The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)

Pardel-Lux · October 16, 2026, 8:28pm

Yes, that is also a valid translation. More idiomatic than mine, I think.

WOOKINPANUBv.2 · October 16, 2026, 8:46pm

My bolding.
I read the article a little to quickly and for a second thought the rest of that sentence was going to be ‘away’. Visions of the polizia trying to pry it from his tiny hands gives me joy.

Fear_Itself · October 16, 2026, 9:13pm

U.S. budget deficit swells to almost $2 trillion for fiscal 2026, up 12% in a single year:

DavidNRockies · October 16, 2026, 9:36pm

ISWYDT

Folacin · October 16, 2026, 9:49pm

Pinned tweet on her timeline:

Odesio · October 16, 2026, 9:54pm

Please! I would love Laura Loomer as White House Press Secretary! How awesome would that be?

Sherrerd · October 16, 2026, 10:02pm

Massive coward that he is, Donald had his flunky Sean Hannity attack Zacharia during their interview last night. Thus letting her know, without Donald having to bestir himself, that she was no longer welcome in Trumpland.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/media/katie-zacharia-trump-hannity-fox-white-house-press-secretary

(Only Mark Burnett could have come up with that fictional character “Donald Trump” who loved saying ‘you’re fired!’)

Smapti · October 16, 2026, 10:21pm

The President’s Brain Is Missing: Gutter racism edition

Attacking the Michigan candidate at a rally in Georgia

The dementia is apparently awakening his inner bisexual

I’m the best at makeup

Fuck you, Google

Santamataldum

Mar-a-Lago: Where $5000 gets you one hamburger and a small dessert

Boof is when there’s expensive beef

David Purdue won the election, but it was rigged, so I banished him to China to punish him for losing

(Wanders off)

bobot · October 16, 2026, 10:24pm

And those are the published numbers. Imagine how much worse the truth is!

Little_Nemo · October 16, 2026, 10:42pm

You guys don’t realize what a complicated process selecting a new Press Secretary is.

You have to find a bunch of blondes whose names start with a k.

You have to throw all their names in a hat and pick one out.

You have to place some bets on Kalshi.

You have to leak her name to your cronies so they can put their bets on Kalshi.

You have to announce her name to the press.

You have to invent lies about all the stuff the press will find out about her.

You have to complain about how the press doesn’t believe your lies.

You have to invent a new set of lies.

You have to complain about how the press doesn’t believe those new lies either.

You have to fire your Press Secretary and start the whole process over again.

Monty · October 16, 2026, 11:59pm

The felon just threw President Zelenskyy and Ukraine under the tank.

President Trump hit back at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying he was “not a good guy for us to deal with.”

In an interview on Newsmax’s “Finnerty,” Trump was asked about Ukraine resuming attacks on Russian energy targets after the president asked Zelensky to stop such strikes.

“Zelensky is not a good guy for us to deal with,” the president said. “I’m not a big fan of Zelensky. They’ve destroyed that country.”

When asked if he supported further military aid for Ukraine, Trump stated, “Well, I think they’re going to if they’re going to end up with a settlement of some kind, they’re not going to do it with [Zelensky].”

“He doesn’t want to settle. He says he wants to settle, but he doesn’t,” he continued, adding that the war started when former President Obama made Ukraine “give up” Crimea, which Trump called “the most valuable part by far of Ukraine.”

Trump concluded that he believed the war would “end soon. I think they actually both would like to see it end, but I think I find Zelensky to be more difficult to deal with than Putin.”

The half-scaramucci has an interesting defense: “Nobody asked me about my credentials.”

Killer Kennedy has someone running interference for him; the press is not having it. (The formatting is from the link.)

A member of the press snapped at an aide of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday when she tried to stop him from asking a question about measles deaths.

After a healthcare roundtable in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Kennedy was joined by Rep. Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA) to field questions from the press. At one point, a reporter asked about recent measles deaths in Pennsylvania.

