# 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:** 373
**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 25, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7441 "2026-07-25T14:47:40Z")
He’s still associated with having a spine, unlike anyone in the current GOP. ---
**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, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7442 "2026-07-25T18:48:15Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > What is wrong with associating a trash panda with too little spine to MAGA? Jimothy has the heart of a champion and the soul of a hero. How DARE you besmirch him so! ---
**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 25, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7443 "2026-07-25T19:03:09Z")
I think that members of the Trump administration should read the Wikipedia page on the Smoot-Hawley tariff act of 1930. The one they are using now to put tariffs on their trading partners. > By September 1929, Hoover’s administration had received protest notes from 23 trading partners, but the threats of retaliatory actions were ignored. In May 1930, Canada, the most loyal trading partner for the U.S., took action by imposing new tariffs on 16 products which accounted altogether for approximately 30% of U.S. exports to Canada. Later, Canada forged closer economic links with the British Empire via the British Empire Economic Conference of 1932. Nations other than Canada that enacted retaliatory tariffs included Cuba, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and Switzerland. France and Britain protested and developed new trading partners. … > **The economic depression worsened for workers and farmers** despite Smoot and Hawley’s promises of prosperity from high tariffs. Consequently, Hawley lost re-nomination, while Smoot was one of 12 Republican senators who lost their seats in the 1932 elections with the swing being the largest in Senate history. ---
**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 25, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7444 "2026-07-25T21:24:46Z")
Like that, but probably a bit less obvious. Little flesh-toned rubber stoppers. (At that White House, there’s likely only one tone of flesh to have to match.) ---
**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 25, 2026, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7445 "2026-07-25T21:29:34Z")
**Demento Don lies, screws Michigan. News at eleven**. Canada has confirmed that Trump has misrepresented his claims about negotiating a “better deal” on the Gordie Howe bridge. In fact the terms remain largely the same, Canada will recover their costs before there is any toll revenue to the US, and then it will ultimately revert to 50% sharing. That’s the same deal originally negotiated. The only change is that the federal government will get part of that revenue, instead of it all going to the State of Michigan. So essentially Trump barged into the agreement and took money from Michigan, lol. That’s his “deal”. He won. He got something for himself, image. None of the cult will ever read this - therefore IQ47 remains a “master of the deal.” Also in his mind, the Federal government getting the revenue is the same as him getting the revenue. And the loser? (also required in any of his deals) Michigan. > **[Canada sharing with the U.S.: details of new Gordie Howe bridge deal released](https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/canada-sharing-with-the-u-s-details-of-new-gordie-howe-bridge-deal-released)** > > The details have come nearly two weeks after the federal government announced that the long-delayed bridge will finally open to traffic. ---
**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 26, 2026, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7446 "2026-07-26T01:51:17Z")
Trump’s speech last night plagiarized a joke from a Brad Paisley song. > **[Trump blasted after critics suspect he plagiarized joke during ‘excruciating’...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2677271857/)** > > President Donald Trump faced backlash Saturday after critics accused him of recycling a joke that had circulated online for decades during his speech Friday at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.During the event, Trump joked about a text message... ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7447 "2026-07-26T02:16:37Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > He finally knows he isn’t qualified to clean up road kill [snip] RKF Jr. has entered the chat! > [@Monty](#): > > So, yeah; the corrupt felon is still finding ways to discriminate. I mean, individuals are pikers, when you can instruct your administration to do so to entire states and admit it in _court_. > **[Trump administration admits it canceled clean-energy grants in states that...](https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/politics/trump-administration-grants-democratic-states)** > > Democratic lawmakers accused the Trump administration of abusing its power after officials admitted in a federal court filing they recommended terminating several billion dollars in grants for clean-energy projects based “solely” on states’... ---
**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 26, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7448 "2026-07-26T11:38:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Jimothy […] How DARE you besmirch him so! I’ll besmich him differently next time: > **[AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JIMOTHY](https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/an-exclusive-interview-with-jimothy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3721088&post_id=208516558&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=203721&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)** > > An unfiltered conversation with Seattle's most famous raccoon. ---
**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 26, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7449 "2026-07-26T12:24:36Z")
That was _well worth_ the minimal time it took to read it. Thanks! ---
**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 26, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7450 "2026-07-26T12:58:15Z")
My pleasure, you’re welcome! But remember: this is The Pit. You don’t have to be nice 😉 While I am at it, I have a question. Here is one of the latest epic stupidities perpetrated by President Ineptstein: > **[Trump pitches FIFA boss Infantino for UN secretary-general after World Cup:...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gianni-infantino-united-nations-b3019401.html)** > > President Donald Trump insists his friend is ‘respected by everyone around the world,’ ignoring the many controversies that threatened to throw soccer’s biggest tournament into turmoil If you click on that link a picture is shown that looks like a screenshot from a TV channel, and “The White House” is on the upper right corner. Maybe this is the official White House channel? Liked by 37k people? Curioser and curioser. But that is not yet my question. What I wonder about is the line at the bottom: > TEXT “POTUS” TO 45470 (get it? subtle, right?) FOR WHITE HOUSE UPDATES It’s not the first time I see this message. So my question is: How much does it cost to text “POTUS” to this numer, and what cut does President Ineptstein get from that fee? And what fucking White House updates are meant? What wing he is currently delmolishing? What toilet he is using to which purpose? ---
