# 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:** 176
**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 30, 2025, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3561 "2025-03-30T07:03:15Z")
They’ll just portray Jesus as a blonde white man who personally wrote the Bible in English. ---
**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 30, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3562 "2025-03-30T07:48:15Z")
You do know there are some groups which believe the deity of the Old Testmant, the deity of the Jews, is not the deity of the New Testament, the deity of Christians, right? They thus think the Old Testament is of no value. Odd thing, though, they seem to love the vengeful part of the Old Testament. ---
**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 30, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3563 "2025-03-30T07:58:08Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > You do know there are some groups which believe the deity of the Old Testmant, the deity of the Jews, is not the deity of the New Testament, the deity of Christians, right? Yes. I _also_ know there are people who really do think that Jesus was a blonde white man who wrote the Bible in English. The latter are probably all Trump voters. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3564 "2025-03-30T08:59:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I concur. I didn’t think it would be possible for anything to eclipse “Drumpf” in terms of cringe nicknames for him, but sticking X’s into everything just makes it legitimately hard to read. I’m just saying… nobody calls Hitler anything other than “Hitler”, because what name could be worse than “Hitler”? Just call him Trump. ---
**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 30, 2025, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3565 "2025-03-30T09:09:02Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > nobody calls Hitler anything other than “Hitler”, because what name could be worse than “Hitler”? I had an ROTC instructor in high school who was fond of calling him “Schickelgruber”. ---
**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 30, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3566 "2025-03-30T09:11:13Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I’m just saying… nobody calls Hitler anything other than “Hitler”, because what name could be worse than “Hitler”? Josef Stalin? Mao Tse-tung? Kim Il-sung? Pol Pot? I don’t think that this is a club that Donald Trump wants to join, but maybe he does. ---
**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 30, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3567 "2025-03-30T09:22:16Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I don’t think that this is a club that Donald Trump wants to join, but maybe he does “The only thing worse that being talked about is not being talked about.” Tell him he’ll be in all the history books, and he won’t care how many people he has to hurt to qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3568 "2025-03-30T09:24:37Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Tell him he’ll be in all the history books, and he won’t care how many people he has to hurt to qualify. We’re way past that point, unfortunately. Trump _will_ be in the history books. Nothing we can do about that now. ---
**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 30, 2025, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3569 "2025-03-30T09:52:36Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Car prices going up kinda sorta feeds inflation…right? And that used to be bad, right? Until January 20, 2025, 12-noon to be precise. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3570 "2025-03-30T10:29:38Z")
I realize English isn’t your first language, but “so far” is the important concept in my statement. ---
**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 30, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3571 "2025-03-30T10:30:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > When Trump has several thousand people summarily executed in the street all at once for protesting, like he’s been predicting since 2017, he’ll have a point. So just shooting a few protestors in the street or grabbing a few people off the street is nothing to worry about? DT is wrong about the “how much” and “when”, but (for once) he’s not wrong about the “what” no matter how far you move those goalposts. ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3572 "2025-03-30T12:43:26Z")
[Now he’s parrotting one of his favorite dictators, speaking in shades of Xi Jinping vis-à-vis Taiwan.](https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5344942/trump-military-force-not-off-the-table-for-greenland) > [@](#): > > Greenland is a territory of Denmark, which is a NATO ally of the United States. Trump wants to annex the territory, claiming it’s needed for national security purposes. > > In Saturday’s interview, Trump allowed that “I think there’s a good possibility that we could do it without military force.” > > “This is world peace, this is international security,” he said, but added: “I don’t take anything off the table.” The difference is Xi is smart enough to not do it. And WTF? Denmark is one of our NATO allies. This is not how you talk to friends. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3573 "2025-03-30T13:20:16Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > And WTF? Denmark is one of our NATO allies. This is not how you talk to friends. There is no “our” with Trump; there’s only “me”. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3574 "2025-03-30T16:53:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > There is no “our” with Trump; there’s only “me”. And Trump famously has never had any friends. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3575 "2025-03-30T19:06:15Z")
Who’s ready for round three? > **[Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as president](https://apnews.com/article/trump-third-term-constitution-22nd-amendment-efba31be02ee96b0ef68b17fe89b7578)** > > President Donald Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term. “I'm not joking,” he says in an NBC News interview. ---
**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 30, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3576 "2025-03-30T20:04:18Z")
[Checks notes] #14 of Lawrence Britt’s [**14 Characteristics of Fascism**](https://secularhumanism.org/2003/03/fascism-anyone/): > **Fraudulent elections** > > Elections in the form of plebiscites or public opinion polls were usually bogus. When actual elections with candidates were held, they would usually be perverted by the power elite to get the desired result. Common methods included maintaining control of the election machinery, intimidating and disenfranchising opposition voters, destroying or disallowing legal votes, and, as a last resort, turning to a judiciary beholden to the power elite. Or, just declare a National Emergency and suspend elections. I’m pretty sure that isn’t legal, but … hey … ---
**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 30, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3577 "2025-03-30T20:07:13Z")
The Orange ShitBag told Christians that if they vote for him (last) November, _“in four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”_ ---
**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 30, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3578 "2025-03-30T20:08:31Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > So just shooting a few protestors in the street or grabbing a few people off the street is nothing to worry about? Has he had any protestors shot in the street? ---
**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 30, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3579 "2025-03-30T20:09:08Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Or, just declare a National Emergency and suspend elections. The federal government doesn’t run elections. ---
**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 30, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3580 "2025-03-30T20:09:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Has he had any protestors shot in the street? This is going to age well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=175) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=177)