# 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:** 192
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3881 "2025-04-09T02:24:52Z")
Hey, if Hannibal Lecter vouches for the guy, he can’t be all bad, right? ---
**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 9, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3882 "2025-04-09T02:27:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Here’s how far into the Looking Glass world we are. I have to ask if you mean _old_ as in “it’s been around for a long time” or “these old fuckers in office now are the ones making it”? The first certainly, it goes back the the pre-Civil War era and lasted at least as long as my childhood when I first heard it. I don’t know if the _specific_ people in office have outright said that but I’ve certainly heard rhetoric over the years from the Right about how good slavery was for black people and that they should be grateful. And yeah; it’s certainly the _sort_ of thing they’d say. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3883 "2025-04-09T03:54:24Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > “Boys will be boys”? Shouldn’t presidential advisors be, you know, _adults?_ Even worse, “we will let their public sparring continue.” They could make them behave but whatever. Of course, Trump loves it when his minions battle so I guess he’s all in even though it makes his administration look ridiculous. > [@Smapti's link](#): > > it’s April 8, 2025, and Trump is polling his fellow Republicans about whether they should call Biden “crooked” or “sleepy” “They both work. They both work beautifully.” I feel so sorry for the world leaders who are trying to figure out how to deal with this. What do you do when the most powerful man on earth is an insane idiot? It’s planet-wide madness. ---
**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 9, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3884 "2025-04-09T04:52:16Z")
Tonight on THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN IS MISSING\*: Mad King Donald was supposed to give “dinner remarks” at the National Republican Comgressional Committee’s annual gala. Instead he went on a 2-hour unscripted ramble in which he frequently slurred his words and lost his train of thought, and held forth on such topics of relevance to House members’ reelection campaigns as; - Nicknames for Joe Biden (see above) - States’ rights are bad, actually - How he singlehandedly saved the steel industry - The 2020 election and how he’s proud of it - How “they” don’t respect “any of the people there” - Expensive parrots - Windmills - Making prescription drugs more expensive - The width of a Democratic senator’s neck - People kissing his ass - “Tren de Iraqwa” - How he’s ripping everybody off - And, of course, how the economy is better than ever because of tariffs [@atrupar.com on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdr5e63dj2s) > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdpuhe2v72x)** > > Trump: "I saved every steel mill. We only have steel mills because of what I did." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdser3zg62m)** > > Trump: "They didn't pay respect to anybody, including, think of it, ahhh, you take a look at Laken Riley. You take a look at any of the people there." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdrehg2jp23)** > > Trump: "Anybody have a windmill by your house? Congratulations, you'll never sell your house. And today I signed historic executive orders to unleash coal production to the highest levels ever. Because coal is the most powerful thing." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdr5xxa5c23)** > > Trump: The unbelievably expensive for us. Parrot. The Paris Climate Accord." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdpxv62cw2x)** > > Trump: "We're gonna tariff our pharmaceuticals ... we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdqdesvl62s)** > > Trump: "Adam Schifty Schiff. Can you believe this guy? He's got the smallest neck I've ever seen. And the biggest head. We call him watermelon head. How can that big fat face stand on a neck that looked like this finger? ... how we can allow people... > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdq5zzepf2c)** > > Trump: "These countries are calling us up. Kissing my ass." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdp5qdkrp26)** > > Trump: "Tren de Iraqwa" > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdoyjtoll26)** > > Trump: "We had a rigged election. And we can say it loud and say it proud, because the election was rigged." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdnsqof5o22)** > > Trump: "Many countries have -- they've ripped us off left and right. But now it's our turn to do the ripping." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdnuxs3fm2x)** > > Trump as the stock market tanks every day: "They say the most successful 100 days in the history of our country, and I believe that's right." I don’t know how anyone who’s being honest with themselves can listen to him and not acknowledge that he’s deep in the throes of dementia. He’s saying things out loud that he knew better than to say ten years ago, he’s contradicting himself from day to day, he’s undermining his own agenda and making himself more and more unpopular every passing day by refusing to listen to anyone about an economic crisis of his own making that has literally caused him to personally lose half a billion dollars in net worth over the last week. I’m cautiously optimistic in that there are now several Republican senators willing to openly say that he’s actively hurting the country (welcome to the resistance, (checks notes) Chuck Grassley? Huh. Wasn’t expecting that one), so maybe the point of no return will come sooner than later. \*apologies to the late Troy McClure for snowcloning the name of a movie you might remember him from ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3885 "2025-04-09T05:00:25Z")
> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdqdesvl62s)** > > Trump: "Adam Schifty Schiff. Can you believe this guy? He's got the smallest neck I've ever seen. And the biggest head. We call him watermelon head. How can that big fat face stand on a neck that looked like this finger? ... how we can allow people... > **[An Orange on a Toothpick - So I Married an Axe Murderer (3/8) Movie CLIP...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqycJpRdVaY%2F)** > > So I Married an Axe Murderer movie clips: http://j.mp/1CNqdmZBUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/vutEfuDon't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6prCL... ---
**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 9, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3886 "2025-04-09T06:51:56Z")
I thought of that too! At first. Then I gagged on the fact that the president is making 5th grade school taunts (again), and laughed that _he’s_ mocking _anyone’s_ appearance. Kind of looks like their own version of WH Correspondence dinner, without all the humor and ribbing subversive criticism of der fuehrer. Until fairly recently, whenever his oily visage popped up, I’d think “obnoxious and dishonest, but definitely cunning”. Folks here have hinted at senility and I kind of dismissed it, mostly because I’ve never seen him being “normal”. His whole public persona has been such a clown show that I couldn’t really tell the difference. Now it’s becoming clearer, although it should have been evident long before his inauguration. I honestly can’t tell if sycophants are still afraid of him, or dastardly minions are using him. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3887 "2025-04-09T07:37:29Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > and laughed that _he’s_ mocking _anyone’s_ appearance. What the hell is that new thing on his head?! It looks like it was kept in some square container and then dumped there. > [@Smapti's link](#): > > [Aaron Rupar: “Trump: “These countries are calling us up. Kissing my ass.”” — Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdq5zzepf2c) Again I say I feel so sorry for world leaders right now. > [@](#): > > “These countries are calling us up, kissing my a\*\*” to negotiate deals on his tariffs, which he called “legendary,” Trump said [during a speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-stock-market-midterms-b2729901.html) in Washington, D.C. “They _are_,” he emphasized. “They are dying to make a deal.” > > He mocked the tariff-deal supplicants, pretending to be them as he pitifully pleaded in a simpering voice: “Please, Sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, Sir. [Trump brags world leaders are ‘kissing my a\*\*’ — as White House shuns several tariff calls: Report | The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-boasts-tariff-ass-kissing-b2729968.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3888 "2025-04-09T10:14:35Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > On another forum I called it “romantic cynicism”. There’s a lot of people who are perfectly willing to call Trump and other powerful people evil or corrupt, but just can’t bring themselves to call them stupid That’s a good term. The other thing which has annoyed me (and isn’t the same phenomenon, but related) is when they have experts on news shows sanewashing trump. I don’t think they are necessarily that naive. I think it’s a “when all you have is a hammer” issue; they are used to having to break things down and go into the complex machinations; it’s what they enjoy doing. And also, if they are booked in for a 5 minute slot, it would be bad form to just sit down, take a sip of water, say “Trump’s fuckdumb” and walk out. So we get all this crap about “short and long term plans” and it’s all part of a “cunning negotiation strategy” etc ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3889 "2025-04-09T12:20:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Not to be outdone by the missteps in both the executive and legislative branches of our government, [SCOTUS has now halted the rehiring of fired federal workers](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-supreme-court-halts-reinstatement-163634805.html). Yeah - that is what I predicted in one of these threads. I have done some work with the MSPB. Be certain that “prompt” is not a term that has EVER been associated with MSPB action. Meanwhile, all the fired workers remain on paid admin leave! Now THAT’s efficiency for you! 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3890 "2025-04-09T12:45:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > \*apologies to the late Troy McClure for snowcloning the name of a movie you might remember him from Also a short story by John Scalzi, written during the Bush II years, when we _thought_ we knew what a brainless president looked like. ---
