# 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:** 121
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2401 "2025-02-26T05:26:48Z")
Did I miss the part where the US has a desperate need for _more_ rich fucks? ---
**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 26, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2402 "2025-02-26T09:15:50Z")
Donald Trump says he expects Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington on Friday [to sign a minerals deal](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg1402yyvet?post=asset%3A5c588dd4-37a6-4176-ac59-82bc91f44134#post) after a senior Ukrainian official says an agreement has been reached Don’t do it, Volodymyr! Trump and whatever kickback contractors his son-in-law hires will ravage Ukraine all over. I also confirmed with my wife who knows Ukrainian too, that there also is no equivalent to “Fuck you” as we know it, so Zelensky can either issue a diplomatic “No way” or say the phrases Trump will understand better. In any case (deal or no deal), Trump will call him a Nazi / fool / not funny comic / dictator. ---
**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 26, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2403 "2025-02-26T09:22:16Z")
Zelensky should give the US rights to all the minerals it can dig up within, say, [a zone 30km in radius…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_exclusion_zone) ---
**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 26, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2404 "2025-02-26T09:24:24Z")
From what I’ve read, the “deal” actually puts the money into a US-managed fund which will be used to rebuild war-damaged infrastructure in Ukraine. It seems that someone actually managed to write up a program where Ukraine gets to reap all the benefits and sold it to Trump as a victory for him, which he took because he’s a dementia-ravaged moron. ---
**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 26, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2405 "2025-02-26T09:37:47Z")
Trump posted on Truth Social an AI-generated video of Gaza being rebuilt into a Dubai-esque playground for the rich, which starts with Gazans apparently engaging in cannibalism and then progresses into massive towers, a suntanned Elon Musk eating hummus, transgender women with beards belly-dancing on the beach, giant golden statues of himself and children carrying giant golden balloons shaped like his head, children dancing around on the beach while Elon makes it rain money, a gift store selling golden Trump statuettes, Trump ballroom-dancing with a bare-assed stripper, and Trump and Bibi relaxing shirtless on deck chairs in front of the pool at “Trump Gaza”, all accompanied by an AI-generated rap with vocals that sound like a 10-year-old boy. I don’t even. > **[Trump shares AI video of Gaza vision featuring golden statues, bearded belly...](https://news.sky.com/story/trump-posts-ai-video-of-gaza-vision-featuring-golden-statues-bearded-belly-dancers-and-netanyahu-on-a-sunbed-13317241)** > > The footage, which the 78-year-old shared without comment, shows the war-ravaged territory transformed into a Middle Eastern paradise with exotic beaches, Dubai-style skyscrapers, luxury yachts and people partying - including Elon Musk. ---
**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 26, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2406 "2025-02-26T10:27:07Z")
Nope. I did not see that. I have set up an appointment ASAP with the “Endless Midnight of the Shattered Mind” clinic to dis-remember that. In other news, looks like Trump using his puny hands to always trying to bro-handshake and squeeze at least Macron have caught up to him: > **[Large bruise on Trump's hand prompts speculation over health - but White...](https://news.sky.com/story/bruise-on-trumps-hand-prompts-speculation-over-health-but-white-house-blames-shaking-hands-13316982)** > > Donald Trump's right hand appeared to be bruised when he was pictured on Monday during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. The US leader, who started his second stint in the White House last month, is yet to release his full medical... > **[Watch Trump and Macron's history of intense handshakes](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cjev944z2kzo)** > > The pair met at the White House on Monday - here's a look back at a series of unexpectedly touching greetings. From 2018: > **[Trump's hands are back in the news](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44423547)** > > And it's all to do with a certain kind of handshake. Even without his platform shoes, he’s taller than both Starmer and Zelensky yet I hope both of them are squeezing tennis balls or bean-bags right now to put the hurt on Donald. > In a December interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press, Mr Trump said he would release his full medical report, but he has yet to do so. Is Doctor Quack not available to say again that Trump is the fittest President ever? Did Theodore Roosevelt shake people’s hands? Yes he did. Were Theodore Roosevelt’s hands ever bruised? No, they were not. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2407 "2025-02-26T12:49:20Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Different subject - anyone hear an update as to the “deferred resignation” program? AFAIK, it was not available to my shop - or the majority of my Agency. But I thought a court declined to stop it, and the open period was to have ended a couple of weeks ago. > > Sure, there is a lot going on, that it is hard to keep up with all of it. But I’d think that by now there would at least be an estimate of how many folk were going to be going on admin leave in the near future. I saw on Reddit that some folk have been told their admin leave would begin this Friday… A coworker signed up for it. Last Thursday, it became official: she was informed that this Friday (2/28) would be her last day. It was announced to the whole group, and I expect she also told friends and family, and maybe even started putting plans into motion for post-retirement life. Then this Monday morning, she was informed that because of some obscure technical detail, she was not eligible and would therefore not be retiring this Friday. She ain’t in a good mood this week. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2408 "2025-02-26T13:38:14Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > Did Theodore Roosevelt shake people’s hands? Yes he did. Were Theodore Roosevelt’s hands ever bruised? No, they were not. And TR was nearly 30 years younger at the end of his term in office. ---
**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 26, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2409 "2025-02-26T13:49:41Z")
I mean _thousands of people have died_. And this moron can only fantasize about a golden statue to himself and letching at (bearded) women. In the magaverse, people have been saying “What’s so wrong with a prosperous Gaza?” So I’ve had to point out that firstly this is on the back of ethnic cleansing, but also (as many don’t care about that) it will be an absolute powder keg. Is it really worth risking a massive regional, if not worldwide, conflict for the sake of somewhere to moor a fancy yacht? ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2410 "2025-02-26T13:57:42Z")
