# 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:** 357
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7182 "2025-08-09T20:41:56Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Why have American media ignored this development? It seems worth keeping an eye on. Partly because the media kowtows to Trump and the Right in general. And partly because nothing is likely to come of it. Trump would never give Alaska away; Trump never gives, he only takes, and nukes mean a war for it is out of the question. And if nukes didn’t exist, even under Trump the US would crush Russia like an insect in a conventional war, given how badly they’ve been straining against Ukraine. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7183 "2025-08-09T20:49:08Z")
The Energy Department has removed the National Climate Reports produced since 2000 from its website, pending review and updating. > **[US To Rewrite Its Past National Climate Reports](https://www.barrons.com/news/us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports-bf870d76)** > > US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7184 "2025-08-09T20:52:48Z")
Poor ol’ Winston is going to be putting in a lot of overtime. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7185 "2025-08-09T20:59:56Z")
I’m sure he won’t be alone: > Everyone in the ~~Records~~ Energy Department worked eighteen hours in the twenty-four, with two three-hour snatches of sleep. Mattresses were brought up from the cellars and pitched all over the corridors: meals consisted of ~~sandwiches~~ hamberders and ~~Victory Coffee~~ covfefe wheeled round on trolleys by attendants from the canteen. Each time that Winston broke off for one of his spells of sleep he tried to leave his desk clear of work, and each time that he crawled back sticky-eyed and aching, it was to find that another shower of paper cylinders had covered the desk like a snowdrift, half burying the speakwrite and overflowing on to the floor, so that the first job was always to stack them into a neat enough pile to give him room to work. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7186 "2025-08-09T21:02:04Z")
Mmm, hamberders and covfefe, double plus Trump! ---
**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 9, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7187 "2025-08-09T22:28:39Z")
Trump opens a new front in his war with Harvard, threatening its hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of patents. > **[Trump administration targets Harvard’s patents | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/trump-administration-targets-harvards-patents)** > > The Trump administration is opening a new front in its battle with Harvard University on the issue of patents, marking a new escalation with the elite school that could result in the loss of additional federal funding or intellectual property rights. What the fuck is wrong with these people? ---
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7188 "2025-08-09T22:34:32Z")
I think he’s demanding a billion with a B dollars from UCLA. He’s fucked in his head, and Republicans really admire him for that. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7189 "2025-08-09T22:36:46Z")
MAGA would love to see higher education destroyed. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7190 "2025-08-09T22:39:19Z")
Does anyone have a clean link to this story…? [This leaked memo exposes an agenda so awful even Trump wants it kept secret](https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/hegseth-memo/) ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7191 "2025-08-09T22:43:23Z")
I think you’re exactly right on this. Get rid of higher education, less non-white people imported, trade schools for everyone, next get rid of unions, a two-class system, under god. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7192 "2025-08-09T22:48:19Z")
MACA! Make America Cambodia Again! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7193 "2025-08-09T22:50:16Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Does anyone have a clean link to this story…? > > [This leaked memo exposes an agenda so awful even Trump wants it kept secret](https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/hegseth-memo/) Not to that exact story, no. I am getting so tired of being asked to pay for the least bit of information these days. If I were paranoid I’d claim it was all part of the conspiracy to keep the masses ignorant. ---
**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 9, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7194 "2025-08-09T23:13:55Z")
Of course, Fox News, Breitbart and Newsmax aren’t behind paywalls. So guess what kind of news gets the most traction? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7195 "2025-08-09T23:16:43Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > What the fuck is wrong with these people Trump or Harvard? ---
**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 9, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7196 "2025-08-09T23:19:53Z")
Trump and his toadies. ---
**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 9, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7197 "2025-08-09T23:21:33Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I think you’re exactly right on this. Get rid of higher education, less non-white people imported, trade schools for everyone, next get rid of unions, a two-class system, under god. Plus, they don’t want woke professors indoctrinating students in Marxism, Communism, Socialism, and Wokeness. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7198 "2025-08-09T23:30:40Z")
There was a website someone sent to me that would strip all the pay-sh-t off of a news link, but I lost it when that browser stopped working. ---
