# 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:** 346
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6921 "2020-11-24T23:10:04Z")
Haha, I see what you’re doing there. 🤦‍♂️ Dangit, look what you made me do! ---
**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:** [November 24, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6922 "2020-11-24T23:12:27Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I believe he does not know how to do stuff on his phone at all. He scrawls his tweets out on the bathroom tile with a beloved sharpie, then points the phone at it and some very specialized handwriting recognition software reads the barely legible mess and tries to convert it into ascii text that is vaguely comprehensible. Its Herculean efforts at parsing and correction are why some tweets seem to make more sense than others. Streaks from where the tiles were wiped clean mere add color to the gibberish. Maybe he has a Rocketbook. > **[Rocketbook | Reusable Notebooks & Planners](https://getrocketbook.com/)** > > Rocketbook is a reusable notebook that will connect with your favorite cloud services to level up your organizational skills. Order your Rocketbook today. You write or draw stuff in it with a Sharpie-like pen and the app converts the writing to typed text and uploads to the cloud. Getting it to Twitter would be a matter of copy/paste, which I’m sure is beyond Donnie’s scope. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6923 "2020-11-24T23:17:38Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “The First Lady will not be in attendance.” Anyone else read this and wonder if she already snuck out? Any reports of her bags, and Barron’s, being loaded onto a black helicopter? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6924 "2020-11-24T23:23:18Z")
Interesting. As I recall, the only way Trump was allowed to make Mar a Lago into a private club was to agree that no one, including himself and his family, would be allowed to reside there, and members are only supposed to be there for a maximum of 3 weeks a year. He flouted that agreement his entire time as President and his office more or less protected him, but in a few weeks he’ll be a private citizen and somehow, I think the city of West Palm Beach is looking forward to evicting his ass. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6925 "2020-11-24T23:28:18Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > And you can tell because Melania is just completely and totally out of fucks to give about even the ceremonial aspects of her role as First Lady: I don’t care. Do you? ---
**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:** [November 24, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6926 "2020-11-24T23:59:28Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Anyone else read this and wonder if she already snuck out? Any reports of her bags, and Barron’s, being loaded onto a black helicopter? That definitely crossed my mind. Why should she hang around? Nuttin’ for her there. As if there ever has been… If I had any chops WRT social media, I’d start a project to mail and/or drop off cardboard boxes of all sizes at the White House. You know, to help with the packing. The kind U-Haul sells, or just empty amazon boxes (you’ll have to ask your cat to vacate them first). I picture hundreds of thousands of empty boxes being delivered to the street near the WH-- I gather you can’t get close to it. Piles and piles of them, piled so high you can’t see the Truman Balcony over them. Like that scene at the end of _Miracle on 34th Street_ where they bring in bags and bags of mail and bury the judge under them. I want to see the fence in front of the WH obscured from view by zillions of boxes sent by Americans who want to _help_ Donnie move out and move on. It’s a happy picture. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6927 "2020-11-25T00:02:58Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Interesting. As I recall, the only way Trump was allowed to make Mar a Lago into a private club was to agree that no one, including himself and his family, would be allowed to reside there, and members are only supposed to be there for a maximum of 3 weeks a year. > > He flouted that agreement his entire time as President and his office more or less protected him, but in a few weeks he’ll be a private citizen and somehow, I think the city of West Palm Beach is looking forward to evicting his ass. I recall reading the same. But at least he’ll be Palm Beach’s problem then and not ours. I do also wonder if Mel will hightail it to NY and leave him festering in FL. I suspect he’s reluctant to go back to NY because a) SDNY and b) I think he’s figured out exactly how much NYC residents loathe him. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6928 "2020-11-25T00:03:51Z")
I feel really bad for the secret service guys that will be stuck having to watch over his sorry ass. Everyone else will be free of his daily shit except them. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6929 "2020-11-25T00:04:42Z")
^^ Ayup. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6930 "2020-11-25T00:08:57Z")
Both. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6931 "2020-11-25T00:34:15Z")
