# 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:** 236
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4762 "2025-05-12T20:21:22Z")
I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4763 "2025-05-12T20:26:14Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > [quoting article] a gift that is to be available for use by President Donald Trump as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation, sources familiar with the proposed arrangement told ABC News. Leaves office. Ha! Thanks, that’s a good one! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4764 "2025-05-12T20:30:40Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > a gift that is to be available for use by President Donald Trump as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation, sources familiar with the proposed arrangement told ABC News. That will never be ‘Air Force One’. It could be ‘Executive One’ That was brought up earlier in this thread. It is a good distraction to keep him from doing damage, but, the damage has been done. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4765 "2025-05-12T20:31:07Z")
Wondering about Little Marco. Is he really going to want to stay in this shitshow until the end? His reputation, such as it is, will be ruined, and anyway, was he ever a billionaire standing to reap the rewards? He’s selling his “soul” and suffering untold embarrassment for what? He had to know it would be bad, but he couldn’t have known all the shit that trump would pull. He’s still the thing most simulating an adult in the cabinet, but he looks a complete fool. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4766 "2025-05-12T20:33:22Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > He had to know it would be bad Most of them, at least in public, still think it’s good. For lack of a nail, the kingdom was lost. ---
**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 12, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4767 "2025-05-12T21:11:28Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > I stopped posting pictures about trump ages ago Maybe not a C&D letter, but you are welcome to a big fat fucking **Thank You** from me. I am so damn tired of that goddam gob. ---
**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 12, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4768 "2025-05-12T21:37:42Z")
And yet here you are with the rest of us in this thread… just can’t tear ourselves away, can we? For one thing, I’m afraid that if I don’t keep up with his BS (to the extent that is possible), something even more permanently and cataclysmically damaging will happen and I will wish I had known. As it is, I consider myself extremely well-informed on his goings-on, mainly from this board. I do not watch any TV news, except Rachel Maddow (who has gone back to Monday nights only). I read the New York Times, the Washington Post, and my pathetic local paper, as well as Paul Krugman’s substack. I check out a few other substacks, but there is a lot to keep up with. I know **a lot more** about what trump is doing than anyone else I encounter here at the home, including the obsessive news watchers. I think people have given up trying to follow everything, because there is so much-- a new outrage every day. This board is the most comprehensive aggregator of what is going on in our so-called government. I thank everyone here for this. 🙇‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4769 "2025-05-12T21:39:09Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Wondering about Little Marco. Is he really going to want to stay in this shitshow until the end? His reputation, such as it is, will be ruined, and anyway, was he ever a billionaire standing to reap the rewards? He’s selling his “soul” and suffering untold embarrassment for what? He had to know it would be bad, but he couldn’t have known all the shit that trump would pull. He’s still the thing most simulating an adult in the cabinet, but he looks a complete fool. Don’t think for a moment that Marco Rubio is an adult in the room. He just simulated one enough to get unanimous Senate approval. ---
**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 12, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4770 "2025-05-12T21:58:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’m afraid that if I don’t keep up with his BS (to the extent that is possible), something even more permanently and cataclysmically damaging will happen and I will wish I had known It is entirely possible to keep up with the blortfest while maintaining minimum exposure to his deformed word things, and looking at that face (“gob”) and hearing those incoherent noises can almost entirely be avoided. People continue to distribute real and parody images of the blob, beyond _ad nauseum_, and it seems like making his face as ubiquitous as the American Flag itself is a very very bad notion. We are failing to denormalize him, resulting in his becoming essentially infinite. ---
**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 12, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4771 "2025-05-12T22:34:30Z")
Because I don’t watch TV news, I never see him in motion or hear his voice. The last time I actually saw and heard him speak for more than a few seconds (the time it takes me to turn off the car radio) was when he debated Hillary Clinton before THAT election. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4772 "2025-05-13T00:44:39Z")
Trump explains the Plane donation. “How can you pass up a free plane?” MeidasTouch (80 sec) [https://youtu.be/NkImexuYDGw?t=204](https://youtu.be/NkImexuYDGw?t=204) ---
**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 13, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4773 "2025-05-13T00:47:16Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > Trump explains the Plane donation. “How can you pass up a free plane?” “If you are getting something for free, _you_ are the product.” His ego and overconfidence are so huge that he cannot fathom the idea that they are playing him. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4774 "2025-05-13T00:52:50Z")
So true. _He_ is the fiddle that is played while Rome is burning, and _he_ is the match that started the fire, and _he_ is the fire burning Rome. How’s _that_ for a trifecta? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4775 "2025-05-13T01:33:19Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This board is the most comprehensive aggregator of what is going on in our so-called government. I thank everyone here for this I thank everyone here for that too. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4776 "2025-05-13T01:51:41Z")
I remember the moment-by-moment synopsis of the Trump trials that were filtered through this site. Better coverage than anywhere else I can imagine. ---
**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 13, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4777 "2025-05-13T02:12:06Z")
Of course our fellow Dopers who provided that coverage had to take a long rest cure afterward to recover from their work in the trenches. “Greater love…” eh? We really appreciated it. 👍🏽 ---
**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 13, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4778 "2025-05-13T03:01:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Because I don’t watch TV news, I never see him in motion or hear his voice. Unfortunately, since Donnie Two-scoops has given _two_ Republican candidates for governor in Arizona his “complete and total endorsement” the one with the bigger warchest and personal wealth, Karrin Taylor Robson, has been running a blitz ad where that is the only thing she says with a sound bite of that endorsement last December. Not a word about what _her_ stands are and policies will be. Lady, that might help you win the primary but isn’t the flex you think it is for the general election. Every time I see it I throw up a little in my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4779 "2025-05-13T04:16:50Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > Trump explains the Plane donation. “How can you pass up a free plane?” He is turning America into a version of himself. Full of grievance against our longtime allies who won’t even say “thank you” - they OWE us! Fawning over dictators who are more than happy to say “thank you” to get what they want. And of course America wants all the free stuff. We are the greatest! Look at everything we have done for the world, that only we, America, could do. It’s tribute time. It will always be mind-boggling that people have bought into this. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4780 "2025-05-13T04:28:42Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > the one with the bigger warchest and personal wealth, Karrin Taylor Robson, has been running a blitz ad where that is the only thing she says with a sound bite of that endorsement last December. **Not a word about what _her_ stands are and policies will be.** She no longer has any other than those of her master. ---
**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 13, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4781 "2025-05-13T04:30:06Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Not a word about what _her_ stands are and policies will be. For MAGA voters, “will stand with Trump!” is the only stance that is important to them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=235) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=237)