# 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:** 36
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/701 "2025-12-17T15:28:59Z")
I wonder whether he has been told that the planes are painted with **[lemon juice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Z5FlfojLs)**. Classic textbook Dunning-Kruger, so good it feels like made up. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/702 "2025-12-17T15:34:09Z")
Well, some bombs have chutes to slow them down, give the bomber a chance to get further away. Or maybe he meant Nevil Shute, but to my knowledge, none of his books or movies bombed. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/703 "2025-12-17T16:05:27Z")
Well, find some some ladders, and those bomber crews could have a nice weekend in Vegas ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/704 "2025-12-17T16:54:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Depending on the uniform and the occasion, one can wear a reduced “rack” or one must wear all awards. I only had three, [National Defense Service](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/National_Defense_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg/2560px-National_Defense_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg.png), [Good Conduct](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/U.S._Navy_Good_Conduct_Medal_ribbon.svg/1200px-U.S._Navy_Good_Conduct_Medal_ribbon.svg.png), and [Expert Pistol Shot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/U.S._Navy_Expert_Pistol_Shot_Ribbon.svg/2560px-U.S._Navy_Expert_Pistol_Shot_Ribbon.svg.png), so the question never came up. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/705 "2025-12-17T20:02:44Z")
> [@solost](#): > > There’ve been a few Truth Social posts lately-- this ‘Venezuela armada’ post here, the horrible Rob Reiner post, and others-- that are odd in that they perfectly mimic trump’s rhetorical style (long single paragraphs, random capitalized words, all-caps ‘shouting’ of certain sentences, the stupid “thank you for your attention to this matter” catchphrase, and of course the gallons of spilled bile), but are otherwise grammatically sound. No childish misspellings, no mangled syntax, well constructed compound sentences. > > Supposedly from a guy who, speaking in public at a Christmas event just the other day, went on a 10 minute long rambling tangent about Peruvian snakes. Who is writing his TS posts for him these days, I wonder? My guess? ChatGPT. He’s been using a lot of emdashes lately and there’s no way a man who uses quote marks for “emphasis” and capitalizes random Nouns knows how to make an emdash on an iPhone keyboard. As much as I loathe generative AI, I did a little experiment and asked it to write a Truth Social post in Trump’s style, and this is what I got; > STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP: > > I am hereby issuing a FULL AND COMPLETE PARDON to Sean Combs — a very talented, very successful individual. MANY PEOPLE are saying this is the right thing to do, and frankly, they’re right. > > Sean has contributed TREMENDOUSLY to American culture, business, and music. Jobs, creativity, WINNING — things we like in this country. What he’s been through has been treated very unfairly by a system that often gets it WRONG. I know a rigged process when I see one. > > This pardon is about FAIRNESS, JUSTICE, and giving people the chance to move forward and keep doing great things for America. We believe in second chances — and sometimes FIRST chances that were never properly given. > > America is about SUCCESS, REDEMPTION, and COMMON SENSE. Today, we deliver all three. > > MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN 🇺🇸 It’s missing some of his signature touches, but it’s not THAT far off. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/706 "2025-12-17T20:07:44Z")
Dan Bongino is on the way out. > **[FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on](https://www.ms.now/news/bongino-fbi-leaving)** > > Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/707 "2025-12-17T20:26:03Z")
The “presidential walk of fame” now has plaques written in Trump’s style to remind him why he hates them and how none of them are as good as he is. > **[White House adds insulting plaques below Biden and Obama portraits](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-portraits-biden-obama-trump-b2886535.html)** > > Newest additions appear to be part of the administration’s ongoing ‘troll’ campaign against former presidents and Trump’s opponents ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/708 "2025-12-17T20:36:59Z")
