# 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:** 400
**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:** [September 15, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8042 "2025-09-15T07:01:57Z")
[The felon now wants 58 million dollars in the wake of Kirk’s killing.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-seeks-58-million-194317840.html) > The Trump administration is asking Congress to approve an additional $58 million for security to protect the executive and judicial branches following the [assassination of Charlie Kirk](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/utah-governor-shares-details-charlie-kirk-assassination-investigation-rcna231022), a leadership aide confirmed to NBC News on Sunday. > > The Trump administration supports adding more money to protect members of Congress, too, but deferred to the legislative branch on how to do that, the leadership aide told NBC News. > > The request comes as Republicans and Democrats negotiate a stopgap funding bill and as [lawmakers have](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-scared-charlie-kirk-assassination-canceling-events-rcna230632)beefed up their personal security, moved events indoors or canceled them altogether following Kirk’s killing in Utah and an [uptick](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charlie-kirks-assassination-highlights-history-political-violence-us-rcna230586) in political violence overall. Yet not a penny for Harris. [The felon’s Department of War is already falling behind in preparing for war.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-military-falling-behind-race-092602047.html) > When the Pentagon announced a “joint interagency task force” in July to bring the US military up to speed on drone warfare, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James Mingus compared drones to the threat of improvised explosive devices two decades earlier in Iraq. > > The drone, said Mingus, “is our IED of today” — a war-transforming technology that smaller powers could use to put big powers at a disadvantage. Ukraine has demonstrated this brilliantly over the last few years through its [innovative use of drones](https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-drone-defense-tech-industry-warfare-russia-attacks-2025-4?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com) to stymie the invading Russians. And 20-odd years ago, another nation that once saw itself as all-powerful on the battlefield — the United States — found itself flummoxed in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan as insurgents deployed IEDs to kill or maim [thousands of young Americans](https://warontherocks.com/2017/05/how-the-ied-won-dispelling-the-myth-of-tactical-success-and-innovation/#:~:text=Whether%20you%20measure%20in%20blood,of%20veteran%20and%20Afghan%20amputees.) in a new kind of “asymmetric” warfare. & > Critics say the Defense Department is having similar problems now with drones. In that earlier era, as Gates wrote in his 2014 memoir, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War,” the long delays in deploying the MRAP occurred because “no one at a senior level wanted to spend the money to buy them” and officials in the Pentagon’s “hidebound and unresponsive bureaucratic structure … were wed to their old plans, programs and thinking.” > > > > _We are really, really behind_ > > > > _Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program of the Center for a New American Security_ > > Today, some military experts say that, for many of the same bureaucratic reasons, the Pentagon has been far too slow to adapt to the latest evolution in asymmetric warfare: drones. Indeed, much of the catch-up has occurred only in the last month or so. Shortly after the task force was announced in July, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth [unveiled a major initiative](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25995487-250710-dod-memo-unleashing-us-military-drone-dominance/) called “Unleashing US Military Drone Dominance,” and [declared at](https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4246987/pentagon-to-increase-low-cost-drone-production-in-us/) a news conference that “drones are the biggest battlefield innovation in a generation.” However, Hegseth noted offhandedly, to date “US units are not outfitted with the lethal small drones the modern battlefield requires.” He mostly blamed the Biden administration for the delays, saying it only “deployed red tape” while “our adversaries collectively produce millions of cheap drones each year.” (The Pentagon did not respond to requests for comment.) [The felon’s folks are confabulating with the Taliban.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taliban-us-envoys-prisoner-swap-agreement/) > The Taliban said Saturday they had reached an agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners as part of an effort to normalize relations between the United States and [Afghanistan](https://www.cbsnews.com/feature/afghanistan-the-way-forward/). > > They gave no details of an actual detainee swap and the White House did not comment on the meeting in Kabul or the results described in a Taliban statement. > > The Taliban released photographs from their talks, showing their foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, with President Trump’s special envoy for hostage response, [Adam Boehler](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-us-citizen-released-belarus/), as well as Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as the U.S. special envoy for Afghan peace during the first Trump administration. You should remember how well that went the last time the felon and his flock made a deal with the Taliban. The only question now is _how will the felon blame this on his usual suspects?_ [The felon’s war on education has a new battlefront: medicine.