# 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:** 437
**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 14, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8782 "2025-10-14T17:29:33Z")
Trump is more like rust. He just destroys, without leaving anything useful behind or contributing to any larger ecosystem. ---
**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 14, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8783 "2025-10-14T18:02:43Z")
Well, rust can be used as pigment in paint, etc. It can be used to make thermite. And aren’t magnetic storage media rust-based? What can Trump be used for, other than fertiliser? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8784 "2025-10-14T18:19:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > other than fertiliser As many chemicals as he puts on his skin and what’s left of his hair, I wouldn’t want to eat anything that grows from that ---
**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 14, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8785 "2025-10-14T18:22:12Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I wouldn’t want to eat anything that grows from that It could be spread on Trump golf courses. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8786 "2025-10-14T19:33:46Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It could be spread on Trump golf courses. I’d be afraid that this would lead to a _Colour Out of Space_ situation, with the golf course being reduced to The Blasted Heath. I mean, look at Trump’s face. That’s not a color that occurs in Nature. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8787 "2025-10-14T19:37:08Z")
New happenings from the Department of Defensive War: # **The Pentagon Wants HuffPost To Sign An Absurd Document. We Refuse.** Sign Pete Hegseth’s ridiculous press restrictions? No way in hell! **By [Whitney Snyder](https://www.huffpost.com/author/whitney)** > Donald Trump’s Defense Department wants every reporter at the Pentagon ― including HuffPost’s S.V. Dáte ― to sign a ridiculous, plainly unconstitutional document. Our response is simple: No way in hell. > > Under the Pentagon’s absurd demands, reporters must agree not to obtain any information that the Defense Department does not expressly allow. This is an unacceptable attack on the First Amendment and the principles of a free press. It’s the latest alarming assault on independent media from the Trump administration. > **[The Pentagon Wants HuffPost To Sign An Absurd Document. We Refuse.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pentagon-press-rules-huffpost-refusal_n_68ee5a35e4b058bb20d3f53b)** > > Sign Pete Hegseth’s ridiculous press restrictions? No way in hell! Also: ## **News Outlets Across The Aisle Reject Pentagon’s Attack On Journalistic Freedom In Joint Statement** ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News Media and NBC News released a joint statement on Tuesday opposing the Pentagon’s new press policy, which infringes on journalistic freedom. "Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues,” the [statement](https://x.com/NBCNewsPR/status/1978143981386268872) read. > **[Trump Orders Pentagon To Resume Nuke Tests As Food Benefits Set To Expire For...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-government-shutdown-live-updates_n_68dd6e42e4b06c0a3a8c0f14/liveblog_68ee8af1e4b09c6fd0c41827)** > > The president spent most of his week abroad as Americans at home bore the brunt of the government shutdown. The cherry on this cake: Just one news outlet has said it will sign the new policy, pro-Trump [One America News](https://barrettmedia.com/2025/10/14/oan-only-news-organization-to-sign-pentagons-new-press-policy/). ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8788 "2025-10-14T19:39:51Z")
Time Magazine runs a cover story praising the peace deal. Trump disparages the photo as “worst of all time.” [![](https://images.axios.com/7myJpcESm1H_sw7ImnrXDYjRwsU=/0x0:1920x1080/1920x1080/2025/10/14/1760468986110.jpeg?w=1920) ](https://images.axios.com/7myJpcESm1H_sw7ImnrXDYjRwsU=/0x0:1920x1080/1920x1080/2025/10/14/1760468986110.jpeg?w=1920) when your head looks like a scrotum stuck in a zipper ---
**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 14, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8789 "2025-10-14T20:35:15Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > How do you expect someone who’s never actually had a friend… Wadda ya talkin’ about? Jeffery Epstein was his friend! ---
**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 14, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8790 "2025-10-14T20:37:41Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Wadda ya talkin’ about? Jeffery Epstein was his friend! Epstein was no friend. He was just an individual, too. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8791 "2025-10-14T20:46:26Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > ABC News, CBS News, CNN, **Fox News Media** and NBC News Bolding mine. When you can’t get Fox on board, you’ve lost. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8792 "2025-10-14T20:48:36Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > when your head looks like a scrotum stuck in a zipper _How’d you get the beans above the frank?!_ ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8793 "2025-10-14T21:13:04Z")
[More murder on the high seas.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-venezuela-boat-drugs/) We all know damn well that if the alleged smugglers were white, they’d be getting arrested and not killed. Trump is sick fuck. Everyone involved in these atrocities should be turned over to the ICC. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8794 "2025-10-14T22:28:23Z")
