# 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:** 1357
**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 12, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27125 "2018-11-12T14:04:16Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Poor country mouse. Once he’s out of French airspace, he’ll be claiming that he was right there in the front row. And he’ll produce a picture that shows him “Being There.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27126 "2018-11-12T14:53:28Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > So how the hell did _they_ manage to get there? Now the White House is saying Trump didn’t want to disrupt traffic with a motorcade. [sarcasm]God bless him. Always thinking of others.[/sarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27127 "2018-11-12T17:17:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Somebody on Twitter said that Trump is the oldest elected President, and would you want your grandfather to go out into the cold rain? Either of my grandfathers would have had the cojones to walk that walk, even on the day before he died. I mean, you’re talking about a guy who broke his neck falling on the concrete bleachers of a soccer field in his mid-70s, had the presence of mind to tell people “don’t touch me! don’t try to lift me up, I heard a crack I don’t like at all, call an ambulance!” and who two weeks later was told “I know these two XRays are yours because I took both of them, but damn me if today’s doesn’t look like an old wound. Are you sure you’re human?” And a guy who, upon being told “I have bad news; with these blood pressure readings (10 over 5, using US units), you’re clinically dead” answered “guess that explains why I’ve been feeling kind of under the weather then!” Those two didn’t have no bone spurs. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27128 "2018-11-12T17:42:00Z")
I had a grandfather who also served in the Great War. The other one was already married with two children. Damn, I’m old. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27129 "2018-11-12T17:58:03Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Soames is a sleazemonster in his own right\* but compared to Trump he’s a model of class and refinement, and no one can doubt his patriotism. TBCF, his grandfather was himself a serious asshole, which was convenient at the time that a serious asshole was a useful thing, but maybe not so much as the other times. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27130 "2018-11-12T18:25:46Z")
Looks like [Trumpy wants to cut funding to Puerto Rico](https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/politics/trump-puerto-rico/index.html). > [@From CNN](#): > > While there are no talks to cut funds that have already been appropriated, a White House aide said negotiations have focused on keeping Puerto Rico relief funding out of a supplemental spending bill that would fund relief efforts in parts of the south that were ravaged by hurricanes this year. > That aide noted Puerto Rican officials haven’t yet spent all the money Congress has set aside for them, and said the administration is moving to stop any more money from going to help the island “because they don’t need it and will most likely not be able to spend 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 12, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27131 "2018-11-12T18:39:39Z")
[**In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception**](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/politics/north-korea-missile-bases.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — North Korea is moving ahead with its ballistic missile program at 16 hidden bases that have been identified in new commercial satellite images, a network long known to American intelligence agencies but left undiscussed as President Trump claims to have neutralized the North’s nuclear threat. > > The satellite images suggest that the North has been engaged in a great deception: It has offered to dismantle a major launching site — a step it began, then halted — while continuing to make improvements at more than a dozen others that would bolster launches of conventional and nuclear warheads. > > The existence of the ballistic missile bases, which North Korea has never acknowledged, contradicts Mr. Trump’s assertion that his landmark diplomacy is leading to the elimination of a nuclear and missile program that the North had warned could devastate the United States. > … “Great deception”?? “Contradicts Mr. Trump’s assertion”?? B-b-b-b-ut I thought thump and Kim were bros! ---
**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:** [November 12, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27132 "2018-11-12T18:44:18Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [**In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception**](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/politics/north-korea-missile-bases.html)"Great deception"?? “Contradicts Mr. Trump’s assertion”?? > > B-b-b-b-ut I thought thump and Kim were bros! He’s been cheating on Kim with Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27133 "2018-11-12T19:06:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > TBCF, his grandfather was himself a serious asshole, which was convenient at the time that a serious asshole was a useful thing, but maybe not so much as the other times. “Madam, tomorrow morning you will be sober, but I shall still be a serious asshole.” ---
**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 12, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27134 "2018-11-12T19:11:27Z")
Trump declined to attend the traditional wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington today because it’s raining. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27135 "2018-11-12T19:16:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [**In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception**](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/politics/north-korea-missile-bases.html)"Great deception"?? “Contradicts Mr. Trump’s assertion”?? > > B-b-b-b-ut I thought thump and Kim were bros! Yeah, the kind of bros who think hazing is funny 😛 ---
**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 12, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27136 "2018-11-12T19:25:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump declined to attend the traditional wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington today because it’s raining. Trump doesn’t know this soldier. He likes soldiers that didn’t die in combat. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27137 "2018-11-12T19:50:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump declined to attend the traditional wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington today because it’s raining. Fucking seriously? ---
**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:** [November 12, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27138 "2018-11-12T19:59:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump declined to attend the traditional wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington today because it’s raining. And he thinks kneeling is a show of disrespect to the military. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27139 "2018-11-12T20:02:55Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [**In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception**](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/politics/north-korea-missile-bases.html)"Great deception"?? “Contradicts Mr. Trump’s assertion”?? > > B-b-b-b-ut I thought thump and Kim were bros! Wait. Weren’t there Trump supporters who were saying he should get the Nobel Peace Prize because of his masterful diplomacy in neutralizing the North Korean nuclear threat? Surely a great negotiator like Trump didn’t get played by a Third World dictator. I mean, he has the best brain and knows more about everything than anybody. Just ask him. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27140 "2018-11-12T20:51:21Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > “Madam, tomorrow morning you will be sober, but I shall still be a serious asshole.” Arrrgh, that is a slander up with which we shall not put! ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27141 "2018-11-12T20:53:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump declined to attend the traditional wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington today because it’s raining. Wait a minute, I think I get this. Is… is he the Wicked Witch? ---
**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:** [November 12, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27142 "2018-11-12T20:58:01Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Fucking seriously? Kind of. The wreath layment was on the 11th (yesterday), so he was not in town. Fuckface von Hoserhead was there, though, because someone had to supply an unctuous smirk. ---
**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 12, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27143 "2018-11-12T21:29:18Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He’s been cheating on Kim with Putin. It was that borscht-scented aftershave that gave it away. ---
**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 12, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/27144 "2018-11-12T21:35:55Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Kind of. The wreath layment was on the 11th (yesterday), so he was not in town. Fuckface von Hoserhead was there, though, because someone had to supply an unctuous smirk. Hm. Reports I read said it was today and he declined. Other reports say no, it was yesterday, when he was flying back. So I’ll withdraw that one complaint. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1356) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1358)