# 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:** 454
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9061 "2026-09-23T01:18:07Z")
Blech, I saw a clip of him blathiering about “Super Intelligence”. First thing that came to mind is Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius. No offense to Mr. Coyote. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9062 "2026-09-23T01:29:46Z")
You’re not the only one. First thing that popped into my head too. ---
**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 23, 2026, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9063 "2026-09-23T02:41:17Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > He doesn’t know any of that. He keeps calling it a “new phenomena”. Which means, of course, that he is just finding out about it. Which means it didn’t exist before and now he must christen a name for it. Or he was told about it before and that sieve he calls a brain leaked it away. And now someone’s pushing it back in. > [@aurora\_maire](#): > > So he will force the government to start calling it that and cause mass confusion. That should really help with the problem! Sadly, he now has the power to do that because of the office he’s illegally holding. ---
**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 23, 2026, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9064 "2026-09-23T03:39:51Z")
Boy howdy, that Trump UN speech was something else! I have only watched a few clips, but he really brought down the house. He even rolled out his fan favorite “dumocrats” to great success. What a world-wide embarrassment he is. SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNY! > ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9065 "2026-09-23T05:09:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m surprised he didn’t name it America Intelligence, you wouldn’t even need to change the acronym I, for one, welcome the USA to SI.\* \* Système international d’unités - the metric system ---
**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 23, 2026, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9066 "2026-09-23T05:15:30Z")
_“Pears! We should eat more Pears. But that name is so stupid. They one come as one. We should call them something else. They have that shape. That shape that nobody knows about. We will call them Sweet Avocados.”_ ---
**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 23, 2026, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9067 "2026-09-23T05:18:47Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Sweet Avocados Don’t you mean “_Sweet Testicles_ which sound like _icicles_ which are sharp and cold so very dangerous”? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9068 "2026-09-23T07:16:03Z")
Okay, this may not be _directly_ about the Trump shitshow, but it’s pretty freaking funny. **Freedom Fest Featuring Kid Rock and Dog the Bounty Hunter Canceled After Just 6 VIP Tickets Sell** > **[Freedom Fest Featuring Kid Rock and Dog the Bounty Hunter Canceled After Just...](https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/bernadette-giacomazzo/kid-rock-freedom-fest-canceled-dog-the-bounty-hunter)** > > A free Kentucky festival featuring Kid Rock and Dog the B... ---
**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 23, 2026, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9069 "2026-09-23T08:23:40Z")
Obama cares; [the felon doesn’t](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-administration-remove-760-000-173232000.html). > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — [Vice President JD Vance](https://apnews.com/hub/jd-vance) and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist. > > Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for hundreds of thousands of people from the exchanges, part of an administration-wide [crackdown on fraud](https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-fraud-minnesota-california-oz-rfk-trump-24033ef9807b46f8b6fd6614ef5b1169), would result in $2.2 billion in cost savings. > > “We’re actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them,” said Vance, who leads a government task force to eliminate fraud. He was flanked by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, and other administration officials. > > Vance said the cancellation of approximately 315,000 enrollments covering 760,000 people was done in part because the government was not checking whether people enrolled were eligible. Vance said another 419,000 enrollments will get additional verification to make sure they are eligible for the benefit. > > The Trump administration also announced a six-month suspension on new agents or brokers who sign up enrollees for healthcare coverage, who officials say commit a disproportionate amount of the fraud they uncovered. [The felon’s test for refugee status: _That’s mighty white of you_.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-administration-tells-congress-admit-211019000.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to limit the number of refugees admitted to the country in 2027 [to 17,500 mostly white South Africans](https://apnews.com/article/refugee-trump-south-africa-afrikaner-4783f628520a772e7b12eecf9e31159c), the administration told Congress Tuesday, as it continues to transform a program that at one point served as a pathway to safety for people fleeing war and strife from countries around the world. > > In a notice to Congress obtained by The Associated Press, the administration said the white South Africans faced seizures of their land and other forms of persecution and would be likely to assimilate when they come to America. The South African government has repeatedly rejected the idea that the white South Africans, who are Afrikaners, are a persecuted minority in the home country. Let me guess. Their assimilation will start with a screening of [_Birth of a Nation_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation). They’ll