# 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:** 44
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/861 "2025-12-21T18:44:48Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > That’s funny, I’m from Fort Lauderdale and I’ve never seen them called “steamed panties”. Oh, not in Fort Lauderdale, no. It’s a Pompano Beach expression. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/862 "2025-12-21T20:24:25Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > That’s funny, I’m from Fort Lauderdale and I’ve never seen them called “steamed panties”. Oh, not in Fort Lauderdale, no. It’s a Port St. Lucie expression. (Eta: should have finished reading the dang thread) ---
**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:** [December 21, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/863 "2025-12-21T22:08:07Z")
“I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy. The first question is like what is this and they show a lion, giraffe, fish and a hippopotamus. And they say which is the giraffe." > **['He's sundowning hard': Observers panic about 'incoherent' Trump's 'slurring'...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sundowning-2674817486/)** > > Donald Trump's latest speech set off a firestorm of people online saying the address was "slurring" and "incoherent."Trump's remarks in North Carolina on Friday raised red flags for many. One of the most-cited examples was him saying, "I took... ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/864 "2025-12-21T22:19:05Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I took cognitive tests. “I’ve taken now 3 cognitive tests. I’ve aced every single one of them.” And the crowd goes wild. Fucking goddam idiots. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/865 "2025-12-21T22:22:23Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And the crowd goes wild. Fucking goddam idiots. He knows the difference between a giraffe and a hippopotamus. He and his supporters thinks that makes him a genius. We are doomed. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/866 "2025-12-21T22:49:39Z")
Incredible. When is Columbo going to come in and say gotcha! He can not incriminate himself more. And _now_ they write his speech is slurry? Slurry like manure slurry, a mixture of animal waste, organic matter, and sometimes water used as fertilizer after aging in a slurry pit? Put big golden TRUMP letters on that slurry pit, please. For his ego. And then finally lock him up. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/867 "2025-12-21T23:21:28Z")
It’s old news but there’s talk of fines and sanctions against Spanish ships from the US in retaliation for blocking our ships from _their_ ports because they were carrying weapons for Israel. That’s not going to help the economy or international relations. > **[US weighs sanctions as Spanish port ban escalates](https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-weighs-sanctions-as-spanish-port-ban-escalates)** > > The FMC is considering retaliatory sanctions and fines against Spain after confirming the country denied port access to U.S.-flagged vessels bound for Israel. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/868 "2025-12-22T00:52:14Z")
Observations on a video of a press conference by the US Secretary of State. You be the judge. > “During a press conference, Marco Rubio was unusually energized, restless, with rapid speech, visible agitation, dilated pupils, excessive sweating, jaw tension, frequent sniffing, and an intense emotional presentation reflected in rigid posture and exaggerated gestures.” > **[Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/youranoncentral.bsky.social/post/3majrulzmzk2t)** > > During a press conference, Marco Rubio was unusually energized, restless, with rapid speech, visible agitation, dilated pupils, excessive sweating, jaw tension, frequent sniffing, and an intense emotional presentation reflected in rigid posture and... ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/869 "2025-12-22T00:55:16Z")
Coke - It’s the Real Thing. Too much caffeine. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/870 "2025-12-22T00:56:36Z")
I think you meant > [@](#): > > Too much “caffeine”. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/871 "2025-12-22T00:57:23Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I think you meant > > > [@](#): > > > > Too much “caffeine”. That I did. Cut me some slack. I am having a truly rough time of 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:** [December 22, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/872 "2025-12-22T01:14:46Z")
Me, too, friend! Actually, I’m rebounding from a scooter crash–got hit by a taxi at the gate to my school last Monday morning. And that’s still better than dealing with the disaster disgracing the Oval Office and destroying our country! ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/873 "2025-12-22T01:30:42Z")
David Bowie: It’s not the side effects of the cocaine… Narrator: (It was the side effects of the cocaine.) ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/874 "2025-12-22T01:32:27Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Observations Mad King Donald was flying first class on the Adderall Express for his speech the other night. Sounds like the underlings have decided they need to follow his example. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/875 "2025-12-22T01:44:36Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Slurry like manure slurry, a mixture of animal waste, organic matter, and sometimes water used as fertilizer after aging in a slurry pit? Santorum ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/876 "2025-12-22T01:56:14Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Me, too, friend! Actually, I’m rebounding from a scooter crash–got hit by a taxi at the gate to my school last Monday morning. > > And that’s still better than dealing with the disaster disgracing the Oval Office and destroying our country! O my, Monty, I hope you are on the way top better days. That sounds rough. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/877 "2025-12-22T01:56:27Z")
I didn’t hear anything he said (in the above clip) that sounds too slurry. Yet this is like the third time this week he described his cognitive tests as “aced” and as if they were designed that nobody ever could get all of them right. Hey I found the giraffe. Biden would have gone hippo. I know one of the tests is to draw a analog clock. “10 to 4” for example. If he’s going to keep touting his greatness at this test, I want to see behind him a whiteboard, perhaps with the numbers all filled in, ask the MAGA’s for the hour and minute and draw the time. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/878 "2025-12-22T02:15:41Z")
Donald, the country is on fire! ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/879 "2025-12-22T02:21:11Z")
And Putin, Xi, Kim, _et al_ are playing someone like a fiddle! ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/880 "2025-12-22T02:35:12Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > I didn’t hear anything he said (in the above clip) that sounds too slurry. Yet this is like the third time this week he described his cognitive tests as “aced” and as if they were designed that nobody ever could get all of them right. And he suggests that telling the difference between a lion, giraffe, fish, and hippo is “not easy”. > [@Coriolanus](#): > > If he’s going to keep touting his greatness at this test, I want to see behind him a whiteboard, perhaps with the numbers all filled in, ask the MAGA’s for the hour and minute and draw the time. Anyone in the White House Press Corps could probably cause a constitutional crisis just like that by asking him “Mr. President, what year is it?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=45)