# 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:** 186
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3761 "2025-04-07T00:34:21Z")
Mr. Trump mispoke: “economic devolution”. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3762 "2025-04-07T00:39:52Z")
80 years of post-WW2 science fiction and not a single person speculated that WW3 would be an economic war fought by the American President against America. So, so disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3763 "2025-04-07T00:50:56Z")
FFS reallllly …the guy has no shame… > Trump guards his image closely. In January 2025, before his inauguration, he released a portrait that was variously described by critics as serious or ominous, and seemed to reference his 2023 mugshot. > > That image was taken after he was charged with attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden in the state of Georgia – a charge Trump denied. > > After Trump’s criticism of Boardman, his envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed **the White House had been sent a new work from Moscow,** which was a gift from Vladimir Putin. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described it as a “personal gift”. > > Witkoff described the picture as a “beautiful portrait” by a “leading Russian artist”. > 🤮 > [Artist of ‘truly the worst’ Trump portrait says her career is threatened | Art | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/06/artist-of-truly-the-worst-donald-trump-portrait-says-her-career-is-threatened-sarah-a-boardman) ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3764 "2025-04-07T01:13:41Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > 80 years of post-WW2 science fiction and not a single person speculated that WW3 would be an economic war fought by the American President against America. So, so disappointed. Keep in mind fiction is burdened by having to make sense whereas reality is unburdened by such trivialities. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3765 "2025-04-07T01:43:52Z")
Charles Koch, of all people, is suing to block tariffs. > **[Surviving Koch Brother Moves to Crush Trump and Tariffs](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/6/2314932/-Surviving-Koch-Brother-Moves-to-Crush-Trump-and-Tariffs)** > > In a twist that wouldn’t be believed in the worst TV movie, the surviving Koch Brother and Supreme Court shadow boss Leonard Leo are moving to crush Trump and his tariffs. It’s more than surprising that these men, long considered as candidates for... ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3766 "2025-04-07T01:59:33Z")
Howard Lutnick, meanwhile, thinks that in the future millions and millions of Americans are going to be assembling iphones by hand and that this is a good thing that you should be looking forward to. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lm5p4tdc6a2c)** > > Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America." ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3767 "2025-04-07T02:01:24Z")
As the lede says, if I was watching this on Netflix it would result in an, “Aw, c’_mon!_” and a popcorn bowl hurled at the screen. Edit: The Koch Bros. thing. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3768 "2025-04-07T02:04:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Howard Lutnick, meanwhile, thinks that in the future millions and millions of Americans are going to be assembling iphones by hand and that this is a good thing that you should be looking forward to. It won’t work. As foreseen in [this 1990 documentary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_People)\*, “Caucasians are just too damn tall.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/96iJsdGkl44/hqdefault.jpg "SONY. Because caucasians are just too damn tall.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96iJsdGkl44) \*- not actually a documentary. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3769 "2025-04-07T02:08:26Z")
You can fuck with the little people but not with the big money. CEO basic wisdom. But since there can’t be an emergency board meeting to fire this particular CEO, he must’ve thought that basic wisdom as disposable. Mao fucked it up with the Great Leap Forward, killing between 4-8% of the population. They took away his admin powers but left him free to say and write whatever he wanted. So he launched the Cultural Revolution and kept fucking things up. Expect Trump to hit the rally circuit anytime soon now. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3770 "2025-04-07T02:16:16Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Expect Trump to hit the rally circuit anytime soon now. I’m not sure Trump has the energy to pull of a rally anymore. He was practically falling apart by the end of the campaign and he looks downright sickly most of the time he’s on camera these days. The time he stopped speaking 15 minutes in and then just stood there for an hour swaying back and forth while listening to music might seem like the Gettysburg Address in comparison. To say nothing of the fact that as this point he’s liable to draw more protestors than true believers. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3771 "2025-04-07T02:16:48Z")
The problem I have with that portrait is that it makes him look, well… almost normal. Complete misrepresentation! ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3772 "2025-04-07T02:24:43Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Okay, how many of these decisions he’s making now are based on: > > - catering to his base > - implementing Project 2025 > - stroking his ego > - punishing the country for his losing the 2020 election > - sheer incompetence > - All of the above I posted that back in November last year. Apparently, lacking the foresight of the current deplorable despicable disaster within a disaster within a disaster (yes, Russian nesting doll disasters), I left out: - Platonic ideal of stupidity ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3773 "2025-04-07T02:31:04Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The Trump-negotiated sale of Tiktok has been cancelled. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gO0jiJw7GaY/maxresdefault.jpg "Oh, THERE'S a big surprise! I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from that surprise.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO0jiJw7GaY) ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3774 "2025-04-07T02:42:58Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The problem I have with that portrait is that it makes him look, well… almost normal. Complete misrepresentation! I mean, it does accurately illustrate his jowly, bloated face. The mouth isn’t malformed enough and she’s given him normal hair, but other than that, he’d be lucky to be remembered like that than the reality. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3775 "2025-04-07T03:25:47Z")
Yeah, she really captured the bloat. 😉 What’s missing is the _malice_. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3776 "2025-04-07T07:49:09Z")
That is the reason he hates it. He wants to be obnoxious, spiteful and deplorable. I once knew a fool that claimed he’d rather be feared than loved. He thought of himself as a stalinist. I guess you could call trump a wannabe putinist. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3777 "2025-04-07T07:54:46Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > He wants to be obnoxious, spiteful and deplorable. Trump wants to be beloved. It’s just that, as a narcissistic psychopath who never got any kind of meaningful love from his parents, he has absolutely no idea what love is and the only way he knows how to get people to tell him what he wants to hear is by threatening, belitting, and/or lying to them. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3778 "2025-04-07T08:13:49Z")
> **[Ken Jennings (@kenjennings.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/kenjennings.bsky.social/post/3lm6oqv6vks26)** > > This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3779 "2025-04-07T08:48:04Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump wants to be beloved Trump wants to be worshiped and feared, like a god. And he wants those who fail to worship him punished, _also_ like a god. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3780 "2025-04-07T08:56:43Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Losotho for example has been hit with a 50% tariff. Do I have to spell it out again for the slow kids? American consumers are being hit by the tariffs. You are just ~300M people, most countries in Africa don’t even have any meaningful trade with the US. This just means they’ll sell their goods to the EU at a slight discount while Americans will be yearning for the Biden years when inflation was only in the double digits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=185) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=187)