# Donald and the Terible, Horrible, No Good, very Bad Week **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993 "2017-08-18T17:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993/21 "2017-08-18T19:59:26Z")
I don’t want to seem wise after the event but I did suggest some months ago that Trump may not be as disastrous as first feared because his incompetence and divisiveness may mean he can’t do _anything_, this does seem to be coming to pass as I’m not sure he’s actually passed any legislation that is not easily reversible. Incidentally, is their any metric by which to measure his attrition rate amongst his central staff? It certainly feels like he’s got through a lot of people but how does it stack up against previous administrations? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993/22 "2017-08-18T20:04:53Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Jan 20th 2021 things will probably get better. I have my doubts. I think all Trump’s doing is lowering the bar. Even if Trump remains the gold standard for unacceptable presidential behavior, future Presidents will be able to behave worse because of his precedent. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993/23 "2017-08-18T20:09:08Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I don’t want to seem wise after the event but I did suggest some months ago that Trump may not be as disastrous as first feared because his incompetence and divisiveness may mean he can’t do _anything_, this does seem to be coming to pass as I’m not sure he’s actually passed any legislation that is not easily reversible. I also don’t think this is true. While Trump is getting the headlines, Pence and the Republicans in Congress are quietly enacting a lot of bad laws. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993/24 "2017-08-18T22:29:00Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I also don’t think this is true. While Trump is getting the headlines, Pence and the Republicans in Congress are quietly enacting a lot of bad laws. Then that is indeed bad news, over here in the UK we don’t necessarily get chapter and verse on all that, it really focuses on Trump, his idiocy and his failure to get his big ticket items through. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993/25 "2017-08-18T22:36:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Every member of the President’s Committee On the Arts and Humanities just quit out of disgust. Charities are now reacting, in a way that directly affects him - right in the wallet… > **[Now charities are dumping Trump, too](https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/18/news/companies/trump-mar-a-lago-fundraisers/index.html)** > > Days after Trump lost the support of CEOs, his Florida club is losing big business. > [@](#): > > … The American Red Cross, The Salvation Army and Susan G. Komen foundation all said Friday they’re canceling events at Trump’s Palm Beach property Mar-a-Lago. That comes after three organizations made similar announcements on Thursday. > … Now, Trump’s words are affecting his own business. > “The American Red Cross has decided we cannot host our annual fundraising event at Mar-a-Lago, as it has increasingly become a source of controversy and pain for many of our volunteers, employees and supporters,” the organization said in a statement Friday morning. > > The Red Cross said it “provides assistance without discrimination to all people in need, regardless of nationality, race, religious beliefs, or political opinions, and we must be clear and unequivocal in our defense of that principle.” … > The Salvation Army also pulled its Holiday Snow Ball off the venue’s events list. > …Yet another philanthropic event could also be on its way out. The president of Leaders in Furthering Education on Friday urged the board of her charity to abandon Mar-a-Lago for the organization’s annual Lady in Red Gala, slated for December 2. How long before the shit gibbon attacks them? ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993/26 "2017-08-18T22:46:47Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I don’t want to seem wise after the event but I did suggest some months ago that Trump may not be as disastrous as first feared because his incompetence and divisiveness may mean he can’t do _anything_, this does seem to be coming to pass as I’m not sure he’s actually passed any legislation that is not easily reversible. He is absolutely destroying the regulatory agencies. If the EPA and FDA go down, reversing those trends will take decades. It takes a lot longer to hire good scientists than to fire and/or intimidate them, and it takes A LOT longer to clean up an oil spill than to make one. I don’t know as much about the State Department, but it looks like the same process is happening there, and diplomacy is at least as hard to restore as clean water. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993/27 "2017-08-18T22:50:04Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It is easy to assume every week is worse than the last because the Trump administration has been such a disaster and it’s been especially disastrous lately, but Maddow’s claim is literally false. If you go back over the timeline it is absolutely not true that every week has been worse than the last; until recently some have been relatively news-light. > > I think it is fair to say, for instance, that the week of February 6, when nothing particular embarrassing happening, was better than the preceding week, when the court shot down his travel ban. > > Similarly the week of February 20 was not nearly as bad as the week of February 13; that was the week Michael Flynn resigned/was pushed, a hugely embarrassing event that really accelerated the Russia thing; other Russia related humiliations came out that week too. That’s like saying little Donny shit his pants again, but this time there was a little less shit. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993/28 "2017-08-19T00:51:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > …this week – with its stumbling over the _ **Charlotte** _ debacle… I’d invite you to join me in the Pit, but we’re already there. Still, please join me: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20424278#post20424278](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20424278#post20424278) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-and-the-terible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/793993.md?page=1)