# 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:** 348
**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:** [July 4, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6941 "2026-07-04T23:40:19Z")
Can you give us a time stamp or something so we don’t have to watch the whole thing? That’ll be 30 seconds of my life I will never get back. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6942 "2026-07-04T23:42:16Z")
1st 30 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6943 "2026-07-05T01:04:14Z")
> **[Donald J. Trump: ""](https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/39687)** > **[Donald J. Trump: ""](https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/39686)** ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6944 "2026-07-05T01:09:50Z")
Who doesn’t love Pee-Wee Herman? ---
**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:** [July 5, 2026, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6945 "2026-07-05T11:20:34Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Who doesn’t love Pee-Wee Herman? Let’s hope the convicted felon-in-chief doesn’t “let it all hang out” the way ol’ Pee-Wee did to prove that’s not the origin of the nickname. [The felon is always grifting.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/donors-duped-into-giving-cash-to-trump-backed-group-instead-of-bipartisan-america-250-team-report-154341768.html) > [@](#): > > Some philanthropists seeking to support America’s 250th anniversary celebrations were misled into paying out their donations to a partisan initiative backed by the [White House](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/white-house), [House Democrats](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/democrats) have alleged. > > The donors had meant to contribute to America250, a congressionally-chartered board founded a decade ago. But instead they were given routing and account numbers that directed funds to Freedom 250, President [Trump’s](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) own organizing effort established last December, according to Democrats from the House Natural Resources Committee. > > The lawmakers made their claims in a new report published Thursday in which they declined to name the donors or whistleblowers they interviewed as part of their investigation. > > However, they have said their report exposes some of the strategies employed by Trump officials to turn a bipartisan celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States into [a lucrative opportunity](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/inside-trump-takeover-america-250th-151256958.html) for the president’s allies. [And it was the Froth of July thanks to the felon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-launches-america-250th-birthday-053035599.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump has kicked off [the US’s 250th birthday](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/donald-trump-hijacked-america-250-110042309.html) weekend with an extraordinary partisan attack on the “communist menace” in the US, framing its supporters as “the enemy of July 4th 1776”. > > The US president spoke for half an hour on Friday night at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, the latest stop on his tour celebrating the milestone anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence from Britain. > > Greeted by chants of “USA! USA!” and briefly interrupted by a flyover of F-16 jets, Trump praised the four presidents whose faces are [carved into the granite mountain](https://www.nps.gov/moru/index.htm): George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. > > “They were men of action, men of ambition, men of daring, men of destiny and men of truly great intelligence,” said Trump, who has never ruled out [the idea of his own face](https://luna.house.gov/posts/breaking-rep-luna-introduces-legislation-to-carve-president-trump-on-mount-rushmore) being added to Mount Rushmore. “Above all, they were the great men of history.” > > The president asserted that US exceptionalism is rooted not only in its constitution, but its distinctive culture and identity. He condemned recent attempts to “beat the American spirit out of us” and “alienate us from our history”, vowing to an overwhelmingly white crowd: “We are going to give our country its identity back.” > > Trump then abandoned any pretence of making a traditional head of state’s speech designed to rise above the fray, unify political parties and strike a chord with citizens of all persuasions. > > Instead, four months before November’s midterm elections for the US Congress, he picked up on a theme [he has repeatedly hammered lately](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-attacks-democrats-godless-communists-225525722.html): casting progressive Democrats as communists, who pose an existential threat to the US. He was speaking hours after Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York and a democratic socialist, delivered a pro-immigrant address [widely seen as a rebuke of Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/zohran-mamdani-deliver-speech-mark-100025294.html) and his “Make America Great Again” movement. Dang. I could’ve used “Froth of July” for the min-rants thread title! [Whiney baby says “Don’t make me pay!”