# 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:** 304
**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 5, 2026, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6061 "2026-06-05T13:19:28Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@Jihi](#): > > > > Trump: LOOK OVER THERE!!! > > I usually type _SQUIRREL!_ when he does a stunt like this. I always think of Saddam Hussein’s early appearances in _South Park_. ‘Hey, guys! Relax! Look over there!’ ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6062 "2026-06-05T13:35:48Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > the Amazon is longer than the height of the Chrysler Building. It’s also _wider_ than the height of the Chrysler Building. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2026, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6063 "2026-06-05T14:30:49Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > They want to call it the Trump promenade. Wait a minute … is Trump using those Woke “They/Them” transgentrified pronouns?!? Because I’m pretty sure no one else wants to call it that. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6064 "2026-06-05T14:51:45Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > transgentrified I’m picturing wealthy people with atypical gender life stories moving into poor communities and pricing out the locals. 🙂 ---
**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:** [June 5, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6065 "2026-06-05T15:52:29Z")
It’s always bugged my inner OCD that the the line between the Washington monument and the White House is not a right angle from the one between the Lincoln memorial and the Capitol. Wiki says the ground under the ‘proper’ spot was not stable enough to bear the weight. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6066 "2026-06-05T16:38:36Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > (Also: interesting, @CalMeacham —I hadn’t heard of _Gog_. I wouldn’t put a bit of IP theft past ol’ Michael Crichton, certainly.) It rang a bell with me. I think I saw it when I was a little kid – under 10 for sure. If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it had two robots that looked something like Daleks called Gog and Magog. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > And of course he also wants credit for turning it toilet-bowl blue. _That_ credit he **does** deserve. Oh, then Trump should go out in it with a captain’s hat and a little rowboat just like the Ty-D-Bol man! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6067 "2026-06-05T16:55:47Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > (Also: interesting, @CalMeacham —I hadn’t heard of _Gog_. I wouldn’t put a bit of IP theft past ol’ Michael Crichton, certainly.) > > It rang a bell with me. I think I saw it when I was a little kid – under 10 for sure. If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it had two robots that looked something like Daleks called Gog and Magog. That’s the one. It was the third and last of Ivan Tors’ Office of Scientific Investigation movies, and the glitziest. not only was it made in color, it was in 3D! I first saw it as a kid on TV in the 1960s, and was impressed. then it disappeared for years. I never saw it on TV, or on video, or on obscure cable networks. Then they found the 3D version and restored it. I had to get a copy, which i showed at Arisia two and a half years ago, with 3D glasses. Looking at it as an adult, I’m not as impressed with it, but it was pretty decently made. And I do think that Michael Crichton got his idea for the lab in _The Andromeda Strain_ from it – both labs were secret bases in the desert, multi-levels with biological labs and a nuke at the bottom that threatens to explode at the climax, but our heroes prevent that. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6068 "2026-06-05T16:57:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I first saw it as a kid on TV in the 1960s, and was impressed. then it disappeared for years. I never saw it on TV, or on video, or on obscure cable networks. Thanks! Yes, I saw it once and never saw it again. I was starting to wonder if I’d hallucinated it! ---
**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 5, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6069 "2026-06-05T19:08:51Z")
I understand the design for the new $250 bill has been decided on. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKAPkurWcAArAN1?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKAPkurWcAArAN1?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**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:** [June 5, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6070 "2026-06-05T19:51:36Z")
Things going as well as expected at the national mall. > **[30 Gallons Of Diesel Fuel Spills Into Irrigation Supply Water At Freedom 250...](https://www.jalopnik.com/2186229/diesel-fuel-spills-into-ground-irrigation-water-freedom-250-event/)** > > Organizers are claiming vandalism as the cause of a diesel spill that made its way into irrigation water used for the grass on the National Mall. ---
**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 5, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6071 "2026-06-05T20:47:09Z")
> # Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower claims > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/doge-planned-falsely-mark-27-million-people-dead-whistleblower-says/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/doge-planned-falsely-mark-27-million-people-dead-whistleblower-says/) > The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts, according to a former senior Social Security executive. > > The previously unreported plan, which the Social Security Administration said was not carried out, would have used one of the government’s most consequential identity databases to effectively erase people from the financial system, potentially cutting them off from wages, banking, government benefits and other services. > > Jeremiah Schofield, who worked at Social Security for 25 years and helped lead the agency’s IT modernization efforts before leaving in October, said he refused to help implement the plan after agency lawyers warned that falsely marking living people as dead could violate federal law. Schofield said he realized the plan’s possible intent — to intimidate and worsen the finances of immigrants — as well as its potential unlawfulness after taking a sample of people from the 2.7 million and discovering they were all alive. Some were U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, teenagers and senior citizens, including one widow who was a legal permanent resident receiving survivor benefits. > … 🤦🏽 There is no end to the nastiness. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6072 "2026-06-05T21:19:06Z")
