# 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:** 1035
**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, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20685 "2018-05-27T17:59:55Z")
> [@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. Very well. I wasn’t using moron in the clinical sense. He has been a narcisstic asshole his entire life. It’s quite clear that his intellectual abilities have always been nothing more than average at best. And has always paid to get and keep friends and any supposed accolades that he has never actually earned. His friends only look for hand out’s and Limo rides. Or a good divorce settlement or position in a government he is unwittingly destroying. Allow me to borrow from our Founding Fathers - We hold these truths to be self-evident: Donald J. Trump is an asshole of the highest order. He cares nothing about others. His only concern is his own self-aggrandizement. Donald J. Trump will throw all concerns of honesty and fairness away at the slightest hint of expanding his own pocket book. Perhaps not a moron then. But I have no problem calling him one. I do hope his activities destroys his so called empire. Only a ‘moron’ would do that. This weirdo had a toilet gold plated. Not much more that your need to know about him. ---
**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, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20686 "2018-05-27T18:03:55Z")
#WhereIsMelania ? ---
**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, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20687 "2018-05-27T18:15:07Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > 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. Perhaps we could equip the underwear that **ThelmaLou** has observed on his head with EST wiring, which could be used to interrupt his more messed up rantings. ---
**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, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20688 "2018-05-27T18:17:13Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Perhaps we could equip the underwear that **ThelmaLou** has observed on his head with EST wiring, which could be used to interrupt his more messed up rantings. Would that make them more, or less, incomprehensible? ---
**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, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20689 "2018-05-27T18:20:34Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Modifying the Oval office to add padding shouldn’t be too hard… Tell him a McDonalds cheeseburger is in the corner. That’ll keep him busy for a long, long time. ---
**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, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20690 "2018-05-27T18:34:01Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Tell him a McDonalds cheeseburger is in the corner. That’ll keep him busy for a long, long time. Nah, he’ll only take a few minutes before he comes across some of Steve Bannon that sloughed off months ago and is still rotting away behind the curtains. He will grin and say he won as he chomps into the fetid flesh. Of course that little scavenger hunt will keep up until John Dickerson ruins it all when he comes by and says “George W. Bush said the reason the Oval Office is round is there are no corners you can hide [Mcdonalds Cheeseburgers] in.” ---
**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, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20691 "2018-05-27T18:36:30Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Would that make them more, or less, incomprehensible? Full-on EST results in the equivalent of a grand mal seizure, which causes loss of consciousness and loss of bladder control. So, I will venture, “more”. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20692 "2018-05-27T20:10:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > #WhereIsMelania ? Hanging out with Shelly Miscavige, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20693 "2018-05-27T20:55:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > #WhereIsMelania ? Pulling an Agatha Christie? ---
**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, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20694 "2018-05-27T20:58:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > #WhereIsMelania ? They found her tunnel, so my guess is she’s building a glider in the White House attic. ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20695 "2018-05-27T21:05:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > #WhereIsMelania ? I thought the whole “kidney surgery” story was a bit suspicious from the start. Not because she was apparently in the hospital for several days, since I was in the hospital for most of a week after I had kidney surgery a few years ago. Although AIUI a lengthy hospital stay isn’t common for the procedure she purportedly had. But if the surgery was for a benign condition, why the huge rush to perform it? My surgery didn’t happen for a month after the need for it was determined. Of course, I’m only a voter and a taxpayer – I’m not FLOTUS. But even so, you’d think they’d schedule the procedure at least a couple of days out so that her staff would have some time to clear her schedule. So my current theory is that she was hospitalized after a suicide attempt. She’s in intensive psychotherapy now, which is why she hasn’t been seen in so long. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20696 "2018-05-27T21:11:22Z")
Or just a bad case of “I’m sick of all this shit. I’m taking some Me time. School’s out so I’m taking Barron with me.” ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20697 "2018-05-27T21:31:46Z")
Did I miss a memo? I though he cancelled the summit: > [@](#): > > Tweeted by Trump > Our United States team has arrived in North Korea to make arrangements for the Summit between Kim Jong Un and myself. I truly believe North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial Nation one day. Kim Jong Un agrees with me on this. It will happen! ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20698 "2018-05-27T21:44:48Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > #WhereIsMelania ? > > Pulling an Agatha Christie? Or an [Aimee Semple McPherson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_kidnapping_of_Aimee_Semple_McPherson)? (Og, I feel old just knowing about that …) ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20699 "2018-05-27T22:08:09Z")
[NY Times - Donald Trump’s Guide to Presidential Etiquette.](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/25/opinion/editorials/Donald-Trumps-Guide-To-Presidential-Etiquette.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront) > [@](#): > > Remember when President Michelle Wolf outraged the conscience of conservatives across America by cracking a joke about the press secretary’s eye makeup? Oh, wait — Ms. Wolf is a comedian. Telling jokes is her job. > > A better example is President Hillary Clinton, who disregarded all protocol and endangered our national security by relying on a private email server to conduct some government business. Hold on, you say Mrs. Clinton isn’t president, either? > > O.K., then — how about Barack Obama, an actual president? His disrespect for that station is the stuff of legend. A tan suit. Shirtsleeves in the Oval Office. Those big, impertinent feet defiling the presidential desk. > > President Trump has managed to avoid those particular offenses. His suits are dark, his ties patriotically long. Yet in so many other ways he is violating Americans’ expectations of how presidents should behave — even of how adults should behave, particularly when children are watching. Yes, Mr. Trump has now been compared to Joseph Stalin by one senior senator from his party, and, yes, he has been pre-emptively disinvited to the prospective funeral of another. But most Republican leaders, usually such vigilant guardians of Oval Office decorum, have remained strangely silent. There then followed 42 bullet points of his various actions that have totally sullied the office of president of the United States. ---
**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, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20700 "2018-05-27T22:14:22Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Or just a bad case of “I’m sick of all this shit. I’m taking some Me time. School’s out so I’m taking Barron with me.” I hope she’s working on her left hook and will flatten him in public the next time he tries to touch her. “Oh, I thought it was a lizard on my shoulder”. ---
**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 27, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20701 "2018-05-27T23:28:28Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [NY Times - Donald Trump’s Guide to Presidential Etiquette.](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/25/opinion/editorials/Donald-Trumps-Guide-To-Presidential-Etiquette.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront) > > There then followed 42 bullet points of his various actions that have totally sullied the office of president of the United States. That’s a really great article. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20702 "2018-05-27T23:30:50Z")
I assumed Melania was badly beaten, with visible bruises as well as internal damage. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20703 "2018-05-27T23:39:44Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I assumed Melania was badly beaten, with visible bruises as well as internal damage. I like to think that the Secret Service would prevent that. Perhaps in the family quarters they wouldn’t get there in time to prevent some damage. In this White House, I would think something that salacious would have leaked by now. It does seem unusual. Maybe Trump just told her to sit down and shut up, since she gets more positive press than he does. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/20704 "2018-05-27T23:43:24Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > That’s a really great article. I couldn’t finish it. Sickening. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1034) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1036)