# 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:** 404
**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 18, 2026, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8061 "2026-08-18T11:11:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > “I feel confident we’re accomplishing both of those goals.” > > I’m curious what evidence he has the vanity war is accomplishing either of those supposed goals. It’s right there in his statement. He _feels_ it, so no need for that pesky ‘evidence’ nonsense. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2026, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8062 "2026-08-18T11:20:57Z")
Trump has posted an AI picture of himself riding a horse, next to George Washington on a horse. I’m not going to post the image, or give him the extra publicity. I just want to observe that, as far as I can tell, Trump cannot and bever has ridden a horse. Maybe the two of them were coming from inspecting that damned ballroom. ---
**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 18, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8063 "2026-08-18T11:22:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > In her grudging defense she’s probably been told to “walk naturally” but she has a long stride and is following someone much shorter holding the camera who is slower and walking backwards. That’s a likely cause of the awkwardness, sure, but it buries the more important bit: Did no one watch the video first, and pick up on that weirdness? Or did they see it, but were too afraid to point it out? It’s dead easy to make a bad video, but I’d expect the US government to be just a little more on the ball about what it actually sends out into the world. Well, I _did_ expect that, before Trump. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8064 "2026-08-18T11:45:38Z")
Huh? What? Why was that Kelly Loeffler video made? And these people can’t even put fake paper in a fake binder. Good lord. I’m not a sailor. The idea to move the island of an Aircraft carrier to the middle is completely and totally insane. “Lets move all control towers to the middle of the runway. It will look better” Oooops. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8065 "2026-08-18T13:07:12Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Good lord. I’m not a sailor. The idea to move the island of an Aircraft carrier to the middle is completely and totally insane. “Lets move all control towers to the middle of the runway. It will look better” I think its only middle in terms of front and back, not side to side. And a carrier with it’s bridge in the middle has happened before, behold [HMS Furious](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-hms-furious-was-a-british-royal-navy-aircraft-carrier-active-in-the-171500943.html), in the initial stages of being transformed from Battlecruiser to proper flat top carrier. ---
**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 18, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8066 "2026-08-18T13:14:51Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Huh? What? Why was that Kelly Loeffler video made? And these people can’t even put fake paper in a fake binder. Should have called Mitt Romney. He’s got plenty of full binders. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8067 "2026-08-18T13:54:55Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > In her grudging defense she’s probably been told to “walk naturally” but she has a long stride and is following someone much shorter holding the camera who is slower and walking backwards. Hence the awkward stride. She’s also a bad actress. And yet she does a flawless Jar Jar Binks. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8068 "2026-08-18T14:07:05Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Good lord. I’m not a sailor. The idea to move the island of an Aircraft carrier to the middle is completely and totally insane. “Lets move all control towers to the middle of the runway. It will look better” There’s a reasonably good chance he’ll nominate a horse to the Supreme Court before it’s all over. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8069 "2026-08-18T14:11:06Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > President Donald Trump contradicted Vice President JD Vance on Monday after the vice president asserted last week that the administration’s top priority amid the Iran war was to keep the price of oil and gas down for Americans. So, the goal of the war is to return to the status quo from before the war that we started? Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8070 "2026-08-18T14:13:27Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > I think its only middle in terms of front and back, not side to side. Well, they are in the middle front to back. Maybe a little closer to the stern. What possible reason could there be to move the island further to the front or back? Not arguing with you, but what the hell is Trump saying? Does anyone know? Oh, never mind. Trying to unravel the mind of a lunatic goes no where. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8071 "2026-08-18T14:14:44Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > There’s a reasonably good chance he’ll nominate a horse to the Supreme Court before it’s all over. Never, a horse would out smart him. ---
**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 18, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8072 "2026-08-18T14:14:50Z")
Pretty much that, with the additional understanding that Iran now controls traffic through the strait. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8073 "2026-08-18T14:15:55Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > What possible reason could there be to move the island further to the front or back? Not arguing with you, but what the hell is Trump saying? Does anyone know? Same reason he thinks two engines on fighter jets is a good idea. It looks “cool” to the inner 8 year old in him, and he’s naturally a genius who knows better than a bunch of egghead engineers, therefore… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8074 "2026-08-18T14:21:33Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > There’s a reasonably good chance he’ll nominate a horse to the Supreme Court before it’s all over. If the horse replaces Clarence Thomas, I’m all for it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8075 "2026-08-18T14:24:34Z")
Jon Ossoff gets off some good zingers: > [@Ossoff](#): > > He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff claimed during a campaign speech. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar. I like the idea of keeping Natalie “the Human Printer” Harp in the conversation. ---
**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 18, 2026, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8076 "2026-08-18T14:34:15Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Good lord. I’m not a sailor. The idea to move the island of an Aircraft carrier to the middle is completely and totally insane. “Lets move all control towers to the middle of the runway. It will look better” We’ve come to expect insanity from trump. What’s really insane is that the Navy appears to be taking him seriously: > # Navy considers major aircraft carrier revamp to better suit Trump’s aesthetic > > [https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6032559-navy-reviews-carrier-island-design/](https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6032559-navy-reviews-carrier-island-design/) “Trump’s aesthetic”??? 🤦🏽 You mean slapping gold geegaws on every flat surface? When is he going to order that all ships be painted gold? Maybe they’re just going through the motions, hoping he will soon be distracted by some other-- _“Oh, look! A squirrel!”_ 🐿 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8077 "2026-08-18T14:37:48Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Maybe they’re just going through the motions, hoping he will soon be distracted by some other-- _“Oh, look! A squirrel!”_ I suspect (hope!) this is the case. ---
**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 18, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8078 "2026-08-18T14:46:02Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Trump cannot and bever has ridden a horse. But but but – isn’t that what the bone spurs are for? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8079 "2026-08-18T14:47:23Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I suspect (hope!) this is the case. Why won’t anyone stand up to this psychotic sociopathic asshole? We need the big guys in white coats with nets. ---
**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 18, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8080 "2026-08-18T15:09:15Z")
While we’re redesigning carriers, let’s get rid of the angled deck. “The thing sticking out is ugly! Just one runway, front to back.It was good enough for the Enterprise, it’s good enough for our boys! And girls, yes, they get mad if I don’t mention girls, then they get mad if I do. I like girls. Most people don’t know that. Did you know that Star Wars ship was named after a carrier? Most people don’t know that! An American carrier. In space. I think the fine boys in the Space Force need a carrier.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=403) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=405)