# 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:** 410
**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 21, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8181 "2026-08-21T16:08:08Z")
Also she may have read it to him personally, all at once, or, more probably in stages given his short attention span. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8182 "2026-08-21T16:08:12Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Here’s the thing: doesn’t she realize that Donnie is incapable of reading a great big _wall o’ text_ like that? After she gave it to him, she likely took it back and read it to him. With tears in her eyes. (Thanks, @Gyrate !) ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8183 "2026-08-21T17:02:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > By now the only logical conclusion for _whatever she is_ is _fluffer_. I was being polite. I assure you I could describe her in terms so misogynistic and crude I’d get a warning, even here in the Pit. But instead I will link to this article. I don’t know if this site is a pure gossip rag or not but the pictures speak for themselves. > **[Natalie Harp's Before-And-After Photos Show Her Transformation, Netizens Say...](https://www.bollywoodshaadis.com/articles/natalie-harp-before-and-after-photos-transformation-resemble-ivanka-trump-83546)** > > Natalie Harp's old vs new pics resurfaced online, sparking discussions around cosmetic enhancements and a deliberate attempt to look like Ivanka Trump. ---
**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 21, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8184 "2026-08-21T19:08:19Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Here’s the thing: doesn’t she realize that Donnie is incapable of reading a great big _wall o’ text_ like that? [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2dnigzpoovty4qcxzgv73fu/bafkreibi2fwqev5tjkj263lpfucu62b7njpkolrwglfhyzsgqxdaors2hy) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2dnigzpoovty4qcxzgv73fu/bafkreibi2fwqev5tjkj263lpfucu62b7njpkolrwglfhyzsgqxdaors2hy) ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8185 "2026-08-21T20:45:10Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Migosh, that is something. Not sure what, but it reads more like a fan letter that a teenybopper would write to Elvis, than something a 35-year-old woman would write to her boss. Or like what one of Manson’s “family” would have written to him. No doubt it’s been mentioned somewhere on the Dope, but: Harp’s brother said she’d been searching for a ‘daddy to worship’ for a while before she found Trump. > [@](#): > > Natalie Harp’s Brother Says Trump Isn’t the First President She’s Written Adoring Letters To: ‘Her Dream Came True Finally’ > **[Whimsy Frankenbeans 🌻 💙 (@thinker2thinker.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/thinker2thinker.bsky.social/post/3mtmgbw3m6c2e)** > > Once again, Trump wasn’t her first choice (like Bibi asking every single president to start a war with Iran). > > https://people.com/natalie-harp-brother-speaks-out-on-her-trump-role-12063290 ---
**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 21, 2026, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8186 "2026-08-21T21:25:13Z")
This reminds me of the “gold Samsung phone” scene in Ocean’s 13 (a _very_ funny movie for these trying times, too!) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yZ50e72fbEQ/hqdefault.jpg "1-2 Cellphone : Ocean's 13 - Samsung") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ50e72fbEQ&t=39s) ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8187 "2026-08-21T21:41:53Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > 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 could have stopped walking long enough for the interview. It’s not like she’s going to do anything useful when she gets to where she was going, ---
**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 21, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8188 "2026-08-21T23:07:25Z")
So now they want to replace an honored hero of Pearl Harbor with a modern draft dodger in naming a new aircraft carrier! From [Why the Navy Shouldn’t Rename the USS Doris Miller for Trump | National Review](https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-would-we-rename-the-uss-doris-miller-aircraft-carrier/) > That is, at least for now, because the U.S. Navy has apparently discussed renaming the _Doris Miller_ the USS _Donald J. Trump._ Read on. > > … > > Navy leadership is discussing renaming a Navy aircraft carrier after President Donald Trump, according to two U.S. officials. > > **The ship** , which is still under construction, **has been set to be named the USS Doris Miller in honor of an enlisted sailor who famously staffed an anti-aircraft gun during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during World War II despite not having been trained on the weapon. Miller, a mess attendant, grabbed the gun during the attack and is credited with shooting down at least one Japanese plane and dragging wounded U.S. sailors to safety.** > > … > > The next U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be built, which would presumably have the hull number CVN-84, could be named the USS _Donald J. Trump_ with minimal controversy, or at least as little controversy as anything involving Trump could have. That ship would probably be commissioned in 2038 or so; Trump would be 92 years old by then. > > **Withdrawing the name of the USS _Doris Miller_ is such a terrible idea that it’s hard to believe anyone with any responsibility ever seriously proposed or discussed it.