# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 30, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252 "2026-10-30T02:01:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/21 "2026-10-30T11:48:51Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > When will he die. I’m tired of waiting. [Monty Python] This is bitching and complaints. Hope is down the hall. [/MP] ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/22 "2026-10-30T12:47:41Z")
I suggested that very possibility on Twitter last week and Elmo’s software locked my account until I deleted the tweet. Still want. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/23 "2026-10-30T13:06:48Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > > [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > > > When will he die. I’m tired of waiting. > > I, too. > > On the other hand, I also fear the inevitable scramble for power and who will wind up on top should that happen before the end of his term. I fear the murders, and likely a few mass murders, which will be committed by his fanatics once he croaks. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/24 "2026-10-30T13:07:33Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > [Monty Python] This is bitching and complaints. Hope is down the hall. [/MP] Reading about Trump always feels like Getting Hit On the Head Lessons. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/25 "2026-10-30T13:24:01Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > > > Scintillating conversation. > > Eh, I dunno, lacks the historical depth of previous threads. But it should improve over time. More than fair. Past performance is not indicative of future results. > [@Monty](#): > > I fear the murders, and likely a few mass murders, which will be committed by his fanatics once he croaks. I’m _at least_ as concerned about the MAGAs’ rending of garments. :shudder: ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/26 "2026-10-30T13:26:13Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > This is the first thread I’ve started to go into double overtime. No doubt the felon would claim credit for that if he knew. A-_HEM_! I’m going to shuffle forward on my walker and claim my place as Great-Grandmother of the Clusterfuck series, begun in December 2016. > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070): > > And his supporters are still in massive denial about the damage their candidate has already inflicted…and he’s not even President yet. :smack: [Dear Mr. Obama: You Are Still the President](https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/12/dear-mr-obama-you-are-still-the-president/509714/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlantic+%28The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%29) My bold. We had **NO IDEA** how bad it was going to become… I was raked over a few coals for being so down on the new president. “Give him a chance!” people said. “He’ll start being presidential any day now!” > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3): > > > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1): > > > > And his supporters are still in massive denial about the damage their candidate has already inflicted…and he’s not even President yet. :smack: > > > > [Dear Mr. Obama: You Are Still the President](https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/12/dear-mr-obama-you-are-still-the-president/509714/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlantic+%28The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%29) > > My bold. > > Get a blog. * * * > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5): > > > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3): > > > > Get a blog. > > Seriously. I’m about ready to petition the mods for a ThelmaLou Rule. Some of the comments are hilarious: > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24): > > > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14): > > > > Wall Street doesn’t agree with Thelma Lou. > > I thought Trump was supposed to stand up for the little guy against the fat cats on Wall Street? I guess that’s not going to happen. > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25): > > Maybe we’ve been wrong about Trump. _Time_ just gave him Person of the Year. That’s a relief. They wouldn’t give that to an authoritarian or a white supremacist, surely. (Is _Time_ the “liberal media”? I’ve lost track of who’s in the club.) 🤣 Granny knew best. Okay, gots to go 'n take my medication now… You (relatively) young’uns carry on… 🧑🏽‍🦳 👋🏽 ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/27 "2026-10-30T13:58:28Z")
This! ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/28 "2026-10-30T14:48:57Z")
From that ancient thread, long ago. SMAPTI wrote and referenced, “Vance is jealous that Trump isn’t enamored with his ass the way he is with Husted’s.” Oh JD, he knows all about your ass. Weak as the chin you hide behind your chin whiskers. Pliable, squishy, able to excrete pablum and lies at will. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/29 "2026-10-30T15:24:54Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > even by those who used to worship him. it isn’t possible for him to live that long. I think for a certain small group of them, he could _personally_shoot them, their family, the friends, their dogs, destroy everything they love, and they would swear it needed doing and it was probably Clinton/Biden/Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s fault anyway. He needs to go before then. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/30 "2026-10-30T15:43:37Z")
Yeah, for those of a certain age, the very thought of Nixon is associated with corrupt, power hungry politicians. Yet, to this day, there are Republicans trying to rehabilitate his image. Even if we oust him and his sycophants from government and his name becomes synonymous with aggressively incompetent and corrupt buffoonery, still, until all those who currently live are gone, there will be some idiot in some corner of the nation who will think Trump got a raw deal. While it would be cathartic to see Trump and all his works forgotten and worn to dust, it is neither necessary nor realistic. I will settle for out of power and hopefully yet another cautionary tale that appeasing the same reactionary, racist idjits we’ve been appeasing repeatedly since before the Revolutionary War does us no good whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/31 "2026-10-30T16:58:21Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Fair enough. I am willing to predict he will pass at some point in 2036. That would put him at the age of/or close to 90, which is the approx. median point between his mother’s age at death and his father’s. > > Sorry, I know that isn’t the popular answer but I don’t see us being rid of him that easily. True both his parents lived to about 90. But there is speculation that Trump has cardiorenal syndrome. Both his heart and kidneys are failing at the same time, which would mean his body can’t regulate fluids. Supposedly those bruises on his hands are from emergency IV diuretics to regulate his fluid levels. His weight gain could be fluids from his heart and kidneys failing. Also as his frontotemporal dementia advances, he will be at higher risk of falls and accidents. Also he may forget how to eat and aspirate food, causing pneumonia. So one can hope he doesn’t make it another 10 years. Its all very sad that this is what america is. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/32 "2026-10-30T17:00:34Z")
Someone above mentioned how cockroaches are able to survive almost anything. I see DJT as likely having similar qualities to those little buggers. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/33 "2026-10-30T17:40:09Z")
