# 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:** 407
**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 23, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8182 "2025-09-23T13:34:10Z")
> > [@Monty](#): > > > > > Some extremist experts are however questioning > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > > “extremely dangerous” as it threatens > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > > We’ve never seen > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > > However, legal experts worry > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > > raising the possibility What KILLS me is the tut-tut-tut-ing, pearl-clutching, namby-pamby tone of these objections that experts are raising! These people should be screaming from the rooftops that this man is a freaking maniac and is hell-bent on destroying the Bill of Rights! _We’re concerned… we worry…this might…there’s a possibility…_ When I read wimpy comments like that I want to scream: **“You are the experts, you know what’s happening, you SEE it happening! Call it what it is, FFS!”** ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8183 "2025-09-23T14:30:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I think both the military courts and the civilian courts will not allow it to happen. No, they’ll _say_ the actions are illegal and tell Hegseth to stop. Hegseth will then say, ‘No,’ and do whatever Dear Leader tells him to do. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8184 "2025-09-23T14:52:39Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I think both the military courts and the civilian courts will not allow it to happen. What “the courts” say/do does not matter. All Hegseth et al have to do is broadcast the names of the “guilty” parties. The military’s fine tradition of hazing will take care of anyone who dares to express non-standard beliefs. The MAGA administration will operate extralegally whenever it can get by with a bit of muscle. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8185 "2025-09-23T17:28:46Z")
For a laugh at some run of the mill “Trump is a moron,” I present Trump trying to pronounce acetaminophen, one of the most common OTC drugs in the world. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KoDAFv_LS5A/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump struggles to pronounce acetaminophen during press conference") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoDAFv_LS5A) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8186 "2025-09-23T19:42:38Z")
I haven’t been able to bring myself to actually watch it yet, but I read some of the lowlights of trump’s recent address to the U.N. in this MSNBC article, and it sounds like a doozy. A couple reaction quotes: > Democratic Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico [told MSNBC in response](https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3lzjkfecner25) to the address, “This man is literally unhinged, irresponsible, bizarre, bonkers, ludicrous. I don’t even know why his staff are allowing him to stand in front of a mic at this point. It was completely incoherent.” > Ishaan Tharoor, a global affairs columnist for The Washington Post, [wrote online](https://x.com/ishaantharoor/status/1970504163508343258) after the speech, “I’ve reported on every Trump UNGA speech. This is easily the craziest one.” > **[With bizarre remarks at the U.N., Trump embarrasses himself and the United...](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/bizarre-remarks-un-trump-embarrasses-united-states-rcna233215)** > > In 2018, officials at the U.N. laughed at Trump because they thought he was kidding. In 2025, they stopped laughing because they know he isn’t kidding. If I find myself traveling abroad in the coming months / years, I may very well do some [flagjacking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323) of my own. Sorry, Canadian friends 😊 ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8187 "2025-09-23T20:02:55Z")
I watched it. It was breathtaking in its self-centeredness, it’s spectacular amount of lies, and incredible ignorance. The entire world’s states-persons must have been shaking their heads and trying not to laugh uncontrollably throughout. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8188 "2025-09-23T20:34:11Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > The entire world’s states-persons must have been shaking their heads and trying not to laugh uncontrollably throughout. They laughed 7 years ago when he told the U.N. “my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.”. But I don’t think anybody’s laughing now. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8189 "2025-09-23T20:39:18Z")
> [@solost](#): > > “my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” Sadly, in a way that’s true. He has fucked us over more than any other administration. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8190 "2025-09-23T21:02:47Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > The entire world’s states-persons must have been shaking their heads and trying not to laugh uncontrollably throughout. When your crazy racist senile uncle is just bragging, you might laugh. But when he’s waving a gun at the dining room table, you don’t laugh. > [@enipla](#): > > Sadly, in a way that’s true. He has fucked us over more than any other administration. He has in this term. He wasn’t nearly as effective in his first term. ---
