# 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:** 266
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5362 "2025-06-01T09:03:27Z")
> [@](#): > > The resulting plan issued this week says it aims to ensure that “only the most talented, capable and patriotic Americans” are hired by the government. Why start now? > [@Monty](#): > > And, by the way, are there “DEI hiring quotas”? Are they hiring non-White folks? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5363 "2025-06-01T09:06:17Z")
Only toadies, lickspittles, and obsequious weasels need apply. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5364 "2025-06-01T10:25:53Z")
> [@from Whack-a-Mole's link](#): > > “There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. Democrats dont know the difference.” I think this is adjacent to all the stuff he has been posting lately about how the Joe Biden everyone knows would not have done all the horrible things that came out of his administration (the “autopen theory” that his advisors were actually in charge). He is planning on investigating the 2020 election and the Biden administration. But he (or someone in his admin) realizes that with Biden’s cancer diagnosis it would look pretty bad to haul him in front of congress so now they will concentrate on all those who were around him. He’s trying to set up MAGA to not be pissed that grilling Biden won’t be the main event. Yeah, it’s weird but it explains his sudden about-face regarding Biden being a good guy (though mentally diminished) who was manipulated. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5365 "2025-06-01T12:29:29Z")
It is beyond shocking to learn that, between 2021 and 2025, we were led by a shadowy cabal of identity thieves calling themselves “Joe Biden.” I demand to know who these impersonators and doppelgangers really are and whether they could be persuaded to return to public service. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5366 "2025-06-01T13:25:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [quoting article] **Under the plan, all federal job vacancy announcements starting at the GS-5 pay grade or above will require short essay responses to questions about their commitment to the Constitution, how they plan to improve government efficiency, how they plan to advance Trump’s executive orders and policy priorities, and about their work ethic.** I don’t think there’s much overlap in the two-circle Venn diagram between being committed to the Constitution and advancing Trump’s executive orders and policy priorities. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5367 "2025-06-01T13:40:18Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > (Recall when Bush II came across as implausibly stupid for a US President? Yeah, I miss those days.) I still sigh nostalgically at the scene in Oliver Stone’s **W** where Bush II looks at the daily briefing and says “Oh good, only three pages.” ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5368 "2025-06-01T13:41:33Z")
If you went to bed early Saturday night, all you missed was the President of the United Sates sharing a post promoting a conspiracy theory about the former president. > **[Trump called ‘more detached from reality than ever’ after ‘unhinged’ Biden post](https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/06/trump-called-more-detached-from-reality-than-ever-after-unhinged-biden-post.html)** > > The president shared a post that boosted a wild conspiracy theory about Joe Biden. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5369 "2025-06-01T13:46:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Hmm. A PDB interpretive dance could work, but only if they have big boobs. What does “PDB” stand for? “Pissing Devochkas on the Bed”? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5370 "2025-06-01T13:49:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > What does “PDB” stand for? “Pissing Devochkas on the Bed”? I’m guessing, for this, it means “President’s Daily Brief.” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5371 "2025-06-01T14:17:15Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > religious colleges and universities, community colleges, high schools, trade and technical schools, homeschooling groups, faith-based groups, American Legion, 4-H youth programs, …and guys that live under the bridge talking to themselves. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5372 "2025-06-01T15:04:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > 8\*Trump and his allies have railed against civil servants, accusing them of working to undermine the president’s policy priorities. **The new hiring plan will require job applicants to write short essays describing how they plan to advance Trump’s priorities.** How can they do that when the priorities change so frequently? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5373 "2025-06-01T15:53:07Z")
I’m confused. Does Biden have cancer, or does one of his clones? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5374 "2025-06-01T15:58:29Z")
Wouldn’t a clone replicate the cancer of the original, along with everything else? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5375 "2025-06-01T16:00:57Z")
Only if created during an unforeseen malfunction of the _Enterprise_’s transporter. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5376 "2025-06-01T16:02:16Z")
Sure but they can probably dig up an older transporter record before the cancer and re-materialize him has healthy. Rinse and repeat as needed. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5377 "2025-06-01T17:12:10Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Only if created during an unforeseen malfunction of the _Enterprise_’s transporter. IIRC there were filters that would get rid of all the ‘bad’ stuff. It would come in handy. Get scanned with pancreatic cancer and arrive on the other pad with it all gone. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5378 "2025-06-01T18:14:33Z")
Shame about that fly getting in there. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5379 "2025-06-01T18:31:49Z")
I am not sure that suddenly having a hole in your pancreas where your cancer used to be has a good therapeutic prognosis. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5380 "2025-06-01T19:49:19Z")
In the Niven story, it looked like a teleportation booth but the traveler did not go anywhere, it just teleported away the life-cruft. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5381 "2025-06-01T21:58:41Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > > the national intelligence director’s office could hire a Fox News producer to produce it and one of the network’s personalities to present it Let’s just have Hegseth stick his head into a fake TV set and pretend, like some bad 50 sit-com. It’s at least something he’d be minimally qualified for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=265) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=267)