# 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:** 469
**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 7, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9422 "2025-11-07T01:05:44Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Dr. Oz was attending to the guy On which note, Oz tells Newsmax that if you see someone fainting, don’t do like his boss did. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m4yiebw3hm2m)** > > Dr Oz: "One little tip -- if you see someone whose knees are beginning to buckle and their eyes are going back, don't watch what happens. These folks will actually get hurt worse by the fall than by dealing with the underlying condition. So give the... ---
**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, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9423 "2025-11-07T01:06:59Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > > [@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. Answered just above. ---
**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 7, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9424 "2025-11-07T01:13:31Z")
Can you just call it the administration? I know it’s all a clown show and I love your summaries but I really don’t want to have to spend time remembering what you’re taking about every time I see it. Plus the thread’s gonna get cluttered with people constantly asking what it means every time it gets used. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9425 "2025-11-07T01:21:44Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I was an EMT for 8 years. I agree with you. Vicks is good stuff. Not to mention smearing it on electrical cords and cables kept my idiot cat from chewing obsessively on them. ---
**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 7, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9426 "2025-11-07T01:35:32Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Any suggestion that his gut instinct is anything but the best You may well be on the money. But I thought Oliver Cromwell once put it rather succinctly. > [@](#): > > _I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken._ ---
**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 7, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9427 "2025-11-07T01:41:28Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It has portraits or photos of all the past presidents, except Biden where they have a framed photo of an auto-pen. Really. I don’t understand why it’s called the Walk of Fame. It’s _all_ the presidents. Whatever “of Fame” is supposed to be the _best_ of whatever. Are all baseball players in the “Baseball Hall of Fame”? All rockers in the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”? It’s stupid so of course it was Trump’s idea. I guess it’s just another way to help him feed that bottomless void of his existence. ---
**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 7, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9428 "2025-11-07T01:52:14Z")
Sorry, the Complaint/Inquiry Desk is closed due to the shutdown. When the shutdown ends, it will remain closed. Thank you for your attention to this matter. ---
**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, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9429 "2025-11-07T02:46:02Z")
[The felon’s latest venture is, you guessed it, a bust.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trumprx-com-crashes-within-minutes-175703053.html) > [@](#): > > The website [TrumpRx.com](http://trumprx.com/) is currently unavailable, just minutes after President **Donald Trump** [announced](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/just-trump-announces-big-pharma-172931396.html) it as a portal for newly discounted weight loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, which are also sold under the diabetes treatment brands Ozempic and Mounjaro, respectively. > > There is a layer of irony revealed by the fact that it went down after Trump made clear to his staff assembled in the Oval Office to make sure it doesn’t fail in the way that the enrollment process for ACA (also known as ObamaCare) also crashed in its earliest days due to popularity combined with poor planning — a fact that anyone watching Trump’s Oval Office statement was reminded of by Trump himself. > > “To sell these drugs to all consumers at deeply discounted prices via [TrumpRx.com](http://TrumpRx.com),” the president read from a prepared statement before asking aloud, “When is [TrumpRX.com](http://TrumpRX.com) opening?” > > Someone off camera replied, “The site is open, and it will launch in terms of giving people prices before the end of the year.” ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9430 "2025-11-07T02:50:25Z")
So, two weeks! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9431 "2025-11-07T03:01:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > On which note, Oz tells Newsmax that if you see someone fainting, don’t do like his boss did. A President like Carter, Clinton, Obama, and even W would have the conscience and presence of mind to make some attempt to help. I leave Biden out as he too would have taken an old man doze as Trump did. Trump’s reaction, once awakened/startled, was to stand and show he’s still vigorous and alive. I won’t speculate much, yet I reckon he’s on some steroid/amphetamine cocktail. Here he’s sitting while a number of drug CEO’s praise their company, product, and this great President. From afar - and I only read his truth tweets here, he seems to have changed somehow in the past two months. I’m sure all the mega-billionaires like Bezos and Zuckerberg want the elixir of long life, yet none are about 80. Trump thinks, “I can stand upright for a photo as medics attend to the guy to his left as ‘I am the greatest’” ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9432 "2025-11-07T03:30:21Z")
