# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 7, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070 "2016-12-07T00:25:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1002
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20025 "2018-05-04T22:36:34Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [The Bill of Rights is part of the Bible now?](http://www.newsweek.com/trump-nra-911167) Can’t even get his own schtick right. > [@](#): > > “Your Second Amendment rights are under siege, but they will never ever be under siege as long as I’m your president.” _They are under siege but won’t be under siege as long as I am President. But I am President so they are not under siege._ ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20026 "2018-05-04T22:40:18Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Can’t even get his own schtick right. > > > [@](#): > > > > “Your Second Amendment rights are under siege, but they will never ever be under siege as long as I’m your president.” > > _They are under siege but won’t be under siege as long as I am President. But I am President so they are not under siege._ Sometimes I wonder if exposure to the words of Trump actually kills brain cells in the reader/listener. ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20027 "2018-05-04T22:41:09Z")
He’s STILL campaigning for 2016 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20028 "2018-05-04T23:13:13Z")
CNN headlines say _trump is going to appoint Dr. Oz to fitness and nutrition council_. Wow, woo alert. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20029 "2018-05-04T23:25:06Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Strange. I thought to have a Democracy, there needed to be a mechanism for the citizens to vote for their choice of who they want to run the government. “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” -HL Mencken ---
**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:** [May 5, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20030 "2018-05-05T00:14:49Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > CNN headlines say _trump is going to appoint Dr. Oz to fitness and nutrition council_. > > Wow, woo alert. Considering that President Oprah would have done the same thing… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20031 "2018-05-05T00:16:49Z")
[Rudy Giuliani says James Comey is a publicity whore.](https://radio.foxnews.com/2018/05/03/rudy-giuliani-james-comey-is-a-publicity-whore-with-questionable-morals/) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20032 "2018-05-05T00:22:11Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Considering that President Oprah would have done the same thing… That’s pretty much why when somebody floated the idea of Oprah running I was seriously hoping it was a joke. She’s the queen mother of Woo. (Gwyneth Paltrow is the current reigning queen of that country.) ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20033 "2018-05-05T00:23:09Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > The economy is doing well, and the perceived threat of war with North Korea is greatly reduced. (I think the actual threat was very low to begin with, but the media made it seem high for a while.) > > And I’m not sure if the “clusterfuckery” is any more apparent now than before. There seems to be more evidence for it, but it just confirmed what we suspected. Those of us who didn’t suspect (or didn’t think it was a big deal) continue to ignore the evidence and haven’t changed their mind. A good percentage of people who voted for Trump have never paid much attention to politics. They voted for Trump because he was a celebrity and a business man. They don’t watch the news, they certainly don’t read any more than what they see on their Facebook page (they skim over political stuff because they “don’t really care about that”) and have no clue about what is really happening. I know some of them. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20034 "2018-05-05T00:23:12Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Rudy Giuliani says James Comey is a publicity whore.](https://radio.foxnews.com/2018/05/03/rudy-giuliani-james-comey-is-a-publicity-whore-with-questionable-morals/) The irony feedback meltdown is imminent. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20035 "2018-05-05T00:23:18Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Rudy Giuliani says James Comey is a publicity whore.](https://radio.foxnews.com/2018/05/03/rudy-giuliani-james-comey-is-a-publicity-whore-with-questionable-morals/) Jokes write themselves. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20036 "2018-05-05T00:26:09Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > A good percentage of people who voted for Trump have never paid much attention to politics. They voted for Trump because he was a celebrity and a business man. They don’t watch the news, they certainly don’t read any more than what they see on their Facebook page (they skim over political stuff because they “don’t really care about that”) and have no clue about what is really happening. I know some of them. The rest of them did so knowingly. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20037 "2018-05-05T00:59:30Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > The rest of them did so knowingly. Oh, absolutely. But these people are ones who are helping to prop up Trump’s numbers. They voted for him, their life is going along like always so, as far as they care, he’s doing a good job. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20038 "2018-05-05T01:09:53Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > That’s pretty much why when somebody floated the idea of Oprah running I was seriously hoping it was a joke. She’s the queen mother of Woo. (Gwyneth Paltrow is the current reigning queen of that country.) Anyone who says God hasn’t told them to run is automatically suspect in my book. Perhaps you do or don’t feel a calling in your heart, but don’t say out loud that God is or isn’t speaking to you ---
**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:** [May 5, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20039 "2018-05-05T01:13:38Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Rudy Giuliani says James Comey is a publicity whore.](https://radio.foxnews.com/2018/05/03/rudy-giuliani-james-comey-is-a-publicity-whore-with-questionable-morals/) Pot —\>kettle. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20040 "2018-05-05T01:32:44Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Pot —\>kettle. Rudy’s a publicity whore, but he hasn’t been in the public spotlight for the last year. The fact is, the majority of people don’t really care about this “Russia thing” or Robert Mueller. They care about their economy, and like it or not, in their minds…Trump has delivered. He’s also potentially delivering on North Korea. If Mueller interferes with Trump, the same way that Ken Starr interfered with Clinton, then the people will turn on the interfering party. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20041 "2018-05-05T01:42:52Z")
> [@SaneBill](#): > > He’s STILL campaigning for 2016 :smack: Exactly what I thought: he just pulled out one of his campaign speeches and forgot to update it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20042 "2018-05-05T02:01:13Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > DISinformed, please… Disinformed is like somebody is stupid and ugly but doesn’t know it, so you tell them, but not to fight ignorance, but because you’re kind of dick? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20043 "2018-05-05T02:36:10Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Rudy’s a publicity whore, but he hasn’t been in the public spotlight for the last year. The fact is, the majority of people don’t really care about this “Russia thing” or Robert Mueller. They care about their economy, and like it or not, in their minds…Trump has delivered. He’s also potentially delivering on North Korea. If Mueller interferes with Trump, the same way that Ken Starr interfered with Clinton, then the people will turn on the interfering party. That would be the Republicans, so that suits me down to the ground. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20044 "2018-05-05T03:02:41Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Rudy Giuliani says James Comey is a publicity whore.](https://radio.foxnews.com/2018/05/03/rudy-giuliani-james-comey-is-a-publicity-whore-with-questionable-morals/) Is he looking in the mirror again? Rudy doesn’t have a security clearance, and his work with foreign clients means he may not be able to get one, so that he can look at Russia probe related documents. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-lawyers/security-clearance-for-russia-probe-may-be-hard-for-giuliani-legal-experts-idUSKBN1I6008](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-lawyers/security-clearance-for-russia-probe-may-be-hard-for-giuliani-legal-experts-idUSKBN1I6008) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1001) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1003)