# 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:** 198
**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 14, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4001 "2025-04-14T02:21:18Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > They already have the victim mentality perfected. I used the wrong expression there. What I meant to say is: - _They already have the persecution complex perfected._ I thought the lying White House doctor was gone. [Evidently not.](https://www.aol.com/trumps-medical-results-learned-physical-155054175.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump remains in “excellent health” and is “fully fit” to be Commander-in-Chief, his physician said in a report released by the White House on Sunday, April 13. > > Trump [attended a medical appointment](https://time.com/7277105/trump-goes-to-walter-reed-for-first-physical-of-second-term/) at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday—the first physical of his second presidential term. Trump consented to Dr. Sean Barbabella, the President’s White House physician, releasing the results of his cognitive test and physical examination and tests. > > Per the report, Trump’s height and weight are 75 inches and 224 pounds, respectively. Scans of several body systems—including the eyes, ears, neck, throat, and heart—came back normal. The only way those scans are normal is if the doctor looked at it and said, “For someone in his cruddy condition and following his lousy diet, these scans are the normal portrayal of the effects”. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4002 "2025-04-14T02:28:15Z")
The fragile little shit heard that people were laughing at his pathetic ass, so now he has to ‘manly’ go back on the attack. Christ I wish this loser would just stroke out already. ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4003 "2025-04-14T03:30:39Z")
[“We don’t need no stinking courts” is evidently the response to the latest court ruling against the dictatorship.](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-administration-says-not-required-015445094.html) > [@](#): > > (Reuters) - U.S. officials said in court filings on Sunday that they were not obligated to help a Maryland resident get out of prison in El Salvador after he was erroneously deported, despite a Supreme Court ruling directing the government to “facilitate” his return to the United States. > > Attorneys for the administration of President Donald Trump said the high court’s order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia meant they should “remove any domestic obstacles that would otherwise impede the alien’s ability to return here,” not help extract him from El Salvador. > > The Trump administration has acknowledged that Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was living in Maryland and has had a work permit since 2019, was deported in March in violation of an immigration judge’s order blocking his removal to El Salvador. > > U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, who is presiding over Abrego Garcia’s legal effort to undo his deportation, ordered the U.S. government to bring him back to the United States on April 4. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to overturn that ruling. ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4004 "2025-04-14T03:59:04Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Christ I wish this loser would just stroke out already. Just after, but not before, he loudly, messily, and aromatically loses control hof his bowels during a rally. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4005 "2025-04-14T04:01:15Z")
Looking back it’s amazing how many crises Donald Trump’s second term contained. Remember when we were on the brink of war with Canada? Or that time when we found out high ranking government officials were passing around classified military secrets in public? Or when the stock market crashed because of those crazy global tariffs? It’s hard to believe all these things happened in a space of just four years. Thank god the country survived and Trump’s term is almost over. What? What’s that you say? It hasn’t even been three months? How can that be possible? ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4006 "2025-04-14T04:10:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Just after, but not before, he loudly, messily, and aromatically loses control hof his bowels during a rally. The queef heard around the world. ---
**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 14, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4007 "2025-04-14T05:05:35Z")
Mad King Donald is now yelling at the TV again. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreicapoexrg6td3t3uoy3vk3ch6l53tseswa6u4wxn7a6nejurvswda@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreicapoexrg6td3t3uoy3vk3ch6l53tseswa6u4wxn7a6nejurvswda@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4008 "2025-04-14T05:09:03Z")
We have officially entered the _Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?_ phase of the dictatorship. ---
**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 14, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4009 "2025-04-14T05:13:19Z")
I thought we entered that way back on 6 January 2021. ---
**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 14, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4010 "2025-04-14T05:36:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Mad King Donald is now yelling at the TV again. Sucks to have a First Amendment, doesn’t it, Donnie? ---
**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 14, 2025, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4011 "2025-04-14T08:06:38Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Mad King Donald is now yelling at the TV again. I have no idea who Brendan Carr is, but that poor guy now needs to start kissing orange ass, now he has floated into the sewer of Trump’s mind. Or he will be next, up against the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4012 "2025-04-14T10:04:50Z")
Carr is the super-Trumpy head of the FCC. He’s been a prostate-tonguing flunky for a while 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:** [April 14, 2025, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4013 "2025-04-14T10:22:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Just after, but not before, he loudly, messily, and aromatically loses control hof his bowels during a rally. I was thinking on a toilet but I like your idea better. ---
**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 14, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4014 "2025-04-14T11:43:35Z")
Does it really matter since he’s purportedly wearing adult diapers? ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4015 "2025-04-14T12:23:54Z")
Why doesn’t CBS tweet back pointing out the utter ridiculousness of outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart? I’m a little tired of these companies that won’t hit back. Trump’s base love his bullying, and it is often true that the only way to stop a bully is a punch in the nose. And as Chuck Todd pointed out on WGBH the other day- being polite, or even kowtowing, isn’t going to bring back the conservatives who’ve already abandoned them, but rolling over will lose them the audience they still have. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4016 "2025-04-14T12:26:28Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > Why doesn’t CBS tweet back pointing out the utter ridiculousness of outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart? Because NewsMax and Breitbart don’t have to get a FCC license to do the thing they do? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4017 "2025-04-14T13:26:09Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > I’m a little tired of these companies that won’t hit back. I agree. But it is easy for the likes of you and me to spend THEIR money, isn’t it? It is hard to identify the line between opposition, acquiescence and collusion. And how/when the slope becomes slipperier. But if companies, law firms, organizations, and individuals do not consistently oppose this administration - regardless of the immediate costs of doing so, I fear they will soon find themselves in an environment in which the option of opposing such efforts is no longer available. ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4018 "2025-04-14T15:08:34Z")
_“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."_ –Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian, paraphrasing Joseph Goebbels, WWII German Propaganda Minister ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4019 "2025-04-14T15:11:31Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Because NewsMax and Breitbart don’t have to get a FCC license to do the thing they do? Nor does CBS, as I understand it. Individual broadcast stations have FCC licenses; networks do not. CBS does [directly own 14 TV stations](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-tv-stations-affiliates/) (these are known, in the business, as “owned and operated” stations), all of them in large cities/markets, such as WCBS in New York, WBBM in Chicago, and KCBS in Los Angeles; the rest of the television stations which carry CBS programming are independent of the parent network. FWIW, ABC and NBC operate similarly. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4020 "2025-04-14T16:16:23Z")
So what license does Trump want CBS to lose? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=197) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=199)