# 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:** 468
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9402 "2025-11-06T21:08:32Z")
The Hill article on the fainting incident mentioned this isn’t the first time someone in the Oval Office passed out this year. Maybe they need to hose the incontinent hippo off more than every third day if his stench is consistently knocking people out. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9403 "2025-11-06T21:14:36Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The Hill article on the fainting incident mentioned this isn’t the first time someone in the Oval Office passed out this year. Maybe they need to hose the incontinent hippo off more than every third day if his stench is consistently knocking people out.. Give everyone their own personal size Febreeze spray and smelling salts. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9404 "2025-11-06T21:16:11Z")
The toady is an executive for Ozempic. There to hear Trump bestow his gifts of lower drug prices on … glamor weight loss drugs du jour. I kind of felt bad for him for a few minutes before I found that out. ---
**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 6, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9405 "2025-11-06T21:21:35Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > Give everyone their own personal size Febreeze spray and smelling salts. Some time ago I and a friend were watching a movie scene in a morgue where the body had been in the water for some time. The pathologist and couple detectives in attendance all had something white smeared on their upper lips. The friend asked, “What’s that white stuff?” “Menthol.” I’d spent time in a cadaver lab, which had to be better than the morgue depicted. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9406 "2025-11-06T21:23:15Z")
There was a point during the event where Dr. Oz was talking about obesity’s connection to, among other health problems, dementia. In the background, while Oz was speaking, is Trump literally slumped over in his chair sleeping. You can’t make this shit up. 🤣 > **[Mike Nellis (@mike\_nellis) on Threads](https://www.threads.com/@mike_nellis/post/DQuWNbniGFh?xmt=AQF0-D14LgAQWOCY0IwUpMd84TRR83dGcxISEwRFANSwKCvqigSuuzSaDmEVk9NQ150Xao8_&slof=1)** > > Dr. Oz linking obesity to dementia while Trump’s slumped over at his desk is absolutely a choice... ---
**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 6, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9407 "2025-11-06T21:24:35Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > Give everyone their own personal size Febreeze spray and smelling salts. Or a jar of Vicks Vapo-rub to smear under their noses like they do in cop shows when they have to be around dead bodies and other smelly things. * * * * * * > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Nope. The text is new, but apparently the walk has been there at least a month. I don’t remember reading about that. It has portraits or photos of all the past presidents, except Biden where they have a framed photo of an auto-pen. Really. Oh yeah. I remember the auto-pen thing. 🤦🏽‍♂️ I think this was a case of: > [@bobsmom101](#): > > …the memory unit in my brain is fading fast.😝 I think it’s the brain protecting itself… a sanity survival mechanism that kicks in when stuff gets truly weird. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9408 "2025-11-06T21:25:59Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Ellecram](#): > > > > everyone their own personal size Febreeze spray and smelling salts. > > Or a jar of Vicks Vapo-rub to smear under their noses like they do in cop shows when they have to be around dead bodies and other smelly things. Oh yes I’ve done this as a child welfare abuse investigator for “dirty homes.” Works very well! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9409 "2025-11-06T22:26:13Z")
I was an EMT for 8 years. I agree with you. Vicks is good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9410 "2025-11-06T22:32:39Z")
Let’s try to guess what happens next… The setup: A federal judge has ordered our convicted felon president to fully fund SNAP benefits for November (our current month) by tomorrow. > **[US judge orders Trump administration to fully fund Snap benefits in November](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/ruling-snap-benefits-funding-trump?CMP=share_btn_url)** > > Ruling comes in response to a challenge to administration’s offer to only partly fund US food benefits amid shutdown ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9411 "2025-11-06T22:35:32Z")
At some point, a wise judge might try the Bre’r Rabbit approach. “You are hereby _forbidden_ to fully fund Snap benefits…” ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9412 "2025-11-06T22:36:07Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I was an EMT for 8 years. I agree with you. Vicks is good stuff.. It really is. When I was a caseworker I used to carry a jar in my satchel everywhere I went. Saved me from some nasty aromas. I always pass along this tidbit of wisdom to new workers. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9413 "2025-11-06T22:55:58Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > glamor weight loss drugs du jour. I think a lot of people on this board would quibble with this description of life-changing meds. (Not that trump’s motives were anything but self-serving.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9414 "2025-11-06T23:00:59Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > HdHDPAOPUFVA Agent Orange’s next late-night text? ---