[# White House coronavirus task force calls for ‘significant behavior change of all Americans’](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-coronavirus-task-force-calls-for-significant-behavior-change-of-all-americans/ar-BB1bjWul?li=BBorjTa) They’re just getting this NOW?? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6932 "2020-11-25T00:35:37Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The clusterfuck… it’s ending. And you can tell because Melania is just completely and totally out of fucks to give about even the ceremonial aspects of her role as First Lady: > > #### [West Wing Reports (WestWingReport)](https://twitter.com/WestWingReport/status/1331276048609193987?s=19) > > Outgoing First Lady Melania Trump - who once said she resented the burden of having to decorate the White House for Christmas - will skip the unveiling of this year’s holiday décor. White House says: “The First Lady will not be in attendance.” She can now devote her full attention to her real mission: finding Moose and Sqvirrel. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6933 "2020-11-25T00:40:08Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > [# White House coronavirus task force calls for ‘significant behavior change of all Americans’](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-coronavirus-task-force-calls-for-significant-behavior-change-of-all-americans/ar-BB1bjWul?li=BBorjTa) > > They’re just getting this NOW?? Well, of course, now that they can start blaming a new admin if people don’t like it. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6934 "2020-11-25T00:43:55Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > [# White House coronavirus task force calls for ‘significant behavior change of all Americans’](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-coronavirus-task-force-calls-for-significant-behavior-change-of-all-americans/ar-BB1bjWul?li=BBorjTa) > > They’re just getting this NOW?? > [@romansperson](#): > > Well, of course, now that they can start blaming a new admin if people don’t like it. **OR** taking credit if people do like it. Winning! That’s what it’s all about! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6935 "2020-11-25T01:03:36Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Your Honor, in order to show that all absentee ballots must be thrown out, here is proof that I voted illegally. Reminds me of [The Life of David Gale](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3), where an anti-death penalty advocate is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. It turns out that it was a suicide staged to look like a murder, so that he would be executed, and it would later come out that the state had executed an innocent man, in an effort to prove that innocent people are executed, too ---
**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:** [November 25, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6936 "2020-11-25T01:51:51Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > I do also wonder if Mel will hightail it to NY and leave him festering in FL. … I would bet on Slovenia, not NY. There’s a reason Melania has made sure that Barron is fluent in Slovenian. But of course it all comes down to what the re-negotiated terms of her pre-nup may be (as we know, at the beginning of Trump’s term in 2017, she used his need to present a “normal family” picture in order to pressure him into re-negotiating). If she has to stay in the USA to get the $$$, she will. But I don’t think she’s ever thought of herself as an American. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6937 "2020-11-25T02:08:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I picture hundreds of thousands of empty boxes being delivered to the street near the WH-- I gather you can’t get close to it. Piles and piles of them, piled so high you can’t see the Truman Balcony over them. I love this idea! You can [order empty boxes online](https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/packaging-and-supplies.page) from UPS, many sizes for free, and have them delivered anywhere. Or any DC dopers (“Operation Plain Brown Wrapper”!) willing to make a delivery right before the afternoon network news feeds? Ooh, and use a super-wide sharpie to label them! "Bathroom Home Office’, “Fragile: Gold Door Hinges”, “Dubious Golf Trophies” etc. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6938 "2020-11-25T02:16:34Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I would bet on Slovenia, not NY. Bill Maher says Trump still has the box that she came in. She may be able to go back postage-paid. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > But I don’t think she’s ever thought of herself as an American. Neither has anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6939 "2020-11-25T02:27:52Z")
Goddamn brilliant! I know some people online who are very connected, not only with social media, but who write for left-leaning websites. Maybe I will suggest this idea. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/6940 "2020-11-25T02:48:05Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Ooh, and use a super-wide sharpie to label them! "Bathroom Home Office’, “Fragile: Gold Door Hinges”, “Dubious Golf Trophies” etc. A big empty box for “Nobel prizes.” > [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Goddamn brilliant! I know some people online who are very connected, not only with social media, but who write for left-leaning websites. Maybe I will suggest this idea. 😮 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=345) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=347)