**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 23, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8191 "2025-09-23T21:25:24Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > For a laugh at some run of the mill “Trump is a moron,” I present Trump trying to pronounce acetaminophen, one of the most common OTC drugs in the world. There was also his recent verbal mangling of “Azerbaijan”. And his pronunciation of “Armenia” as \< checks notes \> “Albania”. ---
**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 23, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8192 "2025-09-23T22:16:39Z")
FAUX News liked trumpie’s speech at the UN–big surprise! > **[Fox News slobbers over Trump's unhinged UN speech](https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/23/2345061/-Fox-News-slobbers-over-Trump-s-unhinged-UN-speech?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=)** > > Fox News attempted to spin President Donald Trump’s rambling, lie-filled speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, praising the moment as “raw truth” despite the embarrassing display . Lies, lies, lies, and more lies. At least the guy is consistent. > … > For instance, Trump claimed that his current approval ratings are “the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had.” In reality, Trump’s approval is at 41.9% in aggregate, and the outlet noted, “Trump’s approval ratings across a wide range of polls are both lower than his historical highs and low compared with many other post-World War II presidents.” > > Trump alleged that Washington, D.C., was the “crime capital of America” when he took office, but D.C.’s crime rate[has been trending down](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/15/2343651/-Trump-cooks-up-a-new-reason-to-occupy-DC) and other cities like Memphis and Kansas City have higher rates. > > He lied when claiming 300,000 migrant children were “lost” under the Biden administration. He lied about gas prices “coming way down”—they’re up since he was inaugurated in January. Trump claimed that China has “very few wind farms” but that nation has three times as many the wind farms as the U.S. > > Trump also alleged that 300,000 people died due to drug overdoses in the past year, a fake statistic he used to justify his use of the military to bomb boats in the Atlantic. PolitiFact noted that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows that there were 43,000 deaths due to opioids, a tragic figure but far less than Trump’s made-up claim. > > Trump[also regurgitated](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/23/2345033/-Angry-old-man-yells-at-the-UN-for-an-hour) his false assertion that he ended “seven unendable wars” since he took office. > … Blahblahblah, and so on… Why didn’t the whole assembly rise as one person and scream: _“You lying bastard! Go fuck yourself!”_ Each in their native language, of course. People still treat him like he’s normal! That absolutely _kills_ me. 😡 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8193 "2025-09-23T22:31:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > FAUX News liked trumpie’s speech at the UN–big surprise! > Fox News attempted to spin President Donald Trump’s rambling, lie-filled speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, praising the moment as “raw truth” Oh, there was “raw truth” revealed alright, but it was of the “wtf is wrong with him” variety. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8194 "2025-09-24T00:16:48Z")
Melania Trump speech plagiarism rears its ugly head again: > Melania Trump: As children, we all played marbles, through paper airplanes and run with a thin string in our hand watching our kite… Great minds have turned marbles into microchips, paper airplanes into drones, and kites into satellites > The phrase, "As children, we all played marbles, through paper airplanes and run with a thin string in our hand watching our kites. Great minds have turned marbles into microchips, paper airplanes into drones, and kites into satellites was written by C.J. Cherryh in the book **Downbelow Station**. > **[George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3lzk2itansc2z)** ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8195 "2025-09-24T00:23:25Z")
“through paper airplanes” ? I find it hard to believe Cherryh and her editor both missed that one! ---
**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 24, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8196 "2025-09-24T01:53:53Z")
Maybe it was a foreshadowing of the felon’s wife’s attempt to lie her way out of a wet paper bag. ---
**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 24, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8197 "2025-09-24T01:57:46Z")
I’m surprised the delegation from Venezuela didn’t rise up with a resounding “We don’t!” when the felon lied that everyone says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, why wasn’t their a rousing round of booing when the felon said that, along iwth him stopping wars, and then announced he blew civilian ships out of the water? Fuck. I seriously cannot keep up with this nonsense. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8198 "2025-09-24T03:45:43Z")
