# 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:** 458
**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 30, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9202 "2025-10-30T09:44:38Z")
> > **[Trump, 79, Fires Off Gibberish Truth Social Message](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-fires-off-gibberish-truth-social-message/)** > > The president has unleashed the “covfefe” of his second term. ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9203 "2025-10-30T12:35:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > So, why does he insist on rendering a miitary salute (badly, mind you) when he’s in front of foreign military? As song goes, there is no connection from the bone spurs to anything else. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e54m6XOpRgU/maxresdefault.jpg "The Skeleton Dance | Classroom Fun | Super Simple Songs") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54m6XOpRgU) ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9204 "2025-10-30T12:45:24Z")
This looks too eerily like what I imagine is going on: > **[Cartoon: Tom the Dancing Bug offers a rare peek inside the writers room...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/30/2351010/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-offers-a-rare-peek-inside-the-writers-room-that-s-ruining-your-life)** > > 🚀 BRAND NEW KICKSTARTER LAUNCHED THIS WEEK!  Pre-order Volume 1 and Volume 2 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug Library right here .  Limited time, expires in November.  Plus a bonus comic book: ... ---
**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 30, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9205 "2025-10-30T13:12:12Z")
[The felon says he stopped the war in Gaza. Yeah, right.](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/israeli-strikes-overnight-gaza-kill-061800011.html) > [@](#): > > DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s military said Wednesday that [the ceasefire was back on in Gaza](https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-hamas-gaza-82b5b46cdbddd690dd28b7a8674d40d4) after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory that killed 104 people, including 66 women and children, according to local health officials. > > The strikes, the deadliest since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10, marked the [most serious challenge to the tenuous truce](https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-10-21-2025-29925b9671834bba6e24adb5f2e35b51) to date. I’m thinking this latest ceasefire will last the exact amount of time it takes to re-arm the planes. [But don’t get depressed. He still managed to stop yet another war!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-takes-credit-ending-012101611.html) > [@](#): > > Another brutal war has come to a dramatic end, thanks to President Donald Trump—at least according to the president. > > The 79-year-old Nobel Peace Prize hopeful took credit for ending a made-up war against the climate change “hoax” after Microsoft founder Bill Gates softened his stance on “doomsday” views of climate change in a stunning new memo. > > “I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!” > > The bizarre declaration came after Gates published a [lengthy memo](https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/three-tough-truths-about-climate) on Tuesday pushing back against alarmist views that climate change will lead to the decimation of civilization, even as he acknowledged that climate change will have “serious consequences.” MAGA? Oh, right. Make Americans Gullible Again! [Be prepared for a mega maga meltdown!](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-says-hed-love-third-213006873.html) > [@](#): > > GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — [President Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) said Wednesday that “it’s too bad” he’s not allowed to run for a third term, conceding the constitutional reality even as he expressed interest in continuing to serve. > > “If you read it, it’s pretty clear,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One enroute from Japan to South Korea. “I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad.” > > The president’s comments, which continue his on-again, off-again musings about a third term, came a day after [House Speaker Mike Johnson](https://apnews.com/hub/mike-johnson/) said it would be impossible for Trump to stay in the White House. > > “I don’t see the path for that," he told reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. > > Johnson, the Republican leader who has built his career by [drawing closer to Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/mike-johnson/), said he discussed the issue with the president, and he thinks Trump understands the situation. > > “He and I have talked about the constrictions of the Constitution," he said. That’s not the way to keep your idol’s base on your side, Mikey. But maybe they’ll be happy with their idol’s meandering. > [@](#): > > Trump stopped short of characterizing his conversation with Johnson, and his description of the prohibition on third terms was somewhat less definitive. > > “Based on what I read, I guess I’m not allowed to run," he said Wednesday. "So we’ll see what happens.” [Sheinbaum, president of “one of those Mexican countries”, condemned the felon’s murder of people off here coast.