# 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:** 378
**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 24, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7602 "2025-08-24T14:15:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > President Donald Trump on Friday showed off a photograph he said Russian President Vladimir Putin sent him of them standing side by side a week ago in Alaska. Okay, show of hands-- how many here believe that Donnie has a tattoo of Vlad somewhere on a private part of his body? (Sorry for that visual.) Extra points if you think you know how Vlad is pictured. I say it’s that one of him bare-chested on horseback. ---
**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 24, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7603 "2025-08-24T14:45:33Z")
Can Orange Slime be tattooed…? \>\>\>\>\> On another note: [The Ukraine emergency is far from over – because Donald Trump is the emergency - The Globe and Mail](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-ukraine-russia-donald-trump-putin-europe/?intcmp=gift_share) ---
**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 24, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7604 "2025-08-24T14:54:10Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > how many here believe that Donnie has a tattoo of Vlad somewhere on a private part of his body? I think donny is afraid of needles. He’d never get one, ---
**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 24, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7605 "2025-08-24T14:56:32Z")
Yeah, he just Sharpie’d “pads go here” on his knees. ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7606 "2025-08-24T15:08:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I think donny is afraid of needles. He’d never get one, He might in this case. It would be a test of his devotion to Vlad. 💞 ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7607 "2025-08-24T15:24:03Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > It would be a test of his devotion to Vlad. “Are you going to get one of me, Vlddie?” “Yes, right away.” (spoiler: he never does) ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7608 "2025-08-24T15:37:32Z")
“In two weeks, Donnie baby.” 🤣 ---
**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 24, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7609 "2025-08-24T17:14:01Z")
‘Donchik’? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7610 "2025-08-24T18:10:12Z")
Paywalled. Is there any new insight in the article or was it just the clever headline that you wanted to highlight. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7611 "2025-08-24T18:21:00Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > No detail is too small if it can be used to stick it to those who are “woke.” > > > # Florida paints over Pulse rainbow crosswalk without warning, officials say > > > > _Local leaders, residents outraged as removal comes after directive from DeSantis and Trump to wipe crosswalks and sidewalks with “social, political or ideological messages.”_ > > > > [https://wapo.st/4oOYXlY](https://wapo.st/4oOYXlY) > > > A year after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando in 2016, Florida’s Transportation Department [approved plans](https://apnews.com/general-news-219c742ae678474ebdc881845ed7fd86) for a rainbow crosswalk to honor the victims of what was then [the deadliest mass shooting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/12/the-shooting-in-orlando-is-the-deadliest-mass-shooting-in-american-history/) in modern U.S. history. > > > > On Thursday, residents and community leaders discovered that the same department painted over those rainbow stripes in response to [dual directives](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/15/rainbow-crosswalks-traffic-safety-florida/) from Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and President Donald Trump to wipe crosswalks and sidewalks considered to have “social, political or ideological messages.” > > > > … > > > > The Florida Transportation Department said in a statement that as part of its latest initiative to ensure that “roadways are not utilized for social, political, or ideological interests,” it notified local governments last week of their noncompliance and instructed them to bring their roadways up to state standards. > > … > > REEEEELY good use of funds and human labor. At least one blue city in a red state is [fighting back](https://www.lex18.com/news/state-of-the-commonwealth/city-defends-rainbow-crosswalk-amid-concerns-by-us-secretary-of-transportation). Lexington, Kentucky has refused to do away with their rainbow crosswalk. ---
**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 24, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7612 "2025-08-24T18:29:34Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Paywalled. It only made me turn off my ad blocker for that page. ---
**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 24, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7613 "2025-08-24T20:20:25Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Paywalled. Is there any new insight in the article or was it just the clever headline that you wanted to highlight. It said it was a ‘gift article’ , so I shared it. Sorry if I made Bezos a billionaire (again). Do you need me to open it, screen shot it, run it through an app and then post it for you…? ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7614 "2025-08-24T21:01:15Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > “White House Capitalism” A colleague pointed out that as the US is now a command economy, then “Oval Office Capitalism” is more appropriate. Which has merit. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7615 "2025-08-24T21:27:31Z")
Huh, now I can access it. It must have been a problem on my side. ---
**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 24, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7616 "2025-08-24T22:07:10Z")
Update on the rainbow crosswalk: The community fought back by chalking the crosswalk in rainbow colors, so the city painted it over again and has now assigned a police officer to stop them reverting it. Kinda wish they’d use the manpower to stop _real_ criminals, but that’s DeSantis for you. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7617 "2025-08-25T01:38:38Z")
It would be wicked cool if the citizens picked another spot, in the dead of night painted or chalked it rainbow, and kept moving the random rainbowing every time the most recent one got obliterated. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7618 "2025-08-25T01:57:11Z")
This might be also a good place for organized civil disobedience. Someone walks up to the crosswalk in broad daylight and starts painting and gets arrested, body limp. While they’re being carted off, another person alerted by cellphone shows up and starts painting. While they’re being carted off a third shows up. This continues day and night until either the police run out of officers to send, or they cordon off the whole area 24/7, expending additional resources, eliminating the functionality of the cross-walk and disrupting traffic. ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7619 "2025-08-25T02:06:49Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > It would be wicked cool if the citizens picked another spot, in the dead of night painted or chalked it rainbow, and kept moving the random rainbowing every time the most recent one got obliterated. I have appropriated this. ---
