# 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:** 499
**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:** [October 28, 2026, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9961 "2026-10-28T20:58:41Z")
The Vice President of the United States is a dipshit who lets firecrackers explode in his hand. Literally, per his own confession. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3myxgy2hchc2a)** > > "There were like 35 Secret Service agents and 25 staffers who knew what I dipshit I was" -- JD Vance, campaigning in North Carolina, tells a deeply weird story about how he was playing with fireworks with his kids a few days ago and let one explode... ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9962 "2026-10-28T22:17:51Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I had ChatGPT take out all the repeats, format into sentences and paragraphs, and add random punctuation: This is a good use of AI: you turned Donald’s brain-droppings into something akin to poetry! Very nice. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9963 "2026-10-28T22:48:05Z")
Tsk, tsk! It’s SI, not AI. Stands for Stupid Idiot 😏 ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9964 "2026-10-29T02:41:37Z")
[It’s not her fault she can’t do the job; the press is bunch of meanies.](https://www.aol.com/articles/katie-zacharia-blames-media-her-165723000.html) > [@](#): > > [Katie Zacharia](https://people.com/trump-announces-katie-zacharia-will-replace-karoline-leavitt-as-white-house-press-secretary-12058654) is sharing what she believes led to the end of her brief run as the 37th White House press secretary. > > During a Tuesday, Oct. 27, appearance on [Newsmax](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC9day7ZLGE), Zacharia, 41, told host Rob Finnerty she believed that the media played a role in her lasting less than a week in the position. > > “Listen, the media does not like outsiders, and Washington, D.C., does not like outsiders,” she told the news anchor. > > “And what I would briefly say is that the media and all of Washington made it very difficult for me to do the job I set out to do, which is to amplify the wins and historic record-setting precedent that President Trump has set, especially ahead of the most consequential midterms,” she continued. > > Zacharia added, “They would not let me do my job, which was to focus on him and focus on what he’s doing to win.” [The felon has stake in the Cheesecake Factory.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-secret-stake-cheesecake-factory-190757782.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump spent last year buying and selling stock in the restaurant now at the center of a political spat with Barack Obama over the president’s lavish vanity projects. > > Days after the former Democratic president mocked Trump for making the White House look “like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory,” financial disclosures reviewed by the Daily Beast show he bought between $35,007 and $175,000 worth of stock in the franchise last year as his renovations went into overdrive. [Judge warns the convict-in-the-oval to stop threatening election workers.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/just-judge-warns-trump-doj-000632759.html) > [@](#): > > U.S. District Judge David O. Carter of Los Angeles just concluded a 3 1/2 hour hearing (minus recesses) in the California election case without issuing a ruling. He promised one tomorrow. > > But he concluded the hearing with a very direct and unmistakeable warning to the Trump DOJ: “This court believes that it would be wise that any threats to state and county election employees cease immediately.” > > The warning comes after top DOJ officials have repeatedly threatened to prosecute election administrators if they process ballots cast by noncitizens. The threats continued earlier in the hearing, with Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, again insisting that knowingly processing ballots that the DOJ claims are from noncitizens would be a federal crime. [The wantond destruction continues as the felon refuses to follow court order.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/dc-judge-orders-golf-course-143225635.html) > [@](#): > > A federal judge is ordering a new hearing regarding President Trump’s plans to redevelop East Potomac Park after he posted on social media this week vowing to press ahead with his plans for the property despite her ruling halting it. > > After U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes granted a [preliminary injunction](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.289401/gov.uscourts.dcd.289401.80.0_1.pdf) requested by a preservationist group and group of local D.C. [golfers asking her to](https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6161270-ana-reyes-federal-judge/) stop the the project, Trump attacked the judge, saying “we are closing the East Potomac Golf Course Site as scheduled” on Nov. 15, and Reyes “does not have the Constitutional Right to ‘ask for or receive notices,’ which are time-consuming, unnecessary, expensive, and unconstitutional.” > > The hearing will be held either Friday or Monday, according to Reyes’s order. [Yep, the felon’s getting sued again.