**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 26, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7451 "2026-07-26T16:58:08Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > How much does it cost to text “POTUS”… You mean besides forfeiting every bit of self-respect you possess? ---
**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 26, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7452 "2026-07-26T17:44:05Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > My pleasure, you’re welcome! But remember: this is The Pit. You don’t have to be nice 😉 Ah. Indeed. Hopefully, you’ll understand: I simply hadn’t had coffee at that point, and wasn’t nearly awake enough to tell you – gratuitously – to fuck right the fuck off. Rain check? 🙂 ---
**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 26, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7453 "2026-07-26T18:17:39Z")
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz calls for himself to be arrested on Meet The Press with Kristen Welker. > WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack because our stockpile has been depleted? > > WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden. > > WELKER: But you acknowledge they’re depleted? > > WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail. > **[July 26 – Amb. Mike Waltz, Sen. Mark Kelly and Sheinelle Jones](https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/july-26-amb-mike-waltz-sen-mark-kelly-and-sheinelle-jones-267286597508)** > > NBC News Chief Data Analyst Steve Kornacki breaks down the latest polling 100 days out from the midterms. Amb. Mike Waltz discusses if the Trump administration is still pursuing a diplomatic way out of the war with Iran. Sen. Mark Kelly shares his... ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7454 "2026-07-26T18:25:50Z")
The old “blame Biden” gambit. Republicans are so very creative. ---
**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 26, 2026, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7455 "2026-07-26T21:53:36Z")
“There’s no shortage and it’s Biden’s fault there is.” The old Republican talk out of both sides of your ass gambit. How do people swallow this shit? ---
**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 27, 2026, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7456 "2026-07-27T00:12:03Z")
Remember when nobody could watch the Trump-Biden debate in 2024 because the wind wasn’t blowing and so TVs didn’t work? Trump does. > **[‘Remember that?’ Trump again asks Americans to recall something that never...](https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/remember-that-trump-again-asks-americans-to-recall-something-that-never-happened/)** > > U.S. President Donald Trump asked Americans on Thursday if they remembered a massive television outage two years ago. ---
**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 27, 2026, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7457 "2026-07-27T05:21:50Z")
Again? Wouldn’t the appropriate adverb there be _still_? Anyway, I’m little swamped now so I cannot check, but all I’m coming up with for a list of things he’s asked people if they’ve remembered them is the Revolutionary War airports and this nonsense, along with a few gratuitous swipes of the ever-popular racism and Islamaphobia. What are some other examples, please? ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7458 "2026-07-27T07:57:32Z")
Things Trump posted on Truth Social today. Just a normal Sunday. 11:16 AM - AI photo of Kaitlan Collins as Dylan Mulvaney 11:43 AM - AI image attacking Bruce Springsteen 3:22 PM - An AI art installation of Trump throwing a ‘Trump 2028’ hat 3:23 PM - Photo of him standing next to a TV with Biden’s final Oval Office address playing 3:23 PM - AI art of him giving his speech at the WHCD 3:23 PM - AI photo of Chris Christie fighting Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler 3:23 PM - AI image attacking Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert 3:24 PM - Trump 2028 poster that says “give the enemy nightmares.” Nobody is scared of him 3:24 PM - AI image attacking Rosie O’Donnell 3:25 PM - Fake movie poster of him in Star Trek 3:25 PM - Another Trump 2028 poster 3:31 PM - AI poster of the U.S. attacking Kharg Island in Iran 3:31 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker 3:32 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x2 3:33 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x3 3:47 PM - Posts an AI image of an Iranian ship being blown up 4:36 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x4 4:36 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x5 4:37 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x6 4:39 PM - AI image of him cosplaying as a Navy Commander 4:39 PM - AI image of him smoking a cigar wearing a Trump 2028 hat 4:40 PM - AI poster of him with founding fathers 4:41 PM - Poster of himself saying “the man who saved America” which couldn’t be further from the truth 4:41 PM - Weird photo of him standing behind a pillar 4:45 PM - AI image of himself saying “Guardians of the world” 4:47 PM - AI image of American jets saying “Guardian Angels of the world” 4:48 PM - Another AI photo of an Iranian ship being blown up 4:49 PM - AI image of himself saying “Guardians of the world” x2 4:52 PM - AI photo of lightning over the Capitol building saying “panic in DC” 4:53 PM - A photo of himself saying “plan trusted” 4:54 PM - AI image of an eagle and a jet saying “America is back” which certainly isn’t true 4:54 PM - AI photo of a beach saying “Trump’s America” which is ironic given that the image is fake lol 4:55 PM - Photo of him giving a speech 4:56 PM - Photo of himself pointing at members of his cabinet 4:57 PM - AI photo of himself and JFK 4:58 PM - Fake photo of himself wearing a pink Trump 2028 hat 4:59 PM - AI photo of a Trump 2028 mug surrounded by crying people 4:59 PM - Photo of him putting on his Trump 2028 hat at the WHCD 5:00 PM - Posts graph downplaying American casualties in Iran 5:01 PM - AI photo of an air filter between the United States and Canada 5:04 PM - Attacks Republican Senator John Thune 5:04 PM - AI image of him as a doctor 5:16 PM - Fake movie poster of him and George Washington in a time travel movie ---
**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 27, 2026, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7459 "2026-07-27T08:03:38Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > 5:16 PM - Fake movie poster of him and George Washington in a time travel movie I’m sorry but what ---
**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 27, 2026, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7460 "2026-07-27T08:07:19Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m sorry but what [![](https://truth-archive.us-iad-1.linodeobjects.com/attachments/17359/1da36896c90aadfa.jpg) ](https://truth-archive.us-iad-1.linodeobjects.com/attachments/17359/1da36896c90aadfa.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=372) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=374)