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-celebrates-leading-medical-140053047.html) > The [White House](https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/executive/white-house) is celebrating news that a leading medical education accreditor will end its DEI requirements. > > “President Trump is protecting civil rights and restoring merit-based opportunity. Organizations like the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education are making the right decision by choosing to no longer waste resources on divisive DEI departments,” White House assistant press secretary Liz Huston told Fox News Digital in a statement. > > “Individual dignity, hard work and excellence are the foundation of American greatness, and these demeaning ‘equity’ mandates have no place in our institutions,” Huston added. > > **In a statement last week obtained by Fox News Digital, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced that it will end its [Dei](https://www.foxnews.com/category/dei) requirements and shutter its Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.** > > **“Recent federal directives, including executive orders and a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, have prohibited accrediting bodies from requiring or otherwise encouraging a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI),” ACGME said in a statement.** ---
**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:** [September 15, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8043 "2025-09-15T09:41:20Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > And the visa situation then and now is also borked. There is no communication between the Miller/Noem and Little Marco state department incompetents. By design, of course - the administration wants to be able to declare any immigrant, no matter how legal and compliant with requirements, to be in violation and available to be clapped in chains and paraded as a dangerous, violent criminal at any time for the convenience and furtherance of the the regime. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8044 "2025-09-15T10:04:18Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > By design, of course - the administration wants to be able to declare any immigrant, no matter how legal and compliant with requirements, to be in violation and available to be clapped in chains and paraded as a dangerous, violent criminal at any time for the convenience and furtherance of the the regime. Which of course is going to deter _any_ country from considering opening a manufacturing plant in the US for a long time to come. I’m sure the good folks of Georgia didn’t really want those jobs anyway. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8045 "2025-09-15T16:02:42Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Which of course is going to deter _any_ country from considering opening a manufacturing plant in the US for a long time to come And there goes all those promises by various foreign countries to invest hundreds of billions in the US. The ones they made in recent tariff negotiations. Not that any of them were anywhere close to firm promises, but now they have an excuse to break them. ---
**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 15, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8046 "2025-09-15T17:16:18Z")
And let’s lay all of this at Trump’s door. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8047 "2025-09-15T17:31:35Z")
What? Clearly if countries were to back out of their agreements to invest in the US due to fears of the treatment of workers they sent here to get factories working, it would be all Biden’s fault. Or maybe Obama. Or maybe the “leftist deep state”. ---
**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 15, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8048 "2025-09-15T18:07:21Z")
🤦🏽‍♀️ Silly me. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8049 "2025-09-15T18:28:14Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > Clearly if countries were to back out of their agreements to invest in the US due to fears of the treatment of workers they sent here to get factories working, it would be all Biden’s fault. Or maybe Obama. Or maybe the “leftist deep state”. No, no, you see, the Obiden Derp State told them that this was the perfect opportunity to flood the US with undocumented engineers and technicians, who will steal our wimmen and our precious bodily fluids, but Trump caught them at it! Now, they’ll just send the money, and keep their filth columnist engineers and technicians home! We’ll have money, wimmens and bodily fluids! Like Jesus intended! ---
**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 16, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8050 "2025-09-16T19:07:55Z")
The Trump administration is promising to prosecute hate speech, probably just in one direction though, given that they’re still referring to Charlie Kirk exclusively by his first name. Kinda like a little brother. [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/16/pam-bondi-first-amendment-hate-speech-prosecution-00566424](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/16/pam-bondi-first-amendment-hate-speech-prosecution-00566424) Highlight from that article: > Asked by reporters about the attorney general’s remarks Tuesday, Trump returned to a suggestion he has previously floated — that members of the media should be targeted for their coverage of his administration — which he claimed was “hate.” > > “We’ll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly, it’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart,” Trump said, responding to a question from ABC’s Jonathan Karl. Uh-huh. So unfavorable coverage is now hate speech, but the shit that Trump spews out of his mouth - he literally has said he hates Democrats; they’re scum who want to destroy the country; immigrants are vermin poisoning the blood of the nation - all that is okay. FUCK YOU, Mitch McConnell. Why didn’t you show some spine and rally the GOP to convict him in his second impeachment? ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8051 "2025-09-16T20:10:20Z")
