# 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:** 299
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5961 "2026-06-03T00:40:54Z")
never mind – the very idea is too gross even if nothing happened ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5962 "2026-06-03T00:41:07Z")
I _really_ do not like this timeline we are living in. Bill Pulte is the new acting Director of National Intelligence. Two years ago he received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed, Bath and Beyond never went bankrupt. The event had a dildo theme, including the presenter slapping another participant in the face with one. The presenter goes by “PP,” aka “The Vape Ape,” and is a pusher of the conspiracy theory that a series of children’s books contain hidden messages insinuating that all defunct Bed Bath & Beyond shares will be reinstated and more valuable than NVIDIA. Pulte had him MCing much of this event. There is video because of course there fucking is. > **[paris martineau (@paris.nyc)](https://bsky.app/profile/paris.nyc/post/3mnd5hcfwkk26)** > > the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went... ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5963 "2026-06-03T00:44:17Z")
I found a funny picture with caption, but I can’t seem to get the image in order to post it. See: [https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvrYm4Rjyr/](https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvrYm4Rjyr/) ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5964 "2026-06-03T01:16:23Z")
I’m not the only one that knows Pulte’s back story! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5965 "2026-06-03T01:25:05Z")
Sometimes you read something and you have to question if your having a stroke. Like, _Did I just see these words all strung together?_ ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5966 "2026-06-03T01:38:27Z")
That’s an event from the long ago past. If you’ve ever seen the felon’s tweets/xits/truths, you already know he’s trying to write English like it’s one of the click languages. _Words_ strung together. Would that it be! These clowns, especially the clown-in-chief, can’t even string _letters_ together correctly. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5967 "2026-06-03T03:42:12Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed, Bath and Beyond never went bankrupt. Just an aside, I’ve heard Mar-a-lago referred to as “Bed, Bugs, and Beyond”. There are allegations that the have had a bed bug problem, but Trump denies it. [sarcasm]After all, why would Trump lie?[/sarcasm] ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5968 "2026-06-03T03:54:29Z")
[Why not put a convicted criminal in charge of counter-terrorism? After all, there’s a convicted felon as president.](https://www.aol.com/articles/pentagon-appoints-convicted-january-6-224352000.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > The Pentagon has appointed a rioter convicted for his role in 6 January, 2021 insurrection to a sensitive national security role dealing with counterterrorism, overriding insiders’ concerns about his past record. > > Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection with the storming of the US Capitol, has been appointed to a position in the US Department of Defense’s special operations and low intensity conflict office which manages highly classified military operations, causing alarm among Pentagon officials. > > The story was first [reported by the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/02/pentagon-hires-convicted-jan-6-rioter-sensitive-counterterrorism-job/), which published a picture of Irizzary – holding what appeared to be a metal pole and wearing a pro-Donald Trump Make America Great Again (Maga) hat – looking over a wall on the day of the riot. > > Irizzary was 19 at the time of the attack, which took place after Trump supporters marched on the Capitol seeking to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election, which was won by Joe Biden but which Trump falsely claimed was stolen. > > He expressed regret and apologized for his actions in court, but was criticized by the judge in his case for failing to stop the violence, despite having been in a position to do so. > > **Irizzary has since graduated from the Citadel military academy in Charleston, South Carolina, where he was a student at the time.** > > It was unclear who was responsible for his appointment, the Post reported. But Pentagon officials are said to have voiced dismay that someone involved in a full-frontal assault on US democracy could be installed in such a sensitive post. Five people died during or in the immediate aftermath of the event. Four police officers involved in trying to resist the attack died by suicide in the months afterwards. I just lost all respect for the Citadel. [Jailbird call: “I’m an innocent man!”](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-says-innocent-man-horribly-085132000.html) > [@](#): > > [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) has launched another series of attacks in a late night [Truth Social](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/truth-social) spree, posting on long-standing grievances ranging from the [FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-raided-mar-a-lago-fbi-search-warrant-b2141174.html) to [Hunter Biden’s