** I did laugh at a couple of comments in the story: > The USS _Jimmy Carter_ is a fast-attack submarine; **it can descend rapidly, much like its namesake’s approval rating**. Anyway, there is apparently a push to award Doris Miller with a Medal of Honor. From [The Unforeseen Legacy of Doris… | National Museum of the Pacific War](https://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/learn/articles/the-unforeseen-legacy-of-doris-miller) > On Sunday 7 December 1941, Mess Attendant Third Class Doris Miller was retrieving laundry when the Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. **He arrived on deck, where he encountered his mortally wounded commanding officer and carried him to safety. He proceeded to one of the machine guns and although black sailors never received training on the anti-aircraft guns, he opened fire on the Japanese planes overhead. After the gun ran out of ammunition, Miller assisted in evacuating sailors after the order to abandon ship and was one of the last three men to leave the vessel as it sank. Even after leaving the ship, he helped numerous sailors to safety.** > > Doris Miller’s heroic actions stirred the nation, but he was not formally identified or recognized for his role in saving lives at Pearl Harbor for a few months. Accounts circulated about an unnamed black sailor who had manned a machine gun despite never firing a gun before, but it wasn’t until March 1942 that the _Pittsburgh Courier_ identified the sailor as Doris Miller. Still, debates in the political spheres stalled any formal recognition or award for Miller’s actions. **In May of 1942, Miller was presented with the Navy Cross by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, making Miller the first black sailor to receive such an honor.** Miller’s image was used for recruitment posters, and he was even recalled to the United States for a war bonds tour before returning to active service in the Pacific. > > **Doris Miller continued to serve in the Navy as a mess attendant until 24 November 1943, when his carrier, USS _Liscome Bay_, was hit by a torpedo during the Gilbert Islands Campaign and its bomb magazine exploded, and most of the crew were killed. Miller was “presumed dead” and although his body was never recovered, he was declared killed in action after a year. Miller was 24 years old.** > > **Mess Attendant First Class Doris Miller left behind a legacy that impacted generations to come. His actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor alone saved numerous lives, risking his own to ensure the safety of sailors escaping sinking ships and perilous waters and Japanese fire.** In April 1942, even before Miller was officially awarded the Navy Cross for his deeds, Secretary of the Navy William Franklin Knox announced the opening of an all-black naval training base in Illinois, ceding to the call for increased equal rights among black recruits. Miller’s presence and talks during his 1942-43 war bonds tour incited a tremendous reaction and inspired new sailors, particularly African Americans, to “take advantage of their opportunities” and serve their country for the freedom of all. We need more heroes like Doris Miller and fewer draft dodgers like Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8189 "2026-08-22T00:11:38Z")
I really hope that when we see things like “The Navy weighs…” or “The Navy is discussing…” the latest Trump nonsense, what’s really happening is they’re saying “Yeah, we’ll get riiiight on that…”, while they quietly shove the papers with the request into the trash, and try to look busy… ---
**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 22, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8190 "2026-08-22T00:50:31Z")
“Hospitals are now doing reverse surgery, at my order” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mtmxpnyi7o2b)** > > Trump on transgender kids: "In fact, hospitals now are doing reverse surgery, at my order" “All voters must show photovader” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mtmzcuxmx52i)** > > Trump: "All voters must show photovader -- voter ID" “[Karoline Leavitt] loves her baby more than she loves Donald Trump, and I’m very angry with her:” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mtmyypyl3j2y)** > > Trump notes that Karoline Leavitt just had a baby and says, "I just learned she loves the baby more than she loves Donald Trump, and I'm very angry with her:" “It’s a Friday night. What the hell else do I have to do? Go back and bomb Iran a little bit more?” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mtmyaej4rq2u)** > > Trump: "A lot of people are asking me, 'Would you do me a favor and read The Snake?' Would anybody like to hear The Snake? ... it's a Friday night. What the hell else do I have to do? Go back and bomb Iran a little bit more?" “The state of Nevada, where everybody is a waitress, caddy, or waiter” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mtmxxwkdqh2j)** > > Trump: "No tax on tips was particularly good in the state of Nevada, where everybody is a waitress, caddy, or waiter" “Unfortunately we have a little rule and regulation that says you’re not allowed to run. If they’d like to change that, I’d be very happy.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mtmwxyekka2b)** > > Trump: "John McLaughlin, the great pollster, just told me that if 'you ran today, nobody would be within 20 points.' I believe that's right. Unfortunately we have a little rule and regulation that says you're not allowed to run. If they'd like to... ---
