# 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:** 307
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6182 "2025-06-26T14:04:04Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I have an urge to create a “Truth Social” account under the name @surrealDonaldTrump, and just repost what he posts, as a kind of satirical art. Remember that woman (whose name escapes me) who, during Trump 1.0, just posted videos of her silent reactions to Trump’s ramblings? Kinda like that. ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6183 "2025-06-26T15:10:50Z")
Too late to edit. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > And I have Granny’s Possum Queen campaign song in my head. And I have Granny’s Possum Queen campaign song in my head. [embedded video deleted] **That was supposed to be a link with the start time at 18:25. It does say ‘&start=1105’, but clicking on the video starts from the beginning. So go to 18:25 for the song.** Or maybe [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX4xTpQgoIY&start=1105) will work. ETA: The link above works. ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6184 "2025-06-26T15:18:36Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > The opposite of defense is offense. “‘The best defense is a good offense.’ D’you know who said that? Mel, the cook on _Alice_.” 😉 ---
**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:** [June 26, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6185 "2025-06-26T15:24:22Z")
There _are no_ bad Vic Tayback references. There. I said it. ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6186 "2025-06-26T15:35:57Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > The Department of Offense would fit right in with the Trump Administration. So much offensive stuff to keep them busy! It will grow to subsume all other offices, becoming the one office that encompasses the entire Federal Government. As every individual office becomes more offensive over time, they will eventually become so offensive that Trump decides they should just be part of the Department of Offense. It’ll be like Homeland Security, but for assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6187 "2025-06-26T15:40:59Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > It’ll be like Homeland Security, but for assholes. And I would counter by saying that Homeland Security already has plenty of assholes. ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6188 "2025-06-26T15:45:49Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And I would counter by saying that Homeland Security already has plenty of assholes I sets 'em up, someone knocks 'em down. 😃 ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6189 "2025-06-26T15:46:29Z")
“Homeland Security” already has a terribly reichy-sounding name. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6190 "2025-06-26T15:47:23Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I sets 'em up, someone knocks 'em down. I do what I can! Of course, many of the current departments could lay claim to being the most assholey. ---
**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 26, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6191 "2025-06-26T16:01:51Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “Homeland Security” already has a terribly reichy-sounding name. The nazis has the fatherland, the soviets had the motherland, I guess America still is enough “woke” to cover everyone. Or at least, those that have homes. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6192 "2025-06-26T16:56:39Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > “‘The best defense is a good offense.’ D’you know who said that? Mel, the cook on _Alice_.” 😉 Boot to the head! ---
**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 26, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6193 "2025-06-26T17:17:01Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Somebody tell him he can get an even stronger high by mud-wrestling a Nile crocodile. Hippo. They’re more dangerous than you think and it would be more embarrassing. And they got that whole feces-flinging thing. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6194 "2025-06-26T17:18:38Z")
The problem with that would be that the only way to distinguish the two combatants would be by their color. ---
**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 26, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6195 "2025-06-26T18:01:00Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > And they got that whole feces-flinging thing. Trump: “Oh, so you want to try to beat me at my own game, do you?” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6196 "2025-06-26T20:49:39Z")
At least they’re in the same weight class. ---
**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 27, 2025, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6197 "2025-06-27T07:02:16Z")
[**Who’s your daddy?**](https://www.aol.com/trump-embraces-daddy-nickname-051120641.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump loves to give nicknames. To himself ([Honest Don](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nickname-for-himself_n_65f04821e4b0bd5228d57b1b), [A Very Stable Genius](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/06/politics/donald-trump-white-house-fitness-very-stable-genius), [The King](https://time.com/7259662/king-trump-founding-fathers-constitution-monarchy-democracy-republic/)). To others ([Crooked Hillary](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/crooked-hillary-marco-donald-trumps-nicknames/story?id=39035114), [Sleepy Joe](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-06/from-twitter-to-tiktok-trump-supporters-spread-sleepy-joe), [Gavin Newscum](https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/trump-adds-another-nickname-to-his-arsenal-targeting-governor-gavin-newsom/)). > > Now he seems happy to take one: “Daddy.” > > The