# 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:** 364
**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 18, 2026, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7261 "2026-07-18T03:46:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I thought smoke was good; or is that only when it comes from burning coal and gasoline? _American_ coal and gasoline. ---
**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 18, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7262 "2026-07-18T04:06:36Z")
[And now we know who’s responsible for the bad wildfire smoke monitoring.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/trump-decimated-satellite-program-ve-204535329.html) > [@](#): > > When Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE boys started [snipping wires](https://www.yahoo.com/news/young-doge-engineer-now-access-191756207.html) across DC, they took out critical programs like the government’s premier [climate research website](https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/government-scientists-fired-trump-launch-150518930.html) and the [hurricane-hunter aircraft](https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5313131/doge-cuts-at-noaa-will-impact-hurricane-forecasting-and-data-gathering-on-storms) gathering data on dangerous storms. > > While they were at it, the Trump administration also [ripped up a project](https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R49026) that would have vastly improved the country’s ability to monitor wildfires. The GeoXO program was a project originally encompassing six satellites that would greatly improve the resolution available to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to monitor atmospheric conditions like wildfire smoke, as well as weather events like lightning strikes, and climate observations such as color changes in the ocean’s surface. Are you surprised? [What’s in a name?](https://travel.yahoo.com/news/articles/airline-reacts-passenger-boycott-trump-093624909.html) > [@](#): > > United Airlines is reportedly preparing to allow passengers free flight changes if they’d rather not pass through President Donald J. Trump International Airport. > > The airport formerly known as Palm Beach International was officially renamed in honor of the [80-year-old president](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pew-poll-finds-u-image-102439814.html) last week, the latest in a string of landmarks to bear Trump’s name since his return to the White House for a second term in January 2025. > > For travelers who’d prefer to steer clear of the newly rebranded airport, United plans to offer complimentary flight changes to nearby Fort Lauderdale or Miami, according to an internal memo [obtained by Live And Let’s Fly](https://liveandletsfly.com/united-airlines-avoid-trump-airport-free-change/). > > The airline would allow eligible passengers to switch airports without paying typical change fees, giving anti-Trump flyers an easy off-ramp. No doubt the convicted felon will try to have United’s license to operate canceled. ---
**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 18, 2026, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7263 "2026-07-18T04:36:44Z")
Corruption in this administration, unthinkable. Well, maybe not. Let’s go to the FCC. A couple of the FCC commissioners accepted tickets to the Kennedy Center’s annual awards gala from Paramount shortly after the FCC approved the merger with Skydance media. Olivia Trusty was gifted $12,000 tickets, and Brenden Carr sat in a private skybox. Tickets for those are $125,000. > **[FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/fcc-took-pricey-gifts-from-paramount-as-the-company-needed-approval-for-deals/)** > > FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company. ---
**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 18, 2026, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7264 "2026-07-18T05:28:49Z")
> [@billy-jack](#): > > Maybe he thinks… 100 to 1 he doesn’t. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7265 "2026-07-18T09:09:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Dementia Donny says he’s going to tariff Canada for not raking their forests. Next, he attacks Iran for not combing their deserts. ---
**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 18, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7266 "2026-07-18T19:29:19Z")
Regarding the Blue Angles low pass over the beach crowd that sent chairs, tents, etc .. flying; both the pilot and Commander recognized the error. The administration, no. **That’s the sound of Freedom! Semper fi and Hooyah,"** Navy Acting Secretary Hung Cao **“That’s the sound people in other countries hear before we kill their people”** Me to my kids growing up while jets fly over the house during fleet week. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7267 "2026-07-18T19:52:51Z")
Lisa Murkowski points out that under Trump’s voter suppression bill, rural Alaskans would have to spend over $1,000 to register to vote. > **[Murkowski: SAVE Act could require $1,000 trips to register to vote](https://www.newsweek.com/murkowski-save-act-could-require-1000-trips-to-register-to-vote-12214305)** > > The Alaska Republican warns the SAVE Act could make voter registration more difficult for rural and Native communities. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7268 "2026-07-18T20:26:13Z")
Since Hegseth has announced mandatory testosterone checks for servicemen and women over the age of 30 a shots if they’re found lacking, it got me thinking. Does someone connected to Trump have an interest in producing and distrubting testosterone? i.e. Where’s the grift going? Also, a significant number of Trump supporters absolutely hate the idea of forced vaccination. Are they okay with this? ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7269 "2026-07-18T20:51:39Z")