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mexican-president-condemns-u-attack-141701976.html) > [@](#): > > The Trump administration has widened its war against alleged drug traffickers, killing 14 people in attacks on four boats off Mexico’s Pacific coast, a move condemned by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. > > The Pentagon said Tuesday that it carried out the strikes in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday. The U.S. and Sheinbaum initially said that one survivor had been rescued by Mexico’s navy, though the navy later clarified that its search for the lone survivor was ongoing. > > Sheinbaum denounced the strikes and ordered officials from her administration to discuss them with the U.S. ambassador to Mexico. > > “We do not agree with these attacks, with how they are carried out,” Sheinbaum said. “We want all international treaties to be complied with.” And this next part really frosts me. > [@](#): > > The Pentagon did not give exact coordinates of the attacks. Sheinbaum said only that they occurred in “international waters.” In a post on X, Mexico’s navy said that at the behest of the U.S. Coast Guard it was conducting a search-and-rescue operation 400 miles south of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco. > > The Pentagon declined to share the nationalities of the victims, any evidence that they were in fact trafficking drugs and whether they were suspected of allegiance to a particular cartel. Blow people out of the water near Mexico, then ask for Mexico’s assistance to save those people from drowning. Wow. And, of course, no evidence for the felon’s accusations against his latest victims. [White House video admits the felon’s a criminal.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-makes-trump-full-100144161.html) > [@](#): > > The White House has released a cringeworthy hype video about President Donald Trump that makes him look like a full-fledged underworld don. > > “Every day the Democrat Shutdown drags on, President Trump DELIVERS for America. 😤," a Trump social media minion captioned the video, which had the subtitle “DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN.” > > Blaming the Democrats has been a Trump favorite throughout the 29-day shutdown. And to paint Trump as a hard worker who labors dutifully despite the shutdown, the White House video team decided to compare him with a brutal gang leader. > > In the clip, _Peaky Blinders_ character Tommy Shelby, played by actor Cillian Murphy, puts on his coat and heads to work despite an illness. “There’s no rest for me in this world,” he tells another character. > > “President Trump every morning despite shutdown,” an on-screen caption reads, before the imagery flicks to clips of Trump at several engagements. Rick Ross’ “Hustlin’” plays over the video. > > In _Peaky Blinders_, Shelby is a ruthless gangster and criminal entrepreneur first and foremost. He is also a war hero, while Trump famously dodged the Vietnam War after claiming he had bone spurs in his heels. I’m curious how that golf trip factors into “no rest”. [Now it’s the airlines, not the government, keeping air traffic controllers fed.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/airlines-feeding-air-traffic-controllers-224849604.html) > [@](#): > > In an effort to help feed federal aviation workers who are going unpaid amid the government shutdown, some airlines are stepping in to pay for meals. > > In a statement shared with PEOPLE, [United Airlines](https://people.com/united-flight-aborts-landing-amid-strong-winds-in-london-11836145) confirmed that it is “donating meals for air traffic controllers and other federal workers whose pay is delayed.” The airline told [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-air-traffic-controllers-united-airlines-delta-jetblue/) it would be feeding workers at the company’s hubs in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, N.J., San Francisco and Washington, D.C. > > “We appreciate the hardworking federal employees who are keeping the air travel system running,” the airline added to the outlet. > > Delta Air Lines also confirmed to PEOPLE that the company has “arranged for a limited number of meals for transportation sector workers.” However, it noted it would comply with the “strict rules established for employees of federal government agencies." [So you’re in one Asian country talking to the people there. What do you do? Talk in a fake Asian accent!