“TrumpRx” sounds like the worst possible spinoff of the group from _KPop Demon Hunters_. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9433 "2025-11-07T03:46:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > On which note, Oz tells Newsmax that if you see someone fainting, don’t do like his boss did. To be fair Trump wasn’t in a position to help he was seated about 5 feet away (and based on Happy\_Lavender’s post probably asleep). By the time he got up the two people next to the man were already helping to keep him from falling. Up until around 24 seconds into the clip Trump behaves like any other normal human being would looking to see if the guy who fell is OK. Its just that after words he realizes that giving the appearance of concern for a fellow human being might make him look weak and so he quickly switches his demeanor to one of indifference and mild distain. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9434 "2025-11-07T12:21:09Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Would YOU want medical attention from _Dr. Oz_? More than from Trump. Ivermectin. Injecting bleach. Shing ultraviolet light into bodies ---
**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, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9435 "2025-11-07T12:47:55Z")
Six of one, half dozen of another snake oil. ---
**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 7, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9436 "2025-11-07T16:15:40Z")
The giant sucking sound heard 'round the world. > **[Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/world/europe/serbia-hotel-trump-kushner.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.sslK.dgqrARU_wDQg&smid=url-share)** > > Despite a fraud investigation into officials who endorsed the project, Parliament used an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to push the plans through. > The Serbian Parliament approved a new law Friday to tear down an architectural landmark that NATO bombed in 1999, stripping it of cultural protections and clearing the way for President Trump’s family to replace it with a luxury hotel. > > Plans to build a half-billion-dollar Trump-branded hotel and apartments on the site of the landmark, the former General Staff military complex in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, [had been stalled](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/politics/trump-serbia-kushner-development.html) after government officials who endorsed it were charged with fraud. > > But last weekend, lawmakers from the governing party of President Aleksandar Vucic announced they would use an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to introduce a law that would restart the project. > > The legislative wrangling drew condemnation from students, prosecutors, preservationists and opposition politicians in the latest provocation after more than a year of [anticorruption protests](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/europe/serbia-vucic-prime-minister-resigns.html) against Mr. Vucic’s government. > > … > > He _[The lawmaker who introduced the measure, Milenko Jovanov]_ also said the hotel project could curry favor with the Trump administration at a time Serbia is trying to maintain relations both with Moscow and the West. Mr. Trump has imposed a [35 percent tariff](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/further-modifying-the-reciprocal-tariff-rates/) on Serbian imports, and American sanctions have hampered a Russian-owned company that is [Serbia’s main oil supplier](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/serbias-russian-owned-oil-firm-nis-faces-us-sanctions-waiver-expires-2025-10-09/), as well as some of Mr. Vucic’s allies. > > … > > “Whether that will lead to improving relations with the Trump administration, with the United States — honestly, I would like that,” he _[Jovanov]_ added. > … Ah, I get it. 💡 Donnie’s ultimate motivation behind the tariffs is to bring world leaders to him crawling on their knees, begging him to accept the favors they’re offering. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9437 "2025-11-07T16:19:18Z")
On this day in history, five years ago Rudy Giuliani gave a speech at Four Seasons (Landscaping). ---
**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 7, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9438 "2025-11-07T16:27:21Z")
Who else had _spend a night in a Trump hotel in Serbia (preferably Belgrade)_ on their bucket list? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9439 "2025-11-07T17:00:33Z")
The fact that a protected landmark had to be knocked down to make way for this obscenity was probably the cherry on the sundae for Trump. ---
**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 7, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9440 "2025-11-07T17:13:46Z")
Not to mention (from the article): > “Today, you want to turn that symbol into a luxury complex, just to please Donald Trump,” Ms. [Marinika] Tepic said during the parliamentary debate. “On the very spot where bombs once fell, you now plan to pour Champagne.” On a spot where people died. Doesn’t get any better. 🍾 🥂 ---
**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 7, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9441 "2025-11-07T17:59:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > On which note, Oz tells Newsmax that if you see someone fainting, don’t do like his boss did. Have we, as a society, really fallen to the point where we need _an actual doctor_ to give us the advice, “Don’t just let people take a major faceplant”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=468) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=470)