# 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:** 218
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4358 "2020-10-04T17:10:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Hi, fellow old person! 👋🏼 Let’s go stomp on some other old people’s lawns! 😀 I’m the one sitting on a park bench, waving my cane in the air, and saying, “It’s all Ronald Reagan’s fault!” (Many years ago, I actually saw one of those, although he was blaming FDR for everything wrong in the world.) ---
**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:** [October 4, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4359 "2020-10-04T17:23:57Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I’m the one sitting on a park bench, waving my cane in the air, and saying, “It’s all Ronald Reagan’s fault!” > > (Many years ago, I actually saw one of those, although he was blaming FDR for everything wrong in the world.)- Hey, come on over to my place and I’ll whip up a batch of Ovaltine. Shaken not stirred, of course. 👵🏼 ☕ ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4360 "2020-10-04T17:30:48Z")
Will there be prunes? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4361 "2020-10-04T18:00:36Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This way you can never tell when something with trump in it has been filmed. You can check if the wind direction corresponds to the claimed date. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4362 "2020-10-04T18:02:36Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Hey! I’m an old lady and I saw through his bullshit from before day one. All (except one) of my old lady/old guy friends are on board, too. You’re a couple days ahead of me. I remember thinking during the period between the election and inauguration, “Maybe he won’t be so bad. Let’s face it, nobody _really_ knows how to be POTUS who hasn’t done it. He’ll do like the others and surround himself with competent advisors. Granted, I won’t like the direction they’ll take the country but that’s politics for you. The republic will survive.” Then in quick succession came the insistence that he’s had the biggest inauguration _evah_ and the news that the various departmental staffers had made the usual pass-down briefings in November and December, then waited for incoming administration personnel to show up; they never did. I think it was Friday I made [this](https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20210120T12&p0=263&msg=No+more+Trump&font=cursive). ---
**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 4, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4363 "2020-10-04T18:12:49Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I’m the one sitting on a park bench with me right next to you, telling you to move your foot so I can be spitting out pieces of my broken luck. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4364 "2020-10-04T18:52:38Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > You can check if the wind direction corresponds to the claimed date Maybe you keed, but this kind of shit really does happen – at Fox “News” at least. Remember, for example, some of those scenes showing massive thronging crowds at some of Trump’s various appearances? Only upon closer inspection (and you didn’t even have to look all that closely), the sky was cloudy and the trees were bare even though the event was in Spring or Summer? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4365 "2020-10-04T19:06:48Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Will there be prunes? As a matter of fact, yes. Ahhhh… Ovaltine and prunes. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4366 "2020-10-04T19:20:54Z")
I went through the bother of getting a free dropbox account. The first link I listened to the intro music because I really like that song. By the time Stepien started talking I remembered… yeah, he’s tested Positive, too. But at least the next time I need to listen to something shared on dropbox, I’ll be good to go! (Trumps (family) in court for various wrong doings? The video will suffice. Melania caught offering a Turkish Delight to someone. I’ll laugh and laugh, cough, and laugh some more.) ---
**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 4, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4367 "2020-10-04T19:24:45Z")
> **[Merriam-Webster sees 30,500% spike in 'schadenfreude' searches following...](https://mashable.com/article/dictionary-spike-schadenfreude-trump-coronavirus)** > > 📈 "The dictionary defines..." ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4368 "2020-10-04T19:25:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@Trinopus](#): > > > > I’m the one sitting on a park bench > > with me right next to you, telling you to move your foot so I can be spitting out pieces of my broken luck. I’ll be ~~wandering lonely~~ practicing social distancing. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4369 "2020-10-04T20:23:16Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Will there be prunes? mmmm… prunes…mmmmm… ---
**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 4, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4370 "2020-10-04T21:41:17Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_3-8OewlvS4/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump resignation") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3-8OewlvS4) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4371 "2020-10-04T23:00:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Does the presidential suite at Walter Reed not have a change of clothes on hand I’m sure they have several suits on hand, custom tailored to a 239-lb 6’3" frame. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4372 "2020-10-04T23:09:12Z")
Trump’s Bethesda motor parade may be the moment it became clear to everyone his presidency is over. Outrageous and reckless - endangering the lives of his SS detail just for some theater. He looks like he’s high in the video he tweeted before going out, perhaps this is the dexamethasone effects - this clown is literally on steroids and the doctors should not have allowed this circus. Trump is clearly not in a rational state of mind and the use of the 25th amendment needs to be considered. ---
**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 4, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4373 "2020-10-04T23:14:56Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > this clown is literally on steroids and **the doctors should not have allowed this circus.** The doctors are military officers. Which means Trump is their (I hate to use the word) superior. Can they refuse the order without endangering their career? Trump would just fire 'em and find a flunky to let him out. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4374 "2020-10-04T23:23:50Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Does the presidential suite at Walter Reed not have a change of clothes on hand > > I’m sure they have several suits on hand, custom tailored to a 239-lb 6’3" frame. Why? In case someone who could fit into them happens to show up? . . . . . Weirdly I was just taken to a Trump site—my mouse was nowhere near any visible links. ??? ---
**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 5, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4375 "2020-10-05T00:23:17Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Which means Trump is their (I hate to use the word) superior. The other way to say that is that he outranks them. You might find that easier to say. He outranks just about everyone. No one is ranker. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4376 "2020-10-05T00:39:22Z")
Here’s some more YT musical snark. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1eR0ckpJ3bk/maxresdefault.jpg "Battle Hymn of the Republic - Modified for Relevance | Don Caron") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eR0ckpJ3bk) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4377 "2020-10-05T01:27:12Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The other way to say that is that he outranks them. You might find that easier to say. He outranks just about everyone. No one is ranker. Perfect! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=217) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=219)