# 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:** 74
**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:** [January 12, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1461 "2026-01-12T20:32:03Z")
> [@solost](#): > > At the very least, I’m surprised he hasn’t yet replaced the plaque of the Emma Lazarus poem with one of his plaques full of bullshit misinformation, like those plaques that were recently added to the ‘Hall of Presidents’. > … I can’t find it offhand, but I recall an article in _MAD_ — I think it was about the John Birch Society — which ended with a chorus of WASP men singing (the following is from memory): > “Give me your tired, your poor, > Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, > The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. > Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, > **And we’ll send 'em right back,** > **Send 'em right back,** > **Send 'em right back to yoooo-uuuuu!**" Seems about right. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1462 "2026-01-12T20:35:13Z")
MAD also ran a more recent article where an anti-immigration advocate suggesting replacing the whole poem with the words “Buzz Off!” (I assume “Buzz” was an editorial decision…) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1463 "2026-01-12T22:22:40Z")
I remember that comic! The Bircher was being interviewed by “Bob Ross”, and was obsessed with figuring out what Ross’s “real name” was: Rossovich? Rossosovsky? Rossini? It was the first thing I ever learned about the JBS. Some people are inculcated with their values; I ended up innoculated against them. Here’s to MAD, putting education amid the satire for decades! ---
**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:** [January 12, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1464 "2026-01-12T22:48:58Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Here’s to MAD, putting education amid the satire for decades! I attribute my failure to follow my parents into Republican Party registration to my discovery of old copies of MAD at an impressionable age. (I can close my eyes and see the used-book store at which I bought them…) > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I love this man (Schafer), and wish to subscribe to his newsletter. I’m with you. That message was a thing of beauty. “Your brand of ‘freedom’ — the freedom to die of preventable 19th-century diseases — is an export we have no interest in buying”—epic! > [@Gyrate](#): > > See also: Kristi Noem’s new slogan “One of Ours, All of Yours”. This should appear in Noem’s articles of impeachment. By the way, I heard something today that I should have guessed earlier: that Noem is basically a figurehead. Her reported romantic partner Corey Lewandowski is supposedly the actual decision maker at Homeland Security. It wouldn’t be surprising. (But KN should be impeached anyway.) ---
**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:** [January 13, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1465 "2026-01-13T00:59:53Z")
Remember the “double-tap” boat murder in September that was unquestionably a war crime? Turns out it just got even more unquestionable- the attack was committed under false flag using a plane disguised as a civilian airliner. [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attacks-law.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attacks-law.html) We’re gonna have to erect a gallows on the White House lawn at the rate this admin is piling up crimes against humanity. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2026, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1466 "2026-01-13T01:09:31Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > But KN should be impeached anyway. _Pour encourager les autres_ > **If you need it** > > [pour encourager les autres - Wiktionary, the free dictionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pour_encourager_les_autres) ---
**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:** [January 13, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1467 "2026-01-13T02:46:33Z")
I know a few Danes (not from Greenlamd) and they tend to be very pragmatic. Each would accept the cash and not change their minds at all. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2026, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1468 "2026-01-13T06:17:06Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > The language immediately drew damning comparisons to the Nazi Germany slogan “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer,” which translates to “One People, One Realm, One Leader,” as even noted by X’s AI chatbot Grok: > > It _CAN’T_ be a reprise of an old Nazi classic. > > It doesn’t rhyme. > > [Trump Labor Department's Chilling Slogan Draws Damning Comparisons | HuffPost Latest News](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/labor-department-post-slammed_n_696499cae4b0db619f4af95e?origin=home-latest-news-unit) It does if you say it the way the felon and his fellow fiends do. > [@](#): > > One Homeland mwahaha > One People mwahaha > One Heritage mwahaha Yes, I capitalized those nouns on purpose. That’s the way it’s done in the original German, after all. [Another prosecutor with ethics is fired.](https://www.aol.com/articles/federal-prosecutor-virginia-fired-unwilling-225940526.html) > [@](#): > > A senior Justice Department prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia has been fired over his unwillingness to take on the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. > > Robert McBride, an experienced prosecutor, was recently brought to the office from Kentucky to serve as the top deputy to