**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 22, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8191 "2026-08-22T01:14:11Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > It’s not like she’s going to do anything useful when she gets to where she was going, It’s not like the object of her adoration is going to anything useful either. [Top court caves to the convict](https://www.aol.com/articles/supreme-court-keeps-white-house-181147000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON – The [Supreme Court](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/supreme-court/) on Aug. 21 said President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) doesn’t have to stop construction on his $400 million White House [ballroom](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/04/design-change-trumps-new-ballroom-rendering/88509857007/) while the justices decide whether a judge wrongly paused the project. > > Chief Justice John Roberts prevented the judge’s order from going into effect as scheduled on Aug. 21, giving the justices more time to consider the Trump administration’s appeal of the ruling. > > In response to a challenge from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a federal district judge ruled this spring that only underground work on bomb shelters and other security-related components could move forward for now unless the president gets approval from Congress. > > The National Trust for Historic Preservation had told the justices that project would likely become irreversible unless it is stopped now. [And the editor’s gone.](https://www.aol.com/articles/stars-stripes-editor-says-fired-191239000.html) > [@](#): > > The Pentagon on Friday fired [the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes](https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-publisher-retire-journalism-policy-ae5277e248f51d10dfcb49d7796e7d2f) and a top reporter for insubordination after they spoke publicly against any interference by the Defense Department in the military news outlet that has a long history of editorial independence. It was the latest move by an administration that has grown increasingly aggressive toward the news media. > > The newspaper’s publisher, who [announced his impending retirement days ago,](https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-publisher-retire-journalism-policy-ae5277e248f51d10dfcb49d7796e7d2f) was also dismissed. > > Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of the military newspaper that is partly funded by the Pentagon, told The Associated Press he was dismissed for insubordination after an interview he gave that objected to potential censorship by the U.S. military. He received a notice of separation, as did publisher Max Lederer — who had just announced his upcoming retirement — and Middle East reporter Lara Korte, Slavin said. And what did he do? > [@](#): > > Slavin said he was being fired “for stating in a CBS interview that hypothetical censorship of news for service members would constitute a red line.” Korte participated in the same interview. > > “I stand by the principle that Stars and Stripes must remain editorially independent, as required by law and by the department’s own policies,” Slavin said. So, yet again, the felon in the oval has found a law to break. [Some pubbies in office are finally tired of the nonsense from the felon in the oval.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/2-trump-funding-grab-congress-084500804.html) > [@](#): > > Republican lawmakers are still locked in a power struggle with the White House over control of federal cash, long since President Donald Trump swept back into office with unprecedented orders undermining Congress’ power of the purse. > > Earlier this month, GOP senators overwhelmingly agreed to a bipartisan government funding bill that would temporarily block the Trump administration from finalizing a federal rule to let political appointees steer money toward grants “aligned with the president’s agenda.” The House could clear that bill next month, and Trump is expected to sign it to avert a shutdown before the midterms. > > And while the days of widespread funding freezes might be over, the Trump administration continues to create new rules for federal grants and then deny funding based on them — only to be repeatedly shot down in court this summer. > > Lawmakers in both parties have also blasted White House budget director Russ Vought this year for delaying the release of cash for congressionally backed programs for antipoverty services, foreign assistance, banking in underserved areas and more. > > “Congress has appropriated money, and you don’t have the authority to impound it,” Sen. [Chuck Grassley](https://directory.politicopro.com/member/51187) (R-Iowa) [chastised Vought](https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/16/congress/vought-slammed-on-impoundment-00877112) this spring over the withholding of hundreds of millions of dollars the Trump administration is supposed to send quarterly to states. [Another criminal pardoned by the sex offender is a sex offender (allegeedly).](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/ceo-pardoned-donald-trump-arrested-145708467.html) > [@](#): > > The founder and CEO of a Las Vegas-based prisoner reentry program who was pardoned by President Trump in 2020 has been arrested for “sexually based crimes,” police said Tuesday. > > Jon Donyae Ponder, a three-time felon who led Hope for Prisoners, was arrested for sexual assault-related charges, Las Vegas police said in a statement. > > “Detectives believe there may be additional victims in the community,” police said. > > Ponder, who [appeared alongside Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-pardons-hope-prisoners-founder-scheduled-speak-rnc-day-2-1527616), was later booked into the Clark County Detention Center on one count of sexual assault, seven counts of unauthorized custodial contact, one count of attempted coercion and 11 gross misdemeanor charges, police said. Remember the felon’s uproar over “86 47”? [Check out the stunt the top lawyer at the DHS pulled.