White House [posted](https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1938053287535616085) a video Wednesday night showing the U.S. President attending [the NATO summit this week](https://time.com/7297698/nato-2025-summit-trump-iran-ukraine-defense-topics/) to the soundtrack of R&B singer Usher’s 2010 song “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home).” > > to call Trump “daddy” on Wednesday when asked about Trump’s [expletive-laced rebuke](https://time.com/7297315/ceasefire-iran-israel-trump-f-bomb/) of Israel and Iran after the two countries [risked upending](https://time.com/7297098/israel-iran-ceasefire-broken-missile-strikes-tehran/) a fragile [ceasefire he had just helped broker](https://time.com/7297049/iran-israel-ceasefire-trump/). > > “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f-ck they’re doing,” Trump [said](https://x.com/cspan/status/1937468807536169315) Tuesday as he left the White House for The Hague. > > “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language,” Rutte [said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxzTg96RKOU), sitting beside Trump at the summit. Pardon me. I’ll be back after I’m done puking. [It looks like Little Petey has learned something from the felon.](https://www.aol.com/pete-hegseth-attacks-old-fox-204920215.html) > [@](#): > > Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized his former Fox News colleague Jennifer Griffin as “about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most intentionally what the president says” in a Pentagon news conference Thursday. > > Griffin, Fox’s chief national security correspondent, said that “I take issue with that” and defended her reporting on the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities. > > Hegseth, a Fox News anchor before [President Donald Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/people/donald-trump/) appointed him defense secretary, repeatedly criticized the media and questioned its patriotism for its reporting on an initial assessment of the weekend’s bombing that questioned how much damage was done to Iran’s nuclear program. [The Big Bullshit Bill gets yet another trimming.](https://www.aol.com/lawmakers-remove-revenge-tax-provision-213808877.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans agreed to remove the so-called revenge tax provision from [President Donald Trump’s big bill](https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-cuts-bill-republicans-medicaid-snap-5106fb5d07a5675e01644aabde1f7df8) on Thursday after a request by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. > > The [Section 899 provision](https://apnews.com/article/trump-taxes-investment-section-899-f343d4418707335d8db844c9242751a9) that was nixed would have allowed the federal government to impose taxes on companies with foreign owners, as well as investors from countries judged as charging “unfair foreign taxes” on U.S. companies. > > The measure was expected to lead many companies to avoid investing in the U.S. out of concern that they could face steep taxes. But the removal of the provision adds a wrinkle to Republicans’ plans to try to offset [the cost of the massive package](https://apnews.com/article/cbo-deficits-tax-cuts-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-64d7de49aef62ba07b7f6f45c1ca73d1). [Canadian Man Dies in ICE Custody](https://www.aol.com/news/canadian-man-held-immigration-officials-222006116.html) Yes. You read that correctly. > [@](#): > > MIAMI (AP) — A Canadian man being held by [immigration](https://www.yahoo.com/issues/immigration/) officials in South Florida has died in federal custody, officials said. > > Johnny Noviello, 49, died Monday afternoon at the Bureau of Prisons Federal Detention Center in Miami, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement press release said. The cause of death was under investigation. > > Noviello was being detained pending removal from the U.S., officials said. He entered the U.S. in 1988 on a legal visa and became a lawful permanent resident in 1991. He was convicted of drug trafficking and other charges in 2023 and sentenced to a year in prison, officials said. It’s a very short article, so I only quoted about half of it. Read the rest of the story. [The Second Felonial Era now has SCOTUS imprimatur to deport peopole to one of 58 countries, even if those deportees are not from those countries.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-could-deport-immigrants-193659045.html) > [@](#): > > The [Trump administration](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-israel-trump-tehran-nuclear-ceasefire-war-latest-news-b2776382.html) could soon deport immigrants to 58 countries that are not their place of origin, after a [Supreme Court ruling earlier this week](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-send-deportees-south-sudan-231038403.html) granted an emergency request to overturn a federal judge’s restrictions on such removals. > > Human rights advocates warn that sending “third-country” nationals to these countries could expose them to abuse and violence, and strand them in places where they have no ties and often can’t speak the language. > > Throughout this year, as the White House pushes to [rapidly deport millions of immigrants](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-jailing-record-number-immigrants-195323438.html), diplomats have been lobbying at least 58 countries to accept these deportees, _The New York Times_ [reports](http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2025%2F06%2F25%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Ftrump-immigrants-deportations.html&sref=/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deportation-third-country-supreme-court-b2776938.html&uuid=ZygSrncnKyFDMUna1817), citing interviews with officials and diplomatic cables. > > So far, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Rwanda, and Kosovo have agreed to such flights in varying degrees, while the State Department has already approached or plans to approach numerous other countries to reach similar agreements. > > Many of the potential nations are in Africa, and the list includes regimes plagued with violence, political strife, and human rights abuses, including Libya and South Sudan. Make no mistake about it. This list of countries the felon and his co-conspirators is purposeful. The felon _et al_ have chosen these countries _because_ of the human rights violations and dangerous conditions there. [The bird brain flips the bird.