# 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:** 373
**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 20, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7502 "2025-08-20T16:17:30Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I for one like Newsom trolling trump, and wish more Democrats would do it. This one made me spit my coffee. I’m really surprised that Trump is showing restraint. Maybe his staff is somehow keeping him from seeing them. (I’ll just leave a link here - sort of not safe for work) [536290243\_122128624004889244\_6854804202797711774\_n.jpg (526×526)](https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/536290243_122128624004889244_6854804202797711774_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=tWwS0uwIDNQQ7kNvwHAAkZK&_nc_oc=AdkofMM-WlzslybihcoyXiuLKMlWTMpt1-Rz0YlYCC-N4_4Nf8LpvP-SxMGa4rqqKTqI66-J6JMo8-UEJ46E6yzL&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&_nc_gid=XVBE2btvfWuq8AuicccDlw&oh=00_AfW5v04M7KxOZ78uiaRrR7BURU4PC8CSOzQRXJ8J9CXB8A&oe=68ABCADD) ---
**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 20, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7503 "2025-08-20T16:27:25Z")
Umm, if “ZERO illegals in last 3 months!” is true then why do we need to 🎶 Paint it Black 🎶 ??? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7504 "2025-08-20T16:38:55Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > ) > > [536290243\_122128624004889244\_6854804202797711774\_n.jpg (526×526)](https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/536290243_122128624004889244_6854804202797711774_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=tWwS0uwIDNQQ7kNvwHAAkZK&_nc_oc=AdkofMM-WlzslybihcoyXiuLKMlWTMpt1-Rz0YlYCC-N4_4Nf8LpvP-SxMGa4rqqKTqI66-J6JMo8-UEJ46E6yzL&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&_nc_gid=XVBE2btvfWuq8AuicccDlw&oh=00_AfW5v04M7KxOZ78uiaRrR7BURU4PC8CSOzQRXJ8J9CXB8A&oe=68ABCADD) Oh, MYYYYY, to quote a famous actor. ---
**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 20, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7505 "2025-08-20T16:50:34Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > This one made me spit my coffee. Oh. my. GOD! I’m dying from laughing! eta: I’m picturing how one would get AI to generate that picture. “I, um, would like to see Gavin Newsom, wearing nothing but tight fitting briefs, in a US flag pattern, ripped, hung, and standing seductively over a fawning Melania who is wearing a diaphanous greek goddess wrap.” AI: “So would I!” “It’s uh not for me!” AI: “That’s what you all say.” ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7506 "2025-08-20T16:53:49Z")
That is awesome. I’m glad I was forewarned not to be drinking/eating when I clicked on that. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7507 "2025-08-20T17:14:23Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > “I, um, would like to see Gavin Newsom, wearing nothing but tight fitting briefs, in a US flag pattern, ripped, hung, and standing seductively over a fawning Melania who is wearing a diaphanous greek goddess wrap.” > AI: “So would I!” > “It’s uh not for me!” > AI: “That’s what you all say.” The real key would be to make it look like the generation orders came from [melania@trump.com](mailto:melania@trump.com) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7508 "2025-08-20T17:20:14Z")
Bodi sent a letter to Oregon accusing it of all sorts of illegal malfeasance and demanding a response by the 19th of this month. My Governor, Tina Kotek, sent an official response yesterday: [08.19.25\_Letter\_to\_AG\_Bondi.pdf](https://www.oregon.gov/gov/Documents/08.19.25_Letter_to_AG_Bondi.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawMS4cJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE2NThuMVN1cmZQc0Q2RWFXAR5zO2kockKakZbwUOkBf1ennOXZVq0by3qyuiB_o8KtMcvSmvYT7G2-miNZ4A_aem_mitI0PG-dhXggW75q1F5iA) Go, Tina! ---
**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 20, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7509 "2025-08-20T17:39:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > sent an official response yesterday all that verbiage, and all the letter needed to says was, “NUTS!” ---
**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 20, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7510 "2025-08-20T18:33:45Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > all the letter needed to says was, > > “NUTS!” My response would have been two words. The second word would have been either ‘YOU’ or ‘OFF’. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7511 "2025-08-20T19:59:11Z")
**Goldfinger/Trump Strikes Again!** # **Trump Adding ‘Gaudy’ Gold Details To Yet Another Iconic Area Of The White House** “It looks like Liberace got high and decided to redecorate,” one social media user said of the president’s White House makeover. [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-adding-gaudy-gold-details-to-yet-another-iconic-area-of-the-white-house\_n\_68a5dd89e4b0d31656201d8c](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-adding-gaudy-gold-details-to-yet-another-iconic-area-of-the-white-house_n_68a5dd89e4b0d31656201d8c) ---
**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 20, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7512 "2025-08-20T20:17:02Z")
If anything, Governor Ferguson (Soviet of Washington) was [even more blunt](https://governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/FinalResponseLetter.pdf)\* — he didn’t refer to AG Blondie as “Honorable,” and twice he came close to @Just_Asking_Questions ’ suggested response. I think we all know where Newsom stands on the matter, so that wraps up the Left Coast. And once again I must thank my father (blessings be upon him, and peace) for settling here rather than returning to Montana. \* Warning: pdf. ---
**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 20, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7513 "2025-08-20T20:47:30Z")
Damn. Hell of a letter. ---
**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 20, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7514 "2025-08-20T21:00:56Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > Presidential adviser [Sebastian Gorka](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/sebastian-gorka) shared the painting Monday on X, formerly Twitter. It shows a heroic- and trim-looking Trump in an overcoat as he walks through a row of American flags with what appears to be a fire behind him. > > I like the broilers on the top of the flags’ masts. They seem well done and crunchy. As they should be in the middle of the fire. I’ll have mine with freedom fries and a beer, please! To me, it does not look so much like a fire behind him, more like laval stalactites. Like the image is trying to depict Khazad-dûm or something. ---
**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 20, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7515 "2025-08-20T21:12:25Z")
Love it! “If you really believe Washington State is in conflict with controlling federal law, you would make some effort to explain that. You did not, because you cannot.” I wonder if Bondi has the guts to respond. ---
**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 20, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7516 "2025-08-20T21:23:53Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Damn. Hell of a letter. I downloaded the letter, made jpegs out of the pages, and posted them to one of my Facebook feeds. In a minute, I’ll share them to my other profile. I _would_ like to see a governor simply quote General Anthony McAuliffe, as @Just_Asking_Questions suggests. ---
**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 20, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7517 "2025-08-20T21:30:34Z")
I did screenshots and was able to copy text from the images. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7518 "2025-08-20T21:35:34Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > If anything, Governor Ferguson (Soviet of Washington) was [even more blunt](https://governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/FinalResponseLetter.pdf)\* — he didn’t refer to AG Blondie as “Honorable,” Perhaps a more cutting spelling would be “AG Blondi” since she’s close to her Leader and it reflects her surname closer. ---
**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 20, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7519 "2025-08-20T21:42:13Z")
Good point. And I’m sure her master would have no hesitation about using her as a test subject, any more than the original’s did. ---
**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 20, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7520 "2025-08-20T21:45:16Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > “AG Blondi” [![](https://i0.wp.com/houseofgeekery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/scenecvr.jpg) ](https://i0.wp.com/houseofgeekery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/scenecvr.jpg) I’ll leave it to others to decide who Tuco and Angel Eyes are. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7521 "2025-08-20T22:25:38Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I’ll leave it to others to decide who Tuco and Angel Eyes are. Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller respectively? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=372) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=374)