# 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:** 95
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1881 "2026-01-24T09:41:23Z")
Emperor Trump? ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1882 "2026-01-24T13:49:26Z")
Now that Greenland is old news, apparently we’re stirring the pot in Alberta? > **['A natural partner': US treasury secretary weighs in on Alberta separatism](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ylqx0zw4o)** > > Scott Bessent's comments come amid a war of words between Ottawa and Washington. All snark aside, everyone knows this isn’t going to happen, so what is the actual point? I mean, I get that Trump is out of his mind, but I don’t think Bessent is. Flood the zone makes sense on domestic issues, but I really don’t see how causing international incidents advances anyone’s agenda…? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1883 "2026-01-24T14:01:50Z")
I think he is trying to push the idea of “Chairman Trump” through his “Board Of Peace” fiasco. ---
**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 24, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1884 "2026-01-24T14:57:51Z")
My interpretation is that leaving modern of medicine to following Kennedy’s health guidelines is as medically sound leaving the civilized world to follow a penguin into the trackless wastes of an Antarctica night with only a suit jacket to protect yourself from the elements. ---
**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 24, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1885 "2026-01-24T15:03:04Z")
“Chilly Willy, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” ---
**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 24, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1886 "2026-01-24T15:30:46Z")
Kash Patel always has this deer in the headlights look as if at some level he realizes he’s in way over his head. [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzI5MDUxZjMtZWQwMS00MjA5LWE0OWYtNzRmMGMxZTUxYWRmXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzI5MDUxZjMtZWQwMS00MjA5LWE0OWYtNzRmMGMxZTUxYWRmXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg) And while it may be an unfortunate case of the “Other-Race Effect” on my part I can’t help but think of Ravi Patel from Animal Control every time I see him. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRhrf1csnJcMLR7yd1bkGaAUx_ULs-k4emtqQ&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRhrf1csnJcMLR7yd1bkGaAUx_ULs-k4emtqQ&s) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1887 "2026-01-24T16:03:39Z")
I think they’d be content to enslave Latinos instead. ---
**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 24, 2026, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1888 "2026-01-24T16:25:58Z")
Why stop there? “Enslave them all, and let ~~God~~ Steve Miller sort it out!” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1889 "2026-01-24T16:30:36Z")
He’s the one who came up with a unique solution to children with no shoes on their feet, right? (Allegedly that was a mishearing, but the latter day spaced cowboy probably took it to heart nonetheless.) ---
**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:** [January 24, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1890 "2026-01-24T16:49:07Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > He’s the one who came up with a unique solution to children with no shoes on their feet, right? I can imagine the solution, of course; but can you tell me the reference? ---
**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 24, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1891 "2026-01-24T16:58:48Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > It’s probably only a matter of time before they start replacing it with propaganda about how great slavery was and how it should be brought back. And then _doing_ it. Part 1 [started in 2023](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418) (In Florida, natch). Looks like part 2 has hung fire. 🤞 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1892 "2026-01-24T17:34:36Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I can imagine the solution, of course; but can you tell me the reference? In the song _Fly Like an Eagle_ by the Steve Miller _band_ there is a line “Shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet.” Since “shoe” as a verb is not used very often, a lot of people mishear it as the similar-sounding _shoot_. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1893 "2026-01-24T17:44:02Z")
Ah. I was totally off then. ‘The children have no shoes? Cut off their feet!’ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1894 "2026-01-24T18:39:18Z")
Better than what I imagined. I was thinking of the way you shoe a horse. I can just see Steven Miller cheering while someone is nailing pieces of metal into the soles of immigrant children. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1895 "2026-01-24T19:09:44Z")
Or “Shoo the children” - don’t want to see the poors hanging around? ---
**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 24, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1896 "2026-01-24T20:24:23Z")
I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I asked him, “Can I have your shoes?” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1897 "2026-01-24T20:37:02Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > His approval ratings (depending on the research source, and exactly how the question is asked) never really go below the mid-to-high 30s, which suggests that that’s roughly the proportion of the population which is diehard MAGA. So, not that far above the [crazification factor](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crazification_factor). ---
