# 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:** 268
**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:** [October 23, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5358 "2020-10-23T12:43:32Z")
It bears a suspicious resemblance to medical treatment aftermath. The bandages are about where they frequently put injections and “passports”, and such treatment can lead to local bruising. I doubt if McConnell has been going a few rounds with fellow congressmen and taping his knuckles. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5359 "2020-10-23T12:45:57Z")
whoa, that looks like serious stuff. ---
**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 23, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5360 "2020-10-23T12:50:15Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Any speculation on what’s up with Mitch McConnel? I’ve just seen the CNN article, but no theories - doesn’t look like damage from a fall. Whoa! His hands! [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/22/politics/mitch-mcconnell-bruised-hands/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/22/politics/mitch-mcconnell-bruised-hands/index.html) I know those hands well, my late husband had them: lots of blood thinners, Coumadin, heparin. OMG. Could those blue lips have been caused by a close encounter with a ventilator? ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5361 "2020-10-23T13:17:56Z")
Why does he have a bandage on his thumb? ---
**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 23, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5362 "2020-10-23T13:22:19Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Why does he have a bandage on his thumb?- To keep him from sucking it? ---
**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 23, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5363 "2020-10-23T13:26:40Z")
Anybody see this “smoking gun” from the imaginary Hunter Biden scandal? A screenshot of a supposed text from Hunter, in iPhone format on a Blackberry on a Russian telecom network (MTS), riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. This would be comical if the stakes weren’t so serious. I just saw a trump attack ad on TV pushing the Hunter Biden BS. > ---
**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 23, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5364 "2020-10-23T13:41:12Z")
We’re about due a fucking break. Mitch McConnell dying (forgive me for saying this) while Kentucky has a Democratic governor would be a big one. ---
**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 23, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5365 "2020-10-23T13:44:14Z")
That would cheer me up almost as much as… well, you know… Can’t I have **both** my wishes come true? ---
**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 23, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5366 "2020-10-23T13:46:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Can’t I have **both** my wishes come true? Sure. Bippity Boppity Boo is waving her fairy godmother wand as we speak. Frantically waving the damn thing.🧚‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5367 "2020-10-23T13:54:08Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Why does he have a bandage on his thumb? Towards the end of my recent 22 day hospital stay, they were looking at the veins in my thumbs when the ones in my arms and hands wouldn’t stay patent long enough to draw blood (more than a dozen Vacutainers). Fortunately, I still had a central line in my neck. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5368 "2020-10-23T13:58:29Z")
**Slate** has published a useful Skeleton Key to Trump’s far-right references during last night’s debate, for those of us who aren’t Fox News aficionados: > **[A Guide to All the Nutty Things Trump Said That You’d Need Fox News Brain to...](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/donald-trump-debate-answers-fox-news-brain.html)** > > Big man? Moscow wife? Pillows and sheets? Heavy sigh: We’ll explain. ---
**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 23, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5369 "2020-10-23T14:04:11Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > We’re about due a fucking break. Mitch McConnell dying (forgive me for saying this) while Kentucky has a Democratic governor would be a big one. Listening to Republican howls of poutrage about how unfair it would be to replace Moscow Mitch with a Democratic interim Senator might have the salutary effect of helping me lose weight by leaving me too nauseous to eat. Or it might want me break out a celebratory banquet. Hard to predict. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5370 "2020-10-23T14:08:06Z")
Doens’t he also look bruised above his right eye? I wonder if he’s had a fall? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5371 "2020-10-23T14:10:25Z")
Mitch, don’t take this the wrong way, but DIE! DIE! DIE! ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5372 "2020-10-23T14:17:37Z")
Ooh, okay. I wondered if the thumb could have a big enough vein. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5373 "2020-10-23T14:24:23Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Fortunately, I still had a central line in my neck. There’s a line you don’t see very often. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5374 "2020-10-23T14:29:17Z")
Thank you for that. I spent half the debate wondering wtf Trump was talking about. His closing argument to America seems to be: Ignore the 250,000 dead and all my corruption and incompetence – the other guy has some family members who are rumored to have engaged in some possibly shady business practices in the past. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5375 "2020-10-23T14:34:31Z")
Thanks, very useful. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5376 "2020-10-23T14:38:38Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Mitch, don’t take this the wrong way, but DIE! DIE! DIE! See? This is what the trump administration does to good people. makes the bloodthirsty. Not that I disagree, but I’d be happy if his hand done fell right off, preferrably in a televised hearing. ---
**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 23, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5377 "2020-10-23T14:41:30Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > See? This is what the trump administration does to good people. makes the bloodthirsty. I said the same thing to my wife as I watched Trump at the debate last night, based on the thoughts running through my mind at the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=267) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=269)