# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 11, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068 "2024-11-11T06:19:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**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:** [February 21, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2181 "2025-02-21T07:19:22Z")
I’m almost certain that Trump has no idea what it takes to amend the Constitution. I’m also almost certain that in another four years Trump is going to be in no physical or mental state to continue being president (or do much of anything besides stare into a mirror and drool on himself) even if he could get an amendment through. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2025, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2182 "2025-02-21T07:27:44Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Now, it’s coming from the actual fucking president himself! No, no. This is coming from Trump. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2183 "2025-02-21T08:30:50Z")
Hey, he’s back at it. [The economy’s trashed and it’s not his fault; it’s Biden’s.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-inflation-back-had-125754154.html) (The link goes to _Yahoo_.) > President Trump is seeking to distance himself from a [rise in inflation](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inflation-ticks-3-percent-annual-134335017.html), arguing the uptick had “nothing to do” with his return to the Oval Office. > > Trump instead placed the blame on former President Biden in an interview Tuesday, decrying what he characterized as reckless spending during the previous administration. > > “Inflation is back. No, think of it: Inflation’s back,” the president told Fox News’s Sean Hannity during an [interview alongside](https://www.yahoo.com/news/4-takeaways-trump-elon-musk-041815286.html) tech billionaire Elon Musk that aired Tuesday night. “And they said, ‘Oh, Trump,’ and I had nothing to do with that.” Vance is flexing his muscles like a 5 year old trying to protect his daddy. (The link goes to _Yahoo_.) > Vice President JD Vance issued a stark warning to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday, cautioning the war-battered leader against “badmouthing” Donald Trump even as the U.S. pushes forward with handing over Ukrainian land to Russia in lopsided peace talks. > > “The idea that Zelenskiy is going to change the president’s mind by badmouthing him in public media,” Vance told the [Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14413657/Vice-President-Vance-warns-Zelensky-badmouthing-Trump-public-backfire-Ukrainian-presidents-broadside.html), “Everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration.” What about children? [Screw them, too is the admin’s mantra.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/legal-organizations-told-stop-federally-funded-work-unaccompanied-migr-rcna192828) (The link goes to _NBC News_.) > The Trump administration has told organizations that provide federally funded legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children to halt the service. > > The Interior Department sent a stop-work order to the nonprofit Acacia Center for Justice on Tuesday, cutting off funding for “all activities” under Acacia’s federal contract to provide legal services for unaccompanied migrants younger than 18, according to the text of the letter obtained by NBC News. The article had this shocking bit of information: > Under U.S. law, immigrants are not guaranteed a right to free legal representation, as U.S. citizens are if they are accused of crimes. This is an assertion for which I’d like to see a Supreme Court decision. [In an effort to show he’s not really a Nazi, Bannon makes…you know.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/bannon-does-own-questionable-salute-020846413.html) (The link goes to _Yahoo_.) > Former Trump White House adviser [Steve Bannon](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/steve-bannon/) whipped up Friday’s Conservative Political Action Conference crowd by talking about the possibility of the President Donald Trump staying in office for a third term in 2028—which the Constitution currently prohibits—and concluded his speech by giving a provocative gesture that resembled the [controversial salute](https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-hit-with-backlash-for-odd-looking-salute-at-post-inauguration-rally/) Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month. So, why do I include it here? Couple the following with Felon47’s talk about a third term. > “The future of America is MAGA, okay? And the future of MAGA is Donald J. Trump. We want Trump in ’28. That’s what they can’t stand,” Bannon said to cheers while pointing toward the news cameras. “A man like Trump comes along only once or twice in a country‘s history, right?” [The puppy killer wants Homeland Security staff interrogated with polygraphs.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/kristi-noem-orders-lie-detector-172734047.html) (The link goes to _Yahoo_.) > [Kristi Noem](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/kristi-noem) has ordered Homeland Security staff to take lie detector tests in hopes she can snuff out leakers who have been accused of foiling immigration raids this month. [And finally yet another maga racist (redundant, isn’t it?) questions the citizenship of a minority person in political office.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/maga-rep-questions-local-elected-160833776.html) (The link goes to _Yahoo_.) > Rep. [Mike Lawler](https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-host-laughs-gop-rep-174959184.html) questioned whether an elected county official in New York is really an American citizen during a public meeting. > > José Alvarado, the vice chair of Westchester County’s Board of Legislators, had asked the Republican congressman what documentation he expects people to produce if confronted by [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/immigration-and-customs-enforcement) amid President [Donald Trump](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/donald-j-trump)’s attempted crackdown on illegal immigration in the state. > > “I’m speaking to you, Mr. Lawler—somebody that looks like me, right, is approached by ICE. What would your immediate expectation would be for me to do?” Alvarado, the [first Latino county legislator](https://westchesterlegislators.com/29-about-joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=204) to be elected in Westchester, [asked](https://westchestercountyny.granicus.com/player/clip/7458?view_id=1&redirect=true) Lawler. “What should I carry on me to demonstrate that this immigrant is the vice chairman of this board?” > > Lawler answered the Democrat by saying that, in such a scenario, Alvarado should cooperate. He then openly speculated about Alvarado’s citizenship status. > > “Like every other person that is engaged by law enforcement, if you are asked for information, cooperate,” Lawler said, before adding: “I wouldn’t expect you as a—I don’t know, I assume you’re a citizen. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you are…” ---
