# 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:** 52
**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:** [December 26, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1021 "2025-12-26T19:08:52Z")
That was “Sleazebag”. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1022 "2025-12-26T22:07:47Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > > “Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas! President DJT” > > What is that? Is it a threat? What is he threatening? And if so: against whom? Since there is only one topic of conversation that interests him, I get a pleasant feeling to think he may be unwittingly talking to himself. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1023 "2025-12-26T22:22:43Z")
I envy your optimism. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1024 "2025-12-26T22:27:30Z")
I think he has dying on his mind. At least, it pleases me to think so. ---
**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 26, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1025 "2025-12-26T22:56:39Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Will this finally be the breaking point for elected Republicans? No. If the previous 10,958 atrocities didn’t break them, this one won’t either. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1026 "2025-12-27T01:01:10Z")
Yeah, the reek of desperation of that little rant is comically pathetic. I get the feeling he is in **Full Panic Mode**. He’s in a World of Shit in his mind. If it were anybody else, I’d damn near feel sorry for them. But not this Asshole. ---
**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 27, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1027 "2025-12-27T01:11:00Z")
“WHEN is DOJ going to stop doing that thing that I signed a law ordering them to do?! UNFAIR! SAD!” [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreidjqnd47clpdfziidibghn5z44nq2xsdcsebwpplucoyhpqplhuhy@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreidjqnd47clpdfziidibghn5z44nq2xsdcsebwpplucoyhpqplhuhy@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1028 "2025-12-27T03:20:07Z")
The Democrats can generate a million _more_ pages for a hoax? Damn, it sounds like they have superpowers! Trump is definitely selling the message that you shouldn’t fuck with them or they’ll bury you. This is also about the fifteenth hoax he has fallen for so it also makes him sound like even more of a bitch. ---
**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 27, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1029 "2025-12-27T03:20:08Z")
[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3dq2yyzn4vuzpyaezxr6vtnf/bafkreiatzdjbhnqhoj5bfnirwi3nrh7b3cd7qxxm2nq4fj4lgra24uz44a@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3dq2yyzn4vuzpyaezxr6vtnf/bafkreiatzdjbhnqhoj5bfnirwi3nrh7b3cd7qxxm2nq4fj4lgra24uz44a@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1030 "2025-12-27T03:28:09Z")
ISTR from my history when the Allies were reached with the plan to assassinate Hitler but replied “No! At this point he’s working in our favor!” Even the low-information, narrow-minded base can sense when the line is crossed where weakness is bleating away trying to sound like strength and toughness but isn’t fooling anyone ---
**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:** [December 27, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1031 "2025-12-27T03:38:57Z")
[Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wannabe chalks up five wars he hasn’t stopped.](https://www.aol.com/news/5-wars-trump-started-expanded-180048643.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump came into office [presenting himself](https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1976081153699508480) as a peace president. “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into,” he said in his [inaugural address](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/20/us/trump-inauguration-speech-annotated.html). > > By those standards, his presidency has been a failure. Trump launched [nearly as many airstrikes](https://thecradle.co/articles/peacemaker-trump-beats-bidens-bombing-record-since-return-to-office-report) in five months as former President Joe Biden did in his entire term, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, a nonprofit that monitors wars around the world. And those airstrikes have hit places where the U.S. military was not fighting during Biden’s term, from the Caribbean to Iran. That article lists the following wars: 1. Venezuela 2. Yemen 3. Iran 4. Somalia 5. Nigeria Those are all on him. [Palau has agreed to be one of the felon’s human dumping grounds.](https://www.aol.com/articles/tiny-pacific-nation-75-deportees-225210230.html) > [@](#): > > Palau has struck a [deal with the U.S.](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration) to accept up to 75 deportees from the U.S. in exchange for $7.5 million in foreign aid. > > The agreement will allow “third-country nationals” [who have never been charged](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration/deportation) with a crime to live and work in the Pacific nation, which has a population of about 18,000 people, according to announcements Wednesday from President Surangel Whipps Jr.’s office and the U.S. Embassy in Koror. > > “The United States deeply appreciates Palau’s cooperation in enforcing U.S. immigration laws, which remains a top priority for the Trump administration,” the U.S. Embassy in Koror said in a statement. “In this regard, the United States [granted $7.5 million](https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/foreign-policy/aid) to address the needs of relevant Palau public services.” They’re going to do this with US tax money. Now here’s a wonderful question: if these deportees are so dangerous, so criminal, why is Palau going to let them live and work there instead of simply hosting yet another concentration camp for the felon? [The felon’s flack at what used to be the Kennedy Center is upset that he FA and FO.](https://www.aol.com/articles/kennedy-center-criticizes-musician-canceled-220332851.