# 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:** 376
**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 28, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7501 "2026-07-28T18:56:49Z")
“Virtually everyone liked Lindsey. Well, not everybody. But it sounds good. I have to be honest. I have to veer from this for a second.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mrq2cgl2462o)** > > Trump takes issue with the Lindsey Graham eulogy he's reading: "Virtually everyone liked Lindsey. Well, not everybody. But it sounds good. I have to be honest. I have to veer from this for a second." “Our nation needs more men and women like that great person, sitting, laying, wherever he may be. I think I know where he is.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mrq2o23uwz2e)** > > Trump on Lindsey Graham's whereabouts: "Sitting, laying, wherever he may be. I think I know where he is. I think he's up there and watching us. I'm pretty sure of it." “It was Lindsey who had the last laugh because while I blew up his phone for one day… Lindsey did not stop calling me for the next ten years. It was not easy.” > ---
**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 28, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7502 "2026-07-28T18:59:38Z")
[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreihky723yjwlz5vaj2wu37h7a24waqz24gjwxhbr7r4iyzouqztxjq) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreihky723yjwlz5vaj2wu37h7a24waqz24gjwxhbr7r4iyzouqztxjq) ---
**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 28, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7503 "2026-07-28T19:54:51Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jJxWIv_AYrc/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump's sleeps through Lindsey Graham's funeral") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJxWIv_AYrc) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7504 "2026-07-28T20:34:07Z")
Recently, he’s been trying to resurrect the communist scare tactics of the 50s. I read this as utter desperation on his part to try to derail the mid-terms. Once the elections are over, win or lose, we’ll likely never hear the word again. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7505 "2026-07-28T20:37:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Donald Trump told supporters once again he wants to “try and get to Heaven” I honestly don’t care whether he gets into Heaven or not. I just hope he goes wherever he’s going _soon_. ---
**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 28, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7506 "2026-07-28T21:08:29Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I don’t know what’s wrong with him- encroaching dementia, malignant narcissism, something else, maybe a combination of things, but the so-called leader of the free world clearly is mentally unwell. Regardless of his mental state he clearly isn’t Presidenting in the usual sense of the word. For me this is a blessing but the MAGAts should be up in arms if they’d put any thought behind it. ---
**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 28, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7507 "2026-07-28T22:07:21Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Recently, he’s been trying to resurrect the communist scare tactics of the 50s. I read this as utter desperation on his part to try to derail the mid-terms. Once the elections are over, win or lose, **we’ll likely never hear the word again**. Just like “caravans.” (My bolding in the quote.) Meanwhile: [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uvct7qsizj6izg6iwlsuwvhq/bafkreihv2enrb5rt2kwbhjksncbl2jsqi63ja7hid2ldpcaivkk3eggqve) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uvct7qsizj6izg6iwlsuwvhq/bafkreihv2enrb5rt2kwbhjksncbl2jsqi63ja7hid2ldpcaivkk3eggqve) ---
**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 28, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7508 "2026-07-28T23:15:26Z")
Can someone take one for the Teemings? I cannot find it now, but sometime a day ago, I’m sure I saw the felon’s blather about a highway in Morocco being named after him. The convict’s rambling seemed like a _Dumb and Dumber_ parody of _Rainman_. My thanks to anyone who can find it or, the universe forbid, must transcribe it from one of his video posts. ---
**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 28, 2026, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7509 "2026-07-28T23:35:13Z")
> **[Road To Nowhere? Trump's Big Moroccan Highway Claim Is Seriously Lacking...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-morocco-highway-truth-social_n_6a661eace4b00feba845c83f)** > > Trump expressed his hope to one day travel a road supposedly bearing his name in North Africa, but officials in the country have yet to confirm the change. Could this be it? I found this on HuffPost and it includes a description of the video that he evidently posted on truth social. > Trump [shared a clip](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116986582428363613) saying that a $1 billion, nearly 655-mile expressway linking the city of Tiznit to Dakhla, located in the Moroccan-occupied territory of Western Sahara, is now the “Donald J. Trump Highway.” > > “What does a road really connect? Two places? Perhaps. But the roads that shape history connect something far greater,” begins a narrator in a dramatic voiceover attached to a clip featuring shots of roadways and desert landscape. > > The narrator goes on to praise the “visionary leadership” of Mohammed VI, the king of Morocco, and the “historic courage” of Trump before declaring that there’s a “new era” in the “Moroccan Sahara.” Apparently Morocco has not commented on this or made any public statement. I typed “Trump Morocco” into Google News and got what look like a dozen or so articles. Mostly from African and Middle Eastern news outlets that I am unfamiliar with and cannot vouch for the veracity of. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7510 "2026-07-28T23:59:12Z")
