# 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:** 414
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> [@eschereal](#): > > This one? Excellent! I especially like the figurehead’s eagle looking like it is shitting on Trump’s head. ---
**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 26, 2026, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8262 "2026-08-26T05:06:22Z")
[The felon’s finding out other countries don’t worship him.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-says-hes-considering-renaming-112043000.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > TORONTO (AP) — Canada struck back at the United States on Tuesday [with retaliatory tariffs](https://apnews.com/article/canada-trade-war-tariff-trump-carney-4f0d3e8f6945cd941cb50972fb657465) on about $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment, as [the trade war](https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-carney-2051f2694810c5cb2b8210c9994c9e64) between [the once-friendly neighbors](https://apnews.com/article/canada-us-trade-war-trump-carney-tariffs-4d18583fe52134ca8550652ad9772d2c) escalated sharply. > > The confrontation threatened one of the world’s largest trading relationships and further strained ties between the United States and [a country](https://apnews.com/hub/canada) long considered one of its closest allies. A prolonged dispute could raise costs for American businesses and consumers less than 2½ months before the midterm elections. > > The [new tariffs](https://apnews.com/video/canada-will-match-us-tariffs-dollar-for-dollar-rate-for-rate-1d5a37ec97e4475cb255bdda77716dcf) extended well beyond industrial goods, hitting everyday purchases such as seafood, cheese, clothing, cosmetics and toilet paper, with some facing duties as high as 50%. > > **“We did not choose this conflict, but when our economic integration is used as a weapon rather than the foundation for a win-win partnership, we need to stand up,” Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in French, calling the situation "an unprecedented challenge imposed on Canada.”** [But he really isn’t learning that; he’s still hallucinating.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/fact-check-trump-keeps-making-160442712.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump keeps attacking Canada with fiction instead of fact. > > Throughout his on-again, off-again trade war with Canada, which has [erupted again](https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/24/business/us-canada-cost-more?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) this week, Trump’s criticism of the US neighbor has been [filled](https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/politics/fact-check-trump-canada-claims?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) with [lies](https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/politics/fact-check-trumps-false-claims-canada?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) – a remarkable variety of assertions that either wildly distort a kernel of truth or are just plain made up. > > Among other things, the president has falsely claimed that the Canadian public likes the idea of becoming the 51st US state, which is [overwhelmingly unpopular](https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/canadians-dismiss-us-annexation-unlikely-happen) with the Canadian public; that Canada is one of the world’s highest-tariff countries, though it is actually [low](https://data.wto.org/dataset/wto_avgtarf) in world rankings; that Canada prohibits US banks from operating there, though more than a dozen US banks [operate in Canada](https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/fact-check-trump-repeats-false-claim-that-canada-prohibits-us-banks?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo); that Canada doesn’t accept US agricultural exports, though Canada is the world’s [second-largest purchaser](https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/58374) of those exports; that Chinese and Russian ships are “constantly surrounding” Canada, though that [never happened](https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/politics/fact-check-trumps-false-claims-canada?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo); and that “they don’t, essentially, have a military,” though Canada’s very-much-existent military jointly operates the [North American Aerospace Defense Command](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/russia-alaska-norad-aircraft?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) with the US and fought alongside the US in [Afghanistan](https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/legacy-of-loss-the-families-of-canadians-killed-in-afghanistan/article_18263ffa-2896-59ec-897d-11a725c0d75d.html), [against ISIS in the Middle East](https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/NEWS-ARTICLES/News-Article-View/Article/885159/royal-canadian-air-force-marks-milestones-in-fight-against-isil/) and in various prior wars. > > The US president made yet more false claims about Canada in two social media posts on Monday. He posted the day after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy flatly declared on Fox News that Canada is “a country that doesn’t have a military,” generating corrections and denunciations not only from numerous Canadians but some retired US [military](https://x.com/general_ben/status/2091579844412723528) [commanders](https://x.com/stavridisj/status/2091899751180485066). [Not to be outdone, the felon’s congressional mini-me is actively hallucinating also.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/mike-johnson-gives-himself-promotion-190510057.html) > [@](#): > > [House Speaker Mike Johnson](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-johnson-republican-house-b3021126.html) works so closely with the president that the White House refers to him as a co-POTUS, the Louisiana Republican claims. > > “Some on his staff have said, ‘No, it’s really like you’re co-president,’” Johnson [told](https://www.notus.org/campaigns/speaker-mike-johnson-midterms-political-future) NOTUS. “Because [the president](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-midterms-jared-kushner-b3037802.html) and I speak all the time.” > > The comments came as [Johnson](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-johnson-weakness-house-gop-b2890130.html) hit the campaign trail ahead of the midterms, where Republicans are expected to lose ground to the Democrats on the back of the usual incumbent slump and economic issues surrounding the Iran war. [Remember “_Where’s the Beef?