Trump said NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace. > **[Trump says NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft that violate...](https://abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trump-nato-countries-shoot-russian-aircraft-violate-airspace/story?id=125864554&_js_v=0.1&_gsa=1#webview=1)** > > Trump also pressured European countries to stop buying Russian oil. ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8199 "2025-09-24T04:47:17Z")
[Why am I not surprised this is happening for one of the biggest celebrations in the nation’s history?](https://www.aol.com/news/group-planning-united-states-250th-233533889.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > The group in charge of nationwide planning for the [United States’ 250th birthday celebrations](https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/06/politics/trump-250-america-birthday-celebration?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) has fired its Trump administration-appointed executive director for “breaches of authority and trust,” a spokesperson said Tuesday. > > **The nonpartisan US Semiquincentennial Commission said in a statement that Ari Abergel, who was put in place by the White House this spring, “initiated a security breach of a Commission social media account” and “engaged in unauthorized actions related to Commission approved programming, finances, and communications.”** > > The congressionally created commission, currently chaired by Rosie Rios, who was US Treasurer under former President Barack Obama, said it will appoint a new executive director in consultation with the White House. The Wall Street Journal was [first to report](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpolicy%2Fgroup-organizing-americas-250th-birthday-fires-executive-director-9fc80d44&data=05%7C02%7Cclay.voytek%40cnn.com%7Ceae972a7090a4d618ea708ddfaf6cd61%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638942660115864734%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WF%2FNwKak%2BZGW3%2Bwq8EqJZIppjXQrb2BjSAfJ0JEYk0I%3D&reserved=0) the firing. > > President Donald Trump earlier this year installed allies at the non-partisan body, also known as America250, including Abergel and his former campaign manager Chris LaCivita as an adviser. > > An America250 spokesperson told CNN in a statement that the commission had issued a written directive weeks ago that, among other things, “removed its website and social media platforms” from Abergel’s control. And what dos the felon’s flack have to say about his firing? > [@](#): > > Abergel disputed the commission’s characterization of his firing on Tuesday. In a statement to CNN, he insisted he was fired for posting “God bless Charlie Kirk” on an account he oversaw and had “full access” to, referring to a September 11 [post](https://www.instagram.com/p/DOejunaj-JL/?igsh=MTd0aTB0OGFyY2Z6Mw%3D%3D) to America250’s Instagram account that features a photo of the conservative activist, who was killed at a speaking event at a Utah university the day before. Why are you posting that on that account, flack? Also, you might recall his name from these “best” performances. > [@](#): > > Abergel, a former Melania Trump aide and Fox News producer, arrived at America250 in the spring and helped produce the Army’s military parade in June and the kick-off celebration for the 250th birthday in Iowa in July. Both events received criticism from congressional Democrats on the commission, who argued the events were partisan and did not receive official votes from the commission. [The felon’s ICE used a 5-year-old autistic girl as bait to arrest her father.](https://www.aol.com/ice-held-5-old-autistic-134513124.html) > [@](#): > > A video obtained by Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a 5-year-old girl, whose mother says she is autistic, while agents attempted to arrest her father near their Massachusetts home. > > The video, provided to Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra by the girl’s mother, depicts the girl sitting beside an SUV with three agents nearby outside of her home in Leominster, Massachusetts, last Tuesday. Her father at the time was inside. > > The girl’s mother told Telemundo — which is owned and operated by NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News — that her husband called her while he was driving with their daughter shortly before the incident and told her he thought he was being followed. > > Her husband, Edward Hip Mejia, drove home and “managed to run back into the parking lot of my house,” she said, and her daughter as a result was left with the agents. > > “They took my daughter, she’s 5-years-old. She has autism spectrum,” the girl’s mother is heard saying to agents in the video. “Give me my daughter back.” > > Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Mejia “ignored law enforcement emergency lights to pull over and drove back to his house. He fled from the car, gave officers the double middle finger, and darted inside his house. He abandoned his 5-year-old daughter in the car. Officers helped rescue the child and called local police to report the abandonment.” [Now the felon wants the people he said are incompetent to fight his owner.](https://www.aol.com/news/major-shift-trump-says-now-193255760.