“Do you believe that five deaths, potentially six, from measles in the state of Pennsylvania–,” the report began. Before he could finish his question, however, an aide standing beside Kennedy quickly cut him off.

“We’re also not going to talk about measles,” the aide responded.

Kennedy protested and said he was “happy” to answer the question. At the same time, the reporter fired back at the aide much more aggressively.

“He’s the highest-ranking health official in the country!” the report began. “He can answer that question! He’s a cabinet secretary!”

The rest of the article is short and quotes KK lying about Dr. Fauci and Governor Shapiro.

carrps · October 17, 2026, 5:00pm

Yes, he’s a massive coward, but someone in another thread in the Pit posted a link to an article saying that Susie Wiles got Hannity to interview Zacharia. Trump hired Z without consulting with Wiles.

Monty · October 17, 2026, 6:33pm

Wiles? Isn’t that the woman the felon says is doing such a great job he’ll never fire her?

It’s time to pack your bags, Susie.

Guest-starring_Id · October 17, 2026, 6:35pm

So Suzie rules Donald with an iron fist, then?

Smapti · October 17, 2026, 7:24pm

The President’s Brain Is Missing: This is cutting into my golf time edition

I have the most expensive hamberders

I don’t wanna eat my vegetables!

This is supposed to be a rally for Kentucky’s Senate candidate

I have the best poverty

Hey everybody! We’re all gonna get laid!

Canada must not be allowed to have healthcare

It’s never too late to start a new career in proctology

The dementia is really bringing out his inner bi

Sherrerd · October 17, 2026, 8:13pm

It could have been Wiles who phoned Sean. But that doesn’t mean that she did so without Donald’s knowledge (or instructions).

Donald’s latest remarks are all about assuring everyone that NONE of this has ANYTHING to do with him, whatsoever:

He’s just an innocent bystander!!!1!

Robot_Arm · October 18, 2026, 3:50am

Bob’s your uncle.

wguy123 · October 18, 2026, 4:27am

I love that Melania calling him “SIR!” is becoming part of his normal stand up routine. That is a real crowd pleaser. And so true!

scudsucker · October 18, 2026, 5:36am

Goggle’s AI informs me that the Slovenian word “sir” refers to the English word “cheese”.

Now, this could be a good-natured pet-name for Melania’s beloved husband, or she genuinely belittles him to his cheese-coloured face.

(Although, cheese of that particular orange would be coloured with an additive, annatto - which adds a certain layer to the insult. “Fake-colour cheese-face” seems more appropriate than “sir”)

Monty · October 18, 2026, 6:07am

Gateside program rolled back without explanation.

Congress is having a fit of the vapours.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to waive sanctions on Russia days before they were to take effect drew outrage Saturday from members of Congress, which had overwhelmingly passed the legislation in a bipartisan display of American support for Ukraine in the war with Russia.

Lawmakers from both parties blasted the executive order late Friday, the latest in a series of steps that the Republican president has taken drawing the United States closer to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Trump recently announced a diesel deal with Putin to import Russian energy in a long-shot effort to curb high gas prices in the U.S. that are roiling the midterm elections on Nov. 3.

“Beyond irresponsible,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on social media, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed hope that the sanctions that were supposed to take effect Sunday targeting Russian’s economy could be revived.

“What part of enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate does the President and his advisors not understand?” Tillis said. “It’s unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine.”

Here’s what the felon thinks of that.

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Rally victim has choice words for the hypocritical felon.

The woman who Donald Trump fat-shamed as she was “beat up” by his supporters has fired back at the “pathetic” McDonald’s-gorging president.

The 29-year-old woman was set upon by a baying MAGA mob in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday night after standing up and heckling the president, branding him a “fascist” while wearing a homemade “release the Epstein files” T-shirt.

She was quickly subdued by at least three men, one of whom threw a punch at her head, as well as pulling her hair. Police ignored the violent attacker and aggressively ushered the injured protester out of the arena.

