# 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:** 497
**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 28, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9982 "2025-11-28T04:46:49Z")
[Professional Liar Leavitt’s nephew’s mother arrested by ICE.](https://www.aol.com/news/mother-taken-custody-ice-then-231141785.html) > [@](#): > > Bruna Ferreira came to the US from Brazil as a child, and by all accounts, lived a life like any American: playing on the high school tennis team, getting married and divorced, building a small business and helping raise her son. > > When she was taken into custody by ICE agents earlier this month as she left her home in a Boston suburb to pick up her son from school, it didn’t make headlines: she was another immigrant caught up in President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown, despite having developed strong American roots. > > But during her arrest, Ferreira repeatedly told authorities that her son’s aunt was the White House press secretary, her sister, Graziela Dos Santos Rodrigues, told the [Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/metro/karoline-leavitt-bruna-ferreira-ice/?s_campaign=8315:varf). Her former fiancé – the father of her 11-year-old son – is the brother of Karoline Leavitt. > > “I’m sure she tried to just use whatever she could come up with in the moment,” Dos Santos Rodrigues told the Globe. “However, it didn’t really help very much.” > > Now, Ferreira’s familial connection to Leavitt – one of the most prominent voices supporting Trump’s deportation push – has transformed her into a symbol of how far the immigration crackdown is reaching. It’s also provoked debate over her background: the administration has described her as a “criminal illegal alien” who had been arrested for battery, but her lawyers say she has no criminal record and previously had protection from deportation as part of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. > > Ferreira, 33, is now detained in an ICE detention center in Louisiana, facing deportation proceedings. She broke up with her son’s father, Leavitt’s brother Michael Leavitt, 35, about a decade ago, her sister told the Globe. A source familiar with the situation told CNN that Ferreira and the White House press secretary have not spoken in many years. > > Ferreira’s attorney, Todd Pomerleau, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Wednesday, “She’s part of the Leavitt family’s lives,” adding the White House press secretary is Ferreira’s son’s godmother. Wow. I bet Thanksgiving Dinner was a real riot at the Leavitt’s. [Who cares about any stinking court order?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/19-old-college-student-deported-011016566.html) > [@](#): > > A 19-year-old college student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving break was detained at a Boston airport and later deported despite a federal judge’s order blocking her removal, according to her attorney. > > Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, who entered the U.S. from Honduras when she was 8 years old, was about to board her flight to Texas last Friday to visit her parents and siblings when airport authorities told her to step aside, her attorney Todd Pomerleau told ABC News. > > Lopez Belloza was detained, informed that she had a removal order and then arrested, her attorney said. Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. > > But according to Pomerleau, Lopez Belloza was transferred that evening to Texas and deported to Honduras the next day. [Keystone Kop Patel announces manhunt for suspect already known to be in custody.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/keystone-kash-vows-track-down-232606718.html) > [@](#): > > FBI Director Kash Patel vowed to launch a manhunt for the shooter who wounded two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday—only for an official to point out that a suspect is already in custody at a hospital. > > The [embattled](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/keystone-kash-facing-axe-over-193434549.html) FBI director, 45, found himself embarrassingly out of the loop during a news conference on the “targeted” shooting, which has left two guardsmen in critical condition. > > “As you can see behind me, we have assembled the full force of both the federal and state and local law enforcement agencies to bring bare all of our resources to make sure we find the perpetrators responsible for this heinous act,” Patel declared. “And make no mistake, they will be brought to justice.” [And now the felon wants to “fix” the Reflecting Pool.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-threatens-fix-major-dc-131038610.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump has revealed the [next D.C. landmark](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/even-trump-architect-trying-shrink-190017298.html)he has in his crosshairs, claiming he wants to remove “Biden filth and incompetence” from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. > > The president posted a video on social media saying he plans to “fix” the historic pool with the help of Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum. > > The 30 second clip shows leaves and grime in the water, accompanied by _Time to Say Goodbye_ by opera singer [Andrea Bocelli.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/andrea-bocelli-ap-english-new-york-ed-sheeran-b2641177.html) First, I wonder what Ms. Bocelli has to say about her work being co-opted by the felon. Next, yeah, right. He’ll fix it. Just like he’s fixed the East Wing. You can kiss the Lincoln Memorial goodbye. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9983 "2025-11-28T05:11:52Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > I’d think if done right, deep frying a turkey would be pretty tasty. It’s a moister, tastier turkey. > [@needscoffee](#): > > We can only hope he has an unfortunate accident while deep-frying his turkey. I’d be thankful for that. Well, he’s know to spit in the face of science. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z4Qxqmhqj1A/hqdefault.jpg "Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix (REUPLOAD)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Qxqmhqj1A) ---
**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 28, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9984 "2025-11-28T05:15:52Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > First, I wonder what Ms. Bocelli has to say about her work Just an FYI, Andrea is a man. ---
**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 28, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9985 "2025-11-28T05:32:47Z")
Thanks! ---
