# 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:** 372
**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 24, 2026, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7421 "2026-07-24T06:06:34Z")
Remember how outraged the Republicans were about the four dead in Benghazi and how they pretended that Hillary Clinton said “What difference does it make?” about those deaths (rather than about whether the attack was spurred by a film or not)? Boy, I bet they’ll be up in arms about this. Any day now, yup… ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7422 "2026-07-24T12:35:13Z")
Since I’ve been rewatching Breaking bad, Trump’s down playing the casualty numbers reminded me of this [scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaYdNR9tgTc) in which Walter White down plays a airline disaster for which he was indirectly responsible. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7423 "2026-07-24T12:45:16Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Also, even by his own metrics that’s not such a great record. If the Afghanistan conflict killed 2000 US soldiers in 20 years or an average of 100 per year = 34 per quadrimester, and Trump’s Iran war’s first quadrimester has killed more than half that many, that’s not a trivial casualty rate. And that’s without any troops on the ground in Iran. Ground pounders usually make up most of the casualties in any war. How many aircrew were lost in Afghanistan? How many troops did the Afghans kill _outside_ of Afghanistan? Iran is shooting down planes and attacking bases and ships that are sometimes hundreds of miles outside their own borders. It’s a fundamentally different type of war. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7424 "2026-07-24T13:18:38Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > It’s a fundamentally different type of war. …altogether. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7425 "2026-07-24T13:21:31Z")
It’s a fundamentally different type of war. ---
**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 24, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7426 "2026-07-24T13:47:30Z")
Shirley. There. I said it. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7427 "2026-07-24T13:52:15Z")
You jest! ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7428 "2026-07-24T14:37:59Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > As he spoke to the crowd, a mystery man went viral for mimicking the president’s signature gestures in full view of the cameras. Well, he wasn’t _that_ good. Snoopy did a better job mocking Lucy in A Charlie Brown Christmas. > [@Monty](#): > > almost flawlessly mirroring Trump’s gestures. not in the video I saw. I guess it isn’t that the dancing bear dances well, it’s that he dances at all. . ---
**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 24, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7429 "2026-07-24T14:49:19Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Iran is shooting down planes and attacking bases and ships that are sometimes hundreds of miles outside their own borders. Over Macho Grande? ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7430 "2026-07-24T14:51:22Z")
I’ll never get over Macho Grande ---
**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7431 "2026-07-24T20:22:05Z")
Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown. ---
**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 24, 2026, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7432 "2026-07-24T22:22:00Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > As previously mentioned, the Trump stench may be sufficient to eliminate the need for onions. Somehow it’s never occurred to me that the “big strong man approached me with tears in his eyes” fantasies might have a basis in truth: the fact that getting near Captain Stinky might actually induce tears in the eyes of those unaccustomed to the stench. I suppose the WH staff are either used to it—or maybe wear some kind of nostril-filling blocks. > [@dtilque](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > It’s a tough call: is Trump actually convinced that the PRIMARY race = the General Election\*? Or is he simply following his usual imperative to _Declare Victory All the Time_? > > At the risk of sane-washing him, he probably meant that all the candidates he endorsed won. Which they did. That wouldn’t explain the “Arizona is becoming a Republican state” claim in his post, though. (‘Becoming a Republican state’ implies general-election wins.) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7433 "2026-07-24T23:11:30Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > That wouldn’t explain the “Arizona is becoming a Republican state” claim in his post, though. (‘Becoming a Republican state’ implies general-election wins.) OK, it’s a mixture of “his candidates won” and “confusion over primary and general elections”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7434 "2026-07-25T00:12:04Z")
Sean Duffy has announced the Trump administration will strip funding for bike lanes. Because Duffy states bike lanes are “DEI”. In his announcement he also referred to “Boot-edge-edge” which it took me a second to figure out was Pete Buttigieg, his predecessor as Secretary of Transportation. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7435 "2026-07-25T00:45:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Sean Duffy has announced the Trump administration will strip funding for bike lanes. Because Duffy states bike lanes are “DEI”. So what’s next? No more funding for crosswalks and sidewalks? Require states to remove the markings on existing bike lanes? Forbid states from registering EVs? ---
**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 25, 2026, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7436 "2026-07-25T01:37:20Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I suppose the WH staff are either used to it—or maybe wear some kind of nostril-filling blocks. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aQYXfbrnmCE/maxresdefault.jpg "A Knight's Tale - The Beginning.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQYXfbrnmCE&t=21) ---
**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 25, 2026, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7437 "2026-07-25T03:04:43Z")
The admin is trying to maga-fy Jimothy. > **[Anger after White House makes Jimothy the mutant raccoon MAGA](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/white-house-jimothy-raccoon-maga-b3021232.html)** > > ‘I swear y'all go out of your way to try to ruin everyone's fun,’ one X user grumbled ---
**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 25, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7438 "2026-07-25T03:07:03Z")
Jesus H! Do they have to destroy every good thing in this world? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7439 "2026-07-25T03:10:10Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Do they have to destroy every good thing in this world? It’s a rhetorical question, right? ---
**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 25, 2026, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7440 "2026-07-25T13:39:55Z")
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