# 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:** 66
**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 30, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1301 "2025-01-30T18:00:12Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > I got five bucks that says he orders his Transportation Secretary to blame ATC and its DEI policies. [Why on Earth would you have expected him to delegate that?](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-obama-biden-dei-dc-plane-crash-2023610) (The link goes to _Newsweek_.) > President [Donald Trump](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/donald-trump) blasted the administrations of [Barack Obama](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/barack-obama) and [Joe Biden](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/joe-biden), along with diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) initiatives within the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation, while speaking about the plane crash near Washington, D.C., on Thursday. > > “I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary,” Trump said at a press conference. “Only the highest aptitude. They have to be the highest intellect and psychological aptitude that were allowed to be qualified for air traffic controllers.” Anyone happen to have a link handy to the executive order the foolish pharaoh is referring to here? No, wait. I know how he did that. Just like with declassifying documents, he merely thought about it. What will finally get the republicans in congress to impeach him? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1302 "2025-01-30T18:13:33Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What will finally get the republicans in congress to impeach him? Absolutely nothing. We’re stuck with this asshole for the next 4 years (barring a serious/fatal medical incident) no matter what he does. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1303 "2025-01-30T18:17:36Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > (barring a serious/fatal medical incident) On that day there will be Don’s Gone parties all across the nation. (Well, except for the South and the Midwest.) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1304 "2025-01-30T18:21:20Z")
In my little corner of the South, there will be dancing in the streets. Yesterday we stopped at the grocery store and we noticed while waiting in line to check out that someone had taken the copy of Time magazine with Agent Orange’s face on it and turned it around in the rack so the back cover was facing out instead. We approved. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1305 "2025-01-30T18:41:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Why on Earth would you have expected him to delegate that?](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-obama-biden-dei-dc-plane-crash-2023610) (The link goes to _Newsweek_.) Sorry- I re-read and see I wasn’t clear. I meant in the official report. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1306 "2025-01-30T19:07:29Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > In my little corner of the South, there will be dancing in the streets. ‘You’re one of the good ones.’ 😉 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1307 "2025-01-30T19:30:52Z")
It’s probably been pointed out elsewhere, but it seems to me that blaming DEI every time anything goes wrong is the same thing as saying that women and people of color _basically can’t_ do the job. If there was a white guy doing the job, whatever the bad thing that happened wouldn’t have. This should piss everyone off as much as anything else that MAGAs do. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1308 "2025-01-30T19:37:00Z")
Sure, of course it is. And it’s gotten a lot of play. At the end, it’s the same fractal wrongness we’ve always seen from him. There are several ways everything he’s saying is wrong. At this point, trying to work on all of them is pointless. Find 2 or 3 and focus on them for your own sanity and to direct your efforts effectively rather than scattershot. No doubt the Gish gallop he trots out every time sometime bad happens (probably near daily the way things are going) will include them plus all the others. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1309 "2025-01-30T19:39:49Z")
Always remember the worst manifestation of DEI is: **D** onald Trump Jr. **E** ric Trump **I** vanka (Trump) Kushner ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1310 "2025-01-30T23:31:55Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Zero chance this one holds up in court. The famously liberal courts of Guantanamo Bay? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1311 "2025-01-30T23:40:56Z")
Seems about right: [The US spent millions on STD prevention in Gaza. But it was a province in Mozambique](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-spent-millions-std-prevention-gaza-it-was-province-mozambique) _Trump said the US stopped $50m in condoms ‘for Hamas’ but USAid shows no record of sending condoms to Palestinian enclave_ > In a press conference on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that one of those unnecessary programmes included sending $50m worth of condoms and contraceptives to [Gaza](https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza), where, for the past 15 months, [Israel](https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel) has waged a full-scale war and limited all aid entering the Palestinian enclave. > > Leavitt said the $50m was located by the Department of Government Efficiency, a new task force created by Trump and led by billionaire Elon Musk. > > “We identified and stopped $50m being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas,” Trump said on Wednesday. > > “They used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?” > … > However, the Gaza referenced in the [grant description](https://joeisdone.github.io/award_search/?keywords=RZ4NKR9DQN84+INGAZA) wasn’t in the occupied Palestinian territories. > > It was referring to a province in Mozambique. Gaza is a rural province in the African nation and is the country’s least populated, with an estimated population of just over one million people. ---
