# 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:** 199
**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, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4021 "2025-04-14T16:24:10Z")
Their non-existent broadcast license. But now that Carr has his marching orders don’t be surprised when a handful of CBS affiliates that totally coincidently happen to be in lucrative regions start having problems with their licenses. ---
**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, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4022 "2025-04-14T16:25:10Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > So what license does Trump want CBS to lose? Either (a) he is under the misapprehension that the CBS _network_ is licensed by the FCC (and this isn’t the first time that he’s made this sort of demand), and/or (b) he’s saying this crap to rile up his base. ---
**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, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4023 "2025-04-14T16:33:59Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > So what license does Trump want CBS to lose? The obvious answer is that this is Trump talking and he has no idea what the reality of the situation is. A deeper answer is that if the Trump administration decides to target CBS, they will go after the licenses of the individual stations that broadcast CBS programming. ---
**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 14, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4024 "2025-04-14T17:22:26Z")
With Trump, usually the answer is (c) both. ---
**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 14, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4025 "2025-04-14T17:40:55Z")
This is the same man who “revoked” Adam Schiff’s non-existent security clearance 4 times, right? Somebody is going to dangle something shiny (i.e. some token ‘punishment’) in front of him to placate him. At least until the next time he gets pissed at something on “60 Minutes” and makes the same threat again. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4026 "2025-04-14T17:55:16Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > This is the same man who “revoked” Adam Schiff’s non-existent security clearance 4 times, right? I think that was Kinzinger who had his security clearance revoked 4 times. ---
**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 14, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4027 "2025-04-14T17:57:30Z")
Ah, quite right. Either way, I imagine the White House custodial staff is now thoroughly sick of cleaning ketchup (catsup?) stains off the walls. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4028 "2025-04-14T18:29:11Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Carr is the super-Trumpy head of the FCC. He’s been a prostate-tonguing flunky for a while now. Isn’t he the first to replace his lapel flag pin with a lapel bust o’ Trump pin? Which may be the single most nauseating display of sycophancy I’ve ever seen outside North Korea. ---
**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 14, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4029 "2025-04-14T18:40:11Z")
Soon to come; all his aides will be carrying notebooks and scribbling down all the crazed ramblings. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4030 "2025-04-14T18:41:01Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > and KCBS in Los Angeles What the fuck was wrong with KNXT? Those assholes. ---
**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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4031 "2025-04-14T19:46:59Z")
[Speaking of nonexistent status…](https://www.aol.com/dhs-told-her-leave-country-135225188.html) > [@](#): > > When Massachusetts resident Nicole Micheroni received an email on Friday from the federal government [telling her to leave the country](https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/massachusetts-immigration-attorney-dhs-parole-termination/3684504/?_osource=pa_npd_loc_nat_nbcn_gennbcnews), she was baffled. > > “At first I thought it was for a client, but I looked really closely and the only name on the email was mine,” said Micheroni. “So it said my parole status had been terminated and I should leave the country within seven days.” > > But the 40-year-old is a U.S. citizen, born in Newton and raised in Sharon. > > “Probably, hopefully, sent to me in error,” she said. “But it’s a little concerning these are going out to U.S. citizens.” And here’s the fun part! > [@](#): > > Micheroni is also an immigration attorney, working with many clients facing possible deportation issues, so her name and email are on a lot of paperwork. I also like her evaluation of the caliber of the email she received. > [@](#): > > “The language in the email is very threatening,” she said. “And it looks kind of like a sketchy spam email. It doesn’t look like an official government notice, but it is.” Didn’t some of us here predict basically all of this? ---
**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 14, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4032 "2025-04-14T20:36:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t some of us here predict basically all of this? Yes, but predicting fascists will do fascist things is like predicting the sun will rise the next day. ---
**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 15, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4033 "2025-04-15T00:56:59Z")
You just reminded me of one of the fascist things done in Germany back in the 1930s. Native born Germans were stripped of citizenship. I must be mistaken. Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship is nothing like that. Nothing at all. Didn’t we fight a war _against_ fascism? ---
**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 15, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4034 "2025-04-15T01:18:32Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t we fight a war _against_ fascism? We did. But remember that we had the German-American Bund, and sympathisers like Charles Lindbergh. ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4035 "2025-04-15T02:08:31Z")
I am - no joke - waiting for an explicit equivalent of the paper bag test to be the subject of an executive order. It would not even mildly surprise me at this point. ---
**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 15, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4036 "2025-04-15T03:26:38Z")
The Trump administration is incable of… Nah, that’s too many words. [The Trump administration is incapable.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/2nd-mass-attorney-confirms-receiving-222907207.html) > [@](#): > > A second immigration attorney from Massachusetts confirmed she has received [a letter from federal authorities to self-deport](https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/04/mass-immigration-lawyer-a-us-citizen-ordered-by-dhs-to-leave-the-country.html) due to the expiration of parole. > > In both instances, however, the attorneys are U.S. citizens and were not on parole status. Let’s not pretend this is a mistake. It’s deliberate and it’s harassment of lawyers for immigrants and, therefore, harassment of immigrants. Let’s also not pretend what’s happening to Abrego Garcia is an error either. This is a warning to all and sundry that you can and will be sent to a foreign dungeon if felon47 and his flacks decide you will. The only thing I’m left wonding now is how soon it will be before _ **judges, representatives, and senators** _ start getting disappeared to overseas prisons. ---
**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 15, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4037 "2025-04-15T03:35:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The only thing I’m left wonding now is how soon it will be before _ **judges, representatives, and senators** _ start getting disappeared to overseas prisons. “Lock her up!” sounds better in the original ~~German~~ Salvadoran Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4038 "2025-04-15T03:47:59Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Let’s not pretend this is a mistake. I swear I read an article that some hackers had, well, hacked the department and sent out fake letters like this. Did anyone else read that? ---
**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 15, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4039 "2025-04-15T03:50:29Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I swear I read an article that some hackers had, well, hacked the department and sent out fake letters like this. > > Did anyone else read that? I recall that but can’t find the story. ---
**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 15, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4040 "2025-04-15T06:51:47Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Somebody is going to dangle something shiny (i.e. some token ‘punishment’) in front of him to placate him. At least until the next time he gets pissed at something on “60 Minutes” and makes the same threat again. Maybe he will slap a 88% tariff on CBS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=198) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=200)