# 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:** 310
**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 30, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6242 "2025-06-30T18:08:24Z")
IIRC, children under one year of age do not need a SSN on the 1040. ---
**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 30, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6243 "2025-06-30T18:11:25Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > children under one year of age do not need a SSN on the 1040 Not in my experience as a volunteer tax preparer. If you want to claim a child as a dependent, a SSN is required on the tax return. At least in the software that we use, which is Tax Slayer. ETA: verified by the IRS: > **[Dependents 9 | Internal Revenue Service](https://www.irs.gov/faqs/filing-requirements-status-dependents/dependents/dependents-9)** > > My daughter was born at the end of the year. We're still waiting for a Social Security number. May I file my return now and provide her Social Security number later? > If you file your return claiming your daughter as a dependent and don’t provide her Social Security number (SSN) on your return, the IRS will not allow you to claim her as a dependent. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6244 "2025-06-30T18:12:08Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > IIRC, children under one year of age do not need a SSN on the 1040. I don’t see any such exception on the IRS website or their FAQ here: [Dependents 9 | Internal Revenue Service](https://www.irs.gov/faqs/filing-requirements-status-dependents/dependents/dependents-9#:~:text=If%20you%20file%20your%20return,claim%20her%20as%20a%20dependent). ---
**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 30, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6245 "2025-06-30T18:12:52Z")
Then I did not recall correctly. IDNRC?) ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6246 "2025-06-30T20:21:08Z")
In this clip, Trump explains to Maria Bartiromo that the Iranians couldn’t have moved their uranium in time before the strikes because it’s “very, very, heavy” [Did Iran hide uranium before the US’ air strike? Trump clears the air](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjIT-wve1Tc) I guessing someone once told Trump that uranium is a heavy element, but was talking about its atomic weight and Trump didn’t understand. I’m reminded of the “trick” question “What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks?” AIUI, the Iranian uranium was thought to be only a few hundred pounds. Moving it might have required advanced technology such as forklifts and trucks. It’s like how Trump seems to think stealth aircraft are invisible to the eye, clean coal has been physically washed, and asylum is where Hannibal Lecter was locked up. I’m starting to suspect Trump’s not the genius that he’s been telling us he is. Trump probably weighs something around 275 lbs (maybe in the ballpark of the weight of the uranium). To quote Lex Luthor in the _Superman_ movie talking about his henchman Otis: “It’s amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6247 "2025-06-30T20:22:38Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Iranian uranium Try saying this ten time fast! ---
**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 30, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6248 "2025-06-30T20:28:36Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > In this clip, Trump explains to Maria Bartiromo that the Iranians couldn’t have moved their uranium in time before the strikes because it’s “very, very, heavy” But once it’s made into a bomb it, somehow, becomes very easy to move… ---
**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 30, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6249 "2025-06-30T20:47:18Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I’m reminded of the “trick” question “What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks?” Rocks are typically weighed in avoirdupois units, so it should be ‘What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of **gold**?’ (Answer: A troy pound of gold weighs 0.82 avoirdupois pounds.) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6250 "2025-06-30T21:17:49Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > But once it’s made into a bomb it, somehow, becomes very easy to move… Yeah, I mean, all you have to do then is just drop it. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6251 "2025-06-30T21:18:48Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Try saying this ten time fast! I originally typed “Iran’s uranium” but realized “Iranian uranium” sounded catchier. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6252 "2025-06-30T21:22:41Z")
It was definitely catchy. Good job. (This has been my “Iranian uranium” encomium.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6253 "2025-06-30T22:23:40Z")
We got a regular Tom Lehrer over here. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6254 "2025-06-30T23:27:07Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I confess having mixed feelings about this news. Yeah. It’s kinda like when UCLA plays Notre Dame. Somebody _has_ to win. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6255 "2025-07-01T00:25:01Z")
