# 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:** 82
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1621 "2025-02-06T02:08:16Z")
First they came for the monthly heritage celebrations. Now it’s time to get rid of the clubs. Can’t have those undesirables congregating. > **[Fred Wellman (@fpwellman.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/fpwellman.bsky.social/post/3lhgrpuz4vc2o)** > > The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain.... ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1622 "2025-02-06T04:27:58Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Thinking outside the box. Tinkling inside his diapers. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1623 "2025-02-06T04:33:58Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > returning cash to investors “That’s crazy talk!” Says Trump and everyone else attached to him at the anus. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1624 "2025-02-06T04:51:22Z")
Has That Asshole ever made a profit to ever to pay a dividend? I mean, this is a guy who bankrupted casinos! ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1625 "2025-02-06T06:10:32Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Has That Asshole ever made a profit to ever to pay a dividend? As far as I know, he’s never operated a publicly-traded company, so I don’t think he’s ever had to pay a dividend. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1626 "2025-02-06T06:22:35Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > …he’s never operated a publicly-traded company… Hey! Let’s let him run the fucking United States! Insert Turdle emoji here (Turtle with smiling Poop shell. I got him on my phone) ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1627 "2025-02-06T06:33:03Z")
Little Marco is bigly mad. At South Africa. > “We will have none of this equality and sustainability! And solidarity, pffft”. I love the way he keeps it simple for Trump: “South Africa is doing very bad things”. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1628 "2025-02-06T07:08:25Z")
The White House used to “walk back” things they said over a little time and not directly from the President to his spokesperson: [Sky ‘News’:](https://news.sky.com/story/white-house-suggests-palestinians-wont-be-permanently-resettled-as-ex-israeli-pm-casts-doubt-on-trump-plan-13303710) > He [Trump] drew global condemnation for his comments, which included: “The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. We’ll own it.” > When questioned, Mr Trump said he did envision a “long-term ownership position” and described Gaza’s future as “the Riviera of the Middle East”. { double-speak occurs overnight } > But speaking on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to contradict Mr Trump’s words and claimed he had said it would always be temporary. > “The president has made it clear that they need to be temporarily relocated out of Gaza for the rebuilding of this effort,” she said to reporters. Seems he once again said the planned part out loud. What he meant was “let’s just get them out of Gaza on $2 plane flights to somewhere.” Slightly more to fly back and did we they keep the New America Gaza passports we never issued? Then I can annex Gaza and build Hotel Ivanka de Gaza for “The World” to come and stay at. Shithole countries need Trump properties. Look at the wonders of Atlantic City. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1629 "2025-02-06T07:11:35Z")
Rubio won’t have time to attend any summits anyway, now that he has additional responsibilities as the national archivist. > **[ABC News (@abcnews) on Threads](https://www.threads.net/@abcnews/post/DFuGYoWxc36)** > > NEW: Marco Rubio is now acting archivist of the United States, according to a high-level official, in addition to secretary of state and the acting director of... ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1630 "2025-02-06T07:29:29Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Rubio won’t have time to attend any summits anyway, now that he has additional responsibilities as the national archivist. Now this is interesting. Somebody’s been reading some history. The archivist position was part of the duties of the Secretary of State until 1949 when it became part of the General Services Administration. So they have precedence for Rubio to be a stooge who will have control of all official government documents. I wonder why they need that? [Archivist of the United States - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivist_of_the_United_States) I guess they fired the woman who had held the job since 2023. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1631 "2025-02-06T07:50:23Z")
Rubio ain’t gonna play Sun City? (Yes, I know it’s not Johannesburg but to boycott the G20 over these petty, specious concerns is quite the opposite of why musicians began to boycott Sun City) I reckon in the near-term summit agendas are all going to be all about DEI, Trump the sociopath lunatic, climate change and Anti-Americanism (even if only to keep Rubiio in DC archiving). ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1632 "2025-02-06T08:22:02Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > So they have precedence for Rubio to be a stooge who will have control of all official government documents. I wonder why they need that? So he can declare the bathroom and the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago to be SCIFs? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1633 "2025-02-06T08:43:38Z")
His [casino scam](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/last-time-trump-company-went-public-didnt-go-well-investors-rcna144657) went public in the 90s. Spoiler alert: Trump extracted $44 milliion for himself, the company lost over a billion. Oddly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a media story about the suckers who lost their investments to that filthy-fingered criminal. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1634 "2025-02-06T11:36:07Z")
Does anyone else think Karoline Leavitt seems more like a propaganda officer than a press secretary? Her demeanor and agitated ramblings in the press room remind me of Sean Spicer back after Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, when he was insisting that the crowd in attendance at the inauguration was the biggest EVER. **PERIOD.** ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1635 "2025-02-06T13:14:31Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Does anyone else think Karoline Leavitt seems more like a propaganda officer than a press secretary? Well, every press secretary’s job is to put the best possible spin on events. The difference is that the ones under Trump (now and previously) don’t so much “spin” as “blatantly, openly lie”. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1636 "2025-02-06T13:33:27Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Well, every press secretary’s job is to put the best possible spin on events. The difference is that the ones under Trump (now and previously) don’t so much “spin” as “blatantly, openly lie”. It’s more than that though - there’s a lot of editorializing, and a vague sense of irritation on her part, like she’s annoyed that people aren’t automatically believing what she says and are instead asking difficult questions. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1637 "2025-02-06T13:34:40Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > It’s more than that though - there’s a lot of editorializing, and a vague sense of irritation on her part, like she’s annoyed that people aren’t automatically believing what she says and are instead asking difficult questions. She learned that from watching her boss. I don’t think she has _yet_ said “that’s a very stupid question”. It’s coming. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1638 "2025-02-06T15:48:07Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Does anyone else think Karoline Leavitt seems more like a propaganda officer than a press secretary? Her demeanor and agitated ramblings in the press room remind me of Sean Spicer back after Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, I think the comparison you’re looking for is Baghdad Bob. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1639 "2025-02-06T16:14:28Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Well, every press secretary’s job is to put the best possible spin on events. The difference is that the ones under Trump (now and previously) don’t so much “spin” as “blatantly, openly lie”. I just wish they’d be more like old Baghdad Bob. He knew he was lying, we knew he was lying, but he at least looked like he was having fun with it. > **[Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf)** > > Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (Arabic: محمد سعيد الصحاف; Muḥammad Saʿīd Al-Ṣaḥḥāf, born 30 July 1940)\[citation needed\] is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as > Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 2001. He came to worldwide prominence around the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Minister of Information under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting as spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Saddam's government. He has also been nicknamed Baghdad Bob or Comic... ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1640 "2025-02-06T16:15:39Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I think the comparison you’re looking for is Baghdad Bob. Baghdad Bob was the Mouth of Saddam so he very rarely had to contradict his boss’ own words. Trump never used the word “temporarily” with Bibi the other night. Anyways, he didn’t get the cooperation from the Saudi’s (mainly), Egypt or Jordan that he wanted to be able to have his son in law hire kick-backing contractors to bulldoze Gaza and build the Trump Riviera and Ivanka Hotel so he’ll move on to something else now. Every other leader said “two state solution” including his pal Keir Stermer. There still is no date set for Keir’s fealty state visit or hand-carrying an invite to see KCIII. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=83)