# 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:** 166
**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:** [March 22, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3301 "2025-03-22T23:50:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump says he’s revoked Adam Kinzinger’s security clearance. > > Kinzinger says he didn’t have one. Here’s Adam Kinzinger himself on the matter: > **[Trump’s Latest Stunt: Revoking a Clearance I Don’t Even Have](https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-latest-stunt-revoking-a-clearance)** > > While I was enjoying the company of friends, Trump was trembling with rage. Ha ---
**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 22, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3302 "2025-03-22T23:58:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Exactly my thoughts. They’re t taking their own sweet time about it. As opposed to the Post’s suicide by owner. ---
**Author:** ![JoePockets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@JoePockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoePockets)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3303 "2025-03-23T00:25:54Z")
When this has gone full circle the GOP candidates will doing plenty of crow eating! I doubt Trump would win today if there were a election! ---
**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 23, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3304 "2025-03-23T00:33:34Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > This is where the idea falls apart Dealing with Trump’s payment issues is easy. Ask for 50% up front, when he still wants you. He knows he can screw you out of the other 50% on the back end. My secret is, I’ll be charging him 200%. ---
**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 23, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3305 "2025-03-23T00:49:37Z")
> **[Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/markzaidesq.bsky.social/post/3lkwp5bcigk25)** > > Apparently I have lost my security clearance for a third time. This is the infamous Beetlejuice policy that the Trump Administration is newly implementing. ---
**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 23, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3306 "2025-03-23T00:56:12Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > My secret is, I’ll be charging him 200%. Ages ago when he was building his Atlantic City empire I read an article where a contractor took him to task for not paying contractors. The experienced ones in the area would submit bids with a “Trump surcharge” so that when he failed to pay they’d still make at least _some_ money off of the deal. Every so often some kid who’d just started would underbid the old hands with a normal bid based on expected costs – and then go bankrupt when Trump stiffed him. ---
**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 23, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3307 "2025-03-23T01:10:44Z")
Exactly. Trump has no idea how much anything actually costs, so you stick him on the front end. As long as he thinks he’s stiffed you on the back end, he thinks he’s won. So let him “win”. ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3308 "2025-03-23T01:26:09Z")
I remember going to Atlantic City for the first time in 1990-91. I’d been to Philly many a time, for months at a time. Saw PPV fights at Trump-owned casinos. I remember thinking AC was kinda like East Vegas. When I got there, I was like…so this is it? I mean the place looked dead then and I don’t think MAGA Jesus had quite filed for bankruptcy just yet (btw, how does a casino go bankrupt?) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3309 "2025-03-23T01:42:28Z")
> [@natureboy](#): > > (btw, how does a casino go bankrupt?) [Here’s](https://betm.co/casinos-that-went-bankrupt/) a list of 14 notable casinos that have gone bankrupt, including the Riveria in Vegas, which declared bankruptcy in 1955, the year it opened. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3310 "2025-03-23T02:04:33Z")
> [@natureboy](#): > > I remember thinking AC was kinda like East Vegas. When I got there, I was like…so this is it? I remember an article that was all breathless about the AC casinos were allowed to be open from Friday morning through Sunday evening. I was imagining a casino in Las Vegas, or Reno for that matter, telling people, “Okay, we’re closing for the night – you gotta leave now.” They’d have a riot on their hands. ---
**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 23, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3311 "2025-03-23T04:32:57Z")
This is some weird shit. Lunch at Mar-a-Lago I assume. Elon looks high as a kite. > **[Oliver Alexander (@oalexanderdk.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/oalexanderdk.bsky.social/post/3lkxxn3dp3k2i)** > > This somehow perfectly sums up the Trump administration. ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3312 "2025-03-23T05:12:41Z")
[What the fuck?](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-suggests-us-could-join-212903594.html) > [@](#): > > President Trump said Friday he liked the idea of the United States joining the British Commonwealth after a report claimed [King Charles III](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/king-charles-iii) would make an offer. > > “I love King Charles,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday morning while linking to an article citing a Daily Mail report that said the monarch would secretly offer the U.S. associate membership in the Commonwealth during Trump’s second state visit to Britain. “Sounds good to me!” > > Trump also reposted the same report about the king’s “secret” offer of membership late Saturday morning. No doubt he thinks he will be elected Head of the Commonwealth. ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3313 "2025-03-23T05:18:48Z")
Is the king even allowed to make an offer like that? Sounds like one of those “on the advice of his ministers” deals to me. ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3314 "2025-03-23T05:23:44Z")
