# 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:** 196
**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 11, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3961 "2025-04-11T21:53:50Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > So apparently the SSA is going to exclusively use Twitter (I am not calling it X) for its official announcements. > > [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5245029-social-security-administration-social-platform-x-releases/](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5245029-social-security-administration-social-platform-x-releases/) > > But how can this be legal? Beyond the obvious graft, it’s forcing people to have access to a service not all will have. Never mind that I don’t use Twitter because I think social media is dumb, but I don’t want to even think about trying to get my 82 year old father (who is on SS) to use it. > > It seems to me that requiring one particular form of communication, that has costs and equipment requirements associated with it can’t be allowed, can it? > > (And yeah, obviously an effort to prop up Twitter) I have never used Twitter for anything and don’t plan to do so. Utterly ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3962 "2025-04-11T22:09:23Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > So apparently the SSA is going to exclusively use Twitter (I am not calling it X) for its official announcements. Ya gotta hand it to them. They keep thinking of new things to do that I would never have dreamt possible. ---
**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 11, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3963 "2025-04-11T22:21:40Z")
May I just say … the Presidential Penis must be even smaller than we thought: > **[Picture of Trump after the assassination attempt displaces Obama portrait at...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/picture-trump-assassination-attempt-displaces-203429947.html)** > > The White House on Friday hung a painting of President Donald Trump depicting a moment after an assassination attempt against him last summer — bumping the official portrait of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama. Hanging a new presidential... ---
**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 11, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3964 "2025-04-11T22:40:25Z")
That should look good beside the portrait that has Donald’s face crudely splattered under one of those Iwo Jima flag-standers’ helmets. ---
**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 11, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3965 "2025-04-11T22:58:50Z")
I have a question. Who is Aaron Rupar? ---
**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 11, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3966 "2025-04-11T23:26:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Aaron Rupar Google told me that he is an independent journalist and publisher of this: > **[Public Notice | Aaron Rupar | Substack](https://www.publicnotice.co/)** > > Sign up for independent, incisive coverage of US politics and media, right in your inbox five times a week. Click to read Public Notice, by Aaron Rupar, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. ---
**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 11, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3967 "2025-04-11T23:28:58Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Who is Aaron Rupar? He has Twitter and Bluesky accounts to which he posts live clips of Trump and his cronies. Good source for finding out what inanities they’re blithering on about these days without the media’s attempts to sanewash and both-sides it. He gets all his clips directly from live TV, so you can be assured it isn’t old or AI-generated. He also occasionally comments on sports and wrestling. ---
**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 11, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3968 "2025-04-11T23:42:01Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Trump has shown repeatedly, that his word is his ass, and his contracts may as well be signed with disappearing ink on used toilet paper. Thus explaining why he’s constantly xitting from the throne room in the wee hours. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > Who is Aaron Rupar? He calls himself an independent journalist and has a [newsletter online](https://www.publicnotice.co/). Just in case you forgot felon47 does not like immigrants he’s not fucking (in the literal sense, not figurative), [here’s the latest regarding migrants and Social Security](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-seeks-revoke-immigrants-social-012129466.html). > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration aims to convince some immigrants without legal status to self-deport by adding them to a database of dead people, thus rendering their Social Security numbers inoperable, an administration official told Reuters. > > Immigrants who were legally admitted to the U.S. under the Biden administration but have since had their temporary status revoked would be added to the Social Security Administration’s “death master list,” which is normally used to identify dead people who should no longer receive Social Security benefits, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss the plans. > > Social Security numbers function as tax identification numbers in the U.S. and are required to receive government benefits. They are also used for many private financial operations such as opening a bank account or obtaining a credit card. Let’s be clear here. These people entered the country legally, obtained SSANs legally, and are now without a proper visa because this administration canceled their visas. And now they’re going to punish them for not having a proper visa. Mork called something a _Catch 44_ because it was like a _Cach 22_ but twice as bad. Now we’re exponentially beyond even that. [I wonder if this will wake up a few congresscritters.](https://www.aol.com/plane-5-house-members-clipped-183145265.html) > [@](#): > > A plane carrying at least a half-dozen U.S. House members was clipped by another aircraft on the ground at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., on Thursday, officials said. > > Reps. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; Nick LaLota, R-N.Y.; Grace Meng, D-N.Y.; and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., all confirmed on social media that they were aboard the American Airlines plane that was clipped at about 12:45 p.m. > > Two of them also confirmed that Reps Adriano Espaillat and Ritchie Torres, both Democrats from New York, were also aboard. Oh, they’re Democrats. This administration doesn’t care about their safety. What the everloving fuck? We are now full on into “[show me your papers](https://www.aol.com/judge-allows-requirement-everyone-us-205540371.html)” territory. > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must [register with the federal government](https://apnews.com/article/illegal-immigrant-registry-trump-border-enforcement-37ce7a345c1617ce3a9427e0ef755021) and carry documentation, in a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for immigrants across the country. > > Judge Trevor Neil McFadden — a Trump appointee — sided with the administration, which had argued that officials were simply enforcing a requirement that already existed for everyone who is in the country but isn’t an American citizen. McFadden’s ruling didn’t go into the substance of those arguments but rested largely on the technical issue of whether the groups pushing to stop the requirement had standing to pursue their claims. He ruled they didn’t. > > The requirement goes into effect Friday. [Hey, some good news from this administration!](https://www.aol.com/health-secretary-kennedy-says-us-181457731.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will identify the cause of autism by September this year, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday, setting a deadline for an answer that has eluded scientists for decades. Let me guess. It’s the vaccines, right? [This just seems to fit with that autism bit above.](https://www.aol.com/exclusive-us-nih-scientists-barred-151208923.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off, three current and former NIH scientists told Reuters. > > The policy was communicated verbally by managers in at least three of the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers but not put into writing, the three sources said. It covers all scientific meetings including conferences, workshops and investigator meetings even if they are local or free, they said. > > “We may not attend a conference even if we pay our own way and use personal leave. Even if we don’t use our (NIH) affiliation. What one does on their own time is not anyone else’s business,” said one currently employed NIH scientist who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal. [Ah, yes; who says consumers need protection?](https://www.aol.com/us-consumer-bureau-dismisses-case-174530947.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday dismissed its lawsuit against Comerica Bank, after the agency previously accused the lender of systematically mistreating millions of mostly disabled and older customers. > > In a filing submitted in U.S. District Court, the agency said it was dismissing the suit, which was filed in December under the Biden administration. The move is the latest in several enforcement actions the Trump administration has scrapped since taking over the agency. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3969 "2025-04-12T00:09:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will identify the cause of autism by September this year, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday, setting a deadline for an answer that has eluded scientists for decades The press conference will be like this, but with “cancer” crossed out and “autism” written in, in Sharpie. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qN7be1ADhKI/hqdefault.jpg "Kids in the Hall: Cause of Cancer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN7be1ADhKI) ---
**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 12, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3970 "2025-04-12T01:05:08Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > The press conference will be like this, but with “cancer” crossed out and “autism” written in, in Sharpie. Let’s hope nobody shows this to those two clowns, Trump and Kennedy. ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3971 "2025-04-12T02:31:27Z")
Remember 15 years ago when whiny restaurant owners were putting an “Obamacare tax” on receipts because they were offended by the notion of making sure their employees are healthy enough to work? Turns out two can play that game. > **['Put it on the receipt': Irked companies slap Trump-branded surcharges on...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671754114/)** > > It didn’t take long for President Donald Trump’s tariffs to hit the pocketbooks of American consumers – and some businesses are making no secret of why new surcharges are appearing on their bills.That’s according to a new report in Bloomberg, which... ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3972 "2025-04-12T02:56:06Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > ['Put it on the receipt': Irked companies slap Trump-branded surcharges on their products](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671754114/) I like this and hope it catches on. People need to be reminded again and again why they’re paying higher prices. ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3973 "2025-04-12T05:20:12Z")
[Hey, nothing says _functioning democracy_ like making the border a military base.](https://www.aol.com/news/donald-trump-authorizes-u-military-232546670.html) > [@](#): > > [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/)is authorizing the U.S. military to take jurisdiction over federal lands along the southern border to help enforce his immigration agenda. > > Trump issued a memorandum to the secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security late Friday titled “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions.” > > The order directs the secretaries to facilitate the transfer of jurisdiction over federal land along the border so military activity along the border can “occur on a military installation under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense.” > > The lands would be designated as “National Defense Areas.” > > The order names the Roosevelt Reservation, a strip of land along the U.S. border with Mexico in California, Arizona and New Mexico, as one of the federal lands slated for military control. The Roosevelt Reservation is an easement roughly 60 feet wide, or "the distance from home plate to the pitcher’s mound,” said Adam Isacson, director of defense oversight for the Washington Office on Latin America think tank in Washington, D.C. > > The consequences DOD taking control of federal land at the border aren’t immediately clear, he said, but it could result in more severe criminal charges for migrants who cross the border unlawfully. > > Migrants who cross the border on land under the Defense Department’s jurisdiction “would have trespassed on a military installation,” Isacson said. They could be subjected to charges beyond “entry without inspection,” a federal misdemeanor. This is problematic for a few reasons. First off, of course this is to circumvent the law prohibiting using the military for domestic law enforcement. It’s also a way to turn the actual non-violent misdemeanor of entering the country without inspection into a felony. Next, while the strip of land is already federal property, that does not make it a military installation. AFAIK, creating a military base by his lonesome is not something the president has the authority to do. [Next, it’s not like we’ve had a great experience when cdreating military exclusion areas on the border based on nothing other than prejudice and histeria.