get a welcome bag of white linens and, of course, government assistance in learning English. [Republican in the Seate is turning on the felon’s ~~mob~~ family.](https://www.aol.com/articles/gop-senator-calls-judiciary-committee-162947000.html) > [@](#): > > Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis is calling on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Dick Dubin, D-Ill., to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden as part of an investigation into “the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment or access by domestic and foreign interests” that Curtis is urging the senators to open. > > Curtis’ letter comes after he posted a [video on X](https://x.com/SenJohnCurtis/status/2101022781252976949) Friday saying that reports that Donald Trump Jr.'s two-day wedding afterparty in May had been [funded by a Russian oligarch](https://abcnews.com/Politics/russian-oligarch-paid-parts-donald-trump-jrs-wedding/story?id=136425474) with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin “stink” and are “corruption.” He promised further action on the topic. > > President Donald Trump said last week that his son had repaid the oligarch for the afterparty costs, though no evidence of that alleged repayment has been publicly offered. [Liar, liar, diaper on fire!](https://www.aol.com/articles/fact-focus-trump-made-multiple-205627000.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump made myriad false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, many of which he has repeated frequently throughout his second term in the White House. > > They covered topics such as U.S. munitions supply, drug seizures, oil and the economy. > > Here’s a closer look at the facts. _I’m just going to post the claims here because I haven’t read the funnies yet today._ > [@](#): > > CLAIM: “We have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using, and we’re building them at levels that we have never done before.” > [@](#): > > CLAIM: “When you add the United States and Venezuela together, we have more than 60% of the oil in the world.” > [@](#): > > CLAIM: “The United States has carried out dozens of strikes on cartel drug boats, destroying 97% of the drugs coming into the ocean and sea.” > [@](#): > > CLAIM: “More Americans are working today by far than ever before.” _Personal note from Monty: Judging by the felon’s golf schedule, he’s not one of those working Americans._ > [@](#): > > CLAIM: “Since I took office, we have created more than 1 million new private sector jobs." > [@](#): > > CLAIM: “Since I took office, it has been my great honor to settle eight wars.” > [@](#): > > CLAIM: “We’ve secured commitments for $21 trillion in new investments from all over the planet.” _Connection issues mean I havw to stop this post here. I’ll try the rest of the post later._ ---
**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 23, 2026, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9070 "2026-09-23T09:33:30Z")
_Connected so continuing._ [Evidently kryptonite is actually orange.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/byron-donalds-pulls-prominent-mentions-161213059.html) > [@](#): > > Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds launched an updated campaign website this week, stripping away numerous prominent references to his endorsement from Donald Trump as the president’s approval ratings hit new lows. > > Donalds’ campaign website was previously dominated by references to his [Trump endorsement](https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/02/21/byron-donalds-trump-desantis-erika-charter-schools-governor/). A button to “Chip in to Support Trump Endorsed Byron Donalds” was at the top of the homepage. “TRUMP-ENDORSED Proven Conservative Fighter. BYRON DONALDS” was the page’s main text. A yellow banner reading “ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP!” marked the middle of the homepage and a prominent section quoting Trump’s 2025 endorsement said “RUN, BYRON, RUN!” > > All of those mentions were stripped away from his updated website. His campaign also removed a photo of Donalds and wife Erika Donalds posing with Trump. [Body cam is useless on purpose: ICE edition.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/ice-officer-shot-man-austin-194049932.html) > [@](#): > > AUSTIN, Texas — The ICE officer who [shot a Venezuelan man in Austin on Sunday,](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelan-man-shot-ice-texas-says-s-pain-still-bullet-back-rcna598999)leaving a bullet lodged in his back, was issued a body camera but was not wearing it during the shooting, two officials with the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News. > > The officials said it was not clear why the officer was not wearing his body camera. Another ICE officer who was in the same vehicle was wearing a body camera, the officials said. That camera captured partial footage of the incident, but the footage does not include the moment of the shooting, the officials said. > > [Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-shooting-austin-texas-rcna598870), 28, was shot early Sunday afternoon by an ICE officer while making deliveries as a DoorDash driver. He was taken to a hospital and, four hours after he was shot, was taken into immigration custody at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas, his attorney said. The bullet remains in his back. I’m sure he’s going to get the best medical care the prisons in Liberia, Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Cameroon, South Sudan, Rwanda, Eswatini, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Ghana, and Uganda can provide. [Federal judge introduces the felon’s flacks to the concept of video evidence.