# 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:** 438
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8741 "2026-09-12T03:00:58Z")
I’ve been seeing lots of photos of Trump dollars on Facebook, and a large fraction of them are in really horrible condition straight out of the mint bag or roll. Here’s one example. [![](https://i.ibb.co/CsYK1ysJ/Screenshot-20260911-224847.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/CsYK1ysJ/Screenshot-20260911-224847.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8742 "2026-09-12T03:11:53Z")
Possibly doctored photo? What’s with the ammunition belt in the background? If real, another happy MAGA customer​😏 ---
**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 12, 2026, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8743 "2026-09-12T03:17:55Z")
[Babbler-in-Chief seems to realize the Blue Wave is on the way.](https://www.aol.com/articles/not-dire-trump-downplays-republican-175922000.html) > [@](#): > > Even as he campaigned for Republicans in Texas at the [midterm convention](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/11/trump-republican-midterm-convention-pledge-allegiance-takeaways/91656650007/), President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) downplayed how damaging a [Democratic takeover of Congress](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2026/09/04/who-will-control-congress-2026-win-midterms-polls-predictions-election-day-nears-polymarket-kalshi/91611382007/) would be for his legacy. > > He told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview that he’d use his remaining two years in office to block most of the opposing party’s agenda, if that were to happen, and said Democratic control of Congress may not be that dire. The interview came at the [Republicans’ midterm convention in Dallas](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/11/trump-republican-midterm-convention-pledge-allegiance-takeaways/91656650007/) ahead of November’s midterm election, in which the GOP is defending its slim majorities in both chambers of Congress. > > Asked whether it was just as important to help Republicans [keep control of the House and Senate](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/07/midterm-elections-trump-republicans-warning-signs-abound/91648882007/) as his own election to office was, Trump began by saying: “It’s never as important. Look, I’m campaigning for other people.” > > “When you say my legacy, I’ll be a block. I’ll end up being blocker. I’ll block all their bad stuff for two years. It won’t be the same, but I’ll be a blocker,” Trump added. > > Republicans have control of the Senate and House of Representatives, which has allowed the party to set the legislative agenda in Congress for Trump’s first two years of his second term and aided the passage of Trump priorities, like the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. If Democrats win majorities in one or both chambers – a scenario that many political analysts view as plausible – then Trump’s ability to push his agenda for his remaining two years in office would be complicated. > > Trump suggested that he’d even be able to make some deals with Democrats, saying, “They’re going to want some stuff.” > > Republicans have control of the Senate and House of Representatives, which has allowed the party to set the legislative agenda in Congress for Trump’s first two years of his second term and aided the passage of Trump priorities, like the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. If Democrats win majorities in one or both chambers – a scenario that many political analysts view as plausible – then Trump’s ability to push his agenda for his remaining two years in office would be complicated. > > Trump suggested that he’d even be able to make some deals with Democrats, saying, “They’re going to want some stuff.” > > “So it’s not as dire, maybe it is as dire,” Trump assessed. @Smapti should sue the felon for plagiarism. [Cruz has a plan to make the “dividend” affordable for the government.](https://www.aol.com/articles/cruz-5k-dividend-don-t-180248000.html) > [@](#): > > Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), a prominent conservative voice in the Senate GOP conference, says he’s willing to support President Trump’s proposal to give [$5,000 dividend payments](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6080741-trump-dividend-november-pledge/) to U.S. adults provided that they are structured as tax refunds and go to people who work and pay taxes. > > Asked about Trump’s proposal, Cruz told Fox News’s Jesse Watters that his support “depends on how it’s structured.” > > “I would like to see it structured as a tax refund,” he said. “I would be all for structuring it as a tax refund." > > “But I think we should be incentivizing work. I don’t think we should be paying people that are not working,” he argued. [Reporter confronts the felon with logic. You know what happened next.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-snapped-reporter-5-000-110046306.html) > [@](#): > > A reporter asked President Donald Trump why he needed to incentivize voters [with a $5,000 check](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-promises-another-check-americans-add-it-to-the-tab-2026-9?