# 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:** 427
**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:** [September 4, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8521 "2026-09-04T20:51:58Z")
Why not a golden escalator? The biggest, longest, and bestest in the world! Longer than the pond next door is wide! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8522 "2026-09-04T20:56:08Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > What the everloving fuck is this? > > Creepy. > > Besides, the only time I’ll eat sauerkraut with any kind of beef is in a Reuben sandwich. Not with a nice-looking steak. Hold on there. The “photo” doesn’t make clear what kind of critter that steak was when it was ambulatory. It could be an otter chop. Or even a _filet_ of Tibetan yak (which, as everyone knows, pairs exquisitely with sauerkraut). How a yak in Tibet finds itself as roadkill, I don’t care to speculate. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8523 "2026-09-04T20:57:43Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I swear at times it seems as though Trump is deliberately hurting the United States. It seems obvious that is what he is trying to do. I’m amazed at how resilient the economy has been despite him actively dismantling it. How long can it and the global economy hold out though? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8524 "2026-09-04T21:04:09Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > > [@Odesio](#): > > > > I swear at times it seems as though Trump is deliberately hurting the United States. > > It seems obvious that is what he is trying to do. I’m amazed at how resilient the economy has been despite him actively dismantling it. How long can it and the gIobal economy hold out though? _Après moi, le déluge_ ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8525 "2026-09-04T21:46:59Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > It seems obvious that is what he is trying to do. I’m amazed at how resilient the economy has been despite him actively dismantling it. How long can it and the global economy hold out though? I sometimes have my doubts becasue there’s a real possibility he’s simply so incompetent he doesn’t realize how much his idea hurt the United States. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2026, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8526 "2026-09-04T22:31:03Z")
That proceeds partially from a false premise. He begins with the fundamental axiom that nothing he does is a bad idea or can turn out badly. There’s nothing to ‘realize’ about harm to the US because it categorically cannot happen within the warped reality in which he (barely) functions. The times things don’t work out (e.g. legal judgments) must therefore be the result of bad actors unfairly cheating him. It doesn’t even enter his mind that he can possibly harm the US through his actions. If it happens, it’s somebody else’s fault. Back here in reality, it’s clear he is doing so, but it’s inadvertent. He’s simply trying to personally profit, and the harm to the country is a natural side effect ETA: Of course, we are not so delusional but we do suffer from the delusion that people are fundamentally rational and connected to reality, hence the odd conclusion that he is actively trying to harm the country. That such totally irrational, delusional people not only exist but can achieve positions of incredible power is our blind spot ---
**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:** [September 4, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8527 "2026-09-04T23:33:07Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > If his next pick for Fed Chairman is a bright-eyed newcomer played by Tim Robbins, all bets are off. You know, for kids. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8528 "2026-09-05T00:25:48Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > He begins with the fundamental axiom that nothing he does is a bad idea or can turn out badly. There’s nothing to ‘realize’ about harm to the US because it categorically cannot happen within the warped reality in which he (barely) functions. That just lends more credence to the incompent argument rather than the deliberate side. Ultimately I don’t think the why really matters. Either way he won’t see reason and we’ll have to deal with the fallout. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8529 "2026-09-05T00:44:38Z")
Maybe we should leave the Trump Arch in place, but do this to it: [![](https://i.ibb.co/GfxVMmXj/FB-IMG-1788567135426.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/GfxVMmXj/FB-IMG-1788567135426.jpg) ---
**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:** [September 5, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8530 "2026-09-05T00:58:41Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Ultimately I don’t think the why really matters Perhaps? I suspect this is where the rest of the swamp comes in. You can tell there are several people in the circle who know better but they have calculated it is better not to revolt, perhaps knowing there’s no actual scheme other than self enrichment and he can be steered away from his dumber ideas. I do wonder if there was actual malice aforethought, if some of that crew would have staged some type of internal WH coup, if only to save what’s left of the country for themselves later. And that’s a galling thought. There are the idiots and true believers. But also the cynical ones grifting and biding their time in some vain hope they’ll get a bigger payday than the relatively petty grifts they’ve already got going. I suspect an outright traitor would have triggered some kind of intervention. