# 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:** 1299
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25965 "2018-09-26T18:54:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fox also censored the speech, removing the laughter from their report. Fox State TV, kinda like Pravda or RT. Uh huh. ---
**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, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25966 "2018-09-26T19:32:20Z")
“Good morning. We’re coming to you with breaking news, as apparently a 1,000th accuser has come forward alleging gang rape.” Republitards: “OH YEAH?! WELL WHAT ABOUT BILL CLINTON?!” ---
**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, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25967 "2018-09-26T20:35:24Z")
The Fed just raised rates for the 3rd time this year, in spite of Trump’s whining. Looks like they’re beginning to see the economic train wreck that’s about to happen, and this is their warning. > **[The Fed Just Raised Its Rate Again. When Will It Start To Hurt Consumers?](https://www.npr.org/2018/09/26/651145595/another-fed-rate-hike-is-coming-when-will-it-start-to-hurt-consumers)** > > Bullish stocks, low unemployment, high confidence — from most angles, the economy is strong. But questions linger as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates for the third time in 2018. ---
**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, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25968 "2018-09-26T20:49:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Not disagreeing with you, but what anti-Semitic comments did he make? The bit about unelected global bureaucrats running the world. You know, the [wink wink] _elite_. ---
**Author:** ![GoPostie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@GoPostie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoPostie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25969 "2018-09-26T22:14:48Z")
This press conference is amazing. I’d rec watching it from the start if you haven’t tuned in. I’m kind of mesmerised. I wonder how much of this is a reation to the UN laughing at him. ---
**Author:** ![GoPostie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@GoPostie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoPostie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25970 "2018-09-26T22:16:22Z")
Okay, now he’s talking about Elton John … ---
**Author:** ![GoPostie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@GoPostie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoPostie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25971 "2018-09-26T22:26:04Z")
it’s finished; 75-minutes of unscripted riffing off the worlds media on every subject imaginable. Mesmerising is i think right. ---
**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, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25972 "2018-09-26T22:34:38Z")
Thank you for your service – is there a transcript? ---
**Author:** ![GoPostie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@GoPostie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoPostie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25973 "2018-09-26T22:46:43Z")
Oh it’s going to be everywhere. He’s saying China is hacking the midterms - not Russia but China. Just about everything you could imagine this side of alien invasion. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25974 "2018-09-26T22:50:03Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Thank you for your service – is there a transcript? [Here you go](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/26/president-trumps-un-press-conference-annotated/?utm_term=.e2552111bce4). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25975 "2018-09-26T22:52:48Z")
> [@GoPostie](#): > > Oh it’s going to be everywhere. He’s saying China is hacking the midterms - not Russia but China. > > Just about everything you could imagine this side of alien invasion. Here’s a gem; > [@Loser Donald](#): > > China now, put on $250 billion, and they’re paying 25 percent on that. They’re paying billions and billions – this has never happened to China, and I like China and I like President Xi a lot. I think he’s a friend of mine, he may not be a friend of mine anymore, but I think he probably respects – from what I hear, if you look at Mr. Pillsbury, the leading authority on China. > > He was on a good show, I won’t mention the name of the show, recently, and he was saying that China has total respect for Donald Trump and for Donald Trump’s very, very large brain. He said Donald Trump, they don’t know what to do – never happened. Yes, I’m sure they’re all quaking in their boots at the thought of your “very large brain”. ---
**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 26, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25976 "2018-09-26T23:02:50Z")
> [@](#): > > [Trump predicts media outlets are ‘all going to endorse me’](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/408645-trump-predicts-media-outlets-are-all-going-to-endorse-me) > President Trump on Wednesday predicted that news organizations that he routinely attacks as “fake news” would endorse him in the future, saying that they would go out of business if he weren’t in office. > > “The [New York] Times, I think they’re going to endorse me,” he said at a news conference in New York. “I think that ABC, I think — well Fox, I like Fox, I really do.” > > “But I think ABC, CBS, NBC, The Times, they’re all going to endorse me,” he added. "Because if they don’t they’re going out of business. Can you imagine if you didn’t have me?” > … I swear the next step is, “WHERE ARE THE KEYS TO THE STRAWBERRY LOCKER??” He is definitely losing it mentally. Meltdown. I think the laughter at the UN pushed him over the edge. ---