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trumps-loser-former-cop-jailed-172920473.html) > [@](#): > > An [Oregon](https://lawandcrime.com/tag/oregon/) man and former cop with 28 years on the force says he was handcuffed and hauled off to jail for shouting “Trump’s a loser!” during a solo [protest](https://lawandcrime.com/tag/protest/). > > Neil Daniels, 59, filed a [lawsuit](https://lawandcrime.com/tag/lawsuit/) in Coos County Circuit Court on Oct. 8, alleging that local police and a county commissioner violated his constitutional right to [free speech](https://lawandcrime.com/tag/free-speech/) by arresting him during a demonstration outside county headquarters in Coquille in October 2024. > > “Wielding their official authority, they targeted, detained, arrested, and cited Daniels solely to restrict his protected political speech,” the civil complaint, which was obtained by Law&Crime, alleges. “Chanting political slogans is a constitutionally protected form of protest.” [Loser gave loser visa.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flavio-bolsonaro-expected-land-miami-115618310.html) > [@](#): > > SAO PAULO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Senator Flavio Bolsonaro declared himself Brazil’s rightful leader on Wednesday after arriving in the United States, alleging he was the victim of an electoral coup by the country’s Supreme Court and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, ‌who won the vote by over 4 million votes. > > Bolsonaro arrived in Miami after leaving Brazil, where he refused to comply with a Supreme Court order ‌to surrender his passports. He thanked Argentine leader Javier Milei for helping him make the journey and US President Donald Trump, who granted him and his family entry visas, for welcoming him. [That would a no, then.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/asked-ll-respect-american-voters-140352209.html) > [@](#): > > During a brief Q&A with reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump was asked whether he’ll “respect the results” of the midterm elections, “whatever happens.” Before we get to the president’s answer, it’s worth taking a moment to dwell on the question. > > Not to put too fine a point on this, but we used to be a country in which questions like these weren’t even asked. It was a foregone conclusion for generations: The United States was a stable democracy and the world’s pre-eminent superpower. There was no real need to wonder: American candidates for powerful offices agreed to honor election results. The entire line of inquiry was unnecessary since the answers were assumed. > > But as the radicalization of Republican politics intensifies, and GOP rejection of election results [becomes more common](https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-normal-republicans-wont-vow-accept-voters-will-rcna48330), it’s no longer considered outlandish to ask Republican leaders whether they’ll accept voters’ judgment — just as it’s no longer surprising when they fail to say “Of course I’ll honor the will of the electorate.” > > All of which brings us to Trump’s response on Tuesday afternoon. > > “I will,” [the president replied](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-before-air-force-one-departure-october-27-2026/), indicating that he’d accept the election results, before quickly adding, “if they’re honest elections.” > > And who gets to decide whether the elections are “honest”? According to Trump, he does. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9965 "2026-10-29T03:13:57Z")
Remember how the felon is conniptioning about a candidte he says is tricking the electorate? [Of course one he’s endorsining another contest gets a pass.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-pick-questioned-over-concealing-203428707.html) > [@](#): > > A Trump-picked Senate candidate struggled to explain why her campaign website makes no mention of her Republican affiliation when pressed on NewsNation Wednesday. > > Michele Tafoya, a 61-year-old former broadcast sports reporter who recently secured Donald Trump’s endorsement as the Republican Senate candidate for Minnesota, told host Leland Vittert that she didn’t think it was “intentional” > > “Your website doesn’t say you’re a Republican, anywhere on the website,” Vittert said. “Is that because, what, Republican is a dirty word in Minnesota?” > > “Honestly, I don’t think it was intentional,” Tafoya replied. “We have tried to make this campaign about bringing people together. Here in Minnesota we’re tired of the bickering, we’re tired of the constant butting heads and people digging in their heels in their extreme corners.” Really, now? Let’s go to the record! > [@](#): > > Her push for unity comes after she accepted an endorsement from Trump, who announced his support following a tirade about the state’s Somali community. > > At an Oct. 13 rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump went on a lengthy diatribe about Rep. Ilhan Omar, wherein he called Somalia “one of the worst countries anywhere on the planet” and later said that “Somalia bandits, third world gangsters, jihadist sympathizers” do not belong in America. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9966 "2026-10-29T03:49:27Z")