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8531 "2026-09-05T01:20:20Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > You can tell there are several people in the circle who know better but they have calculated it is better not to revolt, perhaps knowing there’s no actual scheme other than self enrichment and he can be steered away from his dumber ideas. Oh, yeah. Trump’s circle is defintely made up of lickspittles, cowards, and grifters, with a few true believers scattered about. A lot of his inner circle are incompetent fools who never would have gotten far under another administration. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2026, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8532 "2026-09-05T01:26:38Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Are they going to have to post an observation team on top? Will the team have stairs or a ladder to get there? Or will they be helicoptered up and down? Trump will ask for volunteers to move up there and live out their days in his service. When they die they will simply be replaced by other devoted volunteers. The dead ones will be cremated and their ashes scattered in the Lincoln memorial reflecting pool. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2026, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8533 "2026-09-05T04:18:23Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > That just lends more credence to the incompent argument rather than the deliberate side. I do not believe it’s a zero sum game. He’s 100% deliberately cruel and 100% incompetent. [Evidently the administration had some kinks to work out.](https://www.aol.com/articles/labor-secretary-drank-brought-staff-174453000.html) > [@](#): > > The former U.S. Department of Labor [secretary](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/20/lori-chavez-deremer-labor-department-resign/89449300007/) drank on the job, created a toxic work environment, charged the government for personal travel, and accepted gifts without properly reporting them, according to a federal watchdog investigation released Sept. 3. > > At one point, Lori Chavez-DeRemer and an unnamed special agent pressured a member of her security detail to enter a strip club and “drop bills one-by-one” onto a performer’s body, [the report said](https://chrome-extension//efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://oig.dol.gov/public/oifindings/50-26-004-01-001.pdf). > > Chavez-DeRemer, who started the role in 2025, resigned from her post on April 20, 2026, one day before the Office of the Inspector General was scheduled to interview her as part of the investigation, the report said. > > [At the time](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/20/lori-chavez-deremer-labor-department-resign/89449300007/), Chavez-DeRemer was the third woman in a row to leave a Cabinet position. She said in an announcement that she was leaving for the private sector but did not provide more details. > > The investigation focused on Chavez-DeRemer and four other high-ranking employees: her chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff, an unnamed special agent in charge, and an unnamed director. > > Two of those employees were placed on administrative leave in January and fired in March; a third was placed on leave and resigned in March; and the fourth was fired in March. > > Attempts to reach Chavez-DeRemer for this story were unsuccessful. > > The report detailed an incident at a strip club in April 2025, just one month after she started the job, on a personal trip that Chavez-DeRemer took to Oregon. > > Chavez-DeRemer requested an off-the-record stop at “an establishment featuring partially nude dancers,” according to the report. She took money from her purse, gave it to the assistant special agent in charge of her security and allegedly directed him to give it to the performer, according to the report. [Seems like the Measles cases in Pennsylvania are real enough to kill, Killer Kennedy.](https://www.aol.com/articles/pennsylvania-confirms-second-death-child-135103000.html) > [@](#): > > A [Pennsylvania coroner](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/pennsylvania-josh-shapiro-new-york-trump-pittsburgh-b3041341.html) has confirmed a second child [measles death](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/measles-outbreak-vaccines-rfk-jr-trump-b3026600.html) in the state. > > The measles deaths are the first reported in the United States this year amid a 35-year high in infections. > > “Just today, we received a report of another child who died with measles, and we’re in the process of doing an investigation,” Lancaster County Coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, told [WHTM](https://www.abc27.com/local-news/lancaster/coroner-confirms-second-death-of-person-diagnosed-with-measles-in-lancaster-county/) Wednesday. > > It is unclear if the second death reported by the coroner is further clarification of two deaths already reported, or if this brings the death toll to three. _The Independent_ has asked the Lancaster County corner for clarification. > > There has been unusual friction between the state and the federal government after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his CDC director last weekend to remove a reference to the two Pennsylvania fatalities from the agency’s