# 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:** 381
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7601 "2026-08-02T01:10:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And I worry some will be killed Or worse! ---
**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:** [August 2, 2026, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7602 "2026-08-02T02:40:01Z")
Guess what? IT’S TACO TIME! > **[Trump hypes up planned Iran attack — then cancels it citing last-minute deal](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2677646649/)** > > President Donald Trump hyped up a planned U.S. attack on Iran Saturday night – one with “power not seen since World War II” – before revealing he’d called off the attack citing a new agreement with the Middle East nation.“The U.S.A. is locked and... > “The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II. Despite this, we have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters [sic] of a deal has been agreed to,” Trump [wrote](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117023461141824050) on his social media platform Truth Social. > > "This would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat. Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL.” I give it until Wednesday for it to cone out that the “deal” involves a major US capitulation, Trump declaring it to be fake news, and then going back to threatening to destroy the entire country. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2026, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7603 "2026-08-02T03:06:30Z")
Rinse & repeat. 🙄 ---
**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:** [August 2, 2026, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7604 "2026-08-02T08:11:10Z")
Not seen since World War II? So that would be the use of nuclear weapons, right? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7605 "2026-08-02T12:05:44Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Rinse & repeat. Sheesss, give him time, he has to call his broker. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7606 "2026-08-02T14:00:26Z")
Perhaps it’s worthy of its own thread; perhaps not. But here goes: Of all Trump’s vanity projects, which ones will actually happen? On a scale of “No Way in Hell”, to “It’s Inevitable, Might as Well Face It”: - The Ballroom - The Arch - Trump-class battleships - Fleet of icebreakers ---
**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:** [August 2, 2026, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7607 "2026-08-02T14:22:04Z")
You have them in perfect reverse order, but I’d say “the ballroom” with drone hangar and armor plating isn’t going to happen, but something along the range from stinking hole in the ground to half of what trump wants will be done, but not before 2028. And we’ll be lucky if it doesn’t crack and fall over by 2034. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2026, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7608 "2026-08-02T14:30:25Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Perhaps it’s worthy of its own thread; perhaps not. But here goes: > Of all Trump’s vanity projects, which ones will actually happen? This is peripherally, tangentially, i.e., _sorta_ related to the thread I started early in July: > [@POLL: Yea, Nay, or Something else- Trump will bulldoze the entire White House to the ground](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590): > > The premise is that he will do this before he leaves office, however that happens. Multiple selections allowed. Agree, disagree, dispute, quibble, object, or discuss however you want. [poll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/1) I don’t think he’s going to actually finish (as in _all done, debris cleared away, open for business_) ANY of the things you listed: > [@jsc1953](#): > > - The Ballroom > - The Arch > - Trump-class battleships > - Fleet of icebreakers But he will make enough of a half-assed _start_ on each one to leave behind pile of smoking, ugly, incomplete wreckage/paperwork/legal tangles that the country will spend decades never being quite able to put right. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7609 "2026-08-02T14:43:06Z")
My comment from last October: > [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8922): > > What makes me think there’s going to be some sort of typical Trump fuck up and we’re going to be looking at scaffolding on the White House and a big dirt pit right next to it for the next decade? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7610 "2026-08-02T14:48:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Jeannine, meet bus. Bus, meet Jeannine! Jeanine Pinot should put the wine box away for awhile and start reaching out to her contacts at Fox News to see if she can get her old job back. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7611 "2026-08-02T17:09:43Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I see that the Idiot In Charge is now going to let a no-bid contract to build eleven gigantic ice breakers like the Finns have, and in collaboration with them. He’s doing this because Russia has more than we do. Seriously. Russia, of course, has some 15,000 miles of Arctic coast to try to access in some of the harshest climate in the world, whereas we have maybe 1,000 miles of same. Well, _obviously_ he’s looking forward to all that Greenland coastline he’s about to acquire. Gotta plan ahead! ---
**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:** [August 2, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7612 "2026-08-02T20:54:44Z")
It’s almost you’re his Muse. 😁 ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7613 "2026-08-03T03:19:40Z")
