There is no sanctuary from Trump administration buffoonery.

On May 29, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem released a “comprehensive list of sanctuary jurisdictions.” She was “exposing these sanctuary politicians” because they are “endangering Americans and our law enforcement in order to protect violent criminal illegal aliens.”

But it immediately became clear that the list of more than 500 states, counties and cities was riddled with errors: misspellings, cities and counties mistaken for each other, and places that don’t exist. Cincinnati became “Cincinnatti,” Campbell County (Kentucky) became “Cambell” County, Greeley County (Nebraska) became “Greenley” County, Takoma Park (Maryland) became “Tacoma” Park, while “Martinsville County” (Virginia) was invented. And so on.

Worse, scores of the “sanctuary politicians” she called out turned out to be leaders of MAGA counties and towns with no sanctuary policies on their books. Complaints poured in from Trump allies across the country.

Such a massive screwup hadn’t happened since … well, the previous week, when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went to the White House and released his ballyhooed “Make America Healthy Again” report full of citations of studies that don’t exist, the product of AI hallucinations.

And these, of course, were on top of the “mistakes” that led Trump officials to share war plans with a journalist, to deport people protected by court order, to launch a destructive fight with Harvard University, to fire and then attempt to rehire thousands of crucial federal workers, to cancel and then reinstate various vital government functions, and to misstate, often by orders of magnitude, the alleged savings from its cost-cutting attempts.

Trying to make sense of any of this? Page Not Found.

Nearly five months into this reign of error, the mistakes are multiplying. It becomes more obvious each week that Trump and his aides are just not good at this governing thing.

This week brought the spectacular crack-up of Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk — and with it the prospective implosion of the House-passed tax and spending bill, the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda. Musk blasted the bill, which piles up another $2.4 trillion in federal deficits, as a “disgusting abomination” and launched a “KILL the BILL” campaign that escalated wildly Thursday into claims that Trump only won the election because of Musk, that Trump’s tariffs will cause a recession and that Trump “is in the Epstein files” — along with an endorsement of impeaching Trump. A “very disappointed” Trump responded that Musk “just went CRAZY!” because Trump “asked him to leave” and “took away his EV Mandate” — and the president threatened to terminate Musk’s government contracts, causing Tesla to shed $152 billion in market value.

“It’s like mommy and daddy are fighting,” Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Missouri) told reporters at the start of the spat. Now members of the House, including Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and various members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, are rushing to condemn the bill they just voted for. Republican lawmakers attacked each other as “pathetic.” Far-right senators such as Ron Johnson of Wisconsin joined in condemnation of the “immoral” and “grotesque” bill. The White House accused these allies of “not having their facts together.”

Then there were the quieter moments of incompetence.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon, in testimony on Capitol Hill, seemed not to know what the Tulsa race massacre was (“I’d like to look into it more and get back to you”), and she drew a blank on Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to integrate schools in the South (“I will look into it and get back to you”). She also testified about savings of $1 trillion that would come from eliminating a program to help poor kids attend college (actual amount: $12 billion), and she flubbed a question about where American schoolchildren ranked on tests of math and reading.

Meanwhile, Trump, at a town hall this spring, was asked what mistakes he had made in his first 100 days. He was silent for a moment, then said, “I’ll tell you, that’s the toughest question I can have because I don’t really believe I’ve made any mistakes.” The audience laughed.