Trump said today that if “If [Milei] loses, we will not be generous with Argentina,” referring to foreign aid. I remember when presidents didn’t just blatantly engage in foreign election interference, at least not right in the open on the TeeVee. I’m reminded _The West Wing_, where every once in a while a staffer would be on a morning show and he’d say, “yeah, well, the President doesn’t like waffles,” and all the other staffers would immediately look at each other because they know that Senator Blowcock has loyalties to Papua New Guinea because of the contracts negotiated by the ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, who’s father happens to run the biggest Waffle Lobby in the country and they just lost the gun control vote they needed. Now, they just skip all that esoteric shit and say, “Hey, Fuck waffles!” ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8795 "2025-10-14T22:36:48Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > when your head looks like a scrotum stuck in a zipper > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > How’d you get the beans above the frank?! I’m dying over here! 🤣 🤣 ---
**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 14, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8796 "2025-10-14T23:14:17Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Trump said today that if “If [Milei] loses, we will not be generous with Argentina,” referring to foreign aid. The problem is that he will very probably (_touches wood, says ‘Pugliese’ three times_) lose, or at least not win. When Trump said that markets and bonds took a nosedive here in Argentina because nobody expects them to get much more than 40% of the vote (that could be enough to be the most voted party though, since there are more than 2 parties) and the list of bad news (both for the country in general and for Milei’s party in particular) grows every week. Of course I fully expect Trump to define “win” loosely enough to keep supporting his pal, unless he loses catastrophically (which is not likely but it _could_ happen). Rest assured than on October 26 I will be voting against Milei with the added satisfaction of voting against Trump too. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8797 "2025-10-15T00:24:52Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > “worst of all time.” Yeah, all at once he looks old, bald, still looks fat. In retaliation, Time (for MotY) isn’t going to get him to change from his official/mug-shot-like glare. Maybe if they have a nice baby mobile with gold shiny things on it he’ll look up. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > If [Milei] loses, we will not be generous with Argentina You heard him, Argentinians. Vote Milei and vote for him often! I reckon he _really_ wants to use more Tomahawks on some nation. Putin poo-pood the possibility of Ukraine getting them last week yet yesterday Medvedev all but said it’d be nuclear retaliation. Why give any to Ukraine when the USA is perfectly capable and willing to lob them wherever they want in Russia. Sink some boats in Krondstadt in the Baltic, sink one at Sevastopol and do what you will with the garbage city of Moscow yet leave St. Petersburg be. ---
**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 15, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8798 "2025-10-15T01:12:35Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > > > when your head looks like a scrotum stuck in a zipper > > > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > > > How’d you get the beans above the frank?! It’s from the felon’s point of view: upside down because he usuallyhas his head up his ass. ---
**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 15, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8799 "2025-10-15T01:46:18Z")
No surprise here. Gift link. > **[Trump Awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/trump-charlie-kirk-medal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk8.Po6Z.2vwRvGDJM6Ha&smid=url-share)** > > President Trump presented the medal to Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been his 32nd birthday. ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8800 "2025-10-15T02:25:06Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > You heard him, Argentinians. Vote Milei and vote for him often! > > > Alerta News 24 @AlertaNews24 ‘A Yankee with unusual skin extorting the entire citizenry of a country that lives life in “don’t give me orders, my old man didn’t, neither are you, you fat asshole” mode is sure to turn out just great.’ ---
**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 15, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8801 "2025-10-15T06:43:33Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Turns out, your shit is orange. It’s a sign, I tell ya. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=436) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=438)