# 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:** 351
**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:** [August 5, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7062 "2025-08-05T15:48:04Z")
Kind of like Germany and how they teach about the Nazis? Teach the history but ban the iconography? ---
**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:** [August 5, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7063 "2025-08-05T18:06:26Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Perhaps references to “The Dark Times” and “The Perfidious Leader” when discussing things that were done and their effects. I kind of agree. _The Second Gilded Age_ seems a little weak, somehow but I think simply, _The Asshole_ will do fine for an epithet.. “Trump the Asshole, last of his name.” ---
**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:** [August 5, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7064 "2025-08-05T18:18:29Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Perhaps references to “The Dark Times” and “The Perfidious Leader” when discussing things that were done and their effects The State Historical Institute of Trump’s Lies, Insanity, Stupidity and Treason. The S.H.I.T.L.I.S.T. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7065 "2025-08-05T18:46:20Z")
Trump makes the claim that the deal with the EU gives the United States “600 billion dollars to do whatever I want.” > **[Trump threatens to ratchet up tariffs on EU if it fails to invest $600...](https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/us-news/trump-threatens-to-ratchet-up-tariffs-on-eu-if-it-fails-to-invest-600b-in-us/)** > > President Trump warned that if the European Union fails to deliver on its commitment to invest $600 billion in the US, then he will ramp up tariffs against the 27-nation bloc. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7066 "2025-08-05T19:38:44Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Trump makes the claim that the deal with the EU gives the United States “600 billion dollars to do whatever I want.” From your linked article: > “I’m not worried about [oil] prices because we’re drilling at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” Right. The number of active rigs is at its lowest level since 2021. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7067 "2025-08-05T21:50:55Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > But we don’t need the Melania Trump center for Performing Arts. But that’s not respecting the oldest profession in the world. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7068 "2025-08-05T22:26:51Z")
It is Taco Tuesday. > **[Donald Trump changes his mind on Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-murdoch-epstein-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-letter-2108955)** > > While the president previously pushed Rupert Murdoch for an expedited deposition, he has now agreed to a delayed one. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7069 "2025-08-05T22:43:16Z")
More TACOs! > # ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants > > _The short-lived effort underscored the mounting pressure on ICE to meet President Trump’s aggressive deportation targets._ > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.b08.yfLC.snkdqJ1wzex8&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b08.yfLC.snkdqJ1wzex8&smid=url-share) > > On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. > > Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program. > > “PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country. > > Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said the program had not been enacted, adding that **“no such policy is in effect or has ever been in effect.”** The email canceling the program was sent shortly after The New York Times inquired about its existence. > … My bold. “Not only are we withdrawing it, in fact it NEVER happened!” ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7070 "2025-08-06T02:03:19Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > Wisconsin’s governor has dreams of being DeSantis. > > _Wyoming’s_ governor. Please don’t blame my home state for this shit! 😉 Oops! Please accept my abject apologies, especially as Governor Evers is a Democrat. > [@Horatius](#): > > The State Historical Institute of Trump’s Lies, Insanity, Stupidity and Treason. The S.H.I.T.L.I.S.T. I like it! But for naming the current clusterfuck, I still like _the Second Felonial Era_. > [@Railer13](#): > > > “I’m not worried about [oil] prices because we’re drilling at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” > > Right. The number of active rigs is at its lowest level since 2021. So he’s not lyiing for once. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “Not only are we withdrawing it, in fact it NEVER happened!” He learned logic from the White Queen in _Through the Looking-Glass_. [The felon wants to have ~~brownshirts~~ the FBI arrest and drag Texas legislators back to Austin.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-fbi-may-help-213418068.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > President Trump on Tuesday said the FBI may have to get involved to bring back the Texas Democrats who left the state to stop Republicans from advancing their new congressional map. > > Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) [sent a letter](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cornyn-presses-fbi-help-texas-164814466.html) earlier Tuesday to FBI Director Kash Patel, urging his agency to intervene and take “any appropriate steps” to help law enforcement find or arrest the lawmakers who left the state. > > “Well, they may have to. They may have to,” Trump said when asked whether the FBI should get involved. > > He added, “No, I know they want them back, not only the attorney general, the governor wants them back. If you look, I mean, the governor of Texas is demanding they come back. So, a lot of people are demanding they come back.” > > The Democrats’ move to flee has denied