> [@billy-jack](#): > > He could just announce his own AI service soon and take a cut out of the billed “proceeds”. Which would surprise no one. > [@Smapti](#): > > Back in his first term he somehow convinced himself that Scandinavian countries don’t have wildfires because they “rake the forest”, It’s certainly possible that he really does believe that. But notice how consistently his Batshit beliefs are spouted when it’s _to his advantage_: - he can charge tariffs (which Americans pay, but who cares—it’s still Donald who has business owners trooping through the Oval Office offering him bribes for exemptions) when he claims that Canadians are at fault for fires due to not raking - he can prevent the construction of wind farms that he believes ruin the view from his properties, by claiming to believe that windmills cause cancer - he can cut funding to public health by claiming to believe that injecting disinfectant cures COVID, etc. He claims insane things–and each one, always, leads to **an advantage for his own business interests or ability to raid government funds to spend on his own projects**. ---
**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 18, 2026, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7270 "2026-07-18T21:52:32Z")
I’m fairly ignorant of most stuff “medical”, but just how much testostone is a woman supposed to have??? What if the test shows they have too much??? Well, we know the answer… ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7271 "2026-07-18T21:55:45Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Since Hegseth has announced mandatory testosterone checks for servicemen and women I’m not sure if he’s including women in the testosterone tests. The reports I’ve read say reporters have asked clarifying questions, but not received an answer. > [@Odesio](#): > > Also, a significant number of Trump supporters absolutely hate the idea of forced vaccination. Are they okay with this? I don’t think he took a survey before announcing the new program. But the testosterone supplements are going to be voluntary, from what I understand. At any rate, if you don’t like forced vaccinations, the military is not for you. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7272 "2026-07-18T22:29:41Z")
I suppose the testosterone tests might be, in part, a threat to locate and “out” trans people. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7273 "2026-07-18T22:30:54Z")
> **[Gingerspiced (@gingerspiced.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/gingerspiced.bsky.social/post/3mqwr7lofjk26)** > > Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" > > U.S. Military: \*suffers crushing defeat to the Persians\* ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7274 "2026-07-18T22:40:06Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > locate and “out” trans people "Trans"formers? A really stupid movie, I guess Kegsbreath believes it is a documentary. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7275 "2026-07-18T23:05:37Z")
Transformers are real formers. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7276 "2026-07-18T23:45:08Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > I’m not sure if he’s including women in the testosterone tests. The reports I’ve read say reporters have asked clarifying questions, but not received an answer. He never considered women. Never does. ---
**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 19, 2026, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7277 "2026-07-19T00:42:59Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > > [@Dr.Drake](#): > > > > locate and “out” trans people > > "Trans"formers? A really stupid movie, I guess Kegsbreath believes it is a documentary. Why not? His boss thinks Hannibal Lecter is a real person. [Only the best peope, edition 999 3/4.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/off-duty-colorado-ice-employee-221114355.html) > [@](#): > > An employee of a company that runs an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Colorado is under arrest after shooting and injuring a woman on Thursday evening. The incident happened after the woman participated in a protest in front of the facility earlier that day, according to the Aurora police department. > > When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body. She had a friend with her, who was unharmed. > > Police said they stopped a man in his vehicle not far from the scene. They seized his car and gun and identified him as Brandon Booth, 42, an employee for Geo Group. > > “We are aware that an off-duty Aurora ICE Processing Center employee was involved in a shooting incident,” a spokesperson for Geo Group said in an email. “This individual has been placed on unpaid administrative leave, and we will fully cooperate with law enforcement.” > > Geo Group is a $4bn company that runs a vast network of private immigration detention centers and state prisons across the US. The company has deep ties to the government with numerous multi-year contracts with the Department of Homeland Security for detention facilities, transportation services and immigrant-tracking programs. In June, the former Geo Group executive David Venturella was [named the acting director of ICE](https://www.npr.org/2026/06/03/nx-s1-5836625/geo-group-private-prisons-ice-close-ties). [Guess what happens to people who practice good ethical behavior in this administration. (Yes, that’s rhetorical.)](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/top-us-tax-lawyer-forced-163332145.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. tax agency’s top attorney was forced from his role in recent days after refusing White House demands to participate in tax audits, according to ‌three people familiar with the matter. > > Ken Kies, the Internal Revenue Service’s acting chief counsel and Treasury Department ‌assistant secretary for tax policy, told administration officials their requests would violate a law prohibiting the president, vice president and other White House ​officials from ordering the IRS to “conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer,” said the people. They spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisals. > > That law is part of the protections that insulate the tax system from political tinkering, and tax officials consider it the primary safeguard against weaponization of the tax ‌code. [More multitasking: war on foreigners, education, and journalists in one battle.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-limits-stays-students-journalists-153124820.