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-uses-fake-indian-accent-120314059.html) > [@](#): > > President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) slipped into an impersonation of Indian Prime Minister [Narendra Modi](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/narendra-modi)’s accent on the latest leg of his [week-long tour of Asia](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-live-news-today-b2854329.html), as he praised the strongman leader for being “tough as hell.” > > Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday, following on from his appearances in Malaysia and Japan, the president reflected on [India](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/india) exchanging fire with neighboring [Pakistan](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/pakistan) earlier this year in a [four-day conflict](https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/india-pakistan-conflict-kashmir-pahalgam-b2749865.html%20) that threatened to spiral into full blown war between the two nuclear powers. > > “I’ll tell you what, Prime Minister Modi is the nicest looking guy,” Trump said of his Indian counterpart: He’s… oh, you’d like to have your father like that.” > > But, the president continued: “He’s a killer! He’s tough as hell!” He then launched into an insensitive imitation of Modi, declaring in a booming voice: “No, we will fight!” [The felon says the United States does not appreciate him.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/trump-shares-post-praising-himself-153713752.html) > [@](#): > > The president got meta on his social media network, Truth Social, by sharing and commenting on a post that praised the president for his hard work. > > The post showed a photo of Trump looking tired, with a tie undone around his neck, and a “Make America Great Again” hat in his hand. > > “I want to thank Donald Trump for working like a dog for no money to save a Country that doesn’t appreciate his sacrifice! Thank you Mr President,” the unattributed post read. > > Trump shared the post on Monday, and thanked himself for doing such a great job. > > “Thank you. Big progress for America being made!” he said. Okay, okay. He might be a little bit correct here. I, for one, do not appreciate him, nor what he’s done to the country or the world. [He didn’t even know where he was today!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-fires-off-gibberish-214856368.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump has become the butt of the joke after sending out a gibberish Truth Social message on Wednesday before quickly deleting it. > > The chronically-online president, 79, has turned viral social media blunders into a tradition, having birthed the word “covfefe” in 2017 and accidentally rebranded himself as [“DONAKD J. TRUMP”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-deletes-awkward-typo-075857566.html) earlier this year. > > Now, Trump, who is currently in South Korea as part of a six-day Asia tour, has minted 2025’s own “covfefe.” > > At 10:43 p.m. local time, the elderly president hit post on a short, baffling entry: **“South Carerdddd.”** I really can see him sitting down, trying to write “South Korea” by reciting each letter out loud separately. And that’s because I can believe he’d call the country “South Carerdddd”. Nah, I can’t. That would require me to believe he can actually read and write. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9206 "2025-10-30T13:40:00Z")
So apparently federal agents tear gassed a bunch of kids in their Halloween costumes > **[Judge rips Border Patrol chief for agents tear gassing kids in Chicago](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/border-patrol-chicago-tear-gas-kids-lawsuit-b2853955.html)** > > Greg Bovino is being hauled to court every day after his officers are accused of gassing neighborhoods and threatening protesters with ‘you’re dead, liberal’ taunts I don’t understand why this isn’t absolutely everywhere. That’s the kind of outrage that will bring people out. ---
**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 30, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9207 "2025-10-30T13:44:30Z")
While I don’t disagree to an extent, where the fuck have you been the last decade? You think _this_ is finally what will be one step too far for the folks who have plugged their ears and screamed “lalala” all the while? I hope that’s the case. I sincerely do. And this kind of thing should be reported as widely as possible. But if the past is any guide, it’s just going to be another thing they deny has “really” happened (possibly as a liberal hoax) or something they dismiss as not being especially important. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9208 "2025-10-30T13:45:16Z")
How can we further deplete the workforce? By taking a away the ability for people to work of course: > **[Feds end the automatic renewals of most immigrants’ work permits](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-10-29/feds-end-the-automatic-renewals-of-most-immigrants-work-permits)** > > The new policy will go into effect Oct. 30, and will apply to people applying for renewals in the future. `//i\\` ---
