# 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:** 452
**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 22, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9021 "2026-09-22T00:15:05Z")
Trump: I HAVE MADE A TREMENDOUS DEAL TO BUY MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF FERTILIZER FROM BELARUS FOR MUCH CHEAPER THAN CANADA Belarus: LOL no, we’ve already sold it all [https://thehill.com/policy/international/6102469-trump-lukashenko-potash-deal-clash/](https://thehill.com/policy/international/6102469-trump-lukashenko-potash-deal-clash/) ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9022 "2026-09-22T00:37:16Z")
[![](https://unstuckpolitics.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/c/dcee362d712631284b89245bb455d98d84f54ef2.png) ](https://unstuckpolitics.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/c/dcee362d712631284b89245bb455d98d84f54ef2.png) What happened to Extreme Intelligence? What kind of rigged election is this?? [![](https://unstuckpolitics.com/uploads/default/original/3X/c/9/c9863e604fa896e8d5cfe7fae1fd651dd397febe.png) ](https://unstuckpolitics.com/uploads/default/original/3X/c/9/c9863e604fa896e8d5cfe7fae1fd651dd397febe.png) ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9023 "2026-09-22T02:03:59Z")
It’s shocking 23,000 people actually voted. Can’t wait to see which one wins. 🙄 ---
**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 22, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9024 "2026-09-22T02:30:16Z")
Why in the titty fucking name of Christ are the likes of Jake and Logan Paul speaking at the Pentagon? ---
**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 22, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9025 "2026-09-22T02:47:05Z")
> **[William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/opinionhaver.bsky.social/post/3moh7wbjc6c2p)** > > one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost" ---
**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 22, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9026 "2026-09-22T03:28:18Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > 0% chance this thing gets even halfway built by January 2029. 100% chance the felon’s imagining it like the giant doll in _Squid Game_. [“Melanie” issues press credentials to CNN.](https://www.aol.com/articles/melania-office-gives-credential-cnn-221706000.html) > [@](#): > > Days after President Donald Trump [banned CNN from the White House](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-media-ban-cnn-fake-news-b3052729.html), First Lady Melania Trump’s office approved a request from the outlet to cover an upcoming event with her in [New York City](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/federal-aviation-administration-new-york-city-donald-trump-philadelphia-united-nations-general-assembly-b3053843.html). > > On Monday, CNN chief media analyst [Brian Stelter](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/brian-stelter-cnn-son-epstein-live-interview-b2793445.html) was discussing the president’s ban — which bars reporters from CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House — when he revealed the apparent workaround. > > “We’re going to see reporters get creative,” Stelter said. “That’s what we do sometimes when we have to. We’re going to see reporters try and get credentialed in other ways.” > > “I’m told, for example, a CNN reporter has already been approved by the office of the first lady to cover an event with Melania Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. tomorrow,” he said. “So I’m expecting more of those sorts of things to happen.” > > When reached by _The Independent_, an official from the first lady’s office confirmed that the office approved a credential request by CNN reporter Betsy Klein to cover Melania Trump’s “Fostering the Future Together” announcement in New York City on Tuesday. [Never fear, Felonman is here to give you the latest news.](https://www.aol.com/articles/white-house-shredded-promoting-own-184820000.html) > [@](#): > > The White House drew widespread criticism for promoting its official app days after President Donald Trump[barred three news outlets](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-media-ban-cnn-fake-news-b3052729.html) from the White House. > > “Get real-time updates and live events streamed DIRECTLY to your phone,” the White House[wrote on X](https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2102075720692330684) on Monday. It pitched the official app as a way to receive “the news that matters most — straight from the Trump Administration.” > > The post came three days after Trump banned reporters from CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House, triggering a lawsuit from the outlets, which argues the ban violates the Constitution. The White House television pool also announced on Monday it would[suspend coverage of presidential events](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cnn-politico-trump-white-house-msnow-b3053529.html)in response to the restrictions. Trump said the ban was because of their coverage with critics blasting the decision and saying it goes against the First Amendment. > > The White House’s post promoting its mobile app quickly drew a flood of negative replies, with some users comparing the effort in authoritarian countries. > > “You’re making Vladimir Putin proud. State run Media,” political commentator Brian Krassenstein wrote. [Don’t even think JD (“Junior Dictator”) Vance will be different than his boss.](https://www.aol.com/articles/vance-defends-trump-media-ban-180006000.