# 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:** 241
**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 17, 2025, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4862 "2025-05-17T07:34:10Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Each episode would include a heritage challenge, an elimination challenge Let me guess. The elimination challenge includes eliminating (caneling/erasing) the heritage. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4863 "2025-05-17T07:37:56Z")
I assume that if you are eliminated you get sent directly to an El Salvadoran prison. ---
**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 17, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4864 "2025-05-17T11:41:05Z")
"You’re Eliminated " replaces “You’re Fired”? ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4865 "2025-05-17T12:05:57Z")
Okay, I think this could work. But right away I’d like to suggest two, um, _enhancements._ First, involve wild animals. That should kick up the adrenaline in participants, as well as viewers. Probably in the animals, too. Second, the contest should be _to the death_ for the losers. Let’s don’t screw around. These people risk their lives in boats, in the backs of semi trucks, in the desert. And America doesn’t want losers anyway. Ads could be sold at Super Bowl rates. Win-win. Well, mostly. . . . . . . . . Disclaimer: surely I don’t need to say–but I will–that this is bitter black _humor_. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4866 "2025-05-17T12:31:39Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Okay, I think this could work. But right away I’d like to suggest two, um, _enhancements._ First, involve wild animals. That should kick up the adrenaline in participants, as well as viewers. Probably in the animals, too. > > Second, the contest should be _to the death_ for the losers. Let’s don’t screw around. These people risk their lives in boats, in the backs of semi trucks, in the desert. And America doesn’t want losers anyway. They could hold some “challenges” in southern Florida swamps. I think it’s the only place in the world that has both alligators and crocodiles in the same habitat, so I guess there’s a possibility of being attacked and eaten by either species. It’s what Makes America Great and Unique! ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4867 "2025-05-17T12:33:36Z")
[The liar-in-chief has liars working for him. But these liars send people out of the country and their response is _Oops!_](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-acknowledges-another-error-023835594.html) > [@](#): > > When a Guatemalan man sued the Trump administration in March for deporting him to Mexico despite a [fear of persecution](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.8.4_1.pdf), immigration officials had a response: The man told them himself he was not afraid to be sent there. > > But in a late Friday court filing, the administration [acknowledged](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.103.0_1.pdf) that this claim — a key plank of the government’s response to a high-stakes [class action lawsuit](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.64.0_7.pdf) — was [based on erroneous information](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.103.1_1.pdf). > > Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials now say they have no record of anyone being told by the man, identified only by the initials O.C.G. in court papers, that he was unafraid of going to Mexico. The error, they say, was attributable to a “software tool” known as ICE’s “ENFORCE alien removal module” that tracks individual deportation cases and allows staff to insert comments. > > “Upon further investigation … ICE was unable to identify an officer or officers who asked O.C.G. if he feared a return to Mexico,” said Brian Ortega, assistant field office director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, in a sworn statement to the federal judge overseeing the lawsuit. Did I say _Oops_? I meant, their response is [_We can’t tell you; it’s a secret_](https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-abrego-garcia-case-hear-090854818.html). > [@](#): > > # In unsealed declaration, Rubio claims disclosing some information about Abrego Garcia case would cause ‘significant harm’ to national security > > Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “declaration,” frequently cited as the basis for the Trump administration’s invoking of the rarely used state secrets privilege to withhold certain information about the removal and detention of wrongly deported [Kilmar Abrego Garcia](https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-wrongful-deportation-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador/story?id=120803843) was finally unsealed late Friday night. > > The declaration was unsealed under an order by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, following a lengthy hearing in Maryland in which she pressed Justice Department lawyers on the basis to shield information about the Trump administration’s handling of the matter. > > In the declaration, which is dated May 5, Rubio said that “after careful and actual personal consideration,” he concluded that the disclosure of certain information requested by Abrego Garcia’s attorneys “could be expected to cause significant harm to the foreign relations interests” and national security interests of the U.S. What do you have to do to get information from these clowns, hire a Russian to go to the bathroom? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4868 "2025-05-17T12:39:30Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What do you have to do to get information from these clowns, hire a Russian to go to the bathroom? Probably just hire someone to hack their phones to get access to their Signal chats. I’m sure the Russians already have. I think I’m missing the bathroom reference, though. ---