**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 30, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9209 "2025-10-30T15:40:18Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > I don’t understand why this isn’t absolutely everywhere. That’s the kind of outrage that will bring people out. There are a million of these outrages. Happening every day. And yeah, people ARE coming out and protesting (Does _“No Kings”_ ring a bell? Seven million people in the streets in all 50 states?). * * * * * * * * * Here’s another fucking outrage that was buried with some other items in the San Antonio Express-News today: > **[around the nation and world](https://eedition.expressnews.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=ac541316-b912-4cec-88d7-11dbc961796f&share=true)** > > around the nation and world This is the whole article: > **Man wrongfully jailed 43 years to be deported** > > A Pennsylvania man whose murder conviction was overturned after he served 43 years in prison hoped > to walk free this month but instead found himself in immigration custody. Subramanyam Vedam was an infant when his family moved to the U.S. so his father could teach at Penn State University. > > The Trump Administration plans to act on a 1999 deportation order despite his conviction being > overturned because Vedam also has a drug conviction from the 1980s. His lawyers say the years he > wrongly spent in prison should outweigh that. > > Vedam earned several degrees behind bars, tutored hundreds of fellow inmates and went nearly half a > century with just a single infraction, involving rice brought in from the outside. He came to the USA **as a baby.** His only misbehavior during **FORTY-THREE YEARS** of imprisonment was smuggling in some _RICE._ 🤦🏽‍♂️ Hell, fuck deportation–this is why the death penalty was invented! 🤬 I shouldn’t joke about that. It’s probably coming eventually. ---
**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 30, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9210 "2025-10-30T16:37:27Z")
Does Trump know… …that while he was touring Asia, vandals with backhoes tore a wing off the White House, making it that much more difficult to attach his gigantic MAGA rally hall without disturbing the East Wing? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9211 "2025-10-30T18:07:20Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I really can see him sitting down, trying to write “South Korea” by reciting each letter out loud separately. And that’s because I can believe he’d call the country “South Carerdddd”. Look, if he was dying, he wouldn’t bother to type “South Carerdddd.” He’d just say it! ---
**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 30, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9212 "2025-10-30T18:38:07Z")
Want to read an interview with the Palantir C.T.O. Shyam Sankar? I think it is frightening to put competent people under this administration, and interesting to see that they think they are doing the right thing. He thinks he is acting like a patriot should. It is a very long interview, judge for yourself: > **[Opinion | What Palantir Sees](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion/palantir-shyam-sankar-military.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.GUKE.8hPFLsGlNgc9&smid=url-share)** > > The tech company’s C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war. ---
**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 31, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9213 "2025-10-31T03:41:54Z")
[Are you surprised a Christian nationalist like Vance wants his wife to become Christian?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/vance-slammed-saying-hopes-hindu-153758786.html) > [@](#): > > [Vice President](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/vice-president) [JD Vance](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/jd-vance) is facing sharp criticism after he told a group of college students in Mississippi that he hopes his [Hindu](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/hindu) wife, second lady [Usha Vance](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/usha-vance), will give up her own faith and become a Christian. > > The vice president was speaking at the University of Mississippi at an event sponsored by Turning Point USA, the group founded by slain Christian conservative activist [Charlie Kirk](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/charlie-kirk), when a questioner invoked his wife’s religious background. > > Vance replied that his wife grew up in what was “not a particularly religious” Hindu family and said they had always had an open dialogue on religious matters when it comes to how they are raising their three children — two of whom attend a Christian school with all three being raised in the Christian faith. > > After noting that Usha often attends church with him, he said he hopes she will someday be “moved” by the same things that brought him to convert to Catholicism as an adult. > > “I honestly do wish that because I believe in the Christian gospel, and I hope eventually, my wife comes to see it the same way,” he said. That’s not what surprises me about that couple. What surprises me now is that they got married. What would _really_ surprise me would be Vance himself becoming Christian. [The felon got stood up in Korea.