# 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:** 193
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3901 "2025-04-09T18:25:45Z")
A **[post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114308272725981913)** this morning from Trump on Truth Social: > THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT Since – at a quick glance – he doesn’t seem to usually ‘sign’ his name with his initials, it seems reasonable to interpret _this_ use of “DJT” as an oblique reference to his stock ticker – [**NASDAQ:DJT**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Media_%26_Technology_Group), which – coincidence of all coincidences – is up almost 20% on the day. Trump posted this on Truth Social at 7:37 AM (ET), this morning – before the markets opened, and – almost inarguably – after he made the plan to pause the tariffs. It begs the question whether the _**[rumor](https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-kevin-hassett-false-bogus-report-ad825e7d8c06514843821dfd898bd3f9)**_ of a pause in the tariffs, on Monday, was an inside job – a trial balloon to figure out what the bump might look like. Meanwhile … he’s not even bothering to hide the corruption at this point. Why would he? Also see: > **[OFFICIAL TRUMP price today, TRUMP to USD live price, marketcap and chart |...](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/)** > > The live OFFICIAL TRUMP price today is $8.21 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $680,319,521.34 USD. We update our TRUMP to USD price in real-time. ---
**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, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3902 "2025-04-09T18:40:08Z")
I can see the SEC, FTC, and US Attorney General all getting involved in this blatant insider trading scheme. The involvement will be organized on Signal and the invitee list will be checked twice to see if anyone naughty or not nice is on it. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3903 "2025-04-09T19:01:34Z")
As a Brit, I really, really, really, reallllllyyy wish Starmer would have the balls to just tell the colossal cockwomble to fuck right off, but sadly can’t see it happening. But then I wouldn’t make a good politician/diplomat. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3904 "2025-04-09T19:14:31Z")
[The OrangeAnus brags other countries are “kissing my ass” to negotiate tariffs.](https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/politics/video/donald-trump-nrcc-president-dinner-tariff-negotiations-digvid) Classy as always, you worthless filth. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3905 "2025-04-09T20:14:19Z")
In reference to a FauxSnooze chyron claiming that ShitGbbon’s Manly Tariffs could reverse the crisis in masculinity, > [@Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social](#): > > This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3906 "2025-04-09T20:31:08Z")
His impulsive, torrential acid rain of madness will scar the land forever. I just keep hoping it will stop so we can start sifting through the debris to see what’s left. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3907 "2025-04-09T20:32:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m not sure Trump knows that he’s president right now and isn’t still campaigning. > **[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" I hope Biden gets some small measure of satisfaction knowing that he’ll be taking up space rent-free in Agent Orange’s head for the rest of his shitty, lying life. Biden’s victory in 2020 will eat at him forever. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3908 "2025-04-09T20:40:14Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > In reference to a FauxSnooze chyron claiming that ShitGbbon’s Manly Tariffs could reverse the crisis in masculinity So, the tariffs will make me, a ciswoman, more masculine? Don’t see what help that’s gonna be… ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3909 "2025-04-09T20:57:10Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > In reference to a FauxSnooze chyron claiming that ShitGbbon’s Manly Tariffs could reverse the crisis in masculinity, Wow - they’re beginning to flail around a bit, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3910 "2025-04-09T21:00:27Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > So, the tariffs will make me, a ciswoman, more masculine? Don’t see what help that’s gonna be… I believe the thinking is that the “masculinity crisis” is adversely impacting you and a greater abundance of manly men will make you happier. Because, reasons. > [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > they’re beginning to flail around a bit In a masculine sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3911 "2025-04-09T21:01:08Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > The OrangeAnus brags other countries are “kissing my ass” to negotiate tariffs. It might be interesting to see Democrats target areas of high concentration church-going Republican voters with a campaign linking Trump’s “kissing my ass” comment to [Osculum infame - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osculum_infame). Every little doubt that can be sowed helps. ---