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump) said Tuesday afternoon that [he thinks Ukraine](https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia-ukraine-news), with help from the European Union, could win back its territory from Russia and return the country to its original borders. > > Trump had previously suggested numerous times that giving up some land would be a key component of resolving Ukraine’s war with Russia. > > “After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump said in a [lengthy post on Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115255130298104593). > > He said that with the financial support of NATO, returning Ukraine to its original borders is “very much an option.” He added that Russia has been “fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win. This is not distinguishing Russia.” But of course he doesn’t understand what a defensive war is. > [@](#): > > Trump suggested that once Russian citizens realize how much is being spent on fighting Ukraine, which he said has “Great Spirit, and only getting better, Ukraine would be able to take back their Country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that!” Tell me he doesn’t see this as a simple real estate deal with the winner the one who pays the broker the most. [The felon’s war on DEI claims a military comission.](https://www.aol.com/articles/pentagon-disbands-panel-military-women-214248953.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has disbanded a committee that provided recommendations for women serving in the military, including on their well-being and treatment, alleging on Tuesday it had pursued a “divisive feminist agenda.” > > The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services was created in 1951 and provided advice on “recruitment, retention, employment, integration, well-being, and treatment of women” in the military, according to the committee’s website. > > On Tuesday, a Pentagon spokesperson said Hegseth had decided to terminate the committee because it is “focused on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts combat readiness, while Secretary Hegseth has focused on advancing uniform, sex-neutral standards across the Department.” > > The Committee is among the oldest advisory panels within the U.S. military and has submitted over 1,100 recommendations to Pentagon chiefs, with about 94% either fully or partially adopted, according to the committee’s website. > > “Recommendations have historically been instrumental in effecting changes to laws and policies pertaining to military women,” it says. That’s right, folks. 1951, the heyday of DEI, saw the creation of that committee and just 74 years later, it’s gone. [The felon’s attempt to punish China just made that country more money.](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-floods-world-cheap-exports-064330955.html) > [@](#): > > (Bloomberg) – President Xi Jinping’s export engine has proved unstoppable during five months of sky-high US tariffs, sending China toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. > > With access to the US curtailed, Chinese manufacturers have shown they aren’t backing down: Indian purchases hit an all-time high in August, shipments to Africa are on track for an annual record and sales to Southeast Asia have exceeded their pandemic-era peak. > > That across-the-board surge is causing alarm abroad, as governments weigh the potential damage to their domestic industries against the risk of antagonizing Beijing — the top trading partner for over half the planet. [Another real president, Lee Jae Myung, cites some economic facts.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/south-korean-president-says-country-132957864.html) > [@](#): > > South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said in an interview [with Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/south-koreas-president-lee-says-us-investment-demands-would-spark-financial-2025-09-21/) that his country cannot afford to meet President Trump’s demands that it invest $350 billion into America in exchange for the removal of punishing tariffs. > > “Without a currency swap, if we were to withdraw $350 billion in the manner that the U.S. is demanding and to invest this all in cash in the U.S., South Korea would face a situation as it had in the 1997 financial crisis,” Lee told Reuters through a translator, explaining the demands would plunge the country into a financial crisis. > > “Reaching detailed agreements that guarantee commercial reasonableness is now the central task — yet it also remains the biggest obstacle,” Lee said. And guess who would decide where that Korean money would be invested if Korea could afford it? > [@](#): > > Trump said Korea’s investment projects would be selected by him, and the country would have discretion on how their money would be used. And let’s not forget our allies are not magaflatearthers. > [@](#): > > Lee also said many in his country were angered by the “harsh” treatment workers at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia faced during a recent immigration raid, warning it could make other companies wary of making in investments in the United States. [I have a new favorite journalist.