# 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:** 494
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9922 "2025-11-26T14:48:53Z")
It’s a turkey fed a diet of beef and smoothies. Duh! 😉 ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9923 "2025-11-26T14:49:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Survival of the fittest–nature’s way Those evolved apes confuse strongest for fittest, but they don’t believe in evolution anyway. They just use the word when they think it suits their argument without understanding it. ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9924 "2025-11-26T14:52:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > haven’t seen the photo the war criminal’s got a hair up his butt about, I’ll let others with better eyes compare the ribbons to the chart. [![](https://www.navywriter.com/navy-ribbon-chart.jpg) ](https://www.navywriter.com/navy-ribbon-chart.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9925 "2025-11-26T14:59:15Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > It’s a turkey fed a diet of beef and smoothies. I’m pretty sure the term for a blended mix of beef tallow isn’t “smoothie”; it’s “slurry”. RFK Jr is pro-slurry with a syringe on top. ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9926 "2025-11-26T15:14:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Let the weak ones die off, of course. And let’s not forget, lovingly infected with a full viral load of bird flu. ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9927 "2025-11-26T15:55:01Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > Even more obviously it’s on the left hand side of his uniform, a mirrored version would seem to be on the right. Someone in one of these threads posted that the ceremonial (?) ribbons _do_ go on the opposite side from the other ones, in opposite order. ---
**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 26, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9928 "2025-11-26T16:09:50Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Girls are icky and shouldn’t be allowed to do cool fun things with or near boys. I’ve thought for some time sex with them is cool, to say nothing about a slew of other things. I dunno what Kegsbreath’s position is. I guessing it’s like the ancient Greeks: Women for babies, boys for fun. ---
**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 26, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9929 "2025-11-26T17:55:01Z")
Kristi Noem is potentially putting people in danger, costing them money, and possibly looking at building yet another holding center for all of those “dangerous criminals” the government has been rounding up. [https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/judge-orders-coast-guard-helicopter-return-to-newport-ice-dhs-noem/283-1a5bb381-f989-431e-836a-d517bb6b443c](https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/judge-orders-coast-guard-helicopter-return-to-newport-ice-dhs-noem/283-1a5bb381-f989-431e-836a-d517bb6b443c) ---
**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 26, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9930 "2025-11-26T18:30:53Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I dunno what Kegsbreath’s position is… I’m guessing bent over grabbing his ankles. ---
**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 26, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9931 "2025-11-26T18:58:09Z")
[Trump wants to re-brand MAGA to TEPUBLICAN or TPUBLICAN, for ‘Trump Republican’.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-proposes-new-nickname-for-maga/ar-AA1Rd5dZ) > The president’s proposal comes at a moment of major turmoil for the MAGA contingent, which has become split on numerous issues, including the fallout over the Epstein files, criticism over foreign policy issues, the state of the economy, the offer of [600,000 visas to Chinese students,](https://www.newsweek.com/maga-turns-on-trump-says-us-needs-600000-chinese-students-11027209) and Trump’s praise for the H-1B visa program. > > Beyond the conflict over specific issues, the [resignation of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican,](https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns-statement-in-full-11092645) and the revelation that many high-profile MAGA accounts on social media are[based outside the U.S.](https://www.newsweek.com/maga-accounts-based-outside-us-exposed-11097693)have acted as more dominoes falling and people are starting to question if the MAGA movement [might be approaching its end](https://www.newsweek.com/is-this-the-end-of-the-maga-movement-newsweek-contributors-debate-11068092). ---
**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 26, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9932 "2025-11-26T19:04:13Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > people are starting to question if the MAGA movement [might be approaching its end](https://www.newsweek.com/is-this-the-end-of-the-maga-movement-newsweek-contributors-debate-11068092). I for one think that splitting the movement into MAGA, TEPUBLICAN, TPUBLICAN, The People’s Front of Judea, and the Judean People’s Front is a good way to accelerate that process. Excellent idea. ---
**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 26, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9933 "2025-11-26T20:22:24Z")
“I one our Nation’s Districts” [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreigfgfaujgbezfixtoeft3vuv63nzstymt6cbyrfwhpmxmjwrs63nu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreigfgfaujgbezfixtoeft3vuv63nzstymt6cbyrfwhpmxmjwrs63nu@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9934 "2025-11-26T20:31:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Trump wants to re-brand MAGA to TEPUBLICAN or TPUBLICAN, for ‘Trump Republican’. Those already huge red hats are going to have to get a lot larger. Maybe something like: [![](https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/Clown-Antics-Super-Size-50-Gallon-Cowboy-Hats-Red-28_0592e944-d12e-45b2-9cac-38da8f2cbf34.8b0797b2a4a9a77a31486f9fca837c2e.jpeg) ](https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/Clown-Antics-Super-Size-50-Gallon-Cowboy-Hats-Red-28_0592e944-d12e-45b2-9cac-38da8f2cbf34.8b0797b2a4a9a77a31486f9fca837c2e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9935 "2025-11-26T20:43:33Z")
They’re all tatzis and tassholes. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9936 "2025-11-26T20:51:32Z")
So Kennedy thinks we should fear vaccines, but not asbestos. [https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5624086-fda-asbestos-cosmetics/](https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5624086-fda-asbestos-cosmetics/) (since The Hill doesn’t play nice with previews: The Environmental Working Group is criticizing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after the agency abruptly [withdrew a proposed rule](https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5622484-fda-talc-asbestos-testing-proposal-withdrawn/) meant to prevent asbestos contamination in talc-based cosmetic products. ---
**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 26, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9937 "2025-11-26T20:53:22Z")
Strange, I think the reporter is attractive. Maybe we can all start posting pics of Ivanka pre-cosmetic surgery on social media. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9938 "2025-11-26T21:00:28Z")
It’s not strange. When Trump (or you or I or anyone) calls someone ugly as an insult, it has nothing to do with some objective beauty standard. It should come as no surprise to anyone that men everywhere (and this president in particular) call women ugly as a way to dominate them. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9939 "2025-11-26T22:23:37Z")
Beef fed Turkeys. Even my dog Alpine goes - [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/NXt9YO2.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/mG2NUvy) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9940 "2025-11-26T23:20:06Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > So Kennedy thinks we should fear vaccines, but not asbestos. Of course this is the guy who took his grandkids swimming in a sewage-contaminated waterway. So, yes! Asbestos-laced beef-tallow smoothies for everyone!!! > **[RFK Jr Criticized for Swimming With Grandkids in BacteriaFilled Creek](https://www.powershealth.org/about-us/newsroom/health-library/2025/05/14/rfk-jr-criticized-for-swimming-with-grandkids-in-bacteriafilled-creek)** ---
**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 27, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9941 "2025-11-27T00:29:15Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Someone in one of these threads posted that the ceremonial (?) ribbons _do_ go on the opposite side from the other ones, in opposite order. ['Twas I, right here in this very thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues/1010068/9910) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=493) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=495)