# 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:** 1219
**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 23, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24365 "2018-08-23T04:10:08Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > That’s a great line; however, there are some (yes, some, as in very few) minorities, including Blacks, in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Hey, Antarctica has penguins! Maybe your line still works. I loved your whole post, though. Great writing. The best! Agreed. I began a hectic day with coffee and **elucidator** ’s commentary, and it was a fantastic start. Absolutely nailed it in every way. Trump has begun to stumble, for sure. I can’t listen to his invective, but I caught a few scenes from his act with the sound on mute. Almost immediately noticed the crowd’s hearts didn’t seem quite in it. Finally. ---
**Author:** ![soonerblue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soonerblue/32/3302_2.png) [@soonerblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soonerblue)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24366 "2018-08-23T10:40:42Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I don’t think Trump gives two hoots about the long-term survival of large bird species, but I do. Have you seen this? “Bald eagles: scientists decry overturn of ban that would save American symbol” “The national bird is threatened by toxic bullets that wind up in the animals it eats, but the Trump administration overturned a rule to stop it” > **[Bald eagles: scientists decry overturn of ban that would save American symbol](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/16/us-bald-eagles-lead-poisoning-ammunition)** > > The national bird is threatened by toxic bullets that wind up in the animals it eats, but the Trump administration overturned a rule to stop it Another Obama regulation undone… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24367 "2018-08-23T12:00:52Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Very similar to what took place in Spain in 2004 when after a terror attact the right wing party just grossly tossed hate before the election in contradictory directions, only to see the Spanish people notice the crass attemp of manipulation and vote against hate. No. You are blowing Rajoy’s instinctive reaction, which matched the instinctive reactions of millions of Spaniards, to think it had been ETA because horses not zebras, up into “grossly tossing hate in contradictory directions”. Please don’t do that. It is true though that Zapatero became president on the corpses of 212 dead. On that, I agree (he doesn’t though: his party only counts 211 because one was aged minus a few days). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24368 "2018-08-23T12:51:02Z")
> [@soonerblue](#): > > Have you seen this? > > “Bald eagles: scientists decry overturn of ban that would save American symbol” > > “The national bird is threatened by toxic bullets that wind up in the animals it eats, but the Trump administration overturned a rule to stop it” > > [Bald eagles: scientists decry overturn of ban that would save American symbol | Birds | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/16/us-bald-eagles-lead-poisoning-ammunition) > > Another Obama regulation undone… Maybe he’s hoping to produce mutant two-headed eagles that would reflect [his preferred iconography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Russia). ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24369 "2018-08-23T13:21:26Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > [Betsy DeVos is considering a plan to let schools use federal dollars to buy guns.](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/us/politics/betsy-devos-guns.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur) > > Sounds like Amway is launching their long-awaited special division for guns and ammo! If you could come up with a parody of a policy that this joke of a Republican party could come up with, it wouldn’t be as stupid as this. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24370 "2018-08-23T13:36:32Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He’ll never collect, even when he wins. Trump will keep using his songs and never pay. Perhaps Tylor could write a special song, just for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24371 "2018-08-23T13:38:43Z")
> [@soonerblue](#): > > Another Obama regulation undone… I expect we’ll soon see an Executive Order raising Bin Laden from the dead. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24372 "2018-08-23T13:49:21Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’d recommend colorful bouncy balls… > > …like in [my favorite commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zOrV-5vh1A) (done pre-computer graphics). Thank you for sharing that, man. It was… beautiful. \ ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24373 "2018-08-23T14:04:09Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Trump has begun to stumble, for sure. I can’t listen to his invective, but I caught a few scenes from his act with the sound on mute. Almost immediately noticed the crowd’s hearts didn’t seem quite in it. > > Finally. When you’re campaigning for office, you can always work up the audience with tales of the awesome things that you’re going to do once you “vote those bums out.”. But once you’ve voted them out and you’re in power… the tales of the awesome things that you’re going to do …any day now… fall flat… because why don’t you shut up and do them. Like you said you would when you won. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24374 "2018-08-23T14:28:28Z")
Where is the laughing smiley? > [@OrangeAnusFace](#): > > If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash, I think everybody would be very poor. Because without this thinking [points to head] you would see, you would see numbers that you wouldn’t believe in reverse. He thinks the country _needs_ him. He thinks that he’s responsible for the last eight years of steady economic growth. (Insert laughing smiley number two) It’s like every night, after changing his diaper, Melania coos _“Yes, yes, darling. Economy very big. Economy very good. All because of you.”_ It’s time for a complete psych eval. This motherfucker is nuts. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24375 "2018-08-23T14:31:39Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Where is the laughing smiley? > > He thinks the country _needs_ him. He thinks that he’s responsible for the last eight years of steady economic growth. (Insert laughing smiley number two) It’s like every night, after changing his diaper, Melania coos _“Yes, yes, darling. Economy very big. Economy very good. All because of you.”