# 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:** 269
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5422 "2025-06-02T19:47:43Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > Yet outside of nukes, the USA should still be a force to be reckoned with (hey the UK still is) in 100 years. To me it seems like the greatest enemy of the United States is the United States. And it appears to be a formidable enemy, one that is kicking its ass. ---
**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 2, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5423 "2025-06-02T20:09:27Z")
One thing about nukes. At any given time, they may not actually work if they were used. There’s a lot of little things that can fail, and they take maintenance. They can’t just sit there forever. For all we know trump fired the people that understand these things. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5424 "2025-06-02T23:17:05Z")
DOGE/ELON did but they were rounded up over the next few weeks and rehired. [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fired-rehired-dizzying-confusion-trumps-government-overhaul-2025-02-21/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fired-rehired-dizzying-confusion-trumps-government-overhaul-2025-02-21/) ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5425 "2025-06-03T00:05:49Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > DOGE/ELON did but they were rounded up over the next few weeks and rehired. How many of them told Musk to sod off? Seriously, why would they trust him after that debacle? ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5426 "2025-06-03T02:34:40Z")
[The felon pardons a former Army officer who disobeyed orders.](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/29/trump-pardons-former-army-officer-convicted-of-disobeying-covid-19-safety-rules.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned a former junior [Army](https://www.military.com/army) officer who was found guilty in a 2022 court-martial of violating orders to comply with COVID-19 safety measures, a White House official confirmed to [Military.com](http://Military.com). > > Former 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw, who served as an entomologist at the Army Public Health Center at [Aberdeen Proving Ground](https://www.military.com/base-guide/aberdeen-proving-ground) in Maryland, was convicted on two counts of violating lawful orders for refusing to telework, submit a negative COVID-19 test and wear a mask indoors, part of the installation’s requirements at the time for unvaccinated service members. > > The military judge who presided over the trial, Col. Robert Cohen, declined to punish Bashaw, but the former officer – who had been a noncommissioned officer in the [Air Force](https://www.military.com/air-force) before joining the Army – [said](https://x.com/MCBashaw/status/1672955107317563392) that he was discharged from the military in 2023 following his sentencing. [Hegseth is demanding journalists sign pledges to report from within the Pentagon.](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/23/hegseth-restricts-press-access-pentagon-says-journalists-will-be-required-sign-pledge.html) > [@](#): > > Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken yet another step to curtail the work of the press inside the Pentagon by imposing harsh restrictions on where reporters can go without official escort [in a memo released late Friday](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25952974-updated-physical-control-measures-for-press-media-access-within-the-pentagon-osd005511-25-fod-final/#document/p1). > > The new rules forbid reporters from going into the hallway where Hegseth’s office is located “without an official approval and escort from the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs” – a job held by top Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell. > > If reporters wish to visit the public affairs offices of any of the other services, “they are required to be formally escorted to and from those respective offices,” the memo adds. The Pentagon will also require reporters to sign a document pledging to protect “sensitive information,” likely setting up situations where unfavorable reporting involving documents could be used as pretense to strip journalists of access to the building. [We’re turning into the United States of Orania.](https://www.aol.com/more-white-south-africans-arrive-173033650.html) > [@](#): > > JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A second group [of white South Africans](https://apnews.com/trump-south-africa-refugees-afrikaners-white-9d6f87ae9b09ac21ba6ae2a2197b11d3) has arrived in the United States [under a refugee program](https://apnews.com/video/trump-defends-admitting-white-south-africans-as-refugees-after-halting-resettlement-for-most-others-b3e74c6b4e584a02b798f7598dfd2132) announced by the Trump administration, officials and advocacy groups said Monday. > > Nine people, including families, arrived late last week, said Jaco Kleynhans, head of international liaison at the Solidarity Movement, a group representing members of South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority. The group traveled on a commercial flight to Atlanta, he said. > > A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy said in an email to The Associated Press that “refugees continue to arrive in the United States from South Africa on commercial flights as part of the Afrikaner resettlement program’s ongoing operations.” ---
**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 3, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5427 "2025-06-03T03:53:24Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > the greatest enemy of the United States is the United States Have you been talking to that possum again? ---
**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 3, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5428 "2025-06-03T04:03:07Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Shame about that fly getting in there. I’ve said it many times before. If I ever build a teleportation booth, the first thing I’m going to do is get into it with a fly. If your teleporter is mixing up your parts and the fly’s, or even scrambling your DNA, you’ve got much bigger problems with it that transcription errors. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5429 "2025-06-03T04:07:00Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Have you been talking to that possum again? Don’t beat me with your Pogo stick! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5430 "2025-06-03T05:06:13Z")
[Here’s an interesting twist with the “patriot pardons” the felon granted.