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Kennedy Center on Friday fiercely criticized a musician’s sudden decision to [cancel a Christmas Eve performance](https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-center-jazz-jam-canceled-e556b53085a483140436cfaa8b6f177f) at the venue days after the White House announced that President Donald Trump’s [name would be added](https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-performing-arts-8b7159067174f3a0070b877c149ff0a7) to the facility. > > “Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” the venue’s president, Richard Grenell, wrote in a [letter](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26442062-redd-letter/) to musician Chuck Redd that was shared with The Associated Press. > > In the letter, Grenell said he would seek $1 million in damages “for this political stunt.” No, you dumbass. Your support of an illegal renaming is the political stunt. And you just got what you deserved for it. [Mister Aesthetic still has plans for the cultural center.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-teases-marble-armrests-kennedy-211936845.html) > [@](#): > > President Trump on Friday previewed another potential change to the Kennedy Center under his watch, posting photos of marble armrests he said could be installed at the performing arts center. > > “Unlike anything ever done or seen before!” he wrote in a [Truth Social post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115787817857959030). A quick Internet search shows marble does, in fact, come in orange, so no doubt it’s been done before. Tacky, after all, isn’t limited to Rip van Simple. But he sure does seem to be working on monopolizing it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1032 "2025-12-27T05:40:08Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > The Democrats can generate a million _more_ pages for a hoax? Damn, it sounds like they have superpowers! The Republicans have no chance. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1033 "2025-12-27T10:09:09Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Methinks the Donald doth protest too much. 🎶Stand by your man Give him two arms to cling to And something warm to come to When nights are cold and lonely Stand by your man And show the world you love him Keep giving all the love you can Stand by your man 🎶 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1034 "2025-12-27T15:47:46Z")
> **[Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name...](https://www.wlbt.com/2025/12/27/kennedy-center-criticizes-musician-who-canceled-performance-after-trump-name-added-building/)** > > The center's president called the decision "classic intolerance" and threatened to seek $1 million in damages. > “Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution.” > > In the letter, Grenell said he would seek $1 million in damages “for this political stunt.” Chuck Redd pulled a boner there, cancelling his performance as a way to petition the government for grievances. It would be different if people had the right to disagree with the government and voice those disagreements publicly. But one mustn’t criticise The Leader. ---
**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 27, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1035 "2025-12-27T18:23:19Z")
Trump merely wanted to “save the national treasure”? (By adding his name to it.) I was unaware that the center was in trouble and required being saved. What a bunch of fucking liars. Every word: a lie. They’ll lie about anything and everything. That’s why they’re a big hit with Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1036 "2025-12-27T21:48:29Z")
So I don’t know if there are any Patrick Boyle fans here. I like his channel, and he’s been doing a number of videos on the Epstein files. At the time linked below in his latest video, he said his videos on the Epstein files have all been demonetized and that at one point his entire channel was demonetized. I find this complicity (see, Bezos and the Post, CBS and 60 Minutes) very upsetting. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GAJf2F1BbRA/maxresdefault.jpg "The Epstein Files are Worse Than You Think!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAJf2F1BbRA&t=2186) ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1037 "2025-12-27T21:52:22Z")
Regarding Grenell seeking damages, I wonder if Redd could claim his arrangement was with the “John F Kennedy” Center, not the “Donald J Trump and John F Kennedy” Center. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1038 "2025-12-27T21:56:12Z")
That was exactly my first thought. ---
**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 27, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1039 "2025-12-27T22:05:51Z")
The name change is illegal in the first place, so I doubt any kind of gotcha ya like that would fly. He’s got a stronger claim that the government is infringing on his First Amendment rights by punishing him for expressing a political opinion. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1040 "2025-12-27T23:08:16Z")
I wonder what the contract has to say about cancellations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=53)