# 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:** 308
**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 28, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6202 "2025-06-28T03:03:52Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > “doublethink” Doublethink? Double? Friend, on a very good day, they’re lucky if they’ve even gotten to the point of _half_think! [In other news, SCOTUS (_Send in the Clowns of Trump’s Unbelievable Shit_, I guess), gave the felon a win. No word on how that will impact the EO on birthright citizenship.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-limits-nationwide-injunctions-141830512.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — A united conservative majority of [the Supreme Court](https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-court) ruled Friday that federal judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear whether [President Donald Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/people/donald-trump/)’s restrictions on [birthright citizenship](https://apnews.com/article/birthright-citizenship-immigration-trump-20919d26029cf0f98ecb0dc7f90a066b) could soon take effect in parts of the country. > > [The outcome](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25985278-trump-v-casa/) represented a victory for Trump, who has complained about judges throwing up obstacles to his agenda. Nationwide, or universal, injunctions had emerged as an important check on the Republican president’s efforts to expand [executive power](https://apnews.com/article/trump-democracy-autocrats-authoritarian-constitution-threat-542ac437a58880e81c052f8f2df1643f) and remake the government and a source of mounting frustration to him and his allies. > > But the court left open the possibility that the birthright citizenship changes could remain blocked nationwide. Trump’s order would deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of people who are in the country illegally or temporarily. > > The cases now return to lower courts, where judges will have to decide how to tailor their orders to comply with the high court ruling, which was written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Enforcement of the policy can’t take place for another 30 days, Barrett wrote. > > Even then it’s unclear whether the court’s decision could produce a confusing patchwork of rules that might differ in the 22 states that sued over the Trump order and the rest of the country. [But, hey, no winning felon here!](https://www.aol.com/news/u-law-firm-susman-godfrey-213958894.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday permanenently blocked a White House executive order against law firm Susman Godfrey, capping a string of court victories for firms targeted for their association with President Donald Trump’s perceived enemies. > > U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan said Trump’s order unlawfully retaliated against Susman for cases it has taken and its efforts to promote racial diversity, violating the firm’s rights to free speech and due process of law under the U.S. Constitution. > > **Trump’s executive order “goes beyond violating the Constitution and the laws of the United States,” AliKhan wrote in her 53-page ruling. “The order threatens the independence of the bar — a necessity for the rule of law.”** [This is pretty funny. Good on you, Gov!](https://www.aol.com/newsom-accuses-fox-news-lying-140736888.html) > [@](#): > > (Reuters) -California Governor Gavin Newsom filed a $787 million defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, saying the network defamed him in covering his phone call with Donald Trump related to the president’s immigration crackdown. > > The complaint filed in Delaware Superior Court accused Fox of demonstrating “willingness to protect President Trump from his own false statements by smearing his political opponent Governor Newsom in a dispute over when the two last spoke during a period of national strife.” > > Newsom’s punitive damages request is nearly identical to the $787.5 million that Fox paid in 2023 to settle Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit over alleged vote-rigging in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. What say the SDMB’s legal minds–can the previous loss be used against them in this case? [The art of the deal, right? Pshaw!](https://www.aol.com/trump-terminates-trade-talks-canada-180017356.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump said Friday that he had terminated trade discussions with Canada, citing an incoming Canadian tax on tech companies including those based in the U.S. > > In [a post on Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114756567645919781), Trump referred to Canada as “a very difficult country to trade with” and said that its [levy on tech firms](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-digital-services-tax-1.7565966) — the first payment for which is due Monday — “is a direct and blatant attack on our Country.” > > “Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately,” he said. “We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period.” I see math isn’t the felon’s strong suit. A fortnight has _fourteen_ days. Also, he doesn’t seem to be all that good at negotiating deals, does he? [TACO!](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/taco-trump-strikes-again-tariff-185311545.html) > [@](#): > > Wall Street was right about the president: Trump always chickens out. > > Despite spending weeks [fuming](https://newrepublic.com/post/195813/donald-trump-loses-it-tariff-nickname-taco) about the