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Amid President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/)’s [ban on three outlets from the White House](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/21/trump-ban-cnn-networks-suspend-white-house-pool/91872001007/), [Vice President JD Vance](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/jd-vance/) went on to defend the president’s move on Monday, Sept. 21, saying “It’s totally appropriate.” > > “He’s not banning media outlets. What he’s doing is saying ‘we’re not going to give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda,’” Vance, who has [previously championed free speech in Europe](https://ro.usembassy.gov/remarks-by-the-vice-president-at-the-munich-security-conference/), [told reporters](https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2026/09/21/vance-defends-white-house-media-ban-cnn-ms-now-politico/91874656007/) at Joint Base Andrews on Monday. > > The vice president’s remarks come after CNN, MS NOW and Politico announced [they were suing](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/21/trump-media-ban-cnn-ms-now-politico-lawsuit/91870128007/) the Trump administration after being barred from White House grounds last week. > > **“If you’re going to engage in what is effectively far-left propaganda, why would a Republican White House give you special access?” the vice president added.** [Vanity pad gets no major coverage.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-inaugurates-white-house-helipad-181923000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — President [Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) showed off his new White House [helicopter landing pad](https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-construction-ballroom-helipad-tour-12b8b493d6318f53a7c2ff951b5dcb87) on Monday, attempting to brush aside a [First Amendment firestorm](https://apnews.com/article/trump-ban-ms-now-media-d160e253453229600ce54f8e91351523) even as major television networks kept their cameras away in protest of CNN being banned from the grounds. > > A light drizzle fell on the South Lawn as Trump used oversized gold scissors to cut a red, white and blue ribbon. He then exchanged handshakes with officials and some members of a construction crew wearing green smocks and hard hats — seeking to portray business as usual. > > If he had words to mark the occasion, however, it was impossible to hear them over the noise of his waiting helicopter. Normally, TV network crews work to capture clearer audio. > > Trump didn’t answer reporters’ shouted questions before climbing aboard Marine One on his way to New York. Instead, he wrote on his social media site, “We are just leaving the White House Lawn on the maiden voyage from the newly built, and very beautiful, Heliport!” > > MS Now, Politico and CNN have sued after [Trump announced Friday](https://apnews.com/article/trump-cnn-msnow-politico-media-bans-bb675679fb10738a51bef90bde6c525a) that he was banning them from covering the White House in a clear escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage he finds objectionable. > > CNN normally participates in a five-network rotation that provides pooled footage of daily events at the White House. When the network was barred from taking its assigned turn on Monday, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News agreed collectively to the extraordinary step of skipping Trump’s helipad ceremony. [Federal court just handed the felon a loss in his war on renewable energy.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/epa-unlawfully-canceled-7b-solar-113519989.html) > [@](#): > > When EPA awarded $7 billion for Solar for All in 2024, it estimated the program would reach more than 900,000 households, save families $350 million a year in electricity bills and support 200,000 jobs and workforce training opportunities, according to the [Southern Environmental Law Center](https://www.selc.org/press-release/court-strikes-down-trumps-epa-cancellation-of-7-billion-solar-for-all-program/), one of the organizations that brought the lawsuit. > > The EPA ended the program as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025. “The bottom line is this: EPA no longer has the statutory authority to administer the program or the appropriated funds to keep this boondoggle alive,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an Aug. 7, 2025, [post on X](https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1953518426602803684). > > The plaintiffs [filed their suit](https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/trump-epa-lawsuit-solar-for-all-zeldin-seven-billion-funding-grants/802596/) in October 2025, alleging the EPA’s termination of Solar for All violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution’s Presentment Clauses and Spending Clause. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy ruled the termination was contrary to law in its violation of the APA. > > “Today’s ruling confirms what we have argued from the beginning: EPA could not simply erase a [$7 billion program](https://www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/blog/2026/9/18/lawyers-for-good-government-responds-to-federal-court-ruling-declaring-epas-termination-of-7-billion-solar-for-all-program-unlawful) that Congress created and funded to lower energy bills and bring affordable solar power to communities across the country,” Jillian Blanchard, senior vice president of climate change and environmental justice at [Lawyers for Good Government](https://www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/blog/2026/9/18/lawyers-for-good-government-responds-to-federal-court-ruling-declaring-epas-termination-of-7-billion-solar-for-all-program-unlawful), one of the groups representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement. [Killer Kennedy and ~~K~~ Chemtrails.