_”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0aKKFybRNM) Now we have, [_Where’d the beef come from?_](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-agriculture-secretary-refuses-where-190059000.html) > [@](#): > > Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has refused to say which countries the Trump administration is relying on for its [plan to temporarily surge beef imports](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-beef-import-deal-price-cost-of-living-b3037060.html) into the U.S. to ease consumer prices. > > “I am not privy to talk about that,” [Rollins](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-beef-import-deal-price-cost-of-living-b3037060.html) told reporters on Tuesday. “I think the conversations are still going on,” she added, saying that [President Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/trump-beef-prices-backlash-tim-sheehy-b3037303.html) and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer were involved. > > In a Truth Social post on Friday, President Trump claimed he had [reached a deal](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-beef-import-deal-price-cost-of-living-b3037060.html) to allow up to 300,000 metric tons of meat destined to become ground beef into the U.S. to be sold at reduced prices for the next 90 days without tariffs or quotas. The plan, Trump said, would “substantially lower the price of [ground beef](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/ground-beef) for working American families.” > > A White House official [told _The Independent_](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-beef-import-deal-price-cost-of-living-b3037060.html)last week that Trump would “formally sign an executive order” to execute the agreement “within the next two weeks.” > > Since Trump returned to office last year, the price of ground beef has risen from $5.45 per pound to $6.85 per pound, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [Another federal judge says the felon’s flock of fools violated court orders, of coudrse it’s relate to his hijacking of the next election.](https://www.aol.com/articles/judge-finds-trump-administration-violated-201020000.html) > [@](#): > > A federal judge in Massachusetts [found that](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.298449/gov.uscourts.mad.298449.201.0_1.pdf)the Trump administration violated her order that barred the government from moving forward with certain restrictions on mail-in voting. Yet even though she did not impose a remedy for that violation, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said it may ultimately benefit the [voting rights plaintiffs](https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/mail-ballot-postal-service-midterms-trump-emergency-motion)who brought the case, because the violative government action makes it ripe to sue over. > > Tuesday’s ruling from Talwani comes after the Supreme Court’s [ruling Monday](https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-trump-mail-in-voting-executive-order-midterms-california) in a separate but related case. In that high court ruling, the court’s GOP-appointed majority handed President Donald Trump a preliminary win that didn’t fully resolve his administration’s ballot authority over the midterms. It was more of a procedural ruling that said the challenge to Trump’s executive order came too early, and so the issue could soon return to the justices for a more definitive resolution. [Of couse he’s the butt of the joke. That’s because he’s a big butt.](https://www.aol.com/articles/michigan-rep-delivers-epic-natalie-155752000.html) > [@](#): > > Michigan Democratic Rep. [Debbie Dingell](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/debbie-dingell) made a massive dig at [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) and his close aide [Natalie Harp](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/natalie-harp) over the president’s threat to [rename Lake Ontario](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lake-ontario-name-trade-war-b3038837.html) to the wildly creative “Lake America.” > > “Let’s just call it Lake Natalie so we know you’ll start protecting our Great Lakes,” Dingell wrote. > > The congresswoman’s comment was a reference to Harp, Trump’s [troublingly devoted aide](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/natalie-harp-2020-trump-election-memo-b3037750.html) who has drawn scrutiny in recent weeks for her comments to Trump and her closeness to him. > > Dingell’s comments come amid Trump’s continued tensions with Canada. In addition to the tariffs he enacted in 2025, Trump announced an additional 50 percent tariff on the nation after a[trade negotiation broke down](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-mark-carney-canada-ontario-hakeem-jeffries-b3038913.html) over the weekend. > > “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!” [“If I can’t have it, nobody can!” Farewell, _John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts_.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-administration-says-might-demolish-175341000.html) > [@](#): > > The [Trump administration](https://www.nbcnews.com/trump-administration) is, for the first time, threatening the demolition of the Kennedy Center if the arts institution isn’t allowed to follow its plans for the site, including adding [President Donald Trump’s](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump) name to the front of the building. > > “Without those efforts, the Center will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site, such as a large outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Potomac River that has been proposed, by some, for many years,” Justice Department attorney Brantley T. Mayers [wrote in a court filing on Monday.](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.68.0_1.pdf) If you think he’s going to let a little thing like the law, Congrees, or even a court order get in his way of demolishing yet another iconic buidling, [Gilbert Gottfried has two words for you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5rzk_X_WhQ). [Waddyaknow? MAGA really does mean Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.](https://www.aol.com/articles/watchdog-files-bar-complaint-against-162739000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — A legal watchdog says it filed bar complaints on Tuesday accusing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two lieutenants of violating their ethical duties in seeking to [charge six Democratic lawmakers](https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-orders-democrats-video-e1435655587ad9715c4d1cc776edd545) with federal crimes for appearing [in a video](https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-traitors-sedition-illegal-orders-c5fc3c5bd2fbc6b1204550e4203c24b2) that called on troops to resist unlawful orders. > > The Legal Accountability Center’s [bar complaints](https://legalaccountability.org/actions/complaint-against-jeanine-pirro), filed in New York and Virginia, claim Pirro and her subordinates, [Carlton Davis](https://legalaccountability.org/actions/complaint-against-carlton-davis) and [Steven Vandervelden](https://legalaccountability.org/actions/complaint-against-steven-vandervelden), abused their prosecutorial powers to seek “meritless” indictments against President Donald Trump’s “perceived political enemies.” [Remember how the Third Reich banned works by certain artists? Yeah, that’s now a US government thing.