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) if his economic policies were working, and it seemed to strike a nerve. & > [@](#): > > When a reporter questioned Trump about the proposal on the airport tarmac in Dallas on Thursday night, the president appeared to snap. > > After noting that the US has $40 trillion in debt, the reporter asked: “If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out and vote?” > > Trump responded: “I didn’t do it for turning out the vote. I’m doing it as a reward for people having to put up with five years, and four years, of a horrible, horrible situation caused by Biden.” > > He repeated the point, calling the promised dividend “almost a reward for the people having to put up with Biden’s policies.” > > As the reporter began a follow-up question, Trump said “not you,” while pointing to another journalist. > > The reporter continued: “You also offered checks during… tariff refunds checks, and that didn’t happen, Mr. President.” > > This was a reference to Trump’s November 2025 pledge to send $2,000 tariff-rebate checks, which have not been paid out. He also floated “DOGE dividends” in early 2025, which would have provided Americans with a one-time check of up to $5,000. They also never materialized. > > Trump interrupted with another “not you,” then leaned toward her, glared, and repeated it for a third time. “Your network and you, you’re the worst,” he said. [Court rules the feds cannot order a coal plant to continue operating.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/court-rules-trump-t-force-171900938.html) > [@](#): > > A federal court has ruled that the Department of Energy acted outside the bounds of its legal authority when it forced a coal plant in Michigan to keep running last year — a decision that could undermine the Trump administration’s push to [prevent aging and costly fossil-fueled power plants](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/trump-coal-plant-orders-retiring-map) from closing down. > > Under President Donald Trump, the DOE has now used emergency powers granted by Section 202(c) of the [1935 Federal Power Act](https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/federal_power_act.pdf) to force seven [fossil-fuel power plants to stay open](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/trump-coal-plant-orders-retiring-map) even though utilities and state regulators have decided it’s prudent and safe to shut them down. It’s a break with the historic use of the powers, which are meant to help the agency manage acute grid emergencies. > > In May 2025, the DOE issued its first such emergency order, directing the [J.H. Campbell power plant](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/politics/a-michigan-coal-plant-was-about-to-close-trump-ordered-it-to-stay-open) in Michigan to keep operating just days before its planned closure. The agency has since issued six more directives to keep the plant online, as each emergency order lasts only 90 days. > > In a unanimous [decision](https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2026/09/25-1159-2192454.pdf) on Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit [upheld a challenge](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/trump-admin-defends-coal-order) from attorneys general representing the states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois and environmental groups against the DOE’s first emergency order to the J.H. Campbell plant. [Hegseth uses 9/11 tribute to laud you guessed it.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pete-hegseth-t-read-room-163247874.html) (The **bolding** is mine; the stupidity and offensiveness are the war criminal’s.) > [@](#): > > On a day reserved for celebrating the heroes of one of America’s darkest chapters, the man charged with leading the nation’s defense apparatus did the only thing he seems capable of doing in public — praising his boss and bashing Iran. > > Defense Secretary [Pete Hegseth](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/pete-hegseth) had a simple task at Friday’s Pentagon ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on the [Pentagon](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/pentagon) as well as the World Trade Center and United Flight 93: Remember the dead, honor the survivors, re-tell the story of that horrific day. > > It’s an assignment that should have been easy for a man who spent years reading from a teleprompter while hosting a weekend morning show on Fox News. But for reasons known only to him (and perhaps his speechwriters) the self-styled “Secretary of War” chose instead to deliver a screed against “Islamic terrorists” and an “Islamist threat” while rhetorically linking the country’s righteous response to the 9/11 attacks to the ill-fated war of choice he and President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) have spent the last half-year waging against Iran. > > He pivoted from honoring the 184 people killed at the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the building’s limestone wall to boasting about how the U.S. has “laid waste to the world’s most prolific state sponsor of terrorism” and praising “warriors” for having “fought an Islamic theocracy … that cheered on 9/11.” > > **It was both wildly inappropriate and historically ignorant.