I think most of us could survive a lot if we had the best medical resources on the planet focused on us. I suspect that if Trump were poor or a racialized minority, he’d be dead by now. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/34 "2026-10-30T18:12:00Z")
if trump were poor or marginalized, he would’ve been sent to prison 60 years ago for his endless criminal tendencies. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/35 "2026-10-30T18:44:41Z")
Current status of John Husted’s ass; “Very powerful” > ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/36 "2026-10-30T20:13:47Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > This! From the predecessor thread: Nice call on the Shakespeare quote! ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/37 "2026-10-30T20:15:44Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > if trump were poor or marginalized, he would’ve been sent to prison 60 years ago for his endless criminal tendencies. If Trump were born poor or marginalized, he would have been forced to actually work at some point in his life and, by necessity, behave better in general. But still might have ended up in prison, because that’s just what we do to the poor and marginalized in this country. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/38 "2026-10-30T23:04:23Z")
Thank 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:** [October 30, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/39 "2026-10-30T23:16:58Z")
[Judge investigating the felon’s government lawyers](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-golf-course-judge-erupts-171819000.html) > [@](#): > > A federal judge is opening an investigation into whether government lawyers lied to her court or violated ethics rules in [a blockbuster lawsuit](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-golf-course-judge-ana-reyes-b3069478.html)against Donald Trump’s proposed multi-million dollar, taxpayer-funded renovation plans for a [public golf course in Washington, D.C.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-dc-construction-east-potomac-golf-course-b3065285.html) > > The Trump administration has insisted for weeks that there were [no imminent plans](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-dc-construction-east-potomac-golf-course-b3065285.html)to close the park despite the president’s [Truth Social announcements](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ana-reyes-golf-course-washington-b3075516.html) outlining his vision for the project. > > The Department of Justice finally [admitted in court filings this week](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/potomac-golf-club-trump-closed-b3075371.html) that the president’s plans to close East Potomac Park on November 15 are, in fact, in the works. > > U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes repeatedly erupted at government attorneys during a heated court hearing on Friday before finding that Justice Department officials “intentionally” timed the abrupt removal of hundreds of trees to evade judicial review — and may have been misleading the court about plans that have long been in the works. > > “The third highest ranking official at the Department of Justice is telling me, telling a federal court, that he cannot say that when the president posted the ‘course will close on November 15,’ what he meant was, ‘the court will close on November 15’?” Reyes asked. Nice to see the felons getting called on their malarkey. [Foolish Felon’s Foolish Flyover](https://www.aol.com/articles/donald-trumps-halloween-stunt-white-123549000.html) > [@](#): > > A Halloween stunt at the White House has backfired after some DC residents were left terrified a plane crash was taking place. > > During the event, which saw Donald and Melania Trump handing out sweets to children dressed in various costumes, Air Force One flew overhead, coming close to buildings and monuments in the capital. The plane flew between 400ft and 1,000 ft over the city, according to flight data. > > The social media page representing the Council of DC, the District’s legislature and a branch of DC government, shared a clip of the stunt saying it alarmed many people in the city. Their post read: “This flyover provided just fifteen minutes’ notice to anyone in downtown DC, at the Pentagon, or at National Airport. It startled many, including us.” > > The plane flew over two times. The stunt was shared by the White House’s Rapid Response 47 X account, captioned: “An epic Air Force One flyover at the White House for the trick-or-treaters!” Let me guess. This was really to show why he needed that arch built. [Killer Kennedy might want to pay attention to this bit of news](https://www.aol.com/articles/mad-max-actor-richard-norton-194035000.html) > [@](#): > > A coroner linked “Mad Max” actor Richard Norton’s 2025 death to a fatal allergic reaction triggered by an injection of unapproved peptides. > > Richard Norton, the Australian actor and martial artist whose credits included ["Mad Max: Fury Road,](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/05/12/mad-max-fury-road-characters-vehicles-mythology/27136835/)" died after an injection of [unapproved peptides](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/10/29/rfk-jr-opens-access-to-unapproved-peptides/92494287007/) triggered a severe allergic reaction, an Australian coroner has found. > > Norton, 75, died March 30, 2025, at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital. In [findings dated Oct. 28](https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/COR%202025%20001710%20Form%2038%20-%20Finding%20into%20Death%20without%20Inquest_Signed.pdf)⁠, Coroner David Ryan concluded that an injection of CJC1295/ipamorelin caused anaphylaxis, leading to cardiac arrest. [ICE agents slash tires over filming](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/video-shows-ice-agents-slashing-144501792.html) > [@](#): > > Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents slashed the tires of a couple who were recording the agents in an incident near Portland, Oregon, earlier this month. The agents then drove away without arresting or talking to the couple, video footage shows. > > The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which released the footage today, says it is yet another example of ICE agents retaliating against people for protected First Amendment activity. In an administrative [complaint](https://www.aclu.org/documents/10-29-26-administrative-complaint-to-dhs) on behalf of the anonymous couple, the ACLU and the ACLU of Oregon are demanding an investigation and answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about why agents tailed, boxed in, and “vandalized” the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252/40 "2026-10-31T00:04:12Z")
From **Monty** ’s link: > [@Monty](#): > > …demanding an investigation and answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about why agents tailed, boxed in, and “vandalized” the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. With said answers coming in (looks at watch) oh maybe the fuck never. Too bad when AIr Farce One was shenaniganing a bit too close to people, there wasn’t some, say, Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor happening to be moseying around in the area, and in a true Hegsethian display of SNAFUosity, The Raptor pilot gets commands to take out an imposter Air Force One plane flying toward the White House. Pesos to chihuahuas says Donald was wanting a natblo during the aerial hijinks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-3/1034252.md?page=3)