# 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:** 115
**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:** [February 24, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2281 "2025-02-24T15:22:46Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > @Alessan Go on. Well, this one stands out… > [@Mijin](#): > > Feb 30th, > [@Mijin](#): > > I didn’t realize both Musk and Trump [have suggested it is likely to happen](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/22/doge-dividend-stimulus-checks-trump-musk/79594413007/). Sort of. They’re both really bad at big numbers. They like the ‘concept’ of giving everybody a big check with Trump’s name on it. But like always, they’re just spit-balling, knowing nobody will call them on their bullshit. They were floating 20% of their ‘savings’? Well, they haven’t “saved” $2T, and even if they did, that still wouldn’t amount to $5000 for everybody. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2282 "2025-02-24T15:24:50Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Would it be that bad if Air Force One fell out of the sky? It won’t fall out of the sky, most of the modifications don’t impact the airworthiness. It’s far more likely to have a fire on board when [Trump’s fabric swatches](https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/trump-ghostwriter-interview-taxes-loss-13832896.php) get lit on fire by static build-up. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2283 "2025-02-24T15:38:33Z")
You do realize that this meme was started as a joke, and the joke is the date of Feb 30th, right? Think about it. I think it’s hysterical that the MAGAverse is repeating it without getting it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2284 "2025-02-24T15:41:37Z")
DOH! I guess this makes me as dumb as a maga supporter. I’ll go get my red cap. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2285 "2025-02-24T15:43:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > This is going to be one of the most open-and-shut First Amendment cases in American legal history. This is more a Factual Question than a pitting, but I’ll throw it out here: is this really a 1st Amendment problem? “Congress shall make no law…freedom of the press.” Trump hasn’t stopped the AP from printing anything they want; they’re just making it harder for them to do their job. Is there a precedent that covers this? ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2286 "2025-02-24T15:52:00Z")
So no chat here about “Kraznov” - Trump being recruited as an assset for the KGB in 1987? > **[Donald Trump's Russian spy connection: Social media explodes with ‘evidence’...](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/donald-trumps-russian-spy-connection-social-media-explodes-with-evidence-about-krasnov-is-it-just-another-wild-conspiracy-theory/articleshow/118504492.cms?from=mdr)** > > Allegations have surfaced on social media that Donald Trump has been a Russian asset for 40 years under the codename 'Krasnov'. The claims originated from a former KGB officer and have been amplified online. They involve Trump's business dealings in... My brother emailed me about it, I had to google for it - not on their main news page. I told him even if hi-def video with sound from MI-6 or the FSB (former KGB) is released, it will either not be commented on or Trump and Musk will laugh off the ridiculousness of it. Fakiest fake news ever faked. It’s way too late for kompromat. Trump is impeach-proof. If Putin testified at Impeachment 3 and said it’s all true, they still won’t get 66 votes. Trump will never resign. If steroids can keep him alive long enough, he will still be President in six-plus years. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2287 "2025-02-24T15:54:31Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > So no chat here about “Kraznov” - Trump being recruited as an assset for the KGB in 1987? > > [Donald Trump's Russian spy connection: Social media explodes with ‘evidence’ about #Krasnov. Is it just another wild conspiracy theory? - The Economic Times](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/donald-trumps-russian-spy-connection-social-media-explodes-with-evidence-about-krasnov-is-it-just-another-wild-conspiracy-theory/articleshow/118504492.cms?from=mdr) This is the SDMB. We don’t believe claims without evidence, no matter how much we’d want to. ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2288 "2025-02-24T15:57:09Z")
My main point was you can pile high all the evidence and even have Putin say it’s true, yet they won’t get 66 votes in the Senate. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2289 "2025-02-24T15:59:58Z")
There’s a thread about the Kraznov thing in P&E: > [@Trump was recruited as Russian spy codenamed "Krasnov" in 1987](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-was-recruited-as-russian-spy-codenamed-krasnov-in-1987/1014697): > > A former KGB officer claims that Trump was recruited as a Russian spy in 1987 during his visit to the Soviet Union. His code name was “Krasnov.” ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2290 "2025-02-24T16:02:23Z")
Thanks. Looks like everyone there is as jaded as I am. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2291 "2025-02-24T16:17:59Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > It’s way too late for kompromat. I’m mostly convinced that, even if Russia did release something huge about Trump, like being verifiably a pedophile, or something like that, being a pedophile would just become the latest fashion among the MAGA set. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2292 "2025-02-24T16:28:46Z")
They ‘consented’, their parents gave their ok, they were asking for it, he was older than they claimed, etc. It may be impossible to overestimate the capacity of the human mind to justify any act, no matter how depraved. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2293 "2025-02-24T16:30:40Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > They ‘consented’, their parents gave their ok, they were asking for it, he was older than they claimed, etc. I would expect them to just go with, “It’s not illegal if the president does it, which means _it’s not illegal._” ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2294 "2025-02-24T16:41:58Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > What I am wondering though, is if some kind of check for a token sum might be sent out, given how much of the base is talking about this. Trump would certainly love every american to have a piece of paper with his giant signature in their hands. Token sum, heh. Maybe we’ll all be paid with DOGE coin, or even better… Trump meme coin!!! Checks with giant signatures are so 2020. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2295 "2025-02-24T16:59:49Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > being a pedophile would just become the latest fashion among the MAGA set. It already is. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2296 "2025-02-24T17:01:13Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > $5,000 for every person in the US would be 1.65 trillion. And cause massive inflation. > > Let’s hope they do that. With the economy crashing and burning all around us, idiot MAGAs would still be going on about how great Trump is because he sent us all a check. These people will _never_ see the truth. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2297 "2025-02-24T17:05:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > > > Trump looking at naming right-wing radio host Dan Bongino to head the Secret Service > > I literally have no idea how to react to this. This has to be him trolling us. You are quite right. Instead: > **[Dan Bongino: Trump names podcaster as deputy FBI director](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwd2qrn1e2o)** > > The former New York City police officer will supervise daily operations and serve under new FBI director Kash Patel. I was expecting that the FBI director (Patel) would just be the guy who makes the Maga/pro-Trump speeches while the Deputy director would be an experienced guy who does the actual work of running the FBI–but I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2298 "2025-02-24T17:07:01Z")
Why is Dan Bongino? (That’s not a typo. That’s the actual question.) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2299 "2025-02-24T18:01:07Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Liz Truss set a high bar to clear when it comes to causing severe damage to an economy quickly. trump: “Hold my diet coke!” > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > You do realize that this meme was started as a joke, and the joke is the date of Feb 30th, right? > Think about it. Oh c’mon, that was just a typo. The actual, _for reals_ date is February 29, 2025. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2300 "2025-02-24T18:20:52Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > You do realize that this meme was started as a joke, and the joke is the date of Feb 30th, right? > Think about it. The date is a joke, but the idea that Trump was going to hand out checks to everyone started before he was elected. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=114) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=116)