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/u-embassy-removes-woke-painting-000000220.html) > [@](#): > > The Trump Administration has removed a painting by [artist Kehinde Wiley](https://time.com/collections/most-influential-people-2018/5217612/kehinde-wiley/), who notably [painted former President Barack Obama’s official portrait](https://time.com/5147364/kehinde-wiley-artist-painted-barack-obama-portrait/), from one of its embassies over what officials called its “woke ideologies.” > > The painting was removed from the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, earlier this month on ideological grounds. Commissioned by the State Department in 2013, the painting, “Young Artists After Siamesas 1960,” depicts four Dominican models against a floral backdrop in Wiley’s quintessential style. > > The U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic Leah Campos [posted](https://www.instagram.com/p/Db6ajTmuPB3/) a video of the painting’s removal on social media to the tune of heavy metal song “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” The video shows the painting covered in a tarp emblazoned with the American flag prior to its removal. > > “In the Trump Administration and under my leadership we are turning away from globalist and woke ideologies and instead embracing American patriotism and the beauty of our great country!” Campos wrote. There’s no word yet from \*Twisted Sister" about the use of their song but given who wrote the song, I don’t think I’m going out on a limb to say the band’s not impressed. [Have we discussed this January 6 “Patriot” yet?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/trump-pardoned-him-now-jan-231500810.html) (The formatting is from the link.) > [@](#): > > **John Banuelos** taunted the judge and mocked the others in the courtroom. I was in the back row of the room and watched it happen… incredulously. > > Banuelos appeared in court via zoom in 2024 from the local jail. He was being held pending trial for his alleged role in the U.S. Capitol Siege. > > The charges were uniquely serious. Banuelos was accused of carrying a gun – and firing it into the air – while amid the January 6th mob. > > But Banuelos liked his outlook. He liked it a lot. > > During his hearing, Banuelos looked straight into the zoom camera, at **Judge Tanya Chutkan** who was on the bench in her courtroom on the 2nd floor of the Washington, D.C. federal courthouse. He gave a brief chuckle and then said, “Trump is going to be in office in six months, so I have nothing to worry about.” > > Banuelos was correct. > > Until he wasn’t! > > He now has big worries… > > ….Much bigger than nearly all of the dozens of pardoned riot defendants who’ve since been charged – or convicted – for other crimes. > > _**[Scott MacFarlane Reports](https://macfarlanenews.substack.com/)**_ has learned Banuelos is being held in cellblock D-5 at the Salt Lake County, Utah jail, just west of Interstate 15. And he might never see the light of day again. > > Banuelos is scheduled for a three-day trial beginning December 1st, for a different crime. > > If Banuelos loses, he faces the prospect of life in prison. And this time: Trump can’t save him. > > According to court filings by prosecutors, Banuelos kidnapped and attacked a woman in Utah. It’s a state prosecution, not a federal case, removing it from Trump’s jurisdiction. > > According to the court submissions by prosecutors, the victim told law enforcement that Banuelos “hit her in the face and told her he was going to kill her. Banuelos then grabbed her by the shirt and dropped her on the floor, causing her to hit her head. (She) recalled feeling like Banuelos was going to kill her.” > > The victim also told police that Banuelos sexually accosted her. She allegedly told investigators, “Banuelos was aggressively kissing her and punched her in the head. She said when she tried to punch him back, he got ‘really angry.’ Those court documents from prosecutors also said the victim alleged Baneulos 'grabbed her shorts, pulled them off, and threw her, causing her whole body to fly in the air.” [NPS emergency responders relocated to the Dictatorship of Columbia for the felon’s vanity projects.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-pulled-national-parks-emergency-201749004.html) > [@](#): > > [National Park Service](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-national-park-service-washington-doug-burgum-white-house-b3032504.html) emergency responders have been recruited to work on President Donald Trump’s beautification projects in Washington, D.C., including fountain renovations and repairs to the [Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-reflecting-pool-artificial-intelligence-b3036873.html), according to a new report. > > Nearly 300 employees from the Park Service’s “incident management team” — which [responds to wildfires](https://www.nifc.gov/resources/firefighters/incident-management-teams)and other emergencies — have been deployed to the capital, [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/politics/doug-burgum-trump-washington-makeover) reported, citing internal documents and agency workers. > > “It just shows how much DC operations are getting priority above all other park units and staff,” an unnamed Park Service employee told the outlet. > > The employees reassigned to Washington, D.C., previously worked at parks across the country, including in Alaska and California. Their duties have since included cleaning up the East Potomac golf course, according to CNN. [This is a very fun read about the drama ~~queen~~ felon’s makeup routine.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/scaramucci-reveals-trump-makeup-routine-111814697.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump’s former communications director has exposed his old boss’s [makeup routine.