# 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:** 324
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6522 "2025-07-15T01:23:09Z")
Tariff don’t like it, Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6523 "2025-07-15T02:37:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > after Democratic lawmakers toured the facility on Saturday. And now we know why the DOJ was so keen to arrest Democratic lawmakers fulfilling their oversight duties by trying to enter ICE detention facilities. ---
**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 15, 2025, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6524 "2025-07-15T05:14:58Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Take the quiz! Was it Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth who said the deranged thing about beer? > > [Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth? | The New Republic](https://newrepublic.com/article/194639/homer-simpson-pete-hegseth-who-said-it-quiz) > > (I got all but one.) I got 83%. Update time! I might as well start out with one that sounds like a joke: [_Where’s Danny?_](https://www.aol.com/news/bongino-still-limbo-trump-fumes-154746615.html) > [@](#): > > Several of President Donald Trump’s top officials went to work on Monday with a key question unanswered: would Dan Bongino show up? > > Hours later, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed he did. But his long-term future as deputy director of the FBI appeared uncertain. > > Bongino did not go into the office Friday and largely excommunicated himself from most of his colleagues after a major fallout with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. > > As of Monday morning, no one in leadership at the Justice Department had spoken to Bongino since Wednesday, when he implied that he could no longer continue in his position as long as Bondi was there, sources familiar with the matter said. > > The threat infuriated Trump, who spent the weekend fuming over both Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel, sources told CNN. Most of his fury was directed at Bongino, causing aides to expect that the deputy director would depart his job in the coming days. But Vice President JD Vance spent the weekend attempting to mediate, at times fielding calls from Patel, Bongino and Bondi, sources said. > > It remains to be seen if Bongino ultimately resigns, which he [told others he was considering](https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/bongino-consider-resigning-epstein-files?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo). But sources say his relationship with the White House has become basically untenable. Even if he does not quit now, some inside the administration believe he will not stay in the job long-term. And the felon, being the incredible, nay stable, genius manager he is, had this to say. > [@](#): > > Trump, asked Sunday whether Bongino was still the FBI’s deputy director, told reporters “I think so” and indicated they had spoken. > > “I think so. I spoke to him today,” the president said. “Dan Bongino is a very good guy. I’ve known him a long time. I’ve done his show many, many times. And he sounded terrific, actually, no, I think he’s in good shape.” We need a new prefix for this. Neither _misadministration_ nor _maladministration_ can lift the weight required to describe the Second Felonial Era. Oh, and how can I let this slide? Further in the linked article is this slogan just begging, pleading, insisting, and even demanding to be mocked. (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > In a statement Monday, White House spokesman Harrison Fields made mention of Bondi, Patel and Bongino as part of Trump’s “incredible team of Law and Order patriots who are committed to **Making America Safe Again** and restoring the integrity of our criminal justice system.” That would be _ **MASA** _. Say it out loud. If that doesn’t set off a light bulb over your noggin, try saying it out loud again but with _yes_ or _no_ (your choice) before it. _Irony, Will Robinson! Irony!_ (The **bolding** below is mine.) > [@](#): > > “Attorney General Bondi, Director Patel, Deputy Director Bongino, and the countless other heroes of our law enforcement community are dedicated to executing President Trump’s agenda of protecting civil rights, safeguarding communities, holding criminals accountable, and defending victims. This work will continue in lockstep and with unprecedented success,” the statement said. Your boss is a convicted criminal. He has not been held accountable. Shut the fuck up. [The Supreme Court just set back education in the United States by at least four decades.](https://www.aol.com/supreme-court-lets-trump-fire-192436314.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided [Supreme Court](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/supreme-court/)on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. > > The court’s three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) at the high court. > > \*\*Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority handed Trump the power to repeal laws passed by Congress “by firing all those necessary to carry them out.” > > “The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naïve,” Sotomayor wrote in her 19-page dissent, “but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is great.”