# 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:** 98
**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 26, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1941 "2026-01-26T16:10:37Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Dem strategists should be focused on these guys. Nah, those guys almost never vote for Dems. When those “center-right” (which would have been considered solidly right back in the Bush years or earlier) Republican voters don’t like what they see, they don’t vote for somebody else, they simply don’t vote at all. So, sure, make sure they know how bad things are but don’t waste too much time or resources actively trying win their votes. That’s been a losing proposition for several election cycles now at the national level. To the extent they should be targeted, it’s at the local level where party affiliation still matters a great deal but to a lesser extent. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1942 "2026-01-26T17:28:53Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > So they hold their noses and vote for Trump, I could imagine that they might not even form that much of an opinion. It COULD be just that they think, _“I ALWAYS vote R. For whatever reason, I think ANY R will be better than ANY D.”_ And they don’t go beyond that. Might not be able to tell you much of anything about the candidates. I might be similar - tho I DO make some effort to learn something about candidates. It would take a pretty off-the-rails Dem candidate to get me to pull the level for just about any R. Could happen, but would have to be pretty extreme. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > don’t waste too much time or resources actively trying win their votes. I suspect that is accurate. But, even if a number of them manage to hear enough about Trump to make them stay home, that would be a positive. ---
**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 26, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1943 "2026-01-26T17:35:26Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > I suspect that is accurate. But, even if a number of them manage to hear enough about Trump to make them stay home, that would be a positive. Sure, don’t write them off entirely, but also don’t spend a lot of money trying to win them over, either. It’s a tricky balancing act. You don’t want to admit you want them not to participate in an election but between the bad options, you hope they opt out rather than support outright fascists. The world in which the scales fall fro their eyes and they come to the side of the angels doesn’t seem to exist. What we saw from the last election is that turnout among supporters is more important - Trump’s turnout did not falloff as much compared to 2020 vs how many 2020 Biden voters just didn’t bother to come out for Harris in 2024. There were some folks switching, of course, but it seemed predominantly to be about enthusiasm. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1944 "2026-01-26T17:49:14Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > When those “center-right” (which would have been considered solidly right back in the Bush years or earlier) Republican voters don’t like what they see, they don’t vote for somebody else, they simply don’t vote at all. Fair point, but a normally reliable GOP vote who abstains is still a win. I think that was the reaction in 2020, when the suburban women famously stampeded away from Trump. Sure, they normally voted Republican, but they did NOT sign up for children in cages. That bloc did migrate to Biden, though your point stands. Some probably just stayed home. So, a smart Dem strategy, ISTM, would be to flood the zone with appalling images (Minnesota shootings, sobbing children being dragged away by ICE, tear gassing peaceful protesters, etc.). The MAGAs will of course applaud. But category 4 Trump voters may just decide “I didn’t sign up for this.” ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1945 "2026-01-26T17:58:13Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > I might be similar - tho I DO make some effort to learn something about candidates. It would take a pretty off-the-rails Dem candidate to get me to pull the level for just about any R. Could happen, but would have to be pretty extreme. This is me. It would take a pretty off the rails D for me to vote R. In fact, I can’t imagine anything a D could do, maybe if they came straight out and said they wanted to open a basement pizza place so they could traffic kids. In a way, I suppose I should thank the Republicans for making elections so easy. I only have to put in thought for the Democratic primaries. ---
**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 26, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1946 "2026-01-26T18:25:36Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > _Finally, we have the “Reluctant Right” (20 percent). Members of this group, unlike the other three, are not necessarily part of Trump’s base; they voted for him, but have ambivalent feelings toward him. Only half identify as Republicans, and many picked Trump because he seemed “less bad” than the alternative._ > > THIS, I would like more explanation of. Does “less bad” mean “less female” or “less non-white”? Does “ambivalent feelings” mean they don’t care who is President? Just flipped a coin? I suspect some of them are along the lines of anti-abortion hardliners who