# 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:** 97
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1930 "2020-08-05T20:24:26Z")
For only $129 mil you don’t get good photos. That’s an upgrade. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1931 "2020-08-05T20:39:58Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I think you’re right. I recall an episode of The West Wing, where President Bartlet schlepped from the Oval Office to the residence, to make a phone call – because he cared about the distinction between politics and government, and appearances are important. Aside: I’ve thought about re-watching that show (which I adored during its first run), but I’d probably just cry through every episode. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1932 "2020-08-05T20:44:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Aside: I’ve thought about re-watching that show (which I adored during its first run), but I’d probably just cry through every episode. I don’t watch Obama YouTube’s for that very reason. Sigh…Even Clinton and Bush at the John Lewis funeral had that effect on me. Obama’s eulogy there had me misty-eyed. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1933 "2020-08-05T21:50:23Z")
When I hear Obama talk these days, [this is how I feel.](https://youtu.be/suRDUFpsHus?t=72) “The pain of an old wound. A twinge in the heart far more powerful than memory alone…it takes us to a place we ache to go again.” Damn you Don Draper for seeing into my soul! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1934 "2020-08-05T22:58:22Z")
Take comfort in the knowledge that it is clearly visible. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1935 "2020-08-05T23:14:01Z")
😳 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1936 "2020-08-05T23:18:36Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > You missed the boat on this one. It’s already been done and then done some more. Is there a staute of limitations on that? ---
**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:** [August 5, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1937 "2020-08-05T23:36:51Z")
[![](https://images.dailykos.com/images/676205/large/TRUMPstatue.jpg?1557984878) ](https://images.dailykos.com/images/676205/large/TRUMPstatue.jpg?1557984878) ---
**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:** [August 5, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1938 "2020-08-05T23:45:32Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Obama’s eulogy there had me misty-eyed. I read it, but I couldn’t watch it. There’s only so much pain an old lady can bear. 😢 ---
**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:** [August 5, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1939 "2020-08-05T23:47:38Z")
School Pence and DeVos visited, praising its reopening, has asked fourth graders to quarantine after a positive test. > **[Students at school touted by Pence for reopening must quarantine due to COVID-19](https://abcnews.go.com/Health/students-school-touted-pence-reopening-quarantine-due-covid/story?id=72187266)** > > Students at school touted by Mike Pence for reopening must quarantine after positive COVID-19 test ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1940 "2020-08-05T23:51:10Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > At the risk of being whooshed, “for all intensive purposes” is never correct. It is an “eggcorn”: > > " When mistaken formations of words or phrases are used in a seemingly logical or plausible way, like “for all intensive purposes,” it’s known as an _[eggcorn](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eggcorn)_ . (The word _eggcorn_ itself comes from people hearing the word _acorn_ as _eggcorn_ enough that linguists adopted it as the term.) I’ve never heard of an eggcorn (and I’ve never heard anyone pronounce accorn that way), but I have heard of a mondegreen. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1941 "2020-08-05T23:57:13Z")
OK, there’s a lot going on here. Merritt Corrigan is a White House liaison to the USAID agency, appointed by Individual 1. She is also apparently dating perennial loser and liar Jacob Wohl. She has been accused of making anti-gay comments in the past, but on Monday, she accused the USAID and Congressman Elliot Engel of soliciting prostitutes. She also said that USAID had given her until 3 PM to remove her accusations, or resign or be fired. She got fired. She then announced that she would be appearing in front of Wohl’s buddy in lies and corruption Jack Burkman’s house, where she would have a press conference to prove her accusations. On Tuesday afternoon, Corrigan deleted her tweets attacking USAID and stopped responding to messages from The Daily Beast. Wohl claimed in an interview Tuesday that a coterie of Trumpworld personalities had convinced Corrigan to backtrack on her claims. And Burkman claimed that Corrigan had “buyer’s remorse” after sending her tweets. Corrigan then sent out a posting claiming she never made those accusations. “I will not be participating in any press conferences as claimed in my name, and will have