# 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:** 264
**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 30, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5322 "2025-05-30T23:36:57Z")
Like this? [![](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/03/nintchdbpict000374487523.jpg?w=2080) ](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/03/nintchdbpict000374487523.jpg?w=2080) ---
**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 30, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5323 "2025-05-30T23:46:21Z")
That’s just the transliteration of: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b5/19/02/b51902c2d03de24f21fa1c112d0b4153.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b5/19/02/b51902c2d03de24f21fa1c112d0b4153.jpg) ---
**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 31, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5324 "2025-05-31T01:01:04Z")
When do we start calling this administration a “cluckerfust”? ---
**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 31, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5325 "2025-05-31T01:07:00Z")
CluckerPluck? ---
**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 31, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5326 "2025-05-31T01:27:22Z")
What I **really want** to know is, does the Screaming ChickenShitGibbon genuinely believe what he is blorting out, or does he actually realize that he is spewing bullshit? (Granted that it is probably somewhere between the two) which is worse? ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5327 "2025-05-31T01:32:01Z")
I think Trump believes whatever he is saying in the current moment. The fact that this might be the exact opposite of what he just said last year or last month or five minutes ago does not trouble him at all. Also, he has dementia but it’s the very slow kind and it is taking its time with him. > **[Trump Shows Signs of ‘Cognitive Decline’ Says Speech Expert](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-shows-signs-cognitive-decline-202017931.html)** > > As pressure mounts for an inquiry into Joe Biden’s mental decline, the president faces scrutiny over his health. ---
**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 31, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5328 "2025-05-31T01:39:47Z")
Then, because of his progressing dementia, he did know at one time that it was bullshit but keeps forgetting that and actually believes what he is saying in the moment but then forgets that he said that right around the time he again recognizes it for bullshit. And the cycle repeats. ---
**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 31, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5329 "2025-05-31T01:44:28Z")
[No surprise here. The felon lambasts someone he praised.](https://www.aol.com/leonard-leo-why-did-trump-085833411.html) > [@](#): > > “We’re going to have great judges, conservative, all picked by the Federalist Society,” Trump promised during his first campaign in 2016. It was the result of a meeting in March 2016 with Leonard Leo, then the executive vice president of the Federalist Society, a conservative organization that advocates for legal [originalism](https://time.com/5670400/justice-neil-gorsuch-why-originalism-is-the-best-approach-to-the-constitution/). > > True to his promise, Trump would go on to consult Leo for judicial nominations, including his three Supreme Court picks. Turns into: > [@](#): > > “I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges,” he [posted](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114593880455063168) on his social media platform Truth Social. “I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real ‘sleazebag’ named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions. He openly brags how he controls Judges, and even Justices of the United States Supreme Court—I hope that is not so, and don’t believe it is! In any event, Leo left The Federalist Society to do his own ‘thing.’ I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations. This is something that cannot be forgotten! With all of that being said, I am very proud of many of our picks, but very disappointed in others.” Y’all remember the boy who cried wolf? Yeah, in that story, there really was, finally, a wolf. The toddler who cried deep state, on the other hand… > [@](#): > > NEW YORK (AP) — As he crisscrossed the country in 2024, [Donald Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/people/donald-trump/) pledged to supporters that voting him back into the presidency would be “our final battle.” > > “With you at my side, we will [demolish the deep state](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-deep-state-washington-c821974493749226e1f3dd633914a02f?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share),” he said repeatedly on the campaign trail. “We will liberate our country from these tyrants and villains once and for all.” > > Four months into his second term, Trump has continued to stoke dark theories involving his predecessors and other powerful politicians and attorneys — most recently raising the specter of nefarious intent behind former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to sign papers. The administration has pledged to reopen investigations and has taken steps to declassify certain documents, including releasing [more than 63,000 pages of records](https://apnews.com/article/jfk-assassination-files-release-trump-3e8f31e18468d96b53210572e0992c07?