# 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:** 294
**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 30, 2026, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5861 "2026-05-30T05:04:18Z")
[Felonious News Network has a line-up for the felon’s 250th show.](https://www.aol.com/articles/five-artists-president-donald-trump-182432934.html) > [@](#): > > With the news that [musical acts like Martina McBride](https://www.aol.com/news/david-marcus-liberal-elites-seethe-143319949.html) and Bret Michaels have pulled out of performing at the Freedom 250 concert this summer, the White House is likely scrambling to find artists to fill the void. > > I mean, seriously, how could you ever replace a guy who had three seasons of “Rock of Love” air on VH1? > > Fear not, everyone, for I have procured a list of five ready-made, blockbuster acts who would not only be happy to oblige to [Donald Trump’s](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump) requests to rock the nation for its 250th birthday, but would absolutely bring the house down in the process. > > Not everyone on this list is an unabashed Trump supporter, but they all certainly have a love for their country and wouldn’t mind getting that phone call to take the stage at Freedom 250. [Wanted ICE officer arrested in Texas.](https://www.aol.com/articles/us--immigration-enforcement-minnesota-165518585.html) > [@](#): > > MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal immigration officer wanted in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown was arrested Friday in Texas, authorities said. > > Christian Castro, of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, was taken into custody 11 days after Minneapolis prosecutors [charged him with assault](https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-immigration-crackdown-charges-sosacelis-bd78efd7f341a9bd9c1acc2c0037a958) and falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 nonfatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. > > Hennepin County, Minnesota prosecutors said the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension located Castro, 52, in Texas, and the Texas Rangers said they assisted in the arrest in Cameron County, which borders Mexico in the southernmost part of the state. > > The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General said its agents were not involved in or present for Castro’s apprehension, denying the Hennepin County Attorney’s office’s claims in press statements about the arrest. > > “Any characterization that DHS OIG agents participated in or led the arrest operation is inaccurate,” the Office of Inspector General said in a statement. [“Just Don’t (boo)” Vance had a warning for US Air Force Academy grads.](https://www.aol.com/articles/jd-vance-tells-u-air-231141137.html) > [@](#): > > Vice President [JD Vance](https://people.com/jd-vance-8678300) had a message for graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado during his commencement speech on Thursday, May 28. > > In a moment that has since gone Viral, Vance told graduates that they weren’t allowed to boo him because “I’m the vice president of the United States.” > > Vance’s quip comes as several commencement speakers were met with boos at the mention of artificial intelligence: including [real estate executive Gloria Caulfield](https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/commencement-speaker-stunned-her-remarks-213319656.html) during her speech at the University of Central Florida, former [Google CEO Eric Schmidt](https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/google-billionaire-eric-schmidt-booed-130826163.html)who was booed at the University of Arizona graduation ceremony during remarks about AI and the world his company helped build, and [Scott Borchetta,](https://www.facebook.com/reel/912283941823791) who told booing audience members — including graduates from Middle Tennessee State University’s[media and entertainment school](https://sbcme.mtsu.edu/) that bears his name — to “deal with it” as he discussed the integration of AI into his industry. > > On Thursday, Vance headed boos off at the pass, though he was not as laudatory about AI as other graduation speakers. > > “You know, this is the only commencement speech that I’m giving this year and so I’ve watched a few highlights of graduation speeches where this or that corporate leader will discuss artificial intelligence, AI, and be met with literal boos,” Vance said as he wrapped up his remarks. > > “Now, you can’t boo me. I’m the vice president of the United States,” he added, drawing laughs. [And, of course, they broke the law. So says an actual judge.](https://www.aol.com/articles/judge-says-kennedy-center-board-192628315.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge [ruled Friday](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.50.0_1.pdf) that President Donald Trump’s name was illegally [added to the Kennedy Center](https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-performing-arts-board-rename-ffb6829221bddc012c24ce696ebf0633) and blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations — the latest legal setback for Trump’s efforts to leave his personal mark on the landscape of the nation’s capital. > > Trump said in response that he’s backing away from his proposed renovation and returning control of the arts institution to Congress. > > “Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into ‘NEVER NEVER LAND,’” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. > > U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., [ruled](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.49.0_2.pdf) that the Kennedy Center board’s March 16 [vote to close the facility](https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-afd7c714c53d8942a4b76b2684a20755) was “ill-informed and seemingly preordained” with no regard for its legal obligations. The administration had announced the work would begin in July and last approximately two years, but Cooper’s ruling halts those plans for now. > > **“The trustees might have assessed the propriety of closure in a number of prudent ways. This was not one,” he wrote.** & > [@](#): > > Cooper also concluded that the board “overstepped its statutory bounds” by unilaterally adding Trump’s name to the center. Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it, he said. > > The judge, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, ordered the defendants to remove Trump’s name from the institution’s façade and any “official materials,” such as digital or physical signs, within two weeks. > > “May the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts be renamed absent Congressional authorization? The answer, plain from the face of the statute, is no. Nor can any other individual be memorialized on the front portico of the building,” Cooper wrote. And the felon is taking it as well as one would expect. > [@](#): > > Trump said the judge “should be ashamed of himself” in a social media post hours after the decision was issued. > > The Republican president said he instructed his administration to “make all necessary arrangements” to have the center transferred to Congress. Personally, I’m hoping to see all necessary arrangements to have the felon transferred to prison. I’m a daydream believer. [Here’s proof there’s no honor among the cluster.](https://www.aol.com/articles/pam-bondi-throws-acting-ag-162351337.html) > [@](#): > > Former Attorney General [Pam Bondi](https://www.aol.com/news/epstein-accusers-little-hope-pam-203932978.html) told members of Congress that her successor Todd Blanche was responsible for the chaotic release of millions of documents connected to Jeffrey Epstein, according to Democratic lawmakers. > > Bondi, who Donald Trump [fired last month](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-ousts-pam-bondi-attorney-170926132.html), told members of the House Oversight Committee during a close-door deposition that she delegated oversight of the so-called Epstein files and the federal government’s investigations into the dead sex offender [to her now-former deputy.](https://www.aol.com/news/rep-rips-trump-doj-taking-222142664.html) > > "She continues to push all of the investigation and the blame on Acting AG Todd Blanche,” the committee’s top Democrat Robert Garcia told reporters on Friday. “It was Todd Blanche, the current acting AG, that was leading the Epstein investigation, and quite frankly, all of the mistakes that we saw — the redactions, not protecting survivors — she continues to push that back onto the acting AG Todd Blanche, who by the way was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.” > > Lawmakers asked her five times about her conversations with Trump concerning the case, and “she refused to answer any questions” about him, according to Garcia. “In fact, she said she would not speak or respond to any questions that had anything to do with President Trump,” he said. [Go to move: “Let’s sleep on it”, cabinet edition.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/donald-trump-seemingly-nods-off-170127778.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump was seemingly caught sleeping again during a cabinet meeting on May 27. This comes after the President recently had his medical exam at the Walter Reed Medical Center. Earlier, Trump appeared to doze off at a Memorial Day event while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was giving his speech. To be fair, the secretary of war crimes isn’t a rousing speaker. [He’s an international loser!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-virus-response-plan-hits-181531259.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump’s plans to set up an Ebola quarantine facility on a Kenyan air base hit a major roadblock on Friday. > > A Kenyan court temporarily suspended plans to establish a U.S.-built [Ebola quarantine](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-to-ship-potentially-ebola-stricken-americans-to-kenya/)and treatment facility at Laikipia Air Base, about 120 miles north of Nairobi, on the same day Trump administration officials said it was due to begin operations. > > The ruling deals a significant blow to the administration’s response to the worsening [Ebola outbreak](https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-reveals-huge-death-rate-from-ebola-outbreak-in-drc/), centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where suspected cases have surpassed 1,000 and nearly [250 suspected deaths](https://www.thedailybeast.com/deadliest-virus-warning-issued-as-outbreak-spreads-fast/) have been reported. > > The White House confirmed earlier this week that the U.S. intended to establish a facility in Kenya to receive Americans exposed to the virus. Administration officials described the site as a “state-of-the-art facility” created “through a coordinated effort with the Departments of State, Health and Human Services, and War,” ABC News [reported](https://abcnews.com/International/kenyan-court-temporarily-blocks-us-ebola-quarantine-facility/story?id=133412989). _K_iller _K_ennedy’s _K_amp _K_enya wasn’t on my Bingo card either. Rememer the “Hello, muddah; hello, fadduh; here I am at Camp Ramada” song? Feel free to make a parody along those lines. [More news about how this cluster of an administration approaches elections.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/kash-patels-fbi-sent-agents-143200055.html) > [@](#): > > FBI agents visited the homes of current and former election officials in Wisconsin as part of an investigation into debunked [election conspiracy theories](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/manic-trump-79-unleashes-deranged-151909444.html) peddled by President Donald Trump. > > The FBI has spent months trying to [seize ballots](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/keystone-kash-booted-fbi-chief-021751422.html), gain access to personal information about poll workers, and interview election officials in swing states in response to Trump’s baseless claims that he beat Joe Biden in the 2020 election. > > After raiding an election hub in Georgia, seizing images of ballots and other election data in Arizona, and demanding ballots in Michigan, Kash Patel’s FBI has expanded its probe to include the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, area, [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/29/fbi-interviews-election-workers-wisconsin-amid-trumps-false-2020-claims/) reported. > > Sometime in the past few weeks, agents spoke to the state’s deputy election director, and then showed up at the private homes of former elections officials, sources told the Post. > > The visits—which critics say is a way to intimidate the president’s perceived enemies—came after agents also appeared unannounced at the home of Milwaukee County’s elections director, Michelle Hawley, instead of contacting her office directly, [Wisconsin Public Radio](https://www.wpr.org/news/fbi-visited-home-of-milwaukee-countys-elections-director) reported. > > In their interviews with the former officials, the FBI agents honed in on two topics that have fueled discredited claims of voter fraud in Wisconsin. You will note this is in response to nonsense which has been disproven. As I said above, American democracy is dead under this cluster. Not to worry, though. [At least he has one country working the corpses for him.