# 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:** 456
**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 24, 2026, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9101 "2026-09-24T08:48:57Z")
As far as I know, it’s not a requirement in law, but rather in practice to have judges with legal training. The Board’s lawyers can expand on or correct me on that. ---
**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 24, 2026, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9102 "2026-09-24T08:52:43Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Yes, that’s obvious. Waiter? Legal assistant? No law degree? Keep reading. > He then attended Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a senior associate editor of the American Criminal Law Review. He graduated in 1997 with a Juris Doctor. > > After law school, Kelly entered private practice at Arnold & Porter. He served as a law clerk to Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2002, returning to Arnold & Porter afterward. Kelly worked for the U.S. Department of Justice from 2003 to 2013. He served first as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and then as a trial attorney in the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. He also served as the Republican staff director for the Senate’s Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and from 2013 to 2017 Judge Kelly served as Chief Counsel for National Security and Senior Crime Counsel to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9103 "2026-09-24T09:00:20Z")
Thank you, **Smapti**. So his law credentials check out. I can understand. I went to law school 22 years after I graduated with a B.A. from the University of Toronto. Not everybody goes straight from their bachelor’s into law school. I didn’t, and I guess Kelly didn’t either. ---
**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 24, 2026, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9104 "2026-09-24T09:57:30Z")
> [@solost](#): > > [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! Let’s go with [Great Intelligence](https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Great_Intelligence). > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Trump Asks ‘Where Is Marco?’ “Polo!” ---
**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 24, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9105 "2026-09-24T11:58:06Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Let’s go with [Great Intelligence](https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Great_Intelligence). “With Great Intelligence Comes Great Irresponsbility” ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9106 "2026-09-24T13:33:44Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > don’t American courts require a judge to have a law degree and to have passed the bar? > [@Monty](#): > > s far as I know, it’s not a requirement in law, but rather in practice to have judges with legal training. I firmly believe that the Supreme Court would be well served by having at least one non-judge at all times (see, for example, Earl Warren). Realizing that there is nothing as uncommon as common sense, having someone making decisions on something other than reading meaning into various writings of long dead people could only improve things. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9107 "2026-09-24T14:39:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Judge orders CNN et al’s White House access restored. File this under, “But what if we don’t?”… > **[POLITICO, CNN, MS NOW barred from White House after court ruling restoring...](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/24/politico-barred-from-white-house-after-court-ruling-restoring-access-01091263)** > > The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier restoring access. > A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated [after a judge ordered](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/24/white-house-access-media-ban-ruling-01091226)the Trump administration overnight to immediately restore access for news organizations that President Donald Trump banned from the complex last week. > > MS NOW and CNN said their reporters were also denied entry. The three outlets have been barred from the White House since Saturday, following an order from Trump to do so “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9108 "2026-09-24T16:56:44Z")
Certainly a sternly worded but impotent admonishment from the Judge is forthcoming! ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9109 "2026-09-24T17:12:09Z")
They’re being allowed back in now: > **[CNN, MS NOW and Politico back at the White House, hours after judge ordered...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-ban-judge-ruling-cnn-msnow-politico-21605e397fe48f178a4afa037e732c6d)** > > Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico returned to the White House hours after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban of the three news outlets. > On a chaotic day at the White House gates and in court, CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists were allowed back in by midday, after earlier issues gaining access. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9110 "2026-09-24T17:30:10Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > On a chaotic day at the White House gates and in court, CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists were allowed back in by midday, after earlier issues gaining access. Trump will of course just ignore them. ---
