# 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:** 291
**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 29, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5801 "2026-05-29T00:34:42Z")
So how many 90’s has-beens are still actually remaining in this UFC song-and-dance line-up? (well, current count, as I speak. This minute.) ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5802 "2026-05-29T00:37:14Z")
At least they only have a 2 week roster to fill. ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5803 "2026-05-29T00:40:10Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > So how many 90’s has-beens are still actually remaining in this UFC song-and-dance line-up? Apparently still Vanilla Ice and Flo Rida, but that’s it. ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5804 "2026-05-29T00:42:26Z")
What a country! ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5805 "2026-05-29T00:51:39Z")
Kid Rock is waiting for the wrestling tag team tap-in. I know it’s UFC, but close enough. ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5806 "2026-05-29T00:59:54Z")
C+F Music Factory and Vanilla Ice have confirmed they’ll be there. Bret Michaels and Flo Rida (who, unlike the rest of the lineup, has actually had a #1 single in the current century) have yet to comment AFAIK. ---
**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 29, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5807 "2026-05-29T01:13:17Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Kid Rock is waiting for the wrestling tag team tap-in. As someone mentioned ( **Robot Arm**?) KR knows non-paying Trump well enough to stay away. Good enough explanation for me. ---
**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 29, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5808 "2026-05-29T01:35:58Z")
Hey, at least the place will look nice for the State Fair. Who says Trump has no taste? (Yes, I know there’s a big blurb partway down. But you get the gift of the article). > **[The Trump Administration Is Spending $5 Million to Coat Horse Statues in Gold](https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/national-park-service-dc-beautification-contracts-horse-statues)** > > The Interior Department quickly gave nearly $100 million in contracts in a rush to beautify D.C. ---
**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 29, 2026, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5809 "2026-05-29T01:54:26Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > As someone mentioned ( **Robot Arm**?) KR knows non-paying Trump well enough to stay away. But they haven’t announced who is playing on July 4. Could be a double bill with Kid Rock and Lee Greenwood. And those asskissers would do it for free anyway. ---
**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 29, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5810 "2026-05-29T01:55:50Z")
That seems like a perfect opportunity for someone to somehow liquefy the fresh gold off of there and replace it with cheap paint, which will be discovered months later when the paint washes off. Actually, now that I think about it, that sounds like something Trump would do, if not for the manual labor involved. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5811 "2026-05-29T02:13:51Z")
There might be an opportunity for some aspiring chemist to create a surface coating, which, when sprayed on the increasingly ubiquitous low-budget gold painted public objects within merkinland, reacts with the cheap composite resins used to produce a long lasting polymer with an off green/dunn bovine faecal matter hued patina. Until said monuments are torn down rather like [Firdos Square](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_statue_destruction) as a gesture of national recovery. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5812 "2026-05-29T02:19:55Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > something Trump would do, if not for the manual labor involved. He’s been deported anyway. ---
**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 29, 2026, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5813 "2026-05-29T02:31:09Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Lee Greenwood For the life of me I keep thinking Lee Hazelwood when I read that name. ---
**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 29, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5814 "2026-05-29T02:33:29Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > The list of songs that the right loves but does not understand is impressive. Somebody needs to repost this in Yoda-Speak ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5815 "2026-05-29T03:34:59Z")
Back to the Bicentennial: In sixth grade a bunch of us did some math, and figured out that we would graduating from high school in 1976. We were quite excited; our yearbook is full of red white and blue pictures, and even had the _Spirit of '76_ picture on the cover. There was so much hype and hoopla back then, and _everyone_ wanted in on the action. This recent NYT (gift) article describes how a historian was able get his students to save “Bicentennial junk” (his words), and brings back a wide range of memories about how pervasive the Bicentennial hype was back then. I hope you take a look at some of the things that got saved “for history”. > **[How a Radical Historian Saved the Schlock of ’76](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/01/arts/bicentennial-schlock-collection-america-250.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mFA.ySve.p37recnA3IkP&smid=nytcore-android-share)** > > Yale’s Bicentennial Schlock collection offers a window into the star-spangled commercialism that swept the country 50 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5816 "2026-05-29T03:37:11Z")
“Impressive, the list of songs the right loves, yet understands not, it is.” The more complex a sentence is, the more difficult it becomes to translate into Yoda syntax. That’s why he sounds like a fortune cookie. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5817 "2026-05-29T03:52:39Z")
I enjoyed that, thanks. I was hoping to find the novelty potato snack called American Fries there. I think they were made by General Mills, but could have been Nabisco or another big company. They came in a blue box that had a cartoon picture of (I think) George Washington, and were french fry shaped potato crisps. Damn, I loved those things. I was too young and dumb to realize they would go away when the year was out. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5818 "2026-05-29T04:03:37Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > > [@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. We should all be busting ass to support and amplify sincere, genuinely patriotic and honest commemorations of US history for this milestone, whether at the state or municipal level, or developed by some other entity that isn’t this useless corrupt grifting self-aggrandizing Presidential Administration. In that spirit, let me draw your attention to the new short-video series [“250 to 250”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzQjU560Gs) produced and [introduced here by US historian and political commentator Heather Cox Richardson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0S1iY47QD0). Check out and support the [America’s Tapestry Project](https://www.americastapestry.com), creating a major exhibit of commemorative textile artworks reflecting US history. Maybe we need a thread in MPSIMS or somewhere to collect information about USA 250 events and activities other than the gilded dogshit being hyped by the Grifter in Chief. ---
**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 29, 2026, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5819 "2026-05-29T04:08:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Did whatever Trump toady organized this think Signs point to no. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5820 "2026-05-29T04:27:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Did whatever Trump toady organized this think the artists were just not going to notice they’d been booked for a glorified Trump rally? I’m sure that they thought that every artist they wanted would be glad to perform for a Trump event. After all, he is the best and most beloved President ever, and artists would be lining up to perform, and this lucky slate of musical acts will be no doubt grateful for the wonderful opportunity they’ve been given. [Sarcasm off.] Really, these toadies do live in a bubble, don’t they? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=290) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=292)