# 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:** 1482
**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 17, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29625 "2019-01-17T15:36:26Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > At least until the power went to our heads. You can’t _ban_ a Senator! ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29626 "2019-01-17T15:41:33Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Clearly WE should be running the show 😃 Wasn’t there a Simpsons already about this? I don’t recall it ending well then either… ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29627 "2019-01-17T15:47:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Good holy God… we’ve\* been saying that around here from Day One of this so-called administration! Deny him the audience, don’t engage, don’t wind him up, don’t give him the satisfaction, don’t play HIS GAME. IOW treat him the way we treat SDMB trolls. The narcissist craves attention. Do not give it to him. Make his head explode. Maybe we can get Paul Anka to sing a jingle to remind everyone. ---
**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 17, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29628 "2019-01-17T16:28:26Z")
[Only three-quarters of Trump supporters definitely plan to vote for him in 2020](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/17/only-three-quarters-trump-supporters-definitely-plan-vote-him/) > [@](#): > > At the top, the new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll isn’t great news for President Trump’s reelection prospects. > > The pollsters asked Americans if they planned to vote for Trump’s reelection in 2020, and only 30 percent of respondents said they definitely planned to. More worrisome for the president: 57 percent said they definitely wouldn’t back his candidacy. > > … > > What’s much more important is the discrepancy marked with the outlined box above. Trump got 46 percent of the independent vote in 2016 to Clinton’s 42 percent. **Now, 62 percent of independents already say that they won’t vote for him.** > > … > > So now we come to the coup de grace. Among Trump _supporters_, only about three-quarters say they will definitely vote for him. Nearly 20 percent of his supporters say they’re unsure if they’ll back him, about the same as the percentage of Republicans who say that. Bolding mine, italics theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29629 "2019-01-17T17:29:30Z")
Finally, Hillary has a shot! ---
**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 17, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29630 "2019-01-17T17:35:36Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Finally, Hillary has a shot! _shakes head_ How soon they forget. _shakes head_ This is just the break the Hilary campaign was waiting for! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29631 "2019-01-17T17:39:38Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > At least until the power went to our heads. Those four-and-a-half minutes would be a golden age, though. ---
**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 17, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29632 "2019-01-17T17:45:16Z")
One of the polls Cohen was supposed to rig was a Drudge Report poll. Drudge isn’t [happy with this news](https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1085953924597776384). (Link goes to a tweet and not to Drudge as Drudge changes headlines constantly. Link contains screenshot of current (yes, I checked) Drudge front page). ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29633 "2019-01-17T18:42:45Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Clearly WE should be running the show 😃 I, for one, welcome our new dope overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29634 "2019-01-17T19:23:29Z")
I’m not sure where to put this, but I had to share. Apologies if it’s been posted elsewhere. Stolen from Facebook: Trump is so far up Putin’s ass that he can see Sarah Palin’s house. ---
**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 17, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29635 "2019-01-17T19:29:46Z")
LOL, Trump responds to Pelosi’s move with one of his own. Like everything Individual-1 does, it’s pathetic, small, and can’t be implemented: > ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29636 "2019-01-17T19:36:26Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Good holy God… we’ve\* been saying that around here from Day One of this so-called administration! Deny him the audience, don’t engage, don’t wind him up, don’t give him the satisfaction, don’t play HIS GAME. IOW treat him the way we treat SDMB trolls. The narcissist craves attention. Do not give it to him. Make his head explode. > > \*Well, I have, anyway. :dubious: This. And quit reporting every goddamn thing he tweets! I’d love for the media to start saying “The President had no comment” if his only comment is on Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29637 "2019-01-17T19:37:14Z")
You’ll be able to read all of his tweets at the Donald Trump Presidential Library. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29638 "2019-01-17T19:38:40Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > I predict Rudy will soon be saying “I never said Donald Trump didn’t collude with the Russians. I said the President of the United States didn’t collude with the Russians.” Or - How long before he says collusion with the Russians is a good thing? ---
**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 17, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29639 "2019-01-17T19:46:14Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > You’ll be able to read all of his tweets at the Donald Trump Presidential Library. I don’t plug contaminated thumb drives into my computer. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29640 "2019-01-17T20:08:26Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > LOL, Trump responds to Pelosi’s move with one of his own. Like everything Individual-1 does, it’s pathetic, small, and can’t be implemented: > > [https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1085978219872964608](https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1085978219872964608) and, from some of the responses in the thread, classified information. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29641 "2019-01-17T20:11:38Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > LOL, Trump responds to Pelosi’s move with one of his own. Like everything Individual-1 does, it’s pathetic, small, and can’t be implemented: > > [https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1085978219872964608](https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1085978219872964608) Does the wanna-be dictator honestly think that he can ban overseas travel by his political opponents? I know he wants to be like his heros Putin and Lil Kim, but has anyone actually told him this was an idiotic idea? ---
**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 17, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29642 "2019-01-17T20:15:48Z")
He told her she can’t take a military flight into a war zone, instead to fly commercial. What’s really funny is the WH team spent 24 hours thinking of a response to a 78 year-old and the best they could come up with was taking a 7,000 mile trip off her schedule. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29643 "2019-01-17T20:20:06Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > He told her she can’t take a military flight into a war zone, instead to fly commercial. > > What’s really funny is the WH team spent 24 hours thinking of a response to a 78 year-old and the best they could come up with was taking a 7,000 mile trip off her schedule. Also Pelosi can (and should) now blame Trump for publicizing the previously secret trip. Now that the secret is out, it won’t be safe for her to fly commercial. We all remember Trump made a war zone trip just a few weeks ago in complete secret. ---
**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 17, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29644 "2019-01-17T20:20:42Z")
Can I just remark that paying $50k to game an online poll is possibly the dumbest waste of money I’ve ever heard of? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1481) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1483)