**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 9, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3891 "2025-04-09T13:39:35Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@Dinsdale](#): > > > > Your post made me wonder if much of anything/anyone really “scares” Trump. > > Germs. > > (Not that you’d know it from his response to COVID.) Or from his raping history. > [@Spoons](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Trump signed an executive order banning seat belts. And he would argue (rightfully! for a change) that when introduced, mandatory seat belts increased the number of drivers being hospitalized after having an accident. At the expense of people being buried or cremated after having an accident, but that is an irrelevant nitpick in the great picture, right? It has also been suggested that although seat belt usage reduces the probability of death in any given accident, mandatory seat belt laws have little or no effect on the overall number of traffic fatalities because seat belt usage also disincentivizes safe driving behaviors, thereby increasing the total number of accidents. This idea, known as compensating-behavior theory, is completely wrong and not supported by evidence at all, so he (or ~~Peter Navarro~~ Ron Vara) would of course promote it. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3892 "2025-04-09T13:42:27Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@Dinsdale](#): > > > > Your post made me wonder if much of anything/anyone really “scares” Trump. > > Germs. > > (Not that you’d know it from his response to COVID.) > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Or from his raping history. Maybe he believes in the five-second rule? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3893 "2025-04-09T13:44:47Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Maybe he believes in the five-second rule? [![](https://media1.tenor.com/m/CQtDuf705mEAAAAC/popcorn-minions.gif) ](https://media1.tenor.com/m/CQtDuf705mEAAAAC/popcorn-minions.gif) ---
**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 9, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3894 "2025-04-09T13:46:26Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > he believes in the five-second rule? Shit, that was good! I didn’t see it coming (no pun intended)! ---
**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3895 "2025-04-09T14:04:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [@atrupar.com on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdp5qdkrp26) Tren de irakwa… I have not heard of it. Is it a person? a place? the context seems to not make sense (even less than usual…) ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3896 "2025-04-09T14:09:33Z")
He’s referring to/terribly mispronouncing Tren de Aragua, an organized crime ring based in Venezuela and the latest boogeyman of the anti-immigrant right, similar to MS-13 before. > **[Tren de Aragua](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tren_de_Aragua)** > > Tren de Aragua (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Spanish pronunciation: \[tɾen de aˈɾaɣwa\]; English: Aragua Train) is a transnational criminal organization from Venezuela. Tren de Aragua is led by Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias "Niño Guerrero \[es\]"; he was incarcerated in Tocorón prison \[es\], which then functioned as the O... ---
**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3897 "2025-04-09T14:11:23Z")
Thanks! make sense (sort of…) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3898 "2025-04-09T14:28:24Z")
Smapti’s link: > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdpcn2lcs2s)** > > it's April 8, 2025, and Trump is polling his fellow Republicans about whether they should call Biden "crooked" or "sleepy" Just trying to gin up more woo over the investigation into the incredibly shocking (and of course democracy-threatening) cover-up of Biden’s criminally horrifying mental decline. > **[The investigation into the Biden cover-up needs to 'start and not end' until...](https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371199011112)** > >  ‘Outnumbered’ co-host Kayleigh McEnany stresses that the cover-up of former President Biden’s apparent decline needs to be ‘fervently’ investigated on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ At least reassuring - in this thorough, comprehensive (exhausting!) article - that: > [@](#): > > The investigation into the Biden cover-up needs to ‘start and not end’ until 4 years from now Leaving no stone unturned - this mook’s impressed. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3899 "2025-04-09T15:07:12Z")
Has Mr. Watter’s crack team of **Obama Birth Certificate** investigators returned from Hawaii yet? Perhaps they met mysterious uncertain deaths like Trump Team One? ---
**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 9, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3900 "2025-04-09T15:46:38Z")
I hear they got seduced by the good weather and island lifestyle and were last seen dozing under palm trees, surrounded by weed-related debris, and buried under a Mauna Loa of beer cans. Blissfully happy… 🏖 🏝 🏄🏽‍♂️ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=191) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=193)