# 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:** 257
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5182 "2025-05-25T19:55:41Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > ETA: A character in one of Heinlein’s books (I forget which) had a cat called Random Numbers. Have a friend that named a cat Entropy. Any object on any table must be pushed off said table. Everything had to be at it’s lowest state of energy. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5183 "2025-05-25T19:55:42Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued,” reads Section 70302 of the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill Act. This part is astoundingly scary. ---
**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 25, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5184 "2025-05-25T20:00:33Z")
He figures his buddy Bibi got away with neutering the courts, so it’s only fair that he got to also. ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5185 "2025-05-25T22:29:08Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > If you have to work until you drop dead on the job one day, you won’t need Social Security and you get to work alongside your adult grandchildren in the factories. But it will be so awesome! You all get to work your 12 hour shifts together, come home and kill one of your backyard chickens for dinner, wash that down with some raw milk from the cow, watch reality TV and scroll tik-tok until bedtime, where you will sleep soundly knowing you have pleased the overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5186 "2025-05-25T22:49:27Z")
Trump’s Commissioner of the FDA recommends withholding insulin from diabetics, and just send them to healthy cooking classes. > **[Trump FDA commissioner complains about 'throwing insulin" to diabetics](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-throwing-insulin/?link_source=ta_thread_link&taid=683376ce6bb3b60001a7e002&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads.net)** > > Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary argued that insulin should be withheld from people with diabetes and replaced with "cooking classes." > > During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Makary promoted a report from President Donald... ---
**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 25, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5187 "2025-05-25T23:22:31Z")
Trump is getting encouragement and advice from [lady Lettucehead](https://wapo.st/44UqXgO) herself. Washington Post OPed: (gift link but unfortunately probably requires registration) Basically he needs to stay strong and don’t let the elites get in the way of his prosperity agenda, of tariffs, taking a chainsaw to government, and killing DEI, and fucking over the environment, as the fate of the West If not for those damn ~~meddling kids~~ establishment economists, Davos elite, and backstabbing conservatives, kicking her out of office, Britain would have been an economic power house instead of the hell hole it and the rest of Western Europe has become. If only we too had a system that allowed us to take a mulligan in less than the time it takes for a head of lettuce to rot, when we realize we made a horrible horrlible mistake. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5188 "2025-05-26T00:21:23Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > He figures his buddy Bibi got away with neutering the courts, so it’s only fair that he got to also. Let him move to Israel then, or better yet, North Korea or Russia. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5189 "2025-05-26T00:22:42Z")
North Korea would be great. We’d probably never hear of him again. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5190 "2025-05-26T00:39:04Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > > We used to live in an old hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, > > At least you had a hole! > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > And a tarp! Luxury! ---
**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 26, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5191 "2025-05-26T01:10:09Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump’s Commissioner of the FDA recommends withholding insulin from diabetics, and just send them to healthy cooking classes. Why does this remind me of how the Japanese government treated hemophiliacs in the 1980s? > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > > We used to live in an old hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, > > At least you had a hole! Yeah! We only had half a hole! ---
**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 26, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5192 "2025-05-26T01:10:47Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump’s Commissioner of the FDA recommends withholding insulin from diabetics, and just send them to healthy cooking classes. If the pancreas is already damaged to the point where a patient needs insulin, I don’t think ‘cooking classes’ will help. He’s just deliberately trying to murder people. ---
**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 26, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5193 "2025-05-26T01:12:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > He’s just deliberately trying to murder people. Murder? Of course not! He’s _final_ly deliberately trying to _solve_ the problem of _Untermenschen_. ---
**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 26, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5194 "2025-05-26T01:13:15Z")
Insulin is DEI for laze, shiftless, pancreases. ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5195 "2025-05-26T02:09:41Z")
[The felon is using social media to demand lists of students and the countries they come from.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-harvard-international-students-enrollment-b2757616.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) posted a late-night [rant](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-west-point-address-dei-immigration-b2757275.html) on Truth Social, demanding that [Harvard University](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-university-international-students-noem-trump-b2756490.html) provide his administration with[the “names and countries” of all its international students.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-university-trump-international-students-b2756457.html) > > There would be nearly 6,793 names on that list, according to the [latest data](https://oneworld.worldwide.harvard.edu/international-students-at-harvard/) shared by the university. > > “Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to,” Trump [wrote](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114566671392866950) at 12:51 a.m. on Sunday. “Nobody told us that!” > > “We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming,” he continued. “We want those names and countries.” WTF is he on about? Foreign students cannot get a visa without proving they’ve paid (IIRC, in advance) for their studies. What does he care where the foreign student gets the money from? It all goes to the school. Oops! That whole rant is the product of someone who’s only ever spent OPM. And what will he do with that list. 🎼 _You better watch out, You better not cry, Better not pout, I’m telling you why: Don the Con is goin’ to ban your school._ _He’s making a list And checking it twice, Gonna find out Who’s foreign and not. Don the Con is goin’ to ban science._ _He hates you when you’re studyin’, He hates when you’re smart, He don’t care if you’ve been bad or good, So don’t be foreign for God’s sake._ _You better watch out, You better not protest, Better not write, I’m telling you why: Don the Con is comin’ to ban your ass!_ 🎼 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5196 "2025-05-26T12:49:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Yeah! We only had half a hole! A duplex! > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > If the pancreas is already damaged to the point where a patient needs insulin, I don’t think ‘cooking classes’ will help. He’s just deliberately trying to murder people. Or is he just a moron? Since he’s in the Trump administration, it’s probably both. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5197 "2025-05-26T12:57:20Z")
I wonder if he’d be singing the same tune if the price of insulin hadn’t been capped. Or if it will change should the cap be removed (which is almost certainly on the agenda). ---
**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 26, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5198 "2025-05-26T13:47:49Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Yeah! We only had half a hole! I hope it was the top half. I lived in the bottom half of a hole once, and it killed me having to pay a toll to the Top Holers every time I wanted to enter or leave the hole. ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5199 "2025-05-26T14:34:58Z")
Luxury! ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5200 "2025-05-26T15:23:37Z")
You could afford to pay a hole toll? Lah-di-dah! ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5201 "2025-05-26T15:25:36Z")
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