# 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:** 134
**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:** [March 24, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2661 "2017-03-24T20:58:16Z")
The commander of US forces in Europe says that Putin is supplying the Taliban. > **[Russia may be helping supply Taliban insurgents: U.S. general](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia-idUSKBN16U234)** > > The top U.S. general in Europe said on Thursday that he had seen Russian influence on Afghan Taliban insurgents growing and raised the possibility that Moscow was helping supply the militants, whose reach is expanding in southern Afghanistan. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2662 "2017-03-24T21:37:57Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Stupid idiots. Their only goal is to fuck up government, and they’ll even do it when their own party is in power. Demonstrating the uselessness of government is the only goal of Grand Vizier Bannon. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2663 "2017-03-25T00:03:21Z")
[Eric Trump opens mouth and stupid pours out.](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eric-trump-says-ll-president-204751990.html) > [@](#): > > **After continuously denying any communication to his father about the Trump business empire, Eric Trump now says he will give the President financial updates on the business every quarter.** > > The President’s son, who now runs the Trump Organization with his brother, Donald Jr., told Forbes about his plans to communicate with President Donald Trump about the financial status of the business immediately after denying he would do so. > > Trump told Forbes he would update the president “on the bottom line, profitability reports and stuff like that,” likely “quarterly.” > > Repeating his father’s past remarks, Trump has said **he will not speak with the President at all about the status of the Trump Organization**. As the president-elect in January 2017, Donald Trump announced his two adult sons would take over his company as soon as he took the Oval Office. So much for giving up control. I thought his vast business empire _was_ the Trump Organization. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2664 "2017-03-25T00:40:12Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Eric Trump opens mouth and stupid pours out.](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eric-trump-says-ll-president-204751990.html) > > So much for giving up control. > > I thought his vast business empire _was_ the Trump Organization. Of course I’m a partisan Democrat, and Donald Trump make me yearn for the halcyon days of the George W. Bush administration. That said, does Eric Trump not have the most punchable face this side of Martin Shkreli? Look up “douchebag” in Wikipedia, and, well, first you’ll see a picture of Martin Shkreli. But, then, right there is Eric Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2665 "2017-03-25T01:30:41Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Of course I’m a partisan Democrat, and Donald Trump make me yearn for the halcyon days of the George W. Bush administration. That said, does Eric Trump not have the most punchable face this side of Martin Shkreli? Look up “douchebag” in Wikipedia, and, well, first you’ll see a picture of Martin Shkreli. But, then, right there is Eric Trump. Have you seen pictures of the Donald and Shkreli side-by-side when they’re producing a smug smirk? It’s like twins. It really is. Makes me wonder if Donny had an encounter with Shkreli’s mom in the early 80s in Brooklyn. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2666 "2017-03-25T01:55:21Z")
Images showing Trump’s effort and result of trying to drive this thing: > **[Trumpcare debate and vote at 3:30 EST. Watch it become Failcare](https://www.fark.com/comments/9528014/108114915)** > > Trumpcare debate and vote at 3:30 EST. Watch it become Failcare 😉 ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2667 "2017-03-25T03:09:40Z")
I’m watching a peach episode of _Good Eats_(2006) and AB just described a clingstone peach as clinging to the pit the way bad hair clings to Donald Trump. 😃 ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2668 "2017-03-25T03:21:15Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Now that the Republicans are in power, they might have to actually do something. They might have to stop being “The Party of NO”, and oppose everything under the sun. > > Stupid idiots. Their only goal is to fuck up government, and they’ll even do it when their own party is in power. I’ve speculated before that the Republicans didn’t think Trump would win. They based their strategy for the next four years on the assumption that they could just continue being the party of blind opposition to whatever President Clinton said. But they unexpectedly swept the board and they’re now suddenly being asked to run the country. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2669 "2017-03-25T03:33:07Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Now that the Republicans are in power, they might have to actually do something. They might have to stop being “The Party of NO”, and oppose everything under the sun. > > … > > Stupid idiots. Their only goal is to fuck up government, and they’ll even do it when their own party is in power. Reminds me of the fable of the scorpion and the frog. > [@](#): > > A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.” > > The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp “Why?” > > Replies the scorpion: “Its my nature…” ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2670 "2017-03-25T03:36:27Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’ve speculated before that the Republicans didn’t think Trump would win. They based their strategy for the next four years on the assumption that they could just continue being the party of blind opposition to whatever President Clinton said. But they unexpectedly swept the board and they’re now suddenly being asked to run the country. They had since Nov. 8 to at least start working on a framework. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2671 "2017-03-25T03:53:49Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > They had since Nov. 8 to at least start working on a framework. And yet… Stranger ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2672 "2017-03-25T03:58:27Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Reminds me of the fable of the scorpion and the frog. [Donald Trump Reads “Snake” Poem](https://youtu.be/V-NaN1ujo_0?t=1m14s) (see, he can read!) ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2673 "2017-03-25T04:59:43Z")
So, Michael Flynn’s son tweeted out the following: “Ryan isn’t just married to a Dem… His wife was a Dem operative and her family are Dem megadonors. She also brought $5mill to the marriage.” Internicine warfare is always so cruel… bring your popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2674 "2017-03-25T05:00:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > So, Michael Flynn’s son tweeted out the following: > > “Ryan isn’t just married to a Dem… His wife was a Dem operative and her family are Dem megadonors. She also brought $5mill to the marriage.” > > Internicine warfare is always so cruel… bring your popcorn. Same guy who thought Hillary was running a pedophile ring out of a pizzeria. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2675 "2017-03-25T05:10:14Z")
The National Enquirer is naming Michael Flynn as the spy in Trump’s White House. Flynn’s son is going after Ryan. Ryan and Trump, I’m sure, will blame the other. Trump will HAVE TO take this out on someone, and quick - do not be surprised to wake up to more Twidiocy tomorrow or Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2676 "2017-03-25T05:18:33Z")
You know, Impeachment starts in the House and would have to be allowed to happen by the Speaker. Just sayin’, not the greatest idea to make this person, who belongs to your own freaking party, unhappy with you. You can’t send over thugs or lawyers to intimidate him. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2677 "2017-03-25T05:29:44Z")
Traitor Trump claims Obamacare is going to explode. The only thing exploding right now is his head. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2678 "2017-03-25T05:44:06Z")
Oh FFS USA, can you at least slow down a bit on the madness? It’s hard for those of us not in your timezone to keep up when ‘things’ change hour by hour (or minute by minute in some cases). Thanks ever so much. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2679 "2017-03-25T06:36:32Z")
[Trump Says He Never Promised to Quickly Repeal Obamacare. Here’s a Bunch of Times He Promised Exactly That.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/24/trump_says_he_never_promised_to_repeal_obamacare_quickly_a_list_of_times.html) ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/2680 "2017-03-25T13:37:45Z")
If the Republicans stick it to him again, with the result that headlines start to feature the words FAILURE and LOSER too much, I believe that is the only thing that will send him looking for the exit. He’s not a fighter. He’s a “blame someone else and get out” kind of guy. Also posted on Trumpcare thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=133) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=135)