# 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:** 1448
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28945 "2019-01-06T06:43:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > From the Maddow Blog. The unsettling list of Trump’s made-up conversations keeps growing Whenever Loser Donald wants to convince someone that people like his ideas, he says he “got a call” from someone. I like to imagine him sitting at the Resolute Desk, clutching a handset that isn’t plugged into anything. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28946 "2019-01-06T06:54:16Z")
Hey, give him some credit. Maybe it’s a toy Flintstone phone. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28947 "2019-01-06T06:57:38Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Whenever Loser Donald wants to convince someone that people like his ideas, he says he “got a call” from someone. > > I like to imagine him sitting at the Resolute Desk, clutching a handset that isn’t plugged into anything. How are random people getting his phone number? Is he just handing it out to people on the street? Hasn’t the Secret Service managed to screen the calls he gets, at least? (I know they can’t do anything about the calls he makes.) ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28948 "2019-01-06T07:01:05Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > How are random people getting his phone number? Is he just handing it out to people on the street? Hasn’t the Secret Service managed to screen the calls he gets, at least? (I know they can’t do anything about the calls he makes.) The WH switchboard operator would normally do that, but he tapped her for SecDef… ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28949 "2019-01-06T07:11:27Z")
Chump’s defense of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan pushes him even further into traitor territory than he already was. It’s long been a given that Republicans are self-centered, but they were always at least patriotic, if often over the top. I never thought I would see the day when a Republican president gave public blowjobs to a de facto Russian dictator and his party stood firmly behind him. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28950 "2019-01-06T07:30:44Z")
Isn’t the White House switchboard closed due to the “strike”/shutdown? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28951 "2019-01-06T07:34:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Isn’t the White House switchboard closed due to the “strike”/shutdown? I believe it is. So don’t bother phoning in your opinion of the shutdown. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28952 "2019-01-06T07:41:58Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Hey, give him some credit. Maybe it’s a toy Flintstone phone. Or perhaps someone gave him one of [these](https://imgur.com/darw1js). ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28953 "2019-01-06T07:53:20Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > What happens? We call our Senators and demand that they do something about a criminal President who shut down the government to avoid indictments. My elected official is Mitch McConnell. Wish me luck. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28954 "2019-01-06T08:27:51Z")
And my senators are Mike Crapo and Jim Risch. My congressman is Russ Fulcher. Trumpsuckers, the lot of them. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28955 "2019-01-06T08:49:26Z")
… precisely the sort of people you should be calling. I mean, calling sympathetic Democratic Senators isn’t worth shit. Mitch McConnell? That’s gold, Jerry, gold! ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28956 "2019-01-06T09:30:32Z")
No link, mainly because it will piss me off evem more at the current situation back in my country. Trump blathers that the meetings he has with Democrat leadership are wonderfull. Nothing, absolutely nothing was accomplished. Tan the Conman thinks any meeting he is in is absolutely wonderful. That’s how deluded he is. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28957 "2019-01-06T15:34:11Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > With other news of 45 floating the idea of a national emergency, I wonder if he’s clumsily angling to declare a full state of emergency somehow, martial law included. He’s that stupid, and now Kelly and Mattis (and Sessions!) are out of his way. Their replacements are only ever going to say ‘Yes Sir!’ and ‘How high?’ This is pretty clearly his off ramp plan for this shutdown. He will declare a state of emergency, and he will be told that he can’t do that. He will then whine that he can’t protect the American people because Democrats won’t let him declare a state of emergency. No wall, and he still claims to “win”. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28958 "2019-01-06T16:03:57Z")
Check out the [Flash Gordon comic for January 6.](http://comicskingdom.com/flash-gordon) ---
**Author:** ![Batano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Batano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batano)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28959 "2019-01-06T16:30:37Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Today I heard Trump’s government shutdown referred to as his “Marie Antoinette Moment.” > > I like that. Let them eat two scoops ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28960 "2019-01-06T20:12:13Z")
Eric Trump thinks Ellen DeGeneres is part of the Deep State. [Donald Trump's Son Suggests Ellen DeGeneres Is Running a Shadow Government](https://www.newsweek.com/ellen-eric-trump-deep-state-donald-trump-shadow-government-769296)? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28961 "2019-01-06T20:36:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Eric Trump thinks Ellen DeGeneres is part of the Deep State. > [https://www.newsweek.com/ellen-eric-trump-deep-state-donald-trump-shadow-government-769296](https://www.newsweek.com/ellen-eric-trump-deep-state-donald-trump-shadow-government-769296)? That happened a year ago. Still nutty tho. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28962 "2019-01-06T22:23:55Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Check out the [Flash Gordon comic for January 6.](http://comicskingdom.com/flash-gordon) So, Trump has lost the support of Flash Gordon? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28963 "2019-01-06T23:14:53Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Check out the [Flash Gordon comic for January 6.](http://comicskingdom.com/flash-gordon) Very implausible. Trump would be saying how much he admired Ming the Merciless and that there was no collusion with Mongo. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/28964 "2019-01-06T23:25:26Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Very implausible. Trump would be saying how much he admired Ming the Merciless and that there was no collusion with Mongo. Mongo only pawn in game of life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1447) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1449)