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-departed-asia-without-meeting-075202079.html) > [@](#): > > As President Donald Trump [danced on the tarmac](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XxIOQ_GP_lc) in Malaysia, [met Japan’s emperor](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2Fpolitics%2Flive-news%2Ftrump-asia-trip-japan-10-27-25%3Fpost-id%3Dcmh8mh01l00493b6nfbfej45j&data=05%7C02%7Cjerome.taylor%40cnn.com%7C2f295644b7244fdf56c008de176d37b2%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638973955027884121%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VNtnb6A7ZWCqWvsQiaJEdBfmmnHqaExzx76R4hNZr5M%3D&reserved=0) in Tokyo, and [accepted a gold crown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-txyFyvgods) in South Korea, one key question kept following him – would he hold a surprise meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un? > > On several occasions [Trump made public overtures](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2025%2F10%2F25%2Fworld%2Fvideo%2Ftrump-kimjongun-north-korea-vrtc&data=05%7C02%7Cjerome.taylor%40cnn.com%7C2f295644b7244fdf56c008de176d37b2%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638973955027918656%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bQzhxJJ9Rn2rKnjg38YxV2b9wxopCXPTlZ3t90NlWuA%3D&reserved=0) that he’d “love” to meet Kim while in the region. It could have been a made-for-TV sequel to his [surprise 2019 visit at the demilitarized zone (DMZ)](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2Fvideos%2Fworld%2F2019%2F06%2F30%2Ftrump-kim-jong-un-north-korea-dmz-meeting-will-ripley-pkg-vpx.cnn&data=05%7C02%7Cjerome.taylor%40cnn.com%7C2f295644b7244fdf56c008de176d37b2%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638973955027935480%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bgXp2VdyUGPR8mBbUxMDpvIiu5%2Fw1u8gPerquisC6%2FQ%3D&reserved=0), when Trump made history as the first sitting US president to step foot on North Korean soil. > > In the end it never came together. And in Pyongyang, just a few hundred miles away, it was like Trump’s trip never happened. [So what did ol’ Lonesome Heart do whilst pining?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/5-deals-trump-xi-struck-143157733.html) > [@](#): > > President Trump emerged from his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday touting agreements on tariffs, rare earth exports and soybean purchases as the two superpowers reached truces on key issues. > > The meeting, which marked the first in-person talks between Trump and Xi in six years, came amid economic tensions spurred by trade and after Trump announced the U.S. would resume nuclear testing. > > Here are five deals the world leaders struck in South Korea. & > [@](#): > > The meeting’s top-line takeaway was Trump’s move lowering U.S. tariffs on China from 57 percent to 47 percent. & > [@](#): > > Trump appeared to score a major win in announcing that Beijing had agreed to delay the implementation of those changes for one year. > > The president said on Truth Social that China had agreed to “continue the flow of Rare Earth, Critical Minerals, Magnets, etc., openly and freely.” > > China is not expected to roll back existing export controls, but the delay provides the U.S. a reprieve while it shores up other supply chains. & > [@](#): > > Trump said following the meeting that Xi had authorized the purchase of soybeans, sorghum and “other farm products.” Hey, we have a science denying vaccine skeptic as secretary of HHS. [Why not have a Moon landing hoaxist run NASA?](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/kim-kardashian-insists-1969-moon-040000751.html) > [@](#): > > [Kim Kardashian](https://people.com/tag/kim-kardashian/) has a very controversial take she won’t let go of. > > On the Thursday, Oct. 30 episode of _The Kardashians_, the 45-year-old revealed that she doesn’t believe [the 1969 Moon landing](https://people.com/human-interest/nasa-christies-selling-rare-space-photos-online-auction/) really happened — while trying to convince her [_All’s Fair_](https://people.com/alls-fair-trailer-kim-kardashian-is-a-divorce-lawyer-at-war-with-sarah-paulson-11826308) costar [Sarah Paulson](https://people.com/tag/Sarah-Paulson) to have the same doubts. > > “I’m sending you, so far, a million articles with both [Buzz Aldrin](https://people.com/buzz-aldrin-wife-anca-faur-dies-11839666) and… the other one,” Kim told Paulson, 50, in between takes on set of the Hulu series, referring to astronaut [Neil Armstrong](https://people.com/all-about-neil-armstrong-kids-8763648). And here’s my favorite part. The **bolding** is mine. > [@](#): > > She then explained some of the reasons that have convinced her of the conspiracy theory. “Why does Buzz Aldrin say it didn’t happen? **There’s no gravity on the moon** — why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon [have] a different [foot]print than the photos. Why are there no stars?” And her suggestion for those who wish to "do their own research? > [@](#): > > Knowing what kind of response the comments would get, a producer asked Kim what her defense is for people who call her crazy: “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what. But like, go to TikTok. See for yourself.” Not one word of that is any nuttier than Killer Kennedy’s inanities. She might as well be a cabinet member. ---