fact that investors had clocked him for repeatedly reneging on his tariff plan, Donald Trump has once again decided to extend the deadline to implement them. > > The White House said Thursday that the deadline for countries to strike trade deals with the United States may be [extended past July 9](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-trade-tariffs-deadline.html), a deadline that press secretary Karoline Leavitt described as “not critical.” > > “The president can simply provide these countries with a deal if they refuse to make us one by the deadline,” Leavitt said during a press briefing. “And that means the president can pick a reciprocal tariff rate that he believes is advantageous for the United States and for the American worker.” [“Bombs away!” the felon fantasizes.](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-says-backs-idea-inspectors-164822466.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump sharply criticized Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamanei, on Friday, dropped plans to lift sanctions on Iran and said he would consider bombing Iran again if Tehran is enriching uranium to worrisome levels. > > Trump reacted sternly to Khamanei’s first remarks after a 12-day conflict with Israel that ended when the United States launched bombing raids last weekend against Iranian nuclear sites. > > Khamanei said Iran “slapped America in the face” by launching an attack against a major U.S. base in Qatar following last weekend’s U.S. bombing raid. Khamanei also said Iran would never surrender. > > Trump said he had spared Khamanei’s life. U.S. officials told Reuters on June 15 that Trump had vetoed an Israeli plan to kill the supreme leader. > > “His Country was decimated, his three evil Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life,” Trump said in a social media post. > > “I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH,” he said. > > Trump also said that in recent days he had been working on the possible removal of sanctions on Iran to give it a chance for a speedy recovery. He said he has now abandoned that effort. > > “I get hit with a statement of anger, hatred, and disgust, and immediately dropped all work on sanction relief, and more,” he said. [The felon is doing his utmost to turn the US dollar into the late unlamented Zimbabwe dollar.](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-sends-dollar-plunging-plan-181940669.html) > [@](#): > > The U.S. dollar plunged Thursday to a three-year low after word got out that President Donald Trump is plotting to announce a MAGA-friendly Federal Reserve chair as early as this summer. > > Peeved at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s refusal to slash interest rates, Trump has unleashed [blistering attacks](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-loses-dummy-fed-chair-145609269.html) against the banker, calling him the “WORST” and a “dummy” who is “costing America $Billions.” > > That rhetoric did not persuade Powell to issue a rate cut this week. He told Congress that the U.S. central bank will continue to adopt a wait-and-see approach to gauge how the economy reacts to Trump’s tariffs and other economic uncertainties. Who could have guessed that a kaleidoscope is not the instrument one should use to craft economic policies? [Yet another felonial who doesn’t understand a basic financial concept.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/multi-millionaire-trump-official-dr-155222726.html) > [@](#): > > Centers for [Medicare](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/medicare) and [Medicaid](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/medicaid) Administrator Dr. [Mehmet Oz](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/mehmet-oz) appeared to let slip that he doesn’t quite grasp how credit cards work. > > The former revered heart surgeon-turned-television host appeared on Fox News’ _Ingraham Angle_ to discuss America’s largest health [insurance companies](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/insurance-companies) pledging to streamline prior authorization. > > After giving a confusing analogy that compared approving procedures to [credit card](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/credit-card) transactions, Oz made an unintentional admission: he doesn’t know how one works. > > “We’ve insisted on a dashboard. They have to be public about what they’re doing,” he told Laura Ingraham on Wednesday. “We want to know, for example, by the end of this year, can you do these examinations instantaneously?” > > “Like a credit card,” Oz, who boasts an estimated $200 million net worth, continued. > > “When you put it into the machine to buy something, they don’t prior authorize you. You either have money in the bank or you don’t.” [If you think the pubbies in congress aren’t enabling the wannabe dictator, you have another think coming.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-judge-blocked-trump-national-130020994.html) > [@](#): > > A Republican lawmaker is filing impeachment articles against a judge who temporarily blocked President [Donald Trump’s](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump) control of the National Guard in California during this month’s riots in Los Angeles. > > Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., is filing a resolution to remove U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer from the bench on Friday. > > He told Fox News Digital that he felt the judge’s decision was “political.” & > [@](#): > > Breyer issued a temporary order blocking Trump’s deployment of federal troops earlier this month, however, in response to a lawsuit brought by California. [Half a million people suddently deportable.