the state House a quorum and prevented it from being able to conduct business in the special legislative session that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) called. Abbott [ordered their arrests](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/abbott-orders-arrest-democrats-fled-210523505.html) Monday after the state House was unable to conduct business, arguing they violated their oath of office. > > **“You can’t just sit it out, you have to go back. You have to fight it out. That’s what elections are all about,”** Trump said. Are you fucking kidding me? The big election denier has the gall, the gumption, the audacity to say “that’s what elections are all about”? Well, yeah, I guess, unless that election happened to have been on November 3, 2020. Oh, and, you not only functional but actual illiterate moron, _this is not an election_! _It’s an attempt to **rig** an election._ It’s a vote on a bill. [The NWS wants people back.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/weather-now-hiring-back-hundreds-155619903.html) > The National Weather Service has [received permission to hire](https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/doge-fired-workers-rehired?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by [Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts](https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/weather/national-weather-service-job-cuts-hurricane-season?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) and early retirement incentives. > > The new hiring number [includes 126 new positions](https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/weather/nws-rehiring-meteorologists?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) that were previously approved and will apply to “front-line mission critical” personnel, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official told CNN. > > The NWS cuts have spurred concerns over how well-prepared the country is to withstand hurricane season, which is just [starting to heat up](https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/weather/atlantic-hurricane-season-storm-dexter-climate?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) in the Atlantic. The staff reductions also have been scrutinized in the wake of the deadly Texas floods in July, with [vacancies at weather service forecast offices there](https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/weather/texas-flooding-nws-meteorologist-missing-climate?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo). And the reaction of current employees I fully understand. > Agency employees are greeting the news, unveiled at an all hands meeting on Monday, with guarded optimism and relief. This next part of the article sums up the Second Felonial Era rather well. > The announcement was also met with frustration over the people the agency lost in the failed attempt at government savings. _Failed attempt_. That’s a pretty good description. [The Grim Reaper no longer _looms_. It _loomers_.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/paranoid-hegseth-calls-loomer-hunt-154258592.html) > Far-right provocateur Laura Loomer claims Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has turned to her for help rooting out disloyal officials at the Pentagon. > > Loomer, an extremist and conspiracy theorist, made the claim in an interview [with CNN](https://us.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/laura-loomer-trump-firings) which detailed how her targeted campaigns have led to the firing of multiple officials accused of not supporting President Donald Trump’s agenda. > > An analysis by the Daily Beast found that [at least 16 people](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/body-count-every-trump-administration-194802824.html)have been ousted following Loomer’s interventions. Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed to the Daily Beast that Hegseth and Loomer had spoken, adding that the defense secretary “appreciates Laura Loomer’s outside advocacy.” Perhaps the felon should have learned something from the downfall of [President Park Geun-hye](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Geun-hye#Choi_Soon-sil_scandal_and_impeachment). Her “outside advocate” didn’t work out so well for her. [Loomer’s getting loomered!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/laura-loomer-influence-already-backfiring-164129009.html) > Laura Loomer’s conspiratorial followers are already cannibalizing her for participating in “the swamp.” > > Just a day after reports emerged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had tapped the far-right “9/11 truther” to help identify leakers among his staff, Loomer has now herself become the subject of intense scrutiny. Some conspiracists are accusing her of being a “plant” for pharmaceutical companies concerned about administration policies that could cut into their bottom dollar, reported [The Bulwark](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-diehards-say-loomer-is-on-big-pharma-payroll-vinay-prasad-kash-patel-alexis-wilkins). > > The self-appointed “loyalty enforcer” has had enormous success influencing the Trump administration from the safety of her X account: An analysis by [The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth-is-getting-help-from-laura-loomer-in-his-hunt-for-disloyal-employees/) found that at least 16 individuals were fired from the federal government after Loomer singled them out as covert Democratic agents. > > But now her intraparty success is coming back to bite her. At issue is the recent firing of Dr. Vinay Prasad, who until last week was in charge of the Food and Drug Administration division that oversees vaccines and gene therapies. Prasad resigned from his position after Loomer accused him of being disloyal to the president, [alleging](https://x.com/kevinnbass/status/1951707986260611168) he owned a Trump voodoo doll. [I wonder what vaccine it was that the felon took to make him immune to facts.