# 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:** 388
**Author:** ![billy-jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@billy-jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billy-jack)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7741 "2026-08-06T18:42:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Antibiotics? Those are awfully “woke,” aren’t they? No doubt RFK Jr will be going after those next. I know a 23 year old know-it-all who is convinced that antibiotics (or any medicine and all vaccines, for that matter) only make us weaker and that the only reason that doctors prescribe them is to receive kickbacks from the drug companies. ---
**Author:** ![billy-jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@billy-jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billy-jack)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7742 "2026-08-06T18:47:00Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > But leprosy? Oh. Come. On. We still have it and in greater numbers than most people would imagine, but it is now called Hansen’s Disease. With modern medicine, it is treatable, but it takes a long course of treatment. ---
**Author:** ![billy-jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@billy-jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billy-jack)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7743 "2026-08-06T18:50:08Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Indeed - there was a record high 36 confirmed cases of leprosy in Florida in 2025. Seems that 10-banded armadillos have been one of the main sources. I remember reading as a kid in the 1960s about armadillos and leprosy. I don’t know if they have them, but I have heard of something called an “armadillo race”. Everyone would take off on their dirt bike at the start and the winner was the first one back with a live armadillo. ---
**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 6, 2026, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7744 "2026-08-06T18:53:45Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > **[Pete Hegseth](https://www.realitytea.com/tag/pete-hegseth/)** is facing fresh scrutiny after President Donald Trump selected his wife, Jennifer Rauchet, to chair a new White House commission for military spouses. Hegseth has a wife? A _female_ wife? Huh. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7745 "2026-08-06T18:59:14Z")
A _female_ _ **human** _ wife? ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7746 "2026-08-06T19:12:16Z")
Hegseth may have a wife, but I understand he’s been seen flirting with Vance’s sofa on the downlow. The couch is his side piece. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7747 "2026-08-06T19:15:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > and it spreads via fleas which are much less common these days MAFA! \*Flea-ridden ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7748 "2026-08-06T19:42:23Z")
> [@billy-jack](#): > > but it is now called Hansen’s Disease Like that awful cream soda. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7749 "2026-08-06T21:28:05Z")
There had to be _some_ reason he’s so offended by beards. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7750 "2026-08-06T21:48:23Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “How can I even focus on my military career because I have to worry about how my wife is doing?” said Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, who was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas, when his wife was detained outside a Walmart in front of their 6-year-old daughter in July. _If the military thought that you needed a wife and kids, they would have issued them to you._ /s ---
**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 7, 2026, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7751 "2026-08-07T00:08:05Z")
Trump claims a judge “declared sports unconstitutional”. > **[Trump fires off wild claim at White House ceremony with Team USA: 'Can you...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-white-house-2677669373/)** > > President Donald Trump fired off a wild claim during an ad-lib session at the White House ceremony for Team USA on Thursday. Trump hosted the Olympic team at the White House to celebrate their achievements during the 2026 Winter Olympics and... > “We’re in the process of working very hard,” Trump said. “We had a bad judge’s decision. A judge that knew nothing about sports. Declared sports unconstitutional, can you believe it?” ---
**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 7, 2026, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7752 "2026-08-07T00:48:57Z")
[Is that a new Skrull on the felon’s vacuum chamber?](https://www.aol.com/articles/did-donald-trump-signature-combover-172135000.html) > [@](#): > > One of President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/)’s most recent public appearances is causing speculation that he may have gotten a new hairstyle. > > On Wednesday, Aug. 5, the president, 80, spoke at Las Vegas’ Red Rock Resort about his trade conflicts with the Canadian government, telling the crowd, “Canada’s nasty.” > > “They are. They’re nasty. I love the people, but they’re nasty. Nasty leadership,” he said. > > Outside of politics, however, Trump speech sparked rumors from both sides of the political aisle that he may have undergone a makeover, as his hair appeared fuller and a brighter shade of blond, compared to a Tuesday night appearance on Fox’s _News at Night._ [The felon’s war on science–and scientists–has a new ally.](https://www.aol.com/articles/us-senate-panel-votes-hold-131613000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Thursday asked the Justice Department to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for refusing