# 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:** 211
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4218 "2020-10-02T02:55:35Z")
So that is starting to creep me out. I started a thread a while ago on what is the weirdest situation you can imagine. I just imagined it: The ShitGibbon becomes very ill in the last week of October and is bedridden with constant medical attention. Pence has to invoke the 25th, on its temporary provision. We are at the point, on Election Day, where we are uncertain whether he will actually make it. Which might perplex some potential R voters, because it is not established whether they are voting for the Idiot or the Idiot’s Lackey for president. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4219 "2020-10-02T02:57:19Z")
Shithead announces he’s going into quarantine: > ‘Can’t debate while in quarantine, sorry!’ ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4220 "2020-10-02T02:59:05Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Shithead announces he’s going into quarantine: - > > [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311859538279239686?s=19](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311859538279239686?s=19) > > ‘Can’t debate while in quarantine, sorry!’ Sure he can. There’s all sorts of remote conferencing software. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4221 "2020-10-02T03:00:43Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@JohnT](#): > > > > ‘Can’t debate while in quarantine, sorry!’ > > Sure he can. There’s all sorts of remote conferencing software. Which includes mute switches. So, no. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4222 "2020-10-02T03:00:57Z")
> [@Orange ShitGibbon post:4219](#): > > The First Lady and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process! Does this turd ever acknowledge he has a minor son actually living with him? ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4223 "2020-10-02T03:01:42Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > > [@JohnT](#): > > > > > > ‘Can’t debate while in quarantine, sorry!’ > > > > Sure he can. There’s all sorts of remote conferencing software. > > Which includes mute switches. So, no. - Lie to him. Tell him they won’t be used. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4224 "2020-10-02T03:11:24Z")
I just heard some of his remarks to Hannity from earlier. He was saying that it’s so hard for him to distance himself from all the police and law enforcement officers who want to talk to him and hug (?) him but what are you going to do? How about not putting them in that situation you dumbass. As usual, he causes all his own problems and if he tests positive it will be someone else’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4225 "2020-10-02T03:12:58Z")
How long before he blames Joe Biden for not wearing his big ol’ mask on Tuesday night? ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4226 "2020-10-02T03:24:16Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > > > October is going to be like a freaking Advent calendar, with a little door opening and releasing a new tidbit every day. > > [I made it mem-able](https://i.imgur.com/dAtNIjW.jpg). Seeing how it’s October 1st, I was wondering when my little October Surprise Advent calendar door was going to pop open. It was getting late and I wondered if it would disappoint. But no…I got a double header just after 11PM Hope Hicks tested positive for COVID and Trump and Melania have to quarantine. > **[Trump says he and first lady tested positive for coronavirus](https://apnews.com/article/health-donald-trump-ap-top-news-elections-virus-outbreak-7fece2838ff7a9bd91ccf5ac287348b3)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, a stunning announcement that plunges the country deeper into uncertainty just a month before the presidential... Someone finally got around to indicting Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman for their bullshit. Which someone should’ve done after they tried to smear Mueller. Not federal, of course…Michigan. Barr will probably have the DOJ defend them. > **[Pro-Trump fraudsters charged in voter-suppression plot targeting New York,...](https://www.nydailynews.com/2020/10/01/pro-trump-fraudsters-charged-in-voter-suppression-plot-targeting-new-york-other-states/)** > > A couple of bumbling right-wing conspiracy theorists were hit with criminal charges Thursday for allegedly orchestrating a robocall scheme aimed at suppressing minority voters in New York, Michigan… ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4227 "2020-10-02T03:33:59Z")
Missed edit window but it’s not midnight yet. New leaked recordings of Melania being totally callous about immigrant children. Stephanie Wolkoff, her former aide, is on the book circuit - I think it’s being released Tuesday - and she apparently has secret recordings. > **[‘Give me a f---ing break!’ First Lady Melania Trump says about children...](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-melania-trump-leaked-audio-20201002-xaygx2crefaz5jib2bhsyzmug4-story.html)** > > The First Lady also expressed frustration with the annual White House Christmas celebration. “Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a f--- about Christmas stuff and decoration? But I need to do it, right?” the First Lady groused to Wolkoff in the... ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4228 "2020-10-02T04:57:03Z")
Trump has tested positive for Covid. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4229 "2020-10-02T05:01:53Z")
Wasted no time with an October surprise, did he? ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4230 "2020-10-02T05:02:02Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Trump has tested positive for Covid. Cite? I’m looking all over, nothing on the news sites (yet). ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4231 "2020-10-02T05:02:22Z")
Yeah I don’t see it either. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4232 "2020-10-02T05:02:25Z")
It’s all over MSNBC. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4233 "2020-10-02T05:03:20Z")
Am I allowed to wish him the worst possible outcome? ---
**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:** [October 2, 2020, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4234 "2020-10-02T05:04:33Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > It’s all over MSNBC. I believe what you are hearing is that Trump’s aide, Hope Hicks has tested positive, and Trump has gone into quarantine. Going into quarantine does not equal “tested positive” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4235 "2020-10-02T05:05:06Z")
No, the headline on MSNBC this very minute is “Trump Announces He’s Tested Positive For COVID-19.” ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4236 "2020-10-02T05:05:59Z")
CNN says Trump has Tweeted he tested positive. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4237 "2020-10-02T05:06:01Z")
I won’t join you with that, but I will say no one deserves it more. This was entirely foreseeable, really. I’m more worried for Biden. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=210) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=212)