** > > **In his rush to justify the disastrous war he helped start by linking it to the attacks a quarter-century ago on the building he now runs, he left out the fact that the Iranian government at the time not only condemned the 9/11 attacks in harsh terms but Tehran actually offered assistance to America’s efforts to overthrow the Taliban in the weeks and months that followed.** [Killer Kennedy has a new conspiracy theory.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/robert-f-kennedy-jr-slams-130000787.html) > [@](#): > > In his speech at the Republican Midterm Convention, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exposed how the Democratic Party tried to shut him out of the 2024 presidential primary. > > “No voter ever cast a primary ballot for Kamala Harris,” Kennedy said. “No elected delegate was ever consulted. A party of no kings simply anointed a queen, handpicked by secretive party elites who nobody even knows who they were. They’re just faceless guys with lanyards who are calling all the shots from the upper decks of that convention center.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8744 "2026-09-12T03:43:35Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Possibly doctored photo? I see no reason why anyone would have done so, but don’t feel like digging up any of the many other examples that I pointed out I have seen to reinforce my.point. if you don’t want to believe it is true for some reason, go for it. ---
**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 12, 2026, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8745 "2026-09-12T04:18:33Z")
I don’t think the other poster was accusing you of doctoring the photo. ---
**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 12, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8746 "2026-09-12T04:21:00Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Babbler-in-Chief seems to realize the Blue Wave is on the way. On some level, Trump might appreciate a Democrat majority in Congress because it means he doesn’t have to govern. On another level he might not like it as his ability to grift aswill be curtailed and a Democrat House might decide to challenge the Executive for usurping their power of the purse making his vanity projects difficult to complete. ---
**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 12, 2026, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8747 "2026-09-12T04:32:09Z")
That assumes he thinks in the first place. He’ll figure it might take a bit more effort or that losing will make him look bad (the part he actually cares about) but he’ll assume judges, especially the ones he appointed, will do the “right” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8748 "2026-09-12T04:53:56Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I don’t think the other poster was accusing you of doctoring the photo. Here’s another one that Facebook just showed me (so I didn’t have to dig around looking for more) [![](https://i.ibb.co/5hQyZfwc/Screenshot-20260912-004736.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/5hQyZfwc/Screenshot-20260912-004736.jpg) That has the hell beat out of it for a brand new uncirculated coin. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2026, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8749 "2026-09-12T05:28:28Z")
Turns out they’re made of chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8750 "2026-09-12T05:36:00Z")
Do you get into the Wonka factory tour with one? ---
**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:** [September 12, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8751 "2026-09-12T11:54:42Z")
He looks like Solomon Grundy [![](https://townsquare.media/site/622/files/2016/10/grundy_animated.jpg?w=780&q=75) ](https://townsquare.media/site/622/files/2016/10/grundy_animated.jpg?w=780&q=75) ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8752 "2026-09-12T15:04:39Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > proposal to give [$5,000 dividend payments](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6080741-trump-dividend-november-pledge/) to U.S. adults provided that they are structured as tax refunds and go to people who work and pay taxes. A lot of low-income people who work very hard and support their families don’t owe federal income taxes and would not benefit from a refund. As usual with these Republican schemes, those who need it the most are ineligible. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8753 "2026-09-12T16:01:04Z")
I thought he looked like Boris Karloff. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8754 "2026-09-12T16:03:00Z")
> [@bobsmom101](#): > > A lot of low-income people who work very hard and support their families don’t owe federal income taxes and would not benefit from a refund. Also, plenty of people on fixed incomes don’t owe federal income taxes, but will be hit hard by the inflationary effects of this kind of giveaway. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8755 "2026-09-12T16:24:00Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > He looks like Solomon Grundy He is Solomon Grundy, if Grundy took brain damage in a fall and woke up thinking he was Lex Luthor. ---