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/128-former-judges-file-ethics-103005305.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump’s top Department of Homeland Security lawyer has been accused of risking bloodshed by publishing a “Worst of the Worst” list of sitting federal judges. > > A group of 128 former state and federal judges, described by organizers as bipartisan, announced Wednesday that it had filed an [ethics complaint](https://www.democracydefendersfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/081926_DDF-LDAD-Percival-Bar-Complaint.pdf) against DHS general counsel James Percival. The Florida Bar member, 40, is accused of making false or recklessly misleading claims about judges who ruled against the Trump administration. > > Threats against judges are already widespread. Updated [U.S. Marshals Service figures](https://www.usmarshals.gov/what-we-do/judicial-security/protective-investigations-threat-statistics) show 415 threats against federal judges during fiscal 2026 through Aug. 17. A total of 307 different judges were targeted. > > That didn’t stop Percival from [unveiling](https://x.com/DHSGenCounsel/status/2080282962155778105) his “Worst of the Worst, District Judge Edition” on his official X account July 23. He named Clinton-appointed Judge Matthew Kennelly, Obama appointees Allison Burroughs and Paula Xinis, and Biden appointee Hernán Vera. And to nobody’s surprise. > [@](#): > > The list included no Trump appointees. [The felon’s transportation secretary fears his daughter will be educated.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-112200069.html) > [@](#): > > The prominent cabinet member and his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, recently voiced strong opposition to their daughter Paloma attending Harvard University. The highly personal debate was captured during an episode of their newly released YouTube reality series, “The Great American Road Trip.” The parents argue that highly liberal college environments could actively corrupt the minds of young students. > > The highly anticipated six-episode show follows the Duffy family as they travel across the country. During a stop in Boston to tour colleges, Sean asked his daughter, Paloma, whether she would push for her to attend Harvard if she were accepted. > > When she said she felt they could not say no to such a massive opportunity, her father quickly corrected her by stating that he and her mother absolutely could say no. [He’s the secrtary of w…hat TF did he just say?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pete-hegseth-uses-transphobic-slur-151553060.html) > [@](#): > > Defense Secretary [Pete Hegseth](https://people.com/pete-hegseth-reacts-blue-angels-low-altitude-flyover-12020942) used a transphobic slur during a speech at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Monday, Aug. 17. > > Hegseth, 46, was speaking in support of Iowa Rep. Zach Nunn’s reelection campaign at the Operation Top Nunn: Salute to the Troops military fundraiser at the fair when he made the remark, the [Iowa Capital Dispatch](https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/08/17/u-s-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-joins-u-s-rep-zach-nunn-at-iowa-state-fair/) reported. > > Bringing up anti-DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) changes made at the Department of Defense, [now known as the Department of War](https://people.com/pete-hegseth-will-soon-be-called-secretary-of-war-as-trump-prepares-rebrand-department-of-defense-reports-11804053) since President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) began his second term, he said, “At the Department of War, we do training, not t-------,” per the outlet and a video shared by [CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/19/politics/video/hegseth-transphobic-slur-iowa-state-fair-vrtc). [Felon in the Oval’s tarrifs ~~make a profit~~ ~~break even~~ put the governmet in the hole.](https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/damage-chaotic-tariff-regime-cannot-143733492.html) > [@](#): > > The magnitude of tariff refunds the Trump administration must dole out is now outpacing how much money it’s bringing in through the import taxes, and it’s dealing a new blow of damage to the U.S. economy, one think tank warned. > > In May, when the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) rolled out its online tariff refund portal, the U.S. Treasury refunded $21.97 billion, exceeding the $21.93 billion it collected that month—and a complete reversal of the month before, when the Treasury distributed only about $2 billion in tariff refunds, according to a [report](https://taxfoundation.org/blog/tariff-refunds-wiped-out-tariff-revenue-since-may/) published this month by the Tax Foundation, a tax policy nonprofit, citing monthly Treasury statements. In June, the balance sheet became even more lopsided, with $49.18 billion refunded as compared to the $23.63 billion collected, resulting in a net customs revenue of negative $25.56 billion. > > Tariff revenue makes up [just a small fraction](https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/p/2026-02-20-supreme-court-tariff-ruling/) of the government’s total revenue, but the Tax Foundation warned the chaos surrounding the tariffs and their legal fallout has had an outsized economic impact, exemplified by the government hemorrhaging billions of dollars monthly through refunds. > > “While importers will experience some relief by receiving refunds, the economic damage from the chaotic tariff regime cannot be refunded—and the remaining tariffs means economic damage will continue to grow,” the report said. [Politician from ~~51st state~~ Canada tells it like it is.