# 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:** 60
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1181 "2025-01-28T03:57:15Z")
Trump suspends all spending on social programs like Medicaid and SNAP. It’s illegal, but he’s doing it anyway. White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/) ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1182 "2025-01-28T03:58:44Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It’s becoming hard to believe that he oligarchs aren’t trying to crash the economy on purpose. Watch; it’ll turn out that Trump was Putin’s Manchurian Candidate all along. Well played, Vlad. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1183 "2025-01-28T04:08:40Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > Elon got kicked out of the Whitehouse. As if Elon was actually going to occupy the shitty little broom closet that passes for offices for anyone lower than Chief of Staff, and for that matter needs an office for physical access to influence Trump, who himself spent as little time as possible in the White House in his last term. As for those who doubted that the Heritage Foundation fucks who drafted Project 2025 would have any real influence over Trump: > **[Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters](https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-project-2025-ghostwriters/)** > > Exposed PDF metadata from the Office of Personnel Management reveals that Heritage Foundation-linked Trump devotees are writing policies at federal agencies. > _The people who are now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management haven’t been scrubbing the metadata on their PDFs, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two have links to the [Heritage Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation) and its [Project 2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025)._ Stranger ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1184 "2025-01-28T04:14:16Z")
Paywalled. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1185 "2025-01-28T04:17:23Z")
Google. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1186 "2025-01-28T04:30:13Z")
Average state depends on federal grants for 36% of their budget. Some states are much higher. All frozen. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1187 "2025-01-28T04:34:39Z")
There is somehting about his appearance that just screams demon summoned from netherworld. [![](https://www.citationneeded.news/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/peters-1.jpg) ](https://www.citationneeded.news/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/peters-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1188 "2025-01-28T04:37:18Z")
I was thinking more Auton, but for sure he is not of this world: [![](https://i0.wp.com/olddoctorwho.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/doctor-who-spearhead-space-auton.jpg) ](https://i0.wp.com/olddoctorwho.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/doctor-who-spearhead-space-auton.jpg) Stranger ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1189 "2025-01-28T04:38:58Z")
Maybe Batboy [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Bat_Boy.PNG) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Bat_Boy.PNG) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1190 "2025-01-28T04:44:23Z")
Don’t you malign Bat Boy! Bat Boy has saved countless lives, helped us invade Iraq (both times), has gone to the Moon, and was the true leader of Seal Team Six who X-ringed bin Laden. If only he had a chance, he would have cured cancer! He would certainly never align himself with the MAGA crowd, and would happily put the bite on any of Trump’s lackeys if he were free to do so, although he wouldn’t touch Trump himself because he has standards and hates lice. Stranger ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1191 "2025-01-28T05:08:23Z")
Tomorrow morning is going to be a disaster. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1192 "2025-01-28T05:28:06Z")
And yet, it probably won’t be the worst day this week. Stranger ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1193 "2025-01-28T05:38:27Z")
I feel like my last days are coming. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1194 "2025-01-28T05:40:08Z")
Trump is about to put out an Executive Order for the construction of a US version of Israel’s Iron Dome. It will be interesting to see how this lowers grocery prices. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1195 "2025-01-28T06:08:13Z")
> **[Hegseth highlights 'Iron Dome for America', other first priorities as new SecDef](https://defensescoop.com/2025/01/27/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-iron-dome-for-america-priorities-donald-trump/)** > > Pete Hegseth briefed a small group of reporters at the Pentagon for the first time as the Defense Secretary on Monday. Defense against…what? The New Jersey ‘drones’? UAPs that actually just turn out to be balloons, camera artifacts, or just lights from perfectly normal airliners flying in a holding pattern waiting to land at JFK? Missile attacks by narcoterrorists from Mexico or ecowarriors from VC? And how much land is it going to protect from a hypothetical threat? Israel is only ~8,020 square miles, which is smaller than all but three US states. I guess whatever the threat is, Dapper Dan Man is on the case, sure to manage the US$850B Department of Defense budget better than the couple of veteran nonprofits he ‘mismanaged’ into insolvency. This is the dumbest fucking timeline. Stranger ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1196 "2025-01-28T08:40:29Z")
[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttxxnn4i6efjj5ntpynaby3o/bafkreig6e5rhsp55o2g3jhguo3nwllkblm64admqijl4qfk4zxwvtohssi@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttxxnn4i6efjj5ntpynaby3o/bafkreig6e5rhsp55o2g3jhguo3nwllkblm64admqijl4qfk4zxwvtohssi@jpeg) Of all the things that have never happened, this didn’t happen the most. “The military entered California and turned on the water from the north.” Sure, grandpa, let’s get you to prison. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1197 "2025-01-28T09:06:07Z")
[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttxxnn4i6efjj5ntpynaby3o/bafkreig6e5rhsp55o2g3jhguo3nwllkblm64admqijl4qfk4zxwvtohssi@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttxxnn4i6efjj5ntpynaby3o/bafkreig6e5rhsp55o2g3jhguo3nwllkblm64admqijl4qfk4zxwvtohssi@jpeg) More like, The days of putting the billion dollar California/Oregon Salmon Fishing Industry, over ALMOND FARMERS, are OVER, Enjoy the unemployment, California!!! ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1198 "2025-01-28T10:12:55Z")
I wonder how many students will have to withdraw from university thanks to Felon47’s latest nonsensical order. I wonder how many universities will end up bankrupt. I wonder _ **how many people will die** _ thanks to essential research which cannot occur because of lack of funding. The Revenge Tour has no bounds. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1199 "2025-01-28T10:57:31Z")
Look, folks. We can all agree that Trump has done a lot since he became President again, and he needs a break. He’s not a sprightly youngster, and I for one would hate to see him have some sort of catastrophic breakdown. > **[Trump mocked for hitting the golf course — just a week after being sworn in...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-golf-today-doral-president-b2687218.html)** > > The president was pictured playing golf at the Trump National Doral in Miami on Monday morning ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1200 "2025-01-28T11:03:33Z")
Don’t quite a few non-sprightly post-youngsters keel over while playing golf? It is exertion, to a ripe potato, after all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=61)