**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 12, 2026, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8756 "2026-09-12T18:48:52Z")
Their souls, like there hearts, are worth a fortune. They’ve never been used. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8757 "2026-09-12T19:39:50Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Here’s another one that Facebook just showed me (so I didn’t have to dig around looking for more) > > [https://i.ibb.co/5hQyZfwc/Screenshot-20260912-004736.jpg](https://i.ibb.co/5hQyZfwc/Screenshot-20260912-004736.jpg) > > That has the hell beat out of it for a brand new uncirculated coin. If true, I wonder if federal workers at the mint are deliberately sabotaging Trump’s [illegally-produced coins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8556). Federal workers generally have no love lost for the current president. He has made their lives hell. Not to mention the fact that they’ve been ordered to break the law. They look like they’ve been run through a [rock tumbler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumble_finishing). ---
**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 12, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8758 "2026-09-12T19:42:12Z")
Clearly he is on a mission to piss off every other country in the world. > # Trump endorses Irish reunification, breaking with decades of U.S. policy > > _The U.S. had maintained a position of neutrality on perhaps the most sensitive issue in U.K. politics._ > > [https://wapo.st/4xXjPvQ](https://wapo.st/4xXjPvQ) > > DUBLIN — President Donald Trump said Saturday he would “love to see” Irish reunification, breaking with Washington’s long-standing neutrality on one of the most politically sensitive issues facing Ireland and the United Kingdom. > > Trump expressed his desire for Ireland to reunify during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, injecting fresh controversy into a two-day trip for the Irish Open golf tournament that has drawn protests across the country. > > “ **Well I don’t want to cause any problems,** but I will tell you, I’d love to see it unified,” Trump told reporters when asked for his view on the matter, acknowledging he was entering sensitive political territory after a morning of ceremonial diplomacy. “I think it would be great, a great feather in **everybody’s cap** if that happens. It’s going to happen eventually.” > … My bold. **ALL** you _ever_ want to do is cause trouble. 🙄 You mean a feather in **your** cap. No one else’s cap matters. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8759 "2026-09-12T19:45:29Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@bobsmom101](#): > > > > A lot of low-income people who work very hard and support their families don’t owe federal income taxes and would not benefit from a refund. > > Also, plenty of people on fixed incomes don’t owe federal income taxes, but will be hit hard by the inflationary effects of this kind of giveaway. And a lot of them will continue to support Trump and the GOP because they are convinced they will get a $5,000 check. There’s a reason Trump insisted on putting his name on the pandemic stimulus checks. ---
**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 13, 2026, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8760 "2026-09-13T00:33:18Z")
[And now you know what the Pledge of Allegiance really means in the dictatorship.](https://www.aol.com/articles/bill-maher-issues-blunt-4-131636000.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > [Bill Maher](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/bill-maher/) just eviscerated President [Donald Trump](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/donald-trump/)‘s new “Pledge of Allegiance” that he introduced at the Republican midterm convention. > > In the Friday, September 11 episode of _[Real Time With Bill Maher](https://www.tvinsider.com/show/real-time-with-bill-maher/)_, the late-night host, 70, took aim at the POTUS, 80, during his [opening monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qKzQNWPsBw). > > “This really happened this week in America, which used to be a real country,” Maher began. “At the convention, he made everybody put their hand up and do a new Pledge of Allegiance. > > The stand-up comedian then read what Trump [had Republican midterm convention attendees recite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F_UkNm36cU): **“I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States, that loves us so much, he can’t even breathe, that I will go out with my family, my friends [to vote]. I’ll do it anyway. I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m gonna try and cheat like hell like they do.”** [One court gets it.