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-end-deportation-relief-171839627.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will end deportation protections for half a million Haitians, the latest move by the Trump administration to strip migrants of legal status as it ramps up deportations. > > Noem, who shortened the duration of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some 521,000 Haitians earlier this year, will terminate the status on September 2, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. & > [@](#): > > TPS - a humanitarian program created by the U.S. Congress in 1990 - is available to people whose home country has experienced a natural disaster, armed conflict or other extraordinary event. Two months before the status expires, the homeland security secretary must determine whether to renew it, expand it to include new arrivals from the country, or terminate it. > > Trump sought to wipe out most TPS enrolment during his first term but was stymied by federal courts. > > In a statement, a DHS spokesperson said conditions in Haiti would now allow people to return but did not explain what exactly had changed to lessen the risk. > > “The environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home," the spokesperson said. Finally this mind boggling story. [The felon is so desperate to claim credit he’s even claining that _he gave permission to Iran to attack Americans in Qatar_!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-gave-iran-permission-132703707.html) (The formatting is from the cite.) > [@](#): > > ## Alarming Verbal Diarrhea From the President > > When political scientist Seth Masket [shared](https://bsky.app/profile/smotus.bsky.social/post/3lsickfpzrc23) this story on Bluesky yesterday, I couldn’t believe it was real. The right-wing Washington Times [reported](https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/25/trump-says-iranians-asked-us-time-could-bomb-american-military-base/) that at a press conference at the NATO Summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Trump revealed that he had given Iran permission to bomb the U.S.’s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in retaliation for the American bombing of their nuclear sites. & (the **bolding** in this part is mine.) > [@](#): > > **“They said, ‘We’re going to shoot them. Is one o’clock OK?’ I said it’s fine,” Trump said. “And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn’t get hurt, except for the gunners.”** There you have it, folks. The president of the United States of America does not care if deployed active duty members of the Armed Forces get hurt or killed. He even says he gave permission for a foreign government to attack them. ---
**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 28, 2025, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6203 "2025-06-28T07:18:38Z")
_Addendum_ [The felon and his co-conspirators are not governing. They’re simply taking revenge.](https://www.aol.com/justice-department-abruptly-fires-3-022746589.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday fired at least three prosecutors involved in [U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases](https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/), the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the [Jan. 6, 2021, attack,](https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege) according to two people familiar with the matter. > > Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington as well as a line attorney who prosecuted cases stemming from the Capitol attack, the people said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters. > > A letter that was received by one of the prosecutors was signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi. The letter did not provide a reason for their removal, effective immediately, citing only “Article II of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States,” according to a copy seen by The Associated Press. > > A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment Friday evening. > > The terminations marked yet another escalation of norm-shattering moves that have raised alarm over the Trump administration’s disregard for civil service protections for career lawyers and the erosion of the Justice Department’s independence from the White House. Top leaders at the Justice Department have also fired employees who worked on [the prosecutions against Trump](https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-court-classified-documents-2020-election-302f87960dbd84d7be5daedaf03328d8) and demoted a slew of career supervisors in what has been seen as an effort to purge the agency of lawyers seen as insufficiently loyal. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6204 "2025-06-28T10:23:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately,” he said. This is because he hasn’t the first clue how to negotiate or ‘make a deal’. He’s a nitwit, that is outclassed at every turn of events. So he takes his ball and goes home. Everything from economics to the lunch he eats and the clothes he wears shows he’s clueless. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6205 "2025-06-28T12:51:56Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > This is because he hasn’t the first clue how to negotiate or ‘make a deal’. He’s a nitwit, that is outclassed at every turn of events. So he takes his ball and goes home. Yeah. He’s a bully and a con artist; if the other side fails to be either intimidated or fooled, then he’s out of options. If nothing else his conviction that all agreements are supposed to be completely one-sided and his disinterest in keeping his side of any agreement he _does_ enter into means he has _negative_ skill at deal-making. His success is a combination of privilege, appealing to people’s worst impulses, and as a living proof of the phrase “there’s a sucker born every minute”. MAGA demonstrates that suckers are a _major demographic,_ in fact. ---
