# 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:** 424
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8522 "2025-10-05T01:11:06Z")
Ooh. That Judge is _good._ I mean she’s [_ **always good** _](https://translate.google.com/?sl=de&tl=en&text=immer%20gut&op=translate). ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8523 "2025-10-05T01:14:02Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I mean she’s _**[always good](https://translate.google.com/?sl=de&tl=en&text=immer%20gut&op=translate)**_. Ha! 😆 Guess who nominated her… ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8524 "2025-10-05T03:28:17Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > “Showy arrest”. [Here’s more on what’s meant by “showy arrest” for this instance.](https://www.aol.com/articles/fbi-weighing-perp-walk-comey-015030032.html) > [@](#): > > The source told CBS News that leadership asked for “large, beefy” agents to conduct an arrest of Comey “in full kit,” including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo. It was suggested that a supervisory special agent in the violent crimes division of the FBI’s Washington Field Office would be able to put together the kinds of agents who fit the bill, the source said. This mis-/mal-administration operates on stereotypes. There is no intelligent planning happening. And the poor sod who stood up and said, “Hell no; that’s not appropriate” is punished. [Speaking of the felon’s prejudice…](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-white-house-ramp-racist-155235064.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) has continued to troll senior [Democrats](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/democrats) on social media as the U.S. federal government remains [mired in shutdown](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/government-shutdown-trump-live-updates-2025-b2838078.html), with no breakthrough in sight on Capitol Hill. > > The president was busy online on Thursday night, posting a meme of a glum-looking Senate Minority Leader [Chuck Schumer](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/chuck-schumer) under a headline calling the opposition [“the party of hate, evil, and Satan.”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-calls-democrats-party-hate-084243766.html) > > There was also a [Superman clip](https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1973943209471717632) and an AI-edited video of the commander-in-chief picking up a red “Trump 2028” baseball cap and [tossing it directly onto the head](https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1973953994063294831) of House Minority Leader [Hakeem Jeffries.](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/hakeem-jeffries) & > [@](#): > > The president went on to post a clip of a right-wing comedian [dressed in a multi-colored poncho and sombrero](https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1973947906987340111) impersonating him and lashing out out at “Cryin’ Chuck” and “El Hakimo ‘Jefe’ Jeffries” over the shutdown, in which the speaker jokes that the latter is a “Dollar Store Obama.” “Dollar Store Obama”? Here, let me quote the magaracists’ favorite comment on just about any crime: _Let me solve the puzzle for you._ Strike that. Let’s turn that comment into a puzzle as to what the felon’s miniturd meant. 2 Across: 5 letters, smoked in celebration. Cigar. 1 Down: 5 letters, often follows 2 Across. Store. 3 Down: 6 letters, prominent sidewalk figure of old. Indian. 4 Down: 10 letters (2 words), problematic gnome of bygone days. Lawn Jockey. [And another civil rights organization is sidelined by the felon’s bureau of incompetence.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/just-fbi-cuts-ties-southern-183224560.html) > [@](#): > > FBI Director **Kash Patel** announced on Friday that the agency has cut ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center. The announcement came just days after the FBI also severed its connections to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). > > “The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” Patel wrote on X about the civil rights watchdog group. “Their so-called ‘hate map’ has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.” > > The connection between the group and the FBI is “officially terminated,” Patel made clear. And the reasoning? (And, _damn_, is that word doing some heavy lifting!) > [@](#): > > “In April, during our Anti-Christian Bias Panel, I made it clear that the FBI will never rely on politicized or agenda-driven intelligence from outside groups — and certainly not from the SPLC,” he wrote. “Under this FBI, all ties with the SPLC have officially been terminated.” Why do this piecemeal? Just cut ties with all current groups and then proudly announce an agreement to cooperate with the Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party, and a whole list of extremist groups. He could get a list of those groups from ADL or SPLC. Oh, wait. [You know full well any outfit showing the Progress Pride banner won’t be selected.