online measles tracker after questioning whether the virus contributed to [the deaths](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-measles-vaccine-pennsylvania-b3041627.html), according to a new report. [The felon has some new arch enemies.](https://www.aol.com/articles/opponents-seek-block-us-breaking-181815000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A group of three military veterans and an architectural historian on Friday asked a U.S. judge to block the Trump administration from starting work on a triumphal arch in Washington. > > The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday announced plans to move forward soon with work for the 250-foot (76-meter) arch near Arlington National Cemetery despite legal challenges and the lack of final approval from a government planning authority. > > In a U.S. District Court filing on Friday seeking a temporary restraining order, lawyers for the plaintiffs said the administration has “no legal basis for the construction work.” They said the arch violates federal law and needs approval from Congress. [There are, as proven yet again, millions of morons.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-1-coin-sales-spark-175338000.html) > [@](#): > > The new [$1 gold coins emblazoned with President Donald Trump’s face](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/09/02/trump-gold-coin-sale/91575778007/) are no longer available, at least temporarily. > > The coins are listed as “currently unavailable” on the [U.S. Mint’s website](https://www.usmint.gov/semiquincentennial-president-donald-j-trump-2026-1-coin-rolls-bags-MASTER_SEMIQDJT.html) Friday morning, Sept. 4, after going on sale at noon ET on Sept. 2. Multiple news outlets reported the coins were no longer available a few hours after they went on sale. [Another loss for the felon in the war against Transgender people.](https://www.aol.com/articles/california-girls-sports-advocates-vow-224648000.html) > [@](#): > > Advocates for girls’ sports vowed to keep fighting after a federal judge [dismissed a Department of Justice lawsuit](https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/federal-judge-dismisses-doj-lawsuit-challenging-california-policy-allowing-biological-males-girls-sports) challenging California policies that allow biological male athletes to compete on girls’ school sports teams. > > A DOJ spokesperson told Fox News Digital the administration remains committed to enforcing President Donald Trump’s policy [barring biological males from girls’ sports](https://www.foxnews.com/category/dei) despite the setback and is considering an appeal. > > “We are disappointed by the Court’s order, and remain committed to enforcing President Trump’s agenda preventing boys from playing in girls’ sports,” the spokesperson said. “We are evaluating our options for appeal.” [The felon’s numbers are faked, of course.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/education-department-latest-civil-rights-153416016.html) > [@](#): > > The U.S. Department of Education is withholding a tranche of federal data related to some LGBTQ+ students and their experiences in schools, even as it released the remaining data [from its Civil Rights Data Collection](https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/civil-rights-laws/civil-rights-data-collection-crdc/civil-rights-data/civil-rights-data-collection-crdc-2023-24-school-year) for the 2023-24 school year. > > The redacted data covers nonbinary students’ experiences related to enrollment, discipline, bullying and harassment, and whether districts have policies prohibiting discriminatory harassment or bullying of students on the basis of their gender identity. Breakdowns of nonbinary students’ experiences by racial demographics, English learner status, and disability were also withheld. The department did release some information related to sexual orientation as part of the data set. > > The civil rights collection for the 2023-24 school year began under the Biden administration and concluded under the second Trump administration. The Education Department on Aug. 31 quietly released the data — with hundreds of entries involving nonbinary students redacted — and without any in-depth accompanying report or analysis tools as was typical in previous releases to help the public better understand the trends. > > Collected by the Office for Civil Rights, the CRDC is meant to capture data on equal access to education for various student subgroups and give the government a picture on schools’ compliance with civil rights laws. OCR has typically administered the data collection biennially for more than five decades. [Guards at military base stop religious greeting at the gate.