# 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:** 447
**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 22, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8982 "2025-10-22T01:30:15Z")
Here’s a question nobody seems to be asking. _Why is someone who cannot dance building a dance room?_ ---
**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 22, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8983 "2025-10-22T01:49:08Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump appoints self-described Nazi to Special Counsel office: And he’s out: > **[Trump nominee to lead whistleblower office drops out after racist texts surface](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/trump-nominee-paul-ingrassia-racist-texts)** > > Report on Paul Ingrassia featured messages where he allegedly described himself as having a ‘Nazi streak’ ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8984 "2025-10-22T02:08:53Z")
Republicans located some…uh…intestinal fortitude… > # Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia withdraws after rare Republican pushback over text messages > > [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-nominee-faces-rare-republican-pushback-following-report-text-messages-2025-10-21/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-nominee-faces-rare-republican-pushback-following-report-text-messages-2025-10-21/) > … > The post came after Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday called for the White House to pull the nomination. Thune’s remarks marked a **rare** sign of opposition in a Republican-controlled Senate that has shown little interest in challenging Trump’s nominees and his agenda. > … My bold. “_Rare_”??? Snow at Mar-a-Lago on the 4th of July, now **that’s** rare. This is more than rare. ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8985 "2025-10-22T02:29:07Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > will he just instruct the DOJ to concede the case? Pretty much. It’s one of the brilliant new ways he’s discovered to make bribery legal. See also, the settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family. Find some excuse to sue the government, kiss Trump’s ass a bit, and he orders them to settle with you. Free money for you, he buys your loyalty with government money, and it’s all perfectly legal. Now, it’s his turn to get a taste. ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8986 "2025-10-22T02:32:48Z")
> [@robby](#): > > and now abruptly demolishing the East Wing of the White House with no notice or review, Don’t people have actual offices in that part of the building? Did they get any warning about this? Did they take out the furniture first? This is all just so crazy. ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8987 "2025-10-22T02:34:02Z")
Do you remember the _Star Trek_ episode, _A Piece of the Action_? The difference there and with the felon is the gangs on that planet were actually principled. > [@Horatius](#): > > This is all just so crazy. That’s the perfect description for every action the felon takes. ---
**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 22, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8988 "2025-10-22T03:15:43Z")
[Ecuador says there was no crime being committed by the people the felon killed; Colombia will prosecute one of the survivors.](https://www.aol.com/ecuador-releases-survivor-u-strike-122940546.html) > [@](#): > > A U.S. Navy helicopter transported the survivors of the attack from the semi-submersible to a Navy ship, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News on Friday. The attack also killed two crew members. > > U.S. authorities [repatriated](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/military-strikes-boat-caribbean-survivors/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) the Ecuadorian man, and the Ecuadorian attorney general’s office said in a statement there was “no report of a crime that has been brought to the attention of this institution” against him, and therefore “he could not be detained.” The man had “no pending cases against him,” it added. > > A Colombian citizen also survived and remains hospitalized after being repatriated to Colombia, where Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said he “arrived with brain trauma, sedated, drugged, breathing with a ventilator.” Authorities there said he would face prosecution. And, always the humanitarian, Vance had this to say: > [@](#): > > Asked why the two survivors were not taken to the U.S. to be prosecuted, Vice President JD Vance told reporters that “so long as they’re not bringing poison into our country,” he doesn’t “really care” what happens to them. Might as well put this here, what with the felon’s and his supporters’ anti-science stance. [Mosquitoes are now in Iceland.](https://www.aol.com/articles/mosquitoes-found-iceland-1st-time-184014609.html) > [@](#): > > Mosquitoes have been detected in Iceland for the first time as the region warms due to climate change. > > The disease-carrying insect was first spotted by insect enthusiast Björn Hjaltason, who posted to Facebook group [Insects in Iceland](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1440899369518682/) about a “strange fly” he spotted on Oct. 16. > > Hjaltason, who lives in the garden town of Kjós, collected the insect and discovered it was a female, he wrote. > > Natural Science Institute of Iceland entomologist Matthías Alfreðsson confirmed to [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/21/mosquitoes-found-iceland-first-time-climate-crisis-warms-country) that three mosquitoes – two females and one male – were caught from red wine ropes used to attract moths. > > The mosquitoes are Culiseta annulata, a cold-tolerant species that live in the Palearctic region, which includes Northern Africa, Europe, and Asia north of the Himalayas, according to the [National Institutes of Health](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6056819/). C. annulata is the most common mosquito species found in the U.K. It has also been introduced to Canada and the northern U.S., Dina Fonseca, an entomologist and director of the Center for Vector Biology at Rutgers University, told ABC News. [The state of political discourse in the United States is now shit for shat.