**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 17, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4869 "2025-05-17T13:09:19Z")
That’s where Donnie keeps his secret file cabinets. ---
**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 17, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4870 "2025-05-17T13:17:35Z")
‘actual personal consideration’ really should be done in the privacy of the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4871 "2025-05-17T13:19:01Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > That’s where Donnie keeps his secret file cabinets. Ah. “Russian” and “go to the bathroom” made me wonder about a pee tape being made for blackmail. It’s rumored to have happened before and the blackmailee seems to be giving Putin everything he wants. ---
**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 17, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4872 "2025-05-17T14:36:45Z")
When does Mike Judge set about to suing these guys (the whole administration) for copyright infringement and plagiar[ism](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4873 "2025-05-17T14:49:25Z")
When Trump changes his last name to “Camacho”. ---
**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 17, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4874 "2025-05-17T15:53:54Z")
The new deportation reality show will be sponsored by Brawndo. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4875 "2025-05-17T16:13:41Z")
That’s borderline defamatory against President Camacho, as I always said, presented with a problem Camacho put the most intelligent guy in charge of solving it and then followed his recommendations. If Trump was president in Idiocracy they would all have died while the idiot blathered about using bleach to water plants. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4876 "2025-05-17T16:51:39Z")
It’s more Running Man. Maybe Stephen King should sue? I’ m sure he’d love it, given his fondness for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4877 "2025-05-17T17:00:33Z")
With a few of the red states getting hammered by severe storms yesterday, it will be interesting to see if what is left of FEMA provides these people with the help they need. If they are essentially ignored, or the response is slow and feeble, maybe some of these people will start getting a clue. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4878 "2025-05-17T17:27:00Z")
> [@Disinfectus](#): > > maybe some of these people will start getting a clue. Don’t bet on it. It’ll be Biden’s fault, or Harris’s fault, or Obama’s fault. MAGATs are in way too deep to turn on their boy now. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4879 "2025-05-17T18:16:10Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Don’t bet on it. It’ll be Biden’s fault, or Harris’s fault, or Obama’s fault. MAGATs are in way too deep to turn on their boy now. There’ll be a subset that believe the Democrats used their weather machines to cause this. ---
**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 17, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4880 "2025-05-17T18:18:47Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > There’ll be a subset that believe the Democrats used their weather machines to cause this. That would explain why they’re so eager to dismantle NOAA and the NWS. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/4881 "2025-05-17T18:26:18Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > That would explain why they’re so eager to dismantle NOAA and the NWS. I thought they wanted to privatize those so their donors could make money. But I wasn’t kidding about weather control: [‘It’s so stupid’: Biden shoots down Marjorie Taylor Greene’s conspiracy theory about controlling the weather](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-shoots-marjorie-taylor-greenes-ridiculous-conspiracy-theory-cont-rcna174710) _As Hurricane Milton threatens catastrophic damage in Florida, the Georgia Republican suggested on X that such storms could be engineered by humans._ > “Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congresswoman from Georgia, is now saying the federal government is literally controlling the weather, we’re controlling the weather. It’s beyond ridiculous. It’s so stupid. It’s got to stop,” Biden said in televised remarks at the White House. > … > Greene said last Thursday in a [p](https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/1842039774359462324)[ost](https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/1842039774359462324)[on X](https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/1842039774359462324): “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” > … > At around the same time, Greene repeated her weather claim and suggested that the federal government was aware of it. > > “Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified, because they are required to report it to the Secretary of Commerce by the Weather Modification Act of 1972,” she [wrote on X](https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/1844056573892579788), referring to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “The NOAA government website has a library catalog of 1,026 entries of weather modifications, but that’s not all of them.” > > She continued, “If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation? After all, did they ask you if you agreed to our weather being modified?” > > On Tuesday, she quoted an article from The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for spreading conspiracy theories, that said: “Marjorie Taylor Greene was right. Yes, scientists do control the weather.” That was last year. Imagine the advancements that have been made since. Greene was talking about a hurricane; soon the Dems will have precision-guided tornados! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=240) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=242)