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rfk-jr-shredded-telling-anti-155813197.html) > [@](#): > > Health and Human Services Secretary [Robert F Kennedy Jr](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/robert-f-kennedy-jr) has invited ridicule by announcing he is “looking at chemtrails” and their adverse impact on public health, reviving a long-debunked [conspiracy theory](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/conspiracy-theory). > > RFK Jr was addressing the [anti-vaccine](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/anti-vaccine) group Children’s Health Defense at an event in Washington, D.C., Thursday when he assured his audience [“you have a strong and steadfast friend at the White House”.](https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2100659358346469756)The health secretary, who chaired the organization from 2015 to 2023, also said he planned to bring “science transparency” to their concerns about inoculations. > > Of the [worst U.S. measles outbreak in 35 years](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fears-of-catastrophic-measles-crisis-grow-as-trust-in-lifesaving-vaccines-hits-bottom-b3050421.html), the RFK [said](https://x.com/atrupar/status/2100652933821898879): “We care about every child who dies from [measles](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/measles). They get headlines. I’d ask you to care about children who are dying or suffering or being injured by vaccine injuries.” > > Then he added: “We’re also looking at chemtrails and the impact of emissions from aircraft, and those potential impacts on health.” > > Kennedy was alluding to the chemical trails left behind by planes as they cross the sky, which are visible from the ground, resemble wisps of cirrhus cloud and evaporate harmlessly within minutes. > > They are simply formations of ice crystals that occur naturally when a jet’s hot exhaust fumes – composed of water vapour, carbon dioxide and other particles – meet cold air at high altitudes. [Like thieves in the night is the new m.o. for ICE.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/immigration-lawyers-struggle-locate-clients-173902392.html) > [@](#): > > (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to [final deportation orders](https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-deportation-asylum-judges-82d6b7e79f4fd12856ff1c5ad66f2445), an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them, according to current and former officials familiar with the practice. > > ICE removed those detainees from its [online detainee locator system](https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search) on Sept. 15, according to three current and former ICE officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the change. Several lawyers contacted by The Associated Press confirmed their clients vanished from the system this week, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association warned its members about the situation Friday. > > The move represents a stark departure from previous practice and highlights the hardline nature of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, leaving thousands of detainees exceedingly hard to trace and potentially unable to exercise all of their legal options. [Cruella de Vile is back in the news the ~~best~~ worst way she knows how.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/kristi-noem-faces-backlash-posing-173733360.html) > [@](#): > > **[Kristi Noem](https://globemagazine.com/tag/kristi-noem/)** is under fire over a new set of hunting photos showing her posing with an elk she says she took down with a bow. > > The former [Homeland Security secretary](https://globemagazine.com/krisi-noem-devastated-by-damaging-photos-of-husband-bryon-leaking-after-homeland-security-firing/), 54, posted several images on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdjQJJYFrlO/?hl=en&img_index=1) from the archery outing on Monday, September 21, including one of herself kneeling behind the bull with her bow resting across the animal. > > Noem wrote that she “finally had a little time” to share photos from the trip and called the experience “super fun.” [Secretary of war crimes still has no filter on his mouth.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pete-hegseth-again-uses-transphobic-213436143.html) > [@](#): > > Hegseth was discussing changes to the U.S. military, which were implemented after President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) returned to office, when he used the slur. > > “The armed forces of the United States will be governed strictly by merit, competence and combat readiness. We have abolished diversity, equity and inclusion offices, DEI. There’s no quotas across our department anymore. No more social experiments, just training,” he said. > > He then added, “No more t------- , just training.” How clever! Just like a toddler’s wordplay. But, of course. [Now the felon’s hallucinating fertilizer.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/belarus-says-no-potash-left-194453941.html) > [@](#): > > Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working on a “massive Deal” to buy potash from Minsk at a steep discount amid the [trade war with Canada](https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-trump-shattered-canadas-old-us-relationship-carney-is-building-a-new-one-in-europe-2/). > > “Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets, we simply do not have those volumes — everything is contracted,” Lukashenko [said in remarks](https://president.gov.by/en/events/doklad-predsedatela-gosudarstvennogo-tamozennogo-komiteta-vladimira-orlovskogo-1789992532) published by his office on Monday. > > At the same time, Trump posted on his social media site Truth Social that the U.S. purchase of potash from Belarus would be “very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers.” ---
**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 22, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9027 "2026-09-22T03:30:32Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Don’t even think JD (“Junior Dictator”) Vance will be different than his boss. I have it on good