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/vietnam-moves-graves-trump-organization-135119625.html) > [@](#): > > [Vietnam](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-finally-manages-vietnam-153303809.html) is demolishing graves and moving its dead to make way for a Trump Organization golf course. > > [The Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/88b21bb4-4d70-450b-8552-0acbc79a6ada?syn-25a6b1a6=1) reported that a gravesite in the Chau Ninh commune of the Hung Yen province has already begun to be demolished so bodies can be exhumed ahead of the construction of the $1.5 billion leisure development. > > Trump’s son Eric has called the new resort “the envy of all of Asia and of the entire world,” but residents in the agricultural community in [northern Vietnam](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/veteran-slams-draft-dodging-trump-112432580.html) are now leaving large “X” marks painted on the graves of their loved ones to show they have already removed their remains. > > Hoang Do, 72, was given 70 million dong [$2,660] in exchange for removing his son and parents’ remains. > > “It’s painful,” he told the FT. “I’m outraged by the compensation price.” ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5862 "2026-05-30T06:03:51Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > It seemed to me that enipla’s point was their preference for the US Federal Government not knowing how they voted. But that their State Government knowing that detail was somehow acceptable. State governments don’t know how any specific person voted, either. The only people who should know are the voter and anyone they told. And even then, you can’t be sure they haven’t lied. ---
**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 30, 2026, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5863 "2026-05-30T07:15:36Z")
Another fast riser of the admin! > **Ryan Fournier, the co-founder and chairman of Students for Trump, was arrested early Tuesday in Washington, D.C., on domestic violence charges — the second time in less than two years he has faced accusations of assaulting a woman.** > > **The Metropolitan Police Department charged Fournier with simple assault and attempted threats to do bodily harm after an incident late Monday night at the Apartments at CityCenter.** > > **It was not Fournier’s first arrest. In November 2023, he was arrested in North Carolina and charged with assault on a female and assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly striking his then-girlfriend with a pistol. Those charges were dropped.** > > **Fournier also announced on LinkedIn that he had taken a role as Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice under President Trump. The day after his latest arrest, he was back on X pushing immigration enforcement. “ICE should never pull back,” he posted at 12:59 a.m. “Arrest, and deport.”** > **[Students for Trump co-founder arrested for domestic violence: 'Do you want to...](https://www.rawstory.com/ryan-fournier-arrested/)** > > Ryan Fournier, the co-founder and chairman of Students for Trump, was arrested early Tuesday in Washington, D.C., on domestic violence charges — the second time in less than two years he has faced accusations of assaulting a woman.The Metropolitan... ---
**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 30, 2026, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5864 "2026-05-30T07:31:57Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > 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. That’s an interesting idea; to acknowledge the successfully mundane achievements of American history. There might be a security issue having civilian planes (and especially pilots) flying over D.C. There’s a lot of prohibited airspace. And are there any airworthy L-1011s left? If you want a Lockheed, I think there’s one Constellation still flying. ---
**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 30, 2026, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5865 "2026-05-30T07:37:56Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > And are there any airworthy L-1011s left? There is apparently only one: the _[Stargazer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargazer_(aircraft))_, originally operated as an Air Canada jetliner, but which was modified in the 1990s to serve as a mothership/launch platform for the Pegasus air-launched orbital rocket. It’s currently owned by Northrop Grumman. [![](https://www.aerotechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cathy1-1.jpg) ](https://www.aerotechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cathy1-1.jpg) ---
**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 30, 2026, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5866 "2026-05-30T07:42:53Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > State governments don’t know how any specific person voted, either Good. That was my expectation. But if a state government who currently maintain the electoral rolls doesn’t (correctly) know any individuals voting, when they have an explicit vested interest i.e. in the setting of electoral boundaries, what is the issue the Federal government maintaining a national roll. Wouldn’t that, at minimum make the state’s gerrymandering more difficult or less precise? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5867 "2026-05-30T10:07:02Z")
Why do you think the Federal government running elections would work better than States running elections? Why do you think that would be less corrupt? ---