laptop](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-accuses-white-house-suppressing-223412014.html). > > The president was most animated on the subject of his New York trial in spring 2024, at which he was found guilty by a jury on all 34 counts he faced relating to the falsification of business records to conceal a payoff made to the adult film actress [Stormy Daniels](https://www.aol.com/news/stormy-daniels-claims-she-took-191455705.html)to buy her silence about a past sexual encounter. > > Trump claimed that his former personal attorney [Michael Cohen](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/michael-cohen) has “come out and unequivocally stated” that New York Attorney General [Letitia James](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/letitia-james) and Manhattan District Attorney [Alvin Bragg](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/alvin-bragg) “pressured and coerced him to testify against your favorite President, ME, when they made him the key player in their Political Witch Hunts.” > > He was alluding to comments Cohen made in a [podcast interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mZbP9s6iE) with Sirius XM host Michael Smerconish Monday. > > The president called for the slate to be wiped clean, suggested James and Bragg be fired and complained: “I am an innocent man who has been horribly treated. Hopefully the Courts will do what everyone knows should be done.” [Rip van Simple loses it at Bibi.](https://www.aol.com/articles/donald-trump-shouted-cursed-israeli-192546000.html) > [@](#): > > President [**Donald Trump**](https://www.wonderwall.com/tag/donald-trump-599/) reportedly screamed expletives at Israeli Prime Minister [**Benjamin Netanyahu**](https://www.wonderwall.com/tag/benjamin-netanyahu) in a fiery phone call underlying the confusion of the American and Israeli war in Iran and Lebanon. > > On Monday, June 1, the 79-year-old Trump [posted](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116676034049614301) that he had a “very positive call” with Netanyahu in which the two agreed there would be no more bombing in Lebanon. Iran cited Israeli strikes in Lebanon as the reason they were backing out of ceasefire negotiations. An hour and a half later, Netanyahu [wrote on X](https://x.com/netanyahu/status/2061531248573460655?s=20), “I spoke with President Trump and told him that if Hezbollah does not cease attacking our cities and citizens — Israel will attack terror targets in Beirut.” > > But the call was maybe not as chummy as Trump made it sound. > > According to [_Axios_](https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/trump-netanyahu-israel-lebanon-call), Trump hammered the 76-year-old prime minister on the phone. > > “What the f\*\*\* are you doing?” he’s said to have screamed. “You’re f\*\*\*\*\*\* crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your a\*\*. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5969 "2026-06-03T04:49:29Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Am I the only one who saw that Greenland pic and thought “Dinsdale!” Ha! I knew I’d seen something like that before! That’s it. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5970 "2026-06-03T06:05:56Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Sometimes you read something and you have to question if your having a stroke. Like, _Did I just see these words all strung together?_ That was _exactly_ my reaction. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5971 "2026-06-03T06:32:27Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > When he talks about the ballroom like this he sounds like a ten year old talking about a G.I. Joe toy from 1988. [![](https://www.deadprogrammer.com/photos/bongos-dream-house.jpg) ](https://www.deadprogrammer.com/photos/bongos-dream-house.jpg) ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5972 "2026-06-03T08:00:47Z")
I don’t mind that Trump keeps digging downward. The Hot Place is his eventual destination anyway. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5973 "2026-06-03T08:21:44Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I don’t mind that Trump keeps digging downward. [![](https://media1.tenor.com/m/Eeyv4vVW56IAAAAd/dig-up.gif) ](https://media1.tenor.com/m/Eeyv4vVW56IAAAAd/dig-up.gif) ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5974 "2026-06-03T08:50:17Z")
The only thing I’d change is the TV shouldn’t be on the back of the toilet. It should be visible when you’re seated in case you’re watching an important game and an emergency overcomes you. Otherwise perfect. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5975 "2026-06-03T09:10:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Rip van Simple loses it at Bibi.](https://www.aol.com/articles/donald-trump-shouted-cursed-israeli-192546000.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > President [**Donald Trump**](https://www.wonderwall.com/tag/donald-trump-599/) reportedly screamed expletives at Israeli Prime Minister [**Benjamin Netanyahu**](https://www.wonderwall.com/tag/benjamin-netanyahu) in a fiery phone call underlying the confusion of the American and Israeli war in Iran and Lebanon. > > […] > > > > “What the f\*\*\* are you doing?” he’s said to have screamed. “You’re f\*\*\*\*\*\* crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your a\*\*. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” Forget the fucking \*\*\*\*\*s, you should watch what the Spanish and the German press are doing while trying to translate that fucking mess. No, they don’t use \*s: **[ElDiario(dot)es](https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/trump-netanyahu-ataque-libano-plenas-negociaciones-iran-axios-jodidamente-loco_1_13267590.html)** and El País have translated it as “jodidamente loco”, which is literally fucking crazy, only it makes no sense at all. In fact, fucking being a gerundium the literal translation would be “jodiendo loco”, but that is even weirder. The German press mostly quoted the English original: fucking crazy. It makes no sense to try to translate it and this level of English is surely understood by anyone who reads a newspaper here. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5976 "2026-06-03T11:08:02Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Otherwise perfect. The library is superfluous. Remember who we are talking about. As an aside: had someone else, say a Palestinian student, said the same in a public speech in a university, **[Harvard](https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/04/03/harvard-bans-activities-for-pro-palestinian-student-group/)** for instance, he would have been expelled. From the university and the country. For antisemitism. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5977 "2026-06-03T12:47:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > These clowns, especially the clown-in-chief, can’t even string _letters_ together correctly. > _ **Baldrick:** _ …and I’ve nearly finished the Christmas cards. > > _ **Ebeneezer:** _ [taking off his tall hat] Oh, splendid! Let me see… [opens up a card he has picked up from the desk] “A Very Messy Christmas.” I’m sorry, Mr Baldrick — shouldn’t that be ‘merry’? > > _ **Baldrick:** _ “A Merry Messy Christmas”? All right, but the main thing is that it should be messy — messy cake; soggy pudding; great big wet kisses under the mistletoe… > > _ **Ebeneezer:** _ Yes… [going to hang up his coat and scarf] I fear, Mr Baldrick, that the only way you’re likely to get a big wet kiss at Christmas — or, indeed, any other time — is to make a pass at a water closet. However, be that as it may… [Baldrick gives him the card again] “A Merry Messy Christmas.” ‘Christmas’ as an H in it, Mr Baldrick. > > _ **Baldrick:** _ Oh… > > _ **Ebeneezer:** _ …and an R. Also an I, and an S. Also T and M and A… …and another S. Oh, and you’ve missed out the C at the beginning. Congratulations, Mr Baldrick! Something of a triumph, I think — you must be the first person ever to spell ‘Christmas’ without getting any of the letters right at all. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5978 "2026-06-03T13:42:26Z")
Paul Krugman today. To which I say, _“If only!”_ > **[Trump Has Given Up](https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-has-given-up)** > > No longer interested in governing, he is filled with rage and obsessed with revenge > Donald Trump will never admit that his gratuitous Iran war has been a total disaster. But the debacle has clearly broken him. So we are now saddled with a president who has given up governing, but will maintain his grip on power wherever he can. And his power will be exclusively focused on rage and revenge. > > … > > Just to be clear, I am by no means saying that Trump’s descent into rage-madness has ended the threat to U.S. democracy. The Koch-backed Federalist Society, which now controls the Supreme Court, is going all in on rigging U.S. elections with the goal of locking in permanent Republican rule. The architects of Project 2025 are marching ahead with their goal of turning the federal government into a spoils system that answers only to billionaires and their political pawns. Politicization of research funding is getting very close to destroying a scientific community that took generations to build. > > But Trump himself is, at this point, little more than a festering ball of anger and hate. * * * > **[Where’s Trump? Speculation rages as president hasn’t been seen in public in 7...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/where-trump-speculation-rages-president-205442329.html)** > > Commander-in-chief's disappearing act follows recent health check-up. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5979 "2026-06-03T14:02:08Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > According to _[Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/trump-netanyahu-israel-lebanon-call)_, Trump hammered the 76-year-old prime minister on the phone. > > “What the f\*\*\* are you doing?” he’s said to have screamed. “You’re f\*\*\*\*\*\* crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your a\*\*. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” Ya know…that’s the closest thing to a true statement that Trump has ever uttered. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/5980 "2026-06-03T15:57:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And his power will be exclusively focused on rage and revenge. Um, Paul? Not " **exclusively."** You left out “and stealing as much cash as he can from the public.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=298) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=300)