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump’s administration finalized rules Thursday that impose stricter limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in the United States, the latest bid to tighten legal immigration in the country. > > Under a change that could be implemented as soon as September, foreigners on student visas would be admitted for the length of their academic program up to a maximum of four years. > > Foreign journalists would be limited to stays of just 240 days, or around eight months, but could apply for extensions of similar duration. Chinese nationals would get just 90 days, with extensions of 90 days. Here’s one huge problem with this asininity. While my major is technically a four-year degree, it really depends on when you start at the university due to the course rotation. One may end up attending for five years. And that’s not the only major that happens with. [No shit, Sherlock!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/let-real-explosive-diarrhea-outbreak-134359393.html) > [@](#): > > On Thursday, the _[New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/well/cyclospora-taylor-farms-lettuce-taco-bell.html)_[reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/well/cyclospora-taylor-farms-lettuce-taco-bell.html) that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had linked the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an infection notorious for inducing explosive diarrhea, to iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms that was supplied to Taco Bell. > > Per the reporting, Taco Bell said it was voluntarily pulling the lettuce from select states where it received the contaminated produce: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. An [announcement](https://www.cdc.gov/cyclosporiasis/outbreaks/07-26/index.html) from the CDC warned the public not to eat food items with shredded lettuce from Taco Bell, but hasn’t identified Taylor Farms as the source. > > But while Taco Bell may have served the tainted lettuce, it would be remiss to lay all of the blame on the fast food chain (although one aggrieved customer [is already suing it after contracting the illness](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/07/16/man-sues-taco-bell-says-illness-left-him-unable-to-function/90951353007/)). > > The contamination occurred at the farms or facilities where the food was processed, from a single supplier in Mexico, Food and Drug Administration officials said. The supplier, Taylor Farms, has been involved in previous outbreaks, including another outbreak of cyclosporiasis in a salad mix in 2013. > > Taco Bell, to its credit, also [immediately pulled](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/taco-bells-makes-urgent-changes-185753337.html) its ingredients from some of its locations last week as soon as it learned about the situation, according to local reports. > > And then there’s the broader political context that many experts [are drawing attention to](https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2026/07/13/unresolved-cyclospora-outbreak-raises-questions-over-cdc-cuts/): how the Trump administration has slashed funding to the CDC and paralyzed the nation’s food safety bodies. > > Last February, shortly after Trump took office, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) dissolved its National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, which provided scientific guidance on food safety policy. Ryan Cooper [at _The Prospect_ notes](https://prospect.org/2026/07/16/how-donald-trump-created-worst-diarrhea-outbreak-cyclosporiasis-food-safety/) that the committee was working on advice for foodborne illness outbreaks before being terminated. The FDA also shut down its National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection. > > Not spared during the wave of cuts that wreaked the federal government, the USDA [lost over 20,000 workers last year](https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/12/usda-employee-departures-inspector-general-report-00702855), with 913 of them coming from its Food Safety Inspection Service. That’s enough of the article to clue you in. [Ever heard of doing a job halfheartedly? Here’s the handcuff version.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/plainclothes-ice-agents-left-man-213132025.html) > [@](#): > > Two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents left a man partially handcuffed on the ground Monday after they attempted to arrest him at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas and onlookers confronted them, according to police and federal officials. > > A video of the incident obtained by CNN shows a man in a light blue polo shirt yelling as he’s being held to the ground by the agents. His shoe had fallen off, and his luggage was pushed over to the side. > > The agents – a woman with a white crossbody bag, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a face mask, and a man in khaki pants, hooded sweatshirt and backpack – appear to handcuff him, video shows. > > During the encounter, onlookers stopped and can be heard on video questioning the ICE agents. As more travelers stopped, a uniformed Transportation Security Administration officer stood in front of the agents and the man, creating a makeshift perimeter, video shows. > > “Back up, it’s law enforcement,” a TSA officer can be heard saying. “Everyone back up.” > > Shortly after, the ICE agents walked away, leaving the man and saying nothing to the TSA officer attempting to control the crowd or the onlookers. Some of the travelers briefly followed the agents, asking who they were. In a separate video, others were heard shouting at the TSA agent, questioning whether something would be done about the incident. [Maybe he shouldn’t’ve been getting mulligans his whole life.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/par-course-trump-forging-ahead-113516295.html) > [@](#): > > Whenever President Donald Trump gets an idea for a major project or renovation in Washington, DC, a pattern has emerged: move forward and ask questions later. > > Public sagas over Trump’s proposed “[triumphal arch](https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/trump-arch-commission-of-fine-arts?