# 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:** 1303
**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 29, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26045 "2018-09-29T09:24:10Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > If those are the Best People he’s hiring, I wonder what the rejects look like. Have you not been watching the Supreme Court nomination hearings, or any other fiasco the orange crud has foisted on the nation? It’s not possible for him to first consider someone for something and second to dismiss them for that something. That would mean the very stable genius was initially wrong. And that simply won’t do. There are no rejects. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26046 "2018-09-29T10:14:31Z")
> [@JB99](#): > > Yep. Trump is the symptom, not the disease. And the disease is that Americans are just plain fucking stupid. Even if Trump were removed from the equation, the basic problem still remains. The average American IQ is on a par with that of other countries. And misconceptions among ordinary people have always been common. But back in the Rational Era, the misconceptions of common people were just noise that averaged out or blurred; and an intelligent informed consensus could emerge. Here in Post-rational America, evil-doers like FoxNews cultivate the ignorance of common people to serve their malicious political agenda. The combination of profit-driven mass media and common-man democracy is tough. Throw crap like _Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission_ into the mix and we may as well give up on American democracy. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26047 "2018-09-29T17:14:11Z")
Damn, that was well-said. But I’ll never give up on Democracy, the alternatives are just too awful to contemplate. ---
**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 29, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26048 "2018-09-29T17:23:45Z")
Put a rapist on the Supreme Court and I will at least think about giving up on democracy. ---
**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 29, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26049 "2018-09-29T22:59:53Z")
The Commander-in-Chump speaks about the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh (that he’s actively obstructing); > [@Loser Donald](#): > > The FBI, I believe, is doing a really great job. They have been all over already. They have free reign. Whatever it is they do, they will be doing things we haven’t even thought of. In other words, “I have no idea what the FBI does”. ---
**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 29, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26050 "2018-09-29T23:07:44Z")
“Reign”? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26051 "2018-09-29T23:11:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “Reign”? FBI rules! ---
**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 29, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26052 "2018-09-29T23:17:32Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “Reign”? These were spoken remarks, so I’m going to assume that was a typo by the transcriptionist. Either that, or Trump’s illiteracy is so vast that it’s actually contagious. ---
**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 29, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26053 "2018-09-29T23:46:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > These were spoken remarks, so I’m going to assume that was a typo by the transcriptionist. > > Either that, or Trump’s illiteracy is so vast that it’s actually contagious. Lord help us. ---
**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 30, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26054 "2018-09-30T00:18:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Colbert, who is from SC, not satisfied with the progress of hurricane relief from the ongoing impact of Florence, is putting out a book to help fund relief. > > “[Whose Boat is this Boat?](https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/CultureShock/archives/2018/09/28/colbert-uses-trumps-words-in-a-new-book-whose-boat-is-this-boat-with-proceeds-going-to-storm-relief)” I saw Colbert read that book; there’s not a lot of plot, but the dialogue is very true-to-life. (It’s exact quotations from the Idiot-in-Chief.) Hope it sells millions. ---
**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 30, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26055 "2018-09-30T02:28:09Z")
Trump: “Kim Jon Un and I fell in love.” > **[Trump: Kim Jong Un and I ‘fell in love’](https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/409104-trump-kim-jong-un-and-i-fell-in-love/)** > > President Trump said he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “fell in love.”While speaking at a rally for Senate candidate and state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) in We… ---
**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 30, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26056 "2018-09-30T02:51:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump: “Kim Jon Un and I fell in love.” > [https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/409104-trump-kim-jong-un-and-i-fell-in-love](https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/409104-trump-kim-jong-un-and-i-fell-in-love) So he’s met #4, then? Does Melania know? Incidentally, just imagine the right-wing reaction if Obama had said he’d fallen in love with Kim. ---
**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 30, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26057 "2018-09-30T03:05:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump: “Kim Jon Un and I fell in love.” > [https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/409104-trump-kim-jong-un-and-i-fell-in-love](https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/409104-trump-kim-jong-un-and-i-fell-in-love) > [@Smapti](#): > > So he’s met #4, then? Does Melania know? > > Incidentally, just imagine the right-wing reaction if Obama had said he’d fallen in love with Kim. Jesus. Henry. Christ. Check, please. :smack: ---
**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 30, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26058 "2018-09-30T03:09:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump: “Kim Jon Un and I fell in love.” > [https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/409104-trump-kim-jong-un-and-i-fell-in-love](https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/409104-trump-kim-jong-un-and-i-fell-in-love) Think the Colorado baker will do \*that \*cake? ---
**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 30, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26059 "2018-09-30T03:58:24Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Think the Colorado baker will do \*that \*cake? Thing is, he probably would. ---
**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 30, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26060 "2018-09-30T04:00:40Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > The average American IQ is on a par with that of other countries. And misconceptions among ordinary people have always been common. > > But back in the Rational Era, the misconceptions of common people were just noise that averaged out or blurred; and an intelligent informed consensus could emerge. Here in Post-rational America, evil-doers like FoxNews cultivate the ignorance of common people to serve their malicious political agenda. > > The combination of profit-driven mass media and common-man democracy is tough. Throw crap like _Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission_ into the mix and we may as well give up on American democracy. Americans are thicker than pig shit. Problem is, the enlightened countries are smarter, but not that much so. We’re all susceptible to populism and racial nutjobbery. Sweden’s drift into racial polemic is ominous. If a Scandinavian country can succumb to batshittery, then pretty much any country on the planet can. ---
**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 30, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26061 "2018-09-30T05:12:30Z")
More nonsense from tonight’s Nazi rally; > [@Loser Donald](#): > > The new platform of the Democrat Party—you notice I say Democrat Party? I hate the way it sounds, that’s why I say it. Because it’s really their name. It’s not the Democratic Party. > > It flows nicer—the Democratic Party, but the real name is the Democrat Party. I hate the way it sounds and that’s why I use it. But that’s the real name. The Democrat Party. When you see Democratic Party, it’s wrong. There’s no name, Democratic Party. Aside from being factually wrong, I think we can add “names” to the list of things he doesn’t understand. If the “Democrat Party” wanted to be called the “Democratic Party” instead, they could just _change_ it. That’s how names work. His friend Bruce Jenner ought to be able to explain that to him. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26062 "2018-09-30T08:55:37Z")
Remember when Obama was the most divisive president ever because said a black professor probably shouldn’t have been arrested in his own home? Those were the days. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26063 "2018-09-30T13:42:05Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > This could be interesting. > [Judge Says Democratic Lawmakers Can Sue Trump On Emoluments : NPR](https://www.npr.org/2018/09/28/652820065/judge-says-democratic-lawmakers-can-sue-trump-on-emoluments) Why did it take so damn long??? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26064 "2018-09-30T13:44:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > These were spoken remarks, so I’m going to assume that was a typo by the transcriptionist. > > Either that, or Trump’s illiteracy is so vast that it’s actually contagious. Well he did say the “acquisitions” are all false. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1302) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1304)