# 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:** 393
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7902 "2025-09-04T11:38:21Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Cnut, despite the legend, did understand the limits of his power. His “stopping the tide” thing was a way to demonstrate that he, though a powerful king, was not all-powerful. > > I suspect Trump thinks he can control the tides. His grasp of basic reality is thin. I think of Trump less as King Cnut, demonstrating that he can’t actually stop the tide, and more like the insane emperor Caligula, declaring War on Neptune, scourging the water and bringing back sea shells as booty. > **[Did Caligula really declare war on Neptune?](https://romanempiretimes.com/did-caligula-really-declare-war-on-neptune/)** > > A story about the day emperor Caligula ordered his soldiers to fight with the waves, declaring war on Neptune. Edited to add: I responded directly to the post, and only on going back saw that **scabpicker** also noted this parallel. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7903 "2025-09-04T12:07:46Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > and more like the insane emperor Caligula, declaring War on Neptune, scourging the water and bringing back sea shells as booty. All I can say to that, is that while he appointed horse’s arses in various roles, he still has not appointed an actual horse to the senate. So he is slightly better than the infamously terrible Roman emporer. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7904 "2025-09-04T12:49:47Z")
Laura Loomer apparently strikes again: > **[Top Democrat says intelligence briefing cancelled after attacks by far-right...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/mark-warner-democrat-laura-loomer)** > > Mark Warner says officials rescinded invitation because of ‘campaign of baseless attacks’ by extremist Trump backer > [@](#): > > Loomer posted on social media in recent days complaining that the director of an intelligence agency was hosting a “rabid ANTI-TRUMP DEMOCRAT SENATOR”. She celebrated the cancellation, calling Warner a threat to national security and arguing he should be removed from the Senate committee. > > “He weaponized our intelligence agencies to push the debunked Russia Collusion Hoax,” she wrote. > > She told the New York Times Warner should “be removed from office and tried for treason”. She seems nice. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7905 "2025-09-04T14:30:11Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Of course the killing of 11 alleged smugglers close to Venezuelan waters is also part of the clusterfuck. I’ll go further and say that we should presume, until conclusive evidence to the contrary is provided, that what Trump actually blew up was a boatload of human trafficking victims. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7906 "2025-09-04T15:48:58Z")
Maybe it’s just me but this feels like Peak Clusterfuck. > **[Bruno J. Navarro (@brunojnavarro.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/brunojnavarro.bsky.social/post/3lxz577d2w22j)** > > Trump's surge of federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C., is exposing the FBI's fleet of unmarked cars, potentially risking its ability to do its most sensitive national security and surveillance work, nine current and former employees of the... [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-employees-worry-trumps-washington-surge-is-exposing-unmarked-cars-2025-09-04/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-employees-worry-trumps-washington-surge-is-exposing-unmarked-cars-2025-09-04/) ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7907 "2025-09-04T16:34:28Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > She seems nice. I’ve been assured that nothing she says matters. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7908 "2025-09-04T16:50:21Z")
I was thinking about that very same thing. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7909 "2025-09-04T20:17:54Z")
I thought Republicans were _against_ gun control. But apparently they’re even _more_ against transgender people. > **[Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns,...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment)** > > Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions. “Gun control for thee but not for me.” ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7910 "2025-09-04T20:28:47Z")
This is a gift link: > **[Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and...](https://www.vox.com/health/460086/rfk-jr-trump-maha-cancer-alcohol-study-health?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjVXdXpielFKSGsiLCJwIjoiL2hlYWx0aC80NjAwODYvcmZrLWpyLXRydW1wLW1haGEtY2FuY2VyLWFsY29ob2wtc3R1ZHktaGVhbHRoIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU4MjI3MDAxLCJpYXQiOjE3NTcwMTc0MDF9.YJLbXhuy7VkW6_4d8U1PfUc3WAWVKChUyWXTIb250PA&utm_medium=gift-link)** > > Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that. > [@](#): > > Instead, the Trump administration will not release a report that would actually show just how harmful to people’s health drinking alcohol can be, the latest in a series of [decisions that could actually leave Americans less healthy](https://www.vox.com/health/421349/trump-rfk-jr-maha-movement-epa-health). ---
**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:** [September 4, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7911 "2025-09-04T21:24:20Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “Gun control for thee but not for me.” They were all for gun control when the Black Panthers exercised their 2nd Amendment rights. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7912 "2025-09-04T22:13:54Z")
I was just wondering why he is so convinced that vaccines are causing these alleged problems he can see in kids faces at the airport, and why isn’t it the junk food or the yellow stuff Kraft calls Macaroni and cheese? Or the soda pop and candy? He’s not a doctor and he’s not a scientist. God Damn these stupid fools. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7913 "2025-09-04T23:10:23Z")
He’s still an idiot but he blames those, too. But not too loudly anymore because his boss downs a hundred cans of diet soda a day and is a well known Fast Food connoisseur. Funny how one’s previously avowed principles take a back seat when they become politically inconvenient ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7914 "2025-09-05T00:35:52Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Trump floats the possibility of renaming the Department of Defense back to its original pre-1947 name of the Department of War. And now it’s official: [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/white-house-pentagon-department-of-war-00545673](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/white-house-pentagon-department-of-war-00545673) > President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday to change the Department of Defense’s name to the Department of War, part of a broader effort to present a more aggressive, victorious military to the world. > > A senior administration official confirmed the change, which would likely require an act of Congress. But the White House is looking for other alternatives that would avoid a vote, according to another person familiar with the deliberations. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7915 "2025-09-05T01:01:24Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Have you been to an ocean beach? You know, when the tide is out, that puffy yellow stuff lying where the water line got to? Just make that red and you have descibed Colorado Springs. As it happens, I live within a couple of miles of our local beach here in New England and am quite familiar with sea foam. Color it aging blood red? I get your point. Sea foam at water’s edge: [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreih2irmby7ipcgimamsfornfydu5atnc3srjfm5n3da7qf25kc35he@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreih2irmby7ipcgimamsfornfydu5atnc3srjfm5n3da7qf25kc35he@jpeg) ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7916 "2025-09-05T01:23:01Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > the White House is looking for other alternatives that would avoid a vote, Hell, all he has to do is get new letterhead printed. Who’s gonna stop him? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7917 "2025-09-05T01:25:04Z")
Why doesn’t just rename it Department of America! Fuck Yeah! ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7918 "2025-09-05T01:38:34Z")
… or be pre-emptive and save on the letterhead and just fold it into the Department of Homeland Affairs? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7919 "2025-09-05T02:14:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > They were all for gun control when the Black Panthers exercised their 2nd Amendment rights. ~~Orange~~ Trans is the new ~~black~~ Black? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7920 "2025-09-05T03:03:03Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > am quite familiar with sea foam I was sort of reluctant to use those particular words because they are also the name of a type of confection. > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > ~~Orange~~ Trans is the new ~~black~~ Black? I wonder, will toy retailers stop carrying _Trans_formers? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/7921 "2025-09-05T03:21:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I wonder, will toy retailers stop carrying _Trans_formers? Have they changed the lyrics to _Herman and Katnip_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=392) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=394)