# 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:** 164
**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 21, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3261 "2025-03-21T20:45:10Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Cold-turkey cutoff of millions of people’s benefits should go well. That’s what cops and machineguns are for. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3262 "2025-03-21T21:56:24Z")
The New York Times has been “failing” for 10 years now. That’s one protracted death scene. ---
**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 21, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3263 "2025-03-21T22:15:10Z")
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/21/social-security-benefits-trump-doge/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/21/social-security-benefits-trump-doge/) > [@](#): > > Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek said Friday that he is consulting with agency lawyers and the Justice Department as he threatens to shut down the agency in response to a court ruling blocking Elon Musk’s team from accessing sensitive taxpayer data. > > Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued a two-week temporary restraining order Thursday that prohibits Social Security officials from sharing personally identifiable information with Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service, which has been empowered to carry out cost-cutting across the government. Do it, you morons. I dare you. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3264 "2025-03-21T23:01:36Z")
Oh good lord! 🙄 This was my fave part (which cannot be repeated too often): _[Judge] Hollander wrote that DOGE “essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion,” and “never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems.”_ EXACTLY! ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3265 "2025-03-21T23:28:20Z")
No need for libraries or museums here in idiocrasy land. [https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/03/cuts-loom-for-agency-funding-libraries-and-museums-as-trump-installs-new-leader/](https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/03/cuts-loom-for-agency-funding-libraries-and-museums-as-trump-installs-new-leader/) ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3266 "2025-03-21T23:30:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek said Friday that he is consulting with agency lawyers and the Justice Department as he threatens to shut down the agency in response to a court ruling blocking Elon Musk’s team from accessing sensitive taxpayer data. Looks like Dudek backpedaled _ **hard** _: _Less than 24 hours later — after the judge rejected his argument and the White House intervened — Dudek is saying he was “out of line.”_ -and- _“[The White House] called me and let me know it’s important to reaffirm to the public that we’re open for business,” he said. “The White House did remind me that I was out of line and so did the judge. And I appreciate that.”_ I have no doubt that Social Security is still in their crosshairs, though. They just can’t figure out how to do it. ---
**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 21, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3267 "2025-03-21T23:33:10Z")
They know how to do it. They just can’t figure out how to do it without getting blamed for it. ---
**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3268 "2025-03-22T00:28:37Z")
I don’t think they’ll be necessary. I don’t think people are angry enough to put themselves in what Trump and co will no doubt consider the line of fire. Not yet. ---
**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 22, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3269 "2025-03-22T00:34:17Z")
When they start starving they’ll get that angry and desperate fast. But then go off and die quietly after the first few thousand are massacred for defying their god-king. Trump and Musk will probably masturbate to the videos of the slaughter. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3270 "2025-03-22T00:44:52Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > drunkenly white-water rafting while in a plaster cast due to a severely broken leg? I groomed, saddled and rode my horse after cracking an elbow in a fall (no, not off him, walking too fast and tripping onto asphalt) starting a couple of days after I got treated, with the arm in a sling. Saddling with one hand (and a small assist from the sling side, ouch) wasn’t easy, but I was going to do it anyway. Come to think of it, after falling I drove home in considerable pain and only called a friend to take me to the ER when I arrived. Fortunately it was my left elbow. But I loved that horse, dammit, he was a steady Eddie, and we only walked till I healed. And I’m presuming you loved the rafting enough to suffer a little for it. ETA: But I was sober, so does that make me even stupider than you? I don’t think Felon47 does stupid things just for joy or love, but only in service to the spite and evil that animates him. ---
**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 22, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3271 "2025-03-22T01:00:12Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > alcohol-related death at a young age o I weep for what could have been! ---
**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 22, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3272 "2025-03-22T01:28:42Z")
Trump claims he didn’t sign an executive order that has his signature on it. > **[CNN flags curious 'discrepancy' as Trump denies signing order — featuring his...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deportation-flights-2671382446/)** > > President Donald Trump is once again raising eyebrows with his claim on Friday that he didn’t sign a proclamation invoking the arcane wartime law, which his administration leaned on to carry out last weekend’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang... ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3273 "2025-03-22T02:00:17Z")
