# 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:** 88
**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:** [January 20, 2026, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1741 "2026-01-20T23:21:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > By tomorrow we’ll be hearing about how the Deep State planted that paperclip as an assassination attempt. Paperclipgate. * * * > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Therefore should I mail a binder clip to the WH I will be accused of terrorism and if I am caught carrying one in my pocket I will be shot. If you’re lucky. If you’re not lucky, you’ll be sent to a prison in El Salvador. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1742 "2026-01-20T23:28:12Z")
[![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d2/43/88/d24388fb35d2420f2153db0d15a7ba7d.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d2/43/88/d24388fb35d2420f2153db0d15a7ba7d.jpg) ---
**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:** [January 20, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1743 "2026-01-20T23:28:59Z")
I have to wonder how many folks are going to show up at work saying it makes you wonder and tell stories about their cousin or uncle who died from a paperclip injury so it takes a manly man to use them ---
**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 20, 2026, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1744 "2026-01-20T23:58:36Z")
Trump’s going to have to extort a Purple Heart from a wounded warfighter – by threatening to rendition the warfighter’s family to CECOT – for the mortal Office Supply Wound that he suffered in the line of duty. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1745 "2026-01-21T00:50:39Z")
Trump walking a guest through his trophy room: “Here’s someone’s Purple Heart, here’s someone else’s Nobel prize…” ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1746 "2026-01-21T01:35:27Z")
[He’s already got the Purple Heart](https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-purple-heart-226565). I wonder if the guy who gave it to him regrets it now. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2026, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1747 "2026-01-21T01:42:46Z")
Sure, he had a weird posture for most of it, and he has mostly stopped playing the air accordion. So he truly believes the fund/whatever that Alfred Nobel, the inventor of TNT, is now in control of the Norwegian government? Also (in the Q & A) people “look” Norwegian. My father was born in Norway, and my mom in Ireland, yet I was born in the great “melting pot” of the USA. Nobody has told me I do or don’t look like one or the other. And what was that about a Peace Council (or something that Hegseth no doubt leads) that apparently ranks with the United Nations, if only they could get their shit together? I truly expected him to bust on rotten Denmark and carry through with his “idiot” castigations against Keir Starmer. What a wimp [trump]. And if KCIII goes to the USA to celebrate 250 years of July 4ths, I am out of the UK so long as my wife can accompany me. There is NATO West and NATO East. trump has made clear that only those changes while he was around matter, and he has no compunction to follow Article 5. NORAD and Canada make the USA’s declaration as World Leader and trump as emperor difficult, yet that can be unwound by 6 star Hegseth, What was the point of opening with ~~Wisconsin~~ Minnesota baddies? One after another. That damn Biden, inviting them in for murder and domestic violence. He listens to Congress when they say what he wants to hear. This man is batshit crazy. 66% is hard to arrive at, yet I’m giving most of the Repub senators (not Lindsey, who Trump clearly has blackmail) a possibility of voting yes. Everything that was high, he has lowered. Everything low, he has raised to epic proportions. He is insane. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1748 "2026-01-21T01:57:25Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > it makes you wonder And he’s buying a stairway to heaven ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1749 "2026-01-21T03:09:13Z")
Just watched part of the speech and NBC breaks away because all reporters are confused as to what’s going on. Then they go back when he has the big book, many almost blank pages, that list the administration’s accomplishments. “No one’s ever done this before.” Then he just tosses it on the floor!! 😃 SO priceless! Go forward 12 seconds if it’s to there. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cO5vzIvcgw0/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump touts 'book of accomplishments' before abruptly tossing it to the floor") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO5vzIvcgw0) ---
**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:** [January 21, 2026, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1750 "2026-01-21T03:10:33Z")
“We interrupt this broadcast for a special report from the White House, where President Trump is addressing the media. We go live now where the president has just begun his comments…” [![](https://i.imgflip.com/ahx3me.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/ahx3me.jpg) “We now return you to your normally scheduled programming. Sorry about 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:** [January 21, 2026, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1751 "2026-01-21T03:53:15Z")