You can always root for injuries. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6256 "2025-07-01T01:35:11Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I guessing someone once told Trump that uranium is a heavy element, but was talking about its atomic weight and Trump didn’t understand. Well, moving even 900 pounds of the stuff is trivial is trivial logistically but it would take several trucks because you want [to keep the stuff spread out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident). Knowing Trump he just wants to keep his not responsible for anything lifetime streak going. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6257 "2025-07-01T01:48:20Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > he just wants to keep his not responsible for anything lifetime streak going. Plus, he’s still undefeated on the golf course. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6258 "2025-07-01T05:39:00Z")
[The former _de facto_ president has vowed a vow.](https://www.aol.com/elon-musk-vows-defeat-republicans-213107749.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON ― [Elon Musk](https://www.usatoday.com/news/elon-musk/) escalated his criticism of [President Donald Trump’s tax and budget mega-bill](https://www.yahoo.com/news/live-senate-begins-voting-9-111525542.html) as the Senate took up the legislation, warning that he would boost primary challenges to defeat Republican lawmakers who vote for the legislation. > > Musk, the richest man in the world and former top White House adviser, unleashed a flurry of [posts on June 30 on X](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1939762942851027127) attacking the bill, the centerpiece of Trump’s domestic agenda, over the tech entrepreneur’s well-documented concerns the bill will increase the national debt. > > “Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!” [Musk wrote](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1939776586989150590). “And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.” _Aside: I can’t think of a pithy title for the felon and the loon’s incredibly public divorce. I’ll happily take suggestions._ [Cruella de Vile had a secret stash of cash.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/kristi-noem-secretly-accepted-huge-152942068.html) > [@](#): > > While serving as [governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kristi-noem-released-hospital-allergic-reaction-b2772685.html)received $80,000 from an anonymous donor – significantly boosting her government wage – but later failed to declare it, according to a new report. > > Noem, who now heads up the Department of Homeland Security, received the funds from a nonprofit called American Resolve Policy Fund, a so-called dark money group, [which is not required to disclose the names](https://www.yahoo.com/news/questions-raised-over-lauren-boebert-161300636.html) of its donors, in 2023. > > According to the [report by _ProPublica_,](https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics) Noem then failed to disclose the payment. After becoming head of the DHS, she released [detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income](https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-miller-owns-stock-ice-230903280.html) from 2023 on, but still failed to include the sum, which would significantly boost her government wage of $130,000 a year. I’m shocked, shocked I say, anyone in this administration could be corrupt! [I think we really must be next door to Armegeddon. Fox News is criticizing co-conspirator Hegseth for being easily triggered.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-host-offers-scathing-advice-133848178.html) > [@](#): > > [Fox Business](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/fox-news) host Liz Claman on Sunday urged Defense Secretary [Pete Hegseth](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/pete-hegseth) to leave press conferences to the generals if he’s going to get so “triggered” over fair questions. **(Watch the video below.)** > > Claman, appearing on “MediaBuzz,” took Fox News alum Hegseth to task for snapping at [Jennifer Griffin](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/jennifer-griffin), a former colleague at the conservative news channel, last week. > > Host Howard Kurtz introduced a clip of Hegseth lashing out at the media for reporting on a legitimate early Pentagon appraisal that contradicted President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S bombing of Iranian nuclear sites obliterated the country’s nuke program. & > [@](#): > > “He just got extremely triggered. … It was like ‘insert reporter’s name here who challenges me.’ And he seemed to have a very sensitive nerve that was somehow touched by reporters who were simply asking questions,” she said. > > “Maybe leave these types of news conferences to the generals who are calm, collected and almost professorial in explaining things to the press,” she continued. Better yet. He should just leave. [The felon gouged us for _six hundred grand_ so he could go play with himself.