# 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:** 413
**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 24, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8241 "2026-08-24T20:53:25Z")
“Beautiful little bodies” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mtty4vwgv52b)** > > Trump: "We're telling people when you get your shots for your young child, and this has to do we think with preventing autism, that you go to the doctor for five small shots instead of one big massive shots where those beautiful little bodies can... “Countless fanelives” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mttxr4s7yj2u)** > > Trump: "But really bringing hope to countless faneilves -- number of families" ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8242 "2026-08-24T20:54:03Z")
Creepy grandpa. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8243 "2026-08-24T21:02:35Z")
Sundowning pedophile. ---
**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 24, 2026, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8244 "2026-08-24T21:03:54Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Heck, the pressure generated by their presentation was probably what got Garland off his fundament and made him appoint Jack Smith. IMHO what did it was stolen documents. Garland was desperate not to appear partisan and so wanted to work his way up to Trump slowly if at all. But once it became clear that Trump had unsecured Top Secret documents in his possession, he had to act for national security and so he sent the FBI raid. After sending the raid he pretty much had to indict him for the stolen documents. You can’t raid somebody’s house and not charge them with anything. At that point, the line had been crossed and so any damage that appearing partisan might have had already been dealt so you might as well try him for Jan 6th as well. ---
**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 24, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8245 "2026-08-24T21:24:09Z")
I’d like the five minutes of my life that I spent on that unnecessary clarification back, please. 🧐 ---
**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 24, 2026, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8246 "2026-08-24T21:31:10Z")
You’d just waste it. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8247 "2026-08-24T22:11:50Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Garland was desperate not to appear partisan and so wanted to work his way up to Trump slowly if at all. I’m pretty sure that Garland’s actual goal was to slow-walk everything as much as possible, in hopes that Trump would get int power and kill the investigation. The primary goal of the Democrats for decades has been to protect and enable the Republicans, there’s no way they’d run an investigation that did more than make a show to appease the public but led nowhere. ---
**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 24, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8248 "2026-08-24T22:55:55Z")
So they’re playing the “good cop, bad cop” game? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8249 "2026-08-24T23:04:13Z")
More the abusive partner and the codependent victim seeking to placate them. ---
**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 24, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8250 "2026-08-24T23:52:13Z")
Trump administration rolls back the Clean Air Act. > As of mid-July, the administration had granted Clean Air Act exemptions to about 200 polluting facilities across 39 states and Puerto Rico, issuing its decisions in presidential proclamations full of typos and errors. In one case, a factory that doesn’t appear to exist received an exemption. The factories and plants that were given a temporary pass on Clean Air Act rules, while scattered across the country, fall disproportionately in majority nonwhite neighborhoods, according to EPA and U.S. Census Bureau data collected by the Environmental Defense Fund. [https://events.propublica.org/clean-air/bluesky?utm\_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm\_content=1787608141&utm\_medium=social&utm\_source=bluesky](https://events.propublica.org/clean-air/bluesky?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1787608141&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky) ---
**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 25, 2026, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8251 "2026-08-25T02:41:34Z")
[Yep, SCOTUS lets the dictator dictate.](https://www.aol.com/articles/supreme-court-clears-way-trump-205047000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court opened a path Monday for possible implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be put in place before the fast-approaching midterm elections. > > The decision leaves room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump’s order, and other similar cases have already been filed. The U.S. Postal Service [laid out how it would implement the order](https://apnews.com/article/postal-service-midterms-trump-mail-voting-b4b9ef095b4d6bceab18adbb34814640) last week, but time is running short to impose major changes. North Carolina is sending out ballots Sept. 4 overseas and to military voters, and other states will quickly follow suit in just a few weeks. > > The Supreme Court’s conservative majority didn’t decide the legality of Trump’s order, instead ruling that states who sued did not have the legal right to challenge it. And who, then, does have the legal right? The states are the ones in charge of the elections. [Another day, another salvo in the war on immigrants.](https://www.aol.com/articles/us-set-largest-mass-visa-203022000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges. > > [Unless challenged](https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-visa-ban-immigration-64feb19b54d1bce50891437a5ba25d50) or revised, the State Department is expected to announce in the coming weeks the revocation of so-called B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders have [sought asylum](https://apnews.com/article/trump-asylum-appeals-court-ed8f8f193579b757d7f384cd7f9e9e60) or are now seeking asylum, according to State Department documents obtained by The Associated Press and two U.S. officials. The action will be taken in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security. > > “We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently,” said State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott. > > He declined to comment on the number of visas that might be revoked, saying "as the process will be ongoing, the number of revocations remains dynamic and will be done on a rolling basis.” [Evidently Pirro is just about as competent as the Felon in the Oval.