Blake, who did not want her surname or hometown to be published out of fear of further attacks, has now spoken to the Daily Beast’s sister Substack, PunchUp, about the ordeal that left her in the hospital.

As Blake, an artist from Ohio, was being roughed up by the president’s snarling fans, the 80-year-old attacked her over her weight, while also misgendering her.

“I wasn’t surprised by Trump making fun of my weight or misgendering me. He has a history of being the most egregious person he can be and not having any repercussions for his actions,” Blake said, before firing back at the president over his myriad of health issues.

“He even said that we all could lose some weight, or something to that effect, because he too is not in ‘peak health’ and has never been, when his favorite place to eat is McDonald’s.”

First, those cops who escorted her out shoud be fired. Second, she needs to file a report to get that force off their collective tush to find out who attacked her, arrest them, and get the prosecution started.

Attorneys for the Honorable Ilhan Omar accused the dishonorable Justice Department of violating her rights.

Attorneys for Representative Ilhan Omar have accused the Justice Department of violating a magistrate judge’s order by failing to follow certain protocols designed to safeguard her constitutional interests as a member of Congress during the search of her home in Washington, D.C.

In the Oct. 16 letter, Omar’s attorneys Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz asked the government to immediately return the congresswoman’s property, and they also demanded all video and audio recordings of the search be preserved.

“This vindictive, retributive, and politically motivated criminal investigation into one of the President’s chief congressional critics violates Representative Omar’s constitutional rights and threatens the separation of powers,” they wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by CBS News.

The felon’s chalking up another bankruptcy soon.

President Donald Trump’s main legal fund is nearly out of cash and carrying more than $1.9 million in debt, according to a new Federal Election Commission filing.

Save America PAC, the political fundraising organization Trump established in 2020, disclosed the debts in its quarterly report this week. The report covers July 1 to September 30.

The PAC spent more than $5.4 million in the third quarter, bringing its annual spending to over $14 million. Its cash reserves fell from roughly $1.2 million at the beginning of the year to $32,256 by September 30.

Trump has used Save America to cover a large share of his legal expenses, including payments to attorneys who represented him in his New York “hush money” trial, his classified documents case and his Georgia election interference case.

The PAC lists its outstanding debts as legal consulting fees and reimbursements for legal expenses. It owes about $239,000 to Brito PLLC, whose founder, a Florida-based attorney, represented Trump in his defamation lawsuit against ABC News

Orania-in-Trumplandia project isn’t faring as well as the felon wanted.

The US government could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a media campaign in South Africa to figure out why more white Afrikaners are not applying to become refugees to the US, as Donald Trump had hoped.

State department officials, according to an August proposal seen by the Guardian, outlined a roughly $335,000 research and advertising effort after applications to the refugee program “trended lower than expected” since Afrikaners were allowed to apply directly online in November 2025. The document, written by the US mission in South Africa with a department research unit for the embassy in Pretoria, admits officials know little about why.

“There’s currently little research about why Afrikaners are not applying to request referral into the US Refugee Admissions Program,” the proposal reads.

Want to find some election interference? Interfere with some election!

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened California election officials with jail if they count ballots cast by people the administration has identified as possible noncitizens.

“They will all go to jail for a long period of time,” Trump said in a Truth Social post sharing a letter the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent to Los Angeles County officials warning that counting ballots from alleged noncitizens would open themselves to federal criminal prosecution.

It comes after the DOJ filed a lawsuit against California on Thursday, over the state’s refusal to review a list of more than 20,000 names the department said were likely noncitizens and discard the ballots of anyone confirmed whose status could not be confirmed.

The state had been given 48 hours to do this after officials received the list, on a USB drive, on Tuesday. California declined, saying it did not consider the list secure or substantiated.

