Donald Trump’s return to the presidency in 2025 has produced a government so chaotic, so unserious, and so self-parodying that it defies conventional political analysis. This is not just authoritarianism—it’s incompetent authoritarianism. From incoherent trade policy to government via group chat, the regime has replaced strategy with spectacle and governance with grievance.

This is a breakdown of how Trump’s second term may go down as the most illogical, unserious, and self-defeating administration in American history.

Signal Chats Are the New Situation Room

Gone are the days of secure communications, classified briefings, and national security protocol. Trump’s inner circle now conducts foreign policy over encrypted Signal group chats. Cabinet-level decisions are leaked in real time, not by whistleblowers, but by the staffers making them.

In the now infamous group chat, members of Trump’s inner circle openly discussed bombing Yemen, a country suffering from some of the worst hunger seen on the planet today. While planning an airstrike that purportedly hit an Eid celebration, the aides to the most powerful man in the world discussed their disdain for European nations before gloating over death with emojis and patriotic noise.

Project 2025 instructs the regime to use apps like Signal to avoid legislative action, however, the failure to keep that plan under wraps would have already been considered a big failure, but adding the lead editor of the Atlantic puts it into a level of political stupidity that cannot be overtaken.

Without some next level stupidity, like maybe, imposing economic sanctions on flightless birds, the group chat will go down as one of the most stupid moves in US history.

Tariffs on Penguins and Other Economic Fantasies

Trump’s trade war 2.0 has reached new levels of absurdity. His March 2025 “Liberation Day” tariffs included a 125% tax on Chinese goods—despite the fact that much of the U.S. manufacturing sector depends on them. But it didn’t stop there.

Imposing economic sanctions on the tech industry is a pretty damn stupid move, especially in 2025, when we are more connected than ever before, it is nothing compared to some of the other tariffs on the list.

McDonald and Heard, two islands close to Antarctica found themselves on Trump’s tariff list. The issue, no one lives there. The two islands are populated by penguins, seals, seagulls, and benefits from an almost complete lack of humans.

It should go without saying that the USA does not trade with penguins, that we know of.

Trump’s inclusion of the territories on a list of ‘reciprocal tariffs’ leads the implication that Donald Trump believes theses Penguins currently impose tariffs on the USA. Whether or not he does, imposing economic punishment on an island of birds will probably go down as the regime’s stupidest moment.

A Cabinet of Grievances, Not Governance

Trump’s second-term Cabinet isn’t built to govern—it’s built to reward loyalty and punish dissent. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a conspiracy theorist whose views on vaccines would make Bigfoot blink. Education is run by Linda McMahon, a wrestling executive with no educational credentials but deep MAGA credentials. Pete Hegseth, a former Fox host known for praising war criminals, is now Secretary of Defense.

None of this is a joke. It’s a purge of expertise in favor of fame, obedience, and culture war credentials. Tulsi Gabbard is overseeing intelligence. Elon Musk has been handed the reins to a new “Department of Government Efficiency,” where he’s reportedly pushing to eliminate entire federal programs he doesn’t understand. Agencies operate with acting directors or none at all, and civil service staff are being gutted to make room for loyalists.

This isn’t policy. It’s a televised grudge match against the administrative state.

Foreign Policy by Vibe

Allies have stopped returning calls. Adversaries are confused whether to prepare for war or pose for a hotel opening. Trump threatens Iran one day and floats a “peace deal and real estate opportunity” the next. He insulted Canada’s prime minister, then posted a poll asking if Americans “still liked maple syrup.”

State visits have become public relations stunts, or not happened at all. NATO is fractured. Japan, Germany, and France have begun forming strategic partnerships that deliberately sideline Washington. Even Israel, once Trump’s loudest partner, is struggling to decipher the noise.

There is no doctrine. There is no strategy. There’s just mood—broadcast hourly.

The Collapse of Competence

Trump’s war on the “deep state” has turned into a scorched-earth campaign against the concept of expertise itself. Scientists, economists, generals—anyone not personally loyal—is out. In their place: influencers, loyalists, and PR flunkies.

The government hasn’t stopped working—it’s working exactly as intended: impulsively, erratically, and purely for the optics. Serious policy is dead. What remains is a government of reaction and revenge, wrapped in social media applause.

A New Low

This isn’t just about incompetence. It’s about intent. Trump’s regime doesn’t govern because it has no interest in governing. It rules by chaos, spectacle, and sabotage. The process isn’t broken. It’s being actively dismantled.

What replaces it isn’t a new system—it’s nothing. And it’s all by design.