nothing to do with individuals who forced me to hand over my devices so they could control me and the output in my name. Due to naivete and inexperience, I became involved with people who abused my trust, conned me, and claimed they were working in my interest. I became powerless in a situation, and I deeply regret not reaching out to people who knew better, or could help me.” But there’s more. Corrigan claimed that USAID was set to hire Kyle Kashuv, the right’s favorite Parkland High School shooting victim, who believes in guns guns and more guns, at a salary of $50,000. This is the same Kyle Kashuv who had his application to Harvard rejected after his history of racist posts came to light. Daily Beast claims to have a copy of the USAID offer letter to Kashuv, but calls to USAID were hung up on. > **[This May Be the Most Absurd, Trumpian Drama Ever](https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-most-absurd-trumpian-drama-ever-is-taking-place-at-of-all-places-usaid)** > > Accusations of stalking, prostitution, and racism are merely the appetizer. The main course features Jacob Wohl and claims of falsified tweets and stolen phones. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1942 "2020-08-06T00:00:13Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > an interrogator has mountains of evidence against the suspect but yet has to wait painfully to listen to the detainee try and bullshit his way out of it. Painful? That was the funnest part of the interrogation. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1943 "2020-08-06T01:43:39Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > You missed the boat on this one. It’s already been done and then done some more. yeah - it was pretty intensive. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1944 "2020-08-06T01:48:17Z")
> [@simster](#): > > yeah - it was pretty intensive On purpose? Perhaps an intensive purpose? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1945 "2020-08-06T03:37:38Z")
Trump supporters must get whiplash from trying to keep up with what’s right & wrong. Now, [vote by mail is just peachy…in red states.](https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/899385575/experts-say-attacking-vote-by-mail-was-hurting-trump-in-fla-so-he-changed-course?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news) In blue states it’s still totally corrupt, of course. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1946 "2020-08-06T04:05:47Z")
I don’t know why. There’s just something that strikes me as fishy about this: > **[Hookers for Jesus wins fresh round of funding from Trump administration](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-hookers-for-jesus/hookers-for-jesus-wins-fresh-round-of-funding-from-trump-administration-idUSKCN2512IY)** > > Las Vegas-based nonprofit Hookers for Jesus has won a fresh grant from the U.S. Justice Department, less than a year after union officials filed a whistleblower complaint with the department's internal watchdog protesting federal funds awarded to the... I mean, I’m all for protecting people who have suffered from human trafficking, but I trust nothing where the primary sponsors are Bill Barr and Ivanka Trump. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1947 "2020-08-06T08:13:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > School Pence and DeVos visited, praising its reopening, has asked fourth graders to quarantine after a positive test. Unfortunately, the Thales Academy he visited was in Apex; the one with the outbreak is in Wake Forest (which, for anyone wondering, is not the location of Wake Forest University – that’s in Winston-Salem). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1948 "2020-08-06T09:52:55Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > In other news, a Trump staffer was found staring into space and gibbering, with a memo on his desk about the boss’ plan to burnish his foreign policy rep by delivering a statement about the Shiite community in Niger. [golf clap] > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Corrigan then sent out a posting claiming she never made those accusations. “I will not be participating in any press conferences as claimed in my name, and will have nothing to do with individuals who forced me to hand over my devices so they could control me and the output in my name. Due to naivete and inexperience, I became involved with people who abused my trust, conned me, and claimed they were working in my interest. I became powerless in a situation, and I deeply regret not reaching out to people who knew better, or could help me.” I can’t read that article but the Wohl and Burkman show remains the absolute nadir of the Trumpist movement (which is saying a _lot_). On one hand one wonders how many of those tweets weren’t made by her but rather by Wohl. On the other, anyone who find Jacob Wohl not only attractive but worth dating has already demonstrated phenomenally poor judgement so it may not matter. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/1949 "2020-08-06T11:47:18Z")
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