# 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:** 155
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3081 "2025-03-17T15:58:37Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > I would also bet the house that he keeps score quite casually - gimmees/improved lies/no penalty strokes/mulligans… You should really read some of the stories. He will literally race ahead on his golf cart so he can place another ball where he wants without other players seeing (before they’ve even taken their shots in many instances), literally toss his or other players’ balls around, claim balls hit by other players, and other shenanigans. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to accurately assess his handicap - he has never been known to play a single round in his life without significantly violating the rules of golf. ETA: it’s a low, low bar, but he has slightly more shame about it than Kim Jong-Il, who claimed 11 holes in one and finishing 38 under on his very first round of golf. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3082 "2025-03-17T15:58:51Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > We are all officially sick. It’s not him: It’s us! [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+hPQ9fHGL.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+hPQ9fHGL.jpg) ---
**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, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3083 "2025-03-17T16:05:40Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > I wonder whether your sickness insurance covers that. I wonder if you can call in “Trump is still president” to work. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3084 "2025-03-17T16:08:42Z")
Yeah, almost two weeks ago - just was looking at the .gov site to see if he made any statement about St. Patrick’s day. From the pseudo-SOTU / joint address: > And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland. (Laughter.) We strongly support your right to determine your own future, and, if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America. > We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we’re working with everybody involved to try and get it. But we need it, really, for international world security. And I think we’re going to get it. One way or the other, we’re going to get it I don’t recall why mentioning Greenland brought on (Laughter). Are they there to amuse republicans? And I still remember the malevolent look in his eyes when he said that last line. ---
**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, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3085 "2025-03-17T16:18:36Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > I don’t recall why mentioning Greenland brought on (Laughter). Are they there to amuse republicans? Yep. “The cruelty is the point”. “The amazing people of Greenland”. “Our cherished 51st state”. These are the words of a bully, who calls you his “best buddy” even as he’s planning to stuff you in locker. He hates half of the people who are _already_ Americans. No way are the Greenlanders or Canadians going to be considered “amazing” or be “cherished” once he’s got his claws into us. We’ll be ungrateful Never Trumpers who haven’t even bothered to say “Thank you” for having our sovereignty and rights stripped away from us. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3086 "2025-03-17T16:34:17Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to accurately assess his handicap - he has never been known to play a single round in his life without significantly violating the rules of golf. So, that matches my impression he has never uttered two truthful sentences in a row. ---
**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 17, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3087 "2025-03-17T16:40:03Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > I don’t recall why mentioning Greenland brought on (Laughter). Because the _“LAUGH”_ sign flashed on, of course. ---
**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 17, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3088 "2025-03-17T16:41:09Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump’s behavior. Despite the examples given, this applies to most of the current GOP. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3089 "2025-03-17T16:49:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Because the _“LAUGH”_ sign flashed on, of course. Timing is everything and the republicans have no sense of comedic timing (even if as **Horatius** said it was all about cruelty) > [@Coriolanus](#): > > We strongly support your right to determine your own future, Here is where the ROTFL sign should light up. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3090 "2025-03-17T16:52:30Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > You should really read some of the stories. He will literally race ahead on his golf cart… I want to see him go golfing with three other people; Trump hits his first shot and drives off down the course, and the other players ditch him and go back into the clubhouse. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3091 "2025-03-17T16:56:28Z")
As the rule of law continues to erode… > **[Brown University professor deported despite judge’s order, defying US court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-deported-lebanon)** > > Rasha Alawieh’s case highlights Donald Trump’s escalating immigration policies and growing tensions with universities ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3092 "2025-03-17T17:51:34Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Yeah - I’m sure he is a better golfer than he appears (just from the amount he plays, on excellent courses.) But getting down to single digits is quite impressive and unusual. Under 5 is truly exceptional. There is NO WAY someone with his swing is under 5. I could easily imagine him being a bogey golfer from the white tees. I would also bet the house that he keeps score quite casually - gimmees/improved lies/no penalty strokes/mulligans… Which is fine, but makes the concept of a handicap pretty much useless. But…but…Trump shoots better scores than most pro golfers! [Donald Trump makes surprising announcement after claiming to have won another club championship](https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/2025/03/16/donald-trump-golf-club-championship-trump-international/82475942007/) > Later that year, Trump posted he won the[Senior Club Championship at his club in Bedminster, N.J.,](https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/2023/08/27/donald-trumps-latest-golf-feat-senior-club-championship-at-bedminster-because-i-am-just-a-good-golfe/70694503007/) with a 67. That same month, LIV Golf held an event at the same course and of the 144 rounds, only six LIV golfers shot 67 or lower. > > In recounting that victory, Trump wrote online: “For some reason, I am just a good golfer/athlete - I have won many Club Championships, and it is always a great honor!” [LIV Golf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIV_Golf) is the Saudi-backed alternative to the PGA, it appears. Saudis giving Trump money through hosting golf tournaments at his resorts seems par for the course. ---
