# 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:** 325
**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 19, 2026, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6481 "2026-06-19T05:22:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > We should be back to “idle threats of war crimes and genocide” in time for the Sunday morning talk shows. Sadly, the Second Felonial Era has proven all too well their threats of war crimes and genocide are not idle. ---
**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 19, 2026, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6482 "2026-06-19T05:35:30Z")
Remember “an entire civilization will die tonight, never to rise again”? ---
**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 19, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6483 "2026-06-19T05:43:46Z")
Canada, Greenland, and Cuba will be the new (same as the old) distractions. Epstein, anyone? ---
**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 19, 2026, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6484 "2026-06-19T06:03:37Z")
@smithsb _Squirrel!_ ---
**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 19, 2026, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6485 "2026-06-19T08:14:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Remember “an entire civilization will die tonight, never to rise again”? [Yes.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pteria) ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6486 "2026-06-19T11:27:51Z")
The paint job on the Reflecting Pool [is peeling already](https://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/18/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-paint-peeling-off-see-photos/90614066007/). Who’s surprised that a company that knows nothing about painting pools did a bad job painting a pool? Anybody?? ---
**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 19, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6487 "2026-06-19T12:03:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And it seems we’ve reached the “back out of the deal after everyone realizes what a total loser Trump is” stage of things. Every day is TACO Day now! Olé! 🌮 ---
**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 19, 2026, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6488 "2026-06-19T12:50:55Z")
Also, hydrogen peroxide is used to remove paint. Guess what they’ve been pouring into the pool to kill the algae? ---
**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 19, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6489 "2026-06-19T13:22:02Z")
Doesn’t the Reflecting Pool also have chlorine in it’s water? ---
**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 19, 2026, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6490 "2026-06-19T13:23:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Every day is _TACO Today_! @ThelmaLou One week ago. GMTA! ---
**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 19, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6491 "2026-06-19T13:40:46Z")
> **[Blue material peeling off bottom of Reflecting Pool, days after costly...](https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/politics/blue-material-reflecting-pool-renovation)** > > Some blue material at the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is peeling off, days after the pool was painted blue and refilled as part of a multi-million dollar renovation ordered by President Donald Trump. Probably coincidental, but it’s amusing that the paint started peeling off after the pool guys poured hydrogen peroxide into the pool. According to AI results: > Hydrogen peroxide is actively used as an industrial and commercial paint remover. Peroxide-activated strippers are specifically formulated to break down tough coatings like polyurethane and epoxy without relying on toxic, traditional solvents like methylene chloride. But of course, we saw pictures of people pouring gallon jugs of H2O2 into the pool, rather than the ~8,000 litres they would have needed to kill the algae. I’m sure it was far too dilute to harm the paint. Probably it was poor preparation by pool guys who didn’t actually know much about pools. ETA: With my new job, it’s impossible for me to keep up with these fast-moving threads. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6492 "2026-06-19T13:51:47Z")
From what I understand, painting granite is a bad idea in general. It was almost certainly doomed from the start. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6493 "2026-06-19T13:53:16Z")
If you had to pick one thing, just one, that symbolizes the malignant arrogance, corruption and incompetence of the Trump regime, it’d be this. Attempting to co-opt a national monument into a symbol of himself, while letting his cronies make a buck. But the contractors are so ignorant and the work done is so incompetent that it ends up destroying itself. ---
**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 19, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6494 "2026-06-19T13:54:07Z")
It would have been even more trumpian if they had tried to cover it in gold leaf. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6495 "2026-06-19T13:54:10Z")
If you wrote a comedy with that plot 20 years ago it would’ve been considered too over the top ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6496 "2026-06-19T13:55:58Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > It would have been even more trumpian if they had tried to cover it in gold lea Um..[.they did](https://people.com/trump-administration-pays-millions-to-cover-bronze-horses-in-extra-thick-23-75-karat-gold-11987153). To the horses at the nearby Lincoln Memorial, anyway. ---
**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 19, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6497 "2026-06-19T13:56:08Z")
Idiocracy was made exactly 20 years ago and it came close. But yes, many at the time said it was over the top. > **[Idiocracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy)** > > Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed and produced by Mike Judge, who co-wrote with Etan Cohen. The plot follows United States Army librarian Joe Bauers and prostitute Rita, who undergo a government hibernation experiment and awake five hundred years later in a dystopian anti-intellectual society. The cast includes Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, and Brad Jordan. > The concept of Idiocracy dates back to a ... ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6498 "2026-06-19T14:02:53Z")
But Idiocracy, while prescient, did not go so far! Camacho was way better as a president than Trump. He identified a problem, recognized that he didn’t know how to fix it, found someone who did and let him do it without interfering. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6499 "2026-06-19T14:09:48Z")
That’s the thing Idiocracy was not prescient. Satire, by its nature, is not a crystal ball. It’s a mirror. Mike Judge held up a mirror to our society and, to mix metaphors, turned the dial up to 11. Or so we thought. We leaned into the worst aspects and impulses of our society to the extent the exaggeration became mild by comparison only a few years later. While there are exceptions, people are terrible at actually understanding ourselves and identifying the worse angels of our nature. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6500 "2026-06-19T14:11:04Z")
The movie “Don’t Look Up” had the same problem. It was intended to be a biting satire, but by the time it was finished and released, events had gone so far that it seemed to be just a mild parody. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=324) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=326)