**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 30, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1312 "2025-01-30T23:45:52Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > “We identified and stopped $50m being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas,” Trump said on Wednesday. > > > > “They used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?” I wonder what movie or TV show (or cartoon) he saw that “genius” idea. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1313 "2025-01-30T23:48:51Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > It was referring to a province in Mozambique. Gaza is a rural province in the African nation and is the country’s least populated, with an estimated population of just over one million people $50 mil for 1 mil people? That’s $50 for each man, woman, and child. That seems like a lot for condoms. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1314 "2025-01-30T23:50:28Z")
It says condoms and contraceptives. If it includes effective contraceptives covering a decent duration, that’s not too bad. ---
**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 30, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1315 "2025-01-30T23:54:22Z")
Its a lot more than that here is the full description (capitalization is theirs) > ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION - PROJECT ALCANCAR - ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPREHENSIVE HIV/TB SERVICES FOR EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN MOZAMBIQUE - AS A FOLLOW-ON OF THE PREVIOUS ESCALA PROJECT, THROUGH PROJECT ALCANAR, EGPAF WILL PROVIDEDIRECT SUPPORT FOR COMPREHENSIVE AND EV… IDENCE-BASED PREVENTION, CARE, SUPPORT AND TREATMENT INTERVENTIONS WITHIN HIV AND TB FACILITIES AND COMMUNITIES. THIS INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING CROSS-CUTTING AREAS: HRH, GBV, CECAP, PREVENTION OF VERTICAL TRANSMISSION OF HIV (PMTCT), SYPHILIS AND HEPATITIS B (HBV), PHARMACY, LABORATORY, SURVEILLANCE AND SURVEYS, HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING, HEALTH ECONOMICS, HEALTH COMMUNICATION, SEXUAL PREVENTION, EPIDEMIOLOGIC ASSISTANCE, DQA, MONITORING AND EVALUATION (M&E), INFORMATION SYSTEMS, AND IMPACT AND PROGRAM EVALUATION.EGPAF WILLPROVIDE SUPPORT TO MOZAMBIQUE GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS/PARTNERS INVOLVED IN PROVIDING HIV AND TB SERVICES INGAZA AND INHAMBANE.EGPAFWILL TO WORK AT NATIONAL, PROVINCIAL, DISTRICT, AND SUB-DISTRICT LEVELS. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1316 "2025-01-30T23:55:02Z")
That actually is a thing. > **[Palestinian airborne arson attacks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_airborne_arson_attacks)** > > The first wave of Palestinian airborne arson attacks on Israel from Gaza Strip using airborne incendiary devices (incendiary balloons and condoms, incendiary kitesetc.) was launched in May 2018 during the 2018 Gaza border protests. These attacks are taking an advantage of the prevailing westwards winds which propel the airborne devices to Israel. The fires that ensued annihilated distinctive habitats, ecosystems, and agricultural fields. > Since the beginning of the border riots, Palestinians have... ---
**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 31, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1317 "2025-01-31T00:19:00Z")
Using condoms? ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1318 "2025-01-31T00:21:26Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I wonder what movie or TV show (or cartoon) he saw that “genius” idea. Frederick Forsyth describes one of his characters using condoms to contain part of a bomb in _The Odessa File_. I can’t recall any other cases of that happening. Could Trump have actually read the book? I know that’s unlikely, but the condoms in a bomb thing wasn’t shown in the movie they made out of the book. Maybe somebody who read the book mentioned it to him on a campaign bus, or something. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1319 "2025-01-31T00:22:45Z")
Yes. [https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2018-06-21/flaming-condoms-from-gaza-newest-threat-to-southern-israel](https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2018-06-21/flaming-condoms-from-gaza-newest-threat-to-southern-israel) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1320 "2025-01-31T00:25:49Z")
[Trump ties CT transportation funding to immigration, mask policies, and birth/marriage rates](https://ctmirror.org/2025/01/30/trump-ct-transportation-funding-compliance/) > The four-page undated [memo](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25509814-signed-dot-order-re-ensuring-reliance-upon-sound-economic-analysis-in-department-of-transportation-policies-programs-and-activities/) by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy states the administration “shall prioritize projects and goals” that, among other things, prohibit recipients “from imposing vaccine and mask mandates” and require “local compliance or cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.” > > It also would “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average” Jesus. Tradwives are getting all the roads! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=67)