\*\* And the Cone of Silence has been put to good use. > [@](#): > > The majority did not explain its decision in the brief, unsigned order. Someone needs to explain to them they have their jobs for life. They don’t need to do his bidding. [The felon is back on a renaming kick!](https://sports.yahoo.com/article/trump-quips-signing-executive-order-005428850.html) > [@](#): > > President Trump joked about requiring the US to call soccer “football” in line with the rest of the world during an[interview at the FIFA Club World Cup final Sunday](https://sports.yahoo.com/article/president-trump-first-lady-melania-191143069.html), where he touched on the state of America and his favorite sports stars. > > Trump attended the FIFA final Sunday evening at MetLife Stadium, where Chelsea FC trounced Paris Saint-Germain FC in what the president aptly described as “a bit of an upset.” > > Despite the let-down match, Trump lit up when a reporter suggested penning a new executive order officially renaming soccer “football” in the US. > > “I think we could do that,” he told [DAZN](https://www.dazn.com/en-US/home/ArticleId:1ql1o7ljys7j21i90sdd6i62re/1ql1o7ljys7j21i90sdd6i62re). [We are the champions! I mean, he is the champion and he has the trophy to prove it!](https://sports.yahoo.com/article/trump-kept-gold-club-world-143527223.html) > [@](#): > > President Trump has revealed that the champions of the Club World Cup won’t be getting the original trophy, because he’s keeping it. > > English club Chelsea easily dispatched France’s Paris Saint-Germain in the final of the tournament in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Sunday, with [Trump joining the players for the trophy lift](https://sports.yahoo.com/article/trump-weird-move-club-world-102522813.html)—much to their confusion. > > It has since been revealed that the intricate prize hoisted aloft by the London club’s captain, Reece James, was a replica because the president of football’s governing body, FIFA, has let Trump use the original as an ornament in the Oval Office. The trophy, crafted in collaboration with Tiffany & Co, features a central disc with three rotating outer rings. It has a 24-carat gold-plated finish and is thought to have cost around $230,000 to make. If FIFA lets Trump keep the orbital award for good, it is likely to end up in the National Archives. Why the fuck are they pandering to this felon? [What do you know! The felon is the champion. Hahahahaha!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-truth-social-plea-epstein-140937511.html) (The **bolding** is mine; the hilarity is courtesy of the Universe and Karma.) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump has set a new milestone he might not want to brag about after **getting “ratioed” on his own social media platform** in spectacular fashion. > > Getting “ratioed” means a social media post has racked up far more comments than likes or reshares, signaling that people are piling on in anger, criticism, or mockery. > > Trump managed this unwanted feat on Saturday, as tens of thousands of users flooded the replies under his [defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi,](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-shows-supporting-amid-maga-033826431.html) who’s under fire from MAGA figures over the handling of the so-called Epstein files. Significantly, on his own social media site, the majority of Truth Social users are usually supporters of the president. [The Woo Master has some great financial advice for thos losing Medicaid.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/dr-oz-gives-weird-health-225831121.html) > [@](#): > > Former TV doctor [Mehmet Oz](https://www.huffpost.com/life/topic/dr-oz) offered some jaw-droppingly out-of-touch advice to folks at risk of losing their [Medicaid](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/medicaid) on Monday. > > During an interview on Fox Business, Oz, who now serves as [administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/social-media-dr-oz-nomination_n_673d21d2e4b0c3322e8f9386), tried to put a positive spin on recent cuts [that will slash the federal Medicaid program](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-cut-medicaid-damage-control_n_686d96a0e4b041f69cfd6636) by $1 trillion and kick millions of people off their health care. > > Oz began by saying that programs like Medicare and Medicaid “were a promise to the American people to take care of you if you’re having problems financially or you’re having an issue because you’re older and need health care.” > > But he also told Fox host Stuart Varney that Americans should also do the most they can to stay healthy. > > “We’ll be there for you, the American people, when you need help with Medicare and Medicaid, but you’ve got to stay healthy as well,” Oz said. “Be vital. Do the most that you can do to really live up to the potential, the God-given potential, to live a full and healthy life.” > > It was his next piece of advice, however, that inspired waves of social media snark. > > “You know, don’t eat carrot cake. Eat real food,” he said. See? It’s your own damn fault you need medical care. Yours and that damn siren of a confection with its cream cheese frosting. I wonder who he’s going to blame for all those hamberders his scarfing down on a regular basis. [Just in case you thought it was peevish to call them Faux News, check out this blather.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/uhhhhhh-heres-donald-trump-said-192010151.html) (Whoever wrote that URL needs to be promoted and given a month’s vacation all expenses paid.) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump was interviewed by his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on Fox News over the weekend. Translation: Trainwreck ahead! > [@](#): > > In one part of the interview, Lara asks, “How would you like to be remembered?” Hell, I’d’ve asked if he’d like to be able to remember the names of his wives and the children that are purportedly his. > [@](#): > > “A good person, but a person that saved our country,” he says. I think I see now why he hates education so much. He never learned how to use that conjunction correctly. He must blame all teachers for that. > [@](#): > > “I really believe that our country was going down for the fall, I don’t know if it ever could have come back. It was very close to the edge. I really would like to be known as the man that saved our country.” This kind of fiction is going to sour me on alternative reality stories for life. The rest of the article has some great xitters lambasting the felon. One simply has, “0 for 2”. [George Conway should be an umpire. He called this one right.