That article contains this Trump quote: Trump wrote in a caption alongside the clip, “Such a Great Honor! I look forward to traveling the entire length of this Great Highway someday, hopefully soon!” We’re all hoping that his limo doesn’t stop when it hits the water’s edge. ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7511 "2026-07-29T00:11:31Z")
Thanks to both of you. [Here is where I saw it. I love the headline.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-celebrating-highway-being-named-182251000.html) > [@](#): > > **Trump Is Celebrating A Highway Being Named After Him. There’s No Evidence It Even Happened.** ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7512 "2026-07-29T00:16:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > That article contains this Trump quote: Trump wrote in a caption alongside the clip, “Such a Great Honor! I look forward to traveling the entire length of this Great Highway someday, hopefully soon!” I, for one, fully encourage Trump to go for a 700-mile drive through the middle of the Sahara in a disputed territory that’s been stuck in a slow-motion civil war for 70 years. ---
**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 29, 2026, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7513 "2026-07-29T01:33:13Z")
[Deportee and self-deportee spouse found dead next to their alive one-year old in Guatemala field.](https://www.aol.com/articles/guatemalan-man-deported-us-wife-205150000.html) > [@](#): > > GUATEMALA CITY, July 28 (Reuters) - A Guatemalan man deported from the U.S. and his wife, who recently self-deported to join him, were found dead in a sugarcane field in southwestern Guatemala, authorities said on Tuesday. > > Their 1-year-old daughter was discovered alive beside them. > > Nixon Giovanni Perez, 43, and Glendy Marisol Gonzalez, who was in her 20s, were found with their hands tied behind their backs in a field outside the city of Retalhuleu, about 180 km (112 miles) west of the capital, Guatemala City, photos reviewed by Reuters showed. > > Guatemala’s prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the infant girl and the couple’s two other children were placed in the care of extended family members. The pair was reported missing last week, according to local news reports. > > Police said Perez was found with a possible gunshot wound to his neck and Gonzalez had a wound to her head. Shell casings and a pink and white Champion shoe were found nearby. They had no personal belongings. A red striped motorbike was seized at the scene. > > Their deaths underscore the dangers and hardships that can await immigrants deported from the United States amid a mass deportation drive by President Donald Trump’s administration. Take a wild guess on why the husband fled Guatemal in the first place. > [@](#): > > Perez, who had fled violence and poverty in Guatemala, was deported last year. Gonzalez self-deported to Guatemala in recent weeks to join her husband, Rolando said. [War criminal Hegseth has a new ~~bauble~~ assistant.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/medal-honor-recipient-dakota-meyer-162407708.html) (The **bolding** is mine; the trivialization of heroism is the war criminal’s.) > [@](#): > > Dakota Meyer, who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2011 and rejoined the Marines last year after more than a decade as a civilian, is now a special assistant to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to the Pentagon. > > **No information about Meyer’s responsibilities in his new role was immediately available.** > > Meyer, a sergeant in the Marine Reserve, was [awarded the Medal of Honor](https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/dakota-l-meyer?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18928703474&gbraid=0AAAAAo7H1yQU1KrjW6SEVW3Vth6DeIkXL&gclid=CjwKCAjwpqHTBhAcEiwAj2AfuruNDiH-kNHSBm15RB5twDrsT-z0jrRIgsr15iOcCSkM3RHPbR6jwxoCWPcQAvD_BwE) for rescuing dozens of U.S. and allied troops in a 2009 ambush in Afghanistan. He left the Marines in 2010. Meyer reenlisted in the Marine Reserve in 2025 and [completed the service’s arduous Basic Reconnaissance Course in April](https://news.usni.org/2026/04/07/not-the-end-of-the-story). > > Meyer’s role in Hegseth’s office appears to be as a civilian. He is classified as a special government employee in his new role while he remains in the Marine Reserve, said Joel Valdez, the Pentagon’s acting press secretary. [We had a TACO Tuesday!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/deadline-passes-trump-ask-supreme-001338403.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadline passed Tuesday for the Trump administration to ask the [Supreme Court](https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-court) to reconsider its rejection of the president’s birthright citizenship restrictions, with no new filing on the docket. > > President Donald Trump vowed to seek a rehearing shortly after the opinion handed him a loss on a signature issue, but by Tuesday the 25-day window had elapsed with no new activity. > > A petition would face long odds: The court has not agreed to rehear an argued case in more than 50 years. I certainly don’t expect the Bigot-in-Chief to tone down his xenophonic rhetoric, especially as we’re getting closer to the mid-term election. What I expect is for him, yet again without evidence, to blame SCOTUS for yet another of his failures. And why do you think he wasn’t able to carry through on a campaign platform? [Of course it’s because he’s too focused on his own issues.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-asks-supreme-court-throw-234733441.