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/trump-tries-again-delay-5m-214149205.html) > [@](#): > > Lawyers for Donald Trump have requested more time to pay a $5m civil judgment to magazine columnist E Jean Carroll from 2023, days after the US supreme court declined to hear an appeal. > > In [a new filing](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.236.1.pdf), the president’s attorney said that since his former lead counsel, Justin Smith, took up a position as a federal judge last month (a post he was nominated to by Trump), his new lead counsel, Josh Halpern, needed more time “to become completely familiar with the facts and procedural circumstances” of the case. > > A jury awarded Carroll damages after concluding that Trump had sexually abused her in 1996 and then defamed her after she publicly described the attack in 2019. Trump deposited money in an escrow fund to pay the award but is trying to delay the release of an amount that is now nearly $5.8m with interest. > > Trump’s attorneys requested that the court extend the deadline for a response to Carroll’s request for payment to 14 July, arguing that the “plaintiff faces no risk of material harm as a result of granting this request”. > > They argued that the judgment is secured by money held by the court, including “sufficient accrued interest to cover any post-judgment interest that would accrue if the Court were to consider Plaintiff’s motions”. > > In [a response](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.237.0.pdf), Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, countered that Trump’s request for an extension “appears to be little more than yet another play for time”. [Hey, “Melanie”, maybe he can sign your pet project the same time he signs the order for people who violated visa rules the way you did to be deported.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/i-want-this-on-donalds-desk-inside-melania-trumps-ambitious-policymaking-agenda-115500677.html) > [@](#): > > When first lady Melania Trump wanted to host a bipartisan roundtable on Capitol Hill this spring to advocate for her “Fostering the Future” legislation, Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) wasn’t sure if it was a good idea. > > Smith recalled feeling “fearful” because “Democrats really don’t like her husband,” he told POLITICO. > > But Trump was undeterred. She had been discussing a roundtable since November when President Donald Trump signed a “Fostering the Future” executive order, which is intended to improve child welfare outcomes. The order was nice but to give it teeth, Congress needed to step up. > > The roundtable was convened in April. Sitting between Smith, chair of the Ways and Means committee and Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.), the ranking member of the panel’s subcommittee on work and welfare, Trump publicly lamented that only 3 percent of children in foster care earn a college degree and called the legislation a “moral imperative.” > > Then, the roughly half-dozen members went behind closed doors and the first lady, according to Smith, said, “I want this on Donald’s desk by the August recess.” Bon voyage! [The felon thinks speaking on a hot day is just like storming the beaches at Normandy.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/trump-80-goes-off-script-041438728.html) (The link is to a video. This is the first part of the blurb below it.) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump compared his determination to deliver a July Fourth speech after the National Mall was evacuated due to severe weather to U.S. soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy during World War II. [So was the Angel of Death, Stevie, along with a bunch of other plagues.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/stephen-miller-says-events-last-200712578.html) > [@](#): > > White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says he’s conducted careful analysis and decided that god intervened to make Donald Trump president for the 250th birthday of the United States. > > In a bizarre, sycophantic [post on X](https://x.com/StephenM/status/2073407087996969117) on July 4, Miller wrote that the presidency was in Trump’s hands because god had made it so. > > “It is impossible to review the events of the last decade and conclude that it is anything other than divine providence that Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States on the year of America 250, July 4th, 2026,” he claimed. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6946 "2026-07-05T12:11:07Z")
Steven Miller has convinced me to vote for any candidate with a Middle Eastern or Muslim-sounding last name as that person is unlikely to be a white Christian nationalist or white supremacist. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6947 "2026-07-05T12:30:46Z")
Bill Jeff … uncensored: > **[Bill Clinton Rips Trump In July 4th Message On MAGA Excesses & Attacks On...](https://deadline.com/2026/07/bill-clinton-america-250-donald-trump-criticism-1236974218/)** > > Donald Trump may "like Bill Clinton a lot," but the 42nd POTUS showed his deep dislike today where the 45th/47th POTUS is taking the world & the nation on America's 250 birthday. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMYeFOhXYAEml9n?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMYeFOhXYAEml9n?format=jpg&name=small) [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMYeFOpWkAA0gfE?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HMYeFOpWkAA0gfE?format=jpg&name=small) I would advise caution, however, in both the metaphor and the literal. “Ripping [Trump] a new one” can _only_ exacerbate both the leakage _and_ the alleged smell. And the air quality in DC is bad enough already, right now. HARRUMPH! ---
**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:** [July 5, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6948 "2026-07-05T22:20:20Z")
The last paragraph on page one is a thing of beauty. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6949 "2026-07-05T23:20:22Z")
I’m shocked. Truly shocked. OMB has announced there will be no final report or accounting of DOGE, as it officially shuts down. It’s web self-reporting has been deleted. > **[DOGE won’t get a closing report detailing savings or workforce cuts, OMB says...](https://wtop.com/government/2026/07/the-true-impact-of-the-trump-administrations-efforts-to-gut-the-federal-government-may-never-be-known/)** > > The DOGE website went dark last month. And the president’s proposed budget has no funding for the agency. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6950 "2026-07-06T00:28:01Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > OMB has announced there will be no final report or accounting of DOGE No accounting? That reminds me. Why hasn’t anyone tried to impeach the person who was ostensibly in charge of the agency the rat known as Musk was actually running? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6951 "2026-07-06T01:02:59Z")