As always, odds are Trump doesn’t know that. ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3315 "2025-03-23T05:29:43Z")
Since the Head of the Commonwealth is a ceremonial position, it’s likely Charles III does not have the authority. I also doubt C3 as the inclination. [Here are the criteria to join, process for joining, and benefits of membership in the Commonwealth of Nations.](https://thecommonwealth.org/about/joining) > [@](#): > > ## Eligibility criteria for membership > > At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Uganda in November 2007, Heads of Government reviewed the recommendations of the Committee on Commonwealth Membership and agreed on the following core criteria for Membership: > > - an applicant country should, as a general rule, have had a historic constitutional association with an existing Commonwealth member, save in exceptional circumstances > - in exceptional circumstances, applications should be considered on a case-by-case basis > - an applicant country should accept and comply with Commonwealth fundamental values, principles, and priorities as set out in the [1971 Declaration of Commonwealth Principles](https://thecommonwealth.org/declaration-commonwealth-principles-1971)and contained in other subsequent [Declarations](https://thecommonwealth.org/commonwealth-declarations) > - an applicant country must demonstrate commitment to: democracy and democratic processes, including free and fair elections and representative legislatures; the rule of law and independence of the judiciary; good governance, including a well-trained public service and transparent public accounts; and protection of human rights, freedom of expression, and equality of opportunity > - an applicant country should accept Commonwealth norms and conventions, such as the use of the English language as the medium of inter-Commonwealth relations, and acknowledge His Majesty King Charles III as the Head of the Commonwealth > - new members should be encouraged to join [the Commonwealth Foundation](https://commonwealthfoundation.com/), and to promote vigorous civil society and business organisations within their countries, and to foster participatory democracy through regular civil society consultations. > > ## Process for joining the Commonwealth > > For eligible countries, there is a membership process which has to be followed once the formal expression of interest to join is triggered. This entails the following: > > 1. An informal assessment undertaken by the Secretary-General following an expression of interest by an aspirant country > 2. Consultation by the Secretary-General with member states > 3. An invitation to the interested country to make a formal application > 4. A formal application presenting evidence of the functioning of democratic processes and popular support in that country for joining the Commonwealth. > > The procedure also sets out that the application would thereafter be considered by Heads of Government at the next CHOGM and, if they reach consensus on accepting it, that country would then join the Commonwealth and be invited to attend subsequent meetings. > > ## Benefits of membership > > Commonwealth member countries benefit from being part of a mutually supportive community of independent and sovereign states, aided by more than 80 Commonwealth organisations. > > The Commonwealth Secretariat, established in 1965, supports Commonwealth member countries to achieve development, democracy and peace. We are a voice for small and vulnerable states and a champion for young people. > > We help to strengthen governance, build inclusive institutions and promote justice and human rights. Our work helps to grow economies and boost trade, empower young people, and address threats such as climate change, debt and inequality. > > We provide training and technical assistance and support decision-makers to draw up legislation and deliver policies. We deploy experts and observers who offer impartial advice and solutions to national problems. We also provide systems, software and research for managing resources. > > At Commonwealth summits, we bring together government leaders whose decisions will have an enduring impact on all citizens. By uniting our member countries in this way, we help to amplify their voices and achieve collective action on global challenges. > > Our work supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Looks like it’s dead in the water so long as Firxt Felon47 is in office. ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3316 "2025-03-23T05:40:42Z")
What an asshole. Just say you aren’t going to comply with the judge’s order and stop trying to be cutesy about it. These people, what a bunch of juvenile shits. > > > The Washington Times @WashTimes ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3317 "2025-03-23T05:42:28Z")
wrong thread,; carry on ---
**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 23, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3318 "2025-03-23T06:25:07Z")
I bet appeals judges love when you misgender the originating judge in a case where you’re trying to claim you aren’t motivated by personal animus. ---
**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 23, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3319 "2025-03-23T06:42:07Z")
I was more curious about the _“Judge”_ thing. Hey Pete? Don’t think Reyes is a real judge? Please, keep fucking around and find out! ---
**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 23, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3320 "2025-03-23T06:45:55Z")
> **[Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/nasa-drops-plan-first-woman-moon?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us)** > > Promise was central plank to space agency’s Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to the lunar surface in 2027 Can’t give the Moon cooties, after all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=165) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=167)