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share) related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Yet many of Trump’s supporters say it’s not enough. > > Some who take him at his word are beginning to get restless as they ask why his administration, which holds the keys to chasing down these alleged government secrets, is denying them the evidence and retribution they expected. [A senator from Iowa has an _interesting_ take on the felon’s big bullshit bill.](https://www.aol.com/well-going-die-sen-joni-170321665.html) > [@](#): > > PARKERSBURG, IOWA − Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, fielded angry questions on Medicaid cuts, President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/)’s tax cut proposal and DOGE at a town hall on May 30, at one point telling a member of the crowd concerned [about Medicaid cuts](https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-bill-cuts-medicaid-unemployed-090442884.html) that, “We all are going to die.” > > While portions of the hourlong event proceeded respectfully and Ernst, a Republican, answered several questions without interruption, at other points members of the roughly 100-member crowd repeatedly interrupted her answers, booing her and calling her a liar. > > As Ernst was answering a question about Medicaid eligibility in Trump’s tax cut bill, she was interrupted by a woman in the crowd, who shouted, “People will die!” > > “People are not – well, we all are going to die,” Ernst said, prompting shouting from the audience. “For heaven’s sakes, folks.” [Harvard gets a reprieve, but the taco toddler’s so-called administration is still harassing the school.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-seeks-long-term-reprieve-151044395.html) > [@](#): > > A Boston federal judge said at a hearing May 29 that she planned to issue a preliminary injunction that blocks the Department of Homeland Security from revoking Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign exchange students. & > [@](#): > > The Trump administration filed a document in court shortly before the May 29 hearing, saying it would provide Harvard with a 30-day process to contest its removal from the international student program. Question for the legal beagles here: how is this _not_ contempt of court? More on the Harvard confict is [here](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-state-department-orders-embassies-160803033.html). > [@](#): > > The US State Department on Friday ordered all US embassies and consulates to “immediately begin additional vetting” for anyone seeking a visa to travel to Harvard University “for any purpose.” > > The move is a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s [feud with the Ivy League](https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/us/takeaways-harvard-hearing-trump?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) institution that is poised to have massive implications, as it applies to more than just students. > > The “additional vetting” is comprised of “a complete screening of the online presence” of the applicants who wish to travel to Harvard, which will serve as a pilot for expanded social media screening and vetting visa applicants across the board. > > “Such applicants include, but are not limited to prospective students, students, faculty, employees, contractors, guest speakers, and tourists,” the diplomatic cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and seen by CNN said. [Now Schrödinger’s cat is drugs!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-miller-report-musk-drug-163208612.html) > [@](#): > > White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Friday shrugged off a question about new reporting that tech billionaire and adviser to the president Elon Musk sparked concerns on the campaign trail with his drug use. > > “The drugs that we’re concerned about are the drugs running across the southern border,” Miller said. [The vendetta against Kilmar Abrego Garcia continues.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/deported-alleged-gang-member-abrego-000424296.html) > [@](#): > > The [Department of Homeland Security](https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/executive/homeland-security) doubled down on Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member deported to his native country of El Salvador, “will never be on American streets again.” > > The agency’s remarks came amid criticism from U.S. Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., who tried to visit Garcia on Memorial Day. Ivey initially posted a video on X about the attempted visit, saying that he represents Abrego Garcia, and that the Salvadoran government stonewalled his efforts. & > [@](#): > > “Let us be crystal clear: Kilmar Abrego Garcia will never be on American streets again,” a Homeland Security post on X states. “Advocating for an illegal alien, MS-13 gang member, human trafficker and wife beater over ACTUAL Maryland constituents victimized by illegal alien crime is appalling.” The only court decisions of which I’m aware relating to Garcia’s case are (1) he had a protection from deportation order, and (2) a federal judge ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Garcia’s return to the United States. I must have missed all the times a court found, based on evidence, he was a member of MS-13, a human trafficerk, and beat his wife. [And now Cruella de Vile wants a brand spanking new aeroplane.