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-golf-course-set-bill-182126370.html) > [@](#): > > The Secret Service is allocating more than $600,000[to rent golf carts](https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/golf/donald-trump-golf-swing-analysis-election-b2586541.html) and portable toilets for use in [Bedminster](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bedminster-golf-club-health-inspection-b2765766.html), New Jersey, the home of President Donald Trump’s private country club, according to a review of government procurement data by _The Independent_. > > On June 3, the agency signed a pair of definitive contracts with Associates Golf Car Service of Poughkeepsie, New York, and Restroom Resources LLC of Wrightstown, New Jersey, federal records show. > > The agreement with Associates Golf Car Service Inc., for ‘Golf Car Rental and Transportation Services,” is [worth a potential $550,930](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25986521-golf-carts-bedminster/) and runs through June 2, 2026. Restroom Resources’s work order for “portable restroom rentals and services” is [worth up to $80,385](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25986520-rest-rooms-bedminster/), runs through May 31, 2026, and comes with a three-year renewal option, for a potential total of $333,801. Taxpayers, as is customary, will be footing both bills. [Co-conspirator has an interesting response to someone dying in his custody: _People die_.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-czar-gruesome-response-204257312.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan couldn’t care less that people are dying in ICE custody. > > A reporter asked Homan Monday to respond to [reports](https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-did-75-old-man-142308339.html) that Isidro Perez, a 75-year-old Cuban man who’d been living in the United States for nearly 60 years, died last week in ICE custody. > > “I’m unaware of that, I’m not aware of that. I mean people die in ICE custody, people die in county jail, people die in state prisons,” Homan [replied](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1939762533637763221), brushing off that a man had just died on his watch. [Felon junior gets called out by his cousin for his bigotry.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/mary-trump-gives-miserable-don-090915440.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Mary Trump blasted Donald Trump Jr. over [his response](https://www.silive.com/politics/2025/06/trump-jr-maga-shamefully-evoke-911-in-condemning-mamdani-after-shock-nyc-win.html) to New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. > > Donald Trump’s niece slammed her cousin, the president’s eldest son, as “a vile human being who’s accomplished nothing in his meaningless, miserable little life.” > > Mamdani, a democratic socialist and Muslim American, has been [the target of a wave of right-wing attacks](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/conservatives-react-zohran-mamdani-democratic-mayoral-primary-nyc-election_n_685b801fe4b0c3bb7b64e344) following his victory. If elected, he’ll become New York City’s first Muslim mayor. > > **Trump Jr. reposted a viral comment on X, formerly Twitter, that read, “I’m old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it,” with the caption: “[New York City has fallen](https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1937862497177878551).”** > > Speaking with radio host Dean Obeidallah, Mary Trump tore into her cousin and said that “one of the things I most resent about Donald, my uncle” is how he’s subjected people to those like his son “not because their opinions matter but because millions of people listen to them because they have a platform by virtue of their relationship with Donald.” [This seques to this report about the felon threatening New York City if the newly-elected mayor doesn’t do what he wants them to.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-ll-withhold-money-172804661.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump has said that he will withhold funding for New York City if presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani[becomes mayor after November’s general election and doesn’t do the “right thing.”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-force-journalists-reveal-143942860.html) > > Trump called Mamdani, [a self-described democratic socialist, a “pure communist.”](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-andrew-cuomo-harlem-eric-adams-b2778860.html) > > “I think he admits it … If he does get in, I’m gonna be president and he’s gonna have to do the right thing or they’re not getting any money. [He’s gotta do the right thing,” the president added.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-offers-rare-211729095.html) [The felon seems to have a heart after all.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lawyer-says-no-immediate-213534531.html) > [@](#): > > (Reuters) -President [Donald Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/people/donald-trump/)’s administration will not deport children deemed ineligible for U.S. citizenship until his executive order curtailing birthright citizenship takes effect on July 27, a government lawyer said on Monday after being pressed by two federal judges. So what I glean from this is on July 27, 2025, a mere 26 days from now, the felon is going to deny citizenship to infants born in the United States of America and will deport them. [Hurricane forecasts are going to be iffy a month later than announced before.