# 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:** 1306
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26105 "2018-10-01T06:26:52Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Here’s an excerpt from [Michael Lewis’ new book, about the Trump transition team.](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team) …ya know, you think you know just how mad the entire last few year have been: but then you read what Trump said to the Egyptian President shortly after getting elected… > [@the article](#): > > I love the Bangles! You know that song Walk Like an Egyptian?” And the only possible response is “Holy Fucking Shit.” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26106 "2018-10-01T07:12:50Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > 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. Correlation isn’t necessarily causation, etc., but what was so crazy about that whole thing is that it corresponded with a _permanent_ drop in Obama’s support among white people. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26107 "2018-10-01T10:55:55Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > [The USA isn’t even in the top 20 when it comes to democracy. It is not a full democracy. It is a flawed democracy.](https://pages.eiu.com/rs/753-RIQ-438/images/Democracy_Index_2017.pdf) HOLYSHIT Spain is in the “full democracies” group! The bottom line, ok, but gosh we purdy! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26108 "2018-10-01T13:09:11Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Conservatives suck. > > Force them to become educated. > > #educationcamps I’m beginning to wonder whether our friend **asahi** is a Russian plant. I do not think that revoking voting rights or “education camps” is a position any reasonable person on the left would actually advocate for. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26109 "2018-10-01T13:54:28Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …ya know, you think you know just how mad the entire last few year have been: but then you read what Trump said to the Egyptian President shortly after getting elected… > > And the only possible response is “Holy Fucking Shit.” I don’t believe that. I just can’t. Someone please tell me Michael Lewis made that up or got it third hand from someone unreliable. There’s no way that can be true. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26110 "2018-10-01T14:21:57Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …ya know, you think you know just how mad the entire last few year have been: but then you read what Trump said to the Egyptian President shortly after getting elected… > > And the only possible response is “Holy Fucking Shit.” I think you should re-read that part of the article; it doesn’t say what you say it says: > [@](#): > > Before any of the calls could be made, however, the president of Egypt called in to the switchboard at Trump Tower and somehow got the operator to put him straight through to Trump. “Trump was like … I love the Bangles! You know that song Walk Like an Egyptian?” recalled one of his advisers on the scene. It definitely gives that impression, but it doesn’t really say that Trump said it while talking to the Egyptian president. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26111 "2018-10-01T14:31:03Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I’m pretty sure it’s, “Honda” as the 12 disciples were in one Accord. grrooooooaaaannnnnnn ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26112 "2018-10-01T14:50:41Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > HOLYSHIT Spain is in the “full democracies” group! The bottom line, ok, but gosh we purdy! In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26113 "2018-10-01T15:45:10Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I’m beginning to wonder whether our friend **asahi** is a Russian plant. I do not think that revoking voting rights or “education camps” is a position any reasonable person on the left would actually advocate for. I’ve wondered the same thing for the last several weeks; glad I’m not alone. Do I think asahi _is_ a Russkie? No, not really, but in being relentlessly divisive and speaking as (he?) does, he seems to be serving the purpose. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26114 "2018-10-01T16:06:40Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I’ve wondered the same thing for the last several weeks; glad I’m not alone. Do I think asahi _is_ a Russkie? No, not really, but in being relentlessly divisive and speaking as (he?) does, he seems to be serving the purpose. It’s been his schtick for a while and he’s already been taken to task for it several times in this very thread. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26115 "2018-10-01T16:09:14Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > it doesn’t say what you say it says:It definitely gives that impression, but it doesn’t really say that Trump said it while talking to the Egyptian president. Either way, it’s a staggeringly stupid thing to say. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26116 "2018-10-01T17:03:04Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Either way, it’s a staggeringly stupid thing to say. I agree with Llama. That is too stupid, even for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26117 "2018-10-01T17:08:40Z")
Oh, come on now. Reading all of ashahi’s posts in this Trump debacle for two years tells me he’s very emotional about this subject. He’s drained and maybe needs a break. The re-educate stuff is probably just fuming. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26118 "2018-10-01T17:38:47Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. Hey, you Canucks may be used to doing well in the exams but we’re still recovering from about 500 years of Black Legend, plus about 120 years of trying to kill each other any time the government changed, plus 40 years of Paco Rana, plus then being told we had to feel White Man’s Guilt, plus we’re convinced we’re the most sexist country in the world well except for the Muslim ones those beat us there, plus… I swear the whole country has a serious case of feeling shorter and stupider than everybody else. Any time anybody likes us for something we actually did and not just for an accident of geography it’s like “really?” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26119 "2018-10-01T18:56:11Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I’ve wondered the same thing for the last several weeks; glad I’m not alone. Do I think asahi _is_ a Russkie? No, not really, but in being relentlessly divisive and speaking as (he?) does, he seems to be serving the purpose. When engaging in discussion with my conservative friends, I really don’t need chuckle-heads like asahi on my side spouting off literal Stalinist solutions. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26120 "2018-10-01T19:45:04Z")
I guess that he’s trying to make some sort of point, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what that point would be. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26121 "2018-10-01T20:12:33Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I agree with Llama. That is too stupid, even for Trump. I, for one, will have to be empirically convinced there is a substance, let alone life form, that is “too stupid”, compared to Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26122 "2018-10-01T22:57:20Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > I, for one, will have to be empirically convinced there is a substance, let alone life form, that is “too stupid”, compared to Trump. Osmium? 🆒 (_Densest_ naturally occurring element.) ---
**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:** [October 1, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26123 "2018-10-01T23:27:37Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Osmium? 🆒 > (_Densest_ naturally occurring element.) The Wizard of Osmium? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/26124 "2018-10-01T23:38:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The Wizard of Osmium? It’s his Density! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1305) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1307)