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/air-force-bases-religious-greetings-175213933.html) > [@](#): > > A U.S. Air Force base has ceased extending religious greetings at its gates to uniformed members following the reported intervention of an anti-discrimination organization. > > The Military Religious Freedom Foundation ([MRFF](https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/?utm_source=syndication)), which has more than 100,000 members including both active-duty and veteran service members from different services and myriad ranks, said Thursday that it intervened following nearly three dozen received complaints about [religious-oriented greetings](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/02/18/who-doug-wilson-pentagon-defends-pastor-who-led-christian-prayer-service.html?utm_source=syndication) at Kirtland Air Force Base’s front gates. > > MRFF said in a Sept. 3 press release that it ultimately received 34 complaints dating back days and even weeks, including from 24 individuals [who identify as Christian](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/20/pete-hegseths-christian-rhetoric-draws-renewed-scrutiny-after-us-goes-war-iran.html?utm_source=syndication). Officials at the gates were continually offering greetings including “God bless you” or “Have a blessed day,” as part of what MRFF described as a “weeks-long blitz” played to the backdrop of a Defense Department that has been [accused of pushing a Christian agenda](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/10/30/loyalty-check-current-former-military-defense-officials-question-us-leadership-post-quantico.html?utm_source=syndication) to its men and women in uniform. [Felon One to fly in Grift Force One.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-qatari-plane-international-trip-113259607.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump plans to fly to Ireland next week aboard the Boeing 747 gifted to him by Qatar, a senior White House official said, marking his first international trip on the jet since a security threat in July prompted him to leave Turkey secretly aboard an alternate aircraft. > > The trip underscores Trump’s continued fondness for and reliance on the Qatari jet despite concerns that it lacks some of the security features of the highly customized, heavily fortified Boeing 747-200B jumbo jets that have carried presidents for decades. One of the first things I learned when I began playing Go was _Do not throw good stones after bad_. [Evidently the felon and his flock of flacks never learned that.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/reflecting-pool-saga-continues-another-220100636.html) > [@](#): > > In a months-long summer saga that does not appear to want to end, the Trump administration has hired yet another new company to help clean and maintain the Lincoln Reflecting Pool — adding more cost and more questions to the renovation project that was meant to be a showcase of the country’s 250th birthday. > > The Department of Interior, which is overseeing the renovation project, will pay $2.7 million to American Ag Energy, a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in renewable energy technology, for repairs and maintenance of sewage and water purification systems at the pool, according to [details of the government contract](https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/30473f0f-4013-9857-9194-8babc16429ca-C/latest) and the company’s owner. > > The one-year contract, awarded last week, could be extended for five additional years and grow up to $8.8 million. [The felon’s Bureau of Prisons is selling to prisoners a product not authorized in the US.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/bop-faces-scrutiny-over-exclusive-194400608.html) > [@](#): > > A Florida company that was established in May won an unusual and potentially lucrative deal to be the only business permitted to stock the commissaries of the Bureau of Prisons’ 118 institutions with flavored nicotine pouches. > > The brand of 6-mg pouches being sold to federal prisoners, called “mindSHFT,” is not authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to be marketed and sold in the U.S., according to a review of FDA data. It is also not sold commercially. [Rip van Simple is back!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/trump-80-struggles-stay-awake-000926120.html) (The link is to a vide; below is part of the blurb.) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump again appeared to nod in and out of sleep during a scheduled Oval Office event on Friday. Sitting at the Resolute Desk surrounded by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and ranchers from around the country, including at least three men in cowboy hats, Trump visibly struggled to stay awake as Rollins discussed the two executive orders he had just signed. [They might as well start selling strips of the constitution as toilet paper.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-admin-rule-narrows-birthright-211159862.html) > [@](#): > > The [Department of Homeland Security](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security) (DHS) is looking to expand the list of people exempt from [being granted birthright citizenship](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-blocked-supreme-court-12397735), through a new order offering green cards instead. > > In a yet unpublished Federal Register filing, DHS said it was seeking to prevent children born to foreign government employees from attaining citizenship under the 14th Amendment, marking an expansion from just those born to diplomats or ambassadors. > > The move would be the latest in a string of efforts by the [Trump administration](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/trump-administration) to limit [birthright citizenship](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/birthright-citizenship), even after the U.S. [Supreme Court](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/supreme-court) ruled in June that any child born on U.S. soil is an American citizen, within the bounds of the constitutional amendment. But, hey, the kids get to stay in the country–maybe. > [@](#): > > DHS’s interim final rule would allow certain children born in the U.S. to foreign government employees to register as lawful permanent residents, while at the same time declaring that they are not U.S. citizens at birth unless one parent is a U.S. citizen. Who’s the US citizen who’s going to file on their behalf? Who’s going to pay the, last I heard, three grand and change for applying for a green card while in the US? I wonder. Let’s hope they try to apply this retroactively. The felon’s essentially an employee of Putin. Doesn’t that mean his children should’ve gotten a green card, and not US citizenship? [And here is more constitutional toilet paper for you.