# 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:** 291
**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 16, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5862 "2025-06-16T15:50:09Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Why is Canada letting him into the country? He’s a convicted felon. Evidently, someone at the [Toronto Star](https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/donald-trump-is-a-convicted-felon-could-he-be-stopped-from-entering-canada-for-the/article_b2f0745d-3716-4646-826d-ef0aca923675.html) discusses that very question. Paywalled. Can you post relevant quotes? ---
**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 16, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5863 "2025-06-16T16:16:01Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > > It’s also potentially dangerous; famously, you can cause bridge collapses that way. > > The Albert Bridge still has a sign on it. Which was unfortunately missing from the title structure in Tom Stoppard’s _Albert’s Bridge_. ---
**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 16, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5864 "2025-06-16T16:21:58Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Hope it makes your brain hurt. Explode – literally. If you’re gonna dream, dream big. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5865 "2025-06-16T17:24:54Z")
OK, so the Trump org is launching a “USA Made” smartphone and calling plan. More grift. But when I saw the “key features” I noticed something: “5000mAh long life camera” Now, I’m no electronics expert, but I’m pretty sure cameras aren’t measured in mAh, or life… > **[Trump Mobile | The T1 Phone](https://trumpmobile.com/t1-phone)** > > Trump Mobile | The T1 Phone Am I missing something, or are they that stupid? (and look quickly before they fix it) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5866 "2025-06-16T18:06:24Z")
Price: $499 Down Payment: $100 Status: Coming Soon When will they ever learn? ---
**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:** [June 16, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5867 "2025-06-16T18:15:07Z")
Unfortunately, since there’s a sucker born every minute, the answer to your question is _never_. That applies to the grifters as well as the griftees ---
**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 16, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5868 "2025-06-16T19:38:04Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > OK, so the Trump org is launching a “USA Made” smartphone and calling plan. More grift. It will be even better when he starts selling them to foreign travellers coming to the US. “Trump phones won’t be searched or seized at the border, ‘_I promise!_’” ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5869 "2025-06-16T19:42:56Z")
No need. I would expect the spyware to be built in. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5870 "2025-06-16T20:47:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > “These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center…” Trump claimed. … Anyone who can’t grasp the difference between a noun (“Democrat”) and an adjective (“Democratic”) reveals himself to be an idjit unsuited for public office. ---
**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 16, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5871 "2025-06-16T20:55:34Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > spyware You misspelled “Trump Freedom What Do You Have To Hide?ware”, citizen. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5872 "2025-06-16T21:07:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Anyone who can’t grasp the difference between a noun (“Democrat”) and an adjective (“Democratic”) reveals himself to be an idjit unsuited for public office. While I don’t disagree that 47 is an idjit unsuited for public office, in this case the word use is quite deliberate. > **[Democrat Party (epithet)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)?wprov=sfti1)** > > Democrat Party is an epithet and pejorative for the Democratic Party of the United States, often used in a disparaging fashion by the party's opponents. While use of the term started out as non-hostile, it has grown in its negative use since the 1940s, in particular by members of the Republican Party—in party platforms, partisan speeches, and press releases—as well as by conservative commentators and third party politicians. > United Press International reported in August 1984 that the term Demo... ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5873 "2025-06-16T21:33:13Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “More than 5 million” would be roughly 1.5% of the US population. I’ve seen estimates of more than 13 million: > [@"No Kings" rallies, Saturday June 14th 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-kings-rallies-saturday-june-14th-2025/1019268/188): > > The Alt National Park service said today their count was 13.14 million. How was the count conducted? Over 140,000 coalition members attended events across the country, at least one at nearly every protest. Many traveled far and got to see some amazing small towns along the way. Local authorities provided crowd estimates, which were then reported back and compiled for the final count. Take that as you will. That would be _more_ than 3.5% of the current estimated population of the USA (347,275,807 according to WorldOMeter today). 3.5% of that figure is 12,154,653. Heh heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5874 "2025-06-16T21:43:39Z")
So, in this particular case, he is more an asshole than an idiot. ---
**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 16, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5875 "2025-06-16T22:00:11Z")
Those two sides of the coin, let’s call it $TRUMPF!, are always fighting hard with each other for supremacy over his heart and mind (please allow me to use those terms loosely; I know he has neither, it is just a metaphor), but I don’t think any of the two sides will ever be able to win til the day he dies. A pointless, futile fight. So sad! ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5876 "2025-06-16T23:06:05Z")
Among the many, many, many reasons to despise what this administration has done to our country and our society is that continued illegal grift, corruption and hucksterism from the freaking President himself has begun to seem normal; and although illegal, almost (almost!) minor compared with some of the other horrors he has visited on us. I very much miss the days when we had adults in charge. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5877 "2025-06-16T23:20:45Z")
Tell me something. If you received a fundraising email from the slimy orange golf cheat… and you told him to F.O. … And then today, many months later, you got a reply, suddenly calling you “Joe” and still asking for money… Is it wrong to tell him that since it’s raining and he can’t golf that maybe he should ask Melania or Barron to teach him how to give a good Blow Job…? “I’m sure that either Putin or Bibi would appreciate it and that it might help your diplomatic skills immensely.” ---
**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:** [June 16, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5878 "2025-06-16T23:47:48Z")
Trump family launching mobile phone service. There really is no end to this. > **[Trump Organization enters mobile phone business](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrld3erq4eo)** > > It is the latest plan by US President Donald Trump's family that looks to cash on his name. > Ethics watchdogs said the latest venture represented another means for potential corruption and conflicts of interest. Ya think? ---
**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 16, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5879 "2025-06-16T23:57:12Z")
Just sad. I pay $280/year (once a year) for 15GB/mo, which easily covers my needs. $45/mo has zero appeal to me. ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5880 "2025-06-17T00:12:10Z")
$45 per month. That’s _45_? As in _ **45** _? I wonder how that number was chosen. Just kidding! I know exactly why it’s that number. And besides the obvious grift and self-aggrandizement (which you should’ve figured out by the aforementioned ~~dog whistle~~ foghorn number), how would it even be possible for that ~~pice of…~~ thing to be 100% made in America? _Assembled_ in America in an underground sweatshop by undocumented migrants is something I’d believe. But there’s no way that clunker’s going to be 100% American made. ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/5881 "2025-06-17T00:26:49Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > $45 per month. no, it is $47.45 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=290) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=292)