# 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:** 1354
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27065 "2018-11-10T15:18:22Z")
How is it supposed to be better than Trump didn’t know Whitaker? Either he knew him and knowingly got somebody who ended up being more obviously crooked than a $3 bill. Or as claimed, For a high ranking position in the administration, albeit presumably (yeah, right) a temporary posting, he allowed/picked/hired somebody he didn’t know and didn’t properly vet. Who does that? Especially a self proclaimed business genius? How is this supposed to be so much better that it works as an excuse? Even the manager of a Dairy Queen knows better than to hire somebody they don’t know and haven’t vetted at all for a position of authority/responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27066 "2018-11-10T16:51:46Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Whitaker is a political hack acting as the nation’s top lawyer. He’s even worse than Robert Bork. Yet history will be kinder to him just because ‘Whitakered’ does not roll off the tongue like ‘Borked’… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27067 "2018-11-10T17:40:32Z")
Trump cancels his visit to a cemetary where American WWI troops are buried because [it rained](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-paris-latest-cancels-memorial-visit-us-military-cemetery-remembrance-world-war-one-a8627571.html). I guess the weather made his bone spurs act up. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27068 "2018-11-10T17:48:04Z")
Cemet **e** ry. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27069 "2018-11-10T19:00:14Z")
Thump just doesn’t give a fuck anymore. He’ll do whatever he wants to from now on without even the slightest pretense of being “presidential.” Frankly, I think he’s curious about just how much he can get away with. And it’s probably a lot more than we’ve seen so far. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27070 "2018-11-10T19:20:36Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > You should see what Teen Vogue is publishing these days! I may be being whooshed, but Teen Vogue is very political. Why Jeff Sessions’s Resignation May Be Sketchier Than You Think > **[Why Jeff Sessions's Resignation May Be Sketchier Than You Think](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/why-jeff-sessions-resignation-may-be-sketchier-than-you-think)** > > It could be part of a larger Trump administration agenda. Losing in the Midterm Elections Isn’t the End > **[I Volunteered for a Candidate Who Lost — But I'm Not Giving Up](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/losing-in-the-midterm-elections-isnt-the-end)** > > There’s still so much to be done. Thousand Oaks Shooting Victims Are Being Remembered by Friends and Family > **[How Friends and Family Remember the Thousand Oaks Shooting Victims](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/thousand-oaks-shooting-victims-remembered-by-friends-family)** > > “She leaves behind her a legacy of selfless servitude." ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27071 "2018-11-10T19:24:42Z")
Huh. Never would have guessed it. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27072 "2018-11-10T19:37:21Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woolsey-fire-explodes-to-70000-acres-overnight-2-deaths-reported-amid-fight-to-save-hillside-communities/ar-BBPy5Y5#image=BBPwLOZ|10](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woolsey-fire-explodes-to-70000-acres-overnight-2-deaths-reported-amid-fight-to-save-hillside-communities/ar-BBPy5Y5#image=BBPwLOZ%7C10) Check out some pics from the fire and tell me if it is the kind of event that can be “managed”. Key line from the article: “the Woolsey fire didn’t occur in a forest.” ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27073 "2018-11-10T19:49:16Z")
Wasn’t this one of the reasons Andrew Jackson wanted to hang John Calhoun? And kind of determined with the Civil War? [Whitaker said he supports state’s rights to nullify federal law](https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/politics/matthew-whitaker-nullification/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27074 "2018-11-10T19:53:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I may be being whooshed, but Teen Vogue is very political. Yeah, I know! 😃 Rolling Stone has had that dimension for decades, Teen Vogue is a little more surprising. [Who is Karl Marx?](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-is-karl-marx) Hasty edit: That’s a half-decent primer for youngsters who are perhaps hearing about Marxism for the first time online. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27075 "2018-11-10T22:46:52Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > How is it supposed to be better than Trump didn’t know Whitaker? I’m fairly sure that to Loser Donald, “I don’t know him” is the greatest insult imaginable. After all, Donald Trump is the most important thing to ever exist, so if you are not know to him, you must not matter. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27076 "2018-11-10T23:07:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m fairly sure that to Loser Donald, “I don’t know him” is the greatest insult imaginable. After all, Donald Trump is the most important thing to ever exist, so if you are not know to him, you must not matter. It’s like that joke about the average Joe whom all the famous people in the workd know. Except, Trump is just a bad joke. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27077 "2018-11-11T02:31:51Z")
Not exactly news, but worth explicitly noting. (Bold is in the original.) [**Trump’s new target: the electoral process**](https://www.axios.com/trump-target-midterm-elections-voting-florida-arizona-78cdc315-bc6e-4663-95a7-a9caed33f1c1.html) > [@](#): > > …President Trump is now targeting the electoral process as insurance against possible Republican losses in too-close-to-call races in Florida and Arizona. > > \*\*Why it matters: \*\*The president is doing more than any top official in memory to cast doubt on the outcomes of elections. > > **On Arizona,** Trump tweeted: “Just out — in Arizona, SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. Electoral corruption - Call for a new Election? We must protect our Democracy!” > > \*\* The AP reports:\*\* “There is zero evidence of anything unusual going on in the Arizona vote-counting — and no elected Republican officials in the state have cried foul.” > > “What’s going on in Florida is a disgrace,” Trump said yesterday. > > ``` > **Trump tweeted** that GOP Senate candidate "Rick Scott was up by 50,000+ votes on Election Day, now they 'found' many votes and he is only up 15,000 votes. 'The Broward Effect.' How come they never find Republican votes?" > > ``` > > … ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27078 "2018-11-11T04:10:46Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Not exactly news, but worth explicitly noting. (Bold is in the original.) > > [**Trump’s new target: the electoral process**](https://www.axios.com/trump-target-midterm-elections-voting-florida-arizona-78cdc315-bc6e-4663-95a7-a9caed33f1c1.html) Creeping fascism. Bit by bit. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27079 "2018-11-11T04:11:47Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Remember when Keith Olbermann [was suspended from MSNBC](https://www.politico.com/story/2010/11/olbermann-suspended-after-donations-044734) for contributing to Democratic candidates and that was evidence of bias. Now, in Republican circles there is a direct line from the administration to Foxnews and back again. With the pundits appearing with the candidates at political rallies. > > But, yeah, tell me again how Foxnews and MSNBC are opposite but equal entities. It’s OK If A Republican Does It. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27080 "2018-11-11T04:13:48Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Creeping fascism. Bit by bit. Hell, he’s not even creeping anymore. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27081 "2018-11-11T09:05:43Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Have Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone ever been so… political? > [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > You should see what Teen Vogue is publishing these days! That’s nothing. I was at my dentist’s office last week and picked up an issue of Highlights… ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27082 "2018-11-11T09:23:41Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Creeping fascism. Bit by bit. And people reacted with incredulity during the campaign every time I referred to Trump as a Bazi or said he’s jyst like Hitler. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27083 "2018-11-11T10:27:24Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s nothing. I was at my dentist’s office last week and picked up an issue of Highlights… Gallant dressed appropriately when invited to a Hindu marriage. Goofus wore his stained MAGA hat and his bitchin’ Judas Priest t-shirt to his grandmother’s funeral. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27084 "2018-11-11T13:31:57Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > And people reacted with incredulity during the campaign every time I referred to Trump as a Bazi or said he’s jyst like Hitler. Nazi, rather. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1353) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1355)