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-80-exposes-swollen-hand-in-new-photos/) > > [Anthony Scaramucci](https://www.thedailybeast.com/truth-about-what-melania-really-does-is-exposed-ex-trump-adviser-anthony-scaramucci/), 62, was part of Trump’s first administration in 2017, but lasted just 11 days after getting into a spat with colleagues before later falling out with the president. > > In an interview with [The Times](https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/anthony-scaramucci-interview-nobody-likes-donald-trump-2z2j8t9xg) of London, Scaramucci said that his “old-school Italian” [makeup artist](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-uses-favorite-fix-to-battle-new-health-problem/) mom hates Trump’s signature orange hue. > > “She hates Trump’s makeup,” he said. “It’s like an orange bronzer he buys from a supply shop in the Bronx. He looks like an open can of Spam without makeup.” > > He was then asked whether this meant he had seen Trump, now 80, without makeup. > > “Oh, yeah. He puts it on in the morning. Sometimes he reapplies it at night. It’s a tanner. He thinks it looks fantastic, by the way.” > > Scaramucci’s reference to the Bronx may be explained by a detail in a 2019 [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-two-undocumented-housekeepers-took-on-the-president--and-revealed-trumps-long-term-reliance-on-illegal-immigrants/2019/12/04/3dff5b5c-0a15-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html) article. > > It featured Trump’s former household staff revealing that not only did his housekeeper have to smear his liquid face makeup on her own hand every day to ensure it hadn’t dried up, but he used a Swiss brand called Bronx Colors. > > The article heard from undocumented migrants who worked for Trump, including those charged with his intimate daily care. Undocumented migrants, you say? [Let’s go to Washington, DC! Where is it? Do not trus the felon’s map.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/white-house-called-embarrassing-u-195826360.html) [quote] The Trump White House has been left red-faced after badly mangling a map of the United States. The White House’s attempt to promote President Donald [Trump’s new obsession with renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America”](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-unleashes-deranged-threat-to-canada-in-morning-meltdown/) took an embarrassing turn Tuesday when it posted a botched map of the United States [on X](https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2092294860434808863). The apparently AI-generated map, made of colorful Legos, relabels the Gulf of Mexico the Trump-approved “Gulf of America,” and the Great Lakes as the as-yet-unrecognized “Lake America.” [Even the stupid is bigger in ~~Texas~~ Florida.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/florida-aims-drop-school-vaccine-212301232.html) > [@](#): > > [Florida health officials](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/florida-attorney-general-vaccine-mandate-b2821858.html)are trying to [make good on their promise to end all vaccine requirements](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/florida-school-vaccine-mandate-desantis-b2819424.html) by introducing a new rule that would drop four required immunizations for public and private school attendance. > > Under the [proposed rule change](https://flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?id=64D-3.046), children would no longer have to be vaccinated against chickenpox, Hepatitis B, Hib – otherwise known as Haemophilus influenzae type b – and pneumococcal disease to attend school. > > The rule is only a proposal for now. Florida children are still required to have all four vaccines to attend school. > > Though Florida’s suggested change comes shortly after President Donald Trump signed an [executive order calling](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/delivering-gold-standard-childhood-vaccine-recommendations-for-americans/) for a new [childhood vaccine](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/dr-oz-vaccines-trump-rfk-mmr-b3038205.html)schedule, it clashes with the president’s order. Trump has supported children being vaccinated against chickenpox, Hib and pneumococcal disease. > > Rather, Florida’s proposed rule aligns with an effort by the state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, who has a history of promoting health-related misinformation. Last year, Ladapo vowed to [end every single vaccine mandate](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-cdc-covid-vaccines-rfk-jr-restrictions-b2817901.html), equating the requirements to “slavery.” [Are Black children being punished disproportionally? The bigot-in-chief doesn’t want anyone to know the answer.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-administration-reverses-school-discipline-153000696.html) > [@](#): > > New federal guidance tells schools not to consider race in discipline decisions despite longstanding disparities affecting Black students. > > The [U.S. Department of Education](https://thegrio.com/2025/04/16/naacp-lawsuit-says-department-of-education-is-intentionally-discriminating-against-of-black-students-with-anti-dei-orders/) has opened investigations into two school districts while issuing new guidance warning schools against considering students’ race when making disciplinary decisions. The move reverses the approach taken under the Obama and Biden administrations and reignites a long-running debate over racial disparities in school suspensions. > > According to [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-5936474/discrimination-school-discipline-suspension-race-education-department-civil-rights), the investigations come alongside new federal guidance from Office of Civil Rights head Kimberly Richey stating that schools should not take a student’s race into account when disciplining them. The guidance goes further, arguing that using race as a factor in discipline constitutes unlawful discrimination. [ICE releases father of USS Lincoln sailor.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/immigrant-dad-uss-lincoln-sailor-182528851.html) > [@](#): > > [Immigrant dad of USS Lincoln sailor is released from ICE detention](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/immigrant-dad-uss-lincoln-sailor-182528851.html) [The war on elections loses a battle in Ohio.