# 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:** 1429
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28565 "2018-12-26T02:58:58Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Eh. If he wants to claim credit for each of the good days, he should take his lumps for each the down days. > [@bobot](#): > > Yeah. And maybe he can brag about a year long performance, that’s gotta show something. For example the Dow at the beginning of this year: 24,842 > Dow today, 12/5: 25,027. > Thats… an increase! Fuckin-A! And here’s an update with figures that more accurately represent a full year. Dow:21,792 on motherfucking X-mas day. That’s less than last Jan. when it was 24,842. Trump sure is a genius, isn’t he, Trump Marks? Did you dumbfucks recieve the bridges that you bought? No? It’s been 2 years. Hmm. Surely, they’re in the mail. Dunbfucks. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28566 "2018-12-26T02:59:13Z")
Doesn’t the USA have child protection laws? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28567 "2018-12-26T03:27:16Z")
Iokiardi ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28568 "2018-12-26T03:36:33Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > [Look at this ridiculous shitstain.](https://us.cnn.com/2018/12/25/politics/trump-oval-office-christmas/index.html) > > Jesus Christ, Donny. Who can take you seriously? Look at the pathetic, 71 year-old with his hairline on his eyebrows and the silly, orange face. Before we take in your lies and moronic ramblings, we are subjected to the raging insecurity that compels a man to make a fool of himself in this way. Just shut the fuck up. You have failed. You’re a failure and your “administration” is a foul joke. There is only one thing left, you useless pus bubble. Just one word. The only word that should be spoken whenever your name is mentioned: > > Resign. From the link: > [@](#): > > As uniformed servicemen were beamed into the Oval Office via satellite from US bases in Alaska, Bahrain, Guam and Qatar – **but not war zones like Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria** – Trump said he was pleased to see rich nations like Qatar – “There are many, many ways of pronouncing it,” Trump observed of the Gulf nation – chipping in for regional security efforts. (Bolding added) He can’t even face them by satellite. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28569 "2018-12-26T03:53:58Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > He used a big word that a 7 year old was unfamiliar with. So he’s got that going for him. > **Fortunately, that 7-year-old who talked to Trump about Santa had no idea what ‘marginal’ meant** > > [https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-child-santa-20181225-story.html](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-child-santa-20181225-story.html) To be fair to the kid, she probably still has a bigger vocabulary than he does. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28570 "2018-12-26T04:41:21Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > He used a big word that a 7 year old was unfamiliar with. So he’s got that going for him. > **Fortunately, that 7-year-old who talked to Trump about Santa had no idea what ‘marginal’ meant** > > [https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-child-santa-20181225-story.html](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-child-santa-20181225-story.html) When I heard that the tan twerp said “marginal” to the kid, I thought, “Well, that’s okay. Neither party to the conversation has any idea what ‘marginal’ means.” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28571 "2018-12-26T13:16:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Donald Scrooge [says that “many” federal workers have told him they want to go without pay until he gets his wall.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-bizarrely-claims-many-federal-workers-want-go-without-paychecks-gets-wall/) “Many of mah darkies have told me they want to go without pay until the South prevails in this [del]Democrat[/del] Northern War of Aggression.” ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28572 "2018-12-26T13:32:51Z")
Slate is reporting… damn. It’s just too stupid to just say it. …sigh… Slate is reporting that Individual-1 is going to fire Mnuchin because the stock market has been going down. > [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/trump-is-reportedly-considering-firing-mnuchin-over-stock-market-declines.amp](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/trump-is-reportedly-considering-firing-mnuchin-over-stock-market-declines.amp) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28573 "2018-12-26T14:49:50Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Slate is reporting… damn. It’s just too stupid to just say it. > > …sigh… > > Slate is reporting that Individual-1 is going to fire Mnuchin because the stock market has been going down. > > [https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1077661059970928641?s=19](https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1077661059970928641?s=19) > > [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/trump-is-reportedly-considering-firing-mnuchin-over-stock-market-declines.amp](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/trump-is-reportedly-considering-firing-mnuchin-over-stock-market-declines.amp) Sigh, indeed. This obsession with the Dow is just bizarre. Somebody … one of the few remaining grown-ups, I guess … needs to stand up, and point out that the charter of the Treasury Department, and the Federal Reserve, does not include “making sure the markets only go up.” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28574 "2018-12-26T15:14:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Oh, for fuck’s sake; [Loser Donald takes a Christmas Eve phone call from a 7-year-old and asks him if he still believes in Santa.](https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1077375011600678912) When Trump does one of these bizarre things, I often ask, “can you imagine if Obama did this and what the right wing reaction would be?” but this time I simply can’t imagine Obama doing this. It takes a truly unique bundle of stupidity, insecurity, and narcissism to answer a phone call from a little kid on Christmas eve in the manner he did. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28575 "2018-12-26T15:45:52Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > He can’t even face them by satellite. I guess that the ole [bone spurs](https://us.cnn.com/2018/12/26/politics/trump-bone-spurs-vietnam-war/index.html) are acting up. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28576 "2018-12-26T16:01:25Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Slate is reporting… damn. It’s just too stupid to just say it. > > …sigh… > > Slate is reporting that Individual-1 is going to fire Mnuchin because the stock market has been going down. > > [https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1077661059970928641?s=19](https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1077661059970928641?s=19) > > [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/trump-is-reportedly-considering-firing-mnuchin-over-stock-market-declines.amp](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/trump-is-reportedly-considering-firing-mnuchin-over-stock-market-declines.amp) Wow. Once again I am surprised by a new level of obtuseness out of this guy. What kind of fever dream must he be in to even consider that there is a cause-effect here that works out well for him? Words fail. Nice choice with the sigh there, **JohnT**. I guess there is a conversation to be had re: whether we’d be better off without Mnuchin regardless. _Remember kids, you can trust GOPers to manage public affairs every. single. time!_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28577 "2018-12-26T16:04:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Donald Scrooge [says that “many” federal workers have told him they want to go without pay until he gets his wall.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-bizarrely-claims-many-federal-workers-want-go-without-paychecks-gets-wall/) [Lord Vader] Perhaps you think your are being treated _unfairly_? [/Lord Vader] Who would contradict a boss that had no qualms at all about throwing an underling to the wolves? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28578 "2018-12-26T16:31:02Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > When Trump does one of these bizarre things, I often ask, “can you imagine if Obama did this and what the right wing reaction would be?” but this time I simply can’t imagine Obama doing this. It takes a truly unique bundle of stupidity, insecurity, and narcissism to answer a phone call from a little kid on Christmas eve in the manner he did. In his defense (snort!) he’s probably never talked to a 7 year old in his life, including his own. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28579 "2018-12-26T16:36:17Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > In his defense (snort!) he’s probably never talked to a 7 year old in his life, including his own. Yeah, he considers them the big kids. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28580 "2018-12-26T16:47:22Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Wow. Once again I am surprised by a new level of obtuseness out of this guy. What kind of fever dream must he be in to even consider that there is a cause-effect here that works out well for him? Words fail. Nice choice with the sigh there, **JohnT**. I guess there is a conversation to be had re: whether we’d be better off without Mnuchin regardless. > _Remember kids, you can trust GOPers to manage public affairs every. single. time!_ 😉 It has nothing to do with cause-effect. It’s all about BLAME. He has to blame someone, and it ain’t gonna be him. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28581 "2018-12-26T16:52:46Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Wow. Once again I am surprised by a new level of obtuseness out of this guy. What kind of fever dream must he be in to even consider that there is a cause-effect here that works out well for him? Words fail. Nice choice with the sigh there, **JohnT**. I guess there is a conversation to be had re: whether we’d be better off without Mnuchin regardless. Trump’s probably raging he can’t fire Obama or Hillary over this. You know, they must somehow be at fault. And George Soros. In Trump’s mind, it couldn’t possibly be his instability and craziness that are to blame. Countdown to someone like Hannity, Limbaugh, or Coulter blaming Obama or Hillary for the market, though. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28582 "2018-12-26T16:57:58Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Trump’s probably raging he can’t fire Obama or Hillary over this. You know, they must somehow be at fault. And George Soros. In Trump’s mind, it couldn’t possibly be his instability and craziness that are to blame. > > Countdown to someone like Hannity, Limbaugh, or Coulter blaming Obama or Hillary for the market, though. Wait, hold on. The Dow is up today; therefore, Trump is a genius again, and Mnuchin can keep his job for another 24 hours. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28583 "2018-12-26T17:04:35Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Wait, hold on. The Dow is up today; therefore, Trump is a genius again, and Mnuchin can keep his job for another 24 hours. But with regard to the market, is Trump a stable genius? ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28584 "2018-12-26T17:11:07Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > trump’s probably raging he can’t fire obama or hillary over this. You know, they must somehow be at fault. … Exactly!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1428) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1430)