# 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:** 47
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/921 "2025-12-23T00:44:14Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Jack Daniels next? > > We are gonna need a lot of hard liquor in theUSA to get through this shit show. Buying booze is going to be like getting your car out of the police impound lot - you’ll have to pay the “storage fees” for however long it was sitting in the warehouse before you bought it. ---
**Author:** ![DirtyHippy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtyhippy/32/107_2.png) [@DirtyHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirtyHippy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/922 "2025-12-23T01:05:59Z")
> **[Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ike_witt)**[Charter Member](https://boards.straightdope.com/g/Charter_Member) > > Who had [Trump class battleships](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/22/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-android-share) on their bingo card? I asked my wife if there was anything he wouldn’t slap his name on. Her reply, “The Epstein files.” ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/923 "2025-12-23T01:06:03Z")
It’s getting difficult to keep up with all the Trump clusterfuckery. I just posted about this over in the compendium of horrors thread. It seems that one of the “battle” ships will be named USS Defiant. Someone has been watching too much Star Trek. ---
**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 23, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/924 "2025-12-23T01:14:21Z")
I’ll be surprised if one of them gets built within his lifetime. Here’s the (almost certainly AI-generated) concept art; [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:v63y3emmbz5dlvzkejca2mcc/bafkreiafz3ossgcmqcfdnhjgtvhvmrvny2tng7rii5nlkoa5zhngan6adq@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:v63y3emmbz5dlvzkejca2mcc/bafkreiafz3ossgcmqcfdnhjgtvhvmrvny2tng7rii5nlkoa5zhngan6adq@jpeg) What’s your favorite part? The helipad that’s inaccessible by the crew and which the chopper will fall right off of in choppy seas? The painting of Trump’s assassination attempt on the stern? The flag hovering in midair with no flagpole? The unmanned guns firing at nothing? The fact that the entire vessel looks to be about 10-15 feet wide? ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/925 "2025-12-23T02:38:07Z")
Is that a pickleball court on the back? ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/926 "2025-12-23T02:52:42Z")
Of course! Since Trump is the peace president, what are these sailors supposed to do in all their lax time? Pickleball is wildly popular with the 60+ crowd so of course he suggested those courts. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/927 "2025-12-23T03:12:47Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The fact that the entire vessel looks to be about 10-15 feet wide? It looks like a 21st century PT boat. ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/928 "2025-12-23T03:13:01Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Just ask him - he’ll tell you! He seemed to “take” the test in the same way this time. I’ll pick the lion, especially because Sleepy Joe would pick the Rhino. So, doc, I score 3 on that. The only bit of that test I want to see is his clock. Either do it on a whiteboard at some rally or show us your results. I am sure it will be an oblate circle with the numbers out of place and an incoherent time. Just show us you can do that one thing, and you can brag all you want about “acing” and stunning doctors who have never witnessed such intellect. ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/929 "2025-12-23T03:15:56Z")
So, turns out that if you highlight and copy the blacked-out pages of the Epstein files on the DOJ website, the paste them into another word processor, you can read them unredacted. > **[BREAKING: We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files](https://krassencast.com/p/breaking-we-just-unredacted-the-epstein)** > > We’ve figured out how to unredact some of the Epstein Files: ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/930 "2025-12-23T03:18:01Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > turns out that if you highlight and copy the blacked-out pages of the Epstein files on the DOJ website, the paste them into another word processor, you can read them unredacted. The whole fucking bunch of these clowns are idiots. But you all knew that already. ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/931 "2025-12-23T03:24:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > So, turns out that if you highlight and copy the blacked-out pages of the Epstein files on the DOJ website, the paste them into another word processor, you can read them unredacted. LOL! Three years ago a company I was contracting with was not paying anyone, employees or contractors. Same thing, they’d send out “contracts” claiming certain things, many figures and important info redacted, yet all you had to do was his Cttrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste. Sounds like the same thing here. Let there be nothing but embarrassing and incriminating stuff in this lazy redaction. I was going to try the same thing myself, yet figured the fucking government would know better. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/932 "2025-12-23T03:30:55Z")
I hope that the redaction failure is well and truly real, because that would be the funniest shit in a long time. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/933 "2025-12-23T03:34:31Z")
Yes it would. It is trivial to actually redact a PDF but if they simply used black boxes to “redact”, they are absolute maroons. And, I hope this is true. Because that means a bunch of new info is out there that they didn’t want to be. ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/934 "2025-12-23T03:41:11Z")
It would also mean that the victims are exposed. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/935 "2025-12-23T03:45:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Here’s the (almost certainly AI-generated) concept art; Dude! This thing looks totally badass. Shootin’ down planes, ships, and whatever else needs shootin’ down…probably even Jewish space lasers. All the while not breaking a sweat. Most of the 100% straight non-homo crew (no chicks allowed) are playing pickleball on the poop deck. [![](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/1440/810/trump-class.jpg?ve=1&tl=) ](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/1440/810/trump-class.jpg?ve=1&tl=) ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/936 "2025-12-23T03:46:23Z")
I wonder how many of the victims want to be redacted at this point? ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/937 "2025-12-23T03:48:39Z")
It’s a good point, IMO, but any response should be to the administration that released the (maybe) unredacted files. ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/938 "2025-12-23T03:49:24Z")
I like the added touch of the seagulls just nonchalantly gliding about while multiple warships are in flames and a fighter jet is being shot down by a laser gun. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/939 "2025-12-23T03:52:05Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > LOL! Three years ago a company I was contracting with was not paying anyone, employees or contractors. Same thing, they’d send out “contracts” claiming certain things, many figures and important info redacted, yet all you had to do was his Cttrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste. Sounds like the same thing here. I wondered if something like that might happen. It could be a case of malicious compliance on the part of someone at a lower level in the DOJ or FBI. I hope they survive it. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/940 "2025-12-23T03:52:50Z")
As I said: Badass. This thing is a stealth killer of all things except for the wildlife that can peacefully coexist in a warzone. Tip of the cap to the brainiacs behind this new warship. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=48)