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-judge-blocks-ohio-law-155848869.html) > [@](#): > > Aug 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked an Ohio law requiring residents to present documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote at the battleground state’s motor vehicles offices, in the latest ‌setback for allies of President Donald Trump pushing to tighten voter registration rules. > > The decision by Cleveland-based U.S. District Judge ‌Solomon Oliver Jr. marked a defeat for Ohio’s Republican government ahead of the November 3 midterm elections. A competitive race for a Senate seat in the ​state is considered critical for Democrats’ hopes of winning control of the Senate. > > Trump and fellow Republicans in state governments across the country are pushing more restrictions on voter registration, based in part on claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens. Democrats and voting rights advocates counter that non-U.S. citizen voting is rare and that greater restrictions can make it harder for U.S. citizens to vote. > > In Ohio, Governor Mike ‌DeWine last year signed a new law requiring ⁠people to present documents such as a birth certificate, a passport or a naturalization certificate when registering to vote while applying for a driver’s license or another type of state identification document. > > ADVOCACY GROUPS ⁠CHALLENGED LAW > > Advocacy groups including the Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans sued to challenge the law, arguing that it imposed an unnecessary obstacle to registering to vote in violation of the National Voter Registration Act, a 1993 federal law that sought to expand voter registration in part by ​requiring states ​to give people the opportunity to register to vote when they ​apply for driver’s licenses. > > In issuing a preliminary injunction on ‌Tuesday siding with the advocacy groups, Oliver wrote that having voters attest in writing that they are U.S. citizens was enough to allow Ohio election officials to assess their eligibility to vote. [Congressman Al Green files impeachment agains tthe felon-in-the-oval.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rep-al-green-files-articles-181616836.html) > [@](#): > > Aug. 24 (UPI) – Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, filed new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Monday, citing “high crimes and misdemeanors.” > > The [resolution says that](https://algreen.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/algreen-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/h.res_.1486-rep-al-green-articles-of-impeachment-final-with-signature.pdf) Trump has failed to “uphold his constitutionally mandated solemn presidential oath of office to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,’ thereby demonstrating that he is a great threat to democracy.” > > It further says that Trump is “abusing the powers of the presidency by operating United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection as his vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces, transgressing with anonymity and secrecy, assaulting people, committing and covering up unjustified killings of civilians … with impunity … terrorizing communities and brazenly wantonly devolving the United States democratic republic into an authoritative regime.” > > The articles name four people killed by the agencies in 2026: Renee Good and Alex Pretti in January, and [Lorenzo Salgado Araujo](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/07/24/congress-salgado-ice/6081784926616/) and [Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/07/14/ice-agents-fatally-shoot-colombian-immigrant-maine/7101784057078/) in July. > > Green has introduced articles of impeachment against Trump before. He [was the first to do so](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6046947-green-introduces-trump-impeachment-articles/) during Trump’s first term as president, and he also filed an article of impeachment in June 2025, saying the president failed to notify or seek approval from Congress before launching strikes against three alleged Iranian nuclear sites. That attempt failed by a 344-79 vote. [The felon in the oval does some performative presidenting.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-sends-saudi-nuclear-deal-232719106.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has sent Congress a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy while insisting the pact will only go into effect if the kingdom ‌normalizes relations with Israel, a U.S. administration official told Reuters on Tuesday. > > The agreement, which was reached in ‌July and would allow U.S. companies to export civilian nuclear technology to the kingdom, was sent to Congress on Monday, according to the U.S. official, ​who declined to be identified. > > The Saudi embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. > > It was not clear how Trump expects sending the nuclear deal to Congress, which has 90 session days to consider it, will advance his objectives. > > “The president’s position has not changed that the agreement will only move forward if Saudi Arabia joins the Abraham Accords,” the U.S. ‌official said in an email, referring to ⁠U.S.-brokered agreements between Israel and Arab and Muslim-majority nations to normalize relations. > > Those accords, reached in 2020 and 2021, were between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan. _I’ll take “Things That Will Never Ever Ever Happen” for $2,000, Ken._ ---
**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 26, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8263 "2026-08-26T08:56:23Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > the Center will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down You know what else is an “unsafe, decrepit structure required to be taken down”? ---
**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 26, 2026, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8264 "2026-08-26T09:50:17Z")
The whole White House? Or perhaps the Southern White House, aka **[Mar-é-Cage](https://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/mar%C3%A9cage)**? ---
**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 26, 2026, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8265 "2026-08-26T10:13:42Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > The whole White House? I was thinking more about its current resident. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8266 "2026-08-26T10:19:44Z")
Good, but needs more gold. ---