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/canadian-leader-says-erratic-trump-133301332.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > [President Donald Trump](https://www.thedailybeast.com/natalie-harps-intimate-letters-to-trump-revealed-in-full/) is a “bad person” and “not to be trusted,” according to a [top Canadian politician.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-canadian-ambassador-pete-hoekstra-suffers-public-humiliation/) > > Canada and the U.S. are enduring historically poor relations under the 80-year-old’s administration, which saw Trump threaten 50 percent tariffs on an array of goods, forcing both sides to the negotiating table to hash out [a new agreement.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tacoes-on-canada-with-bonkers-excuse-for-reversal/) > > As part of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s bid to secure a deal, he has pressured provincial leaders to end their boycott on U.S. booze, but as they did so, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew fired off a no-holds-barred takedown of Trump. > > **“Everybody knows the American president by now, he’s erratic, he’s irresponsible, and he’s not to be trusted,”** he said, according to the [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/canada-quebec-trump-tariffs-75d3f24bb11178d8c9bb28b144e1dcf0). **“And this is the person that we were supposed to make a deal with, and we’re going to make additional concessions for it. That’s why I say you can’t make a good deal with a bad person, because who’s to say it’s not going to be undone?”** [Liar whines about being called a liar.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-petitions-supreme-court-big-202305241.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN over the network’s use of the phrase [“big lie”](https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-response-georgia-grand-jury-report-rcna71042) regarding his claims about the [2020 election](https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/donald-trump-pardons-2020-election-rcna243013), which he lost to Joe Biden. > > Trump said in his [petition](https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26/26-223/419166/20260814175803632_TRUMP_Petition%20for%20a%20Writ%20of%20Certiorari.pdf) that the consequences of his case are “especially grave” because, he said, the network “launched a false campaign against the President of the United States, first while in office and then as a leading candidate to return to that office.” > > In March, the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit [declined to consider](https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-cnn-defamation-lawsuit-appeal) his case, after a three-judge panel of the appeals court upheld a district judge’s ruling against him. Two of the three judges from the [unanimous panel ruling](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.85277/gov.uscourts.ca11.85277.34.1.pdf)were Trump appointees, as was the district judge who [dismissed his suit](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.621239/gov.uscourts.flsd.621239.31.0_1.pdf) in 2023. The judge did so on the grounds that the statements at issue were opinion, not factually false statements, and that Trump hadn’t shown that CNN acted with [“actual malice.”](https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/clarence-thomas-fox-news-actual-malice-rcna74243) > > Trump argued that the use of the “big lie” phrase was intended to associate him with Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda. But the appellate panel deemed his claim “unpersuasive,” calling his assumption that the term is clear enough to be a factual statement “untenable.” It called his other claims “meritless.” [DHS caught in its own Big Lie about elections.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/dhs-confirms-just-185-non-182230444.html) > [@](#): > > About a month after alleging Nevada had as many as 16,000 non-citizens on its voter rolls, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials admitted they had confirmed that only 185 were actually non-citizens, according to records obtained by the Guardian. > > In a [primetime TV address on 16 July](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/trump-address-us-elections), Donald Trump claimed that a DHS review had found about 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote in four states. > > In follow-up letters to those states – Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey – DHS softened that claim, saying it represented a ceiling of potential non-citizens registered. > > Experts [expressed skepticism](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/new-jersey-noncitizen-republicans-election-fraud) over the claim, predicting that the ultimate number of confirmed non-citizens would drop dramatically and noting that DHS had not revealed its methodology, nor provided a list of voters to the states. [Court rules yet another felon’s appointee is unlawfully in office.