# 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:** 382
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7641 "2020-12-17T07:21:23Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I hear Pyongyang is nice in January. Oh, great, thanks for the [eye-worm.\*](https://www.google.com/search?q=ryugyong+hotel&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjt5fSEutTtAhUUiZ4KHWcTBdMQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=ryugyong+hotel&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAA6BggAEAcQHlDGqwFYpLkBYKO9AWgAcAB4AIABQogB7wKSAQE2mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=ZgPbX-2aCJSS-gTnppSYDQ&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA835CA835) \*Yes! Yes! (pumps fist) Just double-checked with urban dictionary - no sign of ‘eye-worm’ being used in any context to denote ‘image you’d rather not have in your head’. This means: the tawdry genesis, here, of its new meaning, so that repeated misuse? use of this meaning will soon supercede the normal, original descriptor of ‘actual fucking worm thing in your eye’, and before you know it, ‘eye-worm’ will go right alongside ‘earworm’ in lists, and shit, which I will humbly take 101% credit for. Yes! YES! Whuh-POW!!! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7642 "2020-12-17T11:10:35Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > > [@Superdude](#): > > > > I can’t find the link now > > Here’s a link to Business Insider. > > [Trump Discussing Firing Barr's Successor As Attorney General: Report](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-discussing-firing-barrs-successor-as-attorney-general-report-2020-12) Clearly, Trump wants revenge for all the scrutiny his own taxes have received, and to target Biden’s family as well as Biden. ---
**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 17, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7643 "2020-12-17T12:37:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Bill Stepien put out an official Individual 1 Campaign Team press release saying he will be holding his inauguration at Mar a Lago on January 20. > “Any attempt to remove the [Individual 1] administration will require force.” Referring to this, which a friend forwarded to me this morning in an email. [![](https://i.imgur.com/xX428Pi.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/xX428Pi.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7644 "2020-12-17T12:40:43Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > Trumpism is a weird concoction of conspiracy theories, bigotry, and ignorance. Without Trump holding it together it has the coherency of '90’s Yugoslavia. Excellent point (and great analogy). I’m hopeful the varied, dipshitty strains of Trumpism will more or less go their separate ways, back to the pathetic and disappointing, but ultimately not too influential or dangerous, mess of scattered stupidities it occupied before. ---
**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 17, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7645 "2020-12-17T12:47:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > Bill Stepien put out an official Individual 1 Campaign Team press release saying he will be holding his inauguration at Mar a Lago on January 20. > > “Any attempt to remove the [Individual 1] administration will require force.” > > Referring to this, which a friend forwarded to me this morning in an email. - > > [https://i.imgur.com/xX428Pi.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xX428Pi.jpg) I notice that Trump has no VP for his second term. Or is Pence and Mother moving to Mar-A-Lago? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7646 "2020-12-17T13:04:19Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Clearly, Trump wants revenge for all the scrutiny his own taxes have received, and to target Biden’s family as well as Biden. Stuff like this is an argument not just for Trump’s petty destructiveness, but for his sheer stupidity and lack of imagination. Just as his accusations against his enemies are naked confessions of his own sins, his actual strategic acts are simply reversals of what he perceives to be the crimes against him. “I will get back at Obama by… canceling and undoing all of his policy achievements. I will get back at Biden by… launching the same investigations against him that were launched against me.” He’s a monster, but he’s also a _spectacular_ dummy. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7647 "2020-12-17T13:14:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “Any attempt to remove the [Individual 1] administration will require force.” OK. Got it covered. ---
**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 17, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7648 "2020-12-17T14:46:15Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This is yet another right wing whacko newspaper. Basically they are saying that on Jan 20th Trump will leave the Whitehouse and go have his own pretend inauguration in Florida. And nobody can force him out before Jan 20th. (Narrator: nobody cares to). He is a sad and pathetic little child. As I said in the American Coup thread, it’s like they think the vast Dem-Socialist-Alien Lizard conspiracy wants Biden to be president _ **now** _, and by God they’re not going to let that happen! ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7649 "2020-12-17T14:55:09Z")
Will I get in trouble if I start mailing diapers and binkies to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.? ---
**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 17, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7650 "2020-12-17T14:56:06Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Will I get in trouble if I start mailing diapers and binkies to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.? - Are they running low? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7651 "2020-12-17T14:57:30Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Are they running low? I’m concerned. ---
**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 17, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7652 "2020-12-17T16:26:13Z")
Well, dang. He’s 'pposed to move out of the White House, but his neighbors in Florida don’t want him living in Mar-a-Lago. Will he be homeless? 😱 Maybe he’ll have to go to a Food Bank. Given his reputation, I doubt if any Food Bank will want to do business with him. Maybe the _Deutschenahrungsmittelbank_. Wait–I’ve got it! Betsy DeVos’s family can loan him one of their NINE yachts to live on. If that’s wrong blame Google translate. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7653 "2020-12-17T16:27:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I notice that Trump has no VP for his second term. Or is Pence and Mother moving to Mar-A-Lago? Yet another hat for Jared to wear! ---
**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 17, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7654 "2020-12-17T16:35:19Z")
I saw absolutely nothing useful from Pence the first four years. Why would DumpsterFire what him around for another four? ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7655 "2020-12-17T16:44:59Z")
And that nobody can force him out of Mar a Lago, where he will continue to have his shadow presidency. Maybe that’s the game going forward: he continues to call himself president and his rabid followers continue to regard him as the _real_ president. And the Oval Office will no longer really matter to the Delusional States of America because it will simply be illegally occupied by a fraudulent president who is being supported by the Deep State. I could actually see this shit taking off. “Presidential” press conferences from Mar a Lago. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7656 "2020-12-17T16:48:05Z")
Well that adds more credence to my hypothesis that Trump will claim that he is the real president. Why would he need a Vice President? He can be what he’s always really wanted to be all along, which is a de facto king. Mar a Lago will be his castle or imperial residence. And from this grows the idea of a new American nation, which millions of nutso Americans, backed by countless cowardly and/or radicalized republican politicians, law enforcement officers, and civil servants at various levels of government subscribe to. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7657 "2020-12-17T16:52:21Z")
I’m surprised that declaring yourself President isn’t actually a crime. ---
**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 17, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7658 "2020-12-17T16:57:26Z")
Trump should go all in and declare himself [Emperor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton). ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7659 "2020-12-17T16:58:24Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I’m surprised that declaring yourself President isn’t actually a crime. Up to now it’s usually been handled by involuntary commitment. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/7660 "2020-12-17T17:00:49Z")
That’s because as a society, we used to recognize that persons with such delusions are mentally ill and best served by a lengthy stay in a state home for the bewildered. (Hat tip to Tom Lehrer.) ETA: Ninja’d by @Colibri and brevity. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=381) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=383)