# 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:** 1489
**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 19, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29765 "2019-01-19T21:46:22Z")
Well over an hour late, too… I guess they had to finish negotiating with Coulter to find out what they were going to say. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29766 "2019-01-19T21:49:19Z")
I saw a tawwt that none of the major broadcast networks aired it. Is that true? ---
**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:** [January 19, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29767 "2019-01-19T22:09:44Z")
I spun through the major networks here in Chicago and didn’t see it. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29768 "2019-01-19T22:24:21Z")
I’m sure Faux carried it. I mean, I’m not sure, but I would guess so. Probably. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29769 "2019-01-19T22:57:34Z")
CNN had it live on their website. I was working at the time so I couldn’t watch, or see if it was on their cable channel. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29770 "2019-01-20T00:45:14Z")
I deliberate watched a House rerun instead. I get to choose my drug-addled egomaniac on the tv. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29771 "2019-01-20T00:47:03Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I’m sure Faux carried it. I mean, I’m not sure, but I would guess so. Probably. I guess even Faux didn’t, according to this post in another thread: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21440642&postcount=4](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21440642&postcount=4) ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29772 "2019-01-20T01:16:42Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I’m starting to think there’s something to the Adderall snorting rumor. I am, too. It certainly would explain a lot. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29773 "2019-01-20T01:29:53Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I am, too. It certainly would explain a lot. But if so, imagine what he’d be like WITHOUT it. Oh, that’s right, it wears off just before 3am Tweety Time… ---
**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 20, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29774 "2019-01-20T01:37:36Z")
President Coulter has already tweeted her veto of Loser Donald’s plan, so I expect that by tomorrow he’ll be calling it Fake News that he ever gave a speech today. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29775 "2019-01-20T01:38:17Z")
Improvement to note, there were half-truths sprinkled over the boldfaced lies. Moldy croutons on a turd salad. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29776 "2019-01-20T01:45:30Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Can I just remark that paying $50k to game an online poll is possibly the dumbest waste of money I’ve ever heard of? > [@Celidin](#): > > Nah. The dumbest waste of money is to pay $50k to _unsuccessfully_ game an online poll. ISTM that the _dumbest_ thing is to undertake any job for the America-Hating fuckstick without getting paid FIRST. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29777 "2019-01-20T02:30:27Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > I guess even Faux didn’t, according to this post in another thread: > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21440642&postcount=4](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21440642&postcount=4) I hear ya, but the Fox that does the football and the Simpsons through the air is not the same as the Faux that does the Hannity and the bullshit through the cable. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29778 "2019-01-20T02:51:30Z")
Just read this on [The Hill](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426180-senate-to-take-up-trumps-border-immigration-plan-next-week): > [@](#): > > Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Saturday that the Senate will take up President Trump’s plan to tie more than $5 billion for the border wall to temporary legal protections for some undocumented immigrants next week. > > “I intend to move to this legislation this week. With bipartisan cooperation, the Senate can send a bill to the House quickly so that they can take action as well,” McConnell said in a statement. > … Someone decode this for me. Is Mitch saying that he’s going to take what thump proposed today, turn it into a bill, send it to the House, where (due to the fact that the Dems have a majority) it will surely be voted down. THEN McTurtle can say the Dems don’t want the shutdown to end blahblahblah? If that’s not correct, what IS he up to? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29779 "2019-01-20T03:09:26Z")
When did Anne of Green Goebbels Coulter begin to matter again? She sank into oblivion, and now all of a sudden she’s a heavyweight? Anyway, she’s already out there screaming “Amnesty!”. Maybe that matters, God along knows what does, these days. ---
**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 20, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29780 "2019-01-20T04:20:27Z")
So Individual 1 wants to extend DACA for three years in exchange for building his wall. And at the end of three years, the government will have documentation on everybody who signed up for DACA, and can then round them up and deport them, right? ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29781 "2019-01-20T04:41:49Z")
Trump cites San Antonio as a city that became much safer once it had a wall. > ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29782 "2019-01-20T04:53:03Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Is Mitch saying that he’s going to take what thump proposed today, turn it into a bill, send it to the House, where (due to the fact that the Dems have a majority) it will surely be voted down. THEN McTurtle can say the Dems don’t want the shutdown to end blahblahblah? I think so. See, it’s a waste of time to vote on a bill that you know the President won’t sign. But voting on a bill that you know the House won’t pass, that’s completely different. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29783 "2019-01-20T05:41:24Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > I deliberate watched a House rerun instead. > > I get to choose my drug-addled egomaniac on the tv. At least with House you know it’s not lupus. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29784 "2019-01-20T14:39:47Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > I think so. See, it’s a waste of time to vote on a bill that you know the President won’t sign. But voting on a bill that you know the House won’t pass, that’s completely different. Ah, sensei… you have clarified this well. _\_ Mitch McConnell, I detest you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1488) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1490)