**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:** [February 21, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2184 "2025-02-21T15:56:52Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > In more [_Constitution?_ _Constitution?_ _Constitution?_ _We don’t need no stinking constitution!_ news.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-crowd-chants-four-221017195.html) (The link goes to _Yahoo_.) > > > President Trump on Thursday again raised the idea of his seeking a third term, which is prohibited by the Constitution, this time drawing loud approval from supporters at a Black History Month event. ‘With Republicans, every accusation is a confession.’ ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2185 "2025-02-21T16:01:41Z")
I briefly saw a post somewhere on another site about elon walking on stage with a chainsaw (metaphor for his massive cuts). I couldn’t bring myself to read about it or gaze upon the monstrous freakshow. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2186 "2025-02-21T16:03:20Z")
[**CPAC conference**](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-wields-chainsaw-conservative-gathering-gift-argentinas-milei-2025-02-21/) [![](https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/ADSZ6NJORNLIBHGTYPBRMHSZ3Y.jpg?auth=78c3e35ef508ed0da22855e594230b1723f438a5dd067c5c6626354f1c89637a&width=1080&quality=80) ](https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/ADSZ6NJORNLIBHGTYPBRMHSZ3Y.jpg?auth=78c3e35ef508ed0da22855e594230b1723f438a5dd067c5c6626354f1c89637a&width=1080&quality=80) ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2187 "2025-02-21T16:43:26Z")
Sunglasses indoors and bright red cheeks. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2188 "2025-02-21T20:35:03Z")
Josh Hawley, of all people, wants to work with Democrats to stop Trump from cutting Medicaid. > **[Far-right senator aligns with Dems — and proposes bill to block massive MAGA cut](https://www.rawstory.com/medicaid-2671191113/)** > > Far-right Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) vehemently opposes a key component of President Donald Trump and the House GOP's budget proposal and has introduced legislation to prevent it from coming to pass."Hawley says he filed an amendment barring cuts to... ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2189 "2025-02-21T20:51:19Z")
Well I am very surprised at this turn of events. Interesting development. Cutting Medicaid would certainly hurt a large number of people everywhere. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2190 "2025-02-21T21:21:40Z")
Latest addition to the list of things nobody has ever heard of before; the numbers 71 and 69. > **['Delusional' Trump Openly Mocked As His Newest Boast Backfires Spectacularly](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-approval-brag_n_67b803f5e4b04144c748f171)** > > The president's critics fired back after an unrealistic claim about his approval rating. > [@](#): > > “I had an approval rating today of 71 and another one of 69,” Trump bragged at the Republican governors dinner in Washington on Thursday. “I have not heard of those numbers before.” ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2191 "2025-02-21T21:37:07Z")
He could barely talk. BTW, I like the guy’s response of “it’s not worth 8 cents!”. We all agree. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lindcsnmy42h)** > > listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2192 "2025-02-21T21:58:46Z")
So this happened with the governor of Maine. I wish she had just told him he was repugnant and walked out. Jesus Christ. I can’t get the video to work. It’s posting faster than I can hit “reply” h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEvvmb5Xntc ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2193 "2025-02-21T22:00:48Z")
Those polls he’s quoting were probably done during the White Supremacist Club meeting at Elon Musk’s house last week. The fact he only got 71 is pretty shitty, he should have gotten 100! ---
**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:** [February 21, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2194 "2025-02-21T23:24:49Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > So this happened with the governor of Maine. > > I wish she had just told him he was repugnant and walked out. > > Jesus Christ. I can’t get the video to work. It’s posting faster than I can hit “reply” > > h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEvvmb5Xntc “Is the Maine here?” And then he threatens to stop all federal funding to Maine if the governor does not do what he orders her and the state legislature to do. It seems like he said _comply_ about a dozen times. Her response was great. “See you in court.” And felon47 goes off on her saying how well he did in Maine in the last election. [And just how well did he do there?](https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2024) (The link goes to the National Archives.) Maine cast 3 electoral votes for Harris and one for the felon. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2195 "2025-02-22T00:02:40Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEvvmb5Xntc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEvvmb5Xntc) I find it interesting that most of the comments on that video are pro trump, ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2196 "2025-02-22T00:58:40Z")
Trumps fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He’s black. > **[Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff](https://apnews.com/article/trump-brown-joint-chiefs-of-staff-firing-fa428cc1508a583b3bf5e7a5a58f6acf?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share)** > > President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2197 "2025-02-22T01:40:44Z")
That is quite a number of medals. Clearly he refused to go along with some Trump Tribute like this guy did on the biblical walk to Lafayette square yet (much) later criticised Trump for asking him to wear his combat fatigues yet he did: > **The Pentagon has revoked the security detail and clearance for retired general Mark Milley, a former top US military commander who has been critical of President Donald Trump.** Colin Powell would once have gotten my vote for President yet he went down in yellowcake. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2198 "2025-02-22T01:42:55Z")
He (dear leader) is one day closer to not being here…… that is all I can think of to make me feel better. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2199 "2025-02-22T02:06:11Z")
I don’t know how one mines or obtains rare earth minerals. I doubt Blood Diamond Musk does either. They are rare so likely not scattered around to be raked up. There is no fucking way Trump made a “deal” to get them from Ukraine. All he likely did was “deal & arrange” with Putin not to bomb the areas the US was going to be mining/bulldozing/chainsawing stuff at will. > United States President Donald Trump has [continued his attacks](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/21/trump-live-news-us-envoy-calls-ukraines-zelenskyy-a-courageous-leader) on Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as a White House official said a deal on rare earth minerals was close. This is even better than annexing (or promising to pay Denmark at a date to be determined) for Greenland and their rare earth minerals. The EU has to stop this bullshit. Keir is going to the USA to pay Trump his deserved tribute next Thursday and I reckon I’ll start a spin-off clusterfuck thread over that. Right now my attitude is if Keir had any self-respect or felt he was the Prime Minister of a Nation that is fucking shocked (for the most part - let’s be real) at Trump’s antics - he’d not be going. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2200 "2025-02-22T02:14:39Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > He’s black. Obviously yet another DEI hire that has to be rooted out and gotten rid of. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=111)