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-gets-instant-fact-check-150833559.html) > President Donald Trump repeatedly boasted that he has “the best poll numbers [he’s] ever had” in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday morning, even though the majority of Americans disapprove of his performance in the job. > > Asked whether he would run for a third term in office despite the fact that the U.S. Constitution’s 22nd Amendment bars him from doing so, Trump replied “probably not,” before going on to say he would like to do so. > > “I’d like to run. I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had. You know why? Because people love the tariffs and they love the trade deal and they love that foreign countries aren’t ripping us off anymore. For years they ripped us off, friend and foe,” Trump said, even though voter surveys [suggest otherwise](https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-trump-facing-headwinds-six-month-mark). > > Kernen interjected, clarifying that the president enjoys high support among Republican voters, but not the overall electorate. Trump didn’t seem to blink. > > “I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had,” Trump said. “I have poll numbers where I’m 71%.” > > “Those are among Republicans,” Kernen replied. > > Trump would not relent, insisting Kernen was wrong. Trump also claimed that polls that showed him faring poorly with voters were “fake.” [What the everloving…?](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/maga-obsession-sydney-sweeney-takes-023854490.html) > MAGA’s newfound obsession with Sydney Sweeney took a turn for the deeply cringe in the form of a fawning tweet from the Department of Defense’s Rapid Response team. > > On Monday afternoon, the @DODResponseDODResponse account on X [posted](https://x.com/DODResponse/status/1952451465580077244) a photo of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disembarking from a plane in a sunglasses, a blue blazer, and blue jeans, with the@secdefcaption, “@secdef has great jeans”. [The cluster fucks the nation’s health and is shocked.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-says-donald-trump-092723431.html) > Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Donald Trump is a chronic caller. > > At a press conference on Monday, Kennedy revealed Trump calls him “three or four times a week” to check in on his administration’s health agenda. > > Kennedy claimed he always asks the same question: “Why aren’t people healthier yet?” Easiest test question ever! The answer, of course, is: “You put RFKJR in charge of people’s health. That’s like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse and then asking what happened to all of the hens.” [For example:](https://www.aol.com/rfk-jr-pulls-500-million-222708518.html) > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like [COVID-19](https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic) and the [flu](https://apnews.com/hub/flu). > > [Robert F. Kennedy Jr](https://apnews.com/hub/robert-f-kennedy-jr). announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted. > > Kennedy’s decision to terminate the projects is the latest in a [string of decisions](https://apnews.com/article/rfk-vaccine-policies-promises-d1ad570053583d953f15ec3e566e426f) that have put the longtime vaccine critic’s doubts about shots into full effect at the nation’s health department. Kennedy has [pulled back recommendations](https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccine-pregnant-women-children-70c358cad726e57d680234c3ecdec926) around the COVID-19 shots, [fired the panel](https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-cdc-acip-vaccines-3790c89f45b6314c5c7b686db0e3a8f9) that makes vaccine recommendations, and refused to offer a vigorous endorsement of vaccinations as a [measles outbreak](https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-us-texas-mmr-vaccine-rfk-144ed193e13de675a750e52a505423e9) worsened. [Alligator Auschwitz, Alligator Abu Gharib–to-may-to, to-mah-to.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hundreds-alleged-human-rights-abuses-194458844.html) > A monthslong probe by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., compiled hundreds of alleged human rights violations at immigration detention centers, according to [a new report](https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/250721_Pregnancy_Report_v7.pdf) about his probe first obtained by NBC News. > > The report states that Ossoff’s office has “identified 510 credible reports of human rights abuse” against people in immigration custody. Of these cases, 41 include allegations of physical or sexual abuse, as well as 18 alleged reports of mistreatment of children in custody, both U.S. citizens and noncitizens, and 14 alleged reports of mistreatment of pregnant women. > > The report cites a Department of Homeland Security official who anonymously reported to Ossoff’s office seeing pregnant women sleeping on floors in overcrowded intake cells. It also stated that a pregnant detainee who spoke with Ossoff’s staff described repeatedly requesting medical attention and being told to “just drink water” instead of getting a checkup. Another detainee at an immigration processing center in Louisiana, who was six months pregnant, told Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., while the congresswoman was visiting the facility that she[nearly miscarried twice after](https://lailluminator.com/2025/04/22/louisiana-ice-2/) being detained, according to the report. [The UK has the shadow government; the US has Fox News.