# 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:** 117
**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 25, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2321 "2025-02-25T02:09:30Z")
Only registered Republicans are eligible for the MAGAbux check. Much cheaper, and more bang for the bux. ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2322 "2025-02-25T02:19:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Only registered Republicans are eligible for the MAGAbux check. 19 states don’t register voters by party affiliation. Including Texas. ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2323 "2025-02-25T02:33:38Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > How do you like _them_ eggs?? 🤣 ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2324 "2025-02-25T02:45:51Z")
We need to have a reddit-like “remind me” as he says so much garbage and “pretty soon” - and he did it all the time as yet-to-be-felon-45. Eggs will be back “soon”. The USA will be ravaging the lands of Ukraine for rare earth stuff “soon” (if not for the unfunny Nazi Jew) and no more about 51st states or even Greenland. He’s got Stermer coming in a few days and will have absolutely nothing to say to him, other than having a “we had a great conversation, I mostly disagreed with him yet he had some things to say. And I’ve got an invite to see KCIII so all is good” ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2325 "2025-02-25T02:48:12Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > "I mostly disagreed with him yet he had some things to say. And I’ve got an invite to see KCIII so all is good” I know the king’s job is to be apolitical, but knowing how strongly ol’ Chuck feels about climate change, I just wish he could somehow get permission to throw 300 years of governmental tradition out the window and tear Trump a new one in front of a camera crew. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2326 "2025-02-25T02:52:31Z")
Knight him, with vigor! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2327 "2025-02-25T03:51:03Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Knight him, with vigor! Like this? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8Qtgm5g5Gyo/maxresdefault.jpg "Arise, Sir Loin of Beef") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qtgm5g5Gyo&t=00) ---
**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 25, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2328 "2025-02-25T04:02:21Z")
I honestly thought [this Yahoo link](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-selling-official-doge-membership-182037002.html) was to an Onion story. > President Donald Trump’s political operation is selling [DOGE](https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-department-of-government-efficiency?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com) membership cards, part of an effort to capitalize on the popularity of the White House DOGE office and [Elon Musk](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com)’s role in it. > > “Today, I’m announcing that YOU can become an OFFICIAL TRUMP DOGE MEMBER!” Trump’s political operation wrote in an email to supporters Sunday night. > > For a minimum $47 donation, supporters can get their name on a black metal card that says “Trump DOGE member.” If that is too pricy, there are also Trump DOGE T-shirts. One shirt for $40 depicts Trump and Musk. Another for $28 shows Trump, Musk, and the Shiba Inu dog, which inspired the original doge meme. [Hegseth annonces military attorneys will no longer be roadblocks, aka “they will just follow orders”.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/hegseth-trump-install-military-attorneys-164814396.html) (The link goes to _Yahoo_.) > Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended the Trump administration’s [purge of top military lawyers](https://apnews.com/article/trump-brown-joint-chiefs-of-staff-firing-fa428cc1508a583b3bf5e7a5a58f6acf) because they don’t want people in those roles who “attempt to be roadblocks to … anything that happens.” > > _Fox News Sunday_ host Shannon Bream brought up the firings, which happened Friday night, in an interview today with Hegseth. She asked him to react to a quote from Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks, who wrote on X (formerly Twitter) of Trump’s firing three-star judge advocates general: “In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars. It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” And don’t forget to buy your ~~politician~~ membership card! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2329 "2025-02-25T04:09:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@Yahoo!](#): > > > > President Donald Trump’s political operation is selling [DOGE](https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-department-of-government-efficiency?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com) membership cards, part of an effort to capitalize on the popularity of the White House DOGE office and [Elon Musk](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com)’s role in it. > > > > “Today, I’m announcing that YOU can become an OFFICIAL TRUMP DOGE MEMBER!” Trump’s political operation wrote in an email to supporters Sunday night. > > > > For a minimum $47 donation, supporters can get their name on a black metal card that says “Trump DOGE member.” If that is too pricy, there are also Trump DOGE T-shirts. One shirt for $40 depicts Trump and Musk. Another for $28 shows Trump, Musk, and the Shiba Inu dog, which inspired the original doge meme. How cartoonish can they get? > **[Western Animation - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CardCarryingVillain/WesternAnimation)** > > Adventure Time: Hunson Abadeer, a.k.a. the Dark Lord of Evil, describes himself as "completely evil". Kinda justified because he's a demon from the Nightosphere. Played straight with the Tree Witch from "To Cut A Woman's Hair". Reconstructed with … ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2330 "2025-02-25T05:09:36Z")