_ > > It’s time for a complete psych eval. This motherfucker is nuts. That’s one way to read it; another way is to read it is that he’ll deliberately use resources at his disposal to tank the economy. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24376 "2018-08-23T15:02:09Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > That’s one way to read it; another way is to read it is that he’ll deliberately use resources at his disposal to tank the economy. Yeah, it could be a threat. But I’m not sure what he could do short term. Any ideas? Anyway, it’s a bigger threat to leave him in office. Oh, he may be the lamest of the lamest ducks. But readily, enthusiastically even, electing crooked morons to the Oval Office should not be tolerated. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24377 "2018-08-23T15:07:33Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Yeah, it could be a threat. But I’m not sure what he could do short term. Any ideas? > > Anyway, it’s a bigger threat to leave him in office. Oh, he may be the lamest of the lamest ducks. But readily, enthusiastically even, electing crooked morons to the Oval Office should not be tolerated. I don’t know what he could do because I don’t know what he’s capable of doing. That, to me, is the danger. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24378 "2018-08-23T15:52:57Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > No. > > You are blowing Rajoy’s instinctive reaction, which matched the instinctive reactions of millions of Spaniards, to think it had been ETA because horses not zebras, up into “grossly tossing hate in contradictory directions”. Please don’t do that. > > It is true though that Zapatero became president on the corpses of 212 dead. On that, I agree (he doesn’t though: his party only counts 211 because one was aged minus a few days). 😕 I recognize all of the individual words in this post, but not in this order. Near as I can tell people thought there was one estimated time of arrival because horses are punctual and zerbras are not, and that 212 people died but one didn’t count because he was a few days from being aged? Please try again, I’m genuinely curious. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24379 "2018-08-23T15:55:02Z")
Right, Pence may be a hateful religious zealot, owned by the corporatocracy and the gun lobby, but he’s a \*stable \*one, and he’d be contained. The world and the country would definitely be safer with him as President, as wretched a situation as it would be for as long as it lasts. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24380 "2018-08-23T16:02:24Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Perhaps Tylor could write a special song, just for Trump. Mueller’s got a law (_Chick-a-wang-wang_!) Upside Donald’s jaw! (_Chick-a-wang-wang_!) What did that fuckhead do! And who did he do it to! He fucked the really greatest country! The man has got to be insane. But Bob Mueller’s got a law and he ain’t never gonna be the _saaaaame_! Mueller’s got a law (_Chick-a-wang-wang_!) Upside Donald’s jaw! (_Chick-a-wang-wang_!)… ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24381 "2018-08-23T16:27:17Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 😕 I recognize all of the individual words in this post, but not in this order. > Near as I can tell people thought there was one estimated time of arrival because horses are punctual and zerbras are not, and that 212 people died but one didn’t count because he was a few days from being aged? > > Please try again, I’m genuinely curious. It’s an old adage that I’m fairly certain is used in medical community. When you hear hoof beats, you think of horses not zebras. Ie, when presented with a symptom, you’re going to assume it’s the most obvious thing first and not something ‘exotic’ or unusual. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24382 "2018-08-23T16:29:16Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > No. > > You are blowing Rajoy’s instinctive reaction, which matched the instinctive reactions of millions of Spaniards, to think it had been ETA because horses not zebras, up into “grossly tossing hate in contradictory directions”. Please don’t do that. > > It is true though that Zapatero became president on the corpses of 212 dead. On that, I agree (he doesn’t though: his party only counts 211 because one was aged minus a few days). > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 😕 I recognize all of the individual words in this post, but not in this order. > Near as I can tell people thought there was one estimated time of arrival because horses are punctual and zerbras are not, and that 212 people died but one didn’t count because he was a few days from being aged? > > Please try again, I’m genuinely curious. You’re probably getting confused by her reference to ETA. In this context it has nothing to do with timetables. ETA is the name of a Basque separatist movement. I believe the 211/212 casualties dichotomy refers to the fact that one of the victims was a pregnant woman only days away from giving birth. Do you count her unborn child as a victim or not? ---
**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 23, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24383 "2018-08-23T17:56:41Z")
Trump gave himself an A+ for how his Presidency is going. He also said if he’s impeached, the stock market will crash and everybody will be poor. He also claimed that the murderer of Mollie Tibbets was arrested by “our beautiful ICE” and not by the local police who actually did the arrest. And he said that only 80% of the press is the enemy of the people. > **['I'd give myself an A-plus': Trump's dumb and dumber Fox News interview](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/id-give-plus-trumps-dumb-dumber-fox-news-interview-141309945.html)** > > It was only fitting that the Fox & Friends co-host who looks like a perennial newly married bride should have been stood up by the man she was courting: Ainsley Earhardt spent the three hours of yesterday’s Fox & Friends waiting on the White... ---
**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 23, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/24384 "2018-08-23T18:14:16Z")
Jeff Sessions has had enough, and fired back at Trump. [https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/sessions-fires-back-trump-doj-investigations-will-not-improperly-influenced-politics/](https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/sessions-fires-back-trump-doj-investigations-will-not-improperly-influenced-politics/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1218) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1220)