# 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:** 94
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1861 "2025-02-11T17:30:53Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Imagine if you had to say you believed in pseudoscience to get a government scientist position. I don’t think we’re going to have to imagine this for very long. It will be reality soon. ---
**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 11, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1862 "2025-02-11T17:39:31Z")
Pretty sure it is already. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1863 "2025-02-11T17:45:50Z")
Dumbass doesn’t translate well so literally. Personally I’d go with “Golfo del imbécil naranja”, not because it’s a better translation of “dumbass” but because I think it’s the correct word to define Trump, it has connotations of willful, malicious stupidity that fit the man to a T. Or better yet the rioplatense “Pelotudo”, but it would not be intelligible to most Spanish speakers. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1864 "2025-02-11T18:13:49Z")
Asked which state he (Senator Claghord of Allen’s Alley, portrayed by Kenny DElmar) represented, he replied: > [@](#): > > At one point when asked which state he represented, he noted it was in the [Gulf of Mexico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico), south of [Alabama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama). That’d get him in trouble these days. > **[Senator Claghorn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn)** > > Senator Beauregard Claghorn was a popular fictional radio character on the "Allen's Alley" segment of The Fred Allen Show, beginning in 1945. Succeeding the vaguely similar but much less popular Senator Bloat from the earliest "Allen's Alley" routines, Senator Claghorn, portrayed by Allen's announcer Kenny Delmar, was a blustery Southern politician whose home was usually the first at which Allen would knock. Claghorn would typically answer the door with, "Somebody, ah say, somebody knocked! Cl Cl... ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1865 "2025-02-11T18:27:42Z")
[![](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S12E05/388680.jpg?b64lines=VGhlcmUncyBhICpuZXcqIE1leGljbz8=) ](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S12E05/388680.jpg?b64lines=VGhlcmUncyBhICpuZXcqIE1leGljbz8=) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1866 "2025-02-11T21:18:05Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > PLUS… “Send All” is way more efficient than picking individual recipients. This is probably the only circumstance in which I could recommend that everyone who doesn’t hate America hit “reply all.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1867 "2025-02-11T21:35:45Z")
He was the inspiration for Foghorn Leghorn. ---
**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 11, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1868 "2025-02-11T22:16:42Z")
Not sure where this belongs, but I guess this is as good a thread as any. Today’s clusterfuckedness: > **[The AP says it was blocked from the Oval Office over continuing to use “Gulf...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/media/ap-blocked-from-oval-office/index.html)** > > The Associated Press said the White House barred its reporter from Tuesday’s Oval Office executive order signing because of the AP style guidance on using the name Gulf of Mexico versus Gulf of America. From the item: > [@](#): > > The AP said in a statement it was informed Tuesday that if the news agency did not “align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.” > > . . . > > “It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism,” AP Executive Editor Julie Pace said in a statement. “Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, **it plainly violates the First Amendment**.” Emphasis added by me. I agree with the editor. Trump is trying to control what people hear and say. _1984_’s Newspeak anybody? Scary stuff indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1869 "2025-02-11T22:36:02Z")
Wouldn’t be surprised if Kash Patel has been completely swept aside. “I got this.” ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1870 "2025-02-12T00:50:57Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > _1984_’s Newspeak anybody? Scary stuff indeed. To say nothing of the memory hole. “I never promised cheaper eggs or gas.” ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1871 "2025-02-12T02:44:18Z")
What’s up with the little kid during the first 6 min of Elon speaking after executive order signing? No babysitters? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgVYfvAYRc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgVYfvAYRc) ---
**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 12, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1872 "2025-02-12T03:20:52Z")
I thought Elon _ **is** _ Donnie’s babysitter. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1873 "2025-02-12T04:58:21Z")
Our country is such a shit show right now, i don’t even know where to post this. So here it is. > **[Lauren Boebert And Kid Rock Raised Eyebrows After Being Seen Entering A Cab...](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lauren-boebert-kid-rock-raised-021555802.html)** > > Rep. Lauren Boebert has raised eyebrows after being spotted getting into a cab with musician Kid Rock at 2 am. > [**Rep. Lauren Boebert**](https://theblast.com/tag/lauren-boebert/) has raised eyebrows after being spotted getting into a cab with musician [**Kid Rock**](https://theblast.com/tag/kid-rock/) at 2 am. > > The pair had previously caused a stir online after it was reported that the congresswoman couldn’t stop “fangirling” over Rock at Donald Trump’s inaugural party. … > > While it’s unclear why the pair were together, they have certainly set tongues wagging due to their early morning sighting. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1874 "2025-02-12T04:59:20Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > What’s up with the little kid during the first 6 min of Elon speaking after executive order signing? No babysitters? > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgVYfvAYRc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgVYfvAYRc) I’ve heard that’s Elon’s son, Kevlar. ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1875 "2025-02-12T05:08:56Z")
That is so romantic! The animatronic pair of bumper nuts is getting together with the animatronic vape pen! Match made in hell. ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1876 "2025-02-12T05:13:06Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > I’ve heard that’s Elon’s son, Kevlar. It’s one of Elon’s sons, whom Elon introduced as “X” – his full name is, I kid you not, “X Æ A-Xii”. > **[Musk's son 'Lil X' steals spotlight in the Oval Office](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/musks-son-lil-steals-spotlight-oval-office/story?id=118713138)** > > The billionaire has brought his four-year-old to numerous Washington events. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1877 "2025-02-12T05:16:19Z")
This seems like as good a time as any to bring up the fact that it was only recently conclusively proven that Boebert is not the daughter of former NWA World Tag Team Champion ‘Sweet’ Stan Lane. > **[DNA Test Proves Ex-Wrestler Not Lauren Boebert’s Father](https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-lauren-boebert-says-dna-proves-wrestler-stan-lane-not-her-father/)** > > Stan Lane has been dogged by accusations that he got the congresswoman’s mother pregnant during a brief affair. ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1878 "2025-02-12T05:16:37Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > It’s one of Elon’s sons, whom Elon introduced as “X” – his full name is, I kid you not, “X Æ A-Xii”. > > [Musk's son 'Lil X' steals spotlight in the Oval Office - ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/musks-son-lil-steals-spotlight-oval-office/story?id=118713138) So, it’s a real life “Two and a Half Men,” just not as funny? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1879 "2025-02-12T05:18:25Z")
Whoosh. [The Dead Zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Zone_(novel)) - Stephen King novel where a Presidential candidate grabs a child and holds them up as a human shield when an assassin starts firing. But I’m sure you knew that. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/1880 "2025-02-12T05:22:39Z")
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