# 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:** 370
**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 8, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7401 "2020-12-08T14:18:59Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Trump recently told one adviser he was going to pardon “every person who ever talked to me” Says someone that doesn’t understand that these people can no longer claim the 5th. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7402 "2020-12-08T14:24:10Z")
The Trump administration has used the Hatch Act like toilet paper since day 1 and suffered no notable consequences. This is more sound and fury signifying nothing. The Trumpists just laugh at this and say “Ooooh! Nasty bureaucrat’s gonna shake his finger at me!” Why even bother with these toothless accusations? ---
**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 8, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7403 "2020-12-08T14:28:31Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > One really eye-opening thing that this disaster has accomplished is revealing how utterly unprincipled Republicans are, how much they’re willing to back and protect this complete and utter idiot as long as they think it serves their political interests. … The extent of this and the fact that it is dragging out is the big shocker. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7404 "2020-12-08T15:19:07Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I suspect that the fallout of his tantrums will get far worse before it’s over, and will persist for a long time, perhaps resulting in some beneficial shakeups and reforms in the US political system. You optimist, you! Thinking there might even be a chance of reforms! …seriously I’d love that to be true but fear the US is really in for an even rougher ride than we’ve already had. Reforms would require bipartisanship. What really scares me about US so-called democracy is thinking about what would happen to the election results if both houses of Congress were controlled by ‘pubbies. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7405 "2020-12-08T15:51:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I frelling HATE that photo. I do NOT need to know he wears tighty-whities. I’ve succeeded in convincing myself that it’s 'shopped. It is, isn’t it??? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7406 "2020-12-08T16:29:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This part cracked me up! 🤣 > > > One source felt awkward because the president was clearly trying to be helpful but the adviser didn’t believe they had committed any crimes. The Onion has this covered or else they tried to think up something so absurd as to be implausible and yet DumpsterFire still did it. > **[White House Dishwasher Not Sure Why Trump Keeps Offering Him Pardon](https://www.theonion.com/white-house-dishwasher-not-sure-why-trump-keeps-offerin-1845802048)** > > WASHINGTON—Shrugging as he tried to explain the motivation behind the commander in chief’s frequent overtures, White House dishwasher George Vlahos told reporters Thursday he was genuinely uncertain why President Donald Trump kept offering to grant... ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7407 "2020-12-08T16:42:38Z")
> **[Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 08, 2020 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2020/12/08)** > > Lio's Tube Through Time > Date Set 2099 > December 8, 2099 > TRUMP STILL WON'T CONCEDE > skeleton remains defiant ---
**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 8, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7408 "2020-12-08T17:14:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > > Trump recently told one adviser he was going to pardon “every person who ever talked to me” > > Which sounds impressive until you consider the number of people in his inner circle of whom he says “I don’t know anything about them”. Maybe he’ll pardon Chris Christie for that one time he sent him out for McDonalds and he came back with a Quarter Pounder instead of a Big Mac… But joking aside, if he’s making comments like that, it may be a sign that he recognizes that he’s leaving soon. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7409 "2020-12-08T17:18:58Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Maybe he’ll pardon Chris Christie for that one time he sent him out for McDonalds and he came back with a Quarter Pounder instead of a Big Mac… - That’s a bridge too far. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7410 "2020-12-08T18:28:27Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > But joking aside, if he’s making comments like that, it may be a sign that he recognizes that he’s leaving soon. To me it looks like he just he wants to flood the airwaves with the pardons of a shit-ton of people, both guilty and innocent, so that truly guilty in the bunch won’t stand out so much. I mean, if he just pardoned Rudy, Ivanka, Jared, Don Jr, Eric, and Barr, that raises red flags, but if those assclowns are among 1000 other names (everyone he’s ever met), there’s no need for anyone to think he’s doing anything more than just being a kind old Pardon Fairy. It’s a gish galop of pardons. So many pardons that no one can point to any specific one of them as a big deal. ---
**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 8, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7411 "2020-12-08T18:46:52Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > Maybe he’ll pardon Chris Christie for that one time he sent him out for McDonalds and he came back with a Quarter Pounder instead of a Big Mac… - > > That’s a bridge too far. Just cram it full of MAGAts and it will not be. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7412 "2020-12-08T19:02:39Z")
Aw, Jenna Ellis probably has coronavirus now but doesn’t want to admit it. [https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/politics/jenna-ellis-coronavirus/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/politics/jenna-ellis-coronavirus/index.html) > The source said White House aides have been informed that she has contracted the virus, but that Ellis has not been forthright with White House officials about it. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7413 "2020-12-08T19:13:40Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Aw, Jenna Ellis probably has coronavirus now but doesn’t want to admit it. > > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/politics/jenna-ellis-coronavirus/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/politics/jenna-ellis-coronavirus/index.html) > > > The source said White House aides have been informed that she has contracted the virus, **but that Ellis has not been forthright with White House officials about it.** - Like they have any right to complain about that. ---
**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 8, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7414 "2020-12-08T22:40:59Z")
~~Is there~~ There is no end to the weirdness… > **[Trump Faithful Asked to Donate $3 Million to Buy His Boyhood Home (Published...](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/nyregion/trump-house-queens.html)** > > The owner of the house in Queens wants supporters to purchase the home as a parting gift to the president. > … > The fund-raiser could also solve another problem that has plagued the home’s owner in recent years: an inability to find a buyer. > … _Wink-wink_. 😉 > … > The house was put up for auction last fall, but failed to meet the reserve price, said Misha Haghani, the principal of Paramount Realty USA, which has represented the property in three past auctions. This most recent attempt asks contributors to [purchase the house as a gift](https://www.gofundme.com/f/s2ft8-thank-you-president-trump?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all)to the president via GoFundMe, the charitable fund-raising platform, “as a token of appreciation,” Mr. Haghani said. > > “Love Trump?” the fund-raiser, which kicked off Tuesday, reads. “Thank President Trump by contributing to this campaign to buy his childhood home in his honor!” > … ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7415 "2020-12-08T22:51:36Z")
Mr. Richguy: “It was a great pleasure to purchase President Trump’s boyhood home; the three million dollar price tag is a small price to pay for the right to, and the satisfaction of, destroying any part of Donald Trump’s personal history and legacy. This will never be a shrine. My crew is ready: folks, knock it down! Soon we’ll be unveiling the Sean Bell Center for Justice; we’re in the final stages of choosing an architect’s design!” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7416 "2020-12-08T22:54:37Z")
I personally know of a six bedroom estate in Texas that can be had for less than half of that. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7417 "2020-12-08T23:13:19Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > My crew is ready: folks, knock it down! I was thinking more along the lines of burning it to the ground. More symbolic and spectacular. Strange, though, that it’s been so hard to find a buyer for the Exalted Leader’s boyhood home. My understanding is that all the Winning™ he did in his one-term presidency was such that he will soon be awarded the Noble Prize™ and have his mug carved on Mt Rushmore. Surely the place where this wonder of nature grew up (at least physically, if not mentally) should be a sacred place of priceless value! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7418 "2020-12-08T23:26:53Z")
Could turn the site into a huge outdoor public latrine. ---
**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 8, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7419 "2020-12-08T23:39:16Z")
When driving around the French Quarter, we encountered a wall that was [part of this](https://beforeidieproject.com/story/). The concept could be adapted: a slate wall covered with painted lines of “(CFEFWSG) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_” for passersby to take up chalk and make their statements. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7420 "2020-12-08T23:40:46Z")
Charge $10 to take a piss on Trump’s home, $20 to take a dump. I bet you could recoup your $3M investment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=369) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=371)