**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 26, 2026, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8267 "2026-08-26T12:00:56Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I suspect that it’s similar to his obsession with rebuilding and redecorating the White House, the Reflecting Pool, etc. Pretty much this. I know it’s hard to keep up with the entire shitshow, but among the ideas he was floating was imported marble armrests (?!) for the seats. Because, as we all know, when we’re watching a show for a couple hours, we all want to rest our arms on stone. I’d call his tastes nouveau riche, but most of that class aren’t so tacky and tasteless ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8268 "2026-08-26T12:27:53Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@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.” ^This^, plus I think there was a feeling among the MAGA / Project 2025 crowd that the Kennedy Center was getting far too ‘woke’. Lin-Manuel Miranda received Kennedy Center honors in 2018 after all, the creator of _Hamilton_, which (horrors!) dared to put people of color into a musical about Alexander Hamilton and the founding of our country. What could be more disgustingly woke than that? So I think the trump takeover was, at least in part, an attempt to MAGA-fy it, to bring more “red-blooded, white-skinned and true blue” values back. But it backfired so badly and so embarrassingly that trump petulantly decided to close it down for ‘renovation’ for a couple years, like a brat taking his football and going home because the game isn’t going his way. ---
**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 26, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8269 "2026-08-26T12:40:07Z")
Yes as I recall, the closed for renovation happened after a massive wave of cancelations both by artists and audiences, that was becoming an embarrassment. So he decided that it looked better to say there were no performances because it was shut down for renovation, rather then there were no performances because no one wanted to perform and no one wanted to come. ---
**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 26, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8270 "2026-08-26T13:32:55Z")
[Paul Krugman today (video with transcript below):](https://substack.com/home/post/p-212724722) [First paragraph bolded in original. Later bolding added by me.] > **Note: After I recorded this it was reported that Trump officials are threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center if it can’t be renovated to Trump’s taste (and presumably with his name added). Matches my argument exactly.** > > _Der Untergang naht_. > > Pardon my German pronunciation. I’m going to take a break today from wonky economic analysis and talk about, well, Donald Trump, but in a slightly different way from what I think most people are saying. Not positive, obviously. > > Just before recording this, I saw that Trump wants to rename Lake Ontario Lake America. Which is silly, would be funny, except that this guy is the President of the United States. And it’s really kind of troublesome that someone in that position is that out of it, that petty, disconnected from reality. > > … > > What I don’t think people are fully aware of is just how bad it can get, given that Trump is so obviously dissociating, decompensating, that he’s not all there. > > Obviously, he was already a very problematic personality, which was doing a great deal of damage to the United States. I don’t think even now people fully appreciate the amount of damage that has been done. Even before the Iran War, Trump’s provocations, insults, his trade wars, really destroyed the world’s trust in America. > > … > > Okay, the title I gave, the way that I opened this talk was _Der Untergang,_ which is the German title of the movie Downfall, about the last days of Adolf Hitler. I hope that nobody is going to complain about my using the German, right? We’re long past the point where it’s considered unthinkable and incredibly rude to make Nazi parallels. There’s a lot of people in this administration or close to this administration who are effectively Nazis, in some cases explicitly Nazis. America is not yet Germany under Hitler. But the reason we don’t have a functioning Gestapo in this country is not for lack of desire to have one. It’s because these people, at least so far, don’t have the juice. So all of the stuff, all of the parallels seem appropriate. > > And the parallels are there. I mean, the parallels are there even in seemingly small things. Hitler was obsessed with building a gigantic gaudy ballroom. So there’s just a lot of parallels in there. > > Now the main message of the movie _Der Untergang_ is that it’s about Hitler in his final days who knew that he was losing. He knew that defeat was looming. He knew that his power was collapsing. And his reaction was, among other things, to take it out on his own country. > > Hitler never accepted that he had failed Germany. He felt that Germany had failed him. And so he had a plan, often called the Nero Decree, which was to destroy as much as possible of Germany’s infrastructure. Supposedly to deny it to the victorious allies, but in large part to punish Germany. > > … > > What does he [Trump] do in the position of losing? Probably not committing suicide in the _Fuhrerbunker_, but still in the position of losing all of his power. Well, what you do in that position, if you are somebody like Trump, who is an empty vessel: there’s nothing in there, the only pleasure he appears to take in life comes from dominating other people. > > … > > But how much more will be coming? When we talk about Hitler’s last days, as I said, one of his last attempted acts was what’s called the Nero Decree, which was an attempt to destroy as much of Germany’s infrastructure as possible, supposedly to deny it to the victorious allies. **But clearly, and even there’s some evidence that he actually he clearly thought this as a way of punishing the German people for failing him.** > > Now, historiography is a little more complicated than that, as it usually is, but that’s clearly the gist of it. That Hitler’s final acts were to basically try to bring everyone else down with him. > > Do you really want to say that that’s not what’s going to happen with Trump? Assuming that he loses much, if not all, of his power to shape events this November, and of course we’re all worried about how he may try to disrupt or overturn the election, but assuming he doesn’t manage to do that, he will find himself much diminished. **How much damage will he do basically taking revenge on America?** > > Because always you want to bear in mind that Trump hates America. He hates the values on which America was built. He hates democracy. He hates rule of law. He hates all of the things that are what we’re supposed to be about as a nation. > > **But increasingly it looks as if he just plain hates this country because it doesn’t love him.** How much damage will he do? How much damage can he do? I don’t want to make a specific prediction, but I’m worried. > > And don’t say that he won’t do that or he can’t do that. Those have been famous last words again and again over the past decade. So this is going to be even worse, even uglier, I think than most people imagine. ---