[Just in case anyone, anyone at all, had any lingering doubts about how much Firxt Felon47 _loves_ himself some communist dictatorships, he’s sending Cuban refugees to Cuba.](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-revokes-legal-status-530-210307144.html) Also note these people came to America legally and have not overstayed their visas. > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration. > > The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year “parole” granted to the migrants under former President Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had U.S. sponsors. [To nobody’s surprise, except maybe that of Prexident Muxk and Firxt Felon47, continuing their little shell game with humans did not impress the judge who ordered it stopped.](https://www.aol.com/news/judge-boasberg-trump-justice-department-090053114.html) > [@](#): > > US District Judge [James Boasberg](https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/politics/boasberg-doj-deadline/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo)vowed on Friday to find out whether officials in the Trump administration violated his orders temporarily blocking the use of an 1798 law for deportations by refusing to turn two flights around last weekend. > > “I will get to the bottom of whether they violated my order – who ordered this and what the consequences will be,” Boasberg said near the end of an hourlong hearing over whether he should lift the pair of orders he issued last Saturday. > > The comments come as Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal trial-level court in Washington, DC, moves closer to deciding whether the administration flouted his orders when it allowed two flights carrying migrants being deported under the Alien Enemies Act to continue last weekend despite his verbal command that the government immediately turn the planes around and halt the deportations pending a legal challenge. > > Boasberg, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, appeared incensed on Friday over how the Justice Department has handled the fast-moving case, opening the hearing by tearing into the tone the administration had taken in some of its court filings. > > He told DOJ attorney Drew Ensign that the government had used “intemperate and disrespectful” language that he’s “never seen from the United States” as it pushed various legal arguments before him earlier this week, including the suggestion his orders from the bench last Saturday carried less weight than a written order that was issued shortly after those proceedings. [A top law firm, Paul Weiss, has rolled over for Firxt Felon47.](https://www.aol.com/news/legal-community-shaken-powerful-law-003235334.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the powerful law firm Paul Weiss caved. > > It agreed to give Donald Trump’s administration $40 million in free legal work for causes the president supports and, according to [a social media post from Trump](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114197044617921519), get rid of any internal diversity, equity and inclusion policies. > > In response, Trump rescinded his [executive order that targeted the firm](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/paul-weiss-deal-trump-executive-order-withdrawn.html) and could have cost it significant business. > > The agreement shocked many in the legal community, and for Rachel Cohen, an associate at another large firm — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP — it was the final straw. > > On Thursday night, Cohen fired off an email to her firm that said she was giving her two-weeks’ notice, unless leaders there agreed to a number of conditions that would, in effect, stand up to the Trump administration — including by refusing to cooperate with the targeting of DEI programs. [What do you know? The federal Department of Justice is being weaponized. But this is to protect Firxt Felon47 for his treason.](https://www.aol.com/news/us-justice-department-moves-protect-163634873.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has moved to shield President Donald Trump from civil lawsuits by police and Democratic lawmakers seeking to hold him responsible for violence during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. > > In court filings late on Thursday, department lawyers told U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to replace Trump as a defendant in the litigation and have the U.S. government take his place concerning certain claims because he was “acting within the scope of his office or employment” before and during the riot. Let’s see: 1. Incitement to riot while president = acting within the scope of the office of president 2. Conspiracy to commit sedition = acting within the scope of the office of president 3. Mass pardons of traitors who tried to overthrow the government = acting within the scope of the office of president 4. We now have a king, not a president. And the magaflatearthers and whatever other shades of Republicans are left in our country can now shut the fuck up about law and order, unless, of course, they’re discussing the television franchise. ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3274 "2025-03-22T02:10:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump claims he didn’t sign an executive order that has his signature on it. Maybe autopen signed without him. Or while he was dozing (DOGE-ing?) after his noontime berder. 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3275 "2025-03-22T02:10:27Z")
If Trump fucks with the Cubans he’s going to destabilize the GOP’s hold on Florida. ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3276 "2025-03-22T02:18:49Z")
Except if they no longer intend to allow honest elections, that no longer matters. Now that they have the fascist government they’ve wanted so long, the base has served its purpose and is expendable. ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3277 "2025-03-22T02:23:56Z")
To be fair, Trump is also considering a way to let Zelensky get more soldiers to fight against the Russians: > Trump is also considering whether to cancel the temporary legal status of some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the US during the conflict with Russia. [**SOURCE**](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33706jy774o) Neurosyphilis?? Who can say. In the immortal words of Chris Rock: > N\*\*\*\*\*\* and Jews is next, 'cuz that train’s _never_ late ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3278 "2025-03-22T03:32:04Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The New York Times has been “failing” for 10 years now. That’s one protracted death scene. Exactly my thoughts. They’re t taking their own sweet time about it. ---
**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 22, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3279 "2025-03-22T06:28:03Z")
When I arrived at my last duty station in the Army, one soldier in my section said, “You’re going to die!” by way of greeting. I responded, “Aren’t we all?” He then said, “You’re the first one to get that!” Interesting characther he was. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3280 "2025-03-22T06:40:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump claims he didn’t sign an executive order that has his signature on it Oh, this is awesome. [![](https://i.imgur.com/Tj52RCV.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Tj52RCV.jpg) Obviously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=163) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=165)