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/federal-appeals-court-compares-trump-234001210.html) > [@](#): > > A Trump administration policy to detain migrants on bond without a chance for release harkens back to the mass detention of Japanese Americans during [World War II](https://www.foxnews.com/category/topic/world-war-two), a federal court said Thursday. > > In a 2-1 decision, the [4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals](https://foxnews.com/category/politics/judiciary/federal-courts) rejected the administration’s mass detention policy, a major part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. > > “Mass detention of marginalized individuals without due process harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history,” the court wrote. > > Nine federal appeals courts have now separately ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) new [mandatory detention policy](https://foxnews.com/category/us/immigration) is illegal, concluding it could apply to recent arrivals at or near the border but not to migrants determined to be living elsewhere within the country. So, yes; the felon’s policy is to have our government, once again, operate concentration camps and deny those forced into them rights supposedly guaranteed under the constitution. [Rip van Simple daydreams members of his administration were with him.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pentagon-issues-damning-correction-trump-003459684.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump thanked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine for attending his speech Wednesday at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, even though neither was there. > > Trump, 80, mentioned Hegseth and Caine about a third of the way through his 106-minute speech, in which he said he would give American adults [$5,000 each](https://www.thedailybeast.com/desperate-trump-offers-brazen-5000-cash-bribe-in-bonkers-speech/) if Republicans held both chambers of Congress in the midterms. > > “By the way, I’d like to thank Pete Hegseth, and I’d like to thank—I’d like to thank General Caine. Where is General Caine? I’d like to thank—they’re here someplace. This is a big room. This place is packed,” Trump said. > > Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was not in the arena. He was about six miles away at a 9/11 anniversary event at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, where he participated in a discussion with former Deputy National Security Adviser J.D. Crouch, an agenda for the occasion [noted](https://www.bushcenter.org/events-and-exhibits/a-legacy-of-service-america-at-the-25th-anniversary-of-9-11). Caine’s spokesperson, Joe Holstead, [confirmed](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/10/trump-incorrectly-said-top-us-general-dan-caine-was-midterm-convention/) his appearance to The Washington Post. > > The Daily Beast also confirmed through a spokesperson for Caine’s office that he did not attend Trump’s speech. > > An F-16 fighter pilot with the D.C. National Guard during the terrorist attacks, Caine, 58, recalled that while tragic, the day was “also filled with beautiful examples of selfless courage, over and over again,” the Post reported. > > Meanwhile, Hegseth, 46, was over a thousand miles away in Washington. There, he attended a meeting of the president’s commission on the U.S. Space Force Academy at NASA headquarters, the Defense Department said in a [press release](https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4594195/hegseth-attends-first-space-academy-commission-meeting/). [Now he wants a giant statue of George at what’s left of the Smithsonian.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-demands-smithsonian-build-30-165022542.html) > [@](#): > > [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) wants the Smithsonian Institution to build a massive new statue of [George Washington](https://people.com/george-washington-pro-slavery-black-soldiers-revolutionary-war-documentary-11845290) in Washington, D.C., to replace a piece of historic abstract art, which he believes says “nothing about America.” > > The president, 80, demanded the institution highlight Washington by erecting a 30-foot “Colossus statue” outside of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Truth Social posts on Friday, Sept. 11. He also called for a smaller statue of the Founding Father and a five-year exhibition dedicated to his life. > > In the first [post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117255720319253709), Trump wrote that he is asking the Smithsonian to “install a 30-foot Washington Colossus” where “Infinity,” a historic abstract sculpture, has long stood outside of the museum, overlooking the National Mall. > > In a second follow-up Truth Social post, he elaborated on the demand, writing: “I am also calling on the Smithsonian to erect a 30-foot ‘Colossus statue’ of the Father of Our Country outside the Museum, to replace the so-called ‘Infinity’ sculpture that stands there today.” > > “That strange modernist sculpture tells visitors nothing about America, inspires no one, and honors none of our Great American Heroes,” Trump continued in the post. “George Washington does. He is easily America’s Greatest Hero. Without him, our Country and our Freedoms wouldn’t exist.” Actually, the Infinity sculpture is the perfect representation for the country today. With the felon in office, we’re infinitely screwed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=437) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=439)