authority that “JD” actually stands for “Jorkin DePeanus”. [![](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.5730532640.9669/ur,throw_pillow_couch_small,wide_portrait,750x1000.jpg) ](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.5730532640.9669/ur,throw_pillow_couch_small,wide_portrait,750x1000.jpg) ---
**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:** [September 22, 2026, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9028 "2026-09-22T03:37:41Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > titty fucking name of Christ This is where I peed my pants laughing! ---
**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 22, 2026, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9029 "2026-09-22T03:43:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I have it on good authority that “JD” actually stands for “Jorkin DePeanus”. Jizzin Davenport. ---
**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 22, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9030 "2026-09-22T04:17:03Z")
Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Kash Patel are meeting in the Oval Office when Natalie Harp walks in. “Sir,” she says, “there’s been a minor incident with a dog making a mess on the couch.” Vance says; “Did you just say couch?” Patel says; “Did you just say dog?” Trump says; “Did you just say minor?” ---
**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 22, 2026, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9031 "2026-09-22T07:35:27Z")
[How do you know who is bought by the felon? Watch their wrists.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-inner-circle-busted-flashing-174414005.html) > [@](#): > > An impossible-to-obtain, eye-wateringly expensive Rolex has become the status symbol of choice in the Trump White House. > > The custom timepieces are the ultimate marker of inner-circle status and are worn by precious few members of President Donald Trump’s coterie, [Vanity Fair reports](https://www.vanityfair.com/story/status-symbols-maga-washington-dc?_sp=fcd4aff4-4143-475b-b8e3-c191a2ca1169.1789741113969). > > Known as the ‘White House Rolex,’ the watch is coveted because of its scarcity and expense. > > “There’s no one f—ing rich enough in the West Wing to actually buy the watch,” an insider told Vanity Fair. [_He can stop the war in Ukraine_, Mark 2.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/leaked-call-shows-trump-asked-150351024.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump pleaded with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop attacking Russia’s refineries as the global oil crisis continues to damage the 80-year-old president. > > Details of the Sunday call, which Ukrainian officials leaked to the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/adb80fa3-b54a-4b3d-8ed2-0ebe55a5e05e?syn-25a6b1a6=1), reveal that Trump was desperate to talk about [“diesel, diesel . . . diesel”](https://www2.thedailybeast.com/trump-hit-by-devastating-blow-as-diesel-rockets-to-all-time-high-of-6-amid-iran-war) while urging Zelensky to halt the drone bombardments against Russia. > > Details of the call emerged after the Moscow region came under [intense drone strikes](https://www2.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-vladimir-putin-hit-by-largest-ever-ukraine-drone-attack-on-moscow) targeting oil refineries that are crucial to funding Vladimir Putin’s war efforts, in what is believed to be Ukraine’s largest single attack on Russia since the invasion began in February 2022. [Felonmouth is killing the shares of fertilizer companies with his hallucinations.](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/commodities/articles/potash-producers-slide-trump-touts-153000845.html) > [@](#): > > Shares of major fertilizer producers fell Monday after President Trump said the United States was nearing a deal to purchase potash from Belarus. > > Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) shares slid over 4% to $73.97, Mosaic Co (NYSE:MOS) fell over 2% to $23.77, Intrepid Potash (NYSE:IPI) dropped over 2% to $36.70, and CF Industries ([CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE:CF)](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/6112/CF-Industries-Holdings-Inc)) slid roughly 3%. > > “The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus,” Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform, on Monday morning. > > “The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers,” he further wrote. The problem here, I mean besides the felon himself, is Belarus has already said they don’t have any fertilizer to spare. See my post above about that. Forty years ago, it was [“Where’s the beef?”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0aKKFybRNM). Now it’s [_You don’t need any stinking beef_](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-ag-secretary-pricey-beef-223942461.html). > [@](#): > > President **Donald Trump’s** agriculture secretary, **Brooke Rollins** , offered some curious advice to Americans grappling with [higher beef prices](https://news.wttw.com/2026/09/17/beef-prices-rise-us-cattle-herd-remains-near-historic-low): “Eat chicken, pork, salmon, eggs” instead. > > Rollins appeared on MAGA influencer **Benny Johnson’s** _The Benny Show_ on Monday, where she was confronted with the story of a phone call between her and the president. During their conversation, Trump allegedly expressed concern about beef prices. > > “Nobody likes these expensive steaks,” Johnson pointed out. “It’s like, the gas price, the steak price — no good. What are we doing about that?” > > “For the first time, I think, in six months, that’s not what [Trump] called me about,” promised Rollins. “Beef is lower by five percent… Beef went up almost 30 percent under [former President] **Joe Biden**. Of course, the Democrats, the leftist agenda to destroy our cattle herds, take them off of our grazing