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/jd-vance-finger-flipping-gag-090201240.html) > [@](#): > > Vice President JD Vance cranked the cringe dial up to eleven with his [latest attempt](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-les-mis-tweet_n_684a4683e4b0f2259d60d0bc) at a joke at the [Ohio Republican Party](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjmM5wLdhgU) dinner in Lima, Ohio, on Tuesday. > > Vance, while delivering the event’s keynote speech, was talking about how it’s essential to take the rough with the smooth in politics when he said: > > “I know it’s not always easy to be a political candidate, trust me. In Washington, D.C., they have this thing, I think it means, ‘We’re No.1 in Washington, D.C.’” > > Vance flipped his middle finger and kept it in place as he continued: > > “But all the pink-haired people throw up this sign and I think, you that means, ‘We’re No.1,’ right?” > > He lowered his finger and then added, “I choose to take that as that symbol in Washington.” We’re being governed by juveniles. :smh: [The felon is still jonesing about Garcia.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-plans-eventually-deport-204833611.html) > [@](#): > > The Trump administration plans to deport[Kilmar Abrego Garcia](https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-breakdown?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) to a “third country” eventually, meaning not El Salvador, where he is from and was mistakenly sent back to earlier this year. > > The Department of Homeland Security will initiate removal proceedings after Abrego Garcia returns to the agency’s immigration custody, a Justice Department lawyer said during a brief court hearing Thursday. While the custody transfer could come within days, the attorney said DHS had not communicated a timeline for the deportation. > > “So, it can happen in 30 seconds or 30 days or 30 months?” Judge Paula Xinis of the federal District Court in Maryland asked at the hearing. > > “There are no imminent plans to remove him to a third country,” DOJ lawyer Jonathan Guynn responded. > > “And that’s as good as you can do?” Xinis added. This case, more than any other, shows how petty, vindictive, immature, and criminal not only the felon is, but how the entire cabal of co-conspiraters is to boot. They got caught violating court protection orders, then immediately started lying about the man. When their lies were easily disproven, they simply declare they will not honor court orders. Today that attitude is harming Garcia. If not stopped, it can also be applied to you. [Speaking of harmful attitudes…](https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-now-want-track-immigrants-145821522.html) > [@](#): > > The GOP’s new Homeland Security funding bill would require “all non-detained migrants” to wear GPS tracking devices, a demoralizing “alternative to detention” that is part of the Trump administration’s continuing immigration crackdown, [according to](https://migrantinsider.com/p/house-republicans-propose-bigoted) Migrant Insider. > > “Non-detained” includes asylum-seekers and even students. Tracking millions of innocent people like endangered animals will be a tall task, a challenge that will likely go to another seedy private surveillance corporation. > > This is not the first time DHS and ICE have used tracking devices on nondetained immigrants. Last year, ICE issued 3,000 wrist-worn “Veri-Watches” to keep constant tabs on asylum-seekers. [Congresswoman Crockett points out some visa fraud.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-jasmine-crockett-questions-melania-201259682.html) > [@](#): > > Texas Rep. [Jasmine Crockett](https://people.com/jasmine-crockett-11712088) took her latest shot at [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) on Wednesday, June 25, implying that the president’s immigration policy is hypocritical, given that his wife, [Melania Trump](https://people.com/tag/melania-trump/), is an immigrant herself who secured an unusual type of visa for a model after arriving in the States. > > “Since we’re talking about integrity, I’m confused as to why my Republican colleagues aren’t talking about the lack of integrity when it comes to the president’s family’s visas,” the Democratic representative said at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the visa process. > > Melania was born in what is now Slovenia, then Yugoslavia, in 1970. After she was discovered at age 16, ID Models founder and New York businessman Paolo Zampolli sponsored her immigration to the United States. She first worked as a model under an H1-B visa, but it’s been widely reported that she later applied for and was granted an EB-1 visa. > > The EB-1 is commonly referred to as an “Einstein” visa, because of who it’s catered to. Per the [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website](https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-first-preference-eb-1), the visa is intended for immigrants who are “an alien of extraordinary ability, an outstanding professor or researcher, or a certain multinational executive or manager.” [And here’s another update about the dangers of having co-conspirator Kennedy in charge of ethe nation’s health.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/kennedy-vaccine-panel-votes-remove-175415710.