What’s funny about those plaques is, no one but WH staff can see them. If the oh-so-helpful media didn’t tell us, no one, including the former presidents, would know. Let trump have his private petty bullshit, as long as it stays private. Just as they’ll have to sandblast the toilets, the next administration can quietly remove and burn these stupid, childish tantrum plaques. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/709 "2025-12-17T20:43:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > My guess? ChatGPT. He’s been using a lot of emdashes lately and there’s no way a man who uses quote marks for “emphasis” and capitalizes random Nouns knows how to make an emdash on an iPhone keyboard. Hah, that’s funny, I came to the same conclusion in the ’ [Donald Trump says he is going to give an address on prime time tv on December 17, 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-says-he-is-going-to-give-an-address-on-prime-time-tv-on-december-17-2025-are-you-going-to-watch-to-see-what-he-says/1025766)…’ thread, after @Sherrerd suggested the address itself may be AI-enhanced: > [@Donald Trump says he is going to give an address on prime time tv on December 17, 2025. Are you going to watch to see what he says?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-says-he-is-going-to-give-an-address-on-prime-time-tv-on-december-17-2025-are-you-going-to-watch-to-see-what-he-says/1025766/106): > > Hey, that just gave me a thought-- I and others have wondered about his recent Truth Social posts-- they are more long, crazy and unhinged than ever, and the rhetorical style is pure trump, but they suddenly have almost perfect spelling and syntax, which is very unlike him (see the recent Rob Reiner or Venezuelan armada posts, for example). Speculation was, maybe an aide was writing the posts for him, with better grammar but adopting a perfect bilious trump tone. I wonder if trump is running h… ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/710 "2025-12-17T20:52:46Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Just as they’ll have to sandblast the toilets, the next administration can quietly remove and burn these stupid, childish tantrum plaques. There will be no need to. By that time, trump’s crews will have bulldozed the W.H., razed it, and sprinkled lime on the ruins. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/711 "2025-12-17T20:55:55Z")
please pardon if this was posted somewhere else but I can’t find it. white house plans to dismantle NCAR the National Center for Atmospheric Research which is CRAZY [https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/trump-administration-break-climate-research-center-ncar-rcna249668](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/trump-administration-break-climate-research-center-ncar-rcna249668) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/712 "2025-12-17T20:59:49Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > What’s funny about those plaques is, no one but WH staff can see them. “The emperor has no plaques!” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/713 "2025-12-17T21:07:13Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > “The emperor has no plaques!”. They are like our stealth planes. invisible to the eye. If you ask trump… ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/714 "2025-12-17T21:32:43Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Please don’t give marihuana a bad rap, I am sure his evil behaviour is not the weed’s fault! But doesn’t schedule 3 mean that you Have to get a prescription ( and that you can’t grow it yourself in any state ) ? I’m not a Dr. so there is no way I’d know this for sure. Also, doesn’t this give Dozo The Clown a ready made list of people who buy weed so he can send ICE over to their houses and collect their guns? He had a brain fart about weed and guns a few months back. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/715 "2025-12-17T21:47:03Z")
I said this upthread somewhere but since the Controlled Substance law scheduling individual compounds was set by Congress, rescheduling marijuana would require Congress to amend the law. They have been arguing over this very issue since the Obama administration. Trump cannot reschedule it by EO. Legally. I am sure he thinks he can. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/716 "2025-12-17T21:59:06Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Legally. I am sure he thinks he can. \< Venezuelan yachtsmen enter the chat. \> ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/717 "2025-12-17T23:23:38Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > “The emperor has no plaques!” Amyloid plaques though … ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/718 "2025-12-17T23:31:59Z")
Well played ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/719 "2025-12-17T23:32:55Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > They’re actually called “Mumbai doors” now Take my upvote and leave. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/720 "2025-12-17T23:35:26Z")
> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ma7kr5oa5d2c)** > > Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw... Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976. Dipshit wants to start a war on the basis of something that happened during the Ford administration. Stay tuned for next week when we invade Algeria for sponsoring piracy along the Barbary Coast. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=37)