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/trump-judge-shreds-dhs-excuse-145033105.html) > [@](#): > > A Trump-appointed federal judge has torn into the Department of Homeland Security’s reason for twice detaining a U.S. citizen during immigration raids. > > Jeffrey Beaverstock ruled Monday that video footage did not show Leo Garcia Venegas interfering while his brother was being grabbed and thrown to the ground by federal agents–despite the government claiming he had. > > “The video does not show Venegas attempting to verbally or physically interfere with the other detention in any manner,” the Chief U.S. District Judge wrote after Garcia Venegas sued the Trump administration with the help of the Institute for Justice. [I’m honestly surprised they cited "Merriam-Webster\* instead of _Black’s Law Dictionary_.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-spokesperson-cites-dictionary-botched-131828832.html) > [@](#): > > A White House spokesperson’s attempt to cite the dictionary to “prove” that Donald Trump’s [immigration policy](https://www2.thedailybeast.com/pope-blasts-trump-backed-remigration-immigration-plan-as-not-christian) isn’t racist has spectacularly backfired on her. > > The U.S. State Department last year created a secretive “[Office of Remigration](https://www2.thedailybeast.com/trumps-office-of-remigration-plan-fuels-race-based-deportation-fears)” that was apparently inspired by [Europe’s extremist movements](https://www2.thedailybeast.com/trump-uses-far-right-buzzword-in-wild-immigration-rant) seeking to expel people for simply being foreign. > > The president has also [repeatedly called](https://www2.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom-trolls-donald-trumps-dhs-over-presidents-family-history) for “remigration” or “reverse migration,” a previously fringe concept that has gained widespread attention in Europe thanks to a former neo-Nazi political activist from Austria. > > But the Trump administration has been desperate to argue with its critics over the word’s meaning, saying that it does not mean forcibly expelling people from the country. & > [@](#): > > Asked by the Post about the white supremacist associations, White House spokesperson Lauren Bis said in a statement: “Not everything you dislike is racist. Remigrate literally means to migrate back. By returning illegal aliens to their origin country, we are simply enforcing our nation’s laws.” > > Bis also included a link to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of “[remigration](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remigration?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template),” though the entry didn’t have the intended effect. & (the **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > **As the Post pointed out, one of the definitions listed is “the forcible return of immigrants and often their descendants to the immigrants’ countries of origin.”** [Even Fox realizes Vance has a pull string.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/fox-news-cuts-off-jd-105706796.html) > [@](#): > > Fox News abruptly ended its live broadcast of JD Vance’s campaign speech in Greensboro, North Carolina, while the vice president was still speaking. Anchor Sandra Smith cut away from the rally and [told](https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/tv/fox-news-jd-vance-cutaway-2034113) viewers that the network would return to the event “if he starts to make news.” Fox News then moved to other coverage instead of continuing to air Vance’s remarks. > > Vance was speaking at the Koury Convention Center in support of Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley, who is running against Democrat and former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. The vice president was campaigning for Whatley ahead of the midterm elections and urging voters to support Republican candidates. > > The broadcast was interrupted as Vance began criticizing Democratic candidates. He had reached the line, “The Democrat Party is running candidates for Congress, who called for–” when Fox News cut away from the speech. > > Smith then explained the decision on air. “Alright, you have been listening to Vice President Vance talking to voters ahead of the midterms in battleground North Carolina. He’s in Greensboro this afternoon. We will bring you right back to this rally if he starts to make news,” she said. [F35 parts sent to China.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/australia-confirms-f-35-fighter-102802785.html) > [@](#): > > Australia’s defense minister said Tuesday that F-35 fighter jet parts had been mistakenly diverted to Hong Kong, following reports US lawmakers were investigating the mishap amid concerns about the possibility of China getting access to sensitive US military technology. > > “We’ve been made aware of this, and we’re obviously working with the United States and Lockheed in terms of how we can assist in this investigation,” Defense Minister Richard Marles told reporters in Adelaide. > > [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/congress-f-35-china-investigation-01083647) first reported last week that the F-35 parts shipment bound for the United States for repairs were rerouted in transit from Australia this summer, citing three people familiar with the matter. [Companies are updating their crisis response plans to counter being used as propaganda for the felon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-admin-toxic-brands-now-173000771.html) > [@](#): > > One of toy company Hasbro’s marquee pieces of intellectual property went through a different transformation than usual last week. > > Thanks to [a series](https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2097765962019672456) of social media [posts](https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2097764347304931759) by the Department of Homeland Security, Transformers, the venerable robots-disguised-as-trucks franchise, got a full-on MAGA makeover. > > In one entry, the series’ most recognizable character, Optimus Prime, is covered in DHS logos for an [AI](https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence) poster promoting the nonexistent blockbuster, _Transformers: Age of Deportation_. Hasbro quickly responded with an Instagram message disavowing the brazen copyright infringement, but it didn’t stop there. The company also listed the values Optimus Prime stands for—suggesting these are in conflict with the ideas expressed by the DHS slopaganda. > > It’s not every day a toy company has to announce that the fictional robot truck it created—unlike the U.S. government, apparently—believes in things like leadership and justice. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9071 "2026-09-23T09:52:30Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Republican in the Seate is turning on the felon’s ~~mob~~ family. I can’t find the post, but Hunter Biden has enthusiastically agreed to a joint appearance before Congress with the Trump kids. He knows he’d come out smelling of roses by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9072 "2026-09-23T14:07:06Z")
I wish I could share\* your optimism, but the way the Corrupt Ring Wing Press spins things, I’ll be surprised if it really moves the needle (like, at all), IRT their viewship’s stance on that. \*originally typo’ed as “sharte” and figured yeah I might wanna fix that. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9073 "2026-09-23T14:32:22Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Blech, I saw a clip of him blathiering about “Super Intelligence”. First thing that came to mind is Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius. No offense to Mr. Coyote. [According to this article](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6099834-trump-proposes-new-a-i-names/), trump posted a poll recently with a few different renaming ideas, with ‘Superior Intelligence’ so far leading the way. Great idea! AI CEOs and the general public alike are getting too concerned about the ‘hoax’ that AI is becoming too powerful and may become a real danger to humanity. Let’s rename ‘Artificial Intelligence’ to something warm and fuzzy that will help put the peoples’ fears to rest. How about ‘Superior Intelligence’? Nothing concerning about that name! ---
**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 23, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9074 "2026-09-23T14:48:09Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Let’s rename ‘Artificial Intelligence’ to something warm and fuzzy that will help put the peoples’ fears to rest. How about ‘Superior Intelligence’? Nothing concerning about that name! He’ll run it thorugh his renaming roulette wheel and finally stop when it hits _American Terminator_. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9075 "2026-09-23T14:51:20Z")
I’m actually surprised he hasn’t yet proposed renaming AI to ‘American Intelligence’ since he insists that we’re so far ahead of the Chinese in AI development, and that we must keep it that way to ‘win’ or whatever. ---
**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 23, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9076 "2026-09-23T14:51:53Z")
Re-branding AI to be more warm and fuzzy? What a positively Trumpian concept! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9077 "2026-09-23T15:05:15Z")
I’m finding this one hard to believe: > ## **Trump Officials Have Pitched Adding His Name To Ford’s Theater, Other Sites: Report** > > White House officials are reportedly circulating a list of government sites that could have President Donald Trump’s name affixed to them, [MS NOW reported](https://www.ms.now/news/trump-fords-theatre-name-kennedy-center) Wednesday, citing people familiar with the effort. > > Among the locations reportedly discussed is the historic Ford’s Theater in Washington, where Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot in 1865. The report noted that it’s not clear how serious the considerations are. > > The report comes amid an ongoing court battle to permanently attach Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center. > > A White House spokesperson dismissed the report to HuffPost as “completely false.” > > “The reality is that failing MS Now continues to push false and baseless claims from anonymous sources who have no clue what they’re talking about, which is exactly why their credibility is in the toilet,” said Davis Ingle in an email. > > MS NOW is one of three news outlets recently barred from accessing the White House over its coverage of Trump, prompting a [first amendment lawsuit](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-msnow-politico-trump-lawsuit_n_6ab1059ee4b000f12fc8049d). I mean, even Trump’s not so stupid that he’d try to put his name on Ford’s Theater, right? Right? Even if he thought it was named after Gerald Ford? > **[CNN, MS NOW, Politico Suing Trump Admin Over White House Ban](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-msnow-politico-trump-lawsuit_n_6ab1059ee4b000f12fc8049d)** > > “This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment,” the lawsuit states. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9078 "2026-09-23T15:34:17Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > I’m surprised he didn’t name it America Intelligence, you wouldn’t even need to change the acronym > > I, for one, welcome the USA to SI.\* > > \* Système international d’unités - the metric system OMG! Now I get it! This is Trump’s way of FORCING the Metric System on the US! Well I’m not buying it! You can force my measuring CUP out of my cold dead fingers! ---
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Sure, he can tell people he’s 175cm instead of 6’ whatever. 175 is bigger than 6, right? ---
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6’ is 183cm. A bigly number! He probably is closer to 175cm, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=453) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=455)