**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 10, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7199 "2025-08-10T00:45:04Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > The Energy Department has removed the National Climate Reports produced since 2000 from its website, pending review and updating. I foresee a rise in stock price for Newell Brands. (That’s who makes Sharpies.) > [@Broomstick](#): > > MAGA would love to see higher education destroyed. They’re currently destroying it. Why? The only reasons I can truthfully see for that is (1) it contradicts their cherished ~~delusions~~ beliefs, and (2) jealousy. [Another judge slaps down the felon’s orders.](https://www.aol.com/commercial-fishing-vast-pacific-nature-205554435.html) > HONOLULU (AP) — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a [vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean](https://apnews.com/article/trump-pacific-commercial-fishing-lawsuit-0604eb44330db1098d035d7af8180724) must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean protections. > > The remote Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument is home to turtles, marine mammals and seabirds, which environmental groups say will get snagged by longline fishing, an industrial method involving baited hooks from lines 60 miles (about 100 kilometers) or longer. > > President Donald Trump’s executive order to allow this and other types of commercial fishing in part of the monument changed regulations without providing a process for public comment and rulemaking and stripped core protections from the monument, the groups argued in a lawsuit. > > U.S. District Judge Micah W. J. Smith granted a motion by the environmentalists on Friday. The ruling means boats catching fish for sale will need to immediately cease fishing in waters between 50 and 200 nautical miles (93 kilometers to 370 kilometers) around Johnston Atoll, Jarvis Island and Wake Island, said Earthjustice, an environmental law organization representing the plaintiffs. [Restaurants that got TTd.](https://www.aol.com/finance/4-types-restaurants-become-more-140307918.html) ( **T** rump **T** ariffed/also _titi_ is the Tagalog word for _dick_.) > Whether you pronounce the delectable fruit (yes, it’s a fruit) as tomato or tomatto, Trump’s [Mexican tariffs](https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/economy/states-where-you-will-feel-tariff-prices-the-most/?hyperlink_type=manual&utm_term=incontent_link_1&utm_campaign=1312241&utm_source=aol.com&utm_content=1&utm_medium=rss) are forcing many dining establishments to either raise prices and risk losing customers, revamp menus or swallow the cost and bleed margin, said Sapana Grossi of [Shah Grossi Law Firm](https://shahgrossi.com/), a business attorney specializing in the food and beverage industry. > > “With a 15% to 20% jump in tomato costs, that’s going to force some brutal choices, and the one thing everyone is sweating right now is fresh tomatoes,” said Grossi. > > However, not all restaurants will feel the impact. Grossi said her [fast food](https://www.gobankingrates.com/saving-money/food/priciest-fast-food-joints-in-america/?hyperlink_type=manual&utm_term=incontent_link_2&utm_campaign=1312241&utm_source=aol.com&utm_content=4&utm_medium=rss) clients are mostly safe for now, since ketchup and canned sauces mostly come from U.S.-grown processed tomatoes. > > These are [the restaurants that will feel the blow the hardest](https://www.gobankingrates.com/saving-money/food/mcdonalds-and-other-fast-food-items-that-soon-wont-be-worth-the-cost/?hyperlink_type=manual&utm_term=incontent_link_3&utm_campaign=1312241&utm_source=aol.com&utm_content=5&utm_medium=rss) because they can’t just swap out fresh Roma or grape tomatoes for something else. Here’s the list I gleaned from that article. - Neopolitan-Style Pizza - Fast-Casual - Chef-Driven Mediterranean and Italian - California Hospitality But, hey, as mentioned above (I’ll repeat it here and add **bolding**.) > However, not all restaurants will feel the impact. Grossi said her [fast food](https://www.gobankingrates.com/saving-money/food/priciest-fast-food-joints-in-america/?hyperlink_type=manual&utm_term=incontent_link_2&utm_campaign=1312241&utm_source=aol.com&utm_content=4&utm_medium=rss) clients are mostly safe for now, since **ketchup and canned sauces mostly come from U.S.-grown processed tomatoes**. The felon’s favorite condiment is safe, except of course for the occasional voyage from table to tapestry. [President Zelenskyy tells the felon to shove it.](https://www.aol.com/zelenskyy-rejects-conceding-land-russia-201735971.html) > Ukrainian President [Volodymyr Zelenskyy](https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/volodymyr-zelenskyy/) rejected territorial concessions to Russia as part of a peace deal, speaking out after [President Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) said in advance of a [planned meeting](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-meet-putin-discuss-ukraine-223616147.html) with Russian President [Vladimir Putin](https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/vladimir-putin/) that[“swapping of territories”](https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2025/08/08/trump-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-could-include-land-swaps/85584146007/) could be part of an agreement to end the war. > > “Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier,” Zelenskyy [said in a video](https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1954063605453795361) released Aug. 9. > > Trump and Putin are [set to meet in Alaska](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-meet-putin-discuss-ukraine-223616147.html) Aug. 15 to discuss ending the three-year conflict. The Trump administration has struggled to broker a peace deal, with Trump [increasingly lashing out at Putin](https://www.yahoo.com/news/very-disappointed-trump-slams-putin-124629960.html) and [threatening financial repercussions](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-offers-putin-ultimatum-senate-230039965.html)if he doesn’t come to the table. > > Trump[said Aug. 8 during a White House event](https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2025/08/08/trump-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-could-include-land-swaps/85584146007/)that both Russia and Ukraine would have to give up territory to reach a deal. The master dealer really sucks at making deals, doesn’t he? [Federal forest on fire, felon says nothing.](https://www.aol.com/growing-mega-fire-california-becomes-164533333.html) > [The Gifford Fire](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gifford-fire-grows-nearly-84-185347493.html), which ignited Aug. 1, is estimated to have engulfed over 104,000 acres and is 21% contained, according to an [Aug. 9 federal fire update](https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-publication/calpf-gifford-fire/gifford-fire-morning-update-08-09-2025). It’s burning in a remote area of the