**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 28, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6206 "2025-06-28T14:24:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Also, he doesn’t seem to be all that good at negotiating deals, does he? ISTM that he always emerges from negotiations holding the dirty end of the stick. He boasts about is ‘Big Incredible – No On’e Ever Seen Agreement As Good As This – Agreement’, while the other side is laughing up their sleeves at how The Great Negotiator got snookered. Like when Trump gave Syria to Russia, or when his tariffs induced China to buy their grain from Russia instead of the United States, or giving classified information (I don’t remember in exchange for what – Praise fromPutin) to Russia… Hm. I think I’m detecting a pattern. But it seems that the one agreement that I can think of that he actually competed this year (with the UK), was less advantageous for us than he ‘thinks’. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6207 "2025-06-28T16:49:16Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Yeah. He’s a bully and a con artist; if the other side fails to be either intimidated or fooled, then he’s out of options. If nothing else his conviction that all agreements are supposed to be completely one-sided and his disinterest in keeping his side of any agreement he _does_ enter into means he has _negative_ skill at deal-making. I remember seeing some documentary on Trump and there was a segment on his history of stiffing the contractors who worked on his Atlantic City casinos. Trump wouldn’t pay them, or pay less than the agreed upon amount, citing substandard work and then threaten to sue them and blacklist their companies to drive them out of business if they pushed back. I guess that works to certain extent with small businesses but I don’t think his experience with that tactic applies to countries. ---
**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 28, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6208 "2025-06-28T23:56:39Z")
So now migrants aren’t just eating cats and dogs, they are eating themselves! Not happy with just everyday fear mongering, they have to up the stakes. Video should be queued at relevant insane accusation. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/f-NZEOi3vzU/maxresdefault.jpg "Kristi Noem: This is the 'future' of immigration enforcement") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-NZEOi3vzU&t=1381) ---
**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 28, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6209 "2025-06-28T23:58:36Z")
Sorry, that didn’t work. The relevant remark is around the 2.20 minute mark. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6210 "2025-06-29T00:24:56Z")
Up Next: Illegals kill White children and use their blood to make tortillas. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6211 "2025-06-29T00:34:04Z")
Eating your own arm is not cannibalism. That’s Autocannibalism. ---
**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 29, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6212 "2025-06-29T00:34:54Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > So now migrants aren’t just eating cats and dogs I’m still trying to process how Cruella de Vile can complain about cruelty. > [@dougrb](#): > > Eating your own arm is not cannibalism. That’s Autocannibalism. And it’s not something to mock the man for doing. It’s as clear an indication as could be he needs mental health care, not just chucking him across the border or sending him to a notorious prison in a third country. ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6213 "2025-06-29T04:59:51Z")
[The Big Bullshit Bill will be read out in its entirety to delay passage.](https://www.aol.com/news/live-updates-senate-gop-works-143439066.html) > [@](#): > > The Senate is still eyeing [a Saturday procedural vote](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5374079-gop-senate-budget-reconciliation-debate/) to advance President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after Democrats [announced](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5375278-schumer-to-force-reading-of-1000-page-gop-mega-bill-delaying-it-by-half-a-day/) they will immediately seek to delay its final passage. > > Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will force the Senate clerk to read the bill in its entirety, a procedural act that will take about 12 hours. > > Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Friday noted that the voting schedule would be subject to change and called the initial vote “aspirational” as internal squabbles and parliamentarian rulings cast doubt on its passage ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline. [The ex-de facto president has some more harsh words for the felon-in-chief.](https://www.aol.com/elon-musk-slams-trumps-megabill-204000579.