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/judge-refuses-block-pentagon-firing-221404744.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge [refused Friday](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.295983/gov.uscourts.dcd.295983.22.0_1.pdf) to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence. > > U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President Donald Trump. ruled that the journalists are unlikely to successfully prove that the Pentagon violated their First Amendment free speech rights. He said Stars and Stripes’ editorial independence “is not at stake here.” > > “Plaintiffs argue that their termination will chill the protected expression of themselves and others at Stripes,” McFadden wrote. “Plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate a chill here.” Getting fired isn’t a negative consequence? [All is not well in Griftalot.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/melania-delivers-stunning-snub-desperate-001632803.html) (The link is to a video; here is the beginning of the blurb.) > [@](#): > > Melania Trump is snubbing the GOP’s midterm convention next week in Texas, where her husband will try to galvanize his party—some of whom are steering clear of him as well. > [@aurora\_maire](#): > > This is actually on the White House website. An “arcade” of games about deportation and school lunches and Trump accounts. It’s incredibly stupid and embarrassing that this is what they think is clever. Really unbelievably stupid in a world of stupid. [And illegal of course.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/tetris-slams-white-house-build-225054481.html) > [@](#): > > Tetris is condemning the White House after President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/)’s administration used the vintage video game’s likeness to promote its “Build the Wall” campaign. > > In a [statement](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc2wSSYFLFv/) posted to the company’s social media accounts on Friday, Sept. 4 and shared separately with PEOPLE, a spokesperson said Tetris “was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall,’” and that it “take[s] copyright infringement very seriously.” > > “At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them. To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we’re grateful to have you in our community,” the statement continued. [The felon officially recognizes red states are disasters.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-approves-disaster-relief-funds-131203044.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump’s politicization of federal disaster relief funds has become one of the most important scandals of his second term. The president could at least _try_ to keep up appearances and make it seem as if the White House is approaching the issue in a vaguely responsible way, but with nine weeks remaining before the midterm elections, the Republican is instead leaning into his abuses. > > Late Tuesday afternoon, for example, over the course of roughly an hour, he used his social media platform to announce seven disaster relief requests that he had just approved. [Gray wolves to be on Killer Kennedy’s Road Kill Cafe menu soon!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-order-directs-officials-consider-005041972.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing the interior department to consider de-listing gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act and to contemplate whether the agency could make it easier to authorize killing them. > > The [order gives](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/supporting-americas-ranchers/) interior secretary Doug Burgum three months to determine whether gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves have recovered enough for the federal government to de-list them. > > But the US Fish and Wildlife Service, a division of the interior department, has [already attempted](https://www.fws.gov/our-work/protecting-wildlife/gray-wolf-recovery) to de-list the gray wolf – a decision that is currently tied up in litigation. A [2022 federal court order](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/climate/wolves-endangered-species-list.html) has left wolves protected by the ESA across most of their range in the lower 48 states. [The felon’s ordered to list names of those who thought up the traitor defense fund.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/judge-orders-doj-disclose-names-003036718.html) > [@](#): > > A federal magistrate judge has ordered the Trump administration to disclose the identities of people who helped devise a proposed $1.8 billion fund intended to compensate people who said they had been wrongfully targeted by the federal government. > > U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis issued the order Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, as part of a lawsuit challenging the legality of the fund and a separate provision of a Justice Department agreement that provided broad protections for President Donald Trump, his family, and his businesses from certain past tax investigations. [Thanks to one man’s vanity, this is sadly need in today’s United States.