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-official-sparks-backlash-making-113008176.html) > [@](#): > > In a [Reddit forum](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/) focused on politics, one Redditor drew attention to a controversial request made by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: a $50 million private jet. > > Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois [expressed outrage](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/15/homeland-security-looks-buy-new-50m-jet-kristi-noem-and-coast-guard-officials.html) about “wasting taxpayer dollars on luxury travel.” > > According to an article by [Military.com](http://military.com/), Noem requested a new $50 million long-range Gulfstream jet to replace the private jet she currently uses for travel. It was a last-minute addition to the Coast Guard’s 2025 budget proposal. By the way, I just came up with that nickname for her: _Cruella de Vile_. Damn, I wish I had thought of that when her vileness towards canines first came to light. [Another one at the Smithsonian is put to the curb by the felon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-director-smithsonians-national-185240223.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON -[President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) announced in a Truth Social post on May 30 that he fired Kim Sajet from her role as director of Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. > > “Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am herby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the National Portrait Gallery,” Trump [wrote in his post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114597966895334541). “She is a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position,” he added, referring to diversity, equity and inclusion. > > “Her replacement will be named shortly,” Trump wrote. ”Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Shortly? Is that the new ~~“cofefve”~~ “two weeks”? I recall the 2020 pandemic being called a once in a century pandemic. [Now we have a “hold my hamberder” moment thanks to the lunatic the felon put in charge of health.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-anti-vaccine-war-171605571.html) > [@](#): > > The Department of Health and Human Services is canceling an enormous contract with Moderna, ending a multimillion-dollar partnership to develop vaccines for emerging flu strains. > > The agency, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., signaled in February that it would be conducting a review of a $590 million contract penned during the Biden administration. Kennedy—a virulent vaccine conspiracy theorist—has been highly critical of the messenger RNA process utilized by Moderna to expedite vaccine development. The contract had been awarded through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which issues money for treatment programs aimed at curbing potential future pandemics. > > The nixed contract comes on the heels of positive interim results from an early-stage trial of the shot for the H5 bird flu virus, months after strains of the virus [wiped out millions of birds](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h5n9-h5n1-bird-flu-what-to-know/) across America’s poultry farms. Once in a century, twice in a decade–what’s the difference? I just saw this one. [Evidently, the felon _does_ want foreign students to study in the United States (so he says), just not at Harvard.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-wants-foreign-students-201840990.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON - [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) said in a White House news conference on May 30 that he wants foreign students to study in the United States despite his ongoing feud with Harvard University, which included an attempt to effectively bar the Ivy League campus from enrolling international students. > > A federal judge on May 23 [temporarily halted](https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-sues-trump-administration-over-125754989.html) the administration’s effort to bar the university from [enrolling international students](https://presto-suite-story-editor.gannettdigital.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=31624833&action=edit). The judge on May 29 said she would[issue a longer-term halt](https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-seeks-long-term-reprieve-151044395.html) on the policy. > > “We want to have great students here. We just don’t want students that are causing trouble. We want to have students. I want to have foreign students,” Trump told reporters at the press conference. Now ain’t that a masterful display of eloquence? ---
**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 31, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5330 "2025-05-31T02:13:44Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > …Kennedy—a **virulent vaccine** conspiracy theorist… My bold. I see what they did there. ---
**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 31, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5331 "2025-05-31T02:14:19Z")
> [@](#): > > As Ernst was answering a question about Medicaid eligibility in Trump’s tax cut bill, she was interrupted by a woman in the crowd, who shouted, “People will die!” > > “People are not – well, we all are going to die,” Ernst said, prompting shouting from the audience. “For heaven’s sakes, folks.” Remember when Alan Grayson got shit for saying “Republicans want you to die quickly”? Nice to see them finally come out and say it themselves. ---