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON - [Billionaire Elon Musk](https://www.usatoday.com/news/elon-musk/), [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/)’s former adviser on cutting government spending, fired off [another set of attacks](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-great-relationship-musk-162522983.html) against the president’s legislative package for potentially killing millions of jobs. > > Musk, the former head of the advisory Department of Government Efficiency, had [quieted his harsh criticism](https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-surrenders-worlds-richest-172157574.html) of Trump and the legislation the week after his departure from government May 30. > > But he blasted the bill again on June 28 less than an hour before the [Senate was prepared to hold a critical vote](https://www.yahoo.com/news/live-updates-time-senate-trumps-172102819.html) to begin debate. > > **More:** [Live updates: It’s go time for Senate on Trump’s megabill. Do they have the votes?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/live-updates-time-senate-trumps-172102819.html) > > “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” [Musk said on social media](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1939051424995786839). “Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.” > > [Musk added in a later post](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1939069416756650401) that “Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party.” Let’s hope he’s correct, but only about that last bit. [The felon doesn’t even know what’s in the Big Bullshit Bill.](https://www.aol.com/news/fact-check-trump-makes-big-120024514.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump is using false claims to promote his massive domestic policy bill. > > In a White House [speech](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frollcall.com%2Ffactbase%2Ftrump%2Ftranscript%2Fdonald-trump-speech-political-support-budget-white-house-june-26-2025%2F&data=05%7C02%7Csteven.nannes%40cnn.com%7C6d31f99ae5974282d84608ddb5bf583b%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638866555626942444%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HmojB6yV2ugY%2FfoLILOVZaUiZwjEZ3A3S9npAvJ1c6c%3D&reserved=0) on Thursday, Trump falsely [claimed](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%3Dshared%26t%3D2207%26v%3DPdqCww2JSlA&data=05%7C02%7Csteven.nannes%40cnn.com%7C6d31f99ae5974282d84608ddb5bf583b%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638866555626960749%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nN78qAi92kL0OlCJ9xNWstT0RWd8Z610Y5CbpGrIDwI%3D&reserved=0) Medicaid is “left the same” by the bill. In fact, both the version of the legislation that was [narrowly passed by the House in May](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F05%2F22%2Fpolitics%2Fhouse-vote-trump-agenda-bill&data=05%7C02%7Csteven.nannes%40cnn.com%7C6d31f99ae5974282d84608ddb5bf583b%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638866555626974328%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IqCuP5IkzaRfqQ5x6Gfok6rjlTFfT9FHMzbqI5ZIzf0%3D&reserved=0) and the latest version now [being contemplated by the Senate](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F06%2F26%2Fpolitics%2Fmedicaid-snap-cuts-trump-bill&data=05%7C02%7Csteven.nannes%40cnn.com%7C6d31f99ae5974282d84608ddb5bf583b%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638866555626992798%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SsFvM3VZehXX3QQvzSmLflRP8pFyNQygo3Oi0o5szZ4%3D&reserved=0) contain major Medicaid policy changes and funding cuts that are expected to result in [millions of people](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F06%2F16%2Fpolitics%2Fmedicaid-cuts-senate-tax-bill&data=05%7C02%7Csteven.nannes%40cnn.com%7C6d31f99ae5974282d84608ddb5bf583b%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638866555627011325%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8pGahEwmAsqNy8jN3zReqoWUAf0XVFjcf3gMx9qXWAo%3D&reserved=0) losing insurance coverage. > > Trump also falsely [claimed](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FPdqCww2JSlA%3Ffeature%3Dshared%26t%3D2194&data=05%7C02%7Csteven.nannes%40cnn.com%7C6d31f99ae5974282d84608ddb5bf583b%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638866555627029618%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=y829bhpLJRnAFHnffkWnQLERUmQN8EmqlkaF%2Ft8gLLw%3D&reserved=0) that the bill includes “no tax” on Social Security benefits. The legislation would not actually fulfill Trump’s campaign promise to completely eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits, though it would temporarily give seniors a [substantially bigger tax deduction](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F06%2F16%2Fpolitics%2Fmedicaid-cuts-senate-tax-bill&data=05%7C02%7Csteven.nannes%40cnn.com%7C6d31f99ae5974282d84608ddb5bf583b%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638866555627048134%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LjZMYbfh9lMwLdGXiJdZM24CoFv99ZCRyggx4kXq6QI%3D&reserved=0). And Trump falsely [claimed](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FPdqCww2JSlA%3Ffeature%3Dshared%26t%3D855&data=05%7C02%7Csteven.nannes%40cnn.com%7C6d31f99ae5974282d84608ddb5bf583b%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638866555627066085%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=u59HELz8dxYozwnNwpNiGvKxrQDSYSWm2P4LT2fYNnE%3D&reserved=0) that “there’ll be a 68% tax increase” if Congress doesn’t approve the bill; there is no credible estimate of anything close to a 68% hike. [Co-conspirator Hegseth is not a happy camper!