> [@from Monty's link](#): > > part of an effort to capitalize on the popularity of the White House DOGE office and [Elon Musk](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com)’s role in it. I believe that should read “to monetize the popularity…” ---
**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 25, 2025, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2331 "2025-02-25T08:03:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I just wish he could somehow get permission to throw 300 years of governmental tradition out the window and tear Trump a new one in front of a camera crew Nah, just follow the old family tradition of taking him on a nice drive in the countryside. > **[That one time when Queen Elizabeth hazed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia](https://www.vox.com/2015/1/23/7877243/king-abdullah-queen-drive)** > > Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology,... ---
**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 25, 2025, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2332 "2025-02-25T08:08:32Z")
The State of the Union is rapidly approaching. What would happen if the one independent representative and all of the Democrats in both houses refuse to attend? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2333 "2025-02-25T08:11:22Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I know the king’s job is to be apolitical, but knowing how strongly ol’ Chuck feels about climate change, I just wish he could somehow get permission to throw 300 years of governmental tradition out the window and tear Trump a new one in front of a camera crew. I think KCIII has too much class to do that. But it would be interesting to see Trump’s reaction if KCIII has to miss a meet-and-greet with Trump, owing to having to open a hospital in Coventry, or is scheduled to attend a gala at an old-age home in Liverpool. Of course, such appointments need not be on Charles’ calendar, but Trump doesn’t need to know that. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2334 "2025-02-25T10:27:24Z")
I, for one … ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2335 "2025-02-25T10:47:10Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > He’s got Stermer coming in a few days > [@Coriolanus](#): > > yet no mention of Keir Stermer’s visit this Thursday. > [@Coriolanus](#): > > Keir Stermer is saying things I don’t want to be annoying, but this is driving me crazy. His name is spelled Keir **Starmer**. You’re the only person talking about him, and yet have gotten it wrong pretty much every time. ---
**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 25, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2336 "2025-02-25T11:27:29Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What would happen if the one independent representative and all of the Democrats in both houses refuse to attend? Trump would spend the next ten years bragging about how he was the only president to get standing ovations from _everyone_ at the SoTU. Okay, he’ll probably claim that anyways, but if the Dems don’t show up, he’ll at least be telling the truth instead of lying, for once. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2337 "2025-02-25T11:40:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > For a minimum $47 donation, supporters can get their name on a black metal card that says “Trump DOGE member.” Ah, the Mickey Musk Club. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2338 "2025-02-25T11:47:25Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > You wouldn’t believe the number of contradictory emails I’ve received, and the number of meetings managers have attended, over this silly matter. Yep: - We got the Musk email on Saturday. - Monday morning, my manager said to hold off replying until we received agency-internal guidance. - That guidance arrived around noon Monday, and instructed us to respond to the Musk email. - I replied to the Musk email late afternoon. Not ten minutes later, I was seeing in the news that OPM had declared that replying was optional: [https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5161737-opm-defends-musk-email/](https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5161737-opm-defends-musk-email/) Meanwhile, Musk and Trump still insist that not replying could lead to termination. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2339 "2025-02-25T12:09:29Z")
MAGA idiots will receive their DOGE card and try to start firing people. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2340 "2025-02-25T12:14:44Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > It does, yes. My concern is, if that one section of the CBA can be so easily contravened, why would it not be just as easy to ignore any other portion of it? Such as tour of duty or removals? Or the entirety of it? And any complaint of unfair labor practice would need to go before the MSPB - which would take how many years to decide? I have a hard time seeing this as merely the “inconvenience” of having to return to office. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=116) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=118)