# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in Progress **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 3, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688 "2017-08-03T12:31:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/1 "2017-08-03T12:31:33Z")
A fresh thread with an updated title spun off of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=813085), if anyone is interested. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/2 "2017-08-03T12:46:13Z")
If it were merely a CF, that would be a major improvement at this point. Perhaps we ought to consider less-amusing, more-disastrous descriptions. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/3 "2017-08-03T12:55:17Z")
? Why? We already have this thread, linked to in the OP. Shooting for a “longest thread” record, DG? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/4 "2017-08-03T14:23:17Z")
Jeez, it’s hard enough deciding which of the relevant threads to post in without someone creating a EXACT duplicate of an existing thread because they don’t like the title or something. I hope this thread dies quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/5 "2017-08-03T14:55:32Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Jeez, it’s hard enough deciding which of the relevant threads to post in without someone creating a EXACT duplicate of an existing thread because they don’t like the title or something. I hope this thread dies quickly. No, it was started because the opinion has been floated that the other thread–with over 9,000 posts–is past the point of being unwieldy, and I agreed. What, do you want a single thread with fifty thousand posts over the length of the Trump administration? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/6 "2017-08-03T14:57:42Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > No, it was started because the opinion has been floated that the other thread–with over 9,000 posts–is past the point of being unwieldy, and I agreed. What, do you want a single thread with fifty thousand posts over the length of the Trump administration? Actually, yes ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/7 "2017-08-03T15:06:20Z")
The “Buthurt…Twitter” thread could actually prove to be a useful reference for future historians trying to figure out what the hell some of his tweets even mean. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/8 "2017-08-03T15:36:41Z")
[Being](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=832505) and [becoming](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=813085): a 2000 year old philosophical quandary. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/9 "2017-08-03T15:50:12Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > If it were merely a CF, that would be a major improvement at this point. Perhaps we ought to consider less-amusing, more-disastrous descriptions. I’d be thrilled with a good dumpster fire at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/10 "2017-08-03T15:54:56Z")
Not sure if people saw this or if it’s in one of the other myriad threads, but The Washington Post has a few articles about Trumps calls to Mexico and Australia, including [full transcripts](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/australia-mexico-transcripts/) Pretty awesome read. And by awesome I mean sad. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/11 "2017-08-03T16:10:52Z")
Jeff Sessions is diverting money to make sure white people aren’t discriminated against in college admissions: NPR’s report: [DOJ Plans To Take Affirmative Action Against College Admissions : NPR](http://www.npr.org/2017/08/02/541197445/doj-plans-to-take-affirmative-action-against-college-admissions) Fox’s report: [NY Times story on affirmative action 'inaccurate,' DOJ says | Fox News](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/02/justice-department-reportedly-going-after-affirmative-action-programs.html) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/12 "2017-08-03T16:14:36Z")
What is this is? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/13 "2017-08-03T16:44:12Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Jeez, it’s hard enough deciding which of the relevant threads to post in without someone creating a EXACT duplicate of an existing thread because they don’t like the title or something. I hope this thread dies quickly. Agreed. Unless the mods close the other thread, this seems destined to add confusion rather than reduce it. The other thread is nowhere near the longest thread around, so why that one needs to be singled out escapes me. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/14 "2017-08-03T16:50:56Z")
I might miss anything posted here, so if something big happens, do post it in the original [Clusterfuck thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=813085&page=187), too. That thread has been my therapy (well, okay, addiction) for months, and I check it once every hour (and before I hit any news sites). When we hit 10,000 posts, we should have a party to celebrate The People’s willingness to notice this administration’s shit and call them on it. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/15 "2017-08-03T16:54:46Z")
Maybe you need timely titles, like “Trump Clusterfuck 2018 Q1” with a new thread every three months. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/16 "2017-08-03T16:59:13Z")
One could argue that it continually making itself more of a clusterfuck every day, so it is technically still in the making. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/17 "2017-08-03T18:24:03Z")
Maybe it should be like the minirants threads, where a new one is started every month. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/18 "2017-08-03T19:59:11Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Maybe it should be like the minirants threads, where a new one is started every month. I’d be fine with that IF everyone else was on board. But the duplicate threads annoy me mostly because this forum doesn’t allow cross-posting. Many times I’ve posted to the “wrong” thread, one that quickly dies - only to find a long lasting vibrant discussion in a parallel thread. It drives me crazy sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/19 "2017-08-03T20:42:35Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I’d be fine with that IF everyone else was on board. But the duplicate threads annoy me mostly because this forum doesn’t allow cross-posting. Many times I’ve posted to the “wrong” thread, one that quickly dies - only to find a long lasting vibrant discussion in a parallel thread. It drives me crazy sometimes. You might say that having two identical threads is a clusterfuck in the making. Or would that be “in progress”? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688/20 "2017-08-03T21:15:09Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Maybe it should be like the minirants threads, where a new one is started every month. This is good, I like this. Especially if there could be video of the people rushing to start the new one, and crashing into each other like outfilelders trying to catch the same pop fly! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-progress/792688.md?page=2)