Making living people into un-persons is not exactly new. But it is vile, despicable, and horrific. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2026, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6073 "2026-06-05T21:26:47Z")
Sociopathic racism is what I see. These people, and those who enable them are the opposite of what this country needs. ---
**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 5, 2026, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6074 "2026-06-05T22:18:01Z")
> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mnkzyit6xa2q)** > > Trump: "A lot of people don't know 'dumb' has a B" ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6075 "2026-06-05T22:49:23Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > It rang a bell with me. I think I saw it when I was a little kid – under 10 for sure. If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it had two robots that looked something like Daleks called Gog and Magog. There are likely a lot of relatively-unsung\* works of art that inspired _other_ works that achieved a lot more fame. \* thanks to @CalMeacham for his efforts to, er, sing this particular one! . . > [@carrps](#): > > Oh, then Trump should go out in it with a captain’s hat and a little rowboat just like the Ty-D-Bol man! Not grandiose enough for Donny-boy, of course—but what a sight it would be! > [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > And the Amazon will soon become our cherished 51st state!!1 !!!1!! !!!1 > > Well, since corporations can now vote in [Delaware](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/) that could happen. I’d been thinking of the river. But some spectacular increase in Importance will surely happen for our voting persons the Giant Corps…perhaps when Donald gets his King crown, Bezos et al will become Dukes. (I bet he’d like to be called Your Grace…) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6076 "2026-06-05T23:39:10Z")
My theory is that whenever he says “a lot of people don’t know” something (which is often), it’s because he himself only recently found out about it… and if he, the stablest of all geniuses, didn’t know, then how could anybody else? I fully believe it took him nearly 80 years to learn how to spell “dumb.” ---
**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 6, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6077 "2026-06-06T00:45:09Z")
[The felon’s using our military like toy soldiers is costing millions.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trumps-back-forth-troops-europe-155234000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is waiting for clarity from the Pentagon following President Donald Trump’s [back-and-forth on troop levels in Europe](https://apnews.com/article/nato-trump-troops-europe-poland-confusion-5ee39c29238cdee76c1780233cb6fddc), upending the lives of military personnel and potentially costing taxpayers millions of dollars, two U.S. defense officials told The Associated Press. > > NATO allies were bewildered in May when Trump said he would send [5,000 U.S. troops](https://apnews.com/article/trump-troops-withdrawal-germany-poland-europe-499a39701275a553d1ff15bb1756d2fe) to Poland just weeks after ordering the same number pulled from Europe, following [a spat with Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz](https://apnews.com/article/trump-germany-iran-troops-290ddb105f5f05e20e6c6ae7094659f3) over the Iran war. The Trump administration says [troop reductions in Europe](https://apnews.com/article/nato-us-troops-redeployment-trump-germany-2165cf85a0d1950b223f6ac9d38b3340) have long been planned and coordinated with allies. > > The Republican president announced on social media two weeks ago that he was sending troops to Poland — the same day the Pentagon had officially ordered the [cancellation of a rotation of soldiers](https://apnews.com/article/poland-us-troop-reduction-deployment-europe-34138e62c7afc0b83ab7c7cc8fa60071) heading there, one of the defense officials said. > > The unit’s equipment was already on the way. Sending it cost the military $32 million, said U.S. Transportation Command, the military agency largely responsible for moving troops and gear across the globe. > > The abrupt changes are forcing the military to “retroactively engineer” a policy in line with the president’s latest pronouncement, the official said. Both officials were briefed on the decisions and, along with others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters. And, of course, screwing those same ~~toy~~ soldiers. > [@](#): > > The uncertainty is not only [rattling European allies](https://apnews.com/article/eu-nato-trump-germany-troops-merz-5ec29eb64e4b786d8f69d3521875b6df) worried about the message being sent to Russia, but it also risks hurting morale among American troops — some of whom had their rotations canceled shortly before departure — and comes as the Army budget is already strained. [Prime Minister Starmer wants Vance to STFU.](https://www.aol.com/articles/british-pm-criticizes-vance-over-203235000.