# 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:** 272
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5482 "2025-06-05T14:31:01Z")
Yeah, a thousand years is a long time to us. 1000km is nothing. Sort of, ‘See you this afternoon.’ ---
**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 5, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5483 "2025-06-05T15:08:57Z")
I thought I’d always heard it as, “In Great Britain they think 100 miles is a long way, but in the United States they think 100 years is a long time.” … or to that effect. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5484 "2025-06-05T15:58:49Z")
Yeah, that’s the version I’ve always heard. ---
**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 5, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5485 "2025-06-05T16:08:51Z")
Which makes sense, as Great Britain is many centuries older than the US, but the US is many miles larger. ---
**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 5, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5486 "2025-06-05T16:53:26Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Sailors historically believed that mishaps at sea could be attributed to various factors, including renaming a boat without proper rituals. Sailors are a superstitious lot, but, if it keeps the ships from being renamed, I’ll take it. Of course, they also used to say “no dames on ships”, and they got over that one. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5487 "2025-06-05T17:02:29Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Of course, they also used to say “no dames on ships”, and they got over that one. And the sailors cheered! sorry, couldn’t help myself. I think that sailors are understandable. Back in the day and even today, they have little control over their fate. Superstitions then arise just as the waves do. ---
**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 5, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5488 "2025-06-05T17:38:30Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I think that sailors are understandable. I wish they’d get over it. One of the things that, as a kid, made me never to want to be in the Navy, was the crossing the line ceremony. It seems gross, and juvenile, and more than a bit homoerotic (and cross dressing is involved! No one tell DUI Pete!). What a silly thing! There is no “King Neptune”, and the equator is just an artificial construct. The water doesn’t doesn’t know the difference! But, hey, any excuse for a party, I guess. My dad was in the Army Air Corps during WWII, sent on a troop ship to New Guinea, and it seems even he was inducted into Neptune’s realm. I have his certification card, ye landlubbers! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5489 "2025-06-05T17:40:42Z")
Right now, as I type this, Elon Musk is digging up old Trump tweets and mocking him. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5490 "2025-06-05T17:46:55Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Right now, as I type this, Elon Musk is digging up old Trump tweets and mocking him. And you’re not going to share for those of us not on Twitter? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5491 "2025-06-05T18:04:19Z")
I put more detail in the Elon Buys Twitter thread: > [@Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2378): > > Elon Musk is digging up old Trump tweets and mocking him at this moment. Pinned Tweet: Here’s the latest: > ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5492 "2025-06-05T18:24:38Z")
Ahh, for the lost days of young love… [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54568723527_c39fc4696f_z.jpg "KanyeTrumpElon") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/54568723527/) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5493 "2025-06-05T18:55:10Z")
Sorry, I promise this is the last. Trump is responding… [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54569659566_172c912482_z.jpg "TrumpElon2") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/54569659566/) ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5494 "2025-06-05T19:16:10Z")
[Oh boy is this great!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmlnltVzksg) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5495 "2025-06-05T19:25:59Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Of course, they also used to say “no dames on ships”, and they got over that one. The current military guys appointed by Trump are now trying their hardest to remove all dames. ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5496 "2025-06-05T19:33:09Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > There is no “King Neptune”, and the equator is just an artificial construct. The water doesn’t doesn’t know the difference! Nitpick: the water, the air and all fluids _do_ know the difference. The coriolis force changes the direction of rotation. That is why hurricanes never cross the equator. ETA: But I agree on “King Neptune”. He is not even a king, like Trump, just a sad little god, like Elmo. His trident is not even gilded. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5497 "2025-06-05T19:45:07Z")
lol > ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5498 "2025-06-05T19:47:19Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > > Time to drop the really big bomb: [@realDonaldTrump](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump) is in the Epstein files. Didn’t we already know that? This guy can’t even Drama Queen correctly. “Bomb”? Try “Dud”. ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5499 "2025-06-05T19:48:25Z")
Elon taking shots at Trump are like: [![](https://media4.giphy.com/media/O7QnE4qiGbHby/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952zdiqb1r6v5gskiy8s2eqnr32m4yn5xrf3jl4esd8&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g) ](https://media4.giphy.com/media/O7QnE4qiGbHby/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952zdiqb1r6v5gskiy8s2eqnr32m4yn5xrf3jl4esd8&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5500 "2025-06-05T19:51:43Z")
AIUI, we only knew he’d been on the plane, and nothing about any other activities that may or may not have happened. ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5501 "2025-06-05T19:53:47Z")
Ah, that is the reason he spent so many millions supporting him. Makes sense. Man, are they both fucked up… this is going to end well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=271) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=273)