# 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:** 28
**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:** [December 7, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/541 "2024-12-07T19:27:24Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Pervacite That sounds like a new kind of drug. “Do you suffer from sudden-onset fetishes? Ask your doctor if Pervacite™ is right for you!” ---
**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:** [December 7, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/542 "2024-12-07T21:08:13Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Okay, so how will they try to spin the inevitable jobs loss as a positive? Easy. They’ve removed people from worthless jobs that support the Deep State, and those people instead can be redeployed to good, hard-working jobs that actually help the country. It only took me a few seconds to think of that, so you know they have a lot more ready to go. Crap like this makes me happy to remember that a lot of what they want to do will require a bigger majority in Congress than they’re going to have. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/543 "2024-12-07T21:57:05Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > redeployed to good, hard-working jobs that actually help the country. I understand there will be a lot of vacancies in chicken plucking, lettuce picking, and restroom sanitation. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/544 "2024-12-07T23:15:12Z")
> [@bobsmom101](#): > > restroom sanitation 20 years from now, there’s an Oscar winning film, “The Killing Toilets”. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/545 "2024-12-08T00:39:23Z")
I knew we shouldn’t have shipped the restroom sanitizers off in the B Ark. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/546 "2024-12-08T00:40:05Z")
The “Pol Pot” bit almost writes itself. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/547 "2024-12-08T01:49:35Z")
I wonder how many will be wiped out? ---
**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:** [December 9, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/548 "2024-12-09T03:58:37Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Okay, so how will they try to spin the inevitable jobs loss as a positive? Why bother? As long as the mouthpieces and the megamaga politicians aren’t losing their jobs, what’s the harm? At least that’ll be their view. > [@Horatius](#): > > > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > > > Pervacite > > That sounds like a new kind of drug Or it’s the new name for Mar-a-Lago. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/549 "2024-12-10T08:18:52Z")
[CBS News updated their list of Trump’s selectees](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-might-be-in-donald-trump-cabinet/), or, as I call it: _The Dictatorship Diaries_. So did anyone have these on your Bingo Card? - Convicted felon - Election denier - Anti-vaxxer ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/550 "2024-12-10T08:21:37Z")
How many don’t actually hit that trifecta? (I’ll look at your link later. Sorry. Too much tequila tonight.) ---
**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:** [December 10, 2024, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/551 "2024-12-10T08:32:12Z")
Or, perhaps, not enough. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/552 "2024-12-10T22:12:58Z")
Trump wants RFK Jr to look into the link between vaccines and autism: [Trump says RFK Jr. will investigate the discredited link between vaccines and autism: ‘Somebody has to find out’](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-rfk-jr-will-investigate-discredited-link-vaccines-autism-so-rcna183273) I feel like a broken record, but he believes easy conspiracy theories over science because he just doesn’t understand the science. His followers who consider him an expert source trust him over the science. This is what happens when he puts people that share his delusions in leadership roles. What a fucking moron. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/553 "2024-12-10T22:17:59Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > I feel like a broken record, but he believes easy conspiracy theories over science because he just doesn’t understand the science. I also think it’s ego (which takes a hit _because_ he doesn’t understand the science). If he believes the science they he is admitting other people know more than him, are _smarter_ than him. But _rejecting_ science means he can pat himself on the back over how much smarter he is than those stupid scientists. So he picks the latter option. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/554 "2024-12-10T22:24:56Z")
I always loved this one. Just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside: _“So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn’t been checked because of the testing,” Trump said, speaking to Bryan during the briefing. "And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. He added: “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”_ It’s also on the Billboard 100 of things that MAGAS are absolutely unwaveringly positive he never said. [And _you_ think he doesn’t understand the science. Pshaw!] Also, too (I hate that phrase. I use it, here, ironically): _““When the magnetic elevators – think of it – magnets. Now, all I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets,” Trump said at his rally in Mason City.”_ _“If the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking, do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?”_ When told he had to assemble a cabinet, Trump was (I can only imagine) certain it would involve a trip to IKEA. We must never forget… ---
**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:** [December 10, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/555 "2024-12-10T23:17:10Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > Trump wants RFK Jr to look into the link between vaccines and autism: I’m actually a little curious how this plays out. The thing to remember is that unlike Wakefield who was a fraud through and through, RFK is an actual true believer. He believes that there is a real connection between vaccines and autism, that can be demonstrated by a well designed study performed of researcher who aren’t under the thumb of big pharma. So he might hire real researchers to do a real study of the connection which will inevitably come back negative. So what will be his play? Will he admit he was wrong? (LOL just kidding) Will he discredit his own study? Suppress it and pretend it never happened? Order the researcher to risk their careers by fudging the numbers before publication? ---
**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:** [December 10, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/556 "2024-12-10T23:29:13Z")
It will be like the commission he set up to study how the Democrats spied on and interfered in his campaign in the 2016 election. When they found no wrongdoing by Democrats, he promptly disbanded them and it was all memory-holed. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/557 "2024-12-10T23:54:15Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > Trump wants RFK Jr to look into the link between vaccines and autism: And what sucks is that the one and **only** thing I ever gave Trump credit for was helping get a vaccine program fast-tracked. We had estimates of when a Covid vaccine would be available, and thanks to that program we had them much sooner, and I believe lives were saved. That in no way counters all the other crap he did (including mismanagement and lies about the pandemic, which cost lives) but I could always point to that and say he did one good thing as president. And even that one thing he needs to shit all over. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/558 "2024-12-11T01:11:34Z")
[And now the dictator wants to deport American citizens.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-aims-end-birthright-citizenship-says-american-citizens-family-il-rcna183274) > President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that “you have no choice” but to deport everyone who is illegally in the U.S., including possibly removing the American citizen family members of those deported. > > Trump also said he will move to end birthright citizenship — long enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution — which would strip rights from those born in the country to undocumented parents. He’s now fully invested in this nonsense. There’s no way he can go the entire first day in office and not issue the executive order he’s ~~threatened~~ promised to issue. And now he’s promising that this executive order will include deporting American citizens. How do you think he plans on getting around the bit that you can’t deport a citizen? Of course, by including in an executive order that said citizens are not, in fact, citizens. He’ll go by those stellar legal minds he has in the Dictatorship Diaries linked above as to why the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to these people. And it will apply retroactively. It will have to. Tell me how I’m being Chicken Little here. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/559 "2024-12-11T01:20:09Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > How do you think he plans on getting around the bit that you can’t deport a citizen? Of course, by including in an executive order that said citizens are not, in fact, citizens. He’ll go by those stellar legal minds he has in the Dictatorship Diaries linked above as to why the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to these people. And it will apply retroactively. It will have to. > > Tell me how I’m being Chicken Little here. Executive orders cannot undo federal law. If he issues such an order he will be sued and it will be overturned. What he wants to do cannot be done without legislation AND a constitutional amendment. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/560 "2024-12-11T01:30:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Executive orders cannot undo federal law. If he issues such an order he will be sued and it will be overturned. What he wants to do cannot be done without legislation AND a constitutional amendment. Or he and his minions can just ignore all that. You keep talking as if laws are magical spells of compulsion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=29)