No reporting on the “savings”? It was a wrecking ball that will end up costing so much more money that it was ever purported to save. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6952 "2026-07-06T01:06:24Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > It was a wrecking ball that will end up costing so much more money that it was ever purported to save. But Musk got his hands on a lot of data, which I believe was the entire purpose of the thing. It was never about saving money for the American public. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6953 "2026-07-06T01:08:57Z")
Grok wept. Not really. Grok jumped up and down like a doofus. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSsWSigvISpdd1DG38MZsHbUxdkuggKTbZOO6k__KOFU-jvLq8Oa6SGAzg&s=10) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSsWSigvISpdd1DG38MZsHbUxdkuggKTbZOO6k__KOFU-jvLq8Oa6SGAzg&s=10) ---
**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:** [July 6, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6954 "2026-07-06T01:29:00Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Why hasn’t anyone tried to impeach the person who was ostensibly in charge of the agency the rat known as Musk was actually running? [Amy Gleason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Gleason). And, the answer to your question is, of course, because no impeachment proceedings against a Trump administration official are going to happen under this current Congress. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6955 "2026-07-06T01:36:36Z")
Plus Musk wasn’t actually an official. Doge was never actually established by Congress and Musk was never confirmed as a department head. No impeachment possible. What he should have been is arrested for theft of data and violation of privacy statutes, but that is never going to happen. Trump is the one who should have been impeached, and convicted and removed from office and arrested - but we all know that will never happen either. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2026, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6956 "2026-07-06T02:42:33Z")
> [@Monty quoting the Guardian](#): > > “They were men of action, men of ambition, men of daring, men of destiny and men of truly great intelligence,” said Trump, who has never ruled out [the idea of his own face](https://luna.house.gov/posts/breaking-rep-luna-introduces-legislation-to-carve-president-trump-on-mount-rushmore) being added to Mount Rushmore. “Above all, they were the great men of history.” And you’re oh for five, bud. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6957 "2026-07-06T03:00:36Z")
Oh for six. He’s not a great man of history either. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6958 "2026-07-06T03:14:36Z")
Oh for 6 doesn’t necessarily mean there is no purpose or benefit. [![](https://despair.com/cdn/shop/products/mistakesdemotivator.jpeg?v=1554328460) ](https://despair.com/cdn/shop/products/mistakesdemotivator.jpeg?v=1554328460) ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6959 "2026-07-06T04:47:53Z")
He has an insanely inflated opinion of himself, combined with a pathologically deep seated insecurity which leads to an obsessive need for constant and total validation. From the people around him but it would seem from history as well. It’s a weird and dangerous combination. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6960 "2026-07-06T04:53:12Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Plus Musk wasn’t actually an official. Doge was never actually established by Congress and Musk was never confirmed as a department head. No impeachment possible. Ah, but that wasn’t my query. I’d asked why the person who was ostensibly in charge, the one confirmed by the senate, hasn’t been impeached. Yes, of course, it’s turned into a rhetorical question as @kenobi_65 indicated. [He’s discovered the infinitesimal mirror!](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-mocked-fox-news-shows-151715000.html) > [@](#): > > The president was seen watching the Fox News coverage alongside First Lady Melania Trump hours after lightning forced thousands of attendees to evacuate the [Great American State Fair](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-america-250-freedom-stage-crowds-reflecting-pool-b3008323.html), with the severe storm pushing back Trump’s address to the nation to 11 p.m. > > Trump then waved at the Fox News crew as he watched along, with host Harris Faulkner saying: “We see you! Hi, Mr President!” > > The inception-esque moment left some social media users in a tizzy, as critics were quick to mock the president over the bizarre visual loop. But the best comment about it by far is this: > [@](#): > > “This is a perfect example of the Trump Administration,” one social media user [added.](https://x.com/sheajordansmith/status/2073765312881713158) [Reflect on this, taxpayer and patriots.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trumps-administration-wont-seek-bids-153504000.html) > [@](#): > > NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Interior Secretary [Doug Burgum](https://apnews.com/hub/doug-burgum) said Sunday as he faced new questions about the troubled project and the taxpayer money involved. > > Like President [Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump), Burgum said he was 100% sure that [vandals caused the damage](https://apnews.com/article/trump-reflecting-pool-paint-algae-6b7b499ada2701a34bc6bc380013ad04) to the century-old Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Trump has charged that a 350-foot gash was cut into the pool’s liner in the midst of recent renovations, while Burgum described it as multiple cuts adding up to that figure. He also said the pool would have to be at least partially drained in the coming week to finish the repairs. > > The repairs will not be opened up to new contractors, he said. > > “We’ll use the same company, because they did a fantastic job,” Burgum told CNN’s “State of the Union." ”Thankfully, the vandalism was small. It was bad. I mean, it could cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair, so then it could fall into a felony … just like damaging any other government property could. But the job that was done to fix the Reflecting Pool was done extremely well." So the outfit which couldn’t do the job right is getting the job to do the job right even though they’re the outfit which couldn’t do the job right after they got the job to do it right. See above about the infinitesimal mirror. And, yes, that high-falutin’ word refers to Rip van Simple’s so-called brain. [We shouldn’t pick on Rip van Simple so much; after all, who hasn’t forgotten to measure the airplaine first?](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-wants-400m-qatari-gifted-170808000.