# 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:** 434
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8722 "2025-10-12T02:46:35Z")
I tried to take one for the team.and watch it to summarize… but even the first minute is so cringeworthy I could not continue… ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8723 "2025-10-12T02:54:36Z")
These random youtube comments summarize it. That’s. absolutely. Disgusting. How can these folks look in the mirror and not be ashamed of themselves? Just sickening I just threw Up ---
**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 12, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8724 "2025-10-12T03:34:24Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I tried to take one for the team.and watch it to summarize… but even the first minute is so cringeworthy I could not continue… Minute? I only lasted 18 seconds. And that encompassed at least three lies from the first ~~puppet~~ cabinet member. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8725 "2025-10-12T04:00:26Z")
Too Soon! 😁 ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8726 "2025-10-12T05:18:27Z")
No problem: Too much praise from everyone who was given a job through loyalty, cut to Al Sharpton (who I hope starts to look healthier) which doesn’t help as Rev. says that bible kings don’t get this praise… but he’s got a point. It’s like you could look at this mal-administration in any aspect and find ways to support or denounce it. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8727 "2025-10-12T06:26:51Z")
This belongs in the “no shit, Sherlock” file: > **[Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis](https://prospect.org/politics/trump-labor-department-immigration-ICE-food-crisis/)** > > In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8728 "2025-10-12T06:40:07Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > How can these folks look in the mirror and not be ashamed of themselves? This would require them to have normal human emotions like shame. These people are psychotic, grasping ghouls. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8729 "2025-10-12T09:18:38Z")
Trump blames “THE BIDEN FBI” for planting FBI agents in the crowd of insurrectionists on Jan. 6: > “THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6,” he wrote on Truth Social. “If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM – DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT” > **[Trump Forgets He Was President During Capitol Riot, Blames ‘THE BIDEN FBI’...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-forgets-president-during-capitol-073307749.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH8mg7QaOlVVzKm8hZgNwdkhJ4ceIlROqFI1A6IetvEKLKIUKGQKGakjAXjLzGe4zNA3t2LSKOR9ZCpGZK3cuJI5LAbrpbHoe3JM2nGSd2vk3COaHepK4OFK9HU2FisjUuTzgzgdYTKjQpXKBVJmkj5pSS6qvfDLGU_FWvjchmWc)** > > President Donald Trump blamed the Capitol riot on former President Joe Biden, claiming that “THE BIDEN FBI” had placed agents in the crowd that had assembled in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6. 2021. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8730 "2025-10-12T09:36:48Z")
He said 274? How did he arrive at such a precise number? Why didn’t he say, “over 250” or “just shy of 300”? Naw, we all know the answer: he made the number up. No cites of course. Trump would make a lousy Doper. ---
**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 12, 2025, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8731 "2025-10-12T09:39:04Z")
My take is that one needs a moral compass for one to have a sense of shame. If anything, these snots have an _immoral_ compass. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8732 "2025-10-12T09:58:55Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > He said 274? How did he arrive at such a precise number? Why didn’t he say, “over 250” or “just shy of 300”? I’m just surprised he didn’t say “57”. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8733 "2025-10-12T10:47:33Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Killer Kennedy’s at it again. But wait! It gets soooo much worse! > **["CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre](https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/cdc-rfk-jr-shutdown-layoffs-goal-rcna237035)** > > Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data. > UPDATE (October 11, 2025, 8:46 p.m. ET): _This piece has been updated because, following publication, many fired employees began receiving emails communicating that despite the earlier notice, they would no longer be terminated._ > Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved one step closer to his goal of dismantling the nation’s premier public-health agency by dismissing more than 1,000 scientists, doctors and public health officials from the Department of Health and Human Services late Friday night. > > The dramatic move came during the second week of a government shutdown and is part of the Trump administration’s aggressive push to even further slash the size of the federal workforce and punish Democrats. The culling reportedly started with at least 4,000 people across departments including Education, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development and Energy, among others. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8734 "2025-10-12T12:04:56Z")
Not sure what to make of this now. Still a clusterfuck: > **[Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-layoffs-measles.html)** > > Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to disease outbreaks and running an influential journal. Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded. > The Trump administration on Saturday raced to rescind layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse. > > Among those wrongly dismissed were the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, and the team that assembles the C.D.C.’s vaunted scientific journal, The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. > > After The New York Times reported the dismissals, two federal health officials said on Saturday that many of those workers were being brought back. The officials spoke anonymously in order to disclose internal discussions. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8735 "2025-10-12T12:48:23Z")
And it’s official, Trans and non-binary folks are now second-class citizens. > **[CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS](https://www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-cbp/cbp-enforces-binary-sex-codes-and-enhanced-us-passport-validation-in-apis/)** > > CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8736 "2025-10-12T17:31:16Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Trump would make a lousy Doper. Makes a lousy Human Being. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8737 "2025-10-12T17:53:06Z")
If Trump did join the SDMB, I wonder how long it would take him to get banned? He could set a new record. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8738 "2025-10-12T17:55:02Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I wonder how long it would take him to get banned? > > He could set a new record. And then sue the SDMB for $10 billion. ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8739 "2025-10-12T17:55:25Z")
He wouldn’t bring a cite for any fucking thing. “What do you mean ‘people are saying’ isn’t good enough? The claim I made was perfect!” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8740 "2025-10-12T19:08:17Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m just surprised he didn’t say “57”. [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczNwKdnTRZfnC-MCevuSRT4tImFeFjIVzSpsskwzaW9N3EF7s3mwsKEfThuuXdUFynLKXvZykkbIgoOGozquSJhlVOHFo4_okoeVXc7qDN2pJhvmF76r=w600-h315-p-k "New photo · Sunday, Oct 12 📸") ](https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNfWuDy3RsSNs1cF7r17Z9jbSTo1G35U1Z0I0wUfKWI5NjSVQHzTPkqwiNXbx0--g?key=cWw1RVhPZldzdXB0S056aFM1bmFyaVhzMGhqQ1h3) ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8741 "2025-10-12T22:16:58Z")
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