# 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:** 1279
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25565 "2018-09-19T19:36:44Z")
Mexico’s paying for all of it. Believe me. Bigly. Tremendous. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25566 "2018-09-19T19:37:33Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > What’s his next idea? A fucking wall around China to keep them from exporting? That wall is already half built. It’s shovel-ready! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25567 "2018-09-19T19:40:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’d rather have a competent evil President than an incompetent evil President. I’m not sure I agree with this. If you have Wile E. Coyote as president you simply need the Road Runner to keep him in check. If the fuckin’ Joker ever becomes president where the hell are we gonna get a Batman?! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25568 "2018-09-19T19:42:08Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > That wall is already half built. It’s shovel-ready! For the rest, he just has to bribe the 'stans and all those other shitholes around. For that tiny strip between Russia and China, his buddy Vlad The Impaler surely will help. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25569 "2018-09-19T19:44:14Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > What’s his next idea? A fucking wall around China to keep them from exporting? A dome! That is a brilliant idea! They can’t launch any thing against Space Force if China is covered by a dome! ---
**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 19, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25570 "2018-09-19T19:51:32Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I’m a cop. Sometimes in this cold world, people get into trouble, and they just need a small animal to hold and pet. That’s where I come in. My name’s Friday.” _[Opens his coat to reveal a furry animal with a striped face.]_ “I carry a badger.” No, no, you have to change it to “_This is the city: Madison, Wisconsin …_” Lotsa Badgers there. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25571 "2018-09-19T19:51:53Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Spain’s foreign minister says that Trump suggested building a wall across the Sahara Desert to keep Africans out of Europe. > [Donald Trump suggested building a wall across the SAHARA to solve Europe’s migrant crisis, Spanish minster reveals](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7296266/donald-trump-suggested-building-a-wall-across-the-sahara-desert-to-solve-europes-migrant-crisis-spanish-minster-reveals/) The Sun is not known for accurate reporting. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25572 "2018-09-19T19:59:08Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The Sun is not known for accurate reporting. It’s also in [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/19/donald-trump-urged-spain-to-build-the-wall-across-the-sahara). ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25573 "2018-09-19T20:05:11Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Too bad there’ weren’t any badgers mentioned; the snake was already there… > > For you youth who don’t get the reference: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzagBTcYsYQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzagBTcYsYQ) I got it without the link. What are you insinuating?! And at what point can we just take the “in the Making” off the thread title? ---
**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 19, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25574 "2018-09-19T20:32:17Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The Sun is not known for accurate reporting. So they lie about a quote from a known person? ---
**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 19, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25575 "2018-09-19T21:24:45Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > And at what point can we just take the “in the Making” off the thread title? When it stops getting worse. It will be a while yet. ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25576 "2018-09-19T23:09:05Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > And at what point can we just take the “in the Making” off the thread title? When its over … so hopefully just a few more months. But it could be 6 more years. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25577 "2018-09-19T23:33:25Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > A dome! That is a brilliant idea! They can’t launch any thing against Space Force if China is covered by a dome! Reading about the relaxation of regulations concerning methane emissions for no good reason, I’m inclined to agree with the idea of a dome. Except not China. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25578 "2018-09-19T23:36:17Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > No, no, you have to change it to “_This is the city: Madison, Wisconsin …_” Lotsa Badgers there. But not the animal kind. Badger is Wisconsin slang for a miner. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25579 "2018-09-19T23:57:02Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Reading about the relaxation of regulations concerning methane emissions for no good reason, I’m inclined to agree with the idea of a dome. Except not China. We can pump the methane out and sell it in little butane cans for gas grills! ---
**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:** [September 20, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25580 "2018-09-20T00:02:36Z")
Whatever you like, so long as you arrange matters such that countries without Trump for a president aren’t affected by his pinhead decisions. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2018, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25581 "2018-09-20T00:08:36Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > …Then I remember the rumors that Ronny Jackson’s White House medical office has been accused of giving WH personnel and staffers any controlled medication that they want. > [https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/ronny-jackson-medical-unit-ambien/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/ronny-jackson-medical-unit-ambien/index.html) > > So the tidbit in Woodwards book is that Jackson stops by to see Trump, the self-described 239 lb healthiest man in the world, on an almost daily basis. Jeez, every teenager that wants a job at the Gap or Home Depot has to take a drug test. I wish we could give one to Trump because I’m pretty sure he’s back on Adderal or something similar. Yes, I said “ back on”, apparently he abused those drugs for years. > … Wouldn’t be at all surprising. And of course, with a less-servile Congress, such a situation would be looked on as 25th Amendment-worthy. > [@septimus](#): > > … I also disagree with Michael Moore that having Pence as POTUS would allow a debate of ideas. The idea that the policies of Ryan et al form a “philosophy” or are based on “ideas” is absurd. These are just greedy and despicable liars and haters. … I often find Moore quite insightful, but agree that the ‘Pence presidency would allow a debate on ideas’ remark makes no sense. Maybe he made the remark tactically. Maybe Moore just wanted people to put in some time considering the moral degeneracy of Pence and his likely enablers. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25582 "2018-09-20T00:33:37Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > And the collective ignorance of his penis’ shape. Speak for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25583 "2018-09-20T00:35:06Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > When it stops getting worse. It will be a while yet. > [@Celidin](#): > > When its over … so hopefully just a few more months. > > But it could be 6 more years. It’s taking longer than we thought. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25584 "2018-09-20T01:33:30Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Speak for yourself. It’s common knowledge that the youthful Gerald Ford, playing for the University of Michigan, used to use his mighty schvantz to punt footballs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1278) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1280)