I was about to say ‘it’s beyond parody’, but it crossed that line a looooonngggg time ago. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8052 "2025-09-17T03:29:26Z")
[Killer Kennedy is now a commissar.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ex-cdc-director-set-tell-214843659.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > Dr. Susan Monarez, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is expected to say in a Senate committee hearing this week that **US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put politics before public health when he required that all CDC policy and personnel decisions be cleared by political staff** , according to her prepared testimony. > > Monarez is set to appear before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in a hearing Wednesday. > > She was ousted last month, just 29 days into her tenure as CDC director, amid clashes with Kennedy over vaccine policies. She will be joined at the hearing by Dr. Debra Houry, who stepped down from her role as the CDC’s chief medical officer in protest after Monarez’s ouster. [The felon doesn’t want slave owners offended.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-orders-removal-photo-enslaved-051637064.html) > President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/) is reportedly having his administration remove photography related to slavery from national parks in the United States. > > In an article published by the _[Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/)_ on Monday, Sept. 15, the outlet reported that four anonymous sources familiar with the matter said the removal orders are tied to the 79-year-old’s March 27 executive order titled “[Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History](https://people.com/trump-orders-smithsonian-remove-improper-ideology-museums-11705199),” which directs the Interior Department “to eliminate information that reflects a ‘corrosive ideology’ that disparages historic Americans.” > > “This is fake news. No decisions have been made on this exhibit – it is under review to ensure compliance with the Executive Order,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle tells PEOPLE. > > One of the portraits is said to be “The Scourged Back,” a photo taken in 1863 that shows the scarred back of escaped enslaved man Gordon. > > According to the [Met Museum](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/302544), the marks on Gordon’s back are “severe whipping scars” he received and is “Perhaps the most famous of all known Civil War–era portraits of slaves.” > > “Interpretive materials that disproportionately emphasize negative aspects of U.S. history or historical figures, without acknowledging broader context or national progress, can unintentionally distort understanding rather than enrich it,” National Park Service spokeswoman Rachel Pawlitz said in a statement. [The felon is still emulating the Kim dictatorship.](https://sports.yahoo.com/article/president-trump-demanding-nfl-change-151606302.html) (The formatting is from the original.) > President Trump is demanding the NFL change an “atrocious” rule moving forward. > > The President of the United States, 79, spent his Sunday watching some football. There was a lot of fun action on Sunday, with the Cowboys beating the Giants in a thriller, the Eagles topping the Chiefs in a Super Bowl rematch and the Falcons besting the Vikings on Sunday Night Football. The NFL’s new kickoff rule was very much on display, too, with dozens of big returns across the league. > > The NFL’s new Dynamic Kickoff Rule made an adjustment in 2025, moving the touchback from the 30 to the 35-yard line, in an attempt to get more kickoff returns. So far, it’s worked. In Week 1, teams returned 118 of 156 kickoffs for a 75.6% return rate, which was a 50 percent increase over 2024. > > But President Trump does not like it. > > President Trump, who previously called out the NFL during his first presidential term for players kneeling during the national anthem, is now calling out the league for its new kickoff rule. > > The President of the United States believes it looks bad. > > ## **President Trump doesn’t hold back on the new kickoff rule** > > President Trump is demanding that the league change its new kickoff rule. He believes it’s an “atrocious” rule. > > “The NFL has to get rid of that ridiculous looking new Kickoff Rule. How can they make such a big and sweeping change so easily and quickly. It’s at least as dangerous as the “normal” kickoff, and looks like hell. The ball is moving, and the players are not, the exact opposite of what football is all about. ‘Sissy’ football is bad for America, and bad for the NFL! Who comes up with these ridiculous ideas? It’s like wanting to “roll back” the golf ball so it doesn’t go (nearly!) as far. Fortunately, college football will remain the same, hopefully forever!!” he wrote. Did you catch his use of the “s word”? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8053 "2025-09-17T03:33:54Z")
We all remember when the eagle in the Oval Office made Orangeboy turn white and look like a sissy… ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8054 "2025-09-17T03:59:56Z")
To say nothing about the magic bone spurs – the ones that haven’t bothered him since the draft ended. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8055 "2025-09-17T04:21:36Z")