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/maga-granny-pamela-hemphill-fights-052528488.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Jan. 6 rioter Pamela Hemphill has refused a pardon from President Donald Trump, and is now expecting him to come after her. > > More than 1,500 people who participated in the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol have been pardoned by Trump this year. However, when Hemphill, from Idaho, was pardoned by the president on Jan. 20, the 72-year-old contacted Sen. James Risch, the Idaho Republican, to formally refuse and block it. > > “Ms. Hemphill’s non-acceptance is noted,” the pardon’s attorney office acknowledged on April 2, while a spokesperson for Risch told [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pamela-hemphill-trump-supporter-refuses-jan-6-pardon/), “Due to privacy concerns, we cannot disclose details about individual cases.” > > The grandmother, 72, spent 60 days in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges related to the riot in July, 2022. She explained her battle to refuse Trump’s pardon to [CBS](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pamela-hemphill-trump-supporter-refuses-jan-6-pardon/) and claimed she was expecting the president to mention her at any moment. > > “Trump will probably say, ‘That ungrateful lady, I’m going to make sure she gets back on probation and give her the worst you can give her.’ I won’t be surprised,” she said. > > **““We were guilty, period,” Hemphill added. “The pardons just contribute to their narrative, which is all lies, propaganda.”** > > **“We all know that they’re gaslighting us. They are using January 6 to just continue Trump’s narrative that the Justice Department was weaponized. They were not. When the FBI came to my home, oh my God, they were very professional. They treated me very good.”** ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5431 "2025-06-03T15:12:52Z")
Wow! I wish there were more J6 felony rioters like Hemphill! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5432 "2025-06-03T16:18:22Z")
Or fewer … whatever. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5433 "2025-06-03T16:38:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’ve said it many times before. If I ever build a teleportation booth, the first thing I’m going to do is get into it with a fly. Same here. If _ **I** _ ever build a teleportation booth, the first thing I’m going to do is put you into it with a fly. 😜 ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5434 "2025-06-03T16:53:38Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I wish there were more J6 felony rioters like Hemphill! I just wish that there were more examples of people who realize what a mistake they made in supporting Trump and going full MAGA. I applaud those people and encourage more to be like that. It’s not too little, too late. It might take generations to turn the ship of state around to no longer be heading toward a cliff, but it has to start somewhere. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5435 "2025-06-03T17:22:35Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Or fewer … whatever. Well, I wish there were no J6 rioters, but since there are many, I wish more would acknowledge that what they did was fucked up. As far as I know, this is the first I’ve heard of. > [@Atamasama](#): > > I just wish that there were more examples of people who realize what a mistake they made in supporting Trump and going full MAGA. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5436 "2025-06-03T22:33:05Z")
> **[Hegseth Orders Navy to Review Ship Name Honoring Gay Rights Pioneer Harvey Milk](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/politics/navy-ships-harvey-milk-renamed.html?smid=nytcore-android-share)** > > The names of several other vessels that honor civil rights leaders and Supreme Court justices might also be changed. This is so incredibly petty. Not a gift link. Peter Hegseth is reviewing ships named after civil rights leaders so they can be renamed. > Mr. Hegseth’s order was intended as a rebuke of Pride Month, keeping with the Trump administration’s drive to expunge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the federal government, according to a senior defense official familiar with the decision. … > “Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the commander in chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos,” the Pentagon said in a statement issued on Tuesday. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5437 "2025-06-03T22:55:05Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Not a gift link. Free link in the Evil MFer thread. 😉 ---
**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 4, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5438 "2025-06-04T00:28:27Z")
> [@solost](#): > > If _ **I** _ ever build a teleportation booth, the first thing I’m going to do is put you into it with a fly. Then, if **CalMeacham** makes it through but the fly does not survive, will he have to tell us his fly is down? ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5439 "2025-06-04T01:48:02Z")
Only the best men, **white nationalist, misogynist, racist, and traitor.** Fox guarding the hen house. > **[Trump Official Behind Controversial Russia Decision Has Kremlin Ties](https://newrepublic.com/post/196029/trump-official-ties-kremlin-russian-propaganda-state)** > > Darren Beattie dismantled a key agency fighting Russian propaganda. There’s a reason why. “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” Beattie [wrote](https://x.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1842239185203151053) on X in October. “Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.” On January 6, 2021, he spent the day on X [warning](https://x.com/EricColumbus/status/1886230873508307175) Senator Tim Scott, “BLM,” Ibram X. Kendi, and Kay Cole James to “learn their places” and “take a knee” to MAGA." He sounds nice. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5440 "2025-06-04T02:44:52Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work” “… to the advantage of white men” These roosters should be confronted repeatedly with the reality that they are themselves DEI appointments … 'cause sure as eggs, they weren’t promoted on merit. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5441 "2025-06-04T02:46:47Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > These roosters should be confronted repeatedly with the reality that they are themselves DEI appointments … Dumb, evil, and incompetent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=268) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=270)