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > LONDON (AP) — British [Prime Minister Keir Starmer](https://apnews.com/hub/keir-starmer) 's office on Friday condemned comments by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who blamed immigration for the [death of a university student](https://apnews.com/article/uk-stabbing-victim-handcuffed-sikhs-knives-race-26af31dfd5b39a37f1c27cf5cda2c7ce) who was handcuffed as he lay dying from a stab wound. > > Henry Nowak, 18, died after being stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in the English city of Southampton in December. Digwa, who is Sikh, falsely claimed to police he was the victim of a racist assault by Nowak, who was white. When police officers arrived, they initially treated the wounded man as a suspect before noticing his injury and trying to resuscitate him. > > Digwa, 23, was convicted of murder for stabbing Nowak with an 8-inch (21 centimeter) Sikh dagger and sentenced this week to life in prison with a minimum 21-year term. > > The case has been [seized on](https://apnews.com/video/uk-stabbing-conviction-prompts-unrest-in-coastal-town-and-sparks-fierce-political-debate-e6230ecd602d4480a29c28fc0464227f) by anti-immigration activists and politicians, despite the fact that both Nowak and his killer were British. On Tuesday, police in Southampton were [pelted with chairs, cans, rocks and flares](https://apnews.com/article/uk-stabbing-arrest-racism-police-henry-nowak-71085810a12499ffa68721478e6e983c) after a demonstration over Nowak’s death attended by far-right figures and others. > > Vance said in a post on social platform X on Friday that there should be “righteous anger” in response to the murder, which he blamed in part on “the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.” > > **In a statement issued in response to Vance’s comments, Starmer’s office criticized people “trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets.”** > > “The Nowak family are grieving after Henry’s horrific murder. They have said they do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We should be respecting their wishes,” Downing Street said in a statement. “Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances. That is who we are as a country.” I’ve news for you, Prime Minister. Vance also hates _our_ democracy and stirs up division in _our_ streets. [Can’t afford a sports ticket? “That’s the way it goes.”](https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/watch-television-donald-trump-issues-211852470.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump is heading to Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday as he traveled to Wisconsin for an event with farmers, Trump was asked about the sky-high ticket prices surrounding the [New York Knicks](https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/new-york/)’ first NBA Finals appearance in 27 years. > > “They can watch it on television. It’s semi-free to watch it on TV. That’s the way life goes for some,” Trump told media bluntly. Such empathy! Mind you, he’s not paying for it himself. > [@](#): > > Trump is attending as the personal guest of Knicks owner James Dolan and will become the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game. [Yep, he’s literally erasing history.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-orders-removal-woke-war-205312622.html) > [@](#): > > [Donald Trump’s](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/donald-trump/) administration has ordered the removal of three “[woke](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/10/trump-administration-war-against-biden-woke-fonts/)” quotes at a 200-year-old monument in Boston. > > The National Park Service ordered quotes pertaining to slavery, foreign-born citizens and anti-war activism to be scrubbed from the Bunker Hill Monument because they fell foul of the US president’s push to remove “corrosive ideology” from federal institutions. > > The site of the 221-ft-tall granite obelisk in Charleston, which commemorates a Revolutionary War battle between revolutionary forces and the British Army, includes hanging signs with quotes from historic figures and writings that reflect on the monument. Some quotes date back centuries. > > A review of the monument, which is attached to a museum, was prompted after a visitor complained to staff at the site and later via email about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being “woke” feminist ideology, sources told The Washington Post. > > The agency ordered the removal of an anti-war quote from Arthur Johnson and Bestor Cram, Vietnam veterans, in time for the 251st anniversary of the monument on June 17. > > The quote reads: “We find, upon reflection, that our duty to our country has not ended … We, as Vietnam veterans, strongly feel that the United States should cease to build memorials to death and begin to glorify life.” Wow. [He’s making a list for banks.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-administration-asks-banks-monitor-144908727.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of the Treasury on ‌Friday called on U.S. banks ‌to detect and report identity theft, payroll fraud ​and other illicit activities tied to people not authorized to work in the United States, following President Donald Trump’s executive ‌order last ⁠month directing financial institutions to increase their scrutiny of non-citizens’ banking ⁠activities. > > • A Treasury advisory lists 18 red-flag indicators aimed at identifying “suspicious ​activity connected ​to fraud ​schemes involving the ‌unlawful employment of unlawful aliens” > > • Treasury warns of labor brokers, complicit employer schemes, particularly in agriculture, construction, domestic service and hospitality industries 🎶 _You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I’m telling you why The felon is comin’ to town The felon is comin’ to town The felon is comin’ to town_ _He’s making a list And checking it twice Gonna find out Who’s darker or white The felon is comin’ to town The felon is comin’ to town The felon is comin’ to town_ _He seeks you when you’re working He knows when you’re on break He knows if you’ve been dark or white So be poor for goodness sake!_ 🎶 [Secretary of war crimes doesn’t like religions other than his own.