[Guess whose accounts Capital One closed after a money laundering review.](https://www.aol.com/articles/capital-one-says-closed-trump-231856000.html) > [@](#): > > SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Capital One Financial hit back on Friday against a lawsuit over its decision to close the Trump Organization’s bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money laundering experts. > > The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump’s family business. Capital One is seeking to dismiss the case by casting doubt on claims of illegally debanking — or denying services on religious or political grounds — the Trump Organization. > > The Trump Organization and Capital One did not immediately respond to requests for comment. > > Capital One has never accused the Trump Organization of illegal money laundering. But Friday’s filing argues that “documents and Plaintiffs’ own allegations make clear that Capital One closed Plaintiffs’ accounts for anti-money laundering (“AML”) reasons. The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review by Capital One’s AML team in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guidance.” > > Capital One gave notice of its plans to close more than 300 Trump-affiliated bank accounts in March 2021. The Trump Organization and Eric Trump, the president’s son, filed a lawsuit in March 2025 in a Florida federal court, alleging the accounts were closed because of Capital One’s “woke” beliefs and its desire to benefit from the political mood after the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. [Felon’s former fan girl in on the groud floor for a new political movement](https://www.aol.com/articles/mtg-tucker-carlson-announce-movement-200715000.html) > [@](#): > > [Marjorie Taylor Greene](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-marries-brian-glenn-las-vegas-b3023778.html) announced a new political “movement” with a group of MAGA stalwarts who have broken with President Donald Trump over the [ongoing Iran war](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-trump-israel-gaza-hormuz-strikes-b3025743.html). > > On August 1, the former Georgia Republican posted a photo on X depicting her alongside media personality [Tucker Carlson](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-leaving-republican-party-b3000767.html), [Rep. Thomas Massie](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/thomas-massie-election-2028-campaign-b2983264.html) and [Joe Kent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-maga-truth-social-carlson-kent-b2959458.html), the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Also pictured was conservative journalist [Brian Glenn](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-marries-brian-glenn-las-vegas-b3023778.html), whom Greene married in Las Vegas on Tuesday. > > “We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise,” Greene wrote. “But he’s betrayed us all. Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center,” she continued.” > > “The movement has begun,” she added. > > Greene, [who resigned from Congress in January](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-resign-congress-trump-b2870288.html), had previously discussed the possibility of forming a new political party after growing “fed up” with Republicans. [**Captain** and Senator Kelly has some mighty good advice for Rip van Simple.](https://www.aol.com/articles/senator-tells-trump-ditch-real-205722000.html) > [@](#): > > A Democratic senator and veteran once again took aim at the Trump administration [over the Iran war](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-trump-us-war-live-hormuz-attack-israel-saudi-b3025947.html) on Sunday, claiming that the president’s chosen diplomats Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are [not up to the task.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-rogan-trump-iran-war-b3025905.html) > > Sen. Mark Kelly was on CBS’s _Face the Nation_ as he implored the president to put more experienced diplomatic representatives in charge and ditch his “real estate buddy” Witkoff, as well as his son-in-law. > > Both men have helmed negotiations between the U.S. and Iran for months as the Trump administration has struggled to get out of a war it promised would only last for a few weeks. > > "I would suggest to him, though, that the solution is not to do the same thing that he’s been doing — not to have his real estate buddy and his son-in-law in charge of a negotiation,” said Kelly. > > Instead, he said, Trump should “put some people in here that know how to do this, how to talk to the Iranians, and put a coalition together, bring our allies back together.” ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7614 "2026-08-03T04:04:26Z")
I hope there’s still room under the bus for Todd. > **[Acting AG Todd Blanche reaches deal with holdout senators to scrap $1.8B...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/acting-ag-todd-blanche-reaches-deal-holdout-senators-end-18b-anti-weap-rcna590525)** > > The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to hold a vote to advance Blanche’s nomination Tuesday. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7615 "2026-08-03T06:43:52Z")
So Blanche reaches a “deal” with the Senate. Gets confirmed. Then rips up the deal and does whatever the hell he wants anyway. Trump gets his money and no IRS audits for him and his family for life. Ha ha, suckers. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7616 "2026-08-03T06:54:24Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Of all Trump’s vanity projects, which ones will actually happen? In the wake of, and in homage to DOGE, maybe Donald could do some permutations and combinations, whittling the list down to just two items: Battleship icebreakers, and a ballroom in the entablature of the arch? ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7617 "2026-08-03T08:25:54Z")
I think this is older but an accurate description of this administration: [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/xbo8gkmigjyllyvkhjxi) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/xbo8gkmigjyllyvkhjxi) ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7618 "2026-08-03T13:12:06Z")
I imagine trump was very impressed with her resume and felt a kinship with her. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7619 "2026-08-03T13:41:02Z")
Please don’t make the mistake of NOT going to YouTube and searching out Paula White speaking in tongues. Please. And/or other short-form documentaries that introduce you to her in a more fulsome manner. Quite. The. Piece. Of. Work. Thank you for your attention to this matter!! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7620 "2026-08-03T13:53:45Z")
Which begs the question: why does the White House have a “Faith Office”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=380) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=382)