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mehdi-hasan-eviscerates-man-child-160920743.html) > [@](#): > > Journalist **Mehdi Hasan** , went off on President **Donald Trump** as he spoke to the UN General Assembly Tuesday, ripping the commander in chief as a “man-child” who addressed foreign leaders with words “not even the literal dictators” would say. > > Hasan, the editor-in-chief of Zeteo, took to X to provide his own commentary as Trump ranted about [escalators](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/footage-trump-run-bad-escalator-151818502.html), open borders, and [the UN itself](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/purpose-trump-attacks-un-blistering-145847352.html) during his remarks in New York City. > > Alongside a video of Trump declaring, “Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize,” Hasan [posted](https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1970498898813714588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1970498898813714588%7Ctwgr%5E7d7bc0ccb795088562f6ad20486ea7b0d01707aa%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D5661408action%3Dedit): “Literally nobody says that which is why he keeps saying it for himself, shameless, insecure, narcissistic man-child that he is. > > He is bragging about his violations of international law at the United Nations,” Hasan [added](https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1970504147049783400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1970504147049783400%7Ctwgr%5E0d433b012b4ab247b375bb0c492fa74cf5daed71%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D5661408action%3Dedit) in another post, complete with a face-palm emoji. > > After Trump touted his poll numbers in his 55-minute speech, [Hasan posted](https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1970504431839195593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1970504431839195593%7Ctwgr%5E7b570a6a823a1ab20e5afc3beaadc9e5c27de9c4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D5661408action%3Dedit): “He went to the UN to tell them about his poll numbers. Literally no other world leader speaks like this at the General Assembly. Not even the literal dictators.” I hope that’s okay to quote all that I did from that article. It was rather short. I did leave out the actual xitter posts. The only issue I have is Hasan should have said _the other dictators_. [Now we know why the felon was not killed.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-veers-toward-christian-nationalism-220753970.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Americans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in President Donald Trump’s administration. > > The First Amendment, after all, in addition to guaranteeing free speech, says that Congress shall “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” > > Never in recent memory have Americans seen more top government officials speak so openly about Jesus Christ as they did at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, which Trump described as “an old-time revival” rather than a funeral. > > It makes sense that Kirk’s funeral would feature religious overtones: Conversion was at the core of Kirk’s conservatism, something praised by the country’s assembled top political leaders who attended his funeral, including the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives and much of the president’s Cabinet. > > **The podcaster Benny Johnson talked about the idea of “Godly government” and pointed down at Trump’s assembled Cabinet secretaries.** > > **“God has given them power over our nation and our land,” he said, adding it was God who saved Trump from a different assassin’s bullet “for this moment.”** > > **Trump officials said God is on their side as they go after their political enemies.** > > **“We are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said in a speech that, like Trump’s, promised retribution against an unnamed evil, though authorities have said [Kirk’s alleged killer acted alone](https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/politics/fact-check-charlie-kirk-murder?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo).** I don’t know about you, but I always get nervous when top government officials start saying God’s on their side. That’s the road to doing whatever they fuck they want, regardless of the law, because they’ve already disguised it as “God’s will”. [Accessory before, during, and after the fact Rubio admits killing people.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ridiculous-marco-rubio-explodes-abc-144958183.html) > [@](#): > > Secretary of State **Marco Rubio** exploded as ABC anchor **George Stephanopoulos** pressed him on his denial that people had died as a result of U.S. aid cuts, as the cabinet member shifted blame from foreign nations for giving less to “gangs” who steal relief on the ground. > > During the Tuedsay morning interview on _Good Morning America_ Rubio painted the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), shuttered by **Elon Musk’s** DOGE initiative this year, as having been bloated and corrupt. > > A July report by the Lancet medical journal [warned](https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/elon-musks-cuts-to-usaid-could-lead-to-more-than-14-million-deaths-in-next-5-years-new-study/) that cuts to the USAID could result in some 14 million deaths in the next five years, with children under 5 years of age making up a third of those likely to die. > > “We shut down U.S. aid because it was a dysfunctional organization,” Rubio began. “We moved it under the State Department,” he said. “We are going to do more foreign aid than any country in