**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, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8271 "2026-08-26T13:42:23Z")
So basically: > [@Princhester](#): > > a way to justify closing it for a few years as revenge on the lib’ruls ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8272 "2026-08-26T15:30:46Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Paul Krugman today > > > Okay, the title I gave, the way that I opened this talk was _Der Untergang,_ which is the German title of the movie Downfall, about the last days of Adolf Hitler. **I hope that nobody is going to complain about my using the German, right? We’re long past the point where it’s considered unthinkable and incredibly rude to make Nazi parallels.** There’s a lot of people in this administration or close to this administration who are effectively Nazis, in some cases explicitly Nazis. (Bolding mine) During trump’s first term I tried reading _[In the Garden of Beasts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Garden_of_Beasts)_, a non-fiction account of the American Ambassador to Germany and his family during the years 1933-37, during the rise of Hitler and Nazism. But I couldn’t finish the book, because the parallels to trump’s first term were so on the nose, it was depressing. Now, trump 2.0 has close parallels to the movie _Der Untergang_, about the downfall of Hitler and Nazism. I guess my point is, I don’t think there’s _ever_ been a time during _any_ point of trump’s Presidency where it had ever been an exaggeration, let alone “unthinkable and incredibly rude” to make Nazi parallels. ---
**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 26, 2026, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8273 "2026-08-26T23:05:47Z")
Mad King Donald is shitposting about renaming international bodies of water again. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreidtlpxty5q4nybyynsk4bvqvfr326x727scvsccnzuueo5u5wni5u) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreidtlpxty5q4nybyynsk4bvqvfr326x727scvsccnzuueo5u5wni5u) ---
**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 26, 2026, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8274 "2026-08-26T23:14:33Z")
This is actually quite an interesting image. The stupid name is easily ignored, but funny how they happened to include the international border, placing the lake name in such a way that the red X is centred on the border. The US flag is ambiguous, too: sure, it goes with Lake America, rah rah!, but it’s also conveniently floating above Toronto. It’s weird to think of my country of origin as an enemy nation, but I’m starting to. ---
**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 26, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8275 "2026-08-26T23:18:35Z")
Trump comments on the passing of Dolly Parton; “ME ME ME ME MEEEEEEEEEEEEE” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mtyhimitj22d)** > > Trump on Dolly Parton: "She really liked me, I will tell you" ---
**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 26, 2026, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8276 "2026-08-26T23:29:00Z")
There it is. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8277 "2026-08-27T00:02:05Z")
She probably did. She was the kind of person who found the good in just about everybody. She was a genuinely kind and good person and that’s why she’s so universally revered. ---
**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 27, 2026, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8278 "2026-08-27T00:13:21Z")
I mean, she was a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter and she declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom TWICE when he offered it to her. Any liking she had for him was probably of the “I’ll pray for him” variety. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8279 "2026-08-27T00:35:04Z")
I do agree, she probably loved everybody, just not everybody equally ---
**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 27, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8280 "2026-08-27T01:45:06Z")
[He’s his number one fan!](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-goes-mid-day-posting-175602000.html) > [@](#): > > With the [war he started in Iran approaching the six-month mark](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-trump-sanctions-strikes-oman-hormuz-b3039311.html) and the American economy still beset by rising prices amid the trade wars he has started with almost every major American trading partner, the President of the United States took time Wednesday afternoon posting and reposting content to glorify himself and air niche grievances. > > [Those posts included](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-truth-social-traffic-down-b3030643.html) old family photos, lists of his accomplishments and a call to Roger Clemens to the baseball Hall of Fame. > > President Donald Trump started the uninterrupted string of Truth Social posts at 11:38 a.m. by [lashing out at Democrats](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/congress-trump-democrats-majority-midterms-filibuster-b3034568.html) for not supporting the voting restriction bill he has dubbed the “Save America Act” and accusing them of opposing the bill out of a desire to “cheat” in elections and allow non-citizens to vote in American elections. > > He then began a string of posts depicting the results of his administration’s effort to clean up parks and fountains across Washington, D.C., with many posts containing misleading “before” photos depicting damage to statues and other features from protests during his first term or the latter months of the Biden administration. [He’s also QAnon’s number one fan.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-amplifies-qanon-slogan-account-115812728.