# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298 "2025-12-01T20:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/381 "2025-12-10T06:44:17Z")
Serious question here. Isn’t citizenship, as interpreted today, basically a product of colonialism? ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/382 "2025-12-10T07:42:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And another thing - I’m not senile. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I’m senile Again we have Trump admitting to _multiple_ cognitive exams. Hey Trump, that isn’t done for someone with a healthy brain, even if they ask. And yes, they are always going to tell you that you did a great job. Or maybe they didn’t… do you remember? Do you know who you are? Where you are? What you are doing at any given moment? Well, don’t worry about it, you aced the cognitive test just like you dodged STDs in your college days. Certainly you remember those, don’t you? ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/383 "2025-12-10T08:20:19Z")
You know why no STD has infested him? Professinal courtesy. Does he know where he is? Hell, is he even awake? Thus my new moniker for the felon: Rip van Simple. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/384 "2025-12-10T08:31:08Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Thus my new moniker for the felon: Rip van Simple. Gosh, Monty, you give us that, and I like it; but @Johnny_L.A gave us “Mr. Potato Head,” and I like that too. Which to use, which to use…? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/385 "2025-12-10T09:53:58Z")
Sleepy potato head? ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/386 "2025-12-10T10:07:12Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Hey Trump, that isn’t done for someone with a healthy brain, even if they ask. And yes, they are always going to tell you that you did a great job I have Wernike-Korsakov, so I do these tests fairly regularly. If a doctor told me “good job” - rather than me boasting about it, I would be highly offended… because it is diagnostic, not skills based. I can at least, based on my experience with these tests, offer a diagnosis: you have a complete cretin in charge of your country. That will be 50 cents, please. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/387 "2025-12-10T10:08:21Z")
Apparently typeface was too woke? Poor Little Marco, so desperate for a drop of Daddy Trump’s approval. What a tool. [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/388 "2025-12-10T10:45:10Z")
In this case, I think the anti-DEI thing is being used as cover for what is actually just an abhorrence for change and modernity. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/389 "2025-12-10T10:59:36Z")
“If Times New Roman was good enough for the Founding Fathers, it’s good enough for us!” ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/390 "2025-12-10T11:16:31Z")
> Yesterday Mr Rubio announced the State Department will be reverting to manual typewriters > > "Switching to word processors achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Mr. Rubio said. Allegedly. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/391 "2025-12-10T11:21:15Z")
As weird and stupid as this administration is, I wouldn’t be surprised if the advocacy of Times New Roman were somehow motivated by a sympathy for the throwback aesthetics of Mussolini’s fascism. “Look, it’s got ‘Roman’ in the name and everything!” ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/392 "2025-12-10T11:35:40Z")
Probably a coincidence, but…. [“In his memo, Bormann explained: “Today the Führer, in conversation with Reichsleiter Amann and printing press owner Adolf Müller, has decided that from now on the Antiqua typeface should be the standard. Over time, all printed matter should be switched over to this standard typeface.”](https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/nazi-font-gothic-hitler/) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/393 "2025-12-10T11:53:15Z")
Probably coincidence as far as fonts are concerned but not a coincidence at all in terms of how authoritarian governance tends to result in capricious decision making. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/394 "2025-12-10T12:10:23Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ukr3Y3unFhg/hqdefault.jpg "Underwear Must Be Worn On The Outside") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukr3Y3unFhg) (From the Woody Allen film _Bananas_ — as most of you know, I suspect.) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/395 "2025-12-10T12:20:58Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > As weird and stupid as this administration is, I wouldn’t be surprised if the advocacy of Times New Roman were somehow motivated by a sympathy for the throwback aesthetics of Mussolini’s fascism. “Look, it’s got ‘Roman’ in the name and everything!” But it’s also got “Times” in the name, and given how much Sleepy Don hates the New York Times, you’d think he’d want to ban that as well! (Yes, I know the name of the font comes from a different “Times,” but does he?) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/396 "2025-12-10T13:52:09Z")
And they got rid of Calibri in official government posts for a reason that’s just as awful as you might expect - because sans-serif fonts are easier to read for people with disabilities. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/397 "2025-12-10T14:18:05Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I can at least, based on my experience with these tests, offer a diagnosis: you have a complete cretin in charge of your country. > > That will be 50 cents, please. Whoa! Off-the-cuff psychiatric diagnoses used to be only 5 cents. This inflation is killing us. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/398 "2025-12-10T14:25:15Z")
One question about the clusterfucker in chief: he keeps claiming that the dangerous southern border is closed. Is there any actual truth to that? Have crossings even slowed down? No one ever shows any evidence, so naturally I don’t believe them. But I am curious as to the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/399 "2025-12-10T14:31:05Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Have crossings even slowed down? According to the federal government, yes. Historically low numbers. Which doesn’t surprise me. These days, if you’re a Latin American looking for a better life, the USA is the last place you should be trying to enter. [Border Crossings Once Again at a Record Low in November 2025 | Homeland Security](https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/04/border-crossings-once-again-record-low-november-2025#:~:text=Lowest%20start%20to%20a%20fiscal%20year%20ever,the%20previous%20low%20of%2084%2C293%20in%20FY2012). ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/400 "2025-12-10T14:37:00Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > According to the federal government, yes. Historically low numbers. Except it’s run by anti-science liars, so we can’t trust their claims at all. Likely they themselves don’t even know and they are just making things up without bothering to even collect the data, even assuming that the people who are supposed to collect the data haven’t been fired. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=21)