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-veteran-torches-rattled-hegseth-085255931.html) > [@](#): > > An Army veteran blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for politicizing the military and accused him of attacking the press more aggressively than he attacks America’s enemies. > > Hegseth [lashed out](https://www.yahoo.com/news/female-reporters-call-hegseth-sexism-150348013.html) at reporters [repeatedly](https://www.yahoo.com/news/hegseth-uncorks-deranged-early-morning-134152885.html) during a Thursday news conference [amid the fallout](https://www.yahoo.com/news/cabinet-member-trump-crosshairs-iran-040817529.html) over a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment that found last weekend’s strikes on Iran had only set the country’s nuclear program back by a few months. > > The defense secretary ranted at the press and called out news organizations and reporters by name, accusing them of “a great deal of irresponsible reporting based on leaks, preliminary information in low confidence.” > > He and Trump have also claimed the reporting disrespects the troops. > > Paul Rieckhoff, an Iraq War veteran and founder of Independent Veterans of America, called Hegseth’s performance “conduct unbecoming” and said the administration was setting a dangerous precedent. > > “He looks rattled. He obviously looks thin-skinned,” Rieckhoff told CNN’s Abby Phillip during Thursday’s episode of _NewsNight_. “He’s extremely aggressive and volatile.” > > Rieckoff went on to say that asking the administration hard questions has nothing to do with the troops, and that Hegseth has continued to “conflate the war with the warriors.” [I foolishly thought senators were supposed to care about the people they purportedly represent. Nope, it’s a sham, as far as the pubbies go.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/maga-sen-tells-scotus-ruling-151357111.html) > [@](#): > > MAGA Sen. John Kennedy viciously taunted opponents of a Supreme Court ruling that turbocharged President Donald Trump’s executive orders. > > The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a massive win on Friday, limiting judges’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions blocking the president’s policies in a case concerning the administration’s push to end birthright citizenship. The ruling has drawn widespread condemnation from Democrats and the Court’s liberal wing. > > “You know, if they disagree, I’m sorry, fill out a hurt feelings report. Buy a comfort rock,” Kennedy told _Fox News_. I know I’m definitely completing a “hurt feelings report” every election cycle until I die. That report is officially termed my ballot. [One of the felon’s enablers in congress is introducing an amendement to end birthright citizenship.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-introduces-amendment-end-birthright-193112295.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Amid a legal battle between President [Donald Trump](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump) and several Democratic-run states over birthright citizenship, Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., is introducing a constitutional amendment to “immediately put an end to this debate” by clarifying that children of illegal immigrants are not eligible for citizenship. > > Barr called the amendment an important step in helping the president “protect America.” > > If passed, Barr’s amendment would clarify the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s clause that persons must be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States to be citizens. > > The [14th Amendment](https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-july-28-14th-amendment-certified-assuring-equality-americans), which was ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship rights to former slaves, states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” > > **Barr’s amendment would clarify that “a person born in the United States may only be considered ‘subject to the jurisdiction of the United States’ if the person is born in the United States of parents, one of whom is — (1) a national of the United States; (2) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States whose residence is in the United States; or (3) an alien with lawful status under the immigration laws performing active service in the armed forces.”** I hope this passes. Who am I and what happend to Monty, you ask? I assure you I am he and nothing has happened to me. Here’s why I hope this makes it into law (and my apologies for the all caps): NO PERSON BORN TO AN ALIEN MERELY VISITING THE UNITED STATES, NO PERSON BORN TO AN ALIEN WHO HAS EITHER ENTERED THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY OR OVERSTAYED THEIR VISA SHALL BE SUBJECT TO US LAWS. **THAT IS THE ULTIMATE “GET OUT OF JAIL FREE” CARD!** This inane proposal will simply create an entire class of persons who cannot be prosecuted for any crimes they commit in the United States. Also, I seem to recall the US is a signatory of some treaty or another which requires our government to _not_ create stateless aliens. I truly wonder if these magaflatearthers actually understand the meaning of any words. It’s as though each and every one of them has the thousand monkeys pounding away at typewriter keys. No, strike that. It’s as though their idol does and they are merely parrots. [Speaking of liars, I mean the felon-in-chief…](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-makes-easier-deport-haitians-193738180.html) (The formatting is from the cite.) > [@](#): > > # Trump Makes It Easier to Deport Haitians After Claiming They Eat Pets > > The Trump administration [announced](https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/27/dhs-terminates-haiti-tps-encourages-haitians-obtain-lawful-status) Friday that it will soon end temporary protected status, or TPS, for Haiti. The move, set to take effect on September 2, would strip lawful status from more than 500,000 people, leading them to face possible deportation to the strife-racked country from which they fled. > > The move reverses former President Joe Biden’s June 2024 [decision](https://apnews.com/article/temporary-protected-status-tps-haiti-haitians-biden-e92b8de782d2c1218dd1be1899aa926d) to extend TPS for Haitians through February 2026. > > According to the Trump administration’s announcement, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has “determined that, overall, country conditions have improved to the point where Haitians can return home in safety.” (However, per the State Department’s ongoing [advisory](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/haiti-travel-advisory.html) warning Americans against traveling to Haiti, the country is plagued by “kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and limited health care.”) & > [@](#): > > The move is consistent with Trump’s long-standing penchant for demonizing immigrants—and Haitian immigrants in particular. In 2017, Trump reportedly [said](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html?_r=2) that 15,000 recently arrived immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS,” during a meeting in the Oval Office. > > On the 2024 campaign trail, Trump notoriously elevated a baseless lie about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio—many of whom reside there under TPS—eating their neighbors’ house pets. In reality, Haitians’ presence in Springfield helped revitalize the town, per a report in [_The Guardian_](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/neo-nazis-springfield-ohio-haitian-immigrants). Someone remind me of the number of people stripped of legal status to be in Germany without recourse in their first one hundred days in power. [Co-conspirator Kennedy to export his lethality.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/million-kids-won-t-live-123000998.html) > [@](#): > > The deadliest country in the world for young children is South Sudan — the [United Nations estimates](https://data.unicef.org/resources/levels-and-trends-in-child-mortality-2024/) that about 1 in 10 children born there won’t make it to their fifth birthday. > > But just a hundred years ago, that was true right here in the United States: [Every community buried about a tenth of their children](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-all-time-child-mortality-rate/) before they entered kindergarten. That was itself a huge improvement over 1900, when fully 25 percent of children in America didn’t make it to age 5. Today, even in the poorest parts of the world, every child has a better chance than a child born in the richest parts of the world had a century ago. > > How did we do it? Primarily through vaccines, which account for [about 40 percent of the global drop in infant mortality over the last 50 years](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00850-X/fulltext), representing [150 million lives saved](https://ourworldindata.org/vaccines-children-saved). Once babies get extremely sick, it’s incredibly hard to get adequate care for them anywhere in the world, but we’ve largely prevented them from getting sick in the first place. Vaccines eradicated smallpox and dramatically reduced infant deaths from measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and tetanus. And vaccines not only make babies likelier to survive infancy but also make them healthier for the rest of their lives. > > [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.](https://www.vox.com/health-care/397452/rfk-jr-confirmation-hearing-elizabeth-warren), unfortunately, disagrees. > > President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services (HHS), a noted vaccine skeptic who reportedly [does not really believe the scientific consensus that disease is caused by germs](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/12/metro/kennedy-measles-germ-theory-denial-vaccines/), [recently announced](https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/06/25/g-s1-74554/rfk-jr-vaccine-safety-gavi) the US will pull out of [Gavi](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/358800/gavi-biden-vaccine-congress-foreign-aid), an international alliance of governments and private funders (mainly the Gates Foundation) that works to ensure lifesaving vaccinations reach every child worldwide. His grounds? He thinks Gavi doesn’t worry enough about vaccine safety (he does not seem to acknowledge any safety concerns associated with the alternative — dying horribly from measles or tuberculosis). [The felons have another money making grift](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-wants-fine-those-215048707.html) > [@](#): > > The [Trump administration](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-genius-top-economist-tariff-193623756.html) aims to accelerate its ability to fine individuals in the U.S. illegally, according to a rule published Friday in the [Federal Register.](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/27/2025-11965/imposition-and-collection-of-civil-penalties-for-certain-immigration-related-violations) > > Currently, the government notify individuals in the U.S. who are undocumented 30 days before issuing fines. > > The rule proposed by Attorney [Pam Bondi](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/pam-bondi)’s [Department of Justice](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/department-of-justice-0) and Secretary [Kristi Noem](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/kristi-noem)’s [Department of Homeland Security](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/department-of-homeland-security) allows the government to begin fining individuals in the U.S. illegally immediately, up to $1,000 per day. That’s enough depression for a Sunday. ---
