# 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:** 1034
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20665 "2018-05-26T20:31:14Z")
> [@wonky](#): > > If you think the 4th district is Bumfuck, Ohio, you don’t know from Bumfuck. > > I, being from actual Bumfuck, Ohio, would know. 8th is not really bumfuck either. Definitely a bit butthurt around here, though. ETA: And i’d argue that most of the western branch of the 4th is defiantly rural enough to qualify. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20666 "2018-05-26T20:34:58Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > 8th is not really bumfuck either. Definitely a bit butthurt around here, though. > > ETA: And i’d argue that most of the western branch of the 4th is defiantly rural enough to qualify. I’m from one of the Appalachian counties (Perry). Rural doesn’t even begin to describe it. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20667 "2018-05-26T23:39:36Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > You mean [future-Speaker](http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/389079-jim-jordan-as-speaker-is-change-america-needs-to-move-forward) [of the House](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/23/some-republicans-worried-if-jim-jordan-runs-for-house-speaker.html) [Jim Jordan](http://www.conservativehq.com/article/28004-open-letter-rep-jim-jordan)? Aye; there’s a big push on to get him to be Speaker instead of McCarthy. So you may be seeing more of that rabid spastic numbnuts fucker in the near future, eh. Yikes - some scary shit, there. The first link seems to be more or less providing The Skinny\* on the guy; the second one shows how some Reps are worried that his fundraising abilities suck and will create divisions in the caucus; and the third one is an open letter from one Richard Virgens (with a dumb signature that he wanted to look as un-Virgin-looking as possible) who’s basically some scumbag Tea Party’er trying to bring down the rest of the GOP that’s ‘not on his side’. So, any way you slice it, it still adds up to the same fuckwit. Regardless of the different perspectives in those articles, there’s just no escaping Jordan’s uselessness. That’s testament. \*what this messageboard really should have been called. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20668 "2018-05-27T00:57:18Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > … The Skinny\* … > \*what this messageboard really should have been called. “SMB”? Sounds like some kind of networking protocol. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2018, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20669 "2018-05-27T05:23:34Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > So, any way you slice it, it still adds up to the same fuckwit. Regardless of the different perspectives in those articles, there’s just no escaping Jordan’s uselessness. That’s testament. If his contemptible nature turns out to be instrumental in flipping the House out of Republican hands, he won’t turn out to have been useless at all. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20670 "2018-05-27T13:32:47Z")
[Article](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-slams-media-concocting-official-014350514.html). Trump said _The New York Times_ fabricated a ‘senior White House official’ for its story about the White House briefing on the North Korea summit. > [@](#): > > The White House even provided its own transcript of the briefing that Trump essentially dismissed as fake news. So you have a couple hundred reporters in on the call, and every single one of them heard this official, and the White House provides a transcript showing that the official exists. Also, the guy’s a ‘senior official’, so Loser Donnie probably knows him. And yet… the brainwashed losers who support the pee-resident reject all of the witnesses and even the White House’s own transcript as FAKE NEWS™! They believe their Messiah, even when he so blatantly lies that even a three-year-old could see through it. Sad. EDIT: I’d really like to see a certain recently-banned poster defend _this!_ It would have been pure comedy! . ---
**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:** [May 27, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20671 "2018-05-27T14:51:22Z")
Ok, umm, **Shitgibbon** @realShitgibbon Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation…They went back home in tatters! what? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20672 "2018-05-27T15:05:27Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Ok, umm, > **Shitgibbon** @realShitgibbon > Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation…They went back home in tatters! > > what? No shit. Trump has more lose screws than a Nevada whorehouse on meth. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20673 "2018-05-27T15:05:51Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Ok, umm, > **Shitgibbon** @realShitgibbon > Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation…They went back home in tatters! > > what? Maybe he is just pushing Ivanka’s new clothing line. “Come with stars in your eyes, leave with tatters!” ---
**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 27, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20674 "2018-05-27T15:09:06Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > No shit. Trump has more lose screws than a Nevada whorehouse on meth. More loose screws than a nursing home for retired porn stars. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20675 "2018-05-27T15:32:56Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > … The Skinny\* … > \*what this messageboard really should have been called. > [@eschereal](#): > > “SMB”? Sounds like some kind of networking protocol. SMB is not so bad, but would we really want our get-togethers to be called Skinfests? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20676 "2018-05-27T15:49:06Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > SMB is not so bad, but would we really want our get-togethers to be called Skinfests? Could call it a “Skinny retreat.” Then people think it’s like fat camp or something. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20677 "2018-05-27T15:55:40Z")
Seriously, has somebody checked his medical records for Alzheimer’s? ---
**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 27, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20678 "2018-05-27T15:57:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Seriously, has somebody checked his medical records for Alzheimer’s? He tested positive. He has more Alzhiemer’s than anyone who ever lived! ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20679 "2018-05-27T15:59:33Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Seriously, has somebody checked his medical records for Alzheimer’s? You think that his medical records are going senile? Nah, I think it’s him. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20680 "2018-05-27T16:04:21Z")
He may be going senile. Hard to tell. He has been a fucking moron his entire life. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20681 "2018-05-27T17:18:27Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > He may be going senile. Hard to tell. He has been a fucking moron his entire life. I am not so sure that he has been a TFM all his life. Videos from a few decades ago suggest that he was capable of rational thought, and maybe even slightly less of a TFAH. I do think, though, that he is a psychopath, because one of the symptoms of that condition is basically what makes a good con man. Others may want him in prison, but I think the padded room and the shirt with sleeves that buckle around the back would be a better fit. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20682 "2018-05-27T17:23:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Ok, umm, > **Shitgibbon** @realShitgibbon > Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt? They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation…They went back home in tatters! > > what? The best response I have seen was “So, Donald, your calls to Hope are going straight to voicemail?” In other news, Rick Wilson has [this](http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-land-delusion-article-1.4010243?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true) to say. > [@](#): > > **Trump’s land of delusion: Disregard the sycophants; the wheels are coming off, if they were ever on** > > Bluffers bluff, and President Trump just tried to bluff his way through one of the worst weeks of his administration. > > It’s not working. Donald Trump is a terrible poker player. His tells are so clumsily obvious and that we mistakenly give him credit for guile where none exists, and for some cinematic, supervillain cunning where there is only a howling, feral mass of insecurity and need. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20683 "2018-05-27T17:25:08Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I am not so sure that he has been a TFM all his life. Videos from a few decades ago suggest that he was capable of rational thought, and maybe even slightly less of a TFAH. I do think, though, that he is a psychopath, because one of the symptoms of that condition is basically what makes a good con man. Others may want him in prison, but I think the padded room and the shirt with sleeves that buckle around the back would be a better fit. Modifying the Oval office to add padding shouldn’t be too hard. And we can just convince him that really long sleeves go with really long ties. ---
**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 27, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20684 "2018-05-27T17:58:57Z")
Trump has nominated Ronald W. Mortensen, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, to head the State Department agency that oversees refugee and immigration services. Not only is he on record criticizing Marco Rubio and John McCain, he is on record as opposed to even legal immigration, and argued that DACA gives amnesty to “criminal illegal aliens” and “most” DACA recipients have committed “multiple felonies to get jobs.” The SPLC has called the Center for Immigration Studies a hate group. [http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-immigration-nominee-20180525-story.html](http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-immigration-nominee-20180525-story.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1033) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1035)