Los Padres National Forest that has prompted road closures and evacuations in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, located about 180 miles northwest of Los Angeles. > > The Gifford Fire can be considered a [mega-fire,](https://www.fs.usda.gov/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2014_stephens_s001.pdf) a designation for wildfires over 100,000 acres, according to the [U.S. Interagency Fire Center](https://www.cisa.gov/topics/critical-infrastructure-security-and-resilience/extreme-weather/wildfires). Mark Ruggiero, a spokesperson for the federal response to the fire, said the western United States has seen many fires over 100,000 acres in recent decades. At least this time he’s not blaming California’s governor for fires on federal land. [The war on education continues.](https://www.aol.com/trump-administration-threatens-harvards-patents-232537542.html) > The federal government told Harvard University on Friday it could take control of the school’s patents stemming from federally funded research — the latest in a months-long feud between the Trump administration and the Ivy League college. > > Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is launching an “immediate comprehensive review” of whether Harvard has complied with federal laws around patents, he said in a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber. > > The patents in question could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a senior administration official said, and in his letter, Lutnick threatened to grant third-party licenses to Harvard’s patents or take the titles to any patents where Harvard has failed to comply with government [title](https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.227-11?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) and disclosure requirements. > > Lutnick ordered the Massachusetts-based school to provide information on all patents that it obtained through federally funded research. > > “We believe that Harvard has failed to live up to its obligations to the American taxpayer and is in breach of the statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements tied to Harvard’s federally funded research programs and intellectual property arising therefrom,” Lutnick said. > > He gave Harvard until Sept. 5 to respond and prove it’s complying with the Bayh-Dole Act. Under that legislation, universities receiving federal research grants have to show that inventions issuing from that funding are being used to benefit Americans. [Co-conspirator Kennedy bases decisions on misinformation.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-health-chief-based-vaccine-214836017.html) > US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited false claims to justify terminating 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, researchers said Friday, a day after the World Health Organization called the decision a major blow. > > Kennedy on Tuesday announced the cancellation of contracts worth around $500 million, marking his latest attempt to infuse vaccine skepticism into the core of US health policy. > > Citing medical experts, disinformation watchdog NewsGuard identified a series of false claims about the vaccines –- credited with saving millions of lives during the Covid-19 pandemic – that Kennedy promoted to explain the termination. > > Kennedy claimed that mRNA vaccines were responsible for “new mutations” of the virus, thus creating new variants that can prolong pandemics. > > “Kennedy is mistaken in statements made when ceasing funding for mRNA vaccine development,” Stephen Evans, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the London-based Science Media Centre. > > “No vaccine, including mRNA encourages new mutations.” > > Kennedy also made two previously debunked claims about the effectiveness of the vaccines. Why am I not surprised? [When you next hear _It looks like a French whorehouse_, you can now thank the felon for giving you a visual example.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-does-near-impossible-stuffing-213648603.html) > President Donald Trump’s desire to turn the Oval Office into a lookalike of the Palace of Versailles, Mar-a-Lago, Saddam’s palace, or all three, is showing no signs of slowing down. > > Photos taken over the past month show that Trump, 79, has found even more places to add gaudy accents, including gold-plated moldings and designs on the room’s doors, bookcases, and above its fireplace. > > Since January, the historic space has been slowly filled with gold medallions, frames, mirrors, cherubs, eagles, coasters, and moldings—some courtesy of Trump’s personal “gold guy,” who was flown to Washington on Air Force One. (Trump of course is expecting to take delivery of a Qatari Boeing 747 which is distinctly golden already.) ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7200 "2025-08-10T01:09:39Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > They’re currently destroying it. Why? The only reasons I can truthfully see for that is (1) it contradicts their cherished ~~delusions~~ beliefs, and (2) jealousy. Not sure about 2, but 1 is definitely part of the answer. Dictators and authoritarians can’t brook dissent or contradiction and actively hate and persecute anyone who values or teaches critical thinking. Anything or anyone that attempts to puncture the bubble of state sponsored propaganda is a threat to their power base. It’s why authoritarian governments traditionally go after schools, writers, lawyers, professors, philosophers and even religious leaders. Anyone with that can credibly be considered a part of the intelligentsia and can be an alternate source of authority in a society. It’s also why they hate experts and the very concept of expertise. This was the sin people like Dr. Fauci committed back during the pandemic. That’s why Trump flies off the handle anytime anyone contradicts him to his face and calls him out on his lies. As rare as that is. It’s also the same reason bullies always get angrier when you stand up to them. You’re making it harder for them to control others. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7201 "2025-08-10T01:12:49Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > …also _titi_ is the Tagalog word for _dick_. What do they call titis? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=356) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=358)