U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan. > > Halligan’s role as the top prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia has been disputed after the case against Comey was dismissed last November. [The felon has started his attack on New York City.](https://www.aol.com/articles/mamdani-outraged-york-city-council-010100640.html) > [@](#): > > A New York City Council employee was detained during a “routine” immigration appointment on Long Island on Monday, according to city officials, who called the incident an “egregious government overreach.” > > Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he is “outraged” by the worker’s arrest. > > “This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values,” he said in a statement on X. “I am calling for his immediate release and will continue to monitor the situation.” And just an FYI: > [@](#): > > The employee was detained by federal immigration officials during an appointment in Bethpage in Nassau County earlier Monday, according to NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin. > > The speaker said the employee has legal authorization to remain in the country until October. [Not that anyone here believes Rip van Simple’s promises.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-flat-forgets-crucial-190334820.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump seemed to briefly power down when confronted by reporters over whether voters could still expect him to deliver on one of his boldest promises to date. > > “I did do that?” the MAGA president asked in [newly released audio](https://x.com/travisakers/status/2010700847617888753), recorded during a sitdown with The New York Times last week, in response to questions about when Americans might expect the $2,000 checks he said they would receive from revenues raised by his flagship tariff policy. > > “When did I do that?” he added. > Trump did that at 1:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 9, 2025. “People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!” he wrote in a Truth Social post, adding that his policies have now seen the U.S. “taking in Trillions of Dollars,” and that “a dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.” [Only the best legal minds, right?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-answers-simple-bizarre-103825631.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump gave a bizarre response to a simple question about what it would mean for the ICE agent who killed a woman in Minneapolis to be immune from prosecution. > > Members of the administration have [falsely claimed](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cnn-legal-guru-uses-vance-172306015.html) that ICE agents enjoy “absolute immunity” after Wednesday’s killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen who was shot in the face while [trying to drive away](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/video-blows-ice-version-deadly-213253636.html) from the scene of an ICE protest. > > On Sunday, a reporter aboard Air Force One asked Trump, 79, how the administration defined “absolute immunity,” and what it would mean for ICE agents. And here’s van Simple’s erudition in response. > [@](#): > > “Everyone’s seen it,” Trump replied. “A woman who’s very violent. She’s a, you know, very radical person. Very sad what happened. Her friend was very radical.” > > Asked again how he would define absolute immunity, the president offered an even more muddled reply. > > “Well, I’m going to let the people define it. But immunity, you know what immunity, what knows means as well as I do,” he said. That’s not even English! [Hater of Humans Hegseth walks back his genius idea to improve basic military training.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-clarifies-hegseth-putting-hands-232824495.html) > [@](#): > > The Defense Department has added more context to provocative comments [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hazing-bullying-reports-hegseth-pushes-160328006.html) made about aggressive and even physical troop training in his address to the military’s general officers and admirals in late September. > > In a letter responding to queries from a coalition of lawmakers, Anthony Tata, the Pentagon’s undersecretary for personnel and readiness said that “hazing and bullying have no place in the U.S. military,” despite comments from Hegseth that appeared to blur the lines on acceptable training. & > [@](#): > > In his response letter, Tata put guardrails around the use of physical contact with military recruits, saying it would be used to ensure the safety of personnel. Yeah, right. Here’s a United States Army Basic Combat Training expression for you, Tata: Your blather is a No Go. [Here’s the real reason Rip van Simple wants Greenland.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-says-wants-ownership-000813790.html) > [@](#): > > During a two-hour sit-down with multiple _Times_ reporters on Jan. 7, Trump was questioned about why he won’t just send more American troops to Greenland — which is legal under a Cold War–era agreement — if his goal is to fend off foreign threats. The president replied by saying that he won’t feel comfortable unless he owns the island. & > [@](#): > > “Why is ownership important here?” _Times_ national security correspondent David E. Sanger asked. > > “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success,” Trump, 79, replied. “I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document, that you can have a base.” Notice he believes he owns the land, not the country. How soon before he starts selling it off to his cohorts? This clown has zero concern for anyone other than himself. He has zero respect for the rule of law. None at all for the constitution. And he is rapidly sending the United States of America into a situation where it has less allies than North Korea does. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2026, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1469 "2026-01-13T06:50:00Z")