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-us-attorney-pick-no-180248863.html) > [@](#): > > A divided federal appeals court ruled that the Trump-picked US Attorney in Albany is serving unlawfully and can no longer be involved in the investigation of one of the president’s top foes. > > The Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, upheld a lower court’s ruling from January that said the appointment of John Sarcone, then-Acting US attorney for the Northern District of New York, is not valid and disqualified him from a probe into the state’s Attorney General Letitia James. > > The decision marks the third time a federal appeals court has rejected as unlawful the Trump administration’s process for naming US attorneys without Senate approval. [Felon in the Oval cannot withhold disaser relief funding because he doesn’t like the recipients’ political positions.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/judge-bars-trump-admin-conditioning-180931394.html) > [@](#): > > A federal judge in [Oregon](https://lawandcrime.com/tag/oregon/) has barred the Trump administration from conditioning the release of disaster relief funding on compliance with executive orders targeting so-called “gender ideology.” > > In January 2025, President [Donald Trump](https://lawandcrime.com/tag/donald-trump/) issued [Executive Order 14168](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/30/2025-02090/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal), which directed agencies to end the federal funding of and “ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.” > > In turn, the [Department of Homeland Security](https://lawandcrime.com/tag/dhs/) (DHS) implemented the order by updating the standard terms and conditions for disaster relief grant programs. Specifically at issue in the litigation is the “Discrimination Condition” for 2025 and 2026, intended to effectuate and formalize the Trump administration’s goals. > > The discrimination condition requires, among other things, recipients to affirm they “do not, and will not … operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology.” [This is appalling.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/first-deportees-arrive-haiti-u-115700772.html) > [@](#): > > The U.S. deported more than 160 people to Haiti on Thursday for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to [end Temporary Protected Status](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-haitian-migrants-arrest-deport-temporary-protected-status/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) for some 350,000 Haitians. > > The plane landed in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien because the main international airport in Port-au-Prince is considered too dangerous. The U.S. government currently has a ban on U.S. commercial flights to Haiti’s capital through early September because of ongoing gang violence. > > The deportees were clad in white, and many covered their faces out of safety as journalists filmed their arrival. Nearly all declined to talk, with some fearing being targeted by gangs that control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince and swaths of land beyond. The US government declared the place is too dangerous to even land an airplane. So they’re sending people who fled the violence right back there after magically making them in violation of law. And just for more fun from the felon’s flacks, not all of the deportees are Haitian. > [@](#): > > Delva noted that some of the deportees were not born in Haiti, although they are of Haitian descent. > > He said that several deportees planned to travel to Haiti’s southern region, a dangerous journey because gangs control the main routes leading to that area and are known to randomly open fire on vehicles passing through. > > Others are going to Haiti’s western region, he said. > > “There is one migrant who knows nothing about Haiti because he said he was coming from the Dominican Republic; that’s where he was born,” Delva said. He said the government would attempt to reunify him with any potential relatives in Haiti or the Dominican Republic, where his mother and father live. [Finally, we have more reactions to the bigot-in-chief’s dysadministration disrespecting an actual war hero.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/slap-face-naacp-rips-trump-232235622.html) > [@](#): > > Black community leaders on Friday, Aug. 21, slammed U.S. Navy officials over their [reported move](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/20/navy-trump-aircraft-carrier-doris-miller-rename/91396754007/) to name an upcoming aircraft carrier after President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) instead of WWII hero Doris Miller. > > Miller was a Black enlisted soldier in the U.S. Navy. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 he helped carry wounded sailors to safety and manned an anti-aircraft gun to take down at least one Japanese plane despite not being trained on the weapon. > > “This is a slap in the face to every war hero and to every service member who has worn the uniform,” Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, said in a [statement posted to X](https://x.com/DerrickNAACP/status/2090837154041680204) about the reported name change. “It’s beyond comprehension for a president to want his own name on a Navy ship while our armed forces are living in [deteriorating conditions](https://www.usatoday.com/news/iran-war/) aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.” > > Supporters for decades have viewed his actions as deserving of the Medal of Honor and attribute his not receiving the honor to racism. Miller was instead awarded the Navy Cross medal. > > The Navy since 2020 has been planning to honor Miller by naming the fourth vessel in the new Gerald R. Ford-class carriers after the Waco, Texas, native. But according to reporting by CNN and NBC News, the Navy is looking at changing the name of the vessel from the USS Doris Miller to potentially the USS [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/). Miller died in a Japanese torpedo attack in 1943. ---
**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 22, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8192 "2026-08-22T01:53:18Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “All voters must show photovader” Photovaders will be worn on the outside so we can 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:** [August 22, 2026, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8193 "2026-08-22T01:59:23Z")
“I find your lack of ID… disturbing.” ---
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> [@Monty](#): > > [Finally, we have more reactions to the bigot-in-chief’s dysadministration disrespecting an actual war hero.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/slap-face-naacp-rips-trump-232235622.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > Black community leaders on Friday, Aug. 21, slammed U.S. Navy officials over their [reported move](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/20/navy-trump-aircraft-carrier-doris-miller-rename/91396754007/) to name an upcoming aircraft carrier after President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) instead of WWII hero Doris Miller. > > > > Miller was a Black enlisted soldier in the U.S. Navy. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 he helped carry wounded sailors to safety and manned an anti-aircraft gun to take down at least one Japanese plane despite not being trained on the weapon. > > > > “This is a slap in the face to every war hero and to every service member who has worn the uniform,” Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, said in a [statement posted to X](https://x.com/DerrickNAACP/status/2090837154041680204) about the reported name change. “It’s beyond comprehension for a president to want his own name on a Navy ship while our armed forces are living in [deteriorating conditions](https://www.usatoday.com/news/iran-war/) aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.” > > > > Supporters for decades have viewed his actions as deserving of the Medal of Honor and attribute his not receiving the honor to racism. Miller was instead awarded the Navy Cross medal. > > > > The Navy since 2020 has been planning to honor Miller by naming the fourth vessel in the new Gerald R. Ford-class carriers after the Waco, Texas, native. But according to reporting by CNN and NBC News, the Navy is looking at changing the name of the vessel from the USS Doris Miller to potentially the USS [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/). Miller died in a Japanese torpedo attack in 1943. I posted this over in the thread about the USS _Abraham Lincoln_, but it fits here too: > [@USS Abraham Lincoln](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uss-abraham-lincoln/1032359/409): > > Right, former presidents. Not the sitting president who has a huge conflict of interest in that all of the people making these decisions serve at his pleasure. So that is bad enough, but to steal the honor from a decorated Black Navy war hero who died in the service of his country is both unconscionable and disgusting. I’m sick to my stomach just thinking about it. So of course he is going to do it, or at least try to. But CVN-81 is not going to be commissioned until well after Trump leaves o… ---
**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 22, 2026, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8195 "2026-08-22T02:12:41Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > “All voters must show photovader” > > Photovaders will be worn on the outside so we can check. Ok. What is this word supposed to be? ---
**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 22, 2026, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8196 "2026-08-22T02:43:29Z")
My guess is the dementia-induced aphasia kicked in while he was trying to say “photo voter ID”. ---
**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 22, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8197 "2026-08-22T02:48:03Z")
Yikes. ---
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I’ve got an orgone photovader It makes me feel greater I’ll see you sometime later When I’m through with my photovader It’s a back brain stimulater A cerebral vibrator Of orgones ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8199 "2026-08-22T03:26:47Z")
I’m the operator With my pocket calculator ---
**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:** [August 22, 2026, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8200 "2026-08-22T06:53:58Z")
[Donald J. Trump: "Tucker Carlson just met with Lightweight “Former” Congressman, Thomas Massie... - Trump's Truth](https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/41118)) > [@](#): > > He could barely get out of College, and maybe he didn’t, but only really dumb people can’t make it through that wonderful four year time in life! Way to insult a large part of your base. I thought he loved the poorly educated. LOL. (Link is a copy of Truth Social and it’s chock full of crazy stuff.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=409) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=411)