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/veterans-faith-leaders-swarm-election-161338161.html) > [@](#): > > A coalition of civil rights groups are planning to deploy hundreds of [poll watchers](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doj-election-monitors-midterm-polls-b3035039.html) in several key states to combat[alleged threats of election interference and voter intimidation](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mail-in-ballots-whisleblower-report-b3042846.html) from Donald Trump’s administration and his MAGA allies. > > The “Vote Safe” program from the Save America Movement — joined by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and the American Federation of Teachers union — will dispatch clergy members, veterans and community leaders to the polls in Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina, where organizers fear the [potential presence of federal law enforcement officers or National Guard troops](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-midterm-elections-national-emergency-b3034369.html) could impact turnout. > > “Black Americans have faced intimidation at the ballot box for generations, and we did not march, bleed and die for the right to vote only to see fear used as a weapon against us again,” Sharpton said in a statement announcing the effort on Wednesday. > > “No voter should have to wonder whether exercising their constitutional right will put them at risk,” he added. “If anyone thinks the presence or threat of federal agents will frighten our communities away from the polls, they are badly mistaken.” > > Vote Safe is training hundreds of volunteers on de-escalation tactics as well as voter ID laws and other policies for each state and precinct where they will be stationed during upcoming midterm elections. They’ll be installed at precincts across Atlanta, Charlotte, Cleveland and Detroit — cities with large populations of racial-minority voters. [And finally a new map for him to Sharpie up or down!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/africa-bigger-us-smaller-un-222233749.html) > [@](#): > > The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe, drawing ire from Washington. > > Aimed at “a more accurate representation” of continental landmasses, the resolution was supported by 164 countries while the United States voted against it and six other states abstained. > > The new map – known as the Equal Earth cartographic projection – improves “the accuracy of the cartographic representation of the world,” the resolution said. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8534 "2026-09-05T06:46:14Z")
This 100% this.Not only is he in comptent, he’s a moron end egomaniac that has never been told NO! YOU IDIOT! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8535 "2026-09-05T06:54:55Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Why not a golden escalator? The biggest, longest, and bestest in the world! Are you nuts? Have you forgotten about trump’s escalator disaster at the UN last year? You may as well add sharks while you’re at it! ---
**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:** [September 5, 2026, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8536 "2026-09-05T08:48:15Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [There are, as proven yet again, millions of morons.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-1-coin-sales-spark-175338000.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > The new [$1 gold coins emblazoned with President Donald Trump’s face](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/09/02/trump-gold-coin-sale/91575778007/) are no longer available, I wonder: nominally 1 US$, but how much gold content? How much is that worth? Because on the linked website they only state: _Composition: | 6% zinc, 3.5% manganese, 2% nickel, balance copper_ How much did they cost to mint, how much did they cost to purchase? How many were minted, how many are planned? Because again, according to the website: > 250,000 Semiquincentennial President Donald J. Trump $1 Coins with a special-issue “July 4th” privy mark have been randomly included in the Rolls & Bags. These coins were struck on July 4th at the Philadelphia Mint. Looks like a lot to include randomly mixed with the other coins, there must be much more of those. And for how much are they currently selling in the secondary market, aka eBay, with and without special-issue “July 4th” privy mark? I can picture people going through the bags and rolls they have bought looking for those marks, not knowing what those marks look like and where they are placed. > [@needscoffee](#): > > You may as well add sharks while you’re at it! Good idea, now you mention it. First make the reflecting pool a salt water reflecting pool, then add sharks. That will stop the vandals from ripping & shredding the fire proof lining. Because it was fire proof, right? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8537 "2026-09-05T09:50:59Z")
I’m sure that Trump’s $1 coins will suffer the same fate as other American attempts to introduce a dollar coin: nobody will want them, as long as there are dollar bills. If Trump really wanted to make these legal tender, used by millions of Americans every day, then he would recall all US$1 bills, leaving only his dollar coins in circulation. Of course, he doesn’t think that far ahead, and I’m sure that Americans will continue to use dollar bills. Not being in the USA, I can deface them without penalty, should I run across one. I’m thinking it will make a nice target for rifle practice. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8538 "2026-09-05T13:39:30Z")