And be proud of it. “No country has to stand more on its own than ours does!” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1470 "2026-01-13T06:53:06Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document Gold, silver, copper… ---
**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:** [January 13, 2026, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1471 "2026-01-13T06:54:47Z")
Greg Bovino apparently needs a five-man security detail to protect him while he takes a piss in a Target bathroom, though the refreshing part of this video is the actual customers of said Target heckling the shit out of him. > **[Dom Ervolina (@dominicervolina.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/dominicervolina.com/post/3mcblq2yiqs2i)** > > This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are signed in. This is how we defeat fascism - with massive public mockery. Show them that we’re not afraid of them and we know they’re scared of us. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1472 "2026-01-13T07:10:43Z")
Shortly before that Target incident, ICE kidnapped 2 people, at least 1 a US citizen, a 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at the Richfield, MN Target, then dumped him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot. The video is horrifying. > **[Mickey Kuhns (@mickeykuhns.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/mickeykuhns.bsky.social/post/3mcafsjitlk2z)** > > ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬 ---
**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:** [January 13, 2026, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1473 "2026-01-13T07:26:03Z")
What’s the complaint? That’s a holding area, right? After all, it’s named Target. Yes, that’s sarcasm. In _A Piece of the Action_, the Iotians based their government on the mobs of 1920s Chicago, but the key thing about that was they operated competently and mostly ethically. We do not see that with this criminal conspiracy destroying the United States and everything else it decides to touch. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1474 "2026-01-13T12:47:32Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > > Or drunk people at parties. > > A) They claim he doesn’t drink That’s actually a pretty well supported claim. Trump is a long-term teetotaler. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > This is priceless: Is it ever! > “We are the nation of Koch and Virchow and have spent 140 years using state power to defeat disease through science AND solidarity. You, meanwhile, preside over a system where insulin is rationed like gold dust and medical bankruptcy is a national pastime. ​The fact that you think you have the moral standing to lecture the country that invented modern medicine on ‘medical decisions’ is not just arrogant; it is grotesque! ​Keep your chaos on your side of the Atlantic. Mind your own business.” Well worth repeating! ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1475 "2026-01-13T12:55:55Z")
I don’t have a Bluesky account, but this article wasn’t paywalled for me _and_ contains what I assume is the same video: [**Border Patrol chief hounded at Target during bathroom break**](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/border-patrol-chief-hounded-at-target-during-bathroom-break/ar-AA1U0Mjs) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1476 "2026-01-13T12:58:51Z")
Any link to this video (or news about it) that isn’t Bluesky? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1477 "2026-01-13T13:16:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success,” Trump, 79, replied. “I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document, that you can have a base.” Now apply that concept of ownership to the young women trafficked by Epstein, and consider Trump’s actions with something he owns rather than rents. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1478 "2026-01-13T13:29:05Z")
> [@Trump](#): > > “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success,” So the foreign policy of the world’s most powerful (at least militarily) country is based on the psychological needs of an old, senile, intellectually incurious even at the best of times, anti-intellectual man. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1479 "2026-01-13T13:32:45Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Any link to this video (or news about it) that isn’t Bluesky? Thanks I googled “ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot” and got a lot of hits, many from Instagram and other apps. Here’s one: > **[Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qauntn/ice_kidnap_17yearold_us_citizen_working_at_target/)** CBS News report: > **[Local community members are crying for Target to stand with Minnesotans](https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/local-community-members-are-crying-for-target-to-stand-with-minnesotans/)** > > Community members in Richfield Minnesota are calling on Target Corporate to do more after ICE detained two employees this week. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1480 "2026-01-13T13:36:23Z")
What in the HELL is that suposed to mean? The man has gone completely nuts. I question if he was ever sane. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=73) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=75)