# 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:** 229
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4622 "2025-05-07T22:47:27Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > “We would urge all pet owners in the region to make sure all of your beloved animals are under watchful protection while the secretary is in the region,” his office wrote, referencing a part of Noem’s memoir in which she wrote about her decision to kill a dog that she called “untrainable and dangerous.” Hahahahah. But the truth.And Kristi is the ‘untrainable and dangerous one’ She should never be near civilized society. She sure won’t get close to my dogs. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4623 "2025-05-08T10:44:32Z")
**The Secretary of Education writes a letter to Harvard** Here, she’s graded on her writing skills and logic: > **[Linda McMahon threatens Harvard in a letter from a fascist with poor language...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/7/2321024/-Linda-Mahon-threatens-Harvard-in-a-letter-from-a-fascist-with-poor-language-skills-an-analysis?utm_campaign=trending)** > > “At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue... ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4624 "2025-05-08T11:22:27Z")
I suspect that she would struggle if she took the remedial math course that she bitches about. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4625 "2025-05-08T12:58:54Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Here, she’s graded on her writing skills and logic: Reminds me of the time - some 25 years ago, when my oldest brought home some letter from an English teacher, ostensibly setting out the expectations of the parents. We are both lawyers, she teaches college, so we were appalled by the horrible writing in the letter and took to it with red pens. When we finished out thorough editing/re-writing, we handed it back to our kid who said, **“You forgot to sign it. I have to take it back and hand it in.”** 😲 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4626 "2025-05-08T13:05:57Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > And Kristi is the ‘untrainable and dangerous one’ Every accusation from the right is a confession. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4627 "2025-05-08T13:09:08Z")
Sgt. Schultz in _Hogan’s Heroes_: "I know _nothing!_ Ygritte in _Game of Thrones_: “You know nothing, Jon Stark” Donald Trump to reporters on various occasions: “I don’t know.” > [@](#): > > These weren’t trick questions. No one appeared to be trying to trip the president up with unexpected inquiries about obscure topics. In all of these instances, Trump should’ve been able to respond to the questions with substantive responses. > > But he didn’t. Instead, the Republican effectively said, over and over again, “Don’t look at me; I just work here.” > **[‘I don’t know’: The problem with Trump leaning into his new favorite phrase](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/-dont-know-problem-trump-leaning-new-favorite-phrase-rcna205546)** > > It’s worth appreciating not just how many times the president has said “I don’t know” in recent days, but also the scope of his apparent cluelessness. ---
**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 8, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4628 "2025-05-08T13:19:28Z")
He might as well just come out and say “I am chust followink orders.” ---
**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 8, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4629 "2025-05-08T14:18:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Donald Trump to reporters on various occasions: “I don’t know.” I feel like someone needs to have this moment with him. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xKHIzhouKuM/maxresdefault.jpg "James Hurn Railway Scene (Band Of Brothers)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKHIzhouKuM&t=69) ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4630 "2025-05-08T15:40:55Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Donald Trump to reporters on various occasions: “I don’t know.” Wow, I’m confused now. I thought Trump knew more about almost every topic than anyone: [‘Nobody Knows More’ Than Trump About Anything: A Supercut | NowThis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3f95BGIiA) The clip is five years old. Imagine how much more Trump has learned since. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4631 "2025-05-08T15:43:32Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Imagine how much more Trump has learned since. Why? There’s nothing more to learn! He is the Infosphere. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4632 "2025-05-08T16:01:21Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Why? There’s nothing more to learn! There’s a joke about progressively higher academic degrees. You learn more and more about a narrower and narrower field until you know everything there is to know about nothing at all. I’d say Trump is an expert on practically nothing at all. (Except for conning people; that is his superpower.) ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4633 "2025-05-08T16:10:21Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > There’s a joke about progressively higher academic degrees. You learn more and more about a narrower and narrower field until you know everything there is to know about nothing at all. It’s an old joke. I heard it this way: ‘The definition of an “expert” is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing.’ ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4634 "2025-05-08T16:44:25Z")
I had to rewind, I thought he said “I know more than Osama” rather than “I know more than Obama”. At this point Osama “death to America” bin Laden, even as he lies in his watery grave, could be a better choice for POTUS. At least he would not speak. ---
**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 8, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4635 "2025-05-08T16:49:20Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > At this point Osama “death to America” bin Laden, even as he lies in his watery grave, could be a better choice for POTUS. A dead Osama Bin Laden would be a vastly superior President to a living Donald Trump ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4636 "2025-05-08T16:54:13Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > A dead Osama Bin Laden would be a vastly superior President to a living Donald Trump I’m sure Osama hates America less that trump. Even if he weren’t dead. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4637 "2025-05-08T16:55:55Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m sure Osama hates America less that trump. Smarter too. ---
**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 8, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4638 "2025-05-08T17:11:51Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Sgt. Schultz in _Hogan’s Heroes_: "I know _nothing!_ > > Ygritte in _Game of Thrones_: “You know nothing, Jon Stark” Manuel in _Fawlty Towers_: “You always say, Mr. Fawlty, but I learn!” ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4639 "2025-05-08T20:38:25Z")
Speaks for itself: [Trump eying Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for top prosecutor in DC](https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-eying-fox-news-host-jeanine-pirro-top/story?id=121604820) > President [Donald Trump](https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/donald-trump) is strongly considering installing Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. > > The potential selection comes as Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday that Ed Martin, who is currently serving as D.C.'s interim top prosecutor, would [not be taking the position](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-ed-martin-nominee-dc-us-attorney/story?id=121563961) permanently after losing support among top Republicans in the Senate. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4640 "2025-05-08T21:29:15Z")
I was trying to explain to my friend the dynamics of something called “The Peter Principle” and was struggling to come up with an archetypal example. Can anyone help me out here? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4641 "2025-05-08T21:38:20Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Speaks for itself: He loves nominating and associating with drunks (Kegsbreath, Kavanaugh, Rudy) so why not one more? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=228) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=230)