# 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:** 1297
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25925 "2018-09-26T03:06:56Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Fox News is referring to all the U.N. Delegates, from all over the world, as “elites.” > > No wonder they laughed! They are all snooty fancy privileged ELITES. Not salt-of-the-earth Americans like us Shitgibbon Lovers. Yeah, those elites! Not like the billionaire\* real estate developer who became President of the most powerful country on earth. He’s a common man. \*probably not really. ---
**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 26, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25926 "2018-09-26T03:20:44Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > I think there needs to be a new rule that anyone who supports the Kavanaugh nomination is not allowed to use “elite” as a pejorative ever again. Yeah, the whole “elite” thing makes me absolutely CRAZY. Kavanaugh the Georgetown Prep/Yale/Yale dude is a Man of The People, but Dr. Ford, who has the AUDACITY to live in the Bay Area and be a DEMOCRAT, is some kind of aristocrat at the French Court at Versailles. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25927 "2018-09-26T03:22:16Z")
After seeing \*\*Rick Kitchen’\*\*s post I went to Fox’s webpage. The first and I think only mention of the speech is an opinion piece _"Trump at UN: Elites may laugh but Americans can see through the globaloney._" Not the top story at all. In fact there is a story about a tourist riding a crocodile above it. So will Trumpets even know about how “America isn’t being laughed at anymore”? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25928 "2018-09-26T03:22:19Z")
And isn’t the U. S. supposed to be a fucking meritocracy? ---
**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 26, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25929 "2018-09-26T03:30:19Z")
Only under Democrats. Republicans like W. Bush and the Short Fingered Vulgarian get to attend the top universities because of legacies and Money. But those stinkers like Clinton and Obama, whose parents didn’t attend college, are the ELITES. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25930 "2018-09-26T03:50:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump is claiming the people at the UN were laughing at a joke he made. > I can’t find a link now, though. IOW: “I meant to do that.” :smack::rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25931 "2018-09-26T04:23:51Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Fox News is referring to all the U.N. Delegates, from all over the world, as “elites.” > > No wonder they laughed! They are all snooty fancy privileged ELITES. Not salt-of-the-earth Americans like us Shitgibbon Lovers. Hey, that fits right in with that embarrassment occupying the White House using anti-Semitic rhetoric in his [del]screed[/del] “speech”. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25932 "2018-09-26T04:29:01Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > IOW: “I meant to do that.” > > :smack::rolleyes: If he really meant to make them laugh, why, then, did he tell the GA that he didn’t expect that reaction and then blather this: > [@Worthless Damn Liar](#): > > Well, that was meant to get some laughter, but it was great. Seriously, trumpeters, why on Earth do you continue to support this self-deluded clown? ---
**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 26, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25933 "2018-09-26T04:30:16Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > After seeing \*\*Rick Kitchen’\*\*s post I went to Fox’s webpage. The first and I think only mention of the speech is an opinion piece _"Trump at UN: Elites may laugh but Americans can see through the globaloney._" Damn, that is one poorly phrased title. I read it reverse of what they meant. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25934 "2018-09-26T05:01:53Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Trump is pretty sure that the rest of the world, seeing his proven brilliance as a leader, will beg him to take control of everything because only he can fix all their problems, just as he fixed America. #MakeEarthGreatAgain ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25935 "2018-09-26T05:38:31Z")
Way down the news list, “Ol’ Blood and Guts” Bolton is threatening war against Iran again. The _cactus belli_ seems to be that China, Russia, EU and pretty much everybody else has shrugged off our demands and made deals with Iran. ---
**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 26, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25936 "2018-09-26T05:46:59Z")
_Cactus belli_? Have you at long last given up on fighting auto-correct, or are you just being prickly? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25937 "2018-09-26T05:49:11Z")
Didn’t Stormy Daniels stick one of those up Chump’s rump? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25938 "2018-09-26T06:36:29Z")
I’m imagining that Avenatti guy, how carefully he would phrase it if he was trying to insinuate that he has the pictures but not actually say it. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25939 "2018-09-26T07:54:11Z")
> [@j666](#): > > And isn’t the U. S. supposed to be a fucking meritocracy? That doesn’t mean people are supposed to be ee-leeeeet! … thinking about it, ISTR that movies about groups such as the SEALs, Green Berets, RECON, etc. would call them elite, but the most recent ones I’ve watched did not. Because elite truly has become a dirty word to a lot of people, including a lot of the people most likely to watch movies where people in uniform shoot at each other. If you remade Sergeant York today, you might want to be very, very careful to avoid the e-word. Which makes me sad both for the dictionary and for the men and women who have earned that label, damnit. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25940 "2018-09-26T08:01:59Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Trump is pretty sure that the rest of the world, seeing his proven brilliance as a leader, will beg him to take control of everything because only he can fix all their problems, just as he fixed America. Sure, let’s promote him to Chancellor of the World. He can have a nice office back in Trump Tower, he can fire off tweets all day, and of course he will be too busy and important to be President of the United States anymore. I’m sure we can swing the budget to provide a small staff for him. ---
**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 26, 2018, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25941 "2018-09-26T10:06:09Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > IOW: “I meant to do that.” > > :smack::rolleyes: > [@Monty](#): > > … > > Quote: > Originally Posted by **Worthless Damn Liar** > Well, that was meant to get some laughter, but it was great. Jaysus! He actually said it. That is pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25942 "2018-09-26T10:42:30Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Jaysus! He actually said it. That is pathetic. Yep. How many five-year olds do you know who are worse at this posturing and lying about “meant to do that” than trump? I now zero who are worse. ---
**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 26, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25943 "2018-09-26T11:27:19Z")
Claiming that his administration has accomplished more than most others was meant to get some laughs. Right-O. God, what a fucking tool. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2018, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25944 "2018-09-26T11:28:34Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Until a Republican Senator actually says they’re voting against Kavanaugh, they are voting for him, whatever FOX says. Right now Kavanaugh absolutely has 51 votes, and there is no sign whatsoever any GOP Senator will vote against him. The sort of hemming and hawing from the likes of Collins and Corker is transparent bullshit, and they’re waiting for Kavanaugh to deny it all under oath before saying “well, the accusations have been dealt with and he’s obviously a trustworthy guy.” > > Indeed, it is not impossible he could get a vote or two from Democrats looking to appease the Trumpist hordes in red states. Republicans are daring Americans to stop them, daring us to keep our Democracy. “Oh yeah? You say we can’t end the Russia thing and instead put Hillary and Obama in jail? Well, try and fucking stop us.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1296) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1298)