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-defends-prosecutor-pick-her-114753234.html) > President Donald Trump is confident his new [top prosecutor](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-names-fox-news-jeanine-222822310.html) in Washington, D.C., is going to be “amazing” based on one all-important accomplishment—she co-hosted a No. 1 show on Fox News. > > The Senate voted 50-45 over the weekend to confirm former Fox News host and [Trump loyalist](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeanine-pirro-desperately-tries-spin-012608134.html) Jeanine Pirro to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. [I probably feel great about this news.](https://www.aol.com/trump-says-probably-won-t-134517574.html) > WASHINGTON — [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) says he’d like to run for a third term but is unlikely to pursue one. > > It was his firmest indication yet that he is not looking to change or bypass the [Constitutional limit](https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-run-president-2028-164155875.html) set out in the 22nd Amendment to compete for [president in 2028.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-cant-run-again-170557720.html) > > When asked in a CNBC interview whether he would “run again,” Trump said, “No. Probably not.” > > “Probably not,” he said a second time with a laugh. [But not so much about this.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/strange-pictures-donald-trump-white-172420228.html) > Donald Trump went on the roof of the White House today. > > “Sir, why are you on the roof?” reporters asked below. > > He told reporters he was, you know, “Just taking a little walk.” For a moment there, I had hopes he’d jump. But then I remembered he’s too out of shape to accomplish that. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7071 "2025-08-06T02:11:33Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Abbott [ordered their arrests](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/abbott-orders-arrest-democrats-fled-210523505.html) Monday after the state House was unable to conduct business, arguing they violated their oath of office. Still looking to see what crime they committed by absquatulating to New York. Apparently that’s a crime in Texas? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7072 "2025-08-06T02:21:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [But not so much about this.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/strange-pictures-donald-trump-white-172420228.html) > > > Donald Trump went on the roof of the White House today. > > > > “Sir, why are you on the roof?” reporters asked below. > > > > He told reporters he was, you know, “Just taking a little walk.” Sounds crazy, no? But in our little District of Columbia, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof… ETA: I would have had so much grudging respect for Trump if he’d responded “Everybody’s gotta be somewhere!” ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7073 "2025-08-06T02:23:02Z")
TIL the White House must have an elevator. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7074 "2025-08-06T02:23:50Z")
Either that or some of the construction equipment used in the Rape of the Rose Garden is still on site. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7075 "2025-08-06T02:38:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Donald Trump went on the roof of the White House today. > **There’s this guy, y’see. He takes a trip to Europe.** It’s his first vacation in a long time. He sees the sights, you know? He has a real good time. Anyway, after a while he decides to call home. > > He gets his brother on the phone, and the guy says to his brother, ‘How’s everything at home?’ > > And his brother says, ‘Your cat died.’ > > And the guy says to his brother, ‘You shouldn’t tell me bad news like that! You should break it to me gently! You should say something, you know, like “The cat crawled out on the roof, chasing a squirrel, and it got stuck. We had to call the Fire Department. And when they finally got there, the firemen crawled up and grabbed the cat. But on the way down, he slipped and the cat fell to the ground. They had to take the cat to the vet. Sorry to say they had to operate on the cat. But it was too late. They couldn’t save the cat.” That’s how you should break bad news like that.’ > > So the guy says to his brother, ‘How’s mom?’ > > And his brother says, ‘She was on the roof…’ [Transcribed from a scene in _Capricorn One_] ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7076 "2025-08-06T02:58:15Z")
_Up on the housetop, thump thump thump_ _Out jumps weird old Donald Trump_ ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7077 "2025-08-06T03:34:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > For a moment there, I had hopes he’d jump. But then I remembered he’s too out of shape to accomplish that. Too out-of-shape to get over the parapet, perhaps? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7078 "2025-08-06T03:36:52Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Transcribed from a scene in _Capricorn One_] No doubt inspried by the late great [Flip Wilson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvuL7IsA1_M). Makes sense. The entire herd, felon included, is basically a comedy routine. If some alien were to arrive from outerspace, they’d never believe this group was assembled seriously. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7079 "2025-08-06T05:26:50Z")
> [@from Monty's link](#): > > Donald Trump went on the roof of the White House today. > > “Sir, why are you on the roof?” reporters asked below. > > He told reporters he was, you know, “Just taking a little walk.” And dancing to his own beat. > Ok, not really. But it had you believing it for a minute, didn’t it? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7080 "2025-08-06T06:29:50Z")
Not for a second, but I liked it anyway. Now, had he tried to crowd surf from that vantage point, I would have loved it. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7081 "2025-08-06T06:48:03Z")
Heh. I have a vision of him going to the edge and gathering a crowd underneath him, and then leaping — and the crowd parting in instinctive self-preservation, letting him hit the ground. After which the MAGA cultists would attempt to prosecute those people for murder, for failing to sacrifice themselves in order to break his fall. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=350) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=352)