# 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:** 441
**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 18, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8862 "2025-10-18T16:09:58Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I double dog dare them. I _triple_ dog dare them! And when the next Big One comes along, and it will, the tunnel can crumble. maybe with Elmo in it. ---
**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 18, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8863 "2025-10-18T18:24:21Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Not sure why he didn’t go all the way… He didn’t want to look like he’s soft on crime /s ---
**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 18, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8864 "2025-10-18T19:00:09Z")
> **[Disappointment in Ukraine at possibility of not obtaining Tomahawks](https://www.euronews.com/2025/10/18/disappointment-in-ukraine-as-possibility-of-obtaining-tomahawk-missiles-remains-uncertain)** > > Ukrainians believe the missiles could be a game changer in helping bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. So Putin said “meh, bring ‘em on” to Tomahawks going to Ukraine a week or so ago. A foolish thing to say, as Tomahawks will absolutely ruin your day. Then the other day, Medvedev all but said “nuclear retaliation” if Ukraine gets any as they signed and sealed by the USA. Call it “by-proxy” if you want, yet it’s the USA. So now trump says the USA won’t be sending any to Ukraine. I reckon, if any are to be “delivered” anywhere, it should clearly be from the USA to the Baltic Port of Kronstadt and Black Sea port of Sevastopol. Call Medvedev playing the Nuclear card. I am tired of that card being played. An act of war? One that might actually be declared? Let’s do it. Some country is going to call the bet, and if it’s MAD Global Thermonuclear Warfare, let it be. Stop threatening it as a tactic. ---
**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 18, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8865 "2025-10-18T19:06:51Z")
Trump needs to hang on to them in case he needs to use them against Chicago or San Francisco. ---
**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 18, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8866 "2025-10-18T19:16:08Z")
That is essentially their purpose. What do you want to remove from Chicago? Hancock Tower? Sears? Done and done. And in San Fran, the Transamerica tower harboring terrorists and illegal aliens and liberal democrats is gone too. That’s why it was foolish for Putin to have blown off the possibility. Maybe trump had already told him there’s no chance and Medvedev just wanted to sound tough. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8867 "2025-10-18T19:19:06Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > Call Medvedev playing the Nuclear card. He’s played it so many times, it’s degenerated into boy-calling-wolf territory. Everyone ignores it, or should, anyway. ---
**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 18, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8868 "2025-10-18T19:41:25Z")
Putin needs to be captured and tried for his war crimes. Unfortunately, we do not have a president of that, umm, I’ll say “ilk” (besides having past and present “deals”). The UN is irrelevant, though China’s stance on a war in Europe with a fairly close ally does. Someone has gotta be Bluto (Belushi, Animal House): “Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!” But really - while there will be a great cost in lives and treasure - this is the time to bum rush Russia - in the air, ground, ports and knee-cap them. “Who’s with us?!” Or go the “make peace” route. Just like Gaza. WIthin a month that’s back on. And Russia will still be throwing people and missiles at Ukraine. ---
**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 18, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8869 "2025-10-18T21:28:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > **15. ‘For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.’** Trump is protecting his private ICE army from consequences of their crimes. He has also pardoned people who have simply said they voted for him. And don’t forget about the mass pardoning of the traitors who attacked the Capitol on January6, 2021. > [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > It’s no wonder the felon pardoned this particular other felon. > > To be pedantic, Trump commuted Santos’ sentence, not pardoned. Not sure why he didn’t go all the way… I love pedantry when it’s needed! Witht the Second Felonial Era firmly in place, there is no such thing as a minor detail. Thank you. True, true. It’s an enignma why the felon didn’t give sAntos a pardon. It’ll be interesting to see if Santos runs for office in next year’s election and if the felon endorses him. You just know if both of those happen, his district will go Imelda Marcos and elect him. ---
**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 18, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8870 "2025-10-18T21:51:00Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > It’s an enignma why the felon didn’t give sAntos a pardon. Maybe by just springing him from the pokey instead of giving him a full pardon, Donnie wanted to demonstrate that he completely **owns** the poor bastard, body and soul (the latter being hypothetical, of course0. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8871 "2025-10-18T21:58:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > It’s an enignma enignma, noun: An enema that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable. ---
**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 18, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8872 "2025-10-18T22:03:52Z")
A puzzle involving someone with his head constantly up his ass. Applies to both felons involved. 🤣 ---
**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 18, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8873 "2025-10-18T23:10:01Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > He’s played it so many times, it’s degenerated into boy-calling-wolf territory. Everyone ignores it, or should, anyway. Yes. He’s an example of exactly _why_ previous leaders of Russia/the USSR/the US didn’t go around threatening nukes all the time. Use the threat too often and people will start disregarding it; both because they stop taking it seriously, and because they _have_ to disregard it in order to function. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8874 "2025-10-18T23:35:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > A puzzle involving someone with his head constantly up his ass. Applies to both felons involved. 🤣 Has been done: > **[The Human Centipede (First Sequence)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_(First_Sequence))** > > The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch independent body horror film written, directed and co-produced by Tom Six. The film concerns a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and conjoins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming the eponymous "human centipede". It stars Dieter Laser as Josef Heiter, the creator of the centipede; and Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura as Heiter's victims. > According to Six, the concept arose from a joke he had made w... Now with _them_ I picture a human **[ouroboros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros)**. Feel free to insert additional links in the chain. I can think of several who’d deserve it. ---
**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 18, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8875 "2025-10-18T23:46:54Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > A puzzle involving someone with his head constantly up his ass. Applies to both felons involved. 🤣 I had a dear friend, a retired colonel, who used to joke about the guy who ran around in ever decreasing concentric circles until he disappeared up his own asshole. ---
**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 18, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8876 "2025-10-18T23:52:52Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > [The Human Centipede (First Sequence) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_(First_Sequence)) Huh. I did not know that. I only knew ‘Human Centipede’ from a _South Park_ episode. (The future-Mrs. L.A. saw it, and suddenly I couldn’t watch _South Park_ anymore.) ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8877 "2025-10-19T00:10:50Z")
I haven’t seen the South Park episode. But I don’t know how they could make it more fucked up than the original. ---
**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 19, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8878 "2025-10-19T01:04:30Z")
Apparently, it’s _HumancentiPad_. > **[HumancentiPad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumancentiPad)** > > "HumancentiPad", stylized as "HUMANCENTiPAD" (pronounced /ˌhjuːmənˈsɛntaɪˌpæd/), is the first episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 210th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 27, 2011. In the episode, Kyle is kidnapped after agreeing to an iTunes user agreement, and forced to become part of a "revolutionary new product" that is about to be launched by Apple. Meanwhile, Cartman... ---
**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 19, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8879 "2025-10-19T02:55:49Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > But I don’t know how they could make it more fucked up than the original. You have obviously not heard of the two sequels, HC 2 & 3… I only had the stomach to watch the first and second (and the Southpark version) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8880 "2025-10-19T06:01:37Z")
I think it’s the only movie Roger Ebert refused to score. He said he always graded movies on how well they achieve their goals, and while the movie was indeed very competently made, it was in the service of a story so vile that it was in effect beyond good or bad. > **[Ew! I hate it when that happens! movie review (2010) | Roger Ebert](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-human-centipede-2010)** > > It's not death itself that's so bad. It's what you might have to go through to get there. No horror film I've seen inflicts more terrible things on its ---
**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 19, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8881 "2025-10-19T09:05:54Z")
Trump posts AI video of airplane dropping diarrhea on protesters. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3jbffj3q22w)** > > Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America Why is he obsessed with feces? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=440) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=442)