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-conway-spots-more-evidence-100648745.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump’s message to the victims of [the deadly flash floods](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-trump-texas-flood-fema_n_6871a599e4b07a168b479923) in Texas drew sharp criticism from conservative attorney and longtime critic George Conway, particularly over one suggestion from the president. > > In a Fox News interview that aired this weekend, Trump was asked by his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, a host on the network, what he’d say to those who’d been affected by the devastating floods. > > “There can be nothing worse, losing a child, to start off with — and the way this happened,” Trump began, before pivoting to talk of the warning system, which is [now coming under increasing scrutiny](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-trump-texas-flood-fema_n_6871a599e4b07a168b479923), saying: “There was very early warning. They warned a day before, they warned even two days before, they warned four hours before.” > > Then came the eyebrow-raising comment: > > “Maybe they should have had bells, something, go off,” Trump said. “But it’s pretty dangerous territory when you think of all the times that they’ve had this problem.” > > Conway responded on X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly called Twitter: “More evidence we have a ding-a-ling president.” Did the felon have Oz write that answer for him? [Cruella de Vile must be taking oratory lessons from the felon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/kristi-noem-stunning-defense-disastrous-143321391.html) (The **bolding** is mine. And I hope it’s not too much of the article to quote.) > [@](#): > > Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Sunday that reports that she’d kneecapped FEMA’s response to the deadly flooding in Texas were “fake news.” > > During an [appearance](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1944401123466736007) on NBC News’s _Meet the Press_, host Kristen Welker asked Noem to respond to a [_New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html) report that found thousands of calls for assistance from flood victims to FEMA call centers went unanswered because the secretary had failed to renew contracts to keep call center employees in place until nearly a week later. > > “Why did it take so long to extend those contracts?” Welker asked. > > “It’s just false. Those contracts were in place. Nobody—no employees were off of work. Every one of them were answering calls. So false reporting, fake news,” Noem [said](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1944401123466736007). > > “And it’s discouraging. It’s discouraging that during this time, when we have such a loss of life, and so many people’s lives have turned upside down, that people are playing politics with this, because the response time was immediate. And if you talk to anyone in Texas who was there, that was part of this operation, they would say the federal government and President Trump immediately responded,” she continued. > > “Just to be very clear, on July 7, 15.9 percent of calls were answered,” Welker pressed. “I mean, does that concern you that only 15 percent of calls were answered? These are people in a desperate state, FEMA often the first call that they make. Only 15 percent were answered on July 7, several days after the floods?” > > But Noem wouldn’t hear it. > > “That report needs to be **valid-ified** ,” she said. “I’m not certain it’s accurate, and I’m not sure where it came from. And the individuals who are giving you information out of FEMA, I’d love to have them put their names behind it. Because, the anonymous attacks to **polit-ili-cize** the situation is completely wrong.” Evidently her English teacher never taught her subject-verb agreement. Or vocabulary. Ah, a godly man, a man with the patience of a saint, a man with…What’s that? Oh, right. I was reading from the wrong script. [The Felon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-curses-white-house-faith-193707934.html) > [@](#): > > Things got a bit awkward during the White House Faith Office luncheon on Monday. > > Not only did President Donald Trump curse in front of faith leaders—calling Biden-era indictments against him “bulls–t”—he raged that he he had been investigated more than the gangster Al Capone, bragged he has “always made money,” and incorrectly claimed gas prices are the lowest they have been in 50 years. > > Those topics did not appear to be part of Trump’s prepared remarks. As he addressed assembled religious business leaders from the podium, he looked down occasionally at his speech but went off on tangents as he worked his way through the text. > > “I’ve ended the radical left war on faith, and we’re once again protecting religious freedom instead of destroying it, and God is once again welcomed back into our public square,” Trump said, clearly part of his prepared remarks. > > Trump, 79, compared himself to Capone moments later. He characterized the notorious gangster, believed to [have murdered](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=37240) over 200 people, as “great.” > > “I was under investigation more than the late, great, Alphonse Capone,” Trump said. “Think of it. Al Capone would kill people for dinner. If he left the room and he didn’t like him, he’d have him shot, killed, buried under a building someplace, as part of the foundation of a building. They’re all over the place, and I said I had more time under investigation than the legendary Alphonse Capone, or probably anybody else.” > > Trump then misremembered that he had been indicted four times in 2023, not five. > > “The one thing I did that was very helpful, I was indicted five times. Indicted, that wasn’t a word that was in—my father’s looking down, my mother’s looking down, that my son’s not supposed to be indicted,” he said. “I think I got indicted five times, impeached two times. All bulls–t, right? Terrible stuff.” This next part makes me want to know who these so-called faith leaders are. > [@](#): > > The luncheon crowd, comprising 60 CEOs and business leaders who donate to faith-aligned charities, did not appear to mind the president’s meandering, as they clapped and cheered throughout his speech as he rambled. I want to ensure I have absolutely nothing to do with them. [Ethics? You want ethics? We don’t need no stinking ethics!