# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083 "2020-06-22T03:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 207
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4138 "2020-09-29T18:32:45Z")
The only proper response to Trump’s demands is for Biden to hold up his middle finger and say, “Examine this!”. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4139 "2020-09-29T19:13:34Z")
With the drug thing, the earpiece thing, the dementia thing, more, it’s pretty obvious Team Trump has no faith in Trump’s performance tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4140 "2020-09-29T19:17:03Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Next he’ll ask for a strip search Please let them do that backstage away from the cameras. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4141 "2020-09-29T19:26:38Z")
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**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4142 "2020-09-29T19:43:18Z")
I guess his comments like that are meant to confuse his base? That’s the only thing I can figure because they wouldn’t notice the hypocrisy of trump demanding that Biden be tested for dementia and drugs and be searched for ear buds while refusing to release his own tax records. And of course he would refuse to be drug tested himself . ---
**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:** [September 29, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4143 "2020-09-29T20:36:59Z")
Possibly. To be honest, this shit was all over FB today, so I’m assuming that Trump is now just 🦜ing the Russian Info Op of the Day. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4144 "2020-09-29T20:40:39Z")
Invalid comparison: IIRC (I’ve only seem bits&pieces of the movie), that’s a “Brain Bug.” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4145 "2020-09-29T20:56:03Z")
Bureaucracies like the military are so massive that most of it functions on its own without the president directing its day-to-day affairs. It’s just too massive for one person to control single-handedly. I don’t think a president would want that responsibility. Trump is involved to the extent that he has to be, so I am certain there’s plenty that happens under him that he’s not directly involved with. My point is that while Putin is undoubtedly influencing Trump’s decision-making, Putin’s overtures are probably influential insofar as Putin makes specific concerns known to Trump and his immediate aides. But the military is still otherwise going to defend what it has for decades recognizes as our national strategic interests, and they’re probably going to use the same “playbook” they’ve always used until they are specifically told not to for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4146 "2020-09-29T21:34:01Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Yes and no. Yes, absentee ballots have gone out, and you can vote “in-person” at your clerk’s office. But it’s still treated as an absentee ballot, and it can’t be opened or tabulated until polls open on election day. Good to know. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4147 "2020-09-29T21:37:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Individual 1 campaign wants to examine Biden’s ears at the debate to make sure he doesn’t have a microphone feeding him the answers… I’m going to very seriously assume here that this means that Trump will have something on his person that will be feeding him answers. Trump and his campaign have more projection than an IMAX Multiplex. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4148 "2020-09-29T21:40:50Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > With the drug thing, the earpiece thing, the dementia thing, more, it’s pretty obvious Team Trump has no faith in Trump’s performance tonight… I think it means that Team Trump is very, VERY aware that Trump is on drugs, has dementia, and has asked for an earpiece to deliver him answers during the debate. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4149 "2020-09-29T22:00:27Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Not Biden – Soros _paid_ them to. Soros _and_ Bezos, and then Bill Gates posed as an EMT and put a mind-control chip in his head. My sister’s brother’s mother’s cousin’s aunt has a friend in Florida so I know it’s a FACT. ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4150 "2020-09-29T22:01:43Z")
No kidding about the request. “Let’s just be clear that no one is going to be tested for these things, right? Right??” ---
**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:** [September 29, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4151 "2020-09-29T22:05:12Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I’m going to very seriously assume here that this means that Trump will have something on his person that will be feeding him answers. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I think it means that Team Trump is very, VERY aware that Trump is on drugs, has dementia, and has asked for an earpiece to deliver him answers during the debate. He won’t need an earpiece, 'cause he’s got Bluetooth in his head. That’s where the voices come from. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4152 "2020-09-30T01:11:07Z")
Well, this was pretty funny > [@](#): > > [Eric Trump tweets](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8786781/Twitter-users-mock-Eric-Trump-slipped-said-LGBT-community.html): I’m telling you, I see it every day, the LGBT community, they are incredible and you should see how they’ve come out in full force for my father every single day, My guess that he thought he was talking about Liars Grifters Bigots & Traitors ---
**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:** [September 30, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4153 "2020-09-30T01:13:57Z")
[Gypsies, tramps, and thieves…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTETaWswCY) ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4154 "2020-09-30T01:24:39Z")
Dammit Thelma! I was going to post a Cher-based retort! _sigh_ ---
**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:** [September 30, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4155 "2020-09-30T01:27:13Z")
Sorry, In Cher’s house there are many mansions, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4156 "2020-09-30T02:45:31Z")
The house that Lil Eric called the family compound and the place that he and his siblings grew up in is listed in Daddy’s taxes as an investment property and not a family residence. > **[Eric Trump’s Beloved Westchester “Compound” Turns Out to Just Be His Dad’s...](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/09/eric-trump-westchester-compound-tax-write-off)** > > The New York Times’ investigation of the president’s tax records showed that he classified the Seven Springs estate as an investment property, no matter how much his sons are riding ATVs around there. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4157 "2020-09-30T02:50:05Z")
Multnomah County Sheriff says that Individual 1 claiming that he supports him is not true. > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=206) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=208)