**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 31, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5332 "2025-05-31T02:24:21Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Remember when Alan Grayson got shit for saying “Republicans want you to die quickly”? Nice to see them finally come out and say it themselves. No, no, no. You’re mistaken. They don’t _want_ you to die quickly. They simply don’t _care_ if you die quickly. What they _do_ want is for you to die in gloom, despair, agony, deep dark depression, and excessive misery. Hee Haw! ---
**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 31, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5333 "2025-05-31T03:39:20Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real ‘sleazebag’ named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions I’d really like to get someone like Leo Squared here really drunk, and ask them how they feel about being under-bussed like this. This is a guy who spent many years of his life advancing the right wing agenda, and now he’s supposed to be one of the worst people in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5334 "2025-05-31T03:45:07Z")
So Leonard Leo got leoparderd? ---
**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 31, 2025, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5335 "2025-05-31T04:50:19Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > This is a guy who spent many years of his life advancing the right wing agenda, and now he’s supposed to be one of the worst people in the world. Isn’t someone who spends many years of his life advancing the right wing agend, in fact, one of the worst people in the world? ---
**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 31, 2025, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5336 "2025-05-31T08:06:39Z")
[Golden the ~~Ship~~ Dome Was–Oh! Oh! Oh!](https://www.aol.com/news/hegseth-gutted-pentagon-office-said-231353602.html) Lest anyone thinks the Second Felonial Era is a model of internal communication and coordinated government: > [@](#): > > Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the gutting of a Pentagon office shortly after it disclosed that it would be overseeing the testing of President [Donald Trump](https://www.cnn.com/politics/president-donald-trump-47?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo)’s [Golden Dome](https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/politics/golden-dome-missile-shield-price-billions?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) missile defense system and the programs associated with the massive, multi-billion dollar project, multiple officials familiar with the matter told CNN. > > At the end of April, the little known Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation drafted and disseminated a memo to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and other DoD offices that put Golden Dome on its oversight list, in line with [DoD instructions](https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/500098p.PDF?ver=InJ_BDOOVcUHyurlNv_FAg%3D%3D) and [laws requiring](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section139&num=0&edition=prelim) that a major defense acquisition program be tested before being fielded, the officials said. > > Days later, [Elon Musk](https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/elon-musk-trump-criticism?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo)’s Department of Government Efficiency asked the office for a meeting. Musk’s company, SpaceX, is among the companies vying for a role in developing Golden Dome. > > DOGE representatives asked DOT&E officials more about what they did and their plans for this year, officials said, and seemed surprised that much of the office’s work was required by law. But there were no outward signs that the office was on the chopping block. > > On Wednesday, though, DOT&E employees were abruptly summoned to a meeting at the Pentagon and told that the office would be cut to just 30 people, down from over 100, the officials told CNN. Contractors would also no longer be assigned to support the office, per the new guidance. > > A defense official told CNN that they believe the administration was concerned about DOT&E conducting independent oversight of Golden Dome, and the problems it might uncover in the process. > > “This administration only wants wins. They don’t want bad news and they’re getting bad news on all sorts of fronts,” the official said. “DOT&E is an honest broker of information. We report the truth and that’s all we do.” [This administration doesn’t understand the meaning of words. But it sure knows how to show you their cruelty.](https://us.yahoo.com/news/state-dept-broad-reorganization-plan-144602147.