# 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:** 327
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6582 "2025-07-16T19:28:29Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > But is it illegal to publish this information? I mean, the House just voted on a resolution to do just You’re talking about the context of the last 10 years, not now, remember? That the House had to pass a resolution to make it clear they were allowing it is a bit telling. No, it’s not generally legal. But in this case, the ones not releasing it are the ones who were saying not long ago that they’d release everything, so the Dems are getting names on record. Basically still political gamesmanship. ---
**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 16, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6583 "2025-07-16T20:08:21Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > He’s gonna fire Fed Chair Powell. Oops, no he’s not! > President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was “highly unlikely” to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a public statement made less than 24 hours after suggesting in a private meeting that he was leaning in favor of dismissing the head of the nation’s central bank. > **[Trump says he's 'highly unlikely' to fire Fed's Powell after floating that...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-powell-federal-reserve-firing-interest-rates-b235d01f01f9762bc66a577d16ddeff2?user_email=c670f76b9ea3e4a287eac163aa636c2982b094e37632506fec6dbc1d27c6da2a&utm_medium=Afternoon_Wire&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=AfternoonWire_July16_2025&utm_term=Afternoon%20Wire)** > > President Donald Trump says he's “highly unlikely” to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. His public statement Wednesday came less than 24 hours after suggesting in a private meeting that he was leaning in favor of dismissing Powell. ---
**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 16, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6584 "2025-07-16T20:20:13Z")
Trump Always Chickens Out and then Chickens Out of the Chinening Out and Chickens Out of that Chickening Out too… [TACOCOCOCOCO](https://www.knowyourchickens.com/rooster-crowing-sound/)! 🐓 ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6585 "2025-07-16T20:28:30Z")
TACO⁵ extra test to make discord happy ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6586 "2025-07-16T21:59:56Z")
> [@solost](#): > > trump is going to have a really tough time getting reelected to a third term if he keeps alienating his supporters like this… Here’s the post. It’s hilarious. The highlighting was not done by me but my favorite part _is_ the “what we will forever call the _Jeffrey Epstein hoax_”. _That’s_ the most creative thing he could come up with to call it? He’s losing his touch. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/qx1uPxm.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/qx1uPxm) ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6587 "2025-07-16T22:05:05Z")
Damn Donnie! We all know that when you call anything a hoax that means it’s true and you did something wrong. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6588 "2025-07-16T22:07:50Z")
Another “thank you for your attention to this matter”. What a fucking idiot, supported by even more idiotic idiots. AKA: America in 2025. The United States should just adopt a new motto: It’s what the people wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6589 "2025-07-16T22:27:52Z")
Fat Brother is angry that his minions are trying to think on their own. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6590 "2025-07-16T22:29:33Z")
So… He just said His past supporters are buying into BS. So are your current supporters. Keep insulting your supporters Donnie, it may be the only way out of the mess you created. Oh, I do hope the next picture you is showing off how good an orange jumpsuit looks on you. New bracelets too! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6591 "2025-07-16T23:00:37Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Keep insulting your supporters Donnie, it may be the only way out of the mess you created. In a weird way, I almost imagine him saying, “Look how far I can go and these clowns will STILL support me!” And Congress and the Supremes will cheer him on. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6592 "2025-07-16T23:16:06Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Keep insulting your supporters Donnie, it may be the only way out of the mess you created. > [@Dinsdale](#): > > In a weird way, I almost imagine him saying, “Look how far I can go and these clowns will STILL support me!” And Congress and the Supremes will cheer him on. As I’ve mentioned before, I occasionally look in on a predominantly right-wing board. While some right-wingers are still supporting Trump, others are expressing disappointment and feeling betrayal. While stopping short of stating that they made a mistake by supporting Trump, many have indicated that they might rethink their decision to do so, had they known then what they know now.. Here’s one example. It was posted as an open letter to Trump. It is rather