# 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:** 208
**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, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4158 "2020-09-30T03:25:55Z")
A visit to Donald Trump State Park. > **[I visited Donald Trump's state park and it's not a park](https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/sep/29/donald-trump-state-park-new-york)** > > It turns out his taxes are not the only thing that appear a little different in real life from what you’d expect ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4159 "2020-09-30T04:28:24Z")
“You can examine my ears when I can examine your tax returns” ---
**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 30, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4160 "2020-09-30T17:24:41Z")
Just a friendly reminder that the Federal Goverment shuts down tonight if the Senate can’t pass the spending bill and/or Dotard refuses to sign it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4161 "2020-09-30T18:16:04Z")
I … did not know that. Well, if that isn’t a case of SSDD. ---
**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, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4162 "2020-09-30T18:28:00Z")
Fox & Friends were totally befuddled by Individual 1’s refusal to condemn white supremacy. They were also disappointed in his performance, period. I really hope he was watching, it is his favorite program. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4163 "2020-09-30T18:37:10Z")
It looks like the Senate is about to pass a bi-partisan stop gap measure to fund the government until Dec. 11. I assume Trump will sign it since even he is smart enough to realize that personally shutting down the government 5 weeks before the election is not a good idea. Now come Dec 11th in the midst of a chaotic fight over who actually won the election, and a likely lame duck president with nothing to lose hoping to sabotage his successor … ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4164 "2020-09-30T18:52:02Z")
What’s the deal with Trump’s head last night? > **[Shaun King](https://www.facebook.com/shaunking/posts/3557346467637579)** > > Yoooooooo! WTF is that on Trump’s head??? Some people are saying it’s a part of his fake hair tracks but it looks like some type of neural stimulator device to me. What is it? > > UPDATE: Some doctors... ---
**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 30, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4165 "2020-09-30T19:01:42Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > What’s the deal with Trump’s head last night?. I can’t wait for more behind the scenes crap to come out of the whitehouse… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4166 "2020-09-30T19:06:21Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > What’s the deal with Trump’s head last night? - > > [Shaun King](https://www.facebook.com/shaunking/posts/3557346467637579) Wireless charging? Or electroshock? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4167 "2020-09-30T19:10:23Z")
The thing on Trump’s head is in about the same place where my (now retired) boss has a socket for a hearing device. I’ve never actually seen what the socket looks like; she just called it a socket. There’s a half-egg shaped device that attaches there, and I think it may relay sound through her skull. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4168 "2020-09-30T19:17:04Z")
You don’t think it might be something even simpler and less sinister, like some sort of hairnet anchor to keep that extra-long combover in place? ---
**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 30, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4169 "2020-09-30T19:31:54Z")
This takes me back to the Bush/Kerry debates. [What’s that thing on Bush’s back?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-thing-on-bushs-back/271812) ---
**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:** [September 30, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4170 "2020-09-30T21:21:07Z")
Well, at least it’s clear Trump didn’t have anybody whispering in his ear. Or if he did, he did a damned fine job of not cheating by listening to 'em. It’s one case where listening to voices in your head may have been a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4171 "2020-09-30T22:02:41Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > What’s the deal with Trump’s head last night? This has been noticed before. IIRC there were pictures and speculations at least a couple of years ago. Some thinking was that it is vestigial scar from having scalp reduction surgery, a technique to treat hair loss. (Instead of giving you more hair, they take away some scalp so the remaining hair covers more of it.) Article from Daily Mail from February 2018, showing scar or whatever it is above his ear: > **[Plastic surgeons try to solve Trump's hair mystery](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5380901/Plastic-surgeons-try-solve-Trumps-hair-mystery.html)** > > A video showing President Donald Trump's hair blowing in the wind at Joint Air Base Andrews has led plastic surgeons to speculate on whether he has had scalp reduction treatment. ETA: They might have accidentally taken out a little too much brain with it. I’d sue if I were him. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4172 "2020-09-30T22:39:39Z")
Though it’s in the same place as the scar in the 2018 article, it seems more like an interface. I haven’t heard any suggestions that Trump was hard of hearing (my previous post about the location being the same as my boss’s bone conduction hearing system notwithstanding). If I may speculate more, how about a neural stimulator? Are those used for neurological disorders, of the type Manny People are saying Trump suffers from? ---
**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:** [September 30, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4173 "2020-09-30T22:54:58Z")
How about an Adderall Patch? [https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&sxsrf=ALeKk03sqdvx9PiCARgYgdr7IPJ93ao8Ww%3A1601506425478&ei=eQx1X7jZHI3EsAXVxJ7ADw&q=adderall+patch&oq=adderall+patch&gs\_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgIIADIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB46BwgAEEcQsAM6BQgAELEDOgcIABCxAxBDOggIABCxAxCDAToKCAAQsQMQFBCHAjoFCAAQkQI6BwgAEBQQhwJKBQg3EgExSgUIJBIBMVDhW1ieZ2Dvd2gCcAJ4AIABjwGIAcoFkgEDMC42mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesgBCMABAQ&sclient=psy-ab](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&sxsrf=ALeKk03sqdvx9PiCARgYgdr7IPJ93ao8Ww%3A1601506425478&ei=eQx1X7jZHI3EsAXVxJ7ADw&q=adderall+patch&oq=adderall+patch&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgIIADIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB46BwgAEEcQsAM6BQgAELEDOgcIABCxAxBDOggIABCxAxCDAToKCAAQsQMQFBCHAjoFCAAQkQI6BwgAEBQQhwJKBQg3EgExSgUIJBIBMVDhW1ieZ2Dvd2gCcAJ4AIABjwGIAcoFkgEDMC42mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesgBCMABAQ&sclient=psy-ab) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4174 "2020-09-30T22:58:01Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > How about an Adderall Patch? Seems like a strange place to put it. Besides putting it on bare skin like other patches, why put it in a visible place? ---
**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:** [September 30, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4175 "2020-09-30T22:59:30Z")
Michael Cohen wrote a little about Trump’s hair in his book, and pretty much backed this up, saying he has scars on his scalp from a failed surgery. I don’t recall if he said specifically what the surgery was, for some reason I thought it was a failed attempt at hairplugs but that’s probably because I’d never heard of scalp reduction surgery. He also described the combover, Trump grows his hair long on three sides for his multipart combover - back to front, then front to back then side to side, then he dowses the whole thing with hairspray. Lots of hairspray that he then deducts on his tax return. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4176 "2020-09-30T23:00:28Z")
Running Coach, I was mostly joking, but because he’s stupid might also be a good answer. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4177 "2020-09-30T23:15:50Z")
Could be a hair extension clip - they’re what keeps fake hair in place: > **[Amazon.com : ZZRRYY 100 PCS Metailic Snap Comb Wig Clips Ins For Hair Extensions...](https://www.amazon.com/ZZRRYY-Metailic-Extensions-Hairpieces-Snap-Comb/dp/B07KTLZGN6)** > > Amazon.com : ZZRRYY 100 PCS Metailic Snap Comb Wig Clips Ins For Hair Extensions Hairpieces DIY Iron Snap-Comb Wig Clips with Rubber Medium size for woman (Beige, U Shape) : Beauty & Personal Care [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=207) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=209)