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump spent early Sunday morning amplifying two posts from an account whose bio prominently features the QAnon slogan “#WWG1WGA,” or “Where We Go One, We Go All.” > > The account, @Imaluckyangel, has roughly 8,500 followers and describes itself as MAGA and #MAHA. One of the posts Trump reposted featured a graphic declaring, “It’s not a sanctuary city, it’s called harboring fugitives.” [Now the felon in the oval is larping as a psychic.](https://www.aol.com/articles/dont-think-hes-dead-trump-160730000.html) > [@](#): > > [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) said he believes Iran’s new supreme leader is still alive, responding to a media report containing speculation that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei may have succumbed to injuries sustained when the U.S. and Israel launched the Iran war. > > [The Atlantic reported](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/08/mojtaba-khamenei-dead-rumor-iran/688393/) that Tehran is “abuzz” with talk of Khamenei’s death and cited unnamed sources inside and close to the government who speculated that Khamenei eventually died of his injuries. > > “I don’t think he’s dead,” Trump told radio host Glenn Beck, who asked about The Atlantic report [in an Aug. 26 interview](https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RKjpbMEaQaJw). “He was very seriously wounded. The left side of his body, the arm, the leg, the whole thing. He was very seriously wounded but I don’t think he’s dead.” > > Trump noted that Iranian negotiators talk about getting Khamenei’s approval, so if he’s dead, “they’re putting on a pretty good show.” > > “They talk about going back to talk to him all the time to get a final blessing on things,” Trump said. [Oh, crap!](https://www.aol.com/articles/wiped-us-faces-surging-toilet-100041000.html) > [@](#): > > Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the [US](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news) and [Canada](https://www.theguardian.com/world/canada) enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations. > > After trade negotiations [broke down](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/canada-us-collapsed-trade-talks-negotiation-breakdown-analysis) between the two countries [last weekend](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/donald-trump-lashes-out-after-us-canada-talks-devolve-into-trade-war), Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, [vowed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/22/canada-tariffs-trump-trade-deal-talks-fail) to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar” and [unveiled](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/25/canada-retaliatory-tariffs-on-range-of-us-goods) a [list](https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/international-trade-finance-policy/canadas-response-us-tariffs/complete-list-us-products-subject-to-counter-tariffs.html) of nearly 900 American goods that will face 25% to 50% tariffs starting on 8 September. > > Paper products are among the hardest-hit sectors, with Canada threatening to put tariffs of between 25% and 50% on “toilet paper or face tissue stock” from 8 September in retaliation for a 50% hike from Washington DC. > > Though American toilet paper and tissues are often made domestically, they [heavily rely](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/01/canada-boreal-forest-toilet-paper-us-climate-change-impact-report) on lumber-rich Canada for raw materials. Procter & Gamble, the owner of Charmin toilet paper, [said](https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/business/tide-charmin-price-increases) last year that it would have to increase prices amid tariffs that were in place at the time. [The felon’s pick erases the felon’s name.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-pick-open-house-seat-225902773.html) > [@](#): > > President Trump’s pick to replace Republican Rep. Andy Barr (Ky.) in the House has completely scrubbed the president from his campaign website. > > Former state Sen. Ralph Alvarado’s (R) campaign website no longer features an image of the candidate next to Trump with them both giving a thumbs-up and shifted from branding himself as a national leader in the “America First” movement to an “independent” focused on healthcare. [More deaths to chalk up to Killer Kennedy’s antivax movement.](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/2-people-die-measles-pennsylvania-125000431.html) > [@](#): > > Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday. Both individuals from Lancaster County were unvaccinated. > > These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and the first deaths reported this year in the U.S. > > “My deepest sympathies are with the loved ones who are facing this unimaginable loss,” Dr. Debra Bogen, the state’s secretary of health, said in a statement. “Because measles was largely eliminated in the Commonwealth for more than three decades, people are not familiar with this disease and don’t fully understand the potential severity of the illness.” [Another day, another military dependent deported to the violence she fled.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/active-duty-military-spouses-detained-140734288.html) > [@](#): > > The wife of an Army sergeant and mother of a 6-year-old was deported on Monday. > > Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez confirmed that his wife, Cristy Maryori Villafranca Trejo, was deported to Honduras. Turcios’s wife’s deportation comes as Trump’s immigration crackdown impacts active-duty military spouses. > > Turcios Juarez previously told ABC News that ICE officers detained Villafranca outside a Walmart in July as the couple’s young daughter watched. Villafranca left Honduras in 2016 due to violent crime in the country, her husband said. > > After attending high school in the U.S., he joined the military and became a U.S. citizen in 2024 after a nine-month deployment to the Middle East. Then he began pursuing citizenship for his wife, hoping his service would help expedite her naturalization process, he said. > > “She’s been a very supportive wife since the first day that I decided to join the military. I was deployed for nine months. She took care of my family,” Turcios said of his spouse when she was detained. “She’s not a threat to anybody. We’re just trying to keep our family together.” > > The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the removal of Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo, the wife of an army sergeant. > > “On August 24, Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo, an illegal alien from Honduras, was removed from the United States in accordance with our laws,” a spokesperson for DHS said in a statement. > > “On July 11, ICE conducted a targeted immigration enforcement operation to arrest Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo, an illegal alien from Honduras,” the spokesperson added. “Villafranca-Trejo illegally entered the United States in 2016 and was released into the country under the Obama administration.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=413) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=415)