**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 24, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1898 "2026-01-24T22:56:22Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. My favorite version of that: I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1899 "2026-01-25T01:53:38Z")
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That gives you a great head start and they have no shoes. ---
**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 25, 2026, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1900 "2026-01-25T05:29:32Z")
[Thanks to Rip van Simple, calls for World Cup boycott are afoot.](https://www.aol.com/articles/2026-world-cup-boycott-german-172925393.html) > [@](#): > > The [2026 World Cup](https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/2026-world-cup-schedule-group-152414776.html) is just months away as the United States — alongside Canada and Mexico — is preparing to host soccer’s foremost competition. However, German soccer federation executive Oke Göttlich is calling for talks about a boycott amidst U.S. President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/)’s recent actions. > > Trump has stirred some outrage in Europe recently with his insistence on acquiring Greenland, a territory currently owned by Denmark. Trump has further strained relations with Europe as well by threatening to impose [tariffs](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-imposes-tariffs-8-european-130925277.html) on eight European nations in his effort to pursue Greenland. > > “I really wonder when the time will be to think and talk about this [a boycott] concretely,” Göttlich told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper. “For me, that time has definitely come.” He ain’t wrong. [And it looks as though the felon himself will be boycotting a different kind of football.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-vows-skip-super-bowl-164349750.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON – [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) made history last year by [being the first sitting president](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/super-bowl/2025/02/09/donald-trump-super-bowl-president-watch/78218341007/) to attend the Super Bowl. > > This year, he’s skipping the big game, which is set for Feb. 8 in California. > > He [told the New York Post](https://nypost.com/2026/01/24/us-news/trump-tells-the-post-hes-skipping-the-super-bowl-slams-halftime-performers-bad-bunny-and-green-day/) in a Jan. 23 interview that the blockbuster event is “just too far away.” > > But he’s also unhappy about the musical performers, which include noted Trump critics [Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bad-bunny-trump-supporter-super-154902199.html) and the rock band Green Day. > > “I’m anti-them," said the president, though he stressed that’s not his reason for avoiding the game. "I think it’s a terrible choice. **All it does is sow hatred. Terrible."** He’s seems to be boycotting self-awareness, too. [Does your toddler have a favorite toy? America’s very own toddler does.](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-threatens-canada-100-tariffs-142442591.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — [President Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) on Saturday threatened to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America’s northern neighbor went ahead with its [China trade deal](https://apnews.com/article/china-canada-carney-xi-beijing-b71c1b67d3489a8b4058c650152b0cb9), intensifying a feud with [Prime Minister Mark Carney](https://apnews.com/article/carney-canada-davos-trump-eee151f749f35c8b30a9ff4a9525d0be), a rising voice in the West’s pushback to Trump [new world order](https://apnews.com/article/trump-nato-greenland-board-of-peace-diplomacy-39dafe866bab610a18f103622fc7d5fe). > > Trump said in a social media post that if Carney “thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.” Evidently our toddler’s jealous when others don’t ooh and aah while he plays with himself, er with it by himself. > [@](#): > > While Trump has waged a [trade war](https://apnews.com/article/china-canada-trade-ev-trump-aa2904669445a9ea0b56ebe64f611928) over the past year, Canada this month [negotiated a deal](https://apnews.com/article/china-canada-trade-ev-trump-aa2904669445a9ea0b56ebe64f611928) to lower tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in return for lower import taxes on Canadian farm products. This next bit of the article is quite amusing. > [@](#): > > Trump initially had said [that agreement](https://apnews.com/article/china-canada-us-xi-carney-trump-404596761e826bbdc1e0313062902137) was what Carney “should be doing and it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal.” The next sign Rip van Simple should put up at the Executive Mansion is [this one](https://prodimages.everythingneon.com/large/n105-4630-waffle-house-oval-neon-sign.jpg). I bet you think the nation’s health department’s prime responsibility is the health of the nation. [You fool!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-vaccine-panel-head-questions-230425249.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The chair of a U.S. government vaccine advisory panel questioned broad vaccine recommendations for polio and other childhood diseases and said promoting ​individual choice, not public health, is the key aim of the panel, drawing a rebuke ‌on Friday from the nation’s top doctors group. > > Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who was named chair of the Centers for Disease ‌Control and Prevention’s outside Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in December, made the comments in a Thursday interview on the podcast, “Why Should I Trust You?” > > Vaccination against some diseases, like polio, could be reconsidered given advances in medical care, said Milhoan, who joined the committee after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a ⁠longtime anti-vaccine activist, fired all previous ‌members in June. > > “Our sanitation is different, our risk of disease is different. And so those all play into the evaluation of whether this is worthwhile, of ‍taking a risk for a vaccine or not,” he said. We are well and truly screwed. Let the record show why. > [@](#): > > Milhoan said the committee aims to prioritize “not public health, but individual autonomy” and that vaccine ⁠decisions should be made by patients and doctors, not by ​mandate. [Rip van Simple thinks penguins are native to Greenland.