Sundown, you better take care… “I have great executive orders. Like, water coming out of a sink. The water wouldn’t come out. They had all sorts of restrictions. I took them off. Straws. They don’t have to be paper anymore. I’d like to have all that confirmed.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcvpg3knv32d)** > > Q: What goals do you have for '26 in Congress for your agenda? > > TRUMP: I have great executive orders. Like, water coming out of a sink. The water wouldn't come out. They had all sorts of restrictions. I took them off. Straws. They don't have to be... "In a way I was the hunted. And now I’m more of the hunter, I must tell you. These are bad people, these are sick people. This is more pleasurable.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcvqde64xg2q)** > > Trump on difference between his first and second terms: "In a way I was the hunted. And now I'm more of the hunter, I must tell you. These are bad people, these are sick people. This is more pleasurable." “I can do some things on the internet that are pretty impactful.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcvqasqsie2r)** > > PAVLICH: Dennis Coyle has been taken hostage by the Taliban for almost a year. What are you doing to get him home? > > TRUMP: Well if you give me the name? > > > P: Dennis Coyle > > TRUMP: Ok. You give me some information, I can take care of that. I can do... “It’s got a horrible governor, it’s got horrible people. This Ilhan Omaa [sic] is horrible." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcvoue2g2n2y)** > > Trump on Minnesota: "It's got a horrible governor, it's got horrible people. This Ilhan Omaa \[sic\] is horrible." “We’re gonna have a dome over the country.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcvp7tpefb2h)** > > Trump: "We're building the Golden Dome. We're gonna have a dome over the country ... having Greenland makes it a much more effective Golden Dome." ---
**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 21, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1752 "2026-01-21T04:06:34Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Trump walking a guest through his trophy room: > “Here’s someone’s Purple Heart, here’s someone else’s Nobel prize…” “Here’s the Man of the Year cover I faked up…” > [@Coriolanus](#): > > he has mostly stopped playing the air accordion That’s because his new dance is the one where he looks like he’s jerking off two guys at the same time. > [@Coriolanus](#): > > And what was that about a Peace Council (or something that Hegseth no doubt leads) that apparently ranks with the United Nations, if only they could get their shit together? If I recall correctly, it’s Rip van Simple himself in charge of that brand new vanity project. [Evidently we don’t need a Fourth Amendment.](https://www.aol.com/articles/ice-broke-home-dragged-barely-155927382.html) > [@](#): > > SAINT PAUL, Minnesota ‒ A Minnesota man told Reuters he felt fear, shame and desperation after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs. > > ChongLy Thao, 56, a naturalized U.S. citizen who goes by the name Scott, was returned home hours later on Sunday, Jan. 18, without explanation or apology, he said. > > “I was praying. I was like, God, please help me, I didn’t do anything wrong. Why do they do this to me? Without my clothes on,” Thao, a Hmong man born in Laos, told Reuters from his home on Monday, Jan. 19, while neighbors were at work fixing his broken door. > > Pictures of the incident showing Thao barely clothed and covered in a blanket taken by a Reuters photographer and bystanders spread on social media, further fueling concern that federal law enforcement officers were exceeding their authority as part of President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/)’s immigration crackdown, which has seen some 3,000 officers deployed in the Minneapolis area. > > A statement published by the family called the incident “unnecessary, degrading, and deeply traumatizing.” The highest temperature in Saint Paul on Sunday was 14 degrees Fahrenheit. [Yet another pardoned Capitol rioter commits yet another crime.](https://www.aol.com/articles/pardoned-capitol-rioter-tried-bribe-204201025.html) > [@](#): > > A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for storming the Capitol was arrested on child molestation charges, according to Florida officials, who said he tried to use an anticipated Jan. 6 payout to silence the victim. > > Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, was arrested in Tennessee in August and extradited to Florida on charges of lewd/lascivious molestation, lewd/lascivious exhibition and transmission of material harmful to a minor. > > His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. > > [The Intercept](https://theintercept.com/2025/11/17/pardoned-jan-6-child-abuse-molestation-andrew-paul-johnson/)first reported the charges. > > Johnson was among the [roughly 1,500 people Trump pardoned this year](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-set-pardon-defendants-stormed-capitol-jan-6-2021-rcna187735) in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. > > The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office began investigating him in July after it received a call about two juveniles who had allegedly fallen victim “to lewd and lascivious acts over a many-month span,” according to an arrest affidavit. & > [@](#): > > The sheriff’s office said in the affidavit that Discord messages showed Johnson sneaking to the child’s home to take him food and hang out with him. He also told the child that “since he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6’er’ … that he would be putting him in his ‘will’ to take any money he had left over,” according to the affidavit. Of course Rip van Simple pardoned him. He’s going exactly by van Simple’s playbook. But there’s a minor change: instead of _in two weeks_, he’s gone with _you’e in my will_. [Are you retired? Then, you should own an even dozen houses, assuming you’re normal.