the world… but we’re going to do it the right way.” > > “That’s all in the future, but are you standing by that comment you’re saying that no one died because of the aid cuts are all those aid organizations?” Stephanopoulos asked. > > “That’s ridiculous,” Rubio snapped back. > > He continued: “Well first of all, well then they died because England didn’t give enough money or Canada didn’t give more or China did. Let’s blame the other countries that don’t do any foreign aid. How about China? I mean China’s the second largest economy in the world. They don’t give money to these projects.” > > “So you’re no longer disputing that the aid cuts have caused people’s lives?” the anchor pressed. “You’re no longer disputing that?” And he also killed Logic with that tirade. [The felon’s flock of fools says Kamela Harris incited violence.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-white-house-makes-shocking-141251824.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.nj.com/topic/donald-trump/)’s administration fired back at former Vice President [Kamala Harris](https://www.nj.com/topic/kamala-harris/) after she called the president a “tyrant” in a new MSNBC interview. > > Trump and his MAGA allies have claimed, without evidence, that only the rhetoric [from the “radical left”](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/09/after-charlie-kirks-assassination-trump-and-maga-make-explosive-accusations-party-of-murder.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE-ZDbgO-PAxURwvACHVZSBjUQFnoECBkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0IXOQmsb-4Pfok4yZD6Xfc) is responsible for political violence. Seems to me some folks don’t know the meanings of words. [And one of the fools is trying to out lie the liar-in-chief.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-rfk-jr-said-130000243.html) > [@](#): > > In mid-September 2025, a video circulated online authentically showing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saying that he went on conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s podcast in 2001, and they became “soulmates.” > > The video was authentic and showed Kennedy making the comments during a funeral prayer vigil held for Kirk at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15, 2025. Kirk, whose podcast launched in 2019, would have been 7 years old in July 2001 and therefore could not have spoken to Kennedy on “The Charlie Kirk Show” at that time. [The felon did not know to respond to a stalled escalator.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/footage-trump-run-bad-escalator-151818502.html) > [@](#): > > President **Donald Trump** turned an awkward arrival at the United Nations headquarters in New York City into a political jab Tuesday during his address to the General Assembly moments after the building’s escalator stopped dead just as he and First Lady **Melania Trump** stepped on it. > > The pair posed briefly for cameras as they arrived before stepping onto the escalator that, to the bemusement of onlookers, ground immediately to a halt as they boarded. > > After a moment of confusion, Melania quickly strode up the stalled steps, while Trump followed behind, leaving aides and staffers to take the stairs. Good thing he’s married to someone who qualified for a genius visa, isn’t it? [Turkey’s leader slams the felon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/world-leader-trolls-trump-top-135905372.html) > [@](#): > > During a [sit-down interview](https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379948548112) with Fox News, Erdoğan was asked by host Bret Baier about how the war in Gaza, which has stretched for just under two years, could ultimately come to an end. > > “I could only say this — Mr. Trump, you might remember, he used a term, when he said I will finish the Russia-Ukraine war. Did it end? It still goes on. Similarly, he said I will finish the war in Gaza. Did it end? No," Erdoğan said on “Special Report” on Monday. > > “That means, once we start analyzing the issue, there are prices to pay, and when we look at the hostage exchange, that was done. It goes on,” he added. Let me remind you of the felon’s sense of humor. > [@](#): > > In April, Trump [told Time magazine](https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/) that he was joking when he pledged to end the Russia-Ukraine war in the first 24 hours of his second term. ---
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> [@Monty](#): > > I’m surprised the delegation from Venezuela didn’t rise up with a resounding “We don’t!” when the felon lied that everyone says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, why wasn’t their a rousing round of booing when the felon said that, along iwth him stopping wars, and then announced he blew civilian ships out of the water? For the same reason people usually try to avoid getting into an argument with a lunatic waving a gun. Nobody wants to draw the maniac’s attention. ---
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> He {Trump} added: “These are two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. Thank you very much. And by the way, it’s working now.” Remember when they couldn’t stop attacking Obama because he used a teleprompter? Neither does anyone else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=406) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=408)