# 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:** 380
**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 25, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7642 "2025-08-25T16:24:56Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “The Party of Small Government”. Well, it IS small – it’s all Trump. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7643 "2025-08-25T17:10:07Z")
And I left out curating museum exhibits. ---
**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, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7644 "2025-08-25T17:10:51Z")
Apparently the rainbow crosswalk has now been reverted three times. Good on ya, community! Make the fuckers look ridiculous. Wonder what they’d charge them with, if anyone ever got arrested. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7645 "2025-08-25T17:44:20Z")
Aggravated Coloring Outside the Lines. ---
**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 25, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7646 "2025-08-25T18:20:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “Trump needs to take care of that hand. It’s going to start affecting his golf game,” one fan wrote. Why? He can still write in the wrong numbers, can’t he? ---
**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 25, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7647 "2025-08-25T18:58:57Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Apparently the rainbow crosswalk has now been reverted three times. How many layers of paint would it take for it to stop being a crosswalk, and become a speed bump? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7648 "2025-08-25T19:04:39Z")
It looks to me that the only ones standing up to this bullshit are Governors. Congress in both houses don’t give a shit, with all the (R)s applauding wildly to every constitutional attack. The congressional (D)s aren’t doing jack shit, when they should be yelling from every hilltop. SCOTUS is a lost cause for many, many years. Governors IMHO are going to have to stop this total, absolute, shit show. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7649 "2025-08-25T19:14:29Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > I wonder why Trump doesn’t seem to care that Barry Bonds isn’t in the Hall of Fame. > > Oh, wait. I know why. You’re NOT going to get me to defend Barry Bonds, because 1.) He was a San Francisco Giant; and 2.) his namesake hit a grand slam against my Dodgers in his first at-bat against them. Say what you will about corruption of blood, there are _some_ lines that may not be crossed. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7650 "2025-08-25T19:18:47Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > **Every minute Donald Trump is on a golf course is a minute that he’s not issuing orders to _run_ the country**. I hope his hand is healthy enough to play 36 holes every day. You misspelled _ruin_. ---
**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 25, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7651 "2025-08-25T20:07:24Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > “Trump needs to take care of that hand. It’s going to start affecting his golf game,” one fan wrote. > > Why? He can still write in the wrong numbers, can’t he? And, of course, a hand injury won’t impact his ability to order caddies to drop balls on the green for him. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7652 "2025-08-25T20:11:45Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You misspelled _ruin_. Yup. My Wife are kind of “Damn the torpedoes” people. We saw bad things coming with Trump. But we sold/bought a new house anyway. We had been working on this for three years. Found the perfect place for us and our dogs. I’m not gonna let that piece of utter shit direct my life. Never. ---
**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 25, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7653 "2025-08-25T21:21:43Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > The congressional (D)s aren’t doing jack shit, when they should be yelling from every hilltop. Can anyone explain to me why the hell this is the case? Why aren’t the Democrats in both houses of Congress speaking out, going on every interview show, tweeting and xhitting, and otherwise making noise? What are they afraid of? Trump is pushing the boundaries farther and farther out each day and committing one atrocity after another. Where are the Democrats? (Not a rhetorical question.) 😡 ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7654 "2025-08-25T22:15:00Z")
A US senator earns $174,000 per year. Sure, there are some extra perks with that, but that’s the base salary. The average cost of running for the US Senate is $28,500,000 So tell me - who spends $28.5 million to get a job for six years that pays $174,000/year or $1,044,000 for those six years? Where do you get the money to do that? The Democrats are beholden to the people who paid for their campaigns that got them the job. They are not beholden to you or me unless some coalition of us passed a big enough hat to be their backer. Who has the necessary money? The 1% of the 1%. The 0.01%. And they think they’ll be fine regardless of who is in office at any level of government, as long as those elected officials are beholden to them. By and large the 0.01% lean conservative (which is another reason the Overton window is going that way), they don’t want disruption, they just want to make more money and pay fewer taxes. So where is the motivation for Democrats to rock the boat? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7655 "2025-08-25T22:24:22Z")
There’s that former Illinois senator from the early 2000s who’s certainly welcome to raise Hell, if he please would. ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7656 "2025-08-25T22:34:32Z")
You hope a _former_ senator, twice _former_ president, born 1961, is going to save you? The way the momentum is going you’ll need something better; I’m afraid. What can he do? ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7657 "2025-08-25T22:46:21Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > So tell me - who spends $28.5 million to get a job for six years that pays $174,000/year or $1,044,000 for those six years? Where do you get the money to do that? Bernie Sanders raised $35,728,404 for the 2024 election. 63.62% ($22,732,498) was from donations less than $200. Only 0.26% came from political action committees (PAC’s) [https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/bernie-sanders/summary?cid=N00000528](https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/bernie-sanders/summary?cid=N00000528) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7658 "2025-08-25T23:10:00Z")
Democrats are forever paralyzed by the possibility that they may break the Marquess of Queensbury boxing rules as they get their brains bashed in by a folding chair. ---
**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 25, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7659 "2025-08-25T23:28:48Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > > [@Broomstick](#): > > > > So tell me - who spends $28.5 million to get a job for six years that pays $174,000/year or $1,044,000 for those six years? Where do you get the money to do that? > > Bernie Sanders raised $35,728,404 for the 2024 election. 63.62% ($22,732,498) was from donations less than $200. Only 0.26% came from political action committees (PAC’s) Isn’t Sanders an Independent? He’s definitely an exception to the norm. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7660 "2025-08-25T23:41:20Z")
The infighting is still going on over “blue slips”. It looks like Trump is on the side of the “radical liberal groups”. > Getting rid of the blue slip is a terrible, short-sighted ploy that paves the path for Democrats to ram through extremist liberal judges in red states over the long-term,” said Tillis. “It’s why radical liberal groups have been pushing to get rid of the blue slip for years — Republicans shouldn’t fall for it. [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/25/grassley-trump-blue-slip-criticism-00522724](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/25/grassley-trump-blue-slip-criticism-00522724) ---
**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 25, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7661 "2025-08-25T23:44:07Z")
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