**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, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3912 "2025-04-09T23:47:39Z")
Today on THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN IS MISSING; - “We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is” - The stock market had its best day ever because of me (undoing the damage I caused to it) - Israel will “do military” in Iran for us - Tariffs come from the heart - “It’s not a negotiation until it is” - The Great Lakes - are they connected? Nobody knows - Nancy Pelosi has “admitted her guilty” - The market crash is Biden’s fault - I paused the tariffs because people are “getting a little bit yipee” - And a brief moment of lucidity - “How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmfutj7cbk2n)** > > Trump: "We're very powerful. This country is very powerful. It's far more powerful than people understand. We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is and it the most powerful weapons in the world that we have." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmfu7llbvs2c)** > > Trump: "The biggest increase in the history of the stock market. That's pretty good. If you keep going, you're gonna be back to where it was four weeks ago." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmfuhb33lm27)** > > Trump: "With Iran, yeah, if it requires military, we're gonna have military. Israel will obviously be very much involved in that." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmfu5jcke42x)** > > Trump on his order pausing tariffs: "We didn't have access to lawyers. We wrote it up from our hearts, right?" > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmftr4tfeb2p)** > > Trump: "A lot of times it's not a negotiation until it is." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmfthe2o2l2p)** > > Trump on the Great Lakes: "I assume the lakes are all interconnected." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmft7erkju2o)** > > Trump lies that Nancy Pelosi “admitted her guilty” for January 6 > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmfp2qjqqn23)** > > Trump: "Joe Biden handed us over a country that was in very serious trouble economically." (This is a lie.) > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmfosw5usb2f)** > > Trump on why he announced a tariffs pause: "I thought people were jumping a bit out of line. They were getting a little bit yipee." > **[Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lmfuduridb2h)** > > Trump: How do you get to be president and you’re stupid? > **[Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lmfuawylyz2h)** > > Trump: I blame the people sitting behind this desk for being stupid, and incompetent ---
**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 10, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3913 "2025-04-10T00:16:30Z")
I appreciate the summaries. Thanks for taking one for the team. Damn, I hope you’re wearing a tinfoil hat or something to protect yourself from brain rot, sifting through all this crap everyday. In the evening, have a stiff drink and then pet a kitten or something, okay? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3914 "2025-04-10T00:44:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Today on THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN IS MISSING; That concept is really, really old [![](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_medium/0/3125/3028959-in1.jpg) ](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_medium/0/3125/3028959-in1.jpg) ---
**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:** [April 10, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3915 "2025-04-10T00:55:52Z")
Especially give this … > [@Smapti](#): > > Today on THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN IS MISSING; > . . . > > - “It’s not a negotiation until it is” … I think he’s assured of being known as the Yogi Berra of Presidents. ---
**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 10, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3916 "2025-04-10T01:25:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN IS MISSING; This has to be a reference to some show. “The Muppet Show”? It sounds so much like “PIGS IN SPACE” with extra echo ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3917 "2025-04-10T01:32:27Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN IS MISSING; > > This has to be a reference to some show. A TV movie, a thriller from 1973: > **[The President's Plane Is Missing (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President%27s_Plane_Is_Missing_(film))** > > The President's Plane Is Missing is a 1973 American TV movie directed by Daryl Duke with a screenplay by Ernest Kinoy and Mark Carliner based upon the Robert J. Serling 1967 novel of the same name. It aired on the ABC Movie of the Week. > With diplomatic tensions building and the United States facing a possible military confrontation with China, Air Force One mysteriously crashes in the desert while heading to California, with President Jeremy Haines on board. While the crash is being investigat... ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3918 "2025-04-10T01:35:34Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > A TV movie, a thriller from 1973: _THE PRESIDENT’S BRAIN IS MISSING_ sounds like a '50s B horror movie. It turns out it’s a recent documentary. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3919 "2025-04-10T01:41:38Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > This has to be a reference to some show. “The Muppet Show”? _Spitting Image_, the British political satire show with rubbery puppets. ---
**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 10, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3920 "2025-04-10T01:50:00Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _Spitting Image_, the British political satire show with rubbery puppets. That got banned pretty quickly in my home country after they showed President Mugabe as a chimpanzee. I liked it even as a 5 year old (black and white TV, late show that I had to beg my parents to be allowed to watch. Now I need to research Trump as a Spitting Image model, if they are still going… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=192) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=194)