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday formally notified Congress of its plans for a major overhaul of the State Department, which will cut thousands of jobs, refocus the agency’s human rights bureau on “Western values” and reorient the refugee bureau toward returning migrants to their countries of origin. Being a refugee in America today is like calling the fire department and Montag’s coworkers show up. What else is in that article? > [@](#): > > The role of a top official for civilian security, democracy, and human rights will be eliminated, along with the offices that monitored war crimes and conflicts around the world. > > A new Senate-confirmed role of under secretary for foreign assistance and humanitarian affairs will oversee the new Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, which is to be reorganized to “ground the Department’s values-based diplomacy in traditional Western conceptions of core freedoms” and headed by a deputy assistant secretary for “Democracy and Western Values.” > > The new under secretary position will “ensure efficiency and oversight in the delivery of foreign assistance in a post-USAID era,” a summary of the notification said. Ah, we’ve seen this before, haven’t we? The felon creates a problem, then others have to fix it. But wait, there’s more. He’s trying to fix a problem that simply doesn’t exist. > [@](#): > > Within the new bureau, an Office of Free Markets and Free Labor will promote free-market principles and an Office of Natural Rights will work on what the Trump administration sees as “free speech backsliding in Europe and other developed nations.” [Apparently the clusterfuck is a lot like WWE.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/bannon-spills-secret-physical-brawl-184914800.html) > [@](#): > > Elon Musk suffered a violent outburst during a shouting match in the Oval Office, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon has revealed. > > Bannon told the [_Daily Mail_](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14765129/Elon-Musk-Scott-Bessent-shove-White-House-DOGE-Trump.html) that the billionaire “got physical” with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent upon being confronted over the Department of Government Efficiency’s meager savings. > > “Scott Bessent called him out and said, ‘You promised us a trillion dollars (in cuts), and now you’re at like $100 billion, and nobody can find anything, what are you doing?’” Bannon said. “And that’s when Elon got physical. It’s a sore subject with him.” > > “It wasn’t an argument, it was a physical confrontation. Elon basically shoved him,” Bannon added. > > White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the April confrontation on Friday—Musk’s final day as a special advisor to President Donald Trump. > > “It’s no secret President Trump has put together a team of people who are incredibly passionate about the issues impacting our country,” she said in a statement to the _Daily Mail_. “Disagreements are a normal part of any healthy policy process, and, ultimately, everyone knows they serve at the pleasure of President Trump.” > > The revelation comes on the heels of a bombshell [_New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html) report alleging Musk used a heavy cocktail of drugs while on the campaign trail with Trump, including ketamine, ecstasy, and psychedelic mushrooms. > > The confrontation was initially reported in April, but details about its physical nature have only now come to light. > > “It was two billionaire, middle-aged men thinking it was WWE in the hall of the West Wing,” a witness told _Axios_ when the incident first emerged. [Yet another court order ignored, yet another migrant deported in violation of said order.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-halted-deportation-trump-administration-224655015.html) > [@](#): > > The Trump administration has admitted that it improperly deported another immigrant in violation of a court order — the fourth known case in which the administration deported someone erroneously or in breach of specific legal requirements. > > Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, had been in immigration detention since 2022 while deportation proceedings against him were pending. But on May 7, shortly after a federal appeals court ordered the government to keep him in the United States, immigration authorities deported him back to his native country. > > Matthew Borowski, a lawyer for Melgar-Salmeron, told POLITICO that he intends to ask the court to order the government to return his client from El Salvador and to hold government officials in contempt. I think it’s about time to replace the stars on the flag with bananas. All of this is banana republic stuff. ---
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How on earth does he manage to write “Trump” with more letters than “Donald”? ---
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The cybersecurity at the Orange House is still too-notch! It’s amazing how someone can gain access to Miz Wilkes’ number. Maybe she posted it on Signal? > **[US government is investigating messages impersonating Trump's chief of staff,...](https://apnews.com/article/susie-wiles-phone-impersonation-bc6ac99e5db06ac70307ca031ab8d647)** > > The U.S. government is investigating after elected officials, business executives and other prominent figures received messages in recent weeks from someone impersonating Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. ---
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> [@Monty](#): > > > "We report the truth and that’s all we do.” Got no use for that! Off with their heads! ---
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> [@Monty](#): > > Isn’t someone who spends many years of his life advancing the right wing agend, in fact, one of the worst people in the world? Well, yes, if you want to get meta about it. But then, Trump is calling him out for _not being awful enough_. He dared to appoint judges who didn’t just cave to Trump’s demands! ---
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Lifetime appointments mean they have the rest of their lives to try to please him. Let’s face it, not everyone is up to the challenge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=263) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=265)