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/jeanine-pirro-office-failing-convictions-155343102.html) (The formatting is from the link.) > [@](#): > > Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney **Jeanine Pirro’s** office is failing to secure convictions in an [“increasingly alarming number”](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/24/politics/trump-ms13-conviction-jeanine-pirro) of federal cases in Washington, D.C., according to a new CNN report detailing a string of mistrials and acquittals. > > The network [reported](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/24/politics/trump-ms13-conviction-jeanine-pirro) Monday that Pirro’s office has struggled to persuade federal juries even in violent crime cases prosecutors believed presented relatively straightforward evidence, an unusual losing streak that has alarmed current and former members of Washington’s legal community. > > The article presented the problems as most stark in the prosecution of two alleged [MS-13](https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-doubles-down-on-ms-13-criticism-i-refer-to-them-as-animals-and-i-always-will/) leaders, **Moises Rivera-Luna** and **Tokiro Rodas Ramirez**. Prosecutors accuse the men of involvement in a conspiracy connected to murders and assaults carried out in the Washington area more than a decade ago but two separate juries have now failed to convict them. > > Rivera-Luna, whom prosecutors allege was a senior MS-13 figure known as “Viejo Santos,” was first tried alongside Rodas Ramirez in December. That case ended in a mistrial after jurors deadlocked. Prosecutors tried them again in April, only for a second jury to reach the same impasse. > > Judge **Royce Lamberth** , who has served on the federal bench for nearly four decades, said as the second trial unraveled: “I’ve done this a long time and haven’t seen one quite like this one.” > > The MS-13 prosecution is reportedly part of a broader pattern. Before the April retrial, Pirro’s office had secured convictions in only four of eight federal jury trials since January, according to CNN. In nearly a dozen subsequent cases, two defendants were acquitted and four trials ended with deadlocked juries.Federal criminal trials nationwide typically result in convictions roughly 90% of the time, according to federal judiciary statistics cited by CNN. [Who told you that, Don the Con? Perhaps it was those two Corinthian dudes?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-implies-bible-endorses-donating-213041832.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump is once again using explicitly religious language to solicit campaign donations, telling supporters that giving to his political movement amounts to “sowing a SEED OF FAITH” into the nation’s future. > > In a new fundraising email, Trump says he has felt “the mighty hand of God guiding this movement” and describes his political effort as “United by prayer” and “United under God.” > > He then invokes a Bible passage where Jesus teaches about faith as small as a mustard seed, telling recipients: “Together, our faith will move America back to GOD. Back to TRUTH. Back to GREATNESS.” The implication is that the Bible endorses donations to Trump as an exercise of faith. [Money might not grow on trees, but the felon’s dysadministration believes hot dogs do.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-official-wants-kids-eating-194204316.html) > [@](#): > > Dr. **Ben Carson** , who serves as the USDA’s national advisor for nutrition, health, and housing under President **Donald Trump** , said Monday that he wants kids eating “food fresh from the ground,” citing “sweet corn and hot dogs” as examples. > > The moment came as Agriculture Secretary **Brooke Rollins** and HHS Secretary **Robert F. Kennedy Jr.** held a “Harvest to Hallways” rally at the USDA headquarters in Washington, D.C., during which they announced roughly $90 million in funding for school cafeteria equipment aimed at improving nutrition for students as part of the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. > > Carson, who himself [ran for president](https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/what-they-said-then-ranking-trumps-vp-picks-by-how-brutally-they-once-trashed-him/) in 2016, took the podium Monday. A group of children sat on the floor in front of him, also facing the audience. [Deportees refused to deplane in Liberia. Guess what happened next.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/deportees-refused-exit-us-flight-150205760.html) (The _ **italicized bolding** _ is mine.) > [@](#): > > DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Six people who were [deported by the United States to Liberia last week](https://apnews.com/article/liberia-us-deportees-318ab0f9ad74ada4fcd2dff8653c342e) resisted getting off the plane and instead were sent to Equatorial Guinea, another ‌African nation that signed a third-country deportation agreement with the Trump administration, a person on the plane and a lawyer in contact with the six said Monday. > > Under a series of often secret agreements, the Trump administration has [deported thousands of people to two dozen countries that aren’t their own](https://apnews.com/article/africa-us-deportations-trump-administration-98c1a583687c700333466dc25324b473) as it pushes ahead with its [immigration crackdown](https://apnews.com/hub/migration), advocates say. Immigration lawyers say the practice is being used as a legal loophole to indirectly return some asylum seekers to countries they fled. > > The group who refused to get off the plane in Liberia on Thursday include four Cuban men, a Brazilian man and a Cameroonian woman, the person and lawyer said. > > A Honduran deportee aboard the flight said the group refused to disembark, saying Liberia was “not their country” and that they would face danger there. They were then separated from the others, he said. He spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals. > > He said the other passengers got off in Liberia because they feared officers would force them. > > Meredyth Yoon, litigation director for Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, said _ **the deportees who resisted leaving the plane in Liberia were told they would be returned to the United States but instead were flown to Malabo city in Equatorial Guinea.