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-revives-greenland-fantasy-031138664.html) > [@](#): > > After a week of geopolitical chaos that [appeared to put Greenland to rest](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/real-reason-trump-backed-off-020755327.html), the White House revived President Donald Trump’s fixation with an AI-generated colonial fantasy. > > The image, posted to the White House’s official X account, shows Trump marching across a frozen landscape toward Greenland, accompanied by a penguin inexplicably carrying an American flag. > > The image’s execution appears as confused as the message. The penguin—a creature not found anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, let alone Greenland—seems to leave identical footprints as the president, despite only one of them presumably having webbed feet. C’mon, those aren’t webbed feet footprints left by van Simple. The bone spurs just make them _look like_ webbed feet. [With a convicted fraudster at the top of the administration, it’s not surprising the FBI lies, too.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/woman-ai-altered-image-posted-022943204.html) > [@](#): > > The woman whose photograph was digitally altered by the White House said she was told by the FBI agent recording her that the footage would not be used on social media. > > **Nekima Levy Armstrong** joined CNN host **Erin Burnett** to discuss her [arrest](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/just-pam-bondi-announces-arrests-145147219.html) for organizing an anti-ICE [protest](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/watch-don-lemon-captures-anti-213247985.html) at the Cities Church in St. Paul last week. > > Armstrong had been [released](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judges-deny-doj-motions-keep-013346581.html) from custody mere hours before speaking to Burnett, after federal judges found that the prosecutors had failed to establish that Armstrong and other organizers arrested were a flight risk or continued detention was otherwise legally warranted. [Massive winter storm hitting most of the country, so what’s the priority for the Second Felonial Era?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-tells-fema-not-160000656.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to avoid using the word “ice” in winter weather warnings amid the ongoing controversy surrounding [federal ICE agents](https://people.com/ice-agent-filmed-warning-gonna-come-back-for-your-family-11891398). > > The informal directive was issued during a meeting at FEMA on Thursday, Jan. 22, according to two sources familiar with the matter, per [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/politics/fema-ice-storm-memes). > > **Homeland Security, which oversees both FEMA and ICE, is concerned that use of the word could cause confusion and even online mockery, per the outlet.** > > Homeland Security officials said that phrases like “watch out for ice” could be misunderstood or even turned into memes by the general public, which DHS said would undermine efforts to keep people safe from severe weather, the sources told CNN. > > [FEMA](https://people.com/fema-cuts-emergency-training-head-warns-staff-dont-get-in-my-way-11733409) staff have instead been urged to use terms like “freezing rain” in their public messaging, the sources said. Are they concerned about the safety of the public? Of course not. They’re afraid of being mocked. Maybe someone should send them a box of Sharpies to communicate about severe weather. [There’s a trending new app in Denmark thanks to America’s toddler.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/danish-app-helping-consumers-boycott-104300804.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump’s push to bring Greenland under U.S. control has triggered a backlash in Denmark, boosting user numbers for a U.S. product boycott app by 1,400%. > > As Trump revived the idea of acquiring Greenland, Made O’Meter, available on iOS, Android, and desktop, joined the list of the most downloaded apps in Denmark, with an estimated 11,000 downloads across iOS and Android in January, according to mobile analytics and intelligence platform Appfigures. > > For context, the Denmark iOS App Store sees about 200,000 downloads per day, Appfigures notes. > > Made O’Meter allows users to scan everyday products from cotton swabs to cereal boxes and uses AI to identify whether the product is linked to a U.S. company. If the product is tied to the U.S., the app will give you more details about the company that produced it and where it was manufactured. It will also suggest alternative products with no U.S. link. > > The app’s programmer, Ian Rosenfeldt, said he saw a huge spike in users over the past several days, with users uploading just over 20,000 photos to the browser version of Made O’Meter, with similar upload numbers for the app’s iOS and Android versions, as Trump resurrected the issue of securing Greenland for the U.S. this week. He should be proud. Those are great numbers, the best numbers, numbers nobody’s ever seen before. And all because of him. Hooray! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=96)