> [@](#): > > “And what I would briefly say is that the media and all of Washington made it very difficult for me to do the job I set out to do, which is to amplify the wins and historic record-setting precedent that President Trump has set, especially ahead of the most consequential midterms,” she continued. > > Zacharia added, “They would not let me do my job, which was to focus on him and focus on what he’s doing to win.” Where did this idiot get the idea that that was what the job of White House press secretary was??? ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9967 "2026-10-29T04:04:05Z")
I have frequent vivid dreams about Neil Young (PM if you want to know why) and he is a very formidable opponent. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9968 "2026-10-29T04:08:10Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Where did this idiot get the idea that that was what the job of White House press secretary was??? From her predecessor, Baghdad Blondie Bob. [![](https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/YTG3KYXLNVKY3INEHT2N5XXD7Q.jpg?auth=ecfc007362bf3b09ebc0e72577f4581659a48544cfb180b24b89d5c4cb24faa4&height=2400&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true) ](https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/YTG3KYXLNVKY3INEHT2N5XXD7Q.jpg?auth=ecfc007362bf3b09ebc0e72577f4581659a48544cfb180b24b89d5c4cb24faa4&height=2400&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9969 "2026-10-29T04:40:17Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Where did this idiot get the idea that that was what the job of White House press secretary was??? Or that it is the media’s job to facilitate it. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9970 "2026-10-29T05:18:32Z")
When my oldest brother was a cadet at West Point, he taught me one cadet slang term: tangent. That woudl be someone who got the bare passing score. There is nobody in the administration who fits even that meaning. At best, and it’s a very weak best, they are tangent only in the sense of having been in the room, essentially a simple geometrical meaning of tangent. Take Hegseth for example. He was in the military but the military was not in him. He’s absolutely incompetent. If you are not convinced by that, cross over the 14th Street Bridge and, if you hate your eyes, look at RFK Jr. whose closest qualifying experience was connected to the environment (and I’m not talking about the road kill). He has nothing else, literally nothing else. And, of course the prime example of this is the felon currently disgracing the most important office in the world. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9971 "2026-10-29T07:08:11Z")
[Secretary of War Crimes and Men’s Testicles fires another one.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/hegseth-fires-pentagons-top-military-024524025.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s top military planner, a defense official said Wednesday, the latest in a series of [generals to be ousted](https://apnews.com/article/trump-pentagon-hegseth-christopher-donahue-afghanistan-9ade7033e3a9e0c5e41acb5dcdb25133) and one that comes even as President Donald Trump is [weighing renewed strikes on Iran](https://apnews.com/article/trump-midterm-elections-iran-war-gas-prices-b5d05074e4fb08f430e35820f173905e) in the eight-month-long war. > > Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was removed as head of strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is the second general to be ousted from the post, known in military circles as the “J5,” under Hegseth. His predecessor, Lt. Gen. Joseph McGee, was forced to retire last October. > > The defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters, said there is no immediate replacement for Sylvia and no reason has been given for the firing. The move was reported earlier by The Atlantic. > > A spokesperson for the Joint Staff said “the Chairman, the Joint Staff, and the Joint Force extend our deepest gratitude to Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia and his family for their 32 years of distinguished service to our nation” and they “wish him and his family the best.” > > Typically, the J5 director and their staff are responsible for generating and coordinating military plans with both the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the president. Sylvia’s firing comes as Trump has repeatedly floated starting new military operations against Iran. What’s the over-under on the felon-in-the-oval not realizing General Sylvia is male? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9972 "2026-10-29T07:14:53Z")
I was thinking that before I got to the bottom of your post. ‘Lt. Gen. Sylvia, Brett? Sylvia? FIRE HER!!!’ ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9973 "2026-10-29T07:18:17Z")