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/attorney-general-pam-bondi-fires-205142875.html) > [@](#): > > Attorney General [Pam Bondi](https://abcnews.go.com/US/ag-bondi-faces-heat-white-house-trump-allies/story?id=119435303) has fired one of the top career officials tasked with advising her and other senior Justice Department officials of their ethical obligations, an official familiar with the dismissal confirmed to ABC News Monday. > > Joseph Tirrell on Monday took to LinkedIn to post news of his termination, including a photo of his termination notice which provided no reasoning for his firing. > > “Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics,” Tirrell said in the post. “I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department.” > > The removal letter from Bondi mirrors that of letters sent to multiple other DOJ employees fired in recent weeks, including at least [20 officials](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-general-bondi-fired-20-officials-ties-jack/story?id=123707683) who supported former special counsel Jack Smith’s team in his prosecutions of President Donald Trump. & > [@](#): > > Tirrell’s dismissal also comes amid several other removals of officials who worked on Smith’s team, as well as at least two more career prosecutors who worked on the investigation into the [Jan. 6 attack](https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-special-counsels-probe-trumps-efforts-overturn-2020/story?id=101537003) on the U.S. Capitol. Ah, the Second Felonial Era drags on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on… ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6525 "2025-07-15T05:30:39Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > _misadministration_ nor _maladministration_ Hagiocracy? ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6526 "2025-07-15T05:32:06Z")
Kakistocracy is not a new word but seems as though it was purpose built for Trump and his team. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6527 "2025-07-15T09:22:59Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Not just any old tariffs, but **VERY SEVERE** tariffs. Having a trade deficit with the US? That’s a tariff. Being an island populated entirely by penguins? That’s a tariff. Not blatantly sucking up to Trump? You’d better _believe_ that’s a tariff. [![](https://content.imageresizer.com/images/memes/Thats-a-paddlin-meme-34uws.jpg) ](https://content.imageresizer.com/images/memes/Thats-a-paddlin-meme-34uws.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6528 "2025-07-15T10:48:43Z")
And when the Clusterfuck finally comes to an end, the Orange Asshole will pardon every single federal employee who served during his administration. Nobody will ever be held accountable for their crimes and there isn’t a goddamn thing anyone can do about it. Zilch, zero, nada. ---
**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 15, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6529 "2025-07-15T11:19:03Z")
Which is exactly why at least one person is praying the felon departs this mortal coil before then. I’m still peeved at the New York judge for not holding the sentencing after the election. As I mentioned in my post above, the felon is a criminal and he’s not being held to account. The state government whiffed that one. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2025, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6530 "2025-07-15T11:22:16Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > And when the Clusterfuck finally comes to an end, the Orange Asshole will pardon every single federal employee who served during his administration. Or not. It’s not like he _cares_ what happens to them, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6531 "2025-07-15T11:22:34Z")
In an article about the Club World Cup, just played in the USA, a sentence right at the end gets my attention: > **[Trump’s presence at Chelsea’s trophy lift was a fitting coda to a misguided...](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jul/14/the-club-world-cup-final-was-the-latest-example-of-politics-hijacking-football)** > > The football was at times intriguing, but the true meaning of the first expanded Club World Cup will be debated for years In general the whole article sounds good to me, but this is remarcable: > Fifa has just opened offices in Trump Tower: Infantino’s alliance with the president is both committed and alarming. Wonder how hight the rent is and for how long the lease has been signed. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6532 "2025-07-15T12:27:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Which is exactly why at least one person is praying the felon departs this mortal coil before then. At least two, but then Vance does it. > [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Or not. It’s not like he _cares_ what happens to them, after all. Of course he doesn’t care, but it makes him virtually untouchable even if by some miracle the Supreme Court had the temerity to rule against self-pardons. Not to mention that to a criminal scumbag like Trump, pardoning everyone means ‘winning’ the war against the libs. ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6533 "2025-07-15T14:33:26Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > That would be _ **MASA** _. Say it out loud. If that doesn’t set off a light bulb over your noggin, try saying it out loud again but with _yes_ or _no_ (your choice) before it. Unfortunately, being in a Spanish-adjacent state I first saw that as the stuff tortillas are made from. We need a second S, Make America’s Stupid Safe Again – MASSA. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6534 "2025-07-15T17:11:21Z")
