# 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:** 227
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4581 "2025-05-06T10:07:58Z")
Trump: > we already have too many Holidays in America “Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4582 "2025-05-06T10:46:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > It is indeed _much_ better. I’d only suggest that the eagles be rolling their eyes, as well. And the ‘saber’ should be a little mushroom. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4583 "2025-05-06T13:18:44Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > These are very important Holidays for you to appreciate me but you will still work as it was in the great old days. Too many Holidays in America! Yes - no time to sit around and watch TV and cheat at golf. > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Copremesis I will take “Knowledge That I Wish I Could Erase From My Head” for $500 please, Alex. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4584 "2025-05-06T13:43:48Z")
On the upside now you know what it is called when somebody talks nothing but shit. And it sounds polite until you look it up. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4585 "2025-05-06T14:02:43Z")
> [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > I will take “Knowledge That I Wish I Could Erase From My Head” for $500 please, Alex. You’re going to want to avoid this _South Park_ episode, then: > **Summary** > > “[Red Hot Catholic Love](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0766084/)” > Father Maxi travels to the Vatican to confront the growing problem of priests molesting children. Meanwhile, Cartman discovers that it is possible to crap out of your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4586 "2025-05-06T14:38:09Z")
“Too many holidays.” “Kids can get 3 dolls instead of 30.” “You can have 5 pencils instead of 250.” Fantastic that a rich guy who has gold toilets, spends his days golfing and is planning a military parade in his honor is telling us how we’re living too fancy. Maybe the next Trump AI image can be him dressed as Marie Antoinette. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4587 "2025-05-06T16:09:12Z")
Remember when rationing was a sign that the president was failing? Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4588 "2025-05-06T19:18:49Z")
Remember when President Carter got lambasted for saying maybe Americans shouldn’t consume quite so much? Republicans don’t, either. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4589 "2025-05-06T19:20:20Z")
It humiliates us as a nation when our President dishonors the sovereignty of foreign nations by insisting he will purchase them as a new state. [Live updates: Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney amid recent tariff and immigration news | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-president-administration-news-05-06-25) This shit just makes us look bad, drives an unnecessary wedge between our countries, and engenders ill will in every other country of the world against the US. Just shut the fuck up already! ---
**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:** [May 6, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4590 "2025-05-06T19:25:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Wouldn’t it be something if the governor refused to release her until Trump got Garcia released? Just phrase it as, “I’ll release her after Garcia is released.” “You waited until her sentence was finished!” “I didn’t specify _how long after…_” ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4591 "2025-05-06T21:00:20Z")
Some of us can only dream of owning 250 pencils. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4592 "2025-05-06T21:41:10Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > And the eagles should be vomiting, or at least regurgitating their last meal. Or attacking. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j1AU4qi7tWg/hqdefault.jpg "Trump gets attacked by bald eagle") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1AU4qi7tWg) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4593 "2025-05-07T00:22:04Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > “Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.” Frankly I’m surprised he hasn’t made an effort to eliminate Juneteenth. As a DEI holiday started under Biden I would think that it would be near the top of the agenda. But maybe he’s waiting to until us federal workers had made plans for the day, so as to maximize suffering. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4594 "2025-05-07T00:26:35Z")
You know who _else_ accused “those people” of having “too many damn holidays”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4595 "2025-05-07T00:35:16Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Frankly I’m surprised he hasn’t made an effort to eliminate Juneteenth. He probably doesn’t remember that it exists. Somebody will bring it to his attention in early June, and then he’ll find an excuse to dismantle it or rename it God Bless White People Day or something equally asinine. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4596 "2025-05-07T01:13:16Z")
He’ll probably issue one of his stupid proclamations that it’s a day for black people to thank and celebrate the heritage of the white people that gave them freedom and opportunity- and to also celebrate their favorite President. And he won’t be talking about Obama, either. I wish I were joking. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4597 "2025-05-07T01:21:58Z")
That sounds believable. Both because of his egotism, and because the idea that black people should be _grateful_ for being taken from Africa and enslaved is a longstanding [idea](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/) on the Right. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4598 "2025-05-07T01:22:28Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > a day for black people to thank and celebrate the heritage of the white people that gave them freedom and opportunity by bringing their ancestors to our country. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Slaveshipposter.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Slaveshipposter.jpg) 🥷'd ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4600 "2025-05-07T02:30:16Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Both because of his egotism, and because the idea that black people should be _grateful_ for being taken from Africa and enslaved is a longstanding [idea](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/) on the Right. They got a free boat trip. The interest on the value of that should counter all this reparations nonsense. /s ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4601 "2025-05-07T03:33:00Z")
And they got to [learn a skill](https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-says-black-people-benefited-from-skills-learned-in-slavery-2023-7?op=1), something that wouldn’t have been possible back in Afreaka. Don’t forget that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=226) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=228)