“We cannot withhold or refuse to count ballots based solely on unverified allegations,” Los Angeles County Clerk Dean Logan said in a statement, adding that DOJ had not provided its “underlying evidence, source, or methodology supporting its assertions that individuals identified in its records are ineligible to vote.”

Sound familiar? “I have secret evidence which I will make public if I don’t get what I want.”

President Donald Trump told Newsmax on Thursday he has information about Hillary Clinton and former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden that could be used “criminally” against them, raising the possibility of pursuing his political adversaries if Democrats regain control of Congress and attempt to impeach him for a third time.

In an exclusive interview on “Finnerty,” Trump said he previously declined opportunities to pursue criminal investigations of Clinton, his 2016 presidential opponent, but suggested that another impeachment effort could change the situation.

“I could have done numbers on Hillary Clinton,” Trump said. “I could have done numbers on Bill Clinton. I do like Bill Clinton. I could have done numbers on Barack Hussein Obama. Still could, I still could, I could do big numbers if I wanted to.”

And who on Earth talks like that? “I can do big numbers on them.” Not even the most hardened Mafia enforcers would say that. Why not? Because it’s childish. Big surprise, coming from a child.

Evidently he forgot about the amazing gift SCOTUS gave him. They’re protected now.

What’s a magaflatearther going to do when their idol fails spectacularly?

Before you read the rest of that article, make sure you don the appropriate headgear.

Before he illegal raid on Representative Omar’s home, the felon’s flacks searched her trash for DNA.

There’s only one reason for getting tht DNA: to compare it to another person’s DNA, her husband’s. The racist whacked out nutjob conspiracy theory the nutjob-in-chief is pushing is what the felon is wasting federal law enforcement time and funding on.

Only the finest people, right, Dirty Diaper Donny?

Several people with prominent roles in a Trump-endorsed Senate candidate’s campaign have criminal histories, including one who pleaded guilty to sexual battery in an incident involving his stepdaughter, the Daily Beast has learned.

Court records the Daily Beast reviewed show that several of Rep. Mike Collins’s appointed “convoy captains”—grassroots organizers he has credited with his “successful” campaign—have criminal backgrounds, casting doubt on the tough-on-crime stance he has promoted in his campaign to unseat Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff.

“Mike will always be tough on crime, and as your next senator, he’ll vote for strong borders, lower taxes, a booming economy in the greatest military anywhere in the world,” President Donald Trump said of Collins last month in a recorded Oval Office endorsement.’

Brett Benny Langham, one of Rep. Mike Collins’ campaign leaders, pleaded guilty to felony cruelty to children, sexual battery, and family violence simple battery in 2014, according to court documents reviewed by the Daily Beast. The charges stemmed from an incident involving Langham’s stepdaughter, who was younger than 16. Langham did not respond to questions from the Daily Beast and was sentenced to 30 days in prison and 10 years of probation.
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The rest of the article has some interesting information on other “finest people” involved.

And this is how the felon’s going to leave office (if he actually does). (The bolding is mine.)

Systemic government corruption is already a problem in the Trump era. The signal he’s sending to his team is likely to make matters worse.

A couple of months ago, Donald Trump appeared on a conservative radio show and said that “a lot of people” wanted to see the president pardon himself in his first term.

“I had the absolute right to do it,” he said. “Instead, I fought it through the courts and won.”

While that wasn’t an entirely accurate summary of recent history — Trump, who was convicted of several felonies in New York, only “won” when the federal criminal cases against him ended upon his return to the White House, not because they were adjudicated in his favor — the president’s rhetoric about his “absolute right” to pardon himself stood out.

This week, he returned to the issue during an interview with Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty.

Asked specifically whether he’s “seriously considering a self-pardon” before he leaves office, the president initially hedged, saying he’s done “nothing wrong,” before adding, “I’m allowed to do a self-pardon. I’m allowed to pardon. … The pardon is very powerful. I know that. They say it’s the most powerful thing a president has, the power of pardon.”

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