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-cut-hurricane-forecasters-114902603.html) > [@](#): > > The abrupt cutoff of satellite data crucial for hurricane forecasting is delayed by one month, until July 31, according to a [message posted](https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2025/2025-06-include.html) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday. > > The impending data loss from a Department of Defense weather satellite system was announced on June 25 and slated to take place “no later than” Monday, according to an earlier NOAA announcement. > > The Defense Department will still maintain the Defense Meteorological Satellite program, but announced last week it would cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA. How many hurricanes, on average, each year hit Mar-a-Lago? [The felon got called out for plagiarizing, and he freaked out.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-explodes-claim-copying-obama-092643818.html) > [@](#): > > A Democratic senator seems to have struck a nerve after he pointed out that the Trump administration’s attempts to negotiate a [lasting peace deal](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-floats-insane-offers-latest-033331770.html) with Iran look an awful lot like the Obama-era agreement that President Donald Trump abandoned during his first term in office. > > During a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware said the administration needed to [give Congress](https://www.yahoo.com/news/dems-call-bs-secret-briefing-152044764.html) a “full intelligence picture” of what happened during the June 21 [strikes on Iran’s nuclear program](https://www.yahoo.com/news/un-nuclear-watchdog-humiliates-trump-133241507.html) and needed to share a comprehensive strategy on Iran. > > “I’ll just note that President Trump by press accounts is now moving toward negotiation and offering Iran a deal that looks somewhat similar to the Iran deal that was offered by Obama: tens of billions of dollars of incentives and reduced sanctions in exchange for abandoning their nuclear program,” Coons said. > > Trump fired back in a late-night [Truth Social post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114770956840780267), “Tell phony Democrat Senator Chris Coons that I am not offering Iran ANYTHING, unlike Obama, who paid them $Billions under the stupid “road to a Nuclear Weapon JCPOA (which would now be expired!), nor am I even talking to them since we totally OBLITERATED their Nuclear Facilities.” [Taco Melt!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-melts-down-over-105047919.html) > [@](#): > > Trump took aim at Phillip on Friday following her crediting of a recent stock market surge to the president’s backing down on his proposed tariffs. > > The president unleashed a characteristically unfiltered tirade, just one of several he’s directed at personalities on the network in recent days. > > “Where does CNN get its ‘talent?’” Trump fumed. “Just watched someone named Abby Phillip lecture her audience on Tariffs and the economy (which is doing record business!). She has absolutely no idea what she is talking about, strictly 3rd rate. Fortunately, the audience has long ago left CNN, and it will only get WORSE. LOSERS ALL!!!” I had to snip the beginning and end of that because it’s so short. Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing. Quite funny! [But this next bit regarding the felon and the press AND CONGRESis not funny at all.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-force-journalists-reveal-143942860.html) > [@](#): > > [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) threatened in an interview Sunday to force journalists who published an initial U.S. intelligence assessment of his administration’s strikes on [Iran](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/iran) to reveal their sources as his effort to plaster a positive narrative over the aftermath continues. > > The U.S. president spoke on _Sunday Morning Futures_ with [Maria Bartiromo](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/maria-bartiromo), and insisted once again that U.S. airstrikes targeting three Iranian facilities last weekend completed the task of disabling the Iranian nuclear weapons development program. The strikes, Trump claimed, obliterated the Iranian government’s entire (or a majority) of its supply of enriched [uranium](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/uranium) — he denied claims from Iranian officials that it was moved out of the area before the Fordow site was hit. > > And the president vowed legal action against Democratic members of [Congress](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/congress) and journalists he blamed for publishing parts of a U.S. intelligence assessment of the effects of the three attacks. The administration spent the past week decrying it as one-sided, incomplete, and aimed at producing a narrative critical of the Trump White House. [“Mister Japan”?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/insane-trumps-baffling-comments-japan-051337949.