# 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:** 257
**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 18, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5138 "2020-10-18T18:15:43Z")
“Doctor” Scott Atlas tweeited that masks don’t work. You know, Individual 1’s covid advisor? Well, anyway, Twitter deleted the tweet. > **[Twitter removes tweet from top Trump Covid-19 adviser saying masks don't work](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1243841)** > > Last month, Trump's CDC director was overheard saying everything the adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas, says "is false." ---
**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 18, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5139 "2020-10-18T18:46:44Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I suppose, but then we really need to have a thread along the lines of “Trump: The Aftermath”. I’m okay with this, but the thread title cannot have his name in it. Just “The Aftermath” is enough. Or his initials, but I don’t want to be a party to promoting the t—p name any more. He has already gotten too much airtime, bandwidth, and psychic real estate in all of our heads. We need what my late, dear hubby used to call “a cerebral douche.” 😛 I like that… A cerebral douche to cleanse us of Il ~~Duce~~ Doofus. ---
**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 18, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5140 "2020-10-18T18:54:58Z")
Let’s just call him TLDCLWSNBN. The Late Death Cult Leader Who Shall Not Be Named It’s helpful that the proposed acronym has no vowels, rendering it unpronounceable. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5141 "2020-10-18T19:06:22Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > It’s helpful that the proposed acronym has no vowels, rendering it unpronounceable. Definitely clever on your part-with **Thel** , I wish to never hear his name again. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5142 "2020-10-18T19:16:05Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Colibri](#): > > > > I suggest St. Helena might be the most appropriate place. > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > [Elephant Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Island). Highly recommended by Shackleton’s crew. > > > [@Colibri](#): > > > > Come to think of it, these days, [St. Helena](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena) is probably much too pleasant for the Donald’s place of exile. In particular, it has Internet connections, which would enable him to continue to Tweet nonsense. Elephant Island isn’t a bad suggestion. I might also consider an island with an active volcano, like [Taal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taal_Volcano) in the Philippines. > > Fie on both of you. [Devil’s Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Island) of _Papillon_ fame. > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > I suggest North Sentinel Island. Lovely place for Trump to visit. > > _Now_ you’re talkin’. In a tribute to his mother’s Hebridian origins, there’s always [St Kilda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland). ---
**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 18, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5143 "2020-10-18T19:18:36Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > But they’re still exposed to whatever he’s carrying. Bile, divisiveness, paranoia, sociopathy … Like Mr Burns, Trump has 3 stooges syndrome… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aI0euMFAWF8/hqdefault.jpg "Mr. Burns is Indestructible") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0euMFAWF8) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5144 "2020-10-18T19:49:37Z")
_Let’s just call him TLDCLWSNBN._ _It’s helpful that the proposed acronym has no vowels, rendering it unpronounceable._ Not if you’re Welsh! ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5145 "2020-10-18T22:10:26Z")
There seems to be an awful lot of premature chicken counting going on round these parts, reminds me of a time about four years ago… But setting that aside and assuming Trump Co. Doesn’t manage to pull another rabbit out of a hat and assuming he can’t finagle something from SCOTUS and assuming he can be physically pried out of the White House, does anyone here really honestly think this nightmare will soon end? That the megalomaniacal egotistical buffoon will slink off into that good night and allow us to rebuild and heal? His YouTube Channel will make Rogan look like a noob he will rouse the Maga crowd into a frenzy of violence we have not yet seen all in an effort to sell them more snake oil and merch and seminars and they will buy it on their way to midnight rides. He will use his bully pulpit for all its worth. He will rant and rave. If he is out of office he needs something to protect him from prosecution. One juror will do. He already has that. Try finding twelve people in this country randomly selected that would vote to convict home of shooting a kid right in front of them you can’t do it. It is mind boggling. He needs to keep it that way. It’s going to get ugly. I fear a fight is more likely than a party, though I hope it’s a party, first round is on me. Never wanted to be wrong so bad in my life. Here’s hoping I’m a dumb ass chicken little… ---
**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 18, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5146 "2020-10-18T22:40:57Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > does anyone here really honestly think this nightmare will soon end? No one here so naive as to believe that. However, getting rid of DJT is a necessary even if not sufficient step on the road to (a someday) normalcy. ---
**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 18, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5147 "2020-10-18T22:56:28Z")
Someone on Twitter called what we’re seeing the “throw the kitchen sink actions of a failing campaign that’s running out of time.” Next up may be criminal charges issued against Biden by our corrupt DOJ. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5148 "2020-10-19T00:08:29Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > What’s the problem? Trump should be dropped off on the beach clutching his all time favorite book. The North Sentinelese _love_ bibles. Plus he’ll bring dinner! Win win! ---
**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 19, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5149 "2020-10-19T00:16:41Z")
Don’t know where else to post this. This thread has become kind of a junk drawer where we can just throw any old thing about DJT or the election. Maybe that’s because we’ll soon be able to retire it. 😛 Anyhoo, this is _sweet_!. > > The United Steelworkers union aimed its “bat light” displaying former Vice President [Joe Biden](https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden)’s campaign logo at Trump Tower Chicago on Saturday. > > In photos taken Saturday evening, the Biden-Harris campaign logo was seen blazing across the skyscraper just above [President Trump](https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump)’s own name. Here’s a bigger picture if you’re not inclined to click on the Twitter link. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkiaNGXXYAAAOD_.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkiaNGXXYAAAOD_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5150 "2020-10-19T00:35:44Z")
Oh, that is great! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5151 "2020-10-19T00:39:51Z")
Yeah, I saw it on Facebook. It’s great. Maybe someone can do it on Trump Tower in New York. ---
**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 19, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5152 "2020-10-19T00:44:16Z")
How about projecting it onto the White House? 😇 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5153 "2020-10-19T00:45:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@wolfpup](#): > > > > I suppose, but then we really need to have a thread along the lines of “Trump: The Aftermath”. > > I’m okay with this, but the thread title cannot have his name in it. Just “The Aftermath” is enough. Or his initials, but I don’t want to be a party to promoting the t—p name any more. He has already gotten too much airtime, bandwidth, and psychic real estate in all of our heads. We need what my late, dear hubby used to call “a cerebral douche.” 😛 > > I like that… A cerebral douche to cleanse us of Il ~~Duce~~ Doofus. Since Peter Jackson stiffed us, how about “The Scouring of the Shire”? ---
**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 19, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5154 "2020-10-19T01:10:47Z")
All the Little Dumpster Fires ---
**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 19, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5155 "2020-10-19T02:07:08Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > His YouTube Channel . . . I would like to believe that at 12:01 pm on January 20, The Name That Shall Not Be Named will be instabanned from YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and every other responsible media. ETA: But you’re right about counting chickens a little too soon. Even with a (likely) Biden win, this Clusterfuck, and this thread, still have 12+ weeks to go or so. It ain’t over until it’s over. ---
**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 19, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5156 "2020-10-19T02:58:39Z")
Let’s not pollute Antarctica. Isn’t there a giant ocean plastic waste vortex? ---
**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 19, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5157 "2020-10-19T03:08:05Z")
Individual 1 apparently thinks saying that “Biden will listen to the scientists” is a bad thing. > **[Trump says if Biden's elected, "he'll listen to the scientists"](https://www.axios.com/2020/10/19/trump-warns-lockdowns-if-biden-elected-scientists)** > > The Biden campaign responded, "Now new coronavirus cases are surging and layoffs are rising." [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=256) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=258)