lands, basically say they’re responsible for climate change.” > > Continuing to emphasize that efforts are in place to support American ranchers, the agriculture secretary continued, “We have more people eating beef than ever before, but if it is too expensive — unlike fuel, Benny — you can eat chicken, pork, salmon, eggs. There are other sources of really good protein, and all of those prices are coming down as well.” [Embassy air quality monitoring was a multi-tasking success](https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/trump-shut-us-embassy-air-034100148.html) so of course the felon killed it last year. > [@](#): > > According to [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2026/09/15/nx-s1-5966503/air-pollution-spiked-after-the-trump-administration-stopped-embassy-monitoring), researchers say that after the Trump administration shut down U.S. embassy air-quality monitoring in March 2025, pollution levels rose sharply in dozens of cities. > > In 46 cities, satellite data indicated that pollution rose by 24% to 33% following a March 2025 halt in publicly shared air-quality readings from U.S. embassies and consulates. I can vouch for the situation in Beiing when the embassy air quality monitors were up and running. My weather app, which lists the city government’s stated air quality o’ the moment, did not always agree with the US Embassy’s reading. Yet the protective measures were aligned with the latter, not the former. [More proof the felon-in-chief is stuck-in-time.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/exclusive-us-open-two-military-223359125.html) > [@](#): > > COPENHAGEN/WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The US plans to re-establish a Cold War-era military base in southern Greenland and set up another ‌on the east coast, now used by the Danish dog sled patrol, under a deal ‌to be signed with Denmark and Greenland on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the matter. > > The sites are Narsarsuaq, ​whose population has dwindled to a few dozen people since the US closed its Bluie West One military base in the 1950s, and Mestersvig, a military outpost used by the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, a Danish special forces unit, said two of the people. ---
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> [@Smapti](#): > > Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Kash Patel are meeting in the Oval Office when Natalie Harp walks in. > > “Sir,” she says, “there’s been a minor incident with a dog making a mess on the couch.” > > Vance says; “Did you just say couch?” > > Patel says; “Did you just say dog?” > > Trump says; “Did you just say minor?” Has anyone ever mentioned how fucking weird these guys are? Lauren “public handy” Boebert says “don’t forget about the gals!”. ---
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> [@Alessan](#): > > > [@Jihi](#): > > > > Did Denmark just give Trump something that we’ve had for 75 years now and Trump thinks it’s something new? > > If Trump didn’t hallucinate the whole thing, then that’s my guess. Maybe the Danes just took the 1951 deal and typed “The Trump Agreement of Denmark’s Surrender to Trump” across the top. That would probably do the job. I think, more and more, other countries are treating trump the way trump’s family treated Fred trump after he descended into full-on dementia, mollifying him with the fake office and meaningless paperwork he could shuffle around to still feel useful. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9034 "2026-09-22T17:14:21Z")
Three days ago, Trump announced the creation of a new organization, the AI Force, and a new office, the AI Czar. Today Trump announced he is changing AI, which stands for Artificial Intelligence, to SI, which stands for Super Intelligence. He could have done these things in reverse order and saved a lot of money on reprinting letterheads and door plaques. ---
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If he was smart, he wouldn’t have had to change the name. ---
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> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > AUNTIE-BIOTICS And what about Uncle Biotics? This is just more anti-men propaganda from the feminist leftist faction! ---
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Uh, Mr Trump, where is Iran located again? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9038 "2026-09-22T18:44:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Or I’ll sic RFK Jr. on you and he can take down a bear. Only if he was put in charge of its care and feeding. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9039 "2026-09-22T18:49:03Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Uh, Mr Trump, where is Iran located again? Right next to the Strait of America. That’s why he renames everything America. So he doesn’t have to remember a bunch of names in foreign languages like Mexican or Canadian. He’s playing four-dimensional geography on us. ---
**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 22, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9040 "2026-09-22T18:50:00Z")
There’s video on CNN of Trump irate that Kaitlin Collins was at the UN and asking questions. Apparently, he thought or was told all those networks were banned from covering him at all and not limited to revoking their White House access. There are no violins tiny enough to express my sympathy for his plight. His idiocy, of course, is so well documented as to require no additional documentation, though the schadenfreude remains, as always, quite delicious > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > He’s playing four-dimensional geography on us. Considering our UN vote on the map, we’re having enough problems with 2 dimensional geography [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=451) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=453)