to answer questions about the COVID-19 pandemic after a Senate committee voted to hold the former top infectious disease official in contempt of Congress. > > Paul sent the referral after the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which he chairs, approved a contempt resolution on a party-line vote with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed. The resolution accuses Fauci, 85, of failing to obey a congressional subpoena. > > The move followed a hearing last week where Fauci, who retired in 2022 as the head of the national infectious-disease agency and a presidential adviser, invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination more than 100 times. > > Paul sent the referral, a formal request to consider criminal charges, after the contempt finding. But the Kentucky senator, a longtime Fauci antagonist, bypassed a referral vote by the full Senate. > > He described a full Senate vote as unnecessary. Democrats said Paul was violating Senate rules by skipping the vote, which would likely fail to achieve the necessary 60-vote majority, and called the move dangerous and unprecedented. Yeah, and of course the pubbies are not following the rules as they try to punish someone for doing their job. [The war on education continues unabated.](https://www.aol.com/articles/us-scrutinizes-more-schools-over-222111000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s administration targeted more universities on Thursday over issues like race and diversity in admissions and pro-Palestinian protests, marking the federal government’s latest crackdown against U.S. schools. > > The Department of Justice alleged admissions practices at Duke University School of Law were biased in favor of Black and Hispanic applicants, citing findings of a federal probe. > > The DOJ alleged the law school “emphasized racial diversity in admissions” and that “a Black or Hispanic applicant has a substantially higher likelihood of admission to Duke Law than a white or Asian applicant with the same academic credentials.” > > The ​DOJ said it sought a voluntary resolution agreement. > > “Duke is committed to complying with the law and will continue to do so in a manner that is consistent with our academic mission,” the university said, adding it was reviewing a DOJ letter. > > The DOJ alleged the same this year about admissions practices in medical schools at the University of California and Yale. The schools said their practices were rooted in merit. > > Trump, who ​casts diversity goals as anti-merit and discriminatory against white people and men, has signed orders ‌to dismantle them. Rights advocates say diversity practices address historic inequities for marginalized groups. [The felon says the media invented a word just for him.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-says-media-invented-word-223808000.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) claims members of the media never used the word “affordability” until he took office. > > On Wednesday, Aug. 5, the president, 80, spoke before an audience at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas to highlight the Working Families Tax Cuts and the state of the economy. > > “Our costs are coming way down. You know, they talk about affordability. I took over the country. The prices were through the roof. In my first day, the press said, ‘What are you going to do about affordability?’ It was a word they devised — affordability. They never used that word before,” he [said](https://www.youtube.com/live/khgwrHbUKnA?si=iGoZMT0rw6euuZ7L&t=4084) during his speech. [Merriam-Webster tells me this about the word:](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/affordability) > [@](#): > > **First Known Use** > > 1647 [So much winning!](https://www.aol.com/articles/us-must-pay-university-groups-232110000.html) > [@](#): > > Aug 5 (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. government to cover a university association’s legal fees after the group won a court ruling that blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from capping some reimbursements related to defense research. > > U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston awarded more than $450,000 in attorney fees to the Association of American Universities under a 1980 federal law that allows litigants to recover their legal costs from the government in some civil cases. > > Twelve universities and three academic trade groups, including the AAU, sued the U.S. Department of Defense in May 2025 after the department said it would cap at 15% the rate at which universities can be reimbursed for “indirect costs” of funded research, such as costs for facilities, equipment and research staff serving multiple projects. The AAU and the other plaintiffs argued that the new policy was unlawful. [Doge gone, but the damage remains.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trumps-doj-watchdogs-gutted-misconduct-100449000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - In one courtroom after another, federal judges have accused U.S. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department of an extraordinary spate of misconduct, including making false statements, failing to comply with court orders and improperly using the legal system to harass political opponents. > > Such rebukes might be expected to trigger a flurry of activity within the department’s two internal watchdogs tasked with policing the government’s most powerful law-enforcement agency. > > But shrinking staffs and fears of political retribution have largely sidelined the offices, limiting new investigations into the administration, according to Reuters interviews with four former DOJ staffers and a review of department employment and investigations data. > > Nearly half the workforce at the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has left during Trump’s second term, while about 17% have departed the Office of Inspector General, government records show. Many retired or took buyouts the administration offered to shrink the federal workforce, according to the records and three people familiar with the departures. > > The number of new OPR investigations has declined to a 20-year low even as misconduct complaints soar, the review found. The government watchdogs are “afraid of doing any watching,” said one former DOJ official who left last year. [Speaking of Doge…](https://www.aol.com/articles/doges-wall-receipts-riddled-inaccuracies-155646000.html) > [@](#): > > _Washington_ — The Department of Government Efficiency’s infamous “Wall of Receipts” listing billions of dollars DOGE said it saved was riddled with inaccuracies and unsubstantiated claims, a congressional watchdog found. > > A Government Accountability Office [report](https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108615.pdf?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) released Thursday confirmed previous reporting from [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-wall-of-receipts-shows-errors-tallying-billions-in-savings/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) and other news outlets that found the DOGE team’s updating “Wall of Receipts” overstated how much it was saving taxpayers by billions of dollars. As of July 7, 2026, GAO found that $110 billion in savings DOGE claimed from slashing federal contracts, leases and grants displayed savings estimates that were incorrect or lacked supporting evidence. > > For instance, GAO found that 108 of the 264 leases DOGE said it terminated were already in the process of being eliminated before DOGE was established by President Trump in January 2025. > > In another case, GAO said DOGE reported it saved $1.7 billion by identifying a Pentagon Defense Health Agency IT contract to terminate, but it never followed through on either terminating or slashing the funding. The GAO probe, requested by Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Gary Peters, covered contracts, grants and leases DOGE listed from Jan. 20, 2025, through July 7, 2026. So it was all a lie. Color me unsurprised. [So the felon thumbs his nose at SCOTUS again.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-issues-executive-orders-aimed-210546537.html) > [@](#): > > Washington — President Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders in his latest effort to refuse citizenship to some children born in the United States, after the Supreme Court [struck down](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump-decision/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) his earlier [executive order](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) aiming to end birthright citizenship. > > “We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright, it was close,” Mr. Trump said in an Oval Office signing on Thursday. “But a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments.” > > One [order](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/ending-birth-tourism/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) the president signed Thursday targets commercial “birth tourism,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said, while the [othe](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/continuing-to-protect-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17)r expands the definitions of people ineligible for birthright citizenship, such as children of foreign citizens who lobby on behalf of foreign governments. > > “This has been something that people have talked about, not only for years, but for decades,” Miller said of “birth tourism.” > > “The idea that people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretending to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland or they want to go visit a monument or go to a national park, but the real reason they’re here is to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen, leave our country, and then have a U.S. citizen child,” Miller said. “It gives them access, under this broken system, to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth, and all the other rights and privileges that belong solely to Americans.” [The cult boos a murdered police officer.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-rally-turns-awkward-attendees-205748708.html) (The formatting is from the linked article.) > [@](#): > > During **[President Donald Trump](https://www.mandatory.com/tag/Donald-Trump)**’s rally on Aug. 5 in Las Vegas, an emotional moment occurred. **Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo** paused his remarks after some people in the crowd booed while he mentioned fallen police officer **Austin Abdelnabi**. Joe Lombardo immediately corrected the crowd and then gave the officer a moment of silence. > > According to [PEOPLE](https://people.com/trump-rally-boos-fallen-officer-after-hearing-arabic-last-name-12035739), Lombardo spoke at Red Rock Casino before President Trump took the stage. He began to pay tribute to Officer Austin Abdelnabi, who died in the line of duty earlier this month. As Lombardo said the officer’s name, loud boos came from part of the audience. Lombardo immediately replied, “No, no, we’re not booing him. He’s the officer that passed away here recently.” > > Lombardo then asked for a moment of silence for the fallen officer. Austin Abdelnabi was 30 years old and served as a Marine before he joined the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in 2023. He died on Aug. 4 during a gun battle after officers responded to a report about an armed man in east Las Vegas. Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Abdelnabi’s sacrifice was heroic and a man who gave his life for the community. [The felon’s administration defunded abstinence only programs.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/were-very-thrown-loop-trump-160000123.html) > [@](#): > > The Trump administration’s sweeping grant cuts are hitting sexual abstinence programs long favored by Republicans. > > Earlier this summer, the administration abruptly terminated tens of millions in funding for groups teaching children and teenagers about how to prevent pregnancy and sexually-transmitted infections. > > But unlike other federal funding cuts that the administration [has admitted were targeted to hit states](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-concedes-canceled-research-grants-blue-states-rcna589129) that [did not vote for Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/trump-administration-cancel-clean-energy-grants-democrat-states) in 2024, this purge included conservative Christian groups and others that have operated for years in red states teaching the benefits of abstinence to children and teenagers. > > The issue came to a head on Thursday, when a group of sexual health clinics and county governments squared [off with the Trump administration](https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1-Complaint.pdf) in a DC courtroom over the recent cuts and changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program that they say could cause a backslide in [the significant progress](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/births/teen-births.html) the country has made in recent decades in reducing minors’ unintended pregnancies. > > The federal Health Department did not respond to questions about these cuts. White House spokesperson Allison Schuster said in a statement to POLITICO that the administration is cracking down on “the program’s former egregious, inappropriate, and harmful materials” and “redirecting” the funding “to properly promote healthy lifestyles, prevent teen pregnancy, and encourage health literacy.” > > Yet in addition to defunding some Planned Parenthood state chapters and health departments in states run by Democrats, the Trump administration sent termination letters in June to groups in Texas, South Carolina, West Virginia, Mississippi and other GOP-controlled states whose curricula stressed abstinence and healthy relationship dynamics, and accused them of “normalizing sexual activity for minors.” > > “Two of our curricula, for example, are abstinence-only, and we were very thrown for a loop that those curricula were called out in our termination letter,” said Rena Dixon, CEO of the South Carolina educational nonprofit Fact Forward. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7753 "2026-08-07T00:49:18Z")
> It was unclear which decision Trump was referring to, but he was likely talking about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a lower court’s ruling about excluding transgender athletes from women’s sports. But the Supreme court was on the side supporting the ban, so either Trump has taco’d again and is in fravor of trans athletes, or else he’s deeply confused. I know which side my money’s on. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7754 "2026-08-07T09:30:35Z")
> [@billy-jack](#): > > I know a 23 year old know-it-all who is convinced that antibiotics (or any medicine and all vaccines, for that matter) only make us weaker. Like seatbelts prevent us from developing our natural immunity to windshields. > [@ricepad](#): > > Hegseth may have a wife, but I understand he’s been seen flirting with Vance’s sofa on the downlow. The couch is his side piece. Whereas Vance is married to his couch but has a side table. ---
**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 7, 2026, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7755 "2026-08-07T10:06:06Z")
[The convicted fraud’s treasury secretary is jonesing against migrants getting paid for work.](https://www.aol.com/articles/bessent-announces-crackdown-undocumented-immigrants-221550000.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration is moving quickly to crack down on criminal enterprises, cartels and **undocumented immigrants** using the U.S. financial system for their payroll schemes, illicit financing and **other fraud**. > > In remarks to Arizona bankers Thursday, Bessent said, “This administration will not tolerate blatant abuse of our financial system, **nor will it permit risks posed by the extension of financial services to illegal aliens**.” > > He told the bankers the administration is relying on their help to make good on its efforts to root out fraud and financial schemes carried out by those in the U.S. illegally. > > “We do not ask bankers to assume the burdens of border enforcement,” Bessent said. “But we depend on banks to do what you do best: know your customers, identify risks as they arise, and report suspicious patterns before they metastasize into criminal schemes.” Nice touch of _Minority Report_, isn’t it? And what risk is there in paying someone for the work they do? [Finally, the cultists seeking the felon’s imprimatur have reverted to cannibalizing each other.](https://www.aol.com/articles/deep-red-tennessee-governors-race-100846000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn won Tennessee’s Republican primary election for governor, U.S. media projected on Thursday, making her the heavy favorite in the November general election. > > In a battle between two of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress, Blackburn, 74, defeated U.S. Representative John Rose, 61. They ran to replace two-term Republican Governor Bill Lee, who is leaving office because of term limits. ---