see the Democrats as supporting the murder of babies. And similar niche demographics. Not saying that’s all of them, but while bigotry is a factor it’s not the only one. ---
**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 26, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1947 "2026-01-26T19:09:42Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > So, a smart Dem strategy, ISTM, would be to flood the zone with appalling images (Minnesota shootings, sobbing children being dragged away by ICE, tear gassing peaceful protesters, etc.). The MAGAs will of course applaud. Along with _This is not normal for America_. Yes, the MAGAts will applaud but they’re a lost cause. As I told one conservative, “It is not the Democrats who turned political opponents into political enemies. When they start to hit back you have only yourself to blame.” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1948 "2026-01-26T19:21:50Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > I might be similar - tho I DO make some effort to learn something about candidates. It would take a pretty off-the-rails Dem candidate to get me to pull the level for just about any R. Could happen, but would have to be pretty extreme. I never would; the Republicans as a whole are a problem, not just any individual. As many have pointed out, Trump is more of a symptom than the cause. And the Democrats are far more willing to hold their members accountable. As opposed to what we see with Trump, where he’s been consistently allowed to run wild. Simply put, I’d vote for a Democrat who was a literal demon before I would for any Republican, because no matter how vile or crazy the Democrat is he or she simply won’t be _allowed_ to do as much damage as the Republican. A Democrat who tried to act like Trump would have been stopped cold and impeached. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1949 "2026-01-26T19:31:44Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > This is me. It would take a pretty off the rails D for me to vote R. In fact, I can’t imagine anything a D could do, maybe if they came straight out and said they wanted to open a basement pizza place so they could traffic kids. I think the difference is, if such a Democrat showed up, they’d lose in the primaries, so you’ll most likely never face such a dilemma in a general election. But the Republicans (and people who want to be like them, like the current Conservative Party in Canada) rarely if ever turn on their own just for being crazy or deplorable. They’ll look at two nominations for a candidacy, and pretty consistently choose the worse one. ---
**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 26, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1950 "2026-01-26T19:52:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “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. NB-not Monty’s words, but a quote of a news article I read somewhere that the polio epidemics in the 1950’s were at least partially due to improve sanitation and cleanliness. The virus was (is?) common in the environment, but not particularly dangerous to babies/small children. They would be exposed, get a little sick, and be immunized going forward. Polio is apparently very dangerous to teens/young adults. Growing up in clean, sanitary homes they didn’t develop resistance. Then when exposed to the virus, they got very sick and died or were disabled. ---
**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 26, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1951 "2026-01-26T20:10:42Z")
What the what? Tell that to FDR who didn’t even make it to the 1950s. The majority of cases, many severe, were in kids who hadn’t reached their teen years yet. To the extent improved sanitation made a difference, it was to limit exposure to the virus in the first place, not to build resistance (see also: current polio outbreaks not just in the US but abroad). This ‘resistance’ thing sounds adjacent to some anti-vax talking points about how it was improved sanitation, not vaccines, that led to the near eradication of the disease. ---
**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 26, 2026, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1952 "2026-01-26T20:22:46Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > People who were mad about potential 6 figure grift by Hunter Biden seem to not care about 9-10 figure grifts for some reason. _Republicans_ who were mad. “People” is too broad a term. ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1953 "2026-01-26T21:17:25Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > This ‘resistance’ thing sounds adjacent to some anti-vax talking points about how it was improved sanitation, not vaccines, that led to the near eradication of the disease. You are correct that improved sanitation didn’t lead to the near eradication of the disease. It was widespread vaccination. I’m from a generation whose parents always had that fear hanging over them, that their kids would come down with it. They leapt at the chance to have us vaccinated. However the role of better sanitation was, ironically, to worsen outcomes of many polio infections. For whatever reason, younger children who were infected were less likely to have bad outcomes. Something like 70% of infections among infants have no signs or symptoms. After exposure they have resistance. For many, better sanitation (Polio is spread through