# 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:** 4
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/62 "2020-06-23T01:39:21Z")
[America needs a president. Not a whiny bitch](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/trump-ramp-walk-rally-tulsa-lincoln-project-john-mccain-george-conway-a9579376.html) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/63 "2020-06-23T02:10:20Z")
He has another “rally” tomorrow, in Arizona (which is also, AIUI, having a spike in COVID cases), but never fear, the church leaders [have a solution](https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/22/trump-rally-site-arizona-dream-city-church-technology-covid-clean-air/) I’m petty sure he’ll do everything to pack the church and who knows what he’ll say about the Topeka Tango, but I can hardly wait… ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/64 "2020-06-23T02:44:01Z")
She’s in a long line of Baghdad Bobs. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/65 "2020-06-23T02:49:07Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > He has another “rally” tomorrow, in Arizona (which is also, AIUI, having a spike in COVID cases), but never fear, the church leaders [have a solution](https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/22/trump-rally-site-arizona-dream-city-church-technology-covid-clean-air/) > > I’m petty sure he’ll do everything to pack the church and who knows what he’ll say about the Topeka Tango, but I can hardly wait… Sounds like the typical mega-church scam to fleece the people. Maybe they’ll also sell “holy oil” to cure everyone. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/66 "2020-06-23T02:57:40Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > > > **Donald Trump:** I haven’t been screwed by this many teens since Epstein’s last party. > > Oh snap! [Feel free to share. (I did.)](https://twitter.com/GordonHeliboy/status/1275210417191530496/photo/1) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/67 "2020-06-23T11:03:29Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > but never fear, the church leaders [have a solution](https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/22/trump-rally-site-arizona-dream-city-church-technology-covid-clean-air/) A church with 7 locations? I don’t think that I have heard of a franchised church before. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/68 "2020-06-23T11:17:01Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > He has another “rally” tomorrow, in Arizona (which is also, AIUI, having a spike in COVID cases), but never fear, the church leaders [have a solution](https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/22/trump-rally-site-arizona-dream-city-church-technology-covid-clean-air/) > > I’m petty sure he’ll do everything to pack the church and who knows what he’ll say about the Topeka Tango, but I can hardly wait… In other church-trump related news, a church in Oregon had several large gatherings in violation of the Governor’s Covid restrictions, citing trump’s demands for states to let churches open back up to worship. There had been 22 cases of Covid in the county of 27,000 people-- now there are 258 cases, with 236 tied to the church. Nice going trump! They say one man can’t make that big of a difference himself, even the President of the United States, but trump proves the doubters wrong all the time. > **[Everything we know about the eastern Oregon church at the center of state’s...](https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/06/everything-we-know-about-the-eastern-oregon-church-at-the-center-of-states-largest-coronavirus-outbreak.html)** > > Leaders of Lighthouse Pentecostal Church have remained silent for the most part about the outbreak. Yet social media posts and interviews with other faith leaders shed light on how the church came to be at the center of Oregon’s largest coronavirus... ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/69 "2020-06-23T13:49:26Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > In my head, I refer to McEnany as “Flack Barbie”. I like “Rehydrated Kellyanne Conway.” ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/70 "2020-06-23T14:16:46Z")
I like “Baghdad Barbie.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/71 "2020-06-23T15:40:28Z")
If Trump were more clever, he could claim that the low attendance at the Tulsa rally was planned. “Yes, there were only 6,000 or so people there. We planned it that way so that we could ensure social distancing by only seating people in every third seat.” ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/72 "2020-06-23T15:48:23Z")
Except that he was expecting yuuuge crowds because they were trolled by the TikTok kids. So trump bragged a bunch about how big the crowd was going to be, bigger than ever, a MILLION ticket requests, and they even built the 40,000 person outdoor overflow arena. Of course, saying one thing one day has never stopped him from claiming a completely contradictory thing a couple days later. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/73 "2020-06-23T15:55:12Z")
Remember [Jon Lovitz as Tommy Flanagan, the pathological liar on Saturday Night Live](https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/cast/jon-lovitz-15001/character/tommy-flanagan-66081)? Trump could model him, “Yeah, we _totally_ planned it that way. We _intended_ to have the arena only one-third full. My first concern is the health and safety of the American public.” ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/74 "2020-06-23T16:02:25Z")
Yeah, maybe if Alec Baldwin ever retires his trump character like he keeps saying he wants to, SNL could bring in Lovitz to host and do a trumped-up hybrid of that character and trump. It would work really well if (please for the love of God) trump loses and Lovitz hosts in the period between the election and Biden inaguration, as the Lovitz/trump character obsessively throws out increasingly ridiculous lies about why he lost the election, or that he didn’t actually lose at all. …yeahhhh, _that’s_ the ticket! ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/75 "2020-06-23T16:08:19Z")
[Ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Arizona on Tuesday, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego has a message for the president: set an example and wear a mask.](https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/phoenix-mayor-calls-on-president-donald-trump-to-wear-mask-during-his-visit) Mayor, don’t know by now that Trump is only capable of being a bad example? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/76 "2020-06-23T16:19:57Z")
Why wait? Let’s have Jon Lovitz do sketches of Trump right now, as a Tommy Flanagan-like pathological liar. The fact that we’d be making fun of him by comparing him to an SNL character from the late 1980s only adds to the humiliation. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/77 "2020-06-23T16:30:41Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Arizona on Tuesday, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego has a message for the president: set an example and wear a mask.](https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/phoenix-mayor-calls-on-president-donald-trump-to-wear-mask-during-his-visit) Mayor, don’t know by now that Trump is only capable of being a bad example? We all know that having any woman (except Ivanka) tell him to do anything (except possibly take off his clothes and lie down) will ensure that he absolutely will **NOT** do it! Ain’t no uppity woman gonna tell me anything (except possibly to lie down, etc, and then it has to be in Russian…) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/78 "2020-06-23T16:38:39Z")
> [@solost](#): > > In other church-trump related news, a church in Oregon had several large gatherings in violation of the Governor’s Covid restrictions, citing trump’s demands for states to let churches open back up to worship. There had been 22 cases of Covid in the county of 27,000 people-- now there are 258 cases, with 236 tied to the church. Nice going trump! They say one man can’t make that big of a difference himself, even the President of the United States, but trump proves the doubters wrong all the time. I predicted about two months ago that this was exactly how the virus would spread in low population density rural areas. Sometimes I hate being right. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/79 "2020-06-23T17:34:07Z")
Tommy Flanagan is that actor with the Glasgow Grin. 😬 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/80 "2020-06-23T18:30:39Z")
Interesting info on Tucson; it’s 100F (feels like 108F) right now (it’s 1:30pm Central time). And he was in Yuma (99F currently) this morning to see ‘his wall’, a roundtable discussion, a visit to Honeywell, and then had to fly to Tucson for the speechifying. Don’t know how many of you have lived in climates with regular 100F temps, but it does take something out of you, especially if your an old man in less than perfect shape making several stops (did he fly out overnight or early this morning?). Bet his talk (at 5:40pm Central) is no 2 hours. But I won’t be watching anyway… ---
**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:** [June 23, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/81 "2020-06-23T18:36:48Z")
They’re all indoor stops, except the wall, and he’s probably got all the A/Cs going full blast in all vehicles and buildings. You don’t think he’d actually risk his face goop melting off from any sweat, do you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083.md?page=5)