**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7756 "2026-08-07T11:59:20Z")
The only winners here are the descendants of Warren G. Harding. Teapot Dome will just be one sentence in a textbook. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7757 "2026-08-07T14:53:03Z")
> “Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence. The President has no – and claims no – constitutionally assigned authority over that property, which is designed and maintained for the use of all Presidents, current and future, and for the American people,” the DC Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-1 ruling siding with the nation’s top historic preservation group. > > “The National Trust has shown, compellingly, that Congress has not ceded unfettered authority to the Executive Branch to dramatically redesign, reshape, and reconstruct the White House – the People’s House – to fit a particular President’s desires,” the court wrote in its unsigned opinion. > > The court said it would pause its ruling for two weeks to give Trump time to appeal to the Supreme Court. **Appeals court says Trump is unlawfully constructing White House ballroom** > [https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/07/politics/white-house-ballroom-appeals-court-ruling](https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/07/politics/white-house-ballroom-appeals-court-ruling) I wonder how long it will take for the Supreme Court to overturn this? ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7758 "2026-08-07T15:34:41Z")
That’s a good question. I know how long it will take Trump to not give a shit. How long was there between Trump saying the new ballroom wouldn’t touch the east wing, and the bulldozers demolishing the east wing? (rhetorical) ---
**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 7, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7759 "2026-08-07T19:30:02Z")
> **[Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117055247374455490)** > > Two Obama and Biden Appellate Court Judges just voted against the desperately needed Military Center, required for the National Security of Washington, D.C., and our Country, itself. Highly Respected Judge, Neomi Rao, stated the following key points,... > Two Obama and Biden Appellate Court Judges just voted against the desperately needed Military Center, required for the National Security of Washington, D.C., and our Country, itself. Highly Respected Judge, Neomi Rao, stated the following key points, among others, in a strongly worded dissent: > > “This was a blatant abuse of discretion…To begin with, the district court had no jurisdiction because the Trust has no standing to stop construction at the White House…[T]he balance of equities overwhelmingly favors the government. The district court elevated the aesthetic displeasure of a single passerby over the government’s security interests in the ballroom and the security risks of leaving an open construction site at the President’s home and office…These errors in equitable judgment require vacating the injunction…The district court seized supervision of construction at the White House, and my colleagues affirm this judicial overreach…Because the injunction is beyond the proper province of the federal courts, construction should be allowed to continue.” > > The decision has been stayed, and does not take effect for a period of time. We will be immediately appealing to the United States Supreme Court. The Military and Secret Service are viewing this horrendous, politically motivated, and unlawful ruling as a National Security threat to our Nation in that the entire Complex is being built for the protection of our Country and, additionally, all future Presidents. The single, integrated project includes Bomb Shelters, State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Facilities, Structures and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass. It is all tied together as one big, expensive, and very complex unit, which is vital for National Security and Military Operations of the United States of America! The Circuit Court’s decision, which is totally wrong on the vital subject of STANDING, of which the plaintiff has none, severely jeopardizes the lives and welfare of the people who work, and will be working, at the White House — including all future Presidents of the United States, and their families, as well as the lives of all those visiting, such as Heads of State and other Dignitaries, and all Americans who wish to visit the historic, beautiful Executive Mansion. The Circuit Court also refused to acknowledge that the desperately needed, and totally secure Ballroom, which is being built ahead of schedule and under budget, is a Gift from President Trump and Great Patriots of the United States of America. There will be no expense to the American Taxpayer. This unjust decision must be overturned by the Supreme Court in its entirety. Thank you for your attention to this deeply important National Security matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP PS: He’s mad at Rosie O’Donnell again. [![](https://truth-archive.us-iad-1.linodeobjects.com/attachments/17546/82d8687959591c29.jpg) ](https://truth-archive.us-iad-1.linodeobjects.com/attachments/17546/82d8687959591c29.jpg) ---
**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 7, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/7760 "2026-08-07T19:50:23Z")
Latest addition to the list of thinks that Trump thinks nobody knows - gold is valuable! > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msjcrlhczz25)** > > one of the roundtable participants gives Trump a literal piece of gold. Trump says, "This is so valuable. People have no idea. Thank you very much." [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=387) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=389)