feces.) didn’t totally prevent exposure; it delayed it till an older age when the outcome was devastating. From the [polio chapter](https://www.cdc.gov/pinkbook/hcp/table-of-contents/chapter-18-poliomyelitis.html) of a CDC document: “_In immediate prevaccine era, improved sanitation resulted in less frequent exposure and increased age of primary infection, resulting in large epidemics with high death count_.” However, anyone who thinks that this means vaccines should be abandoned in favor of “natural immunity” is an evil moron who kills children. The various polio vaccines were an incredible success story, and any policies that reduce vaccination rates, will, in the end, produce untold misery and hardship. I’ve given up hope that the country can be convinced of this; now all I hope for is that future generations will have an accurate idea of whom to blame for the disaster. ---
**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 26, 2026, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1954 "2026-01-26T21:25:47Z")
That’s rather interesting. TIL But yeah, improved resistance (for some) by exposure is still not a great thing. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1955 "2026-01-26T21:32:53Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > But yeah, improved resistance (for some) by exposure is still not a great thing. You just have to make it safe. After all, that’s what vaccines _are;_ exposing somebody to the threat of a disease which is too disabled or incomplete to actually harm them. ---
**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 27, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1956 "2026-01-27T02:34:05Z")
The former head of FIFA is calling for a World Cup boycott now. > **[Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/26/sepp-blatter-suggests-fans-should-not-travel-to-us-for-world-cup)** > > The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the 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 27, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1957 "2026-01-27T03:00:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The former head of FIFA is calling for a World Cup boycott now Aren’t any international visitors subject to letting their cell phones be looked into and 5 years of social media history vetted? ---
**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 27, 2026, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1958 "2026-01-27T06:03:40Z")
[The felon’s in great health and you better not say he isn’t!](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-tells-york-magazine-hell-192628254.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump) told a New York Magazine writer that he would “sue the a-- off” the magazine if it wrote a “bad story” about his health, according to a piece published Monday. > > [In an article headlined,](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-addresses-health-hand-bruise-stroke-mri-greenland.html) “‘The Superhuman President’: A good-faith attempt to ascertain the truth about Donald Trump’s health,” New York Magazine correspondent Ben Terris wrote that he joined Trump, White House press secretary [Karoline Leavitt](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/karoline-leavitt), Captain Sean Barbabella, Trump’s lead physician, and Colonel James Jones, a physician assistant with a Ph.D. in health science, for an interview in the Oval Office about the president’s health. > > “Let’s sit for a couple of minutes,” he said. “I hate to waste a lot of time on this, but if you’re going to write a bad story about my health, I’m going to sue the a-- off of New York Magazine. There will be a time when you can write that story, maybe in two years, three years, five years — five years, no one is going to care, I guess. Go ahead and sit down.” > > The article noted recent headlines about the [president’s bruised hand,](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-explains-bruise-trumps-hand) as well as other speculation surrounding Trump’s fitness. Yo, felon! Yeah, you! You, Rip van Simple. Come sue me. I’m writing you’re in horrible health. You’re overweight. You’re obviously suffereing from dementia. And your diet grosses out those who have to be within whiff-shot of you. Sue me. [Didn’t Rip van Simple already pull this racist stunt?](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-says-doj-investigating-rep-175715726.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) said the Justice Department is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar over the Minnesota Democrat’s personal wealth, escalating his attacks against a political rival he’s said should be deported. > > Trump announced the move in [a Jan. 26 post on Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115962378381121858), saying the Justice Department and Congress “are looking at ‘Congresswoman’ Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all.” Trump misspelled the congresswoman’s first name in the post. > > The president has ramped up [his insults and attacks on Omar](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-alleges-ilhan-omar-hates-171454467.html), a Somali-American, in recent weeks following revelations of a massive fraud scheme involving state and federal welfare assistance programs tied primarily to a group of Somali immigrants. > > Trump has questioned how Omar, a U.S. citizens since 2000, accumulated her wealth. According to a [financial disclosure filed with Congress](https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2024/10068415.pdf), Omar’s net worth skyrocketed in 2025, with the lawmaker posting between $6 million and $30 million in income through her spouse’s stake in a California winery and a venture capital firm. [And Congresswoman Omar has an incredibly accurate response to that.