Speaking of dreamlike, [Commissar Killer Kennedy had some odd comments about his first meeting with Kirk](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-raises-eyebrows-bizarre-211100449.html). > I met Charlie for the first time in July of 2001. I went on his podcast, and I think we approached each other with a lot of trepidation at that time, but by the end of the podcast, we were soulmates First it’s Donnie and Kim sitting in a tree, and now it’s the commissar with Kirk. For people who really hate homosexuality, the top Republicans sure do express a lot of romance for other men, don’t they? [And WTF is a sitting vice president doing being the actual host of a commercial radio program?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlies-name-stephen-miller-vows-204437315.html) > The White House has ramped up its [vow for vengeance](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirks-death-prompts-outpouring-shock-grief-condemnations-polit-rcna230472) in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, with deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller promising to bring the resources of the federal government to bear against what he described as “terrorist networks.” > > Vice President JD Vance, meanwhile, argued that those identifying as liberals were largely to blame for political violence and endorsed efforts to shame and [make job trouble](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charlie-kirk-death-teachers-professors-nationwide-fired-disciplined-s-rcna230845) for those publicly cheering Kirk’s death. > > Their comments came Monday during an episode of Kirk’s namesake podcast, which Vance hosted from his ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Oh, that’s right. He’s vowing vengeance against his political opposition. Silly question. [The felon needs a new distraction. Guess it’s time for him to sue!](https://us.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-launches-bonkers-15b-lawsuit-053208537.html) > Donald Trump has launched a bizarre $15 billion lawsuit against _The New York Times_ that is filled with years’ worth of petty grievances against his hometown newspaper. > > The president posted a lengthy rant on his [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115211918198289404) account on Monday night attacking the _Times_ for its endorsement of Democrat Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election and claiming that the paper has never shown him enough respect for his dazzling success on _The Apprentice_. > > Trump alleges that staff at the paper were so angry about his victory in 2016 that they set out to ensure he could not return to the White House. > > In his Truth Social rant, the president accused the _Times_ of “a decades long method of lying about your Favorite President (ME!), my family, business, the America First Movement, MAGA, and our Nation as a whole.” You might be wondering why he’s all bent out of shape here. Naw, it couldn’t be this. > The [lawsuit](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437.1.0.pdf), which was filed in Florida, focuses instead on a book and three articles that were published in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. > > Trump’s lawyers allege that the book, _Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success,_ was written in an attempt to dismantle the foundational myth of Trumpism: that he was a brilliant businessman. > > The book was written by _Times_ reporters Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner. Before its publication in September 2024, the _Times_ also ran an article based on the reporting in the book, which is named as Exhibit A in the suit. > > Two other random articles, which also raised questions about Trump, are also lumped into the lawsuit. One [rounded up some of the scandals he survived](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/trump-scandals.html) to easily retain the Republican presidential nomination, while [the other quoted Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.html), John Kelly, claiming that his old boss would attempt to rule like a dictator if he ever returned to the White House. That should be a fun court case! _NYT lawyer_: Did you ever say you would be a dictator? Yes or no only please. _The felon_: Yes. _NYT lawyer_: I rest my case. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8056 "2025-09-17T05:18:52Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > _NYT lawyer_: Did you ever say you would be a dictator? Yes or no only please. He’d never answer a Yes/No question with Yes or No. He’d “weave” around the answer, leaving no clear response, and raising more questions. _Well, you know, I don’t know if I did, but if I did, then it was a it was a joke that the far-left fake news didn’t get. Not surprising; the mainstream media, all fake news, they have no sense of humor. But about dictators, how about Biden demanding that the borders be open, allowing all those drug dealers and criminals and especially mental patients in? Those mental patients especially, asylum, they want asylum, but they were let out of asylums by those shithole countries that pointed them in our direction and Biden’s open border. Biden cheated in 2020, and he knows he did, and he acted fast to solidify his dictatorial powers, but the Great American People weren’t having any of that, and proudly restored me to the Oval Office in 2024, and now it’s up to me to fix all that Dictator Biden broke. Thank you for your attention in this matter!_ Expecting Trump to answer a Yes/No question with a Yes or No is like trying to nail jelly to a wall. (I know; I should have used more all-caps.) ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8057 "2025-09-17T05:21:05Z")
It’s not you who should have used more caps. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8058 "2025-09-17T05:26:31Z")
Don’t forget Hillary! Everything that isn’t somebody else’s fault is natch’ her fault. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8059 "2025-09-17T06:47:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > How can they make such a big and sweeping change so easily and quickly. …says the guy who has gutted huge segments of the US government in less than a year… ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8060 "2025-09-17T06:50:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > I met Charlie for the first time in **July of 2001**. I went on his podcast, > **Charles James Kirk** (October 14, 1993 He went on an 8-year-olds’ podcast? ---
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