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/one-thing-trumps-treasury-secretary-220204492.html) (I removed the formatting for readability.) > [@](#): > > Earlier today, Treasury Secretary [Scott Bessent](https://thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-scott-bessent-ripped-for-gibberish-about-retirees-buying-12-homes/), who is also a [multimillionaire](https://www.yahoo.com/news/scott-bessent-heres-gay-billionaire-130658422.html), casually implied that retirees owning 5, 10, or even 12 homes is a normal, relatable experience. These idiots are not only criminals, they’re criminally out of touch with reality. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1753 "2026-01-21T04:28:02Z")
Trump was on the way to Davos when Air Force One had some minor electrical issues and had to turn back to D.C. The back up plane will be readied to make the flight. It’s a good bet Trump is pissed as shit about this. Somebody is going to have a fun time cleaning up all the ketchup stains. [Trump’s plane lands safely after ‘minor electrical issue,’ Davos trip to continue | Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-plane-turns-around-due-minor-electrical-issue-white-house-says-2026-01-21/) ---
**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 21, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1754 "2026-01-21T04:45:38Z")
I suppose “we had to fire up the AED” could be considered a minor electrical issue. Or maybe someone got it through his skull that he’s going to be booed relentlessly at Dave’s and he’s chickening out as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1755 "2026-01-21T04:45:49Z")
I’m excited to hear highlights from his idiocy in Darvos. More embarrassing? Just as embarrassing? ---
**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:** [January 21, 2026, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1756 "2026-01-21T05:02:07Z")
I expect extremely embarrassing, but unfortunately mitigated by large amounts of fawning by foreign leaders who feel the best way to keep the monkey from blasting off his machine gun is to flatter him relentlessly. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1757 "2026-01-21T07:16:44Z")
It looks like he’s been using embassy staff to try to intimidate people in foreign countries too. ( In French, but subtitled ) [https://mastodon.nl/system/media\_attachments/files/115/927/136/524/092/429/original/d99c847bd15a786d.mp4](https://mastodon.nl/system/media_attachments/files/115/927/136/524/092/429/original/d99c847bd15a786d.mp4) ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1758 "2026-01-21T07:53:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Yet another pardoned Capitol rioter commits yet another crime.](https://www.aol.com/articles/pardoned-capitol-rioter-tried-bribe-204201025.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for storming the Capitol was arrested on child molestation charges, according to Florida officials, who said he tried to use an anticipated Jan. 6 payout to silence the victim. > > > > Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, was arrested in Tennessee in August and extradited to Florida on charges of lewd/lascivious molestation, lewd/lascivious exhibition and transmission of material harmful to a minor. > > > > His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. > > > > [The Intercept](https://theintercept.com/2025/11/17/pardoned-jan-6-child-abuse-molestation-andrew-paul-johnson/)first reported the charges. > > > > Johnson was among the [roughly 1,500 people Trump pardoned this year](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-set-pardon-defendants-stormed-capitol-jan-6-2021-rcna187735) in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. > > > > The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office began investigating him in July after it received a call about two juveniles who had allegedly fallen victim “to lewd and lascivious acts over a many-month span,” according to an arrest affidavit. > > & > > > [@](#): > > > > The sheriff’s office said in the affidavit that Discord messages showed Johnson sneaking to the child’s home to take him food and hang out with him. He also told the child that “since he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6’er’ … that he would be putting him in his ‘will’ to take any money he had left over,” according to the affidavit. If the Democrats were smart, they would take cases like this and try to do a Willie Horton. Run ads with the scuzziest picture you can find of this scumbag and question why Trump is pardoning pedos. ---
**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 21, 2026, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1759 "2026-01-21T08:37:51Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Run ads with the scuzziest picture you can find Every picture I’ve seen of those traitors _is_ scuzzy. ---
**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 21, 2026, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1760 "2026-01-21T08:45:49Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > If the Democrats were smart, they would take cases like this and try to do a Willie Horton. Run ads with the scuzziest picture you can find of this scumbag and question why Trump is pardoning pedos. Best I can do is Chuck Schumer making snide comments about the price of eggs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=87) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=89)