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/everyone-laughs-poop-smeared-mike-095608990.html) > [@](#): > > House Speaker Mike Johnson found his defense of Donald Trump’s feces-dumping video turned right back on him in yet another nasty AI video. > > Johnson declined to criticize Trump’s viral AI meme that showed a crowned “King Trump” dumping sludge on protesters from an aircraft he is piloting. > > When [asked at a press conference](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/johnson-confronted-over-trump-ai-175743028.html) about the president’s video targeting “No Kings” demonstrations on Monday, the 53-year-old insisted that Trump was merely using “satire” and was “probably the most effective person who’s ever used social media.” > > In response, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, 44, [replied](https://x.com/JaredEMoskowitz/status/1980376637331108319) with a clip of the moment, which is then followed by an AI poop landing on his head, as he looks up sheepishly and the audience bursts into laughter. > > The Florida Democrat captioned the video, “Just using social media and satire Mr Speaker,” with a winking emoji. I forget. Wasn’t the United States of America once the leading nation on the planet? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8989 "2025-10-22T03:50:29Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > and was “probably the most effective person who’s ever used social media.” What a sad soulless lickspittle he is. ---
**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 22, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8990 "2025-10-22T05:58:37Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Just when you think he can’t sink any lower….[Trump demands $230M from the Justice Dept as compensation for being investigated.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.5H-i.XTVT0B9y70KV&smid=url-share) > > Seriously. He’s literally plundering the American treasury. “_But I’m not looking for money_,” he [says](https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/politics/justice-department-trump-compensenation). 🙄 > [@Horatius](#): > > Don’t people have actual offices in that part of the building? No, not really. The central WhiteHouse is a combination of residence and showplace. The offices, including the Ovsl are in an adjacent structure called the “West Wing”, which is on the opposite side. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8991 "2025-10-22T09:08:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Republicans located some…uh…intestinal fortitude… …now if they could located some spine… ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8992 "2025-10-22T09:12:09Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Don’t people have actual offices in that part of the building? Did they get any warning about this? Did they take out the furniture first? This is all just so crazy. That wing is traditionally used by the First Lady and her staff. Apparently, Melania isn’t using it this time around and, anyhow, it’s just women’s stuff, nothing important. [/sarcasm] Yes, people working there were warned and able (we’re told) to remove their stuff before the demolition work began. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8993 "2025-10-22T12:25:48Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > A video of trump dropping turds on America is the best encapsulation of the administration. A self-own of epic proportions. > > 100 % agree. I think this sums up his entire administration. This AI video should be shown on a loop in the future presidential library/coloring book room. It’s been said before here on the SDMB, but I think this video, as well as other similar AI-created images and videos, are meant as satirical digs, and trump is too stupid to realize it’s not meant to be flattering or pro-MAGA, proudly sharing them in an epic self-pwn. trump is depicted wearing a crown, literally shitting on the American people. Even the oxygen mask-- hanging down, not covering his nose, echoes the trumpers who, forced to wear those hated masks in public during Covid, would let them hang down below their noses, rendering the masks completely ineffective. ---
**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 22, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8994 "2025-10-22T12:32:46Z")
I figured it was because his followers would be too dim to realize who it was if his face was covered. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8995 "2025-10-23T01:51:11Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > his followers would be too dim to realize who it was if his face was covered. More likely _he_ didn’t want his face covered because he thought his followers would be too stupid to realize who it was. It’s like the way he always says “the president, me” in his posts. The stupid starts at the top. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8996 "2025-10-23T02:18:11Z")
I like how you think. I may have to watch that and superimpose it over the plans for the hideous monstrosity he calls a ballroom. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8997 "2025-10-23T02:30:21Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > to add a large, ugly, completely unnecessary addition The irony, of course, of adding a ballroom, is that Trump can’t dance. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8998 "2025-10-23T02:41:41Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Why is someone who cannot dance building a dance room? Ha. Ninja’d but a super sneaky ninja that got in several hours before I could. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/8999 "2025-10-23T02:55:41Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > hideous monstrosity Well, I mean, at least it fits him. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9000 "2025-10-23T03:03:24Z")
I’m seeing suggestions that we should start referring to it as the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9001 "2025-10-23T03:54:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m seeing suggestions that we should start referring to it as the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom. I love this! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=446) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=448)