# 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:** 1263
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25245 "2018-09-10T17:21:03Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Anybody at all feel any confidence in the current Federal Government’s ability to handle a disaster of the magnitude that is about to be Hurricane Florence? > > This is the why you elect competent leadership above everything. I think they will handle it just as well as they handled Puerto Rico. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25246 "2018-09-10T17:26:36Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Anybody at all feel any confidence in the current Federal Government’s ability to handle a disaster of the magnitude that is about to be Hurricane Florence? > > This is the why you elect competent leadership above everything. Any allegation that the government’s hurricane response is lacking, innappropriate, unsufficient or plain non-existent is a liberal smear and fake news. You pre-emptively heard it here first. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25247 "2018-09-10T17:26:49Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I think they will handle it just as well as they handled Puerto Rico. Don’t be silly. These are [sarcasm] real citizens. [/sarcasm] They’ll screw it up for other reasons. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25248 "2018-09-10T17:55:57Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t be silly. These are [sarcasm] real citizens. [/sarcasm] > They’ll screw it up for other reasons. Oh. Like mostly white English speakers. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25249 "2018-09-10T18:06:33Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I think they will handle it just as well as they handled Puerto Rico. Hey, did you know Puerto Rico is in the middle of a big ocean, smart guy? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25250 "2018-09-10T18:36:00Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Hey, did you know Puerto Rico is in the middle of a big ocean, smart guy? 😃 WHAT? That’s fake news! ---
**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:** [September 10, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25251 "2018-09-10T18:37:30Z")
Trump is rounding up Vietnamese refugees who have been here for sometimes twenty-five to thirty years and deporting them. [http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-in-yet-another-heavy-handed-1536161234-htmlstory.html#](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-in-yet-another-heavy-handed-1536161234-htmlstory.html#) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25252 "2018-09-10T19:20:25Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Anybody at all feel any confidence in the current Federal Government’s ability to handle a disaster of the magnitude that is about to be Hurricane Florence? > > This is the why you elect competent leadership above everything. CNN is saying on [its live update feed on Florence](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hurricane-florence-dle/index.html) that Agent Orange will be briefed on the storm today by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FEMA Admininstrator Brock Long. I hope they remember to bring the flash cards. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25253 "2018-09-10T20:07:09Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > CNN is saying on [its live update feed on Florence](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hurricane-florence-dle/index.html) that Agent Orange will be briefed on the storm today by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FEMA Admininstrator Brock Long. I hope they remember to bring the flash cards. The problem is that too many of the residents in the path Florence will follow sound just like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. They could be ignored like the residents of Puerto Rico. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25254 "2018-09-10T20:33:24Z")
Did you hear? Hurricane Florence is a Cat 4 but no injuries or fatalities reported in the US. No displaced families or property damage at all! FEMA is doing a heck of a job! Greatest hurricane response ever! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25255 "2018-09-10T20:38:24Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Any allegation that the government’s hurricane response is lacking, innappropriate, unsufficient or plain non-existent is a liberal smear and fake news. > You pre-emptively heard it here first. There are still folks making apologetics for “heckuva job Brownie”,just sayin’. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25256 "2018-09-10T20:38:35Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Did you hear? Hurricane Florence is a Cat 4 but no injuries or fatalities reported in the US. No displaced families or property damage at all! FEMA is doing a heck of a job! Greatest hurricane response ever! And that’s even before it makes landfall! Incredible!! ---
**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:** [September 10, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25257 "2018-09-10T21:43:45Z")
Other presidents counted how many died _after_ it was too late to show that no one died. Only this administration was smart enough to count the dead beforehand. No dead! Making America Great Again, assholes! ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25258 "2018-09-10T23:41:19Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > CNN is saying on [its live update feed on Florence](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hurricane-florence-dle/index.html) that Agent Orange will be briefed on the storm today by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FEMA Admininstrator Brock Long. I hope they remember to bring the flash cards. Hopefully (for them) both of them have kept their resumes up-to-date (and left off the service to the Great Pumpkin), because when this goes wrong, they’re going to get blamed (right or wrong) and fired. “What? Worked for Trump? No, no, no, that was a different Kirstjen Nielsen!” ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25259 "2018-09-11T00:52:21Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > CNN is saying on [its live update feed on Florence](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hurricane-florence-dle/index.html) that Agent Orange will be briefed on the storm today by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FEMA Admininstrator Brock Long. Brock Long? Did this guy come straight to FEMA from the porn industry? ---
**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:** [September 11, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25260 "2018-09-11T01:42:03Z")
Hey, any porn in a stork. or something ---
**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:** [September 11, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25261 "2018-09-11T03:39:31Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I think they will handle it just as well as they handled Puerto Rico. Naw, with NC on home soil, they’ll get looked after better than some shithole island, somewhere. The owner of the most annoying white moustache on earth has decided to go cray-craytown on [the International Criminal Court and Washingtron’s PLO Office](https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/politics/us-bolton-icc-plo-intl/index.html). > [@](#): > > “We will ban its financial system and we will prosecute them in the US criminal system. We will do the same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans,” said Bolton, a former ambassador to the UN. > Bolton said the US would “take note” of other countries’ cooperation with the ICC and “will remember that cooperation when settling US foreign assistance, military assistance, and intelligence sharing levels.” > He also said the administration “would consider taking steps in the UN Security Council” to “constrain” the Netherlands-based court, whose jurisdiction the US does not recognize. > Bolton also hailed the closure of the PLO office in Washington and said the US "will not allow the ICC, or any other organization, to **constrain Israel’s right to self defense**. Yeah, orelse those PLO bullies would surely nuke Israel to bits, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25262 "2018-09-11T06:19:16Z")
Me, I think a Cat 4 hurricane hitting the East coast would be a massive cluster no matter who was in charge. Totally open to observing flaws in the govt response, just saying it is a disaster regardless. October surprise? Surprise! There’s still a disaster on the East coast. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25263 "2018-09-11T09:16:00Z")
Surely Pat Robertson’s “[Shield of Protection](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/pat-robertson-establishes-a-shield-of-protection-against-hurricane-florence/)” will keep the Carolinas safe? ---
**Author:** ![Chip\_Dundas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5a626/32.png) [@Chip\_Dundas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chip_Dundas)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25264 "2018-09-11T13:48:47Z")
Remember the spring of 2017 when it seemed like every single week there was a damning leak to the nbc news, washington post, cnn and new york times about Trump and Russia? Looks like we know the FBI was behind that because of texts between the fbi agents most involved discussing leak strategies. Now you see why those news orgs are compromised. God Bless America Oh, and keep in mind, these leak stories may have been used as evidence to continue FISA applications and surveillance. I hope that is not the case. But even if it is, don’t worry, nothing will happen. 4th amendment does not apply to the resistance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1262) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1264)