# 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:** 45
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/881 "2025-01-21T03:07:50Z")
He really does want to just burn it all down, doesn’t he. Do you get the feeling he wants to punish the whole country, hell, the whole world for not adoring him sufficiently? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/882 "2025-01-21T03:10:58Z")
He’s going to get us all killed. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/883 "2025-01-21T03:18:37Z")
Or maybe he’ll end up like Caligula. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/884 "2025-01-21T03:28:42Z")
As far as I know, Trump owns no horses. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/885 "2025-01-21T03:30:15Z")
I was thinking more of the Praetorian Guard. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/886 "2025-01-21T03:33:08Z")
I know what you were thinking but the circuses come _before_ the bread is served. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/887 "2025-01-21T03:35:39Z")
Oh, well, he has a surfeit of equine derrieres to work with. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/888 "2025-01-21T04:41:42Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > According to his Wikipedia article, Enrique Tarrio has been fully pardoned. > > He’s going to pardon them all. Sadly, the only thing that would have awakened the republicans is if one of them had gotten killed on January 6, 2021. Who am I kidding? That damn near happened and those idiots _still_ continued enabling him. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/889 "2025-01-21T04:47:41Z")
Either, ‘That Republican was, in fact, a RINO!’ or ‘That Republican was killed by an Antifa undercover FBI agent!’ ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/890 "2025-01-21T05:27:03Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > We’re going to need a bigger bin I was under the impression that round here, we took stuff down to the quarry and threw it in? ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/891 "2025-01-21T05:41:02Z")
Well in that case: We’re going to need a bigger quarry! ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/892 "2025-01-21T05:43:04Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Who am I kidding? That damn near happened and those idiots _still_ continued enabling him. Some of the ones in Congress were on Fox News the day after incensed at what nearly happened to them and were already carrying water for him on air before the month ran out. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/893 "2025-01-21T05:45:26Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Do you get the feeling he wants to punish the whole country, hell, the whole world for not adoring him sufficiently? America tried to tell him “NO”. He can’t forgive that. We are about to see what happens when other nations try the same thing. He likes his revenge served hot. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/894 "2025-01-21T05:50:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You assume Trump is capable of understanding symbolism. Donald Trump has the analytical skills and emotional makeup of a three-year old. He is lazy, impatient, lacking in any moral core or conviction, vain, a creature of his own basest impulses, incoherent when speaking, and quite likely the owner of several personality disorders. But the guy who insisted on his Secret Service detail stopping to let him extend a fist into the air shortly after an assassination attempt knows and understands symbolism and its power. It is probably the one thing he _does_ understand better than your average person, because he finds it useful in manipulating situations to his own advantage. He probably doesn’t get it at the level of analysis - I’d be shocked if he can _explain why_ something works the way it does, but he has a gut feel for it that rivals Ronald Reagan, FDR, and George Washington. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/895 "2025-01-21T12:49:24Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > As far as I know, Trump owns no horses. You’d think that with so many horse’s asses in his orbit, he could scrape together a couple of dozen… > [@scudsucker](#): > > > [@Procrustus](#): > > > > We’re going to need a bigger bin > > I was under the impression that round here, we took stuff down to the quarry and threw it in? That’s only for stuff that’s actually laughable. What we’re witnessing unfolding is tragedy. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/896 "2025-01-21T13:21:57Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You’d think that with so many horse’s asses in his orbit, he could scrape together a couple of dozen… Sewing two horses’ asses together doesn’t give you a full horse, it just gives you double the amount of horseshit. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/897 "2025-01-21T13:43:34Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > it just gives you double the amount of horseshit. Seems like it would be a perpetual horseshit generator. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/898 "2025-01-21T13:49:47Z")
The Pushmi-Pullyu Administration. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/899 "2025-01-21T14:39:07Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > [@scudsucker](#): > > > > > [@Procrustus](#): > > > > > > We’re going to need a bigger bin > > > > I was under the impression that round here, we took stuff down to the quarry and threw it in? > > That’s only for stuff that’s actually laughable. What we’re witnessing unfolding is tragedy. Let go down to the quarry and throw ourselves in! ---
**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:** [January 21, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/900 "2025-01-21T14:53:39Z")
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