# 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:** 1493
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29845 "2019-01-23T00:11:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1 has received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actor for both Dinesh D’Souza’s **Birth of a Nation** and Michael Moore’s **Fahrenheit 11/9**. Worst Actor? This will eat at him like nothing since Rosie O’Donnell’s insults. If we’re lucky, he’ll be so eager to prove them wrong that he’ll drop all his grifting and wreck-the-economy efforts, in favor of finding a movie to star in to show he’s the Greatest Actor of All Time. (I suggest a remake of _Plan 9 From Outer Space_, with Donald in the “Director’s Chiropractor” role.) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29846 "2019-01-23T00:55:01Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Worst Actor? This will eat at him like nothing since Rosie O’Donnell’s insults. > > If we’re lucky, he’ll be so eager to prove them wrong that he’ll drop all his grifting and wreck-the-economy efforts, in favor of finding a movie to star in to show he’s the Greatest Actor of All Time. > > (I suggest a remake of _Plan 9 From Outer Space_, with Donald in the “Director’s Chiropractor” role.) He should hire [Senor Spielbergo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKu0TVlumcc). ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29847 "2019-01-23T01:07:00Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > He should hire [Senor Spielbergo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKu0TVlumcc). “Schindler es bueno, Señor Trump es el diablo.” ---
**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 23, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29848 "2019-01-23T01:24:24Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Worst Actor? This will eat at him like nothing since Rosie O’Donnell’s insults. > > If we’re lucky, he’ll be so eager to prove them wrong that he’ll drop all his grifting and wreck-the-economy efforts, in favor of finding a movie to star in to show he’s the Greatest Actor of All Time. > > (I suggest a remake of _Plan 9 From Outer Space_, with Donald in the “Director’s Chiropractor” role.) A remake of “Manos, The Hands Of Fate”. Short Film category. Giuliani can play Torgo. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29849 "2019-01-23T01:45:08Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > They are not so much hats as caps. They ought to be known as the maga _ **redcaps** _, just for the sake of twisting them. Did you go where I think you went or am I just old with an antique definition of Redcap? :eek: ---
**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 23, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29850 "2019-01-23T02:04:07Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Did you go where I think you went or am I just old with an antique definition of Redcap? :eek: I assumed he meant the murderous faeries. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29851 "2019-01-23T02:04:40Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Did you go where I think you went or am I just old with an antique definition of Redcap? :eek: yes I did, tyvm ---
**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:** [January 23, 2019, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29852 "2019-01-23T02:09:01Z")
[privatized immigrant detention centers](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-detention/11-toothpaste-immigrants-pay-big-for-basics-at-private-ice-lock-ups-idUSKCN1PC0DJ) (where you can get work for $1/day and save up for nearly two weeks to buy a tube of toothpaste) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29853 "2019-01-23T03:19:25Z")
_One Day in the Life of Juan Denisovich_ ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29854 "2019-01-23T03:49:16Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Of all the goddam motherfucking rotten shit! Whats the going rate, thousand bucks for the parents, two fifty each for the kids? Gotta get the ball rolling with incentives to turn in the [DEL]juden[/DEL] [DEL]vermin[/DEL] [DEL]brown subhumans[/DEL] illegals. Before you know it, they’ll be building community shower facilities. ---
**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 23, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29855 "2019-01-23T04:11:05Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [privatized immigrant detention centers](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-detention/11-toothpaste-immigrants-pay-big-for-basics-at-private-ice-lock-ups-idUSKCN1PC0DJ) (where you can get work for $1/day and save up for nearly two weeks to buy a tube of toothpaste) Land of the Free! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29856 "2019-01-23T04:34:42Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > yes I did, tyvm So, can we address the MAGA Redcaps “boy?” ---
**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:** [January 23, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29857 "2019-01-23T05:10:58Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > So, can we address the MAGA Redcaps “boy?” No. It was wrong in the old days (tolerated as it might have been), it is no less wrong today. We need to knock off with the othering, because they are sure as hell not going to. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29858 "2019-01-23T12:28:30Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > Sounds like basically nobody will ever be granted asylum again under that scheme. > [@garygnu](#): > > That’s the idea. > [@HelenGawn](#): > > And the application must be filled out in English. **PROSSER:** Look. These plans have been on display at the planning office now for a year. **ARTHUR:** On display? I had to go down to a cellar! **P:** That’s the display department. **A:** I eventually found them in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘beware of the leopard’. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29859 "2019-01-23T12:42:39Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [privatized immigrant detention centers](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-detention/11-toothpaste-immigrants-pay-big-for-basics-at-private-ice-lock-ups-idUSKCN1PC0DJ) (where you can get work for $1/day and save up for nearly two weeks to buy a tube of toothpaste) Horrible. How many Americans are even aware of stories like this? Stories like this should be broadcast (by CNN etc.? As advertisements with PAC money?) to inform the U.S. people what their government tolerates. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29860 "2019-01-23T12:58:01Z")
Since hungry people are weaker and more submissive the Thrump Administration has significantly reduced humanitarian aid to Palestinians. Even before this cut, Palestine had six times the infant mortality rate of Israel. This is a variation on ‘carrot-and-stick’ diplomacy called ‘Stick-and-Stick™.’ The first stick was to thumb our noses at the Palestinians by moving the U.S. Embassy for Israel to the Muslim’s Holy City of Ursalim al-Quds. These cuts were not part of the Trump shut-down; they were deliberate to the Kushner Peace Plan. The savings involved won’t even pay for part of The Wall — it’s just Millions with an M. (A trivial amount of rice and beans goes a long way for a starving kid.) MAGA. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29861 "2019-01-23T14:37:34Z")
Ironically, 30 years ago when Republicans pictured “asylum seekers” they had in mind Cubans on boats. As soon as they set foot on the shores of the Land of the Free, regardless of where they landed, they were welcomed with open arms. No need to file in their home countries or go through ports of entry. ---
**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 23, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29862 "2019-01-23T14:46:22Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Ironically, 30 years ago when Republicans pictured “asylum seekers” they had in mind Cubans on boats. As soon as they set foot on the shores of the Land of the Free, regardless of where they landed, they were welcomed with open arms. No need to file in their home countries or go through ports of entry. We had some of those folks locked up at Fort Chaffe, Arkansas. I recall speaking to Governor Clinton about it at the library. He agreed that someone might climb the fence looking for cigarettes, a beer or girls and be shot by the local populace. ---
**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 23, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29863 "2019-01-23T15:07:33Z")
[For the first time since Feb 27, 2018, FiveThirtyEight has Trump’s popularity under 40%](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo). Right now he stands at 39.6% popularity and 55.7% unpopularity- a -16.1 spread. I don’t reckon it’ll be any better tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29864 "2019-01-23T15:10:47Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > [For the first time since Feb 27, 2018, FiveThirtyEight has Trump’s popularity under 40%](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo). Right now he stands at 39.6% popularity and 55.7% unpopularity- a -16.1 spread. > > I don’t reckon it’ll be any better tomorrow. Wow. And it was actually up a tick yesterday. I was worried his fake “compromise” was gaining traction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1492) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1494)