# 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:** 232
**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 10, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4682 "2025-05-10T07:55:16Z")
I thought in the USA you could just insert an “A” anywhere and simply claim it is dylanesque, like in the **M** onumental **A-G** aping **A** sshole. Now the part about pretty soon being drenched to the bone… well, sorry for that. ---
**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 10, 2025, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4683 "2025-05-10T09:10:52Z")
The basic formula is: _do not help people that actually_ need _help, only help those who have no need of it_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4684 "2025-05-10T12:36:12Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > They’re obviously a bunch of losers. Otherwise they wouldn’t need govt handouts. Giving them money just encourages them. So said the sugar industry. > [@eschereal](#): > > The basic formula is: _do not help people that actually_ need _help, only help those who have no need of it_. So said the sugar industry. ---
**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 10, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4685 "2025-05-10T13:21:10Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > > Maybe Donnie can eliminate natural disasters by Executive Order. > > He tried Sharpie for that already. The one time I recall, he actually expanded the natural disaster so it matched his description. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4686 "2025-05-10T13:51:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@Gatopescado](#): > > > > What a Monumental Gaping Asshole. > > > [@fachverwirrt](#): > > > > Make Assholes Gape Again. > > My contribution: > > **M** onumental **A** bsolute **G** aping **A** sshole Great, especially since this thread is about the Trump admin in DC, I now have a mental picture of the Washington Monument making a MAGA asshole gape. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4687 "2025-05-10T14:04:48Z")
From Trump’s recent rambling: “80% tariff on China seems right. Up to Scott B.,” he added moments later. Up to Scott B? You know he knows he fucked up when says stuff like this. How long before he says tariffs were all the idea of a guy named Scott B who somehow snuck into the cabinet. “Never met the guy”. Also, the UK deal…. What was it Lutnik said? England has “weak beef.” cool. Only the top men, top…men. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4688 "2025-05-10T16:54:19Z")
Habeas Who…? > **[Trump administration considering suspending habeas corpus](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qgz18glljo)** > > The White House is "actively looking at" suspending the legal right to challenge detention. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4689 "2025-05-10T17:05:01Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > What was it Lutnik said? I heard a podcaster (Tim Miller or a co-host?) call him Nutlik. That’s about right. ---
**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 10, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4690 "2025-05-10T17:25:36Z")
Nudnick, maybe? ---
**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 10, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4691 "2025-05-10T17:28:18Z")
Article I, Section 9, Clause 2: > _The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it._ Have I missed an invasion or rebellion? I did sleep in a little today. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4692 "2025-05-10T17:32:52Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Have I missed an invasion or rebellion? Trump has been claiming, all along, that undocumented immigrants represent an “invasion,” which is the legal justification that his administration has been attempting to use to invoke laws that were written for use in time of war. ---
**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 10, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4693 "2025-05-10T17:33:48Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Trump has been claiming, all along, that undocumented immigrants represent an “invasion,” Oh. I thought he said he closed the border. Hard to know what to believe these days. ---
**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 10, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4694 "2025-05-10T17:36:37Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > The one time I recall, he actually expanded the natural disaster so it matched his description. Technically, no, he drew a projected storm path that was different from the NOAA projection (because, he is geniusier than people who understand stuff), which looked like an expansion because of the uncertainty spread. > [@Procrustus](#): > > Have I missed an invasion or rebellion There are Americans who are failing to do what Cheeto-Faced ShitGibbon tells them to do, or even dispute his blortings. Some of them are even in the public eye. If that is not a Rebellion, what is? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4695 "2025-05-10T18:03:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Nudnick, maybe? Given that the guy’s the biggest nuzzler of Trump’s balls in the Cabinet and on TV, I’d still go with Nut-lick. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4696 "2025-05-10T18:53:58Z")
I am truly confused- maybe they are confused. JD Vance 2 days ago: “The India/Pakistan conflict is none of our business.” JD Vance today: “The ceasefire, we did that, that was all us.” I don’t understand how people like him don’t die from methane poisoning with how full of shit he is. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4697 "2025-05-10T19:03:29Z")
The madness, it never stops. [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/467584a7-1cda-4a1a-af62-86d50f009833) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/467584a7-1cda-4a1a-af62-86d50f009833) ---
**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:** [May 10, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4698 "2025-05-10T20:00:49Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Habeas Who…? I’d love to suspend _him_ – first his administration via impeachment and conviction then leave it as an exercise where we go from there. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4699 "2025-05-10T21:08:02Z")
Sounds like some kind of Mexican. ---
**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 10, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4700 "2025-05-10T21:38:57Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > > > Habeas Who…? > > I’d love to suspend _him_ – first his administration via impeachment and conviction then leave it as an exercise where we go from there. “I wanted to get a writ of habeas corpus, but I should’ve gotten a-rit of you instead.” ---
**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 10, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4701 "2025-05-10T21:49:03Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I’d love to suspend _him_ In what sense of “suspend”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=231) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=233)