# 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:** 153
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3041 "2025-03-16T12:05:57Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > I just kind of hate being the last one standing in this muck lol. I wish I were the last one! Having children and grandchildren makes it worse. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3042 "2025-03-16T12:53:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I personally hold Trump responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans due to his promoting covid misinformation, denialism, and quack remedies instead of just telling people to stay home and wear masks. I totally agree. It baffles me that more wasn’t made of this during the Harris campaign. The man is a murderer, and will never be held accountable for it. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3043 "2025-03-16T13:13:09Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It baffles me that more wasn’t made of this during the Harris campaign It doesn’t baffle me; the public has been successfully gaslit over that, so she would have had to whack-a-mole several levels of disinformation before she could start to make that case. There was an information war, but the election was too late to fight it (on that topic anyway). It is enraging though. The US was the country that developed several of the covid vaccines, in record time, yet it was the one that had the most deaths. Yet not only does Trump not get any blame for his false statements, callousness and incompetence, he basically gets a mulligan for the whole year. Even left-leaning news sources would say the economy did great under Trump, for example, giving him a pass for 2020 that no democrat president would ever get. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3044 "2025-03-16T14:25:02Z")
I can’t read the article because it’s paywalled, but from the Facebook meme: > The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy’s bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. > > He was not dead. > Elon Musk’s DOGE marked this poor man, 82-year-old Ned Johnson, dead. They removed $5,000 from his bank savings account, and cancelled his Social Security and Medicare. > > In one digital move, Elon Musk obliterated this man’s life…and there’s no way for Johnson and his wife to repair the damage DOGE caused. > **[I found a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/)** > > “Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3045 "2025-03-16T14:54:34Z")
I found a non-paywalled article. > **[Social Security Recipient Rises From The Dead.](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/16/2310572/-Social-Security-Recipient-Rises-From-The-Dead)** > > Musk/DOGE are on a crusade to remove millions of supposedly dead people from the Social Security rolls. In this cause they have lied in suggesting the system is making social security payments to people impossibly (like 150 years) old. But the... ---
**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:** [March 16, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3046 "2025-03-16T14:57:51Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > > [@Ellecram](#): > > > > I just kind of hate being the last one standing in this muck lol. > > I wish I were the last one! Having children and grandchildren makes it worse. Oh I absolutely agree. It’s difficult thinking of the future for your young ones. I just wish I had died long before this with the rest of of my family. I am happy they are not here to experience all of this. I hate that I am still here is all I meant. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3047 "2025-03-16T15:01:09Z")
This too shall pass. Please enjoy what we have, it lasts too short. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3048 "2025-03-16T15:06:37Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > In one digital move, Elon Musk obliterated this man’s life…and there’s no way for Johnson and his wife to repair the damage DOGE caused. Damn. That is evil. 🤬 * * * Aside: I watched a cop show on TV recently where the police force’s IT guy wanted to get the Bad Guy to admit to some stuff. He didn’t beat up the bad guy, torture him, or threaten his family. Instead he told the guy (this was in France) that he would delete his government social security accounts (whatever they call it), his medical history and access, all of his personal insurance, delete his bank accounts, delete his driver’s license and car registration, cancel his cell phone account and number, his internet access, and all other digital links between the guy and well, _the rest of the world._ In this day and age, that is obliteration. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3049 "2025-03-16T15:11:59Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Next, to the magaflatearthers, fucking stop telling me your idol is not antisemitic when he just loves all things Nazi so much](https://www.aol.com/trump-shared-article-pink-triangle-113039664.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > In a [Truth Social post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114132787592380677) on Sunday, President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) shared an article with a promo image depicting a symbol previously used by Nazis to identify gay men during the Holocaust. > > > > The opinion article published in [The Washington Times](https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/19/army-recruitment-ads-look-quite-different-trump/) titled, “Army recruitment ads look quite different under [Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/),” shows an illustrated television as the leading image. In the middle of the TV is an upside-down pink triangle crossed out by a red “no” symbol. To pick a slight nit, you can love the Nazi approach to governing and not be anti-Semitic. Your own posted example shows that. Now, he and his ilk have used dog whistles (“global elite”, Soros, etc), but has yet to actually disadvantage Jews like he has brown people, Muslims, etc. [sarcasm] I mean, c’mon. His Son-in-Law is Jewish; his daughter converted, his grandchildren are Jewish! He can’t be anti-Semitic![/sarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3050 "2025-03-16T15:12:34Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > I hate that I am still here is all I meant Sister, I know what you mean! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3051 "2025-03-16T15:55:38Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > I somewhat agree with you. But I do think there is a moral difference between deaths through indifference/incompetence and actually shooting them. If I had an ounce of artistic skill, I’d create a “trolley problem” meme here with “tax cuts for rich guys” on the main track and “millions of people in Africa” on the switch track, and Donald and Elon pulling the switch with gusto. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3052 "2025-03-16T17:47:08Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > His Son-in-Law is Jewish; his daughter converted, his grandchildren are Jewish! He can’t be anti-Semitic! My feeling is that Trump’s antisemitism is a bit idiosyncratic. He believes all that garbage about Jews controlling the media, banks, etc. but rather than get upset about it he admires them like he admires all dictators. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3053 "2025-03-16T21:36:18Z")
> The sources also emphasized that “a U.S. invasion of Panama is unlikely and would only come under serious consideration if a larger American military presence in Panama does not achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of reclaiming the waterway.” [https://www.rawstory.com/trump-panama-canal-2671323341/](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-panama-canal-2671323341/) ---
**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:** [March 16, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3054 "2025-03-16T22:19:16Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > My wife is an RN, BSN (worked in wound care), and she’s a Certified Foot Care Specialist. How is she at treating bone spurs? ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3055 "2025-03-16T23:20:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’m not asking for a better link. I want the poster to give me an idea of what is IN the video so I will feel motivated to click on the link. The person in the link does videos and memes in Canada between customers. He is VERY angry with Americans and doesn’t think that he will ever be able to trust us ever again. I’m getting similar pushback from many people in Canada who literally want to corner American sounding tourists and harass them. It’s (from what I see) getting Really Ugly in Canada. They’re calling for fistfights, spitting in food, throwing drinks in faces of people for just Sounding like Americans. They really think Pumpkin Head is going to invade. Rump usually likes to threaten, intimidate, and find a way to buy when items sell low and then sell when they go back up. I honestly don’t think he has the balls to invade Anyone… but he has really riled up the Canadians. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3056 "2025-03-16T23:52:08Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > I honestly don’t think he has the balls to invade Anyone… but he has really riled up the Canadians. They said the same thing about Bush, that he wasn’t “manly” enough to invade Iraq. Then he did. It doesn’t _take_ “balls” to order _other_ people to die for you, it’s a fundamentally erroneous argument. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3057 "2025-03-16T23:56:11Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I’d create a “trolley problem” meme here with “tax cuts for rich guys” on the main track and “millions of people in Africa” on the switch track, and Donald and Elon pulling the switch with gusto. There was a meme going around, “You have a button. If you push it, you get a million dollars, but someone you don’t know dies.” A follow-up meme added, “By the way, every billionaire you’ve ever heard of spends all day just pushing that button, over and over again.” ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3058 "2025-03-16T23:59:45Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > but he has really riled up the Canadians. Given the stereotype of the Canadian temperament . . . that really needs to sink in. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3059 "2025-03-17T00:02:24Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > There was a meme going around, “You have a button. If you push it, you get a million dollars, but someone you don’t know dies.” That’s not a meme, it’s a story by Richard Matheson that was adapted for The Twilight Zone. > **[Button, Button (The Twilight Zone)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone))** > > "Button, Button" is the second segment of the 20th episode of the first season of the revival of the television series The Twilight Zone. The segment is based on the 1970 short story of the same name by Richard Matheson; the same short story forms the basis of the 2009 film The Box. It poses the question of whether an ordinary person would be willing to cause a total stranger to die in exchange for $200,000 ($1 million in The Box) by simply pushing a button. In a documentary on the making of t... ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3060 "2025-03-17T00:06:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > That’s not a meme, it’s a story by Richard Matheson that was adapted for The Twilight Zone Yes, but it was a story that got meme-ified. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=152) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=154)