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lunacy-ex-fbi-official-rips-030119275.html) > [@](#): > > A former [FBI](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/fbi) official slammed FBI Director [Kash Patel](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/kash-patel) on Friday for reportedly firing an agent trainee who displayed a gay [pride flag](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/pride-flag) on his desk. > > “This is insane on so many levels,” said Michael Feinberg, a former assistant special agent in charge, in an interview with [MSNBC](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/msnbc)’s Nicolle Wallace. > > Patel — who notified the agent in training of his immediate termination in a letter dated Oct. 1 — cited the agent trainee’s “poor judgement” for placing “an inappropriate display of political signage” on his desk while assigned to the Los Angeles field office under Joe Biden’s administration, [according to MSNBC](https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/kash-patel-fires-fbi-agent-trainee-displaying-gay-pride-flag-rcna235306). Let’s delve into the trainee’s judgment for a moment. > [@](#): > > The agent trainee — a longtime employee with the FBI — was the recipient of multiple awards for service, was a field office diversity program coordinator and displayed a pride flag at his workstation, per CNN. Two agency veterans told the network that such a display doesn’t violate the FBI’s past policies. Oh, and make sure you don’t get caught kneeling while FBI. > [@](#): > > Wednesday’s firing arrives less than a week after reports surfaced on the FBI [terminating more than a dozen agents who were pictured](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fbi-fires-agents-kneeling-2020-george-floyd-blm-protest_n_68d72e23e4b0d6db559b02ba) kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest in Washington, D.C., following the murder of George Floyd. [Here’s an interesting take on what’ll make the felonious caveman cave.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/robert-reich-predicts-ll-finally-091135140.html) > [@](#): > > Former Labor Secretary [Robert Reich](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/robert-reich) thinks one particular pressure will eventually force President Donald Trump and Republicans to “cave” and end the government shutdown. > > “My prediction: This shutdown will end sooner than the last one. Air traffic controllers will ensure it does,” the former Bill Clinton Cabinet secretary wrote in his latest newsletter email. > > “Within the next few weeks, a few will call in sick. Then the flight delays will cascade,” he envisioned. “At that point, pressure will suddenly mount on the White House and Republicans in Congress to end it.” And Reich’s next remark is spot on. > [@](#): > > Republicans “own” the current shutdown because they control the presidency, the House, the Senate and, “effectively, the Supreme Court,” Reich said. > > “They and Trump will be blamed for the shutdown, and they’ll have to get the nation out of it — even at the cost of giving in to congressional Democrats,” he concluded. [And I thought it was _Putin_ who the felon was fronting for!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-white-house-makes-brutal-120604598.html) > [@](#): > > President **Donald Trump’s** White House made a brutal gaffe in an X/Twitter post that was eventually deleted, claiming a statement from Hamas was actually from “President Donald J. Trump.” > > News broke Friday afternoon [that Hamas had agreed](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/just-hamas-agrees-release-remaining-200012876.html) to release all the remaining Israelis taken hostage during the October 7 terrorist attacks, with conditions. > > That statement was then posted by The White House on X/Twitter — but with a rather serious error. > > “President Donald J. Trump releases important statement on Hamas’ response to President Trump’s proposal:” read the [caption](https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1974215389820150103). [Yet another judge tells the felon, essentially, “Don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining”.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kilmar-abrego-garcia-may-charged-220916072.html) > [@](#): > > A federal judge says he believes the immigrant defendant [Kilmar Abrego Garcia](https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deport-eswatini?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo), whom the administration wrongly sent to El Salvador, may have been targeted with a criminal charge by the Justice Department this year out of vindictiveness. > > “The Government had a significant stake in retaliating against Abrego’s success” suing the Trump administration after his [wrongful removal to El Salvador](https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/politics/what-to-know-about-the-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia-case?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) in March, Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. of the Middle District of Tennessee[wrote on Friday.](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70476164/138/united-states-v-abrego-garcia/) “The Court finds Abrego has sufficiently presented some evidence that the Government had a stake in retaliating against him for exercising his rights in the Maryland suit and deterring him from continuing to exercise those rights.” ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8525 "2025-10-05T08:17:02Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Here’s more on what’s meant by “showy arrest” for this instance.](https://www.aol.com/articles/fbi-weighing-perp-walk-comey-015030032.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > The source told CBS News that leadership asked for “large, beefy” agents to conduct an arrest of Comey “in full kit,” including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo. What is the word for that? “Banana-Kim”? ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8526 "2025-10-05T12:18:22Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The president was busy online on Thursday night, posting a meme of a glum-looking Senate Minority Leader [Chuck Schumer](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/chuck-schumer) under a headline calling the opposition [“the party of hate, evil, and Satan.”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-calls-democrats-party-hate-084243766.html) Nope, nothing to see here… > **[John 8:44: A frequently misunderstood verse - Vatican News](https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2024-12/john-8-44-frequently-misunderstood-verse-pope-francis.html)** > > A reflection on Pope Francis' Letter to the Catholics of the Middle East. > Today, the Internet abounds with images evoking Satan. Some of the banners carried by white supremacists during their march in Charlottesville in August 2017 read, “Jews are the children of Satan,” with references to John 8:44. Even more recently, Robert Gregory Bowers, the perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, justified his actions by stating: “Jews are the children of Satan. Christ Jesus came in the flesh…” (August 2, 2023). ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8527 "2025-10-05T12:34:52Z")
Next thing ya know Trump (et. al.) will start talking about how the ~~Jews~~ Democrats murder children to make ~~matzo~~ pizzas. Oh wait, they’ve been spreading that lie for years. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8528 "2025-10-05T13:42:28Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > “Jews are the children of Satan. Christ Jesus came in the flesh…” Hm. Jesus was Jewish, therefore he was a son of Satan. Jesus was the son of God. Therefore, Satan is God. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8529 "2025-10-05T15:34:38Z")
If they’re monotheists, Satan pretty much has to be God, because otherwise there are two even after the genealogical / Trinity exception. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8530 "2025-10-05T15:44:59Z")
The First Commandment says, ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before me.’ That implies that there are other gods. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8531 "2025-10-05T15:48:15Z")
Yea, Moses went up a mountain with a hammer and chisel. Verily and mightily, Lo!, he descended with carved tablets… ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8532 "2025-10-05T15:57:06Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The First Commandment says, ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before me.’ That implies that there are other gods. That was how I justified becoming a polytheist when I was about 12. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8533 "2025-10-05T16:00:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The First Commandment says, ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before me.’ That implies that there are other gods. IIRC the proto-Jews are believed to have originally been [henotheists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism), not monotheists; they believed that their god was preeminent among gods, but not the only one. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8534 "2025-10-05T16:07:53Z")
Yeah, like that one awful god who kept Baaling people out. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8535 "2025-10-05T16:09:29Z")
Go to room and think about what you’ve done. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8536 "2025-10-05T16:21:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Yeah, like that one awful god who kept Baaling people out. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/PWnAAiI.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/PWnAAiI) ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8537 "2025-10-05T17:02:31Z")
The cat is officially out of the bag. Not that it’s a surprise to us. The Leopards-Eating-People’s-Faces crowd might be startled. Democrats should be shouting this from the rooftops. (Along with a bunch of other stuff…sigh…) > # Trump Name-Checks Project 2025 as He Threatens to Dismantle Agencies > > President Trump, who once insisted he had “nothing to do with Project 2025,” has implemented many of the proposals from the right-wing policy document. > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-project-2025-vought.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.rE8.ZHn7.P5e13fibCIa5&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-project-2025-vought.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE8.ZHn7.P5e13fibCIa5&smid=url-share) > During the 2024 presidential race, Donald J. Trump tried to distance himself from [Project 2025](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html), an [unpopular](https://www.umass.edu/news/article/new-umass-amherst-poll-finds-project-2025-policy-proposals-wildly-unpopular-among) right-wing policy plan written by Republican allies that [laid out how he could wield power in a second term](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html). The proposals in the 900-page document were [widely viewed](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-project-2025-broadly-known-severely-unpopular-voters-rcna172660) as extreme, and Democrats warned that Mr. Trump would quickly move to enact those policies should he return to the Oval Office. > > Mr. Trump and other Republicans repeatedly dismissed those warnings as breathless hysteria, and his campaign team [openly celebrated](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/us/politics/project-2025-director-steps-down.