** _ Cruelty is not only the point, it’s the entire m.o. [Speaking of which…](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/cuban-other-trump-deportees-sent-151538006.html) > [@](#): > > Men from nations including Cuba, Eritrea, Ecuador, Honduras, Serbia, Russia, and Vietnam report arriving in the impoverished African nation with no prior notice, no local ties, and no identification documents. Many of these individuals had lived in the United States for years, establishing families and securing legal protections against deportation to their home countries due to fears of torture or persecution. > > Now trapped in the capital city of Bangui, the deportees describe navigating severe economic hardship, language barriers, and profound separation from their loved ones. [FYI: The US government itself considers the CAR a “do not travel to” country.](https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advisories/central-african-republic.html) [I did _notsee_ this one coming.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-turned-nazi-memorabilia-collector-133639615.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Three statues now displayed in Donald Trump’s White House Rose Garden are on loan from billionaire Republican donor **Harlan Crow, whose private collection includes an array of Nazi and Hitler artifacts**. The statues of Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and two Revolutionary War soldiers were moved from Crow’s Dallas property to the White House as part of Trump’s effort to transform the Rose Garden into a sculpture garden [according](https://washingtonian.com/2026/07/21/the-white-house-rose-garden-is-turning-into-a-sculpture-garden/) to the Washingtonian. [The felon in the oval really doesn’t understand _free and fair_.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-claims-republicans-win-every-145847999.html) > [@](#): > > Desperate for the courts and Congress to get behind his [sweeping proposals for federal control of elections](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-midterm-elections-national-emergency-b3034369.html), Donald Trump has suggested that he thinks Republican candidates would win every state if the Senate passes his [nationwide voter ID proposal.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-census-noncitizen-voting-report-b3036586.html) > > The president shared a post on his Truth Social that showed a U.S. map showing every state turning “red” with the all-caps caption “THE WHOLE MAP WOULD BE BRIGHT RED IF THE SENATE PASSED VOTER ID LAWS,” a reference to the [White House-backed SAVE America Act.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doj-election-monitors-midterm-polls-b3035039.html) TL;DR: _If the courts let us cheat, we’ll win everything_. [Even helping the US government doesn’t protect someone from the US government.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/us-deports-witness-against-mexican-095729613.html) > [@](#): > > A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to take immediate steps to return to the United States a man who testified against people affiliated with Mexican drug cartels. The judge found that immigration authorities likely violated his constitutional due process rights when they revoked his protection from deportation and removed him to Mexico, where he has gone into hiding. > > In a memorandum opinion issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland granted a temporary restraining order requiring the government to facilitate the return of a plaintiff identified only as John Doe, who had previously received protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) because of the risk he would face if sent to Mexico. > > The court said an immigration judge granted Doe deferral of removal in July 2024 after finding he was more likely than not to be tortured if returned to Mexico. According to the ruling, that determination was based on Doe’s “substantial assistance” to the U.S. Department of Justice and his testimony against defendants affiliated with Mexican drug cartels. [One year old expected to represent themself.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/baby-immigration-court-one-old-145544208.html) > [@](#): > > A one-year-old child was recently caught up in an Arizona immigration court case, where the paperwork involved an application that the toddler was expected to complete. The situation sounds absurd, but it highlights just how complicated the immigration system can become for very young children. > > Roxana Avila-Cimpeanu, deputy director at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, witnessed an immigration judge instruct an unrepresented infant to complete a complex asylum form or face immediate deportation. [Surprise! Sur…oh, the heck with it. Rioter pardoned by the felon gets arrested for rioting.