**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 6, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9415 "2025-11-06T23:35:17Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It (the walk) has portraits or photos of all the past presidents, except Biden where they have a framed photo of an auto-pen. Might there not be a 45/47 advisor who could raise a query of decorum and respect? _“I understand your sentiment Mr President, but don’t you think there is a risk that successors might continue that precedent and in the place of your own portraits use that birthday card message and the photo of yourself and Epstein being all hugger mugger?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9416 "2025-11-06T23:40:56Z")
“One way or another I’ll be president until I’m dead. What do I care what the next guy does?” ---
**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 6, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9417 "2025-11-06T23:50:42Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Might there not be a 45/47 advisor who could raise a query of decorum and respect? Are you shitting me? He’s a “shoot the messenger” type. Any suggestion that his gut instinct is anything but the best, most ideal way to respond to any situation would result in any such person almost immediately replaced by a lickspittle validating every idiot impulse ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9418 "2025-11-06T23:57:01Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > The toady is an executive for Ozempic. There to hear Trump bestow his gifts of lower drug prices on … glamor weight loss drugs du jour. I kind of felt bad for him for a few minutes before I found that out.. Can he please set up an in office meeting with Mr. Eliquis next? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9419 "2025-11-07T00:45:35Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@robby](#): > > > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > > > _Five fingers thrust in a circle_ should be appropriate.\* > > > > > > _Please tell me that doesn’t date me. If you’re curious, think about a gesture that exression describes._ > > > > I have no idea what you are referring to. A zero? Or an a\*\*hole? > > Yeah, I have no idea what he’s talking about either. With your left hand, make the “okay” gesture; with your right hand, make the “chef’s kiss” gesture; insert the right hand’s five fingers together into the left hand’s “okay” circle. I learned that one as a pre-teen. It means _clusterfuck_. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Nope. The text is new, but apparently the walk has been there at least a month. I don’t remember reading about that. It has portraits or photos of all the past presidents, except Biden where they have a framed photo of an auto-pen. Really. What racist iconography did they put in Obama’s place? > [@Smapti](#): > > Trump lackey collapses in the Oval Office during a presentation and requires medical attention. > > RFK takes off running, while Trump’s response is to stand up and stare into the camera as if to say “PAY ATTENTION TO ME”. I dearly hope the fine writers at _Saturday Night Live_ can get this parodied for this week’s show. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > I can’t really fault Trump on this. Dr. Oz was attending to the guy, and there wasn’t any point in crowding him. > > Besides – would YOU want medical attention from _Trump_? Would YOU want medical attention from _Dr. Oz_? > [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Might there not be a 45/47 advisor who could raise a query of decorum and respect? > > _“I understand your sentiment Mr President, but don’t you think there is a risk that successors might continue that precedent and in the place of your own portraits use that birthday card message and the photo of yourself and Epstein being all hugger mugger?”_ Or, and this just came to me, get Garry Trudeau to draw a leaky diaper hanging in the air with curved lines coming from it, and wilted plants in view. As it is, there’s no way the felon will listen to that hypothetical conversation. No after he hears the word _successor_. He’s in it for life, don’t you know? ---
**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 7, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9420 "2025-11-07T00:48:43Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I learned that one as a pre-teen. It means _clusterfuck_. Thanks. First I’ve heard of it. (FWIW, I say ‘Charlie Foxtrot’.) ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9421 "2025-11-07T00:58:28Z")
> [@robby](#): > > I have no idea what you are referring to. A zero? Or an a\*\*hole Pretty sure it’s referring to a hand job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=467) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=469)