long, but I think this is the choicest bit: > [@](#): > > The F is wrong with you, Trump? Who threatened you? Who paid you off? Who did a backdoor deal for you? Because THIS? Is not you. Something happened, and you need to reveal it to everyone. > > Or…I don’t actually believe this, but…OR…you are guilty. > > You better step up and start spilling the beans, because you’re going to lose supporters, which means that everything you are doing now is going to be erased in 4 years. The next Republican candidate won’t have a chance in hell of winning if you, Trump, can’t reveal the truth. > > This isn’t ‘because the Dems’ or ‘because the Fake News’, this is because of you going back on a promise that you gave your supporters. > > There are videos, Trump. Get an editor to blur out everything except the face of the pervert who took advantage of underage girls. You said you wanted to drain the swamp…so how about you drain it instead of becoming part of it! > > Sincerely, > > Teetering on the fence right now. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6593 "2025-07-16T23:23:02Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > While some right-wingers are still supporting Trump, others are expressing disappointment and feeling betrayal. While stopping short of stating that they made a mistake by supporting Trump, many have indicated that they might rethink their decision to do so, had they known then what they know now.. **IF** many of them decide to ditch trump, whose tent will welcome them? And where will they want to go? They won’t turn to the Dems and liberals. In spite of no Epstein docs, they likely still believe that Democrats and other liberals feast at night on the bodies of trafficked children, so _where will they go?_ There is no one in the Republican party who has a grip on their souls the way trump does. Will Elmo succeed in creating a third party? Will they just withdraw from the fight and sulk? They will be ripe for _someone_ to claim, but I don’t see any candidates on the horizon with the evil gravitas of trump. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6594 "2025-07-16T23:30:50Z")
> [@](#): > > The F is wrong with you, Trump? Who threatened you? Who paid you off? Who did a backdoor deal for you? Because THIS? Is not you. Something happened, and you need to reveal it to everyone. > > Or…I don’t actually believe this, but…OR…you are guilty. Still can’t stop thinking that everything is part of some Grand Conspiracy even when then know the other answer is orders of magnitude more likely. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6595 "2025-07-16T23:31:07Z")
If only some other conspiracy-theory prone, right-wing loon would form a political party for America… ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6596 "2025-07-16T23:32:21Z")
> [@Donnie](#): > > Also, unlike Republicans, they [Democrats]stick together like glue Uh…what? One party absolutely exhibits hive- mind lock-step no dissent allowed. The other party is like a herd of cats. But Donnie got them backwards. He must have never heard Will Rogers famous quote: “ I don’t belong to an organized party. I’m a Democrat.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6597 "2025-07-16T23:36:02Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > In a weird way, I almost imagine him saying, “Look how far I can go and these clowns will STILL support me!” To prove it, he will shoot a MAGA voter on Fifth Avenue. ---
**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 16, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6598 "2025-07-16T23:54:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Will they just withdraw from the fight and sulk? We can only hope. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6599 "2025-07-17T00:25:27Z")
On Truth Social, Trump said he’s been in talks with Coca-Cola, and they have agreed to put cane sugar back in U.S. Coke. > **[Trump says Coca-Cola will swap corn syrup for cane sugar in US - 'It's just...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxe59zl8qzo)** > > Coca-Cola said they "appreciate President Trump's enthusiasm", without confirming they plan to make the tweak. Why is this in the clusterfuck thread? Because it would cost thousands of American corn farmers their jobs. ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6600 "2025-07-17T00:29:40Z")
Maybe what Trump didn’t know was that Don jr. and Eric hung out on Epstein island. What do we know of their relationship with the deceased? I have no idea. The whole thing is weird as hell. What I do believe is that there was copious evidence on hard drives and other media that’s long, long gone. The Epstein mess was cleaned up and sanitized years ago and none of the scumbag pedo rapists will ever be held to account. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6601 "2025-07-17T00:32:31Z")
Trumps says he was surprised Powell was appointed fed chairman. Trump appointed him. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lu3ru5olpy2v)** > > Trump on Powell: “I was surprised he was appointed” (Trump appointed him) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=326) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=328)