# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/661 "2024-12-22T15:47:25Z")
If DeSantis appoints himself, who fills his spot? Presumably the Lt Gov in the short term but is there a special election following? Perhaps Lara can run in that. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/662 "2024-12-22T16:05:55Z")
As with the national VP and other Lieutenant Governors elected on a joint ticket, the succession is for the rest of the term. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/663 "2024-12-22T19:57:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The chances of DeSantis appointing himself to the Senate have now gone up dramatically. I haven’t been following this too much, but is this something that is being seriously suggested by those in his orbit? And if so cite? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/664 "2024-12-22T20:07:30Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I haven’t been following this too much, but is this something that is being seriously suggested by those in his orbit? At the moment it’s just me speculating - but he’s term-limited out of running for governor again, and he wants desperately to be president, so it seems like the logical move for him to make. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2024, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/665 "2024-12-23T07:11:22Z")
And in yet another end slither to avoid the constitution and grow his ministry of state security, [the dumpster fire gets more kindling.](https://www.aol.com/news/trump-says-katie-miller-wife-011127194.html) (The link goes to AOL.) > President-elect Trump said Sunday that Katie Miller, who served in Trump’s previous administration, will join the inaugural “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), a new advisory board headed by Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk that aims to slash excessive government spending and regulations. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/666 "2024-12-24T16:00:23Z")
Recently, the Trumpeter Pawn accused Panama of financial wrongdoing. Of course, he knows all about financial skullduggery in Panama. > **[A Quick Reminder on the Trump Organization’s Tax Evasion in Panama](https://www.yahoo.com/news/quick-reminder-trump-organization-tax-211811542.html)** > > Donald Trump’s new threat against Panama should come with a reminder about how his family organization operated in the 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:** [December 28, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/667 "2024-12-28T04:19:35Z")
[Hahahahahahahaha!](https://www.aol.com/news/musk-ramaswamy-defend-foreign-worker-124718448.html) (The link goes to AOL.) > Social media posts by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy arguing in favor of expanding the visa program for highly skilled workers have set off a debate among supporters of [President-elect Donald Trump](https://www.cnn.com/politics/president-donald-trump-47?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) over how the program should fit into the incoming administration’s aggressive immigration agenda. > > Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tapped to lead his Department of Government Efficiency, defended companies who use workers on H-1B visas, arguing tech companies — including those owned by Musk — depend on foreign workers to operate. But their message rankled some of Trump’s most loyal defenders who expect his administration to crack down on immigration and promote American labor. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/668 "2024-12-29T23:02:08Z")
No chance in hell that Trump actually wrote this. > **[Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113738366140404718)** > > I just heard of the news about the passing of President Jimmy Carter. Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the... ---
**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:** [December 29, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/669 "2024-12-29T23:26:30Z")
And yet, referencing _himself_ in that comment about Carter is extremely Trumpian. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/670 "2024-12-30T00:59:09Z")
Probably a requirement for any statement put out by any of his minions. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/671 "2024-12-30T01:11:05Z")
Trump says that raising the debt ceiling in 2022 was bad, but raising it now (which already happened) is good, but Democrats need to raise it in the current session (which is already over) so that they get the blame for how bad raising it is going to be. > **['Nothing was gained': Trump takes aim at one of Republicans' 'dumbest...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mccarthy-dumbest-political-decision/)** > > Donald Trump on Sunday attacked someone he said he considers a "friend," calling out former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for what the president-elect says is "one of the dumbest political decisions made in years." > > McCarthy was booted from his... ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/672 "2024-12-30T03:15:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And yet, referencing _himself_ in that comment about Carter is extremely Trumpian. I was just looking at the thread for President Carter and read his comments. I immediately started typing a post about the narcissistic a-hole but didn’t want to sully (and hijack) the discussion. So typical. I hope he doesn’t play any part in whatever event is put together. Maybe he and the muskrat fucker can have a play date that day. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/673 "2024-12-30T05:27:07Z")
[East Alaska?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-trump-adviser-denmark-t-201820308.html) (The link goes to Yahoo.) > Alternatively, O’Brien said, if Denmark does not want to pay the U.S. for Greenland’s defense, the U.S. can take the territory off its hands. > > “They can let us buy Greenland from [Denmark], and Greenland can become part of Alaska. I mean, the native people in Greenland are very closely related to the people of Alaska, and we will make it a part of Alaska,” O’Brien said. And here’s the line in the ice the next US ambassador to Denmark must hold: > In a Truth Social post announcing his pick for ambassador to Denmark last week, Trump declared that U.S. ownership of the island territory “is an absolute necessity.” The prime minister of Greenland has already voiced his opinion on this issue. No word from the king. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/674 "2024-12-30T05:31:28Z")
> Trump declared that U.S. ownership of the island territory “is an absolute necessity.” Somehow I missed why this is so . . . and I’m terrified that I might learn the answer… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/675 "2024-12-30T05:55:43Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Somehow I missed why this is so . . . He probably thinks the color green is imported from there. Like, if trade relations broke down we would no longer have green stuff. All our grass would turn brown and our currency would change colors and be indistinguishable from fake money. Somehow nobody else has figured this out in hundreds of years and it’s up to him to save us by seizing the tropical paradise of Greenland before the worst happens. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/676 "2024-12-30T06:00:27Z")
In the article I linked, the trumpite had this interesting idea: > “It’s strategically very important to the Arctic, which is going to be the critical battleground of the future because, as the climate gets warmer, the Arctic is going to be a pathway that maybe even cuts down on the usage of the Panama Canal,” O’Brien said. So apparently it’ll be a gatekeeper for the Northwest Passage, forgetting that waterway is Canadian. Oh! I forgot his idol wants to make Canada part of the United States. But, hey, at least one pubbie is accpting climate change as a fact. Seriously, we need a clusterfuck emoji. What we don’t need is the incoming administration in the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/677 "2024-12-30T06:00:38Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “They can let us buy Greenland from [Denmark], and Greenland can become part of Alaska. I mean, the native people in Greenland are very closely related to the people of Alaska, and we will make it a part of Alaska,” O’Brien said. Wow. That’s the dumbest thing anyone not named Trump has said all year. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/678 "2024-12-30T06:34:24Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > Trump declared that U.S. ownership of the island territory “is an absolute necessity.” > > Somehow I missed why this is so . . . and I’m terrified that I might learn the answer… And reinstatement of the X-Files must be undeniable! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/679 "2024-12-30T07:39:03Z")
> [@Tierce](#): > > X-Files [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbUH10sWwAAROgR?format=jpg&name=large) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbUH10sWwAAROgR?format=jpg&name=large) ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/680 "2024-12-30T07:52:02Z")
Given certain reports of both Trump’s and Elon’s questionable hygiene, shouldn’t that be _X Flies_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=35)