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump hopes to put the [newly outfitted Air Force One,](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-air-force-one-qatar-first-pictures-b3007092.html) a gift from the Qatari government worth $400 million, into his presidential library after leaving office – but he could run into obstacles doing so, from Democrats in Congress to the physical complexities of getting the plane in a building. > > In March, Trump showed off [digital renderings of his future presidential](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-presidential-library-design-miami-b2948813.html) library[and potential hotel,](https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trump-library-presidential-hotel-miami-skyscraper-b2949804.html) which showed the luxury Boeing 747-8 parked in the lobby next to a golden escalator. The plane, which Trump controversially accepted as a gift, is expected to be transferred to his presidential library after his term ends. > > He boasted about it to reporters in the Oval Office, [acknowledging that putting Air Force One](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-trump-qatari-jet-b2905005.html) in the lobby of a skyscraper in the middle of Miami was likely going to be “a trick.” > > While the physical barriers may require some creative thinking, the president must first ensure he can physically keep the plane – something Democratic members of Congress may try to block, should they win back the House in the midterms, [the _Wall Street Journal_ reported Sunday.](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-wants-a-new-air-force-one-in-his-presidential-library-its-not-a-done-deal-e139b569) > > In June, [one Democratic representative sought](https://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/COURTN_047_xml260624123808608.pdf)to stop the aircraft from being transferred to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library with an amendment. Last year, Senate Democrats also attempted to prevent any foreign aircraft from serving [as Air Force One.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-qatar-air-force-one-debut-north-dakota-b3006597.html) > > Both measures have failed, thanks to congressional Republicans. > > But should Democrats pick up more seats in the upcoming midterms, they may have better luck preventing Trump from taking home his $400 million foreign-gifted plane. > > A spokesperson for Rep. Joe Courtney, who introduced the amendment preventing the transfer of the jet to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library, told the _Wall Street Journal_ that Courtney will continue working to ensure the aircraft “remains the property of the U.S. government.” & > [@](#): > > In addition to potential run-ins with congressional Democrats, the president will need to figure out a way to get the physical plane inside the skyscraper. [The felon’s mini-me is trying to have the ~~Duma~~ House of Representatives do the felon’s bidding again.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/johnson-says-house-pass-save-162555838.html) > [@](#): > > Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said the House will attempt to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act “[one more time](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/johnson-blocking-house-agenda-over-195600829.html)” through a budget reconciliation bill. > > “The president has that as a top priority, and so do I,” Johnson told Fox News’s Shannon Bream in an interview on Sunday. “We passed it three times in the House. We’re going to try one more time on a budget reconciliation bill, and I think that will be the way to get it through the Senate, and finally, to the president’s desk.” > > Johnson defended the House version of the SAVE America Act as the “backbone” of what President Trump is pushing for to pass the Senate. > > He said that although a prohibition on mail-in voting with exceptions and other requests made by Trump could be included, the “bigger reach” is to hone the bill to focus on providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote and the presentation of photo ID before casting a ballot — the core components of the bill. > > “That eliminates the problem, all the fraud and everything that everybody’s concerned about in our elections, particularly, frankly, in these blue states,” Johnson said. What fraud in the blue states, Mikey? [Yep, he’s a racist.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-posts-doctored-photo-obamas-235924462.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — President [Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) on Sunday posted a falsified image of former [President Barack Obama](https://apnews.com/hub/barack-obama) and his wife, [Michelle Obama](https://apnews.com/hub/michelle-obama), waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti. > > It came months after another [racist post](https://apnews.com/article/trump-obama-racist-video-a48a6b8884a88f9ec30cd4913e352b51) by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash. > > The latest image shows the Obamas smiling and waving at the top of stairs alongside a baby blue and white presidential plane with graffiti painted on it that included the Democrat’s campaign slogan “Yes We Can,” “Obama” and “BLM,” short for Black Lives Matter. The post also shows graffiti in Arabic on the plane that says the phrase “alhamdulillah,” which means “praise be to God” or “thank God.” > > The use of graffiti is a coded message to remind people of crime and urban decay and has been used in racist messaging against Black people in the past. [Hillary Clinton is 100% correct.