Yes. Displaced Palestinians have caused destabilization in both Jordan and Egypt in the past, and were a partial cause of the Lebanese civil war. I will say that on the RWNJ website I visit, that argument got some traction. It was along the lines of “ah, they are all crazy over there” but they did seem to recognize that it made more war more likely. That said, for 40 million Christian Zionists, that’s a feature not a bug. ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2411 "2025-02-26T14:00:12Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > Yes. Displaced Palestinians have caused destabilization in both Jordan and Egypt in the past, and were a partial cause of the Lebanese civil war. Of course their unspoken solution to that issue is “well, then just _kill_ them instead.” One might even call it a Final Solution. ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2412 "2025-02-26T14:29:14Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > In the magaverse, people have been saying “What’s so wrong with a prosperous Gaza?” If the prosperity were going to the Palestinians who actually live in Gaza? Maybe. But considering the plan to remove all of them, who exactly is going to prosper? ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2413 "2025-02-26T14:58:51Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > > _ **THIS IS NOT AN ONION STORY!** _ > > Once upon a time, it was. > > [U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship - The Onion](https://theonion.com/u-s-offers-platinumplus-preferred-citizenship-1819564488/) I just read the Onion article- it’s about wealthy Americans who are already U.S. citizens paying for extra benefits, like exemption from jury duty and speeding tickets, or extra voting privileges-- not wealthy foreigners. Even the Onion, as [scarily prescient as it can be](https://theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882/), could not imagine, as satire, something as ridiculous as what trump is actually proposing. ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2414 "2025-02-26T15:03:23Z")
I don’t even know which thread this goes in. So many… [Comer Threatens to Have Sgt. of Arms Forcibly Remove Congressman For Calling \> Trump ‘Grifter’](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chaos-in-house-as-comer-threatens-to-have-sgt-of-arms-forcibly-remove-congressman-for-calling-trump-grifter/ar-AA1zMjsz) > "So if we wanna look at waste, fraud, and abuse — which I’m down to do — why is there complete silence on the other side of the aisle about looking at the complete grifter that is the President of the United States,” Frost said, “and the richest man on the Earth, which is looking into things like social security and different things like that? Why don’t we investigate the real corruption?” > > After a brief period of multiple committee members talking over one another, Comer restored order and asked Frost to “revise” his prior remarks. Comer also said Frost “improperly” identified Trump. > > In response, Frost doubled down by calling the two men “President Musk” and “grifter-in-chief Trump.” James Comer didn’t like this, and said there was a motion because Frost ‘disparaged the President’. Frost retracted his ‘grifter in chief’ statement, but refused to retract his statement that Trump is a grifter. > Comer then ordered that the words be “stricken from the transcript” and barred Frost from speaking for the rest of the hearing. When a congresswoman was called on to speak, she attempted to defind Frost. Comer said, ‘Skip her! Go to the next one.’ ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2415 "2025-02-26T15:28:02Z")
Another story that could easily be an Onion headline: [‘Trump Gaza is finally here!’: US president promotes Gaza plan in AI video](https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/world/trump-promotes-gaza-plan-ai-video-intl/index.html) …complete with a screenshot from the video showing what looks like a glitzy casino with a ‘TRUMP GAZA’ marquee proudly displayed. I just had an epiphany-- I bet the reason trump came up with this plan to clear out Gaza and redevelop it is _completely and solely_ due to the the fact that ‘TRUMP GAZA’ rhymes with ‘TRUMP PLAZA’. Ethnic cleansing for fun and profit! Well, scratch the profit part, since all of trump’s casinos have lost money and gone bankrupt. But now we can go bankrupt as a nation, and not just financially, but morally and ethically! It’s the full ‘trump experience’. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2416 "2025-02-26T15:32:11Z")
Interesting comments on the Gaza video: > **[‘Bats\*\*t Lunacy’: Trump Called Out After Posting Truly Bizarre ‘What’s Next’...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-gaza-future-video_n_67bea7d3e4b0d509934aa5b2)** > > The president’s midnight message has critics asking: WTF? My favorite? > [@](#): > > I have become radicalized against AI by 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 26, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2417 "2025-02-26T15:50:21Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > And TR was nearly 30 years younger at the end of his term in office. And perhaps the fittest President though depending on toughness vs who could run the faster mile, perhaps Obama (also being quite young). Look, if Trump goes around trying to power-grip and one-up everybody he shakes hands with, it’s his problem that he gets it back in turn, 78 or 48. He also will pull you towards him and try and shake you like a rag-doll but Trudeau showed how to palm Trump’s right shoulder with his left hand and neutralise that. It’s a dickhead manoeuvrer and would have, I reckon, been beneath TR. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2418 "2025-02-26T16:05:51Z")
If TR had bruises on his hand, someone else would be hurting more. If DJT has bruises on his hand, it’s because TR rose from the grave and hit him with a ruler. ---
**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 26, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2419 "2025-02-26T16:30:43Z")
They should be embarrassed by that Gaza video! It should be mocked in all venues 24/7. ---
**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 26, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/2420 "2025-02-26T16:45:01Z")
Time to say he account was hacked. One of the DOGE guys and they’ve been harshly reprimanded. Seriously, did anyone here or the MAGA crowd think it was a good thing that Trump/Musk would be a team? In those heady days like 5 weeks ago - before DOGE. “Oh Elon Musk, he’ll be a good influence on DJT. Things won’t be batshit-crazy all day, all the time.” Yet I hope DJT owns it before the mockery gets too much and he’ll have to find a scapegoat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=120) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=122)