**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 25, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7620 "2025-08-25T05:05:46Z")
[The felon has already started the Second Civil War.](https://www.aol.com/trump-threatens-send-military-baltimore-172212568.html) The next battlefield is Baltimore. > President [Donald Trump](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump) on Sunday threatened to send the military into Baltimore to “quickly clean up” crime. > > “But if Wes Moore needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I will send in the ‘troops,’ which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the Crime,” Trump said [in a post on Truth Social,](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115084149454997135) referring to the Democratic governors of Maryland and California and using a derogatory nickname for Gavin Newsom. > > Trump’s comments are the latest in a line of threats to replicate the D.C. deployment in cities across the country after hundreds of National Guard troops were brought to D.C. in what he’s described as an effort to fight crime, though critics have [painted the move](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-mayors-leaders-decry-trumps-threats-deploy-national-guard-cities-rcna224403)as an overreach for political purposes. > > Reached for comment, Moore said in a statement that Trump “would rather attack his country’s largest cities from behind a desk than walk the streets with the people he represents.” > > “The President should join us in Baltimore because the blissful ignorance, tropes, and the 1980s scare tactics benefit no one,” Moore continued. “We need leaders who are there helping the people who are actually on the ground doing the work.” > > Trump’s push to deploy National Guard troops to cities like D.C. is a significant departure from how presidents typically deploy the Guard, which is usually used to respond to situations like natural disasters and civil unrest. There. I’ve called it what it is. The felon is waging war on America. [He’s already armed his troops occupying DC.](https://www.aol.com/trump-expands-cities-targeted-possible-181916800.html) > WASHINGTON (AP) — Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President [Donald Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/people/donald-trump/) have started carrying firearms, an escalation of his military deployment that makes good on a [directive issued late last week](https://apnews.com/article/washington-federal-intervention-trump-national-guard-df942130ec117288cfc648ab4e37f031) by his defense secretary. > > A Defense Department official who was not authorized to speak publicly said some units on certain missions would be armed — some with handguns and others with rifles. The spokesperson said that all units with firearms have been trained and are operating under strict rules for use of force. > > An Associated Press photographer on Sunday saw members of the South Carolina National Guard outside Union Station with holstered handguns. > > A statement from the joint task force that has taken over policing in the nation’s capital said units began carrying their service weapons on Sunday and that the military’s rules say force should be used “only as a last resort and solely in response to an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.” It said the force is committed to protecting “the safety and wellbeing” of Washington’s residents. > > The defense official who spoke to The Associated Press said only troops on certain missions would carry guns, and that would include those patrolling to establish a law enforcement presence throughout the capital. Those working in transportation or administration would likely remain unarmed. Likely, huh? Why do I not feel all warm and fuzzy about that? [The Commander-in-Cheat wants another Cheater in Hall of Fame.](https://www.aol.com/donald-trump-demands-roger-clemens-183937248.html) > In a [social media post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115084666474687343), [Donald Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) called for pitcher Roger Clemens to be added the Baseball Hall of Fame, a day after Trump said he played golf with Clemens and his son Kacy. > > Clemens is regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history but was named in the 2007 Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball. Clemens has always denied allegations that he took performance-enhancing drugs, but the links tainted the seven-time Cy Young winner (and home run king Barry Bonds) in the eyes of Hall of Fame voters. > > Earlier in the year, [Trump claimed credit](https://sports.yahoo.com/article/president-trumps-support-pete-rose-125727780.html) for getting [Pete Rose reinstated](https://sports.yahoo.com/article/pete-roses-mlb-ban-ends-204607789.html) by Major League Baseball. Rose, who died in 2024, was banned by MLB in 1989 for gambling on baseball, but was removed from the permanently ineligible list in May by commissioner Rob Manfred. That opened the door for Rose to potentially appear on a Hall of Fame ballot. > > Trump’s post on Sunday, Aug. 24, said that the Clemens is case is “going to be like Pete Rose where … they wouldn’t put him in the Hall of Fame until I spoke to the Commissioner, and he promised to do so, but it was essentially a promise not kept because he only “opened it up” when Pete died and, even then, he said that Pete Rose only got into the mix because of DEATH. We are not going to let that happen in the case of Roger Clemens.” And since when does the president have control over who is installed in the HOF? [Co-conspirator Vance doesn’t know how World War II ended.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jd-vance-mocked-embarrassing-wwii-151149238.html) > [JD Vance](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/jd-vance/) got his history mixed up while trying to explain [President Trump](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/donald-j-trump/)’s new approach to ending the conflict in Ukraine. > > Speaking to Kristen Welker on _Meet the Press_ Sunday, the vice president vigorously defended Trump’s push to end the war through give-and-take negotiations—rather than the sanctions and ceasefire demands he once leveled at Vladimir Putin. > > Using the Second World War to illustrate his point, Vance claimed concessions and diplomacy are vital to end major conflicts—but seemingly forgot that the war ended due to unconditional surrender. > > “If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I. If you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation,” said Vance, who was deployed in the Marines as a combat correspondent. > > Unfortunately for Vance, World War II was not brought to an end, but came to a close with the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 7, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945. > > “Vance says WWII ended in negotiation -someone tell that to Hiroshima,” one user wrote on X. > > Another added, “World War 2 ended with the exact opposite of a negotiation.” ---
**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 25, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7621 "2025-08-25T05:12:41Z")
I wonder why Trump doesn’t seem to care that Barry Bonds isn’t in the Hall of Fame. Oh, wait. I know why. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=377) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=379)