**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 24, 2026, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9111 "2026-09-24T23:39:29Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Trump will of course just ignore them. [Just like he ignores the constitution](https://ts3.tc.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP-C.YIZI0-Je0fodrYe8RwvLOAHaFb?r=0&rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3). ---
**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 25, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9112 "2026-09-25T02:37:33Z")
…as well as his own with all the shit he shovels down into it every day. ---
**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 25, 2026, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9113 "2026-09-25T03:58:14Z")
[Are you kidding me?](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-shared-photo-meeting-china-155539000.html) > [@](#): > > A photo shared by [President Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-boycott-audio-b3055646.html) from his meeting with [Chinese Leader Xi Jinping](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-xi-jinping-state-visit-b3055832.html) has caused questions and speculation throughout the internet. > > On Thursday, Trump shared the photo on his [Truth Social platform](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/trump-truth-social-insider-trading-b3054751.html). In it, the president stands next to Xi, with Trump’s arm raised in a salute. The words “Only Trump” are in the picture as the two leaders stand in the foreground at the front of the red carpet with Xi’s plane in the background. Overhead, a military plane flies past the scene. No mention of the font choice in the photo. Fraktur is always a wise choice when one does not want to be seen as a dictator. [Who needs a Manchurian candidate when there’s a communist first lady?](https://www.aol.com/articles/melania-trump-claims-she-had-171839000.html) > [@](#): > > Kilmeade then asked, “Why is it that Eastern Europeans like yourself fully understand [the gift of freedom and liberty](https://radaronline.com/p/melania-trump-sparks-white-house-fears-first-lady-rare-public-appearances-millions/) better than Western Europeans – and sometimes better than Americans? What is it about how you grew up?” > > “I grew up under communism, and actually, [I didn’t miss anything](https://radaronline.com/p/jimmy-fallon-mocks-melania-trump-skipping-ireland-trip-president/)," Melania clarified. “I feel I had a very beautiful childhood, and my parents provided a beautiful life for my family. But yes, there are certain things you need to be aware of, and you watch over what you do – it’s not as free as here in the United States. Now, it’s a different time, but when I was growing up, it was not.” [Killer Kennedy and the the felon should be so proud.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/world-most-contagious-virus-hits-174255531.html) > [@](#): > > The City of [Philadelphia](https://foxnews.com/category/us/philadelphia) is reporting two possible measles exposures within a week — the latest at Philadelphia International Airport. > > The exposure took place at airport terminals B and F, as well as areas used to connect to other terminals in C, D and E, on Sunday, Sept. 13, from 7:45 p.m. to Monday, Sept. 14 at 12:05 a.m., according to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. > > The individual with measles was traveling through Philadelphia and did not leave the airport. [Health officials](https://www.foxnews.com/health) encouraged those who were potentially exposed to check their vaccination status and watch for symptoms. [Canada’s capital city erasing the felon’s name.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/no-more-trump-avenue-canada-182750752.html) > [@](#): > > Ottawa’s City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to remove President [Donald Trump](https://time.com/article/2026/09/22/trump-greenland-security-deal-sovereignty-annexation-threats-military-guarantees/)’s name from a residential street in the Canadian capital amid an increasingly [hostile trade war.](https://time.com/article/2026/09/09/buy-canadian-movement-consumers-us-products-boycott-trump-trade-war/) > > The motion to rename “Trump Avenue” in the city’s Central Park neighborhood was brought forward by River Ward councillor Riley Brockington on[Sept. 9](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/trump-avenue-ottawa-renaming-2026-city-council-9.7337061) and swiftly received support from other local officials. “I don’t like the idea of anything that’s named for Donald Trump, who’s demonstrated hostility towards Canada,”[](https://youtu.be/zHApfB1Kl-Y?t=4689)Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe [said](https://youtu.be/zHApfB1Kl-Y?t=4689) at a news conference after the vote. [The felon got what he wanted and now he’s whining about it.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-melts-down-over-lack-214411143.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump) on Thursday lashed out at CNN and MS NOW over the lack of coverage of a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, days after he attempted to ban both outlets from the White House. > > “CNN and MSDNC, to show you how fake they are, today refused to cover one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng,” Trump claimed in a Thursday [Truth Social post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117327988960070739). “The event was magnificent — Actually made for Television but, because they’re Fake News, and because they knew how good it would be, they didn’t want credit to be given to ‘TRUMP,’ they refused to be there.” [Big Brother is back on the air!