**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 30, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5868 "2026-05-30T10:21:38Z")
I’m curious how long it will be before you can vote by Internet in the US. There will be a lot of grumbling from certain folk, but it seems to be just a matter of time. It might be 10 years. It might be 100 years. But sooner or later it will happen. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5869 "2026-05-30T11:45:39Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Good. That was my expectation. Huh. Yeah of course. Your name is on the envelope, not the ballot. I do mail in voting, Colorado has been doing that for a long time. ---
**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 30, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5870 "2026-05-30T12:03:51Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Why do you think the Federal government running elections would work better than States running elections? Why do you think that would be less corrupt? Just like if there is the one FDA doing certification vs each state doing their own standards. Or the one Census Bureau or Center for Disease Control. Sometimes its one country and sometimes it’s 50 states. Is there a particular way say Alabama prepares for elections that needs to be fundamentally different from the way used in Georgia? Or Vermont? If the process is contaminated with partisanship then that chicanery will most intractably flourish away from the glare of public scrutiny. Best to get as few bodies and reporting lines involved. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5871 "2026-05-30T12:15:28Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Is there a particular way say Alabama prepares for elections that needs to be fundamentally different from the way used in Georgia? Or Vermont? > > If the process is contaminated with partisanship then that chicanery will most intractably flourish away from the glare of public scrutiny. Best to get as few bodies and reporting lines involved. If you want to see that changed then you’ll have to amend the Constitution which gives Alabama, Georgia and Vermont the authority to be, relatively, fundamentally different in how they prepare for elections. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5872 "2026-05-30T12:22:59Z")
Opponents of internet voting will have to explain why banking online is secure but voting isn’t. Young people won’t buy those arguments and fewer old people will be around to oppose it with each passing election. ---
**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 30, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5873 "2026-05-30T13:37:16Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > If you want to see that changed then you’ll have to amend the Constitution Which neatly circles back to Monty’s post > [@Monty](#): > > [American Democracy Just Died.](https://www.aol.com/articles/judge-clears-way-trump-mail-134014545.html) > > The order would [require the federal government](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5811266-trump-mail-in-voting-midterms/) to establish a list of eligible voters based on available citizenship data and direct the U.S. Postal Service to only deliver mail-in ballots to individuals on each state’s approved voter roll. Now, as observed this would seem to run contrary to the Constitution. But if 45/47 proposes doing just that, does the red-state MAGA heartland lawyer up and fight their boy’s proposal all the way to SCOTUS? Or do they think it might be in their own electoral interests and sign-on. Which might create a procedural precedent for future administrations, to maintain a national electoral roll for security, integrity or whatever pretext carries the motion. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5874 "2026-05-30T14:42:37Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into ‘NEVER NEVER LAND,’" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. (The quote is from Trump, not Monty) I like how he thinks this statement is a threat. [sarcasm]Oh no, Mr President, sir, please don’t take your brilliant leadership from us ..[roll eyes] …[/sarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5875 "2026-05-30T15:09:09Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Opponents of internet voting will have to explain why banking online is secure but voting isn’t. In the age of AI, online banking is soon not going to be secure. ---
**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 30, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5876 "2026-05-30T15:29:43Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > There might be a security issue having civilian planes (and especially pilots) flying over D.C. Remember, my proposed event was “somewhere in the middle of the country.” I’m thinking Kansas City, St Louis, something more available to everywhere in the country (offer void in Alaska and Hawaii). > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I think there’s one Constellation still flying. YES! Great idea. I love the Connie! OK, we’re evolving the idea. On day one, the jumbos fly over: 787, 747. 707, DC-8. L1011 (🙂 ) Day 2 is the prop jobbers, Constellation, DC-4, Ford Tri motor, DC-3 Day 3 is the light civilian: Beech, Cessna, Piper, Mooney, maybe helicopters! It SINGS! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5877 "2026-05-30T16:56:42Z")
Bi-Planes! Get a Curtis Jenny in there! Though it is a ‘war’ plane, it did lot’s of other stuff. ---
**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 30, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5878 "2026-05-30T17:10:26Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Bi-Planes! And biplanes would _really_ piss off the MAGAs. ---
**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 30, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5879 "2026-05-30T17:12:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Remember, my proposed event was “somewhere in the middle of the country.” I’m thinking Kansas City, St Louis, something more available to everywhere in the country Branson. From what I understand they could use the boost as their older clientele dies off. ---
**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 30, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5880 "2026-05-30T17:18:01Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Bi-Planes! Get a Curtis Jenny in there! Though it is a ‘war’ plane, it did lot’s of other stuff. Beechcraft Staggerwing or a Boeing Stearman (it was military, but a trainer). Maybe a Spartan Executive, too, because I really like those. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=293) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=295)