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/hegseth-directs-dod-drop-hundreds-211819026.html) > [@](#): > > The [Department of Defense](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/pete-hegseth/) moved this week to dramatically reduce the number of recognized religions, faiths and belief systems from more than 200 all the way to 31. > > The move was announced to troops in a memo signed by Anthony Tata, under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness of the United States, and shared with USA TODAY by the [Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).](https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/) > > In the memo, Tata says that the move comes at the direction of Pentagon chief [Pete Hegseth](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/pete-hegseth/), who said the move was done to “streamline the DoW collection of religious preferences collection for service members to enhance the delivery of targeted religious support from the Chaplaincy.” Wait. This rationale looks a tad familiar. > [@](#): > > The move to reduce the number of recognized religions comes in direct opposition to the moves made during President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/)’s first administration. > > In another memo shared to USA TODAY by the MRFF, the Armed Forces Chaplains Board in 2017 endorsed a faith and belief code expansion to “standardize and better identify religious preferences recognized by the military services.” > > The board said the expansion in codes would also accurately track more faith and belief systems, “providing more accurate demographic data for religious groups,” as well as to better plan religious support to the armed forces. [Doesn’t matter what the courts say about the Second Felonial Era breaking the law.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/even-trumps-ballroom-project-illegal-200032296.html) > [@](#): > > Last March, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon [ruled](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/grandiose-white-house-ballroom-plan-193046172.html) that President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project is illegal because “no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have.” But even if higher courts ultimately agree with Leon, a Justice Department lawyer argued on Friday, they cannot stop the project. > > The lawyer, Yaakov Roth, was [asking](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-hear-challenge-trumps-white-house-ballroom-2026-06-05/) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn Leon’s [preliminary injunction](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.61.0_1.pdf), which it temporarily [stayed](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-ballroom-construction-allowed-now-us-appeals-court-says-2026-04-18/) in April, or block it while the case, [_National Trust for Historic Preservation v. NPS_](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73127510/national-trust-for-historic-preservation-v-nps/), is pending. Because the ballroom project serves national security interests and is already pretty far along, Roth said, it would be an “abuse of discretion” to order that it be halted pending congressional approval. > > “When did it become impossible for courts to stop this project?” Judge Patricia Millett, a Barack Obama appointee, [asked](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2U1Uxoh0IM) Roth. “I think it would’ve been improper to enjoin it even on day one,” he replied. > > Even if “this were complete lawlessness by the government,” the project “couldn’t be stopped?” Millett asked. “I think that’s right,” Roth said. He conceded that Congress could pass a law prohibiting the project, in which case the Trump administration presumably would be obliged to obey. [But a judge is still giving it the old college try.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us--trump-immigration-170901238.html) > [@](#): > > BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the U.S. > > In a ruling harshly criticizing the administration, U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. said the policy “threw the lives of countless immigrants living in the United States into indeterminate legal limbo,” and he accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law. > > “In enacting its latest immigration policies, USCIS: claims statutory and regulatory authority that it does not possess; makes decisions without the reasoned explanations that it must provide; acts without regard for the reliance interests of applicants that it must consider; and justifies its actions with pretextual concerns of ‘national security’ that mask anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making,” he wrote. “In legal terms that means USCIS’s actions are contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious.” There’s so many more but this is all I can stomach for today. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6078 "2026-06-06T02:59:18Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Organizers are claiming vandalism as the cause of a diesel spill that made its way into irrigation water used for the grass on the National Mall. (quoted from @smithsb’s link) Since these are Trump’s people, it seems entirely possible that they thought diesel had what plants crave. ---
**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 6, 2026, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6079 "2026-06-06T03:33:03Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Well, since corporations can now vote in [Delaware](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/) Nitpick; corporations that own property in the town of Fenwick Island, population 343, can cast one vote each in Fenwick Island municipal elections only, and have been able to since 2008, because the town charter specifically says they can. Nothing has changed recently except that a court upheld the validity of the charter. > **[Rumor about Delaware court ruling allowing corporations to vote is missing...](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/delaware-corporations-vote/)** > > A judge's decision sparked much discussion online about the potential ramifications across the country. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2026, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6080 "2026-06-06T04:33:12Z")
Picky, picky. It’s the camel’s nose under the tent. Next thing you know they’ll be saying corporations are people, and money is speech. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=303) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=305)