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump) suggested new tariffs on Japan ― but then spaced on the name of the nation’s leader. > > Trump told [Fox News](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/fox-news) host [Maria Bartiromo](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/maria-bartiromo) he would be sending out letters as his [pause on tariffs](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-pauses-tariffs_n_67f3ecfbe4b0afc2a9d7c2a7) ends early next month and cited [Japan](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/japan) as an example. > > Rather than name Japanese Prime Minister [Shigeru Ishiba](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/shigeru-ishiba) ― who [he met in February](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/watch-trump-talks-trade-with-japans-prime-minister) at the White House ― Trump appeared to improvise as he described the letter. > > **“Dear Mr. Japan: Here’s the story,” Trump said. “You’re going to pay a 25% tariff on your cars.”** > > He said it’s “not fair” that the United States takes “millions and millions” of Japanese cars, while Japan takes comparatively few cars from U.S. automakers. > > “They won’t take our cars,” Trump said, and suggested that Japan could fix that deficit with other purchases from the United States such as oil. And he _still_ doesn’t realize it’s the US consumer who pays the tariffs on imported goods. I have no doubt His Excellency Shigeru Ishiba knows this fact. [The felon has made MS-13 stronger.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-deal-got-migrants-shipped-212827704.html) > [@](#): > > [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump)’s efforts to maximize the punishment imposed upon migrants who illegally cross the U.S. border or otherwise run up against immigration law are now directly undermining his administration’s efforts to weaken MS-13, according to a new report. > > The violent criminal gang has been a menace in parts of the United States and has also been central to GOP efforts to raise fears about migrant communities in general. > > The administration used MS-13 as an example most recently to justify the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite not proving any clear links between him and the gang. He was sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador before eventually being returned to the U.S. and Abrego Garcia is currently facing criminal prosecution here. > > Now, a [_New York Times_](http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2025%2F06%2F30%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Ftrump-bukele-ms-13-immigrants.html&sref=/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-el-salvador-cecot-ms13-b2779881.html&uuid=n3ZsOBxvbIYM1dLZ1753)report reveals that the U.S. policy of deporting migrants like Abrego Garcia to CECOT — a headline-grabbing policy that wowed right-wing supporters of Trump’s mass deportation efforts as the [White House](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/white-house) tried to project tough consequences for illegal immigration — is actually aiding the gang’s efforts to evade justice. > > The Times, citing interviews with 30 people with knowledge of the multi-agency efforts to prosecute MS-13 and also of U.S.-El Salvador relations, reported that the return of key MS-13 leaders to El Salvador by the Trump administration was hindering efforts to fight the gang. [And finally, a good bit of news from Murdoch.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/murdoch-paper-warns-trump-just-120622400.html) > [@](#): > > A newspaper owned by tycoon Rupert Murdoch has warned Donald Trump that publicly humiliating one of his own senators might end up crippling his presidency. > > Tempers flared over the weekend as the president tore into three GOP veterans—Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie, both of Kentucky, and Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina—for daring to speak out against White House spending proposals currently making their way through the Senate in the form of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ > > Amid threats from the president to back a primary challenger in 2026, Tillis announced Sunday he would not be seeking re-election, [taking to the floor that evening](https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senator-thom-tillis-savages-034117919.html) for a fiery speech in which he slammed the president as “misinformed” and advised solely by “amateurs.” > > This, according to the _Wall Street Journal_ ’s editorial board, [may prove to be the first nail in Trump’s coffin](https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-puts-the-senate-in-play-in-2026-83b84ecd?mod=hp_opin_pos_1). ---
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> [@Monty](#): > > Aside: I can’t think of a pithy title for the felon and the loon’s incredibly public divorce. I’ll happily take suggestions. No more days of whine and doses? From the poem “Vitae Summa Brevis” by [Ernest Dowson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Dowson): > They are not long, the days of wine and roses: ---
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> [@dasmoocher](#): > > No more days of whine and doses? That is _good_. ---
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> [@Monty](#): > > This, according to the _Wall Street Journal_ ’s editorial board, [may prove to be the first nail in Trump’s coffin](https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-puts-the-senate-in-play-in-2026-83b84ecd?mod=hp_opin_pos_1). “Kick the football, Charlie Brown!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=309) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=311)