**Author:** ![GoPostie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@GoPostie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoPostie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25977 "2018-09-26T23:58:46Z")
Well, perhaps it confirms the UN hurt him. 24-hours later he comes out swinging - restating his world view and reestablishing his alpha male position, at least in his own world. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25978 "2018-09-27T00:27:57Z")
> [@GoPostie](#): > > Oh it’s going to be everywhere. He’s saying China is hacking the midterms - not Russia but China. > > Just about everything you could imagine this side of alien invasion. I’m guessing that his train of “thought” was something like: China’s response in the trade war has been interpreted by some as causing the most pain in areas of the country that are most pro-Trump Therefore, China is targeting Trump personally Therefore, China is meddling in the mid-terms. QED. And I think he talks about Elton John at his rallies a lot. He’s his go-to celebrity, when he wants to talk about big crowds. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25979 "2018-09-27T00:29:41Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I swear the next step is, “WHERE ARE THE KEYS TO THE STRAWBERRY LOCKER??” > > He is definitely losing it mentally. Meltdown. I think the laughter at the UN pushed him over the edge. I think it illustrates the fact that he is so amoral and unable to make decisions based on moral considerations that he can’t imagine other people doing so. He is right that he is good for business for the NYTimes and these other outlets but that doesn’t mean they are going to decide who to endorse on other, ethical considerations. That is just so foreign to him that he can’t even imagine it. ---
**Author:** ![GoPostie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@GoPostie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoPostie)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25980 "2018-09-27T00:44:48Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > And I think he talks about Elton John at his rallies a lot. He’s his go-to celebrity, when he wants to talk about big crowds. Plus the ‘Rocket Man’ thing. Interesting that his mind connected in that way. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25981 "2018-09-27T01:09:30Z")
I was watching clips of him last night on Colbert. He appeared ghastly. I understand he was a bit late for his “performance” but the makeup person screwed up (more than usual). The orange face paint was on but it wasn’t blended into his eye area where he must have been wearing goggles. It was orange then white sections around the eyes. Never seen it that bad before. ---
**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 27, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25982 "2018-09-27T01:19:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Thump’s cognitive dissonance will permit him to interpret this as, “The UN people were laughing WITH me at those loser Democrats and everyone else who opposes me.” He has to be right. He has to be on top. Nothing else can get through his filters. AHEM. (My emphasis) > [@](#): > > **Trump** : I was in front of a large group of highly professional people, most of whom are from either other countries or the United Nations, people that aren’t big into clapping, applauding, smiling, and I heard a little rustle as I said our country is now stronger than ever before. It is true. I mean it is true. I heard a little rustle, and I said, it is true. And I heard smiles. I said, I didn’t know there would be— **they weren’t laughing at me, they were laughing with me.** We had fun. That was not laughing at me. So the fake news said, people laughed at President Trump. They didn’t laugh at me. People had a good time with me. We were doing it together. We had a good time. They respect what I’ve done. The United States is respected again. > [Source](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-calls-allegations-against-kavanaugh-con-job/571456/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlantic+%28The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%29) Can I call 'em, or what? The article I linked to throws into stark relief thump’s deteriorating mental state as displayed in his press conference. Not surprising, but to see it all summarized like that makes you weep for this country. Again. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25983 "2018-09-27T01:27:11Z")
> [@GoPostie](#): > > Oh it’s going to be everywhere. He’s saying China is hacking the midterms - not Russia but China. > > Just about everything you could imagine this side of alien invasion. Once again proving he’s an idiot who can’t think things through. What happens if he does convince his followers that China is hacking the election? There will be an outcry for an investigation. And what will be the outcome of an investigation of foreign interference in American elections? It’ll find evidence of how the Russians have helped Trump. Trump should learn the lesson that smart criminals know; never call attention to your crimes. Even to accuse somebody else of that crime. It’s not enough for people to think that you’re innocent; ideally, you don’t want it to even occur to people that the crime is possible. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/25984 "2018-09-27T01:29:17Z")
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