**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 31, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9214 "2025-10-31T04:35:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > After noting that Usha often attends church with him, he said he hopes she will someday be “moved” by the same things that brought him to convert to Catholicism as an adult. Discovering the power of using Christianity as a political weapon can be very moving indeed. Vance finally had an epiphany that didn’t involve brocade upholstery and pliant, yet gripping, pure goose down filling. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9215 "2025-10-31T07:49:05Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > The Un-Americans in Toronto are booing the American National Anthem. That’s certainly happened before. I know it’s a big ask to expect people in another country to drill down into our regional politics, but it would be nice if they’d considered the fact that that L.A. basically despises Trump and voted against him resoundingly. Now the Dodgers are headed back there today, and they are hanging on by their fingernails, down by two. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9216 "2025-10-31T11:05:05Z")
So who paid for JD’$ trip to Mississippi? ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9217 "2025-10-31T11:48:26Z")
In some of the weirder parts of the internet there’s rumoring that Vance will divorce Usha and marry Erika Kirk. ---
**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 31, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9218 "2025-10-31T11:59:14Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > it would be nice if they’d considered the fact that that L.A. basically despises Trump and voted against him resoundingly. Seriously? No, fuck that. It may not be all our individual faults he got elected but it sure as hell is our collective responsibility to deal with the consequences, especially something as inessential as dealing with a little booing at a friggin’ kids game played by adults. This is the anti-Trump version of dividing the country into “the REAL™ Americans” and “the other side”. We’re just asking for the same culture war bullshit to happen again and again until we accept we’re all in this together, whether we like it or not, whether or not the people we’re stuck with are even decent human beings (narrator: they are not). ---
**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 31, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9219 "2025-10-31T14:06:11Z")
Trump got booed (with some cheers of course) at Yankee Stadium last month on 9/11/2025 and the mixed reaction was noted on the jumbotron with a live shot of him during the national anthem. And in the World Series in DC between the Nationals and Astros in 2019 His showing up in both cases, like his short stay at the super bowl, likely delayed fans entry by an hour. The Toronto fans are booing trump by proxy. Not California, and you can boo the Dodgers if you’re inclined when each is announced. They’d likely have booed felon #45 before all the 51st state crap started. His constant use of 51st and calling the PM of Canada “governor” in tweets has righteously pissed them (and me) off. ETA: Of course he’s just winding them up (success!) as they could only be annexed as a territory and not a “state” big enough to give the Democrats a lock on Congress and President for a long time. ETA2: Maybe not the Senate, though when I calculated Canada as I think eight states with the Martitimes being one, then the Senate too. ---
**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 31, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9220 "2025-10-31T14:26:46Z")
That’s perfectly in line with the typical, hypocritical republican ‘family values’ we’ve come to know so well. ---
**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 31, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9221 "2025-10-31T15:04:20Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > In some of the weirder parts of the internet there’s rumoring that Vance will divorce Usha and marry Erika Kirk. I think there might be substance to that rumor. At least from the Widow Kirk’s side, and her FM tight leather\* pants. [![](https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2025/10/31/1600x900/Erika_Kirk_JD_Vance_Hug_Video_Emotional_USA_1761894758568_1761894766536.jpg) ](https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2025/10/31/1600x900/Erika_Kirk_JD_Vance_Hug_Video_Emotional_USA_1761894758568_1761894766536.jpg) \*At least they are black, for proper mourning [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=457) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=459)