**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 28, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9986 "2025-11-28T14:35:39Z")
Happy Thanksgiving message from our president. This is so masterfully written that he must’ve used a top notch speech writer. I’m so glad to see him strive to unite the country and stop the racism and hatred. > [@](#): > > A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being “Politically Correct,” and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration. The official United States Foreign population stands at 53 million people (Census), most of which are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels. They and their children are supported through massive payments from Patriotic American Citizens who, because of their beautiful hearts, do not want to openly complain or cause trouble in any way, shape, or form. They put up with what has happened to our Country, but it’s eating them alive to do so! A migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc… > …Even as we have progressed technologically, Immigration Policy has eroded those gains and living conditions for many. I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization. These goals will be pursued with the aim of achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process. Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long! ---
**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 28, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9987 "2025-11-28T14:49:44Z")
I can’t read that. I just can’t. ---
**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 28, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9988 "2025-11-28T14:51:45Z")
For some reason, in my mind’s eye when I read it, it had a caustic German accent. ---
**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 28, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9989 "2025-11-28T15:07:16Z")
Here’s the cite: > **[Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115625429081411360)** > > A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish... * * * * * * * * * Here’s the **official** Thanksgiving message, which was clearly written by a literate adult, so not DJT. : > **[Thanksgiving Day, 2025](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/thanksgiving-day-2025/)** > > BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION In 1789, just years after America's triumph over tyranny in the Revolutionary War, Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they can learn, grow, and reach their full... ---
**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 28, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9990 "2025-11-28T15:23:29Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Here’s the **official** Thanksgiving message So… Mr. Potato Head has declared Thursday, November 27, 2025 to be Thanksgiving Day? Is this a thing? Do presidents have to declare the third Thursday of every year to be Thanksgiving? (I mean, otherwise it sounds like he’s inventing it himself.) ---
**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 28, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9991 "2025-11-28T15:38:21Z")
The bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, etc. etc. ---
**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 28, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9992 "2025-11-28T15:58:15Z")
(Quoting Trump’s gibberish) > [@wguy123](#): > > remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, Bye, Congressional Republicans! > [@wguy123](#): > > denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility Bye, Elon! > [@wguy123](#): > > deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization Bye, Melania! > [@wguy123](#): > > Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long! Bye, Donald! ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9993 "2025-11-28T16:37:37Z")
Nicely summarized, @Gyrate . My thoughts exactly as I read the rant – it similar to his “man-woman-person-TV” idiocy. His allies and family members were the first thing that popped into whatever passes for his mind. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9994 "2025-11-28T16:41:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Do presidents have to declare the third Thursday of every year to be Thanksgiving? Up until 1941, Thanksgiving didn’t occur on a fixed date, and, yes, the actual date was set each year by presidential proclamation. In 1941, Congress passed, and President Roosevelt signed, a law which permanently fixed Thanksgiving as the **fourth** Thursday in November, and removed the need for the annual proclamations. ---
**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 28, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9995 "2025-11-28T16:42:23Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > the **fourth** Thursday in November, Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9996 "2025-11-28T16:45:15Z")
Now it’s not just an embarrassment to the office held by Washington, Lincoln and FDR. Now it’s embarrassing that it’s the same office held by Millard Filmore and Richard Nixon. ---
**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 28, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9997 "2025-11-28T17:37:21Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Oops. That’s ok. The third Thursday is for practice, so it doesn’t count ---
**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 28, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9998 "2025-11-28T20:01:33Z")
Mad King Donald is asked if he’ll attend the funeral of the Guardswoman who died in this week’s shooting. His response? “I WON HER STATE THE BIGLIEST OF ANYONE EVER!” > **['Biggest margins!' Trump brags about winning state of slain National Guardswoman](https://www.rawstory.com/dc-shooting-trump/)** > > President Donald Trump was asked at a press conference on Thursday whether he intends to go to the funeral of the murdered National Guardswoman, Sarah Beckstrom — and Trump detoured from the question into bragging about how popular he is in... ---
**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 28, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/9999 "2025-11-28T20:48:58Z")
Meanwhile on social media, President Grandpa rambles about autopens some more, threatens to prosecute Joe Biden for “perjury”, then posts the word “TRUMPLICANS!” followed by an AI-generated picture of himself (with no tie) holding a sign that says “Trump 2028, yes!” [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreicux6pkjxojkubyuoqcj4iuvlwljlzphgqwbt563nlyc4vierdpbe@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreicux6pkjxojkubyuoqcj4iuvlwljlzphgqwbt563nlyc4vierdpbe@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreieteydxttgk42f3tzuynh4ohywpjaeht2qesdyzljgmpwnpu7qr2y@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreieteydxttgk42f3tzuynh4ohywpjaeht2qesdyzljgmpwnpu7qr2y@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/10000 "2025-11-28T21:04:17Z")
He wishes he still looked like that. ---
**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 28, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/10001 "2025-11-28T22:44:48Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Here’s the **official** Thanksgiving message, which was clearly written by a literate adult, so not DJT. : I’m so glad to hear that there WAS an official Thanksgiving message. My mother’s church, like many I’m sure, always had a Thanksgiving morning service, at which the President’s message was read. The thought of that unholy Truth Social rant (posted by @wguy123 in full) being read out, was truly horrifying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=496) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=498)