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans) And where’s DOGE in all this? Aren’t they supposed to be making governmental actions more efficient; aren’t they supposed to be cutting costs? From the first link: > [@](#): > > “There are now between four and five uniformed personnel for every migrant that was apprehended in March,” Isacson said. That’s a bit of, dare I say it, _overkill_, don’t you think? [More on the _nothing says democracy like this_ front: an immigration judge in Louisiana is permitting the administrationto punish someone the admnistration admits _has not committed any crime_.](https://www.aol.com/immigration-judge-rules-columbia-university-200342735.html) > [@](#): > > JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University graduate student [Mahmoud Khalil](https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-protester-mahmoud-khalil-immigration-arrest-5ae6eeb3ac95f190a505abebc4ee0944) can be forced out of the country as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday after lawyers argued the legality of deporting the activist who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. > > The government’s contention that Khalil’s presence in the U.S. posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences” satisfied requirements for deportation, Immigration Judge Jamee E. Comans said at a hearing in Jena. And why is this in a federal court in Louisiana instead of New York? ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3974 "2025-04-12T05:26:06Z")
Meanwhile, someone has apparently managed to hack Homeland Security’s email servers and sent out a bunch of fake deportation notices to American citizens. > **[Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/1jtuarz/attention_scam_email_from_cbp_and_dhs/?rdt=53110)** > **[Nicole Micheroni (@nicolemicheroni.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/nicolemicheroni.bsky.social/post/3lml5ctrmmc2u)** > > Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents? [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:mp3qwjfi7nof7z6szk5yuxwm/bafkreibsa5hfoiloc72jb4rmsjevqo7a26nizz6wnehwsiquf4zho47vmy@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:mp3qwjfi7nof7z6szk5yuxwm/bafkreibsa5hfoiloc72jb4rmsjevqo7a26nizz6wnehwsiquf4zho47vmy@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:mp3qwjfi7nof7z6szk5yuxwm/bafkreiff326mxrctxpblmiwqp3ycyixg4y4qdeutb5lm6t7tlfpeblylri@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:mp3qwjfi7nof7z6szk5yuxwm/bafkreiff326mxrctxpblmiwqp3ycyixg4y4qdeutb5lm6t7tlfpeblylri@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3975 "2025-04-12T08:58:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile, someone has apparently managed to hack Homeland Security’s email servers and sent out a bunch of fake deportation notices to American citizens. if I’d been the hacker, I’d send one to Trump, Vance, every cabinet member, and every Republican Congressman. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3976 "2025-04-12T10:48:08Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > I have never used Twitter for anything and don’t plan to do so. > > Utterly ridiculous. No shit. The dog kennel (resort really) that we take our dogs to when we are on vacation posts daily photos of all the dogs playing. On facebook… I don’t do facebook, I had an account, and for some crazy reason that they will not tell me, I was banned. I NEVER USED IT, the only reason I had an account was to see what all the bruhaha was about. I tried to get the ban lifted so I could see my dogs, but they would not, nor would they tell me why I was banned. Probably due to zero activity, or did someone hi-jack my account? I haven’t a clue. Aggravates me that the ‘kennel’ doesn’t use a different way to see pictures of my pups, but at least it’s not the freaking SSA ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3977 "2025-04-12T14:23:11Z")
Remember the tariffs? The amazing tariffs that will make everything great and earn us so money? Shouldn’t someone be collecting those wonderful tariffs? > **[Um, It Turns Out No One at the Ports Is Collecting Trump’s Tariffs](https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch)** > > A technical “glitch” has created the biggest hiccup in Trump’s tariffs rollout. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3978 "2025-04-12T15:54:33Z")
Speaking of tariffs: [Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs](https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/tech/trump-electronics-china-tariffs/index.html) > Electronics imported to the United States will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, according to a [US Customs and Border Protection notice](https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3db9e55) posted late Friday. > > Smartphones, computer monitors and various electronic parts are among the exempted products. The exemption applies to products entering the United States or removed from warehouses as early as April 5, according to the notice. > > The move comes after the Trump administration imposed a minimum tariff rate of 145% on Chinese goods imported to the United States. The tariffs would have a major impact on tech giants like Apple, which make iPhones and other products in China. I just saw Stephanie Ruhle on _Velshi_ (MSNBC) say something like ~“So we’re going to impose 145% tariffs on everything we buy from China except the things we actually buy from China?” I think that is a little misleading. The US buys more than just electronic-related products from China. For example, doesn’t China make Trump’s red MAGA hats and other MAGA and America First memorabilia? ---
**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 12, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3979 "2025-04-12T16:10:11Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > For example, doesn’t China make Trump’s red MAGA hats and other MAGA and America First memorabilia? Shouldn’t [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQveng3Wxz8) be the reaction for the magaflatearthers? But, of course, they’ll just excuse it or, as is their wont, deny it outright. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/3980 "2025-04-12T16:18:47Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > For example, doesn’t China make Trump’s red MAGA hats and other MAGA and America First memorabilia? I believe I read that _official_ MAGA hats sold by **Trump** are made in the U.S.A.; but there’s a lot more _unofficial_ MAGA products that are made in China. My WAG is that most Trump supporters buy whatever’s cheapest or most convenient, rather than buying the official products. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=195) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=197)