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/hillary-clinton-says-trump-t-163205717.html) > [@](#): > > Former Secretary of State **Hillary Clinton** accused President **Donald Trump** of turning two troubled national projects into examples of “corruption,” linking the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation and the planning of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations to no-bid contracts and politically connected spending. > > “Why can’t Trump clean a pool, or throw a real 250th party? It’s not (just) incompetence. It’s also corruption,” Clinton wrote Monday in a post on X. [Guess where the 'rumpers sought shelter on July 4th!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/trump-supporters-took-shelter-african-144744644.html) > [@](#): > > NMAAHC shelter July 4: Thousands of attendees at Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration on the National Mall were directed to take refuge in the National Museum of African American History and Culture as severe thunderstorms rolled through Washington, D.C. > > Thousands of visitors attending the Freedom 250 celebration on the National Mall on July 4 ended up in an [unexpected NMAAHC shelter](https://www.instagram.com/thegrio/) situation after severe thunderstorms forced a mass evacuation of the event, and the irony was not lost on social media. > > Shortly before 7:30 p.m., Freedom 250 organizers directed all attendees to leave the grounds and seek shelter in nearby buildings. Freedom 250 is the non-profit organization established by President Trump and his supporters to celebrate America’s big birthday milestone. The NMAAHC was listed as one of several designated shelter locations, and the museum filled quickly, with NBC News reporting it reached capacity, leaving more than 1,000 people outside the building in the rain. According to a [Threads post by @millesin](https://www.threads.com/@millesini/post/DaaFrs-CHCn)i, the moment was striking enough to go viral. [ABC journalist–a real journalist, mind you–asked the felon’s flack for evidence of the felon’s claims.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/350-foot-gash-stephanopoulos-grills-161642307.html) > [@](#): > > ABC’s **George Stephanopoulos** challenged an official in President **Donald Trump’s** Cabinet on a bizarre claim about vandalization of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. > > In an interview on ABC’s _This Week_ Sunday, Stephanopoulos grilled Interior Secretary **Doug Burgum** about Trump’s repeated claims that vandals made gashes in the pool totaling 350 feet — more than the length of a football field. > > “The 350 foot gash, made by a very sharp knife or razors, is actually numerous slashes over a very long 350 foot length,” Trump wrote in a [June 23 Truth Social post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116800002761284625). “It was purposefully and criminally done, and somebody had to work very hard, probably in the dark of night, to create such a condition.” > > Stephanopoulos pressed Burgum to provide specifics in support of the president’s statement. > > “You’ve reported that vandals caused the damage,” Stephanopoulos said. “The president has repeatedly claimed that vandals cut a 350-foot gash in the pool. That’s the claim that’s echoed in a legal filing by your department. What specific evidence do you have to back up that claim?” > > “Well, we have the actual cuts that were made into the industrial liner,” Burgum said. “And that’s… been measured out. So, that’s just a fact that that’s what we’ve got to go back and repair.” > > “That there’s a 350-foot gash?!” Stephanpoulos said. > > “Well, it’s multiple gashes that add up to 350 feet across that,” Burgum said. "And again, some of this happened early on. …we’ve installed more cameras. I’m not an engineer and being related to actual engineers hasn’t improved my non-existent engineering skills a whit, but even I know what caused those gashes: tension. The dummies the dummy hired stretched the material and it ripped. [Florida 'pubby congressman criticizes the dummy!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/florida-republican-says-deporting-haitians-195438148.html) > [@](#): > > Carlos Giménez, a [Republican](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans) congressman from Florida, broke with the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) on Sunday, calling on the White House to reconsider its push to eliminate temporary protected status (TPS) for [Haitian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/haiti) migrants. > > Returning some 350,000 Haitians to their chaotic, dangerous homeland following the US supreme court’s ruling that the Trump administration can cut off temporary legal protections, would be a grave error, Giménez said. > > “Haiti is a failed state, and I think that deporting Haitians that are under TPS right now, back to Haiti, would be a huge mistake,” he [told CBS News](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j65vA4nhRE0). Giménez also called for the re-instatement of TPS status to Venezuelans after the record-breaking twin earthquakes that struck north-central Venezuela on 24 June. > > Temporary protected status, Giménez said, “is meant to safeguard those who are either fleeing countries that are failed states and are at risk of going back to them or countries that really can’t handle them right now, as is the case with Venezuela that has suffered a natural disaster”. > > Giménez, whose family fled Cuba when he was seven, represents part of Miami-Dade county, home to some 110,000 residents of Haitian ancestry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=347) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=349)