**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 29, 2025, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6214 "2025-06-29T05:25:51Z")
And then some. Yikes. ---
**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 29, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6215 "2025-06-29T06:29:59Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I remember seeing some documentary on Trump and there was a segment on his history of stiffing the contractors who worked on his Atlantic City casinos. Trump wouldn’t pay them, or pay less than the agreed upon amount, citing substandard work and then threaten to sue them and blacklist their companies to drive them out of business if they pushed back. At the time the casinos were being built in Atlantic City I was living in Pennsylvania and read an article in the _Philadelphia Inquirer_ specifically about Trump’s practices. A contractor said that when he and the others in the area would bid on putting up a Trump property the bid would be much higher than usual; he called it the Trump surcharge. That way if he actually paid it off they’d make out like bandits but when he inevitably stiffed them, they’d make at least a little bit on the job. Frequently somebody new would come along and submit a bid without the surcharge, handily win because he was less than anybody else, and be driven into bankruptcy when they didn’t get paid. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6216 "2025-06-29T06:38:00Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > At the time the casinos were being built in Atlantic City I was living in Pennsylvania and read an article in the _Philadelphia Inquirer_ specifically about Trump’s practices. A contractor said that when he and the others in the area would bid on putting up a Trump property the bid would be much higher than usual; he called it the Trump surcharge. As I recall they called it the Trump Tax in New York; he’s always been like that. ---
**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 29, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6217 "2025-06-29T09:16:41Z")
Has this been mentioned? [The felon phone will not be labeled as “Made in America”](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-phone-website-removes-made-in-the-usa-tag-for-the-device.html) > [@](#): > > The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag. > > A spokesperson for the Trump Organization, which is owned by U.S. President [Donald Trump](https://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/), nevertheless maintained the handset would be made in the U.S. > > This month, the Trump Organization [introduced the T1](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/trump-mobile-phone-plan.html), a gold-colored device set to retail for $499. At the time of the announcement, a banner on the homepage of the company’s website said: “Our MADE IN THE USA ‘T1 Phone’ is available for pre-order now.” > > The reference to where the phone will be produced has been completely removed. The change was first noted by [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/693080/trump-mobile-t1-phone-made-usa). > > The T1′s webpage now says the phone has “American-Proud Design” and is “brought to life right here in the USA” — though it’s unclear if that means it will actually be manufactured in America. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6218 "2025-06-29T09:23:07Z")
Serious question here… how did he keep getting away with it? I’m from the UK and I’m pretty sure if you kept failing to pay your bills here you’d be in receipt of winding up petitions all the time. ---
**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 29, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6219 "2025-06-29T09:34:29Z")
His reputation preceded him. If anyone did try to sue him for payment, he would keep them tied up in court (sound familiar?) until they gave up or ran out of money. It was just easier to take what you could get. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6220 "2025-06-29T09:40:32Z")
> [@](#): > > The T1′s webpage now says the phone has “American-Proud Design” and is “brought to life right here in the USA” — though it’s unclear if that means it will actually be manufactured in America. No, it’s entirely clear since those phrases translate to _THIS (insert item here) WAS NOT MADE ANYWHERE NEAR AMERICA_ in English. ---
**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 29, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6221 "2025-06-29T10:08:26Z")
The ‘brought to life’ makes me think the battery was installed here, and that’s it. Like the guy who walked into a fish monger’s. “How much are those trout in the case there?” “Ten dollars a pound.” “Great. I’ll take four.” The fish are weighed out wrapped up, and the label slapped on. After he pays the amount the customer backs up five feet. “Now, toss me the package.” … “Okay. Why?” “I’ve been out fishing all day with no luck and I want to tell the wife I caught these.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=307) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=309)