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/omar-responds-trump-post-signaling-204759489.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said President Trump was “panicking” Monday in response to a post in which he signaled the Department of Justice is probing the congresswoman’s income. > > In his post, announcing that border czar Tom Homan will [head to Minnesota Monday evening](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-send-border-czar-tom-142118187.html), Trump also claimed that Omar, who fled war-torn Somalia with her family in the 1990s and was elected to Congress in 2018, was worth more than $44 million. > > \*\* “Sorry, Trump, your support is collapsing and you’re panicking,” Omar [wrote on the social platform X](https://x.com/IlhanMN/status/2015818278728257569?s=20). “Right on cue, you’re deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories about me. Years of ‘investigations’ have found nothing. Get your goons out of Minnesota.”\*\* [“You’d better buy from us or else!”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-warns-send-fighter-jets-162252409.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > The United States could alter its decades-old North American Aerospace Defense Command deal with Canada [should its government backtrack](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/canada-prepping-response-hypothetical-us-232415393.html) on the purchase of [88 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets](https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-reconsidering-multi-billion-dollar-184950425.html), the U.S. ambassador to Canada has warned. > > In the latest back-and-forth between the U.S. and Canada[over the deal](https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/procurement/fighter-jets/future-fighter-capability-project.html), Ambassador Pete Hoekstra cautioned that if Canada purchased fewer fighter jets, the U.S. would “fill those gaps” in security concerns. > > That could mean the U.S. would need to purchase more F-35 fighter jets for its own use and use them to [intervene in Canadian airspace](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canada-nato-mark-carney-toronto-donald-trump-b2766692.html) more frequently. > > **Under the current terms of NORAD, the U.S. and Canada can operate in one another’s airspace to track or intercept threats. However, Hoekstra indicated U.S. intervention would go even further, should the fighter jet deal change, thus requiring new terms to the Cold War-era agreement.** > > **“NORAD would have to be altered,” Hoekstra [told CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-canada-us-f35-9.7059800).** [The king of the world ain’t happy.](https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/20260127/seoul-says-agreement-was-already-reached-as-trump-announces-tariff-hike-on-korean-imports-to-25) > [@](#): > > U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to hike tariffs on Korean imports has reignited a fierce debate over the fragility of international pacts and whether Seoul has failed to honor a bilateral trade agreement with Washington. At the heart of the friction is a fundamental disagreement over whether a pending bill in Seoul constitutes a broken promise in Washington. > > Trump said Monday (local time) that tariffs on a wide range of Korean goods, including automobiles, timber and pharmaceuticals, would be raised from 15 percent to 25 percent, arguing that Korea’s National Assembly had not approved the agreement reached between the two countries. > > Korean officials have scrambled to push back, arguing that the agreement is already in motion. They point to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that allows for tariff cuts to take effect retroactively, dating back to the first of the month in which implementing legislation is merely introduced. The rest of the article goes into detail about how a bill, including a treaty, becomes a law in South Korea. Since there aren’t any pictures to show the process, America’s toddler will never learn. ---
**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 27, 2026, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1959 "2026-01-27T07:09:23Z")
Trump now wants to send ICE to (checks notes) Italy. > **[Trump Sparks Fresh Outrage by Sending ICE to the Olympics](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-sparks-fresh-outrage-with-secret-bid-to-send-ice-to-the-olympics/)** > > Lawmakers are calling for Trump’s “thugs” to be denied entry to the Olympics’ host country. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/1960 "2026-01-27T07:33:44Z")
[https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-glitch-cec](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-glitch-cec) Color me shocked! The new ownership took control of the split-off American TikTok a few days ago, and now anti-ICE videos won’t load. Who would have predicted! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=97) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=99)