# 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:** 35
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/681 "2024-12-30T11:13:04Z")
Just to add one more turd to this shitshow, it sounds like Trump will probably insist on his awful “looks like just another commercial airliner” paint scheme for the new VC-25Bs that are supposed to be delivered during his term: > **[Will President-Elect Donald Trump Change The Air Force One Livery Again?](https://simpleflying.com/will-president-elect-donald-trump-change-air-force-one-livery-again/)** > > Proposed, scrapped and re-proposed? With Donald Trump's election for a second term last night, what is to come for the future Air Force One 747-8s? > Earlier this year, he indicated that he wanted to revise the paint scheme of the upcoming pair of 747-8s back to a plan he proposed during his first term, featuring darker red and black colors. Initially scrapped by predecessor Joe Biden (2020-2024), it seems entirely plausible that Trump will once again attempt to make changes to the jets, no matter the cost. Pray for schedule delays that result in delivery after his term ends, thus allowing for that paint scheme to be abandoned. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/682 "2024-12-30T17:57:55Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > He probably thinks the color green is imported from there. > > Like, if trade relations broke down we would no longer have green stuff. Well, I don’t like that one bit. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/683 "2024-12-30T18:33:53Z")
I think his desire to aquire Greenland is more basic. He wants to go down in history for expanding the US more then any other president. I think he gets this mis-preception from looking at mercator projection maps. He’s dumb, but not dumb enough to fall for Erik the Red’s propaganda. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/684 "2024-12-30T19:02:37Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > So apparently it’ll be a gatekeeper for the Northwest Passage, forgetting that waterway is Canadian. There’s been a long-standing disagreement about that, though. > **[The U.S. - Canada Northwest Passage Dispute - Brown Political Review](https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2020/04/the-u-s-canada-northwest-passage-dispute/)** > > Canada and the United States enjoy a peaceful coexistence – as allies and trading partners, they tend to cooperate on most important issues. However, one sticking point in their otherwise cordial relationship is a dispute over Canadian territorial... ---
**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, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/685 "2024-12-30T19:24:32Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Well, I don’t like that one bit. No, you’d just be Mr.Jeans! It’s a good thing Trump is fighting for you! ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/686 "2024-12-30T19:33:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@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. This administration is dumber than spell check. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/687 "2025-01-01T18:56:31Z")
Metaphor for the rest of the year? > **[Cybertruck bursts into flames outside Trump hotel](https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/1/cybertruck-bursts-into-flames-outside-trump-hotel)** > > A Tesla Cybertruck was filmed on fire at the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/688 "2025-01-01T19:04:12Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Metaphor for the rest of the year? - > > [Cybertruck bursts into flames outside Trump hotel | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera](https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/1/cybertruck-bursts-into-flames-outside-trump-hotel) The Cybertruck _does_ look like a futuristic dumpster. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/689 "2025-01-10T01:25:09Z")
Trump wants to reinstate Title 42 when he takes office, but there’s no raging pandemic anymore so he’s ordered his goon squad to supply him with one. > **[Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/politics/trump-title-42-migrants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=off&pvid=ACCB5E37-839C-46AB-8ADA-C75167B3B493)** > > President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/690 "2025-01-10T01:31:19Z")
Donny? You could blame the ~~Chyna~~ Chicken Flu on the Haitians and their Vodou . ---
**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:** [January 10, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/691 "2025-01-10T03:19:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump wants to reinstate Title 42 when he takes office, but there’s no raging pandemic anymore so he’s ordered his goon squad to supply him with one. That worked for him when he demanded votes be found, didn’t it? Yet again: We are well and truly screwed. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/692 "2025-01-10T03:42:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump wants to reinstate Title 42 when he takes office, but there’s no raging pandemic anymore So _that’s_ why he wants RFKjr in charge of HHS. Good plan. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/693 "2025-01-10T04:45:22Z")
I think you may be onto something here Doc. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/694 "2025-01-10T14:38:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump wants to reinstate Title 42 when he takes office, but there’s no raging pandemic anymore so he’s ordered his goon squad to supply him with one. Paywalled. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/695 "2025-01-10T14:41:32Z")
Gift Link: > **[Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/politics/trump-title-42-migrants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oE4.r36f.0o_XlgHRxTHV&smid=url-share)** > > President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/696 "2025-01-10T14:47:56Z")
Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/697 "2025-01-10T15:49:44Z")
As a matter of fact, there is a respiratory virus outbreak [brewing in China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMPV_outbreak_in_East_Asia_(2024%E2%80%93present)). I’ve already seen some of the usual folks in my social media feed claiming it’s all a hoax, and just an excuse to bring back lockdowns and mask mandates, and so forth. Somehow, I just know that they would change their tune if Trump declared it to be some kind of dire threat. I doubt they’d be on board with another lockdown, but shutting down the borders? Sure thing. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/698 "2025-01-14T14:55:42Z")
The purge begins. > **[Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-nsc-loyalty-waltz-21913da0464f472cb9fef314fed488e5)** > > At least some of these nonpolitical employees have begun packing up their belongings since being asked about their loyalty to President-elect Trump, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. > … > Trump’s pick for national security adviser, [Florida Rep. Mike Waltz](https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-security-adviser-mike-wlatz-0c81d044c9ffe18dfd745202e8351b9c), in recent days publicly signaled his intention to get rid of all nonpolitical appointees and career intelligence officials serving on the NSC by Inauguration Day to ensure the council is staffed with those who support Trump’s agenda. > > A wholesale removal of foreign policy and national security experts from the NSC on Day 1 of the new administration could deprive Trump’s team of considerable expertise and institutional knowledge at a time when the U.S. is grappling with difficult policy [challenges in Ukraine](https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine), the Mideast and beyond. Such questioning could also make new policy experts brought in to the NSC less likely to speak up about policy differences and concerns. > … 🤔 Gee, ya think? * * * Wonkette has a more colorful description than AP ('cause AP has _standards_). > **[Trump’s Civil Servant Purge Has Already Begun ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯](https://www.wonkette.com/p/trumps-civil-servant-purge-has-already)** > > Corruption’s gonna be partying like it’s 1879! > Well, great. The [AP reports](https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-nsc-loyalty-waltz-21913da0464f472cb9fef314fed488e5) that incoming senior Trump administration officials have already begun thoughtcrime-interrogating career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions, and if they’ve made social media posts that would be considered “incriminating,” AKA insufficiently suck-uppy by the President-elect’s team of suckups. Yep, the corruption is fixing to be balls-out this time. And sure is alarming that his first priority is making sure that there’s nobody who might speak out about national security issues! Whatever _quos_ is this fucker planning to _quid pro_ that we can’t even imagine yet? It’s going to be a pile taller than Trump Tower Saudi Arabia! > … > This is all very NOT NORMAL, unless you are Mao. And sure isn’t good for national security to trade people with experience who will give national security advice for ones that prioritize telling the Lord Emperor what he wants to hear! But only the security of his own flabby haunches matters to him, of course. > … ---
**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:** [January 14, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/699 "2025-01-14T17:02:59Z")
I’d cheer for the imminent massive failure of Trump’s administration except he’s running the country I live in and these are people that are supposed to make things work. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/700 "2025-01-14T17:10:17Z")
Well, Maybe Vice President Trump will start a war to take over Greenland. Getting rid of everyone who has a functioning brain will make the war a disaster. Denmark wins, and takes over the United States and forces us to have living wages and universal health care. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=36)