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo),” the East Wing [ballroom](https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/politics/trump-east-wing-ballroom-commission-vote?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) construction and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool [renovation](https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/11/politics/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-blue-paint-lawsuit?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) have followed this playbook – provoking outcry and numerous legal challenges. > > Now, the greenways of a manmade peninsula just south of the National Mall is next on Trump’s quest to remake the nation’s capital in his style, and they’re poised to be made over in a way that’s par for the course for this president. > > The administration is on track to push ahead with turning the 300-acre East Potomac Park and its public golf course into a championship course without first getting approvals from two key agencies that have oversight of DC public spaces. > > Neither the National Capital Planning Commission nor the Commission on Fine Arts have received any golf course plans from the Trump administration to review, officials from both told CNN. Neither agency meets in August, and ground is supposed to be broken by the start of the following month. > > And based on what has been publicly reported, a project of this complexity and ambition would typically require months of regulatory reviews to examine environmental impact, questions over historical preservation, planning and design, the officials at each agency said. > > On Friday, the administration provided a federal judge overseeing a legal challenge to the project with new information about the venture. It included a disclosure that the government did not finish testing soil from the demolition of the East Wing that was deposited onto the golf course before deeming it was safe. [Whoever it was upthread who said the grifter was upset only because he wasn’t cut in was on the money.](https://finance.yahoo.com/media-advertising/articles/trump-media-pitched-100-000-165416714.html) > [@](#): > > NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s social media company has discussed charging Wall Street traders and investment firms as much as $100,000 a month for faster access to the U.S. president’s posts on his Truth Social platform, according to ‌people familiar with the matter. > > Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, has in recent weeks also pitched a discounted plan of $60,000 per month if the firms sign up for ‌a three-year plan, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the discussions are confidential. > > TMTG on Thursday unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed called “Truth API” to provide banks and trading firms the fastest access to posts from the 10 most influential ​Truth Social accounts, but did not give any pricing details. [Hey, the boss hallucinates “facts”; why not let the AI legal aide do the same?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/judge-scolds-doj-submitting-filing-091814931.html) [quote] A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump scolded the [Department of Justice](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-doj-imposes-case-quotas-115844896.html) for submitting a court filing that included fake case law, which appeared to have been hallucinated by AI. The case involved an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee who had been granted a bond order that was automatically delayed pending appeal. The delay had since expired, making the issue moot, Judge Hala Jarbou of the Western District of Michigan wrote Thursday in what should have been a short and straightforward [case dismissal](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.120609/gov.uscourts.miwd.120609.11.0.pdf). But Jarbou was also forced to address the DOJ’s response to an earlier court order that cited a non-existent case supposedly from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. “It seems this citation was likely produced by generative artificial intelligence,” Jarbou wrote. “It should be obvious that any attorney who uses AI must scrupulously review its work product to ensure that the cited cases exist and that the citations accurately and fairly represent the underlying case law.” [quote] ---
**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 19, 2026, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7278 "2026-07-19T01:19:50Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > he can charge tariffs (which Americans pay, but who cares—it’s still Donald who has business owners trooping through the Oval Office offering him bribes for exemptions) when he claims that Canadians are at fault for fires due to not raking He can’t charge a tariff on Canada for wildfire smoke, nor will USAians end up paying for it, because USAians aren’t buying the smoke (well they are but euphemistically and then on US based noxious emissions). What he could do is impose a cross-border penalty, a multinational sanction, an extraterritorial forfeiture _et al_. on Canada for breeches of US environmental laws, assuming you lot still have them. And that would also require an existing bi-lateral agreement under international law, which the US actively rejects as undermining American sovereignty and it’s Constitution. The sanction the Canadians would hence ignore, at minimum citing _force majeure_. > [@Truman Capote](#): > > _The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection._ ---
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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > He never considered women. Never does Except to cancel their promotions or force them to retire. ---
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> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > breeches of US environmental laws, assuming you lot still have them Hmmm… 🤔 Didn’t those get Doge’d? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=363) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=365)