I’d give odds the felon calls the general “Brettany” by midnight Friday. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9974 "2026-10-29T11:39:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > At best, and it’s a very weak best, they are tangent only in the sense of having been in the room, essentially a simple geometrical meaning of tangent. Oh, I like it. I was a draftsman and then a GIS pro doing land/property. Tangent is an important term, but mostly fits these idiots. Though ricochet sort of works too. _Merriam Webster-_ _ **Ballistics & Physics:** A projectile bounces off a surface at an angle instead of penetrating it. Deflected bullets or fragments can still retain dangerous velocity and cause collateral damage_ Though, I wouldn’t call the damage ‘collateral’ in this case. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9975 "2026-10-29T12:29:36Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Though ricochet sort of works too. Hey! Hey! Hey! [Ricochet Rabbit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_Rabbit_%26_Droop-a-Long) was one of my cartoon heroes when I was a young 'un. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9976 "2026-10-29T14:22:59Z")
Oops! Is this a case of “you get what you pay for.” 🫣 > **[Reports follow aircraft program](https://eedition.expressnews.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=40675dea-ca3e-4452-822f-ffe48f2ed9fe&share=true)** > > Reports follow aircraft program > Pentagon watchdogs have received at least five > reports of fraud, safety issues, bad parts or > ethics concerns involving President Donald Trump’s Qatari dream jet and Boeing’s Air Force > One replacement program at Port San Antonio. > > Since late 2024, the Defense Department’s > inspector general’s office has logged four > complaints and one disclosure from Boeing Co. > involving problems with the presidential > aircraft programs, according to 90 pages of > newly released records. > > The heavily redacted documents provided to the > San Antonio Express-News reveal previously undisclosed allegations and at least one > criminal investigation potentially involving the presidential jets. > > Pentagon and service IG offices investigate fraud, waste and abuse, but typically do not > discuss ongoing cases or unsubstantiated claims. > > The complaints came from > anonymous sources, including a Boeing employee in Everett, Wash., and a Pentagon > contract analyst in San Antonio. The records do not show whether any of the > allegations were substantiated. > > At least two of the cases appear to be ongoing. Four were referred to Pentagon or Air > Force criminal investigators for review. > > … Details follow here about the specific complaints/problems… > … > Trump has been using the Qatari jet for his travel, including campaigning for > Republican candidates in the midterm elections. The aircraft is expected to go out of > service sometime this fall for more upgrades that Trump has described as getting it > “maxed out.” > > Trump defends accepting the gifted jet, which was valued at $400 million before the > Air Force invested an estimated $400 million in upgrades. The Air Force has said that > funding for the work, which some have estimated to be as much as $1 billion, came > from leftover funds from the Sentinel nuclear missile program. > > “When you’re given gifts, you take ’em, right? When they give you a 747, you say two > words: ‘Thank you,’” he said of the Qatar jet during a rally earlier this month in > Bullhead City, Ariz. > > He told the crowd he had learned that Qataris had “the best of all the 747s” and said > he’d asked the country’s emir if he could borrow the jet before the leader instead > offered it as a gift. Line break weirdness due to copying from a pdf. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9977 "2026-10-29T14:45:28Z")
The head of war strategy and planning was fired? But he did such a fine job regarding Iran! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9978 "2026-10-29T15:04:42Z")
You mean he did a fine job getting run over by that bus? That seems to be the main qualification for high ranking officers these days. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9979 "2026-10-29T15:12:34Z")
Yeah, it seems weird. Like they somehow fired someone that was demonstrably incompetent. So unlike these idiots. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/9980 "2026-10-29T15:19:50Z")
That’s my question - was he actually incompetent? If the boss says “Hey, go attack Iran tomorrow or the day after, it’ll be easy to win!”, it doesn’t really matter who was in charge of strategy or planning. That boss is not letting that person do their job of actually handling strategy or planning properly (in which they would probably say - hey, this isn’t a good idea but if we go in, we shouldn’t do it that way) and just looking to blame somebody for their own personal failings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=498) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=500)