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/pardoned-jan-6-rioter-jake-024533675.html) > [@](#): > > Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter and far-right influencer Jake Lang was arrested in Minneapolis on Saturday on suspicion of rioting outside city hall, [according to the Minneapolis Police Department and Mayor Jacob Frey.](https://www.facebook.com/MayorFrey/posts/far-right-extremist-jake-lang-and-several-individuals-are-in-custody-after-an-in/1594762685340120/) > > Police said Lang and several other people arrived in two vehicles at Minneapolis City Hall just before noon on Saturday. The two vehicles then drove up onto the sidewalk towards a crowd of people. > > Lang could be seen in [videos posted to social media](https://x.com/JamesTate121/status/2091295486544077046)(NSFW) in the truck bed of one of the vehicles holding a sign with a racial slur on it. Footage also shows Lang and other activists clashing with counterprotestors outside city hall. > > Officers responded to the scene and attempted to get the vehicles off the sidewalk and out of the area, according to police. > > The two vehicles fled the scene and were eventually tracked down and stopped, police said. All the occupants of both vehicles were arrested on suspicion of rioting, according to [Minnesota Public Radio](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/08/22/right-wing-influencer-jake-lang-arrested-in-minneapolis-for-suspicion-of-rioting). > > Lang was booked into the Hennepin County Jail and is being held without bail, according to jail records. I bet every single one of you already knows what the “NSFW” slur was. [I give you the hallucinator-in-chief.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-says-hospitals-reversing-gender-102106803.html) (The formatting is from the liniked article.) > [@](#): > > **President Donald Trump recently claimed that American hospitals are performing “_reverse surgeries_” on transgender individuals directly because he ordered them to do so.** > > This dramatic statement has sparked widespread confusion across the healthcare industry and the political landscape. While the claim makes for striking headlines, medical professionals and legal records tell a very different story. ---
**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 25, 2026, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8252 "2026-08-25T03:09:12Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > Dr. **Ben Carson** , who serves as the USDA’s national advisor for nutrition, health, and housing under President **Donald Trump** , said Monday that he wants kids eating “food fresh from the ground,” citing “sweet corn and hot dogs” as examples. This calls to mind the Spaghetti Tree prank pulled by the BBC in 1957 and later reprised by David Frost on _That Was the Week That was_ in 1962. (I saw the latter on TV.) > **[The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest](https://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_swiss_spaghetti_harvest)** > > On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter and to the virtual disappearance of the... ---
**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 25, 2026, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8253 "2026-08-25T11:52:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This calls to mind the Spaghetti Tree prank pulled by the BBC in 1957 and later reprised by David Frost on _That Was the Week That was_ in 1962. Or _Big Top Pee-Wee_. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g1ma7-M4r4M/hqdefault.jpg "Big Top Pee Wee - Hot Dog Tree") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ma7-M4r4M) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8254 "2026-08-25T15:36:59Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Money might not grow on trees, but the felon’s dysadministration believes hot dogs do.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-official-wants-kids-eating-194204316.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > Dr. **Ben Carson** … Dr. Ben Carson. Proof that you do _not_ have to be super smart to be a brain surgeon. (He actually was a very competent brain surgeon. That doesn’t make him automatically competent or qualified at anything else.) ---
**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 25, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8255 "2026-08-25T15:58:11Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > you do _not_ have to be super smart to be a brain surgeon. It’s not exactly rocket science… ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8256 "2026-08-25T16:47:08Z")
Would be interesting if it was, though. ---
**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 25, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8257 "2026-08-25T17:13:16Z")
Unfortunately Elon Musk [has beaten you to the brain surgery…](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon-musks-neuralink-has-implanted-its-first-chip-in-a-human-brain-whats-next/) Although “his” rocket science is more publicised. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8258 "2026-08-26T04:43:19Z")
I don’t have enough personal stake in it to bother with a new thread over this, but I’m curious and this seems a reasonably place to put my query: What is Trump’s thing about wanting to renovate the Kennedy Centre? I understand why he wanted to re-name it in his own honour (he’s a mentally ill fuckwit). But what’s with the obsession with renovating it? Since the court blocked the name change I would have thought he would have lost interest in it. Is it simply a way to justify closing it for a few years as revenge on the lib’ruls? Or what? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8259 "2026-08-26T04:45:04Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > It’d be quite a spectacle to see the U.S.S. Trump slide down the ways into the harbor, almost immediately sinking. This one? [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G849TUSXYAAYyT1.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G849TUSXYAAYyT1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8260 "2026-08-26T04:45:59Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > What is Trump’s thing about wanting to renovate the Kennedy Centre? I suspect that it’s similar to his obsession with rebuilding and redecorating the White House, the Reflecting Pool, etc. He knows what his own (horrible, tacky) taste is in interior and exterior design, and he wants to put that mark on as much of Washington’s high-profile buildings as he can. It’s kind of like a dog peeing on every tree, to mark territory as “his.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=412) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=414)