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CReports%20of%20Project%202025%E2%80%99s%20demise%20would%20be%20greatly%20welcomed) when the director of Project 2025 stepped down amid criticism from Mr. Trump as the plan became a growing political liability. In his debate last year with the Democratic nominee, former Vice President Kamala Harris, [Mr. Trump was unequivocal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnunvxzpgE): “I have nothing to do with Project 2025. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it.” > > But Democrats were quickly proven correct. Days after winning the 2024 race, Mr. Trump tapped Russell T. Vought, an architect of Project 2025, to lead his White House budget office. And just a few days into Mr. Trump’s second term, the president had already [unleashed a broadside of executive orders and directives to federal agencies](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/14/us/politics/project-2025-trump-actions.html) that directly echoed proposals from Project 2025. > … * * * Also covered by AP. > **[Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-project-2025-russ-vought-shutdown-2d1ea5e6e32c583ddf6b8a8164e523c3)** > > President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign. > NEW YORK (AP) — [President Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign, as one of its architects works to use the government shutdown [to accelerate his goals](https://apnews.com/article/trump-government-shutdown-firings-layoffs-vought-1fd57313272ec4db5984f653b095be33) of slashing the size of the federal workforce and punishing Democratic states. > > [In a post on his Truth Social site](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115304455138824245) Thursday morning, Trump announced he would be meeting with his budget chief, “Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent.” > > The comments represented a dramatic about-face for Trump, who spent much of last year denouncing Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation’s [massive proposed overhaul](https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981) of the federal government, which was drafted by many of his longtime allies and current and former administration officials. > … ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8538 "2025-10-05T17:17:47Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Yea, Moses went up a mountain with a hammer and chisel. Verily and mightily, Lo!, he descended with carved tablets… Nuh uh. I saw the documentary. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-qAqcHsreq4/maxresdefault.jpg "📜 The Ten Commandments (1956) | Moses Sees God’s Law Etched in Stone on Mount Sinai ✝️🔥⛰️") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qAqcHsreq4) ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8539 "2025-10-05T23:43:59Z")
For some inexplicable reason, I always saw the “Burning Bush” as a lewd symbol. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8540 "2025-10-06T00:01:50Z")
Probably comes from your Juvenile Lobe, a recognized location in the male brain. 🙄 * * * > **[Burning bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush)** > > The burning bush (or the unburnt bush) refers to an event recorded in the Jewish Torah (as also in the biblical Old Testament and Islamic scripture). It is described in the third chapter of the Book of Exodus as having occurred on Mount Horeb. According to the biblical account, the bush was on fire but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name. In the biblical and Quranic narrative, the burning bush is the location at which Moses was appointed by God to lead the Israelites out of Egyp The... > The Hebrew word in the narrative that is translated into English as _bush_ is _seneh_ ([Hebrew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language): סְנֶה, [romanized](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew): _səne_), which refers in particular to [**brambles**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramble);[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush#cite_note-3)[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush#cite_note-JewishEnc-4)[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush#cite_note-Peake-5) _seneh_ is a _[dis legomenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon)_, only appearing in two places, both of which describe the burning bush.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush#cite_note-JewishEnc-4) The use of _seneh_ may be a deliberate pun on _Sinai_ (סיני), a feature common in Hebrew texts.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush#cite_note-FriedmanSources-6) My bold. ---
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> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > which was drafted by many of his longtime allies and current and former administration officials. To quote Butch and Sundance, “who are those guys?” Trump is not an “idea-guy” yet he has some kind of shadowy crafters of his agenda. With W you could tell the imprint of Karl Rove or Cheney yet for the most part it seemed like #45 was doing his own dealing. Sure, he’s got his revenge plans and King of the World goals. I am as distant to this stuff as I was eight years ago, yet there’s something different and more diabolical about #47. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=423) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=425)