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > ATLANTA — A panel of vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to recommend that no one get a flu vaccine that contains thimerosal — a preservative that has long been a target of the anti-vaccine movement and Kennedy himself. > > Five members voted to recommend that no children, pregnant women, or adults get any flu vaccine with thimerosal. If the CDC adopts the recommendation, it will mark one of the first major changes in federal vaccine guidance and access as Kennedy embarks on his goal of remaking immunization policy in his image. > > “The risk from influenza is so much greater than the nonexistent, as far as we know, risk from thimerosal,” said Dr. Cody Meissner, the only panel member who voted no. “I would hate for a person not to receive the influenza vaccine because the only available preparation is with thimerosal. > > **The CDC director usually needs to endorse the recommendations before they are official. But Kennedy will likely be the one to endorse these recommendations because there is currently no CDC director or acting director.** > > **The decision came after a presentation from Lyn Redwood, a former president of the Kennedy-founded anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense, who identified herself as a “private citizen.” The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Kennedy had hired Redwood to work in the CDC’s vaccine safety office.** [And he even admits his pollicies will harm children!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-admits-policies-hurting-170339124.html) > [@](#): > > On Thursday Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is still set on removing fluoride from drinking water even after admitting that it did help prevent cavities and tooth decay in children. > > “What has been the response from dentists in America who may be concerned that some children in lower incomes in particular don’t get those regular dental, preventative-type situations where they can go in and get their teeth more indemnified and treated against cavities?” Fox News’s Harris Faulkner [asked](https://x.com/atrupar/status/1938261155098644916) Kennedy Jr. as he sat next to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt. > > “Well, people will still get indemnified for it to the extent that they’re already indemnified. But you know, it is an issue. It’s a balance. You’re gonna see, probably, slightly more cavities. Although in Europe where they banned fluoride they did not see an uptick in cavities. The issue is, parents need to decide. Science is very clear on fluoride.” > > Europe has [not “banned”](https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/11/23/trump-could-push-the-us-to-stop-adding-fluoride-to-water-where-does-europe-stand) fluoride, they just don’t add it to their public water supplies like we do here. Europeans still receive fluoride at the dentist. Even still, Kennedy has had his mind set on this fluoride ban for some time now. Color me unsurprised he also lied when he was talking. [Junior Felony accuses the Nobel Committee of affirmative action. You already knnow why before you read on.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-jr-says-barack-obama-152000149.html) > [@](#): > > “I should have gotten [a Nobel Peace Prize] four or five times,” said President Donald Trump. > > Donald Trump Jr. suggested that former President[Barack Obama’s](https://thegrio.com/topics/barack-obama/) being Black is the reason he has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize—and that his father has not. > > “Affirmative action is when Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Donald Trump,” Trump Jr. [posted](https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1937544173126553638) Tuesday on X. That’s it for Friday! ---
**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 27, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6198 "2025-06-27T07:11:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Five members voted to recommend that no children, pregnant women, or adults get any flu vaccine with thimerosal. And when you’re seeing (near?) record high deaths from influenza, stop and remember that one year where we almost wiped it out… > **[2020-2021 Flu Season](https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/2020-2021.html)** > > Flu activity was unusually low throughout the 2020-2021 flu season in the United States ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6199 "2025-06-27T13:45:28Z")
Is it, though? [![](https://media.tenor.com/hFYNMDznTiMAAAAM/is-it.gif) ](https://media.tenor.com/hFYNMDznTiMAAAAM/is-it.gif) ---
**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 27, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6200 "2025-06-27T22:30:58Z")
I really wish someone would ask the border czar why ICE is not picking up the M13 gang members Maduro sent to invade the U.S. That is why the regime enacted The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 after all. The few dozen alleged members sent to El Salvador couldn’t possibly be the entire invasion force. M13 was supposedly terrorizing small towns, killing record numbers of Americans and taking over apartment complexes everywhere. And now they are nowhere to be found? It’s very doubtful that the most dangerous and scary men on earth are hanging out at the Home Depot or picking strawberries. It’s like everyone just forgot why this started in the first place. What’s the deal Homan? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6201 "2025-06-28T01:18:15Z")
I have a distinct feeling that by the time this malAdministration has run its course (if ever), the terms “Schrödinger” and “doublethink” are going to be so worn as to be virtually useless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=306) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=308)