "2026-05-28T19:45:35Z")
And in satirical news, the remaining Milli Vanilli guy said that he would be at home pantomiming the songs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=288) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=290)