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D) blames loss of 88-year-old Grand Canyon Lodge on iDJiT Administration’s controlled burn. Department of Interior responds, essentially, “Nuh-uh!” > **[Grand Canyon Lodge destroyed amid raging Arizona wildfires](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33527p2nzeo)** > > Tens of thousands of acres of land have been burned by two separate wildfires in the US state of Arizona. > “While the flame was started with a lightning strike, the federal government chose to manage that fire as a controlled burn during the driest, hottest part of the Arizona summer,” Hobbs wrote in a social media post on Sunday. > In a statement to media, Elizabeth Peace, a spokesperson for the US Interior Department, said the allegation that the fire was mismanaged “is not at all accurate and our wildland fire experts certainly know the difference”. > > She added that the department takes the threat of wildfires “with the utmost seriousness”. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6535 "2025-07-15T18:07:44Z")
Headline from _The Atlantic_: “The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food” > **[The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/)** > > Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste. If this isn’t evil, then I don’t know what is. This 500 tons of emergency food aid is last-ditch food intended to keep people alive after a disaster. And it’s just the tip of the coming iceberg. There is another 60,000 metric tons of food aid currently collecting dust in warehouses that will also be destroyed in due course if it is not distributed before it expires or goes bad. This includes hundreds of thousands of boxes of emergency food pastes, already paid for and purchased by U.S. taxpayers, which are currently collecting dust in U.S. warehouses. Emergency food pastes are intended for starving children. It is going to waste because all of the contracts for food distribution have been cancelled, and the federal workers who oversaw this have all been fired. Fuck Trump and everyone associated with this clusterfuck of an administration, fuck everyone who voted for this, and fuck Marco Rubio too. He has lived up to Trump’s derisive nickname for him. I have never been so disgusted and disappointed with my country. It makes me ashamed to be an American. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6536 "2025-07-15T19:12:14Z")
> [@robby](#): > > This includes hundreds of thousands of boxes of emergency food pastes, already paid for and purchased by U.S. taxpayers, which are currently collecting dust in U.S. warehouses. You’d think that _someone_ in “Mr. Businessman’s” administration would have at least figured out how to sell this stuff to someone. Even if it was illegal; that never stops them anywhere else. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6537 "2025-07-15T19:24:56Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > You’d think that _someone_ in “Mr. Businessman’s” administration would have at least figured out how to sell this stuff to someone. Even if it was illegal; that never stops them anywhere else. But there’s the risk that somebody, somewhere might actually be _helped;_ and we can’t have _that_ now, can we? ---
**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:** [July 15, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6538 "2025-07-15T19:30:12Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > But there’s the risk that somebody, somewhere might actually be _helped;_ Nah, spend five cents re-branding it as Trump Luxury Survival Food Puree, and sell it as surplus to the MAGA faithful “To help you survive the onslaught of rape and murder by Democrat Migrants From Mexico!” It’ll still go to waste, but you’ll make a few bucks, so win-win! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6539 "2025-07-16T01:16:48Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > You’d think that _someone_ in “Mr. Businessman’s” administration would have at least figured out how to sell this stuff to someone. Even if it was illegal; that never stops them anywhere else. Can’t they just claim the foodstuffs were incinerated and then sell them on the side for pure profit? I seem to remember something similar as a plot to a movie or TV show. Dirty law enforcement officers were reselling drugs confiscated as evidence that were supposed to have been destroyed. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6540 "2025-07-16T02:07:05Z")
> [@robby](#): > > If this isn’t evil, then I don’t know what is. How bout this (much in the same vein) > **[Trump admin set to destroy vital HIV meds and contraceptives worth $12...](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/trump-admin-set-to-destroy-vital-hiv-meds-and-contraceptives-worth-12-million-following-closure-of-usaid/articleshow/121786727.cms?from=mdr)** > > The Trump government may destroy $12 million worth of HIV and birth control medicines bought to help poor countries. These medicines are stuck in warehouses and might never reach people who need them. Experts say this could hurt efforts to fight AIDS... ---
**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 16, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6541 "2025-07-16T02:36:25Z")
> [@robby](#): > > I have never been so disgusted and disappointed with my country. It makes me ashamed to be an American. Preach it. I would totally understand it if the rest of the world, including Canada and Mexico, treats the US as a pariah nation. Electing Trump once might have been an aberration. The second time seriously demonstrates the rot is down to the core. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=323) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=325)