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-focused-love-ad-campaign-230133562.html) > [@](#): > > A new ad campaign glorifying President Trump is on the air on national cable and national networks including CBS beginning Thursday, and it’s being paid for by American taxpayers. > > The first ad, which hit the airwaves Wednesday and aired on Fox News Channel, opens with Mr. Trump vowing, “We will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America.” Set over a soundtrack of JMSN’s song “Love Me,” flash-cut random shots from the president’s second administration appear with text on screen. The photos show the president at rallies, pardoning turkeys, at the White House with Christmas decorations, standing with the FIFA trophy, surrounded by flags, flanked by military leaders, outside the Taj Mahal, and more. > > The ad repeatedly flashes “America will never be a communist country” on screen and also touts his administration’s tax cuts and other broad expressions of support for domestic manufacturing and law enforcement in text on screen. It ends with the voice of Dana White, CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, declaring, “He’s the toughest, most resilient (man) I’ve ever met and nothing was going to stop him from fighting so hard for the country he loves.” But life does not always copy fiction to a T. > [@](#): > > In a [post on X](https://x.com/iamjmsn/status/2103208507680215246?s=46?ftag=YHF4eb9d17), JMSN said he did not grant a license for the use of “Love Me.” > > “To anybody who has followed my career and knows what I stand for and built my career on, it should go without saying that I would never authorize my music to be used for ANY political agenda or campaign,” he said, and he indicated that no one asked him for permission to use it. And who’s paying for this ad blitz? > [@](#): > > The ad, which appeared Wednesday night during “Primetime with Jesse Watters” and on Thursday afternoon, contains an on-screen disclosure that it was “Paid for by the U.S. Government.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9114 "2026-09-25T04:24:47Z")
Posted by @Monty above: > [@](#): > > [Canada’s capital city erasing the felon’s name.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/no-more-trump-avenue-canada-182750752.html) I saw that on our news. To add a bit of context, a lot of streets in that Ottawa neighbourhood carry the names of New York City landmarks and prominent New Yorkers. Going on memory from the six o’clock news, there is also a Bloomingdales Avenue, for example. Trump, being a well-known NYC real estate developer when the neighbourhood was built, got a street named for him. But no longer. I don’t know what the street will be named (Park Avenue might be a good choice, or Columbus Circle, if it is a _cul-de-sac_); the news didn’t say. But it will be renamed. Interestingly, Montreal has an “Avenue du President Kennedy,” and it has for years and nobody has considered renaming that. Perhaps because Montrealers feel that President Kennedy deserves having a Montreal street named for him. I doubt that they would feel the same way about President Trump, however, just like Ottawans. ---
**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 25, 2026, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9115 "2026-09-25T05:25:43Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > But no longer. I don’t know what the street will be named (Park Avenue might be a good choice, or Columbus Circle, if it is a _cul-de-sac_); the news didn’t say. But it will be renamed. I suggest _Biden Bouleveard_, _Democrat Drive_, or even _Obama Way_. I quite like the last one. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9116 "2026-09-25T05:49:20Z")
Good suggestions, but remember, the names in that neighbourhood have something to do with NYC or New Yorkers. Biden is from Delaware, Democrats aren’t unique to New York City, and Obama is from Chicago. Though I like your suggestions, I think we’ll need something else. Knickerbocker Lane? Gotham Boulevard? Battery Parkway? Brooklyn Avenue? Big Apple Drive? Alfred Beach Road? (Look _that_ one up.) Bonnie Meadow Road, which, despite it being in New Rochelle, was where the Petrie family lived on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” which took place in NYC? ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9117 "2026-09-25T06:31:55Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Good suggestions, but remember, the names in that neighbourhood have something to do with NYC or New Yorkers. There’s a promising young fella named Mamdani I’ve been hearing about recently…he’s from New York, ain’t he? ---
**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 25, 2026, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9118 "2026-09-25T07:45:22Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Good suggestions, but remember, the names in that neighbourhood have something to do with NYC or New Yorkers. Don’t you mean _New Canada_ and _New Canadians_? ---
**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 25, 2026, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9119 "2026-09-25T07:48:29Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Good suggestions, but remember, the names in that neighbourhood have something to do with NYC or New Yorkers. O’Donnell Dr. ---
**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 25, 2026, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9120 "2026-09-25T08:39:55Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The City of [Philadelphia](https://foxnews.com/category/us/philadelphia) is reporting two possible measles exposures within a week — the latest at Philadelphia International Airport. Should be fine - it’s not like any [noteworthy outbreaks are linked to PIA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=455) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=457)