# 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:** 360
**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 11, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7242 "2025-08-11T13:37:16Z")
What legitimate problem is the felon on about now in regards to Washington, DC? The statistics show he’s incorrect (at best) or flat out lying (most likely) about crime in DC. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7243 "2025-08-11T13:38:42Z")
Sorry, I was thinking of something else I read and conflated the two. All the same, there’s a reason the military and the police are two different things, and the more the police resemble the military the more the distinction is blurred until today, when there is no difference. I wonder how many people are going to get wasted before the troops are withdrawn, or if the troops will ever be withdrawn. ---
**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 11, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7244 "2025-08-11T13:40:54Z")
The troops will remain there as long as the felon resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW. So, until he fucking dies. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7245 "2025-08-11T14:04:32Z")
I like neither the raw numbers _nor_ Trump’s approach to improving them: > **[District Crime Data at a Glance | mpdc](https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime)** > > 2025 Year-to-Date Crime Comparison\* As of August 11, 2025 Trending down is an Unmitigated Good Thing. I _still_ don’t like the raw numbers. And I’d probably feel the same way about crime rates in most major US cities. ---
**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 11, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7246 "2025-08-11T14:16:03Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What legitimate problem is the felon on about now in regards to Washington, DC? The statistics show he’s incorrect (at best) or flat out lying (most likely) about crime in DC Don’t worry, by this time next week, he’ll be trumpeting those numbers as ‘proof’ his policies have decreased crime. ---
**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 11, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7247 "2025-08-11T14:20:44Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Don’t worry, by this time next week, he’ll be trumpeting those numbers as ‘proof’ his policies have decreased crime. You are, without any serious doubt, absolutely correct about this. Of course, there’s absolutely no way the troops will return to the barracks before November 3, 2026. Their presence alone at voting stations will intimidate many people. _And that’s all the felon’s about: intimidating people._ ---
**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 11, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7248 "2025-08-11T15:22:38Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Okay, why hasn’t anyone suggested Diomede, Alaska as the venue? helicopter both dictators there. Papa Putin won’t have to leave Russian airspace to get there. And who cares what happens to the other dictator, the felon? Add a drone strike on both their helicopters once they’ve landed and I could get behind this. ---
**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 11, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7249 "2025-08-11T15:54:26Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What legitimate problem is the felon on about now in regards to Washington, DC? … The problem is the constant requirement for new boogiepersons to keep the mob riled up. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7250 "2025-08-11T16:18:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Seems like a good place to ask the question: _where EXACTLY is all that money going?_ Seriously and for real? Fairly certain the tariffs go into the general fund. From which most expenses of the US are paid. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Not some trumpie baloney about “paying down the national debt.” The only way the national debt is paid down is if the money coming in exceeds the money going out for a full fiscal year. And that hasn’t happened since about 1999. And it isn’t going to happen in this administration. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7251 "2025-08-11T17:03:39Z")
So Hitler and Stalin Trump and Putin are about to agree to divide Poland Ukraine. No doubt this will be as historically significant for peace in Europe as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact … Trilateral Statement … gold fringed tissue paper it’s written on. Noble Peace medallions for each. ---
**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 11, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7252 "2025-08-11T17:14:13Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Fairly certain the tariffs go into the general fund. Hmmm…in an ideal world, certainly. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7253 "2025-08-11T17:26:08Z")
Wait, what? Molotov and von Ribbentrop got Nobel Prices? Who told trump that? > [@smithsb](#): > > gold fringed tissue paper I can picture that. So that bit is orange too, and sparkly. I’ll keep an eye for his accolites’ noses, let’s see if they are not only brown but also look like they have sniffed at a glitter bomb. Don’t worry about me, I’ll do it from afar. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7254 "2025-08-11T17:29:50Z")
> **[Trump says he will try to get back territory for Ukraine in talks with Putin](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e99yqv332o)** > > The US president says talks with Putin on Friday will be a "feel-out meeting" aimed at urging Russia to end the war in Ukraine. > In real estate, we call it oceanfront property. The Sea of Azov is now ocean-front says the 6-time-chapter-11’ner who knows real estate. So he’s going to ask Putin to yield some of the Azov, such as Mariupol? Ukraine has lost the entirety of their land access to the Sea/Ocean of Azov. They do not have the firepower / materiel to take it back. I still want to hear a definite place in Alaska before I stop leaning towards Crimea/Sevastopol and the cratered yet now less cratered city of Mariupol as the real site of their “feeling-out” meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7255 "2025-08-11T18:08:43Z")
> ‘I’m going to Russia on Friday’: Trump appears to forget Alaska is in US as he frets over facing Putin amid DC crime Forget? Nope, this is one rare time he told the truth. > **[Trump appears to forget Alaska is in US as he frets over facing Putin amid DC...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-alaska-press-conference-b2805570.html)** > > Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 49th state on Friday ---
**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 11, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7256 "2025-08-11T20:31:23Z")
Well thank Og he’s not the one navigating on that trip or he’d wind up who knows where…. Either that, or he really is going to give/sell Alaska back to Russia. Which, at this point, would not entirely surprise me. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7257 "2025-08-11T20:58:44Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Which, at this point, would not entirely surprise me. It would surprise a whole shit ton of armed trump voting rugged individualists. ---
**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 11, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7258 "2025-08-11T21:20:40Z")
Yeah. That could be quite the show. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7259 "2025-08-11T21:23:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He has never in his sorry life cared about paying down debt. You have to understand that the national debt is what the nation owes to him. He has been very busy taking care of the national debt the past few months. ---
**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 11, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7260 "2025-08-11T21:37:06Z")
Ahhh, Sensei… Of course 🤦🏽‍♀️ now I get it Everyone always owes him, and he never owes anybody. Yes, that’s the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7261 "2025-08-11T22:02:48Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He has never in his sorry life cared about paying down debt. That’s the beauty of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Your debt vanishes and you get some venture capitalist to throw some cash together and buy any of the worthy assets of the old company. At least one or two of his bankruptcies ought to have been Chapter 7 - liquidation. And you’re broke. But he knew somebody who knew somebody and Chapter 11 it is. Six Chapter 11’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=359) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=361)