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON – [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) is asking the [Supreme Court](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/supreme-court/) to overturn a [$83.3 million jury award](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/26/donald-trump-83-million-e-jean-carroll-verdict/72325565007/) he was ordered to pay writer E. Jean Carroll, arguing the judgment could permanently leave presidents fearful of civil liability for actions they take in office. > > “If left standing, the decision below will cause significant damage, not only to this President and future Presidents, but also to ‘the Nation that the Presidency was designed to serve,’” Trump’s lawyers said in a July 28 filing. “As this Court has recognized, it ‘would seriously cripple the proper and effective administration of’ government if Presidents feared that their official acts could result in damages liability.” > > But the court already [rejected](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/29/supreme-court-trump-jean-carroll-5-million-sexual-assault/88415519007/) Trump’s appeal in a related case about more than $5 million that a jury said Trump must pay Carroll. > > Both cases are part of a legal battle between Trump and Carroll that dates back to 2019 and includes two civil trials. [Nah, the BiC’s hateful rhetoric had nothing to do with this. Of course it didn’t.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/woman-threatens-call-ice-mexican-201600965.html) > [@](#): > > A video posted on X sparked debate online after an African American mother threatened to call ICE on a Mexican mother and her children at a Back to School Community Block Party in Garland, Texas. > > The confrontation began while waiting in line at the event while their children stood nearby. The back and forth continued for over two minutes as neither parent appeared willing to end the argument. > > The video was shared by X user @LongTimeHistory, and from the moment the creator began recording, the women were engaged in a heated argument. The post on X said that the mothers and their children were attending an annual Back to School Community Block Party in Garland, Texas. The event was hosted by local police school resource officers with the aimed at connecting with families before the start of the new school year. > > So, what was meant to be an occasion for connection turned into a moment of division. The African American mother accused one of the other Mexican women on the line of bad-mouthing her in Spanish. While the Mexican mother said that the woman was talking to her, and the conversation was not about the African American woman. > > Then the Mexican woman said, “She’s talking about she’s gonna call ICE on those Mexicans.” To that, the African American mother replied, “I can and will.” > > The Mexican lady replied, “Go ahead.” After some more back and forth between the two, she reminded her, “I’m from here. And I am Mexican too, but I’m Mexican-American for your information.” The African-American mother apparently had nothing left to say after that statement. ---
**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 29, 2026, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7514 "2026-07-29T01:39:01Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > We’re all hoping that his limo doesn’t stop when it hits the water’s edge. I’'d be fine with it breaking down in the middle of the desert. * * * > [@Monty](#): > > > GUATEMALA CITY, July 28 (Reuters) - A Guatemalan man deported from the U.S. and his wife, who recently self-deported to join him, were found dead in a sugarcane field in southwestern Guatemala, authorities said on Tuesday. > > > > Their 1-year-old daughter was discovered alive beside them. 😭 ---
**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 29, 2026, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7515 "2026-07-29T03:06:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’'d be fine with it breaking down in the middle of the desert. And miss that tremendous splash when the 20,000 pound Beast hits the water? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7516 "2026-07-29T03:22:35Z")
If it goes into the water, watch for Olympians to be indicted for the damage to the sea floor. ---
**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 29, 2026, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7517 "2026-07-29T04:54:24Z")
Turns out that murdering a bunch of fishermen on the high seas DIDN’T stop the flow of cocaine into the US. > **[Turns Out We Blew Up All Those Boats in the Caribbean for Nothing](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a73287733/caribbean-boat-bombings-us-pete-hegseth-ineffective/)** > > As if we needed more confirmation that Pete Hegseth and our defense department are both psychotic and ineffectual. ---
**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 29, 2026, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7518 "2026-07-29T08:58:50Z")
I’m now convinced the card game War is the whole reason why they want to rename the Department of Defense. The game requires exactly zero skill, and barely much more than that in the way of thought. That’s them in a nutshell. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7519 "2026-07-29T11:39:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Virtually everyone liked Lindsey. Well, not everybody. But it sounds good. I have to be honest. I have to veer from this for a second.” I thought about doing another entry of _The Poetry of Donald J. Trump_ using his bizarre asides in his eulogy for graham, but he didn’t veer off the prepared text enough times or long enough to make it worthwhile. ---
**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 29, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7520 "2026-07-29T12:18:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Turns out that murdering a bunch of fishermen on the high seas DIDN’T stop the flow of cocaine into the US. That’s pretty much the war on drugs in a nutshell. Even if they intercept a few shipments measured in tons it really doesn’t staunch the flow of drugs into the country. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=375) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=377)