# 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:** 221
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4418 "2020-10-05T19:29:32Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > They wore the same clothes all the time, so generic scenes could be used from past shows and no one would know the difference. The four Bonanza guys always wore the same stuff, likewise Paladin (my fave), Matt Dillon, Maverick, the Virginian. > > This way you can never tell when something with trump in it has been filmed. A knight without armour in a savage land! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4419 "2020-10-05T20:03:51Z")
30 million people in the USA have caught DJT. The only way to stop it is to isolate and shut up the source. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4420 "2020-10-05T20:24:29Z")
Individual 1 campaign attacking Biden for not having covid. > **[Trump Campaign Attacks Joe Biden for Not Having COVID-19](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-attacks-joe-biden-for-not-having-covid-19)** > > “He has experience, now, fighting the coronavirus as an individual,” a campaign spokesperson said of Trump. “Those firsthand experiences, Joe Biden, he doesn’t have those.” ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4421 "2020-10-05T20:30:09Z")
“Trump Campaign Says Biden Lacks ‘Firsthand Experience’ of Being Infected With COVID-19” > **[Trump Campaign Says Biden Lacks 'Firsthand Experience' of COVID-19](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-campaign-says-biden-lacks-firsthand-experience-being-infected-covid-19-1536440?amp=1)** > > "Those firsthand experiences are what are going to get President Trump four more years," Trump campaign spokesperson Erin Perrine told Fox News on Monday. You can’t make this stuff up. ---
**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 5, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4422 "2020-10-05T20:32:58Z")
To my point in another thread (or, hell, maybe this one): > [@](#): > > The current spin is ‘having COVID will make Donald Trump a better President than Joe Biden, who has never had COVID’, which makes sense in the way choosing a flight because you know the pilot has already crashed a 747 does. > > ‘Which doctor you want to see, Grandma?’ > ‘Well? Which one has been sued the most times? That guy!’ ---
**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:** [October 5, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4423 "2020-10-05T20:36:11Z")
“_Sleepy Joe is totally unqualified to talk about climate change. Suffer a heat stroke and then we’ll talk, Sleepy Joe._” Yep, riding the crazy train for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4424 "2020-10-05T20:36:55Z")
I could easily waste the next 24 hours or so thinking up jokes in preparation for the day when Don walks into the Rose Garden presser wearing three hideously long red ties. Otter: " Like Fred! " ---
**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:** [October 5, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4425 "2020-10-05T20:38:52Z")
Christ, even Trump kool-aid chugger Steve Doucey is not exactly sold on that idea, judging by the facial expression. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4426 "2020-10-05T20:53:13Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > “Trump Campaign Says Biden Lacks ‘Firsthand Experience’ of Being Infected With COVID-19” Fuckin’ A, I seriously thought that was a headline to a new Onion article until I saw it said “Newsweek”. These are very strange times. ---
**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, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4427 "2020-10-05T21:25:28Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > “Trump Campaign Says Biden Lacks ‘Firsthand Experience’ of Being Infected With COVID-19” > > [Trump Campaign Says Biden Lacks 'Firsthand Experience' of Being Infected With COVID-19](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-campaign-says-biden-lacks-firsthand-experience-being-infected-covid-19-1536440?amp=1) > > You can’t make this stuff up. Actually, Biden also lacks experience in paying off porn stars, which is evidently an important presidential qualification. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4428 "2020-10-05T21:34:17Z")
This reminds me of the Will Rogers’ quote: > There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. ---
**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 5, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4429 "2020-10-05T21:56:42Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Actually, Biden also lacks experience in paying off porn stars, which is evidently an important presidential qualification. And getting peed on by Russian hookers, and driving businesses into the ground, and never paying his bills, and being divorced multiple times… Biden is just a greenhorn. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4430 "2020-10-05T22:08:25Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I was unaware the virus could infect plastics. Didn’t the Andromeda Strain mutate to do that? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4431 "2020-10-05T22:25:38Z")
> [@SingleMalt](#): > > This reminds me of the Will Rogers’ quote: > > > There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. According to family stories, when I was a toddler I had to touch the pot bellied stove twice, to see if it was still hot. I like to think that I improved as I aged. Some people never learn. ---
**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, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4432 "2020-10-05T23:52:29Z")
This is slightly troubling. By this timeline, he could go deep south a week or so before election day. > ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4433 "2020-10-06T00:41:03Z")
From George Takei’s twitter feed during last night’s tweet storm: “Donald is so off his rocker that he’s started campaigning for Joe Biden.” > ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4434 "2020-10-06T00:41:51Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > > > I was unaware the virus could infect plastics. > > Didn’t the Andromeda Strain mutate to do that? It did! ---
**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 6, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4435 "2020-10-06T00:59:42Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > According to family stories, when I was a toddler I had to touch the pot bellied stove twice, **to see if it was still hot.** > > I like to think that I improved as I aged. Some people never learn When was the last time you checked? ---
**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:** [October 6, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4436 "2020-10-06T02:42:34Z")
A California pastor who attended the Rose Garden Massacre has announced that he has tested positive. > **[Riverside megachurch pastor who attended White House event contracts Covid-19](https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/10/05/riverside-megachurch-pastor-who-attended-white-house-event-contracts-covid-19-1321259)** > > Pastor Greg Laurie of Riverside's Harvest Christian Fellowship confirmed on his Facebook page that he tested positive for the virus over the weekend. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/4437 "2020-10-06T02:52:25Z")
The White House gift shop is selling “Trump defeated COVID” commemorative coins. > **[White House Gift Shop selling ‘Trump Defeats COVID’ commemorative coin](https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/519745-white-house-gift-shop-selling-trump-defeats-covid-commemorative/)** > > The White House Gift Shop started selling a “Trump Defeats COVID” commemorative coin on Monday before the president returned to the White House from the hospital.Anthony Giannini, the chairman of t… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=220) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=222)