# 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:** 362
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7241 "2020-12-03T16:33:01Z")
Appoint Janet Reno as acting AG, then see if the Senate wants to think about confirming her successor. There is one small problem with that; she’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7242 "2020-12-03T16:48:09Z")
Appoint her anyway and leak a rumor to QAnon that she isn’t dead and was silenced as she was about to dig too deep into the sex ring plot. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7243 "2020-12-03T17:20:11Z")
[Kayleigh, Please Stop Trying To Make The “Trump Vaccine” Happen (yahoo.com)](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kayeligh-please-stop-trying-trump-221035045.html) So… If it’s the ‘Trump vaccine’, does that mean that COVID-19 is actually the ‘Trump virus’? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7244 "2020-12-03T17:30:55Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > It would be a beautiful thing, if the last act of the Trump Administration is to suffer a veto override. Or worse for Trump, if Section 230 is repeated, Twitter is going to dump his ass first thing. No way they’re letting him keep an account if they’re legally liable for the shite he pours forth every day. It’s a 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:** [December 3, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7245 "2020-12-03T18:05:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > So… If it’s the ‘Trump vaccine’, does that mean that COVID-19 is actually the ‘Trump virus’? Yes, and furthermore, DON’T TAKE THIS VACCINE! It has nothing to do with COVID. It’s a vaccine that will turn you into a MAGAt! The tipoff is that when they give it to you, they hand you a red hat. 😱 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7246 "2020-12-03T19:04:59Z")
From _The Young Ones_, ‘Flood’ (1982): > **Vyvyan:** It’s a potion I’ve invented where when the patient drinks it he turns into an axe-wielding, homicidal maniac! It’s basically a cure. For not being an axe-wielding, homicidal maniac. The potential market’s enormous! > > **Neil:** [_taking a Coca-Cola can out of the fridge_] What, is this it? > > **Vyvyan:** Yeah! Yeah, I put it in a Coke can so nobody’d drink it by mistake. > > **Neil:** [_placing can atop the refrigerator_] You know, I just bet a bit later on somebody does drink that and turns into an axe-wielding, homicidal maniac! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7247 "2020-12-03T19:14:08Z")
There must be [fifty ways to leave the whitehouse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QybcBH6rSw) ---
**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:** [December 3, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7248 "2020-12-03T19:21:20Z")
That is brilliant! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7249 "2020-12-03T19:29:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > So… If it’s the ‘Trump vaccine’, does that mean that COVID-19 is actually the ‘Trump virus’? I have been pushing for “Trump-45” for a while now. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7250 "2020-12-03T21:49:50Z")
[https://www.axios.com/trump-arctic-refuge-drilling-auction-f8090a0d-1976-4d80-a941-af0660fa2d3f.html](https://www.axios.com/trump-arctic-refuge-drilling-auction-f8090a0d-1976-4d80-a941-af0660fa2d3f.html) > The Interior Department on Thursday said it will auction oil drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in early January. > > **Why it matters:** The procedural step would make it harder for President-elect Joe Biden to thwart drilling in the region, even though any actual development is years away. > > **The big picture:** The refuge is thought to contain huge oil deposits that proponents say can be tapped with manageable disruption. But environmentalists oppose development, arguing it’s impossible without harming and jeopardizing the ecosystem that’s home to caribou, polar bears and other species. > > **Where it stands:** Drilling advocates finally succeeded in mandating lease sales in late 2017 legislation after a decades-long battle over whether to open the region. > … “How are those federal executions coming along? Let’s try to git 'er all done before we have to vacate. Will the last person out pour gasoline on the Christmas decorations in the East Room and toss in a match? Thanks!” ---
**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:** [December 3, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7251 "2020-12-03T22:01:02Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > > So… If it’s the ‘Trump vaccine’, does that mean that COVID-19 is actually the ‘Trump virus’? > > I have been pushing for “Trump-45” for a while now. Try “America-Hating Fuckstick-45.” It might catch on quicker. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7252 "2020-12-03T22:16:44Z")
Trump aide banned from Justice Department building after pressuring staffers for sensitive information on election fraud. > **[Trump aide banned from Justice Department building after pressuring staffers...](https://www.chicagotribune.com/2020/12/03/trump-aide-banned-from-justice-department-building-after-pressuring-staffers-for-sensitive-information-on-election-fraud/)** > > The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information a… > The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press. > > Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed at the Justice Department as a White House liaison a few months ago. She was told within the last two weeks to vacate the building after top Justice officials learned of her efforts to collect insider information about ongoing cases and the department’s work on election fraud, the people said. > > Stirrup is accused of approaching staffers in the department demanding they give her information about investigations, including election fraud matters … ---
**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:** [December 3, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7253 "2020-12-03T22:22:28Z")
This is just evil for its own sake. 😡 > **[Trump admin only now shares new contact information that could prove vital in...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1999689)** > > The Trump administration has had in its possession additional contact information that could prove vital in helping reunite families it cruelly ripped apart at the southern border but has only just now given that data to advocates tasked by a... > The Trump administration has had in its possession additional contact information that could prove vital in helping reunite families it cruelly ripped apart at the southern border but has only just now given that data to advocates tasked by a federal judge with finding deported parents, NBC News [reports.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1249782?__twitter_impression=true) Attorneys said the data has not yet been fully reviewed but does include “phone numbers that had not previously been known.” > > The report said the data was turned over only after advocates have been pleading for months for any additional information that could prove vital in putting back together the families the federal government tore in two. "Everyone’s been asking whether the Trump administration has been helping to find these families,” American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt [told](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-say-trump-admin-has-handed-over-data-will-help-n1249782) NBC News. “Not only have they not been helping, but they have been withholding this data forever.” > > Court documents [this past September revealed](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/21/1988277/-Separated-kids-still-don-t-know-where-their-parents-are-three-years-later-because-of-Trump-s-cruelty) that 545 children kidnapped from their parents by the administration in 2017 remained separated from their families three years later. Additional documents [later showed](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/10/1994633/-Advocates-reiterate-criminal-investigations-needed-after-number-of-children-still-separated-rises) that the number of separated children was actually even higher, at 666. “The filing Wednesday said some families have been identified since then, bringing the number of parents whose whereabouts are still unknown to 628,” NBC News reports. > > … > > “We have been repeatedly asking the Trump administration for any additional data they might have to help locate the families and are only finally getting these new phone numbers and addresses,” Lee continued in the report. “Unfortunately, it took the issue reaching the level of a presidential debate to move them to give us this data." > … ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7254 "2020-12-03T23:38:25Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Heidi Stirrup This is trivial and irrelevant but I just gotta say: “Heidi Stirrup”? ? ---
**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:** [December 3, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7255 "2020-12-03T23:53:30Z")
Slavic form of the name “Hoist Petard”… ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7256 "2020-12-04T00:27:06Z")
Didn’t she star in that big budget film, “Two staffers, One Cup?” ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7257 "2020-12-04T01:14:20Z")
‘Two Staffers, 1 Scoop’ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7258 "2020-12-04T01:44:31Z")
Actress best known for her role as The Cowgirl in _Rode Hard, Put Away Wet_. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7259 "2020-12-04T01:48:49Z")
'Luci! We don’t use such language around here! Oh, wait. _Horse._ Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![jimmyjoeraybubbabob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@jimmyjoeraybubbabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmyjoeraybubbabob)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7260 "2020-12-04T03:56:18Z")
Anyone else here wondering if Kayleigh McEnany’s Cloaca has a hardwood floor or wall to wall carpet? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=361) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=363)