**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 17, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3093 "2025-03-17T18:54:51Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Saudis giving Trump money through hosting golf tournaments at his resorts seems par for the course. ISWYDT. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3094 "2025-03-17T21:29:14Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > “Sir, are you insane?” Now _this_ I could easily believe someone asked with tears in their eyes. > [@Horatius](#): > > I wonder if you can call in “Trump is still president” to work. Not if you’re one of lucky few federal workers left employed. Get your tush to the office (even if the office is no longer there)! > [@Horatius](#): > > He hates half of the people who are _already_ Americans. Wrong. He hates _all_ the people but one who are already Americans. > [@DesertDog](#): > > So, that matches my impression he has never uttered two truthful sentences in a row. Mine is he has never uttered one in a row. This just occurred to me. The reason he loves the word _won_ so much is it’s short and is an anagram of _own_. ---
**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, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3095 "2025-03-17T21:50:16Z")
Trump says the Kennedy Center has too many rooms and the pillars have doors in them and the union wouldn’t let Lee Greenwood sing at the board meeting, which are all completely normal things for a very stable genius to be worried about. > **['Tremendous disrepair': Trump tears into Kennedy Center and takes aim at...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kennedy-center-2671343688/)** > > President Donald Trump did not hold back in disparaging the world-famous John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, where he attended his first board meeting as new chair. > In February, Trump announced that he would “immediately... ---
**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, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3096 "2025-03-17T22:03:19Z")
On today’s episode of THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN IS MISSING: Q: Are you going to comply with the judge’s order regarding rehiring the federal workers? TRUMP: What are you talking about? > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lklfcxcmwz2c)** > > Q: Are you going to comply with the judge's order regarding rehiring the federal workers? > > TRUMP: What are you talking about? > > Q: The judge that ruled the govt has to rehire the fired federal workers. Do you plan to comply? > > TRUMP: That's a very... REPORTER: There were 18 Secret Service agents protecting Hunter Biden in South Africa this wknd. Who’s paying for that and do you plan to revoke his Secret Service protections? TRUMP: That will be something I’ll look at this afternoon. I just heard about it for the first time. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lklw2762ct2o)** > > REPORTER: There were 18 Secret Service agents protecting Hunter Biden in South African this wknd. Who's paying for that and do you plan to revoke his Secret Service protections? > > TRUMP: That will be something I'll look at this afternoon. I just heard... “We’re bringing a big move onto Washington DC.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lklvu6uprm2r)** > > Trump: "We're bringing a big move onto Washington DC. We're gonna stop the crime ... we're cleaning up Washington DC." “We had Lee Greenwood wanted to sing a little song today. And because of the cost and the union structure, for him to sing a song just for the board it was gonna cost $30k. They wanted $30k to move a piano. So you can’t have that. We’re gonna fix it up.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lklvrbg5642j)** > > Trump: "We had Lee Greenwood wanted to sing a little song today. And because of the cost and the union structure, for him to sing a song just for the board it was gonna cost $30k. They wanted $30k to move a piano. So you can't have that. We're gonna... ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3097 "2025-03-17T22:28:15Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The reason he loves the word _won_ so much is it’s short and is an anagram of _own_. He doesn’t know what an anagram is. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3098 "2025-03-17T22:30:38Z")
But if it shows up at his door, he simply _has to_ consider the possibility that it’s actually that pesky land shark again. ---
**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, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3099 "2025-03-17T22:31:26Z")
“Anna Graham is a very beautiful woman, and I hear she’s a fan of “Trump”, unlike the very unfair and nasty Taylor Swift.” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3100 "2025-03-17T22:33:29Z")
I just learned an interesting tid-bit that affects no one. My niece graduated from St. Anslem’s college in New Hampshire in the same class as Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt. I only know this through a conversation with my mother. I’m a bit estranged from my niece ever since the ‘ditching me in the middle of the desert after I drove all the way across country’ incident, but from what I’ve heard she was an irritating Trumper there too. My niece worked on some sort of broadcasting projects with her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=154) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=156)