# 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:** 464
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9322 "2025-11-05T19:37:23Z")
Props to them but it’s odd it’s dine-in only. If I was a parent taking my kid there for their meal of the day I’d be leery of being a MAGA-target seen sitting there with nothing while the kid eats. Maybe they’re afraid of a revolving door family collecting several? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9323 "2025-11-05T19:54:43Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Maybe they’re afraid of a revolving door family collecting several? I suppose, but if a parent escorts their kid, they should not have to dine in. When MAGA kids go hungry, this will change. Or perhaps not. The GOP only cares about people that give them money. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9324 "2025-11-05T19:57:42Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Or perhaps not. The GOP only cares about people that give them money. They’ve been ignoring the Face-Eaten for almost a year now, why would they change? They can read poll numbers as well as we can, they know that their actual policies are hugely unpopular, even among Republican voters, and yet, they just keep pushing their agenda, acting like they have a huge mandate. Why would a few hungry kids they’ll never even meet change their approach to “governing”? ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9325 "2025-11-05T19:59:59Z")
Some of them are caricatures of cartoon villains. Starving kids are a feature, not a bug in that mindset. Aside from the evil of that attitude, it’s difficult to comprehend how little empathy one must possess to commit that kind of self-own ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9326 "2025-11-05T20:01:45Z")
This is exactly why they’re going the route of disenfranchisement and claiming election fraud. They know on a level playing field they’d be run over like a class D high school team vs. a pro team. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9327 "2025-11-05T20:11:42Z")
They’re taping paper signs to the walls now so that Dementia Donny doesn’t get lost. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xfwxh3czbf226r2itmipkq3e/bafkreiambcng76vsp2qm5ewzs7bfijhtu3mrvgshot3tfm3uomef63phsu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xfwxh3czbf226r2itmipkq3e/bafkreiambcng76vsp2qm5ewzs7bfijhtu3mrvgshot3tfm3uomef63phsu@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xfwxh3czbf226r2itmipkq3e/bafkreicraasn7upeu3uwydxfggm34u6uwevmufpmatxdv744vddpwvkyza@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xfwxh3czbf226r2itmipkq3e/bafkreicraasn7upeu3uwydxfggm34u6uwevmufpmatxdv744vddpwvkyza@jpeg) ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9328 "2025-11-05T20:16:19Z")
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**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:** [November 5, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9329 "2025-11-05T20:16:57Z")
Very classy. Printed on several sheets of paper on the office laser printer. Couldn’t they spend a buck and have a real sign made by somebody? Oops, I said “spend a buck.” Sorry. And what’s with that gilded frou-frou stuff over the door? Is he going to stick those plastic gold curlicues all over the outside of the building, too? How do you suppose they will hold up in the heavy Washington winter weather? ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9330 "2025-11-05T20:17:25Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The president originally claimed he was “obligated” to be there Wednesday when [the justices weigh](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/desperate-trump-launches-hail-mary-122338202.html) whether or not the president can unilaterally impose sweeping tariffs on products from dozens of U.S. trading partners. [Justices appear skeptical of Trump’s broad tariffs](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/supreme-court-tariffs-donald-trump-oral-arguments-00637544) > And Gorsuch raised the possibility that a future president could declare a climate emergency to justify imposing 50 percent tariffs on gasoline-powered cars and auto parts. > > “I think it’s very likely that could be done,” [Solicitor General D. John] Sauer conceded. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9331 "2025-11-05T20:25:17Z")
“When his father told him about his alarm at having forgotten even the most impressive happenings of his childhood, Aureliano explained his method to him […] with an inked brush he marked everything with its name: table, chair, clock, door, wall, bed, pan. He went to the corral and marked the animals and plants: cow, goat, pig, hen, cassava, caladium, banana. Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use. Then he was more explicit. The sign that he hung on the neck of the cow was an exemplary proof of the way in which the inhabitants of Macondo were prepared to fight against loss of memory: “This is the cow. She must be milked every morning so that she will produce milk, and the milk must be boiled in order to be mixed with coffee to make coffee and milk.” Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.” ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9332 "2025-11-05T20:26:49Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Some of them are caricatures of cartoon villains. Starving kids are a feature, not a bug in that mindset. Aside from the evil of that attitude, it’s difficult to comprehend how little empathy one must possess to commit that kind of self-own They’ve been like that for decades, now. Claiming that hungry children learn better so poor children shouldn’t be provided with school lunches, that sort of thing. As for empathy…these _are_ people who call empathy a sin. If they start feeling sorry for some kid, they likely feel guilty about it and fight to drive out the evil sensation of concern for another human being. These are people who are _ideologically devoted_ to psychopathy. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9333 "2025-11-05T20:38:21Z")
Please note that the laser printer has golden ink. Very few people have that. It will be even more suited to the Washington winter. Please also note that the sheet with “Office” printed on it peeps about a third of an inch beyond the wall. So sloppy. Better fire the intern. And they used cursed cursive, so difficult to read! Shows what a stable genius the what’s-his-name is, he still can read it. In fact the three sheets are so sloppy that I am sure the image is real and not AI. That, and the shadow of Darth Vader to the right, half hidden behind the column. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9334 "2025-11-05T20:42:40Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Very classy. Printed on several sheets of paper on the office laser printer. Couldn’t they spend a buck and have a real sign made by somebody? Oops, I said “spend a buck.” Sorry. Put a buck in the ‘corner’ of OUR office and ask Donnie to find it. Would keep him busy all day. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9335 "2025-11-05T20:47:34Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Please also note that the sheet with “Office” printed on it peeps about a third of an inch beyond the wall. So sloppy. Better fire the intern. Also please note that it appears that they don’t have a proper plotter at the white house? Shit, I had a co worker plot out a map 36x48 inch map for me on glossy paper. No problem. This is small county government. The white house uses scotch tape. Perhaps they know the end is near. 🤞 I almost used another single finger emoji. Oh, and they misspelled **Offal** ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9336 "2025-11-05T21:21:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > They’re taping paper signs to the walls now so that Dementia Donny doesn’t get lost. 45/47 opens his own doors? I thought he had squadron of flunkies in full dress uniform and powdered wigs to do that for 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:** [November 5, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9337 "2025-11-05T21:24:47Z")
“Communist South Africa”? > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m4vqoflsvt2q)** > > Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on.... ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9338 "2025-11-05T21:41:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And what’s with that gilded frou-frou stuff over the door? Is he going to stick those plastic gold curlicues all over the outside of the building, too? Of course! And like the gold shit shown above, they won’t chosen with a mindful eye making sure that they are the proper shape and scale to elegantly fit the where they’re being placed (first thing I noticed: the center piece is too small and the flankers are too large). They’ll be purchased by how gaudy they are . . . and most important, how cheap they are. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9339 "2025-11-05T21:52:55Z")
They were on sale. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9340 "2025-11-05T22:33:06Z")
[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xfwxh3czbf226r2itmipkq3e/bafkreiambcng76vsp2qm5ewzs7bfijhtu3mrvgshot3tfm3uomef63phsu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xfwxh3czbf226r2itmipkq3e/bafkreiambcng76vsp2qm5ewzs7bfijhtu3mrvgshot3tfm3uomef63phsu@jpeg) Join us for fine dining at The Oval Office. Seniors eat for 1/2 price from 4 - 5 p.m. Come for the faux French atmosphere. Stay for the hamberders. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9341 "2025-11-05T22:39:44Z")
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