I don’t think Chieftain Ineptstein wants to make his coins the standard 1$ payment vehicle, he wants people to collect them and to worship his image on them. And to pay a premium for that, that’s why they cost more than one dollar each (see the link in **Monty** ’s post that I quoted one step above). It is normal that mints make a benefit minting coins and printing banknotes, that is called **[seignoirage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage)** (often they make a loss on the smallest denominations, like 1 c). But what has him over the moon is that they are selling _his_ dollars for more than one dollar each (my question is: how much more?). The people love him so much that they pay a premium for him! He will soon ask for his share of the benefits, it is obviously his merit. Nobody will tell him that special coins in limited editions fetch a premium with collectors, but only if there are not too many. That is why I wonder how many will be minted. 250,000 on July 4th alone, randomly mixed with the other coins, looks like already too many for a collectible. A 25 coin roll is listed at the website as selling for 61$, but is currently unavailable. That sold for 2.44$ per dollar coin. Not a bad deal, that goes beyond seignoirage. But collectors don’t pay a premium for a common coin, particularly when: > While described as “gold coins,” the $1 tokens don’t contain any precious metals. Rather, the Treasury said they have a “gold-like finish.” And of course, it could be argued that they are not really legal tender, or that they may not remain legal tender when the next administration is sworn in and they start putting the house in order. Because: > Neither the $1 gold coin nor the 24K gold commemorative coin received approval from the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, a nonpartisan group created by Congress to advise the treasury on coin designs. That committee declined to review both coins, arguing that putting a sitting president on currency was against the country’s founding principles. OK, the role of the Advisory Committee is just that: advisory. But should the next government decide to make those coins non legal tender out of spite for the face shown on them, this technicallity would be a nice argument in court to do so. Let them sue. ETA: Stop calling them gold coins when they are not, it just strokes his ego. Brass tokens. Tinsel tokens. Lametta tokens. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8539 "2026-09-05T13:51:37Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > > [@wguy123](#): > > > > I sometimes have my doubts becasue there’s a real possibility he’s simply so incompetent he doesn’t realize how much his idea hurt the United States. I certainly won’t quibble over Trump being incompetent because clearly he is. But as far as hurting the United States, here’s the thing we must always keep in mind with respect to the basis for any decision that Trump makes: His world (ewww…) is binary, ones and zeroes, and for him that translates into strictly win - lose. That’s the whole thing, that’s all there is. And he must always be the winner. There can never be two winners. There can’t be two ones. If you are not the _one_ then you are the _zero_. There is no in between. If somebody else is happy, or doing well, or a country is thriving, or a business is succeeding, then they are winning, which means that _he is losing._ He must always be the winner and so he must make everybody else a loser. As president he has the power to do that. And he is doing it every single day. So it’s not so much _primarily_ wanting to hurt the country or the citizens of that country, it’s basically if they are doing well and thriving then he is losing. The only way he can be sure that he is winning is if others are suffering, miserable, complaining, and therefore losing. Enjoying the spectacle of others suffering and living in fear is just a perk of the job. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8540 "2026-09-05T14:27:50Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > While described as “gold coins,” the $1 tokens don’t contain any precious metals. Rather, the Treasury said they have a “gold-like finish.” You’ve got to admit this is on brand for Trump. Truly we are in another gilded age! > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > And of course, it could be argued that they are not really legal tender, or that they may not remain legal tender when the next administration is sworn in and they start putting the house in order. Because: I don’t think this would be a wise idea as it sets a bad precedent. For U.S. currency to remain strong, something other countries might want to keep in reserve, then it’s got to be stable. Deciding to make what was legal tender not legal tender might make people doubt the stability of our currency. It’s just another arbitrary decision by the U.S. government demonstrating we can’t be trusted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=426) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=428)