# 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:** 1499
**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 25, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29965 "2019-01-25T16:37:49Z")
So does Puerto Rico have electricity yet? Just curious. ---
**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 25, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29966 "2019-01-25T16:39:33Z")
[Individial-1 covered in own shit as furloughed white house staff fail to bathe him](https://politics.theonion.com/trump-covered-in-own-shit-after-furloughed-white-house-1831966461) (Onion) ---
**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 25, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29967 "2019-01-25T16:59:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [Individial-1 covered in own shit as furloughed white house staff fail to bathe him](https://politics.theonion.com/trump-covered-in-own-shit-after-furloughed-white-house-1831966461) (Onion) Beautiful. ---
**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 25, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29968 "2019-01-25T18:59:45Z")
Ouch!.. Donnie had to feel this one… [**Warriors skip the White House, meet with former president Barack Obama instead**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/01/25/warriors-skip-white-house-meet-with-former-president-barack-obama-instead/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.da94a29685dd) > [@](#): > > The Golden State Warriors knew they would not be visiting the White House to celebrate their 2018 NBA title on their annual trip to Washington this week. They hadn’t done so last year in recognition of their 2017 championship, with Stephen Curry saying he wouldn’t have met with President Trump even if invited and Trump then withdrawing any invitation that may or may not have existed. > > Instead, the Warriors this week met with the White House’s previous resident, on Thursday paying a visit to former president Barack Obama at his Washington office ahead of their game that night against the Wizards. > … Course, there are a lot of darkies on that team, so they prolly shouldn’t be visiting the WHITE house anyway, amirite? Better they should congregate with that black Muslim Kenyan. :rolleyes: ---
**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 25, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29969 "2019-01-25T19:10:49Z")
[FAA will be closing La Guardia](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/01/25/laguardia-faa-stops-flights-into-lga-due-government-shutdown/2677048002/) due to manpower shortage. ---
**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 25, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29970 "2019-01-25T19:13:30Z")
Roger Stone left the courthouse (where he appeared in shackles) to immediately do an interview with Alex Jones. ---
**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 25, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29971 "2019-01-25T19:14:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Roger Stone left the courthouse (where he appeared in shackles) to immediately do an interview with Alex Jones. Oh goody. Now we’ll find out what’s really going on. Right. ---
**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 25, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29972 "2019-01-25T19:20:58Z")
Oh, how fucking incomplete can you fucking get? Shitgibbon is giving a speech thing outside the WH, in front of glass-pane doors, and you can follow the teleprompter’s distorted reflection over his left shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29973 "2019-01-25T19:26:37Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Oh, how fucking incomplete can you fucking get? Shitgibbon is giving a speech thing outside the WH, in front of glass-pane doors, and you can follow the teleprompter’s distorted reflection over his left shoulder. To be fair this answers the question of whether or not he can read. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29974 "2019-01-25T19:29:12Z")
Umm… per Trump… Women are being kidnapped in Mexico and being brought to the US. Um What? ---
**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 25, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29975 "2019-01-25T19:33:13Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > To be fair this answers the question of whether or not he can read. Thing is, you can tell when he is going off script, because it stops scrolling. I mean, you did not think I would have the sound on for this, did you? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29976 "2019-01-25T19:42:03Z")
Trump caves. Government reopens (temporarily) with no wall funding. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29977 "2019-01-25T19:49:09Z")
Pelosi [spiking](https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1088872307274235904) the ball: _Pelosi, asked how Trump will handle backdown on reopening government without wall money, gestures toward her office decorations: “we could plant these flowers along the border and he’d say, ‘I got my wall.’ “_ ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29978 "2019-01-25T20:06:26Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Pelosi [spiking](https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1088872307274235904) the ball: > > _Pelosi, asked how Trump will handle backdown on reopening government without wall money, gestures toward her office decorations: “we could plant these flowers along the border and he’d say, ‘I got my wall.’ “_ Oooooo…sick burn. Trump is going to spend the rest of the day kicking puppies and channel surfing, looking for a pundit who can spin this into some kind of win. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29979 "2019-01-25T20:07:55Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Umm… per Trump… Women are being kidnapped in Mexico and being brought to the US. > > Um What? Drat, he’s on to me!! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29980 "2019-01-25T20:16:53Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Umm… per Trump… Women are being kidnapped in Mexico and being brought to the US. Excellent. Then my new wife should be arriving shortly. Have her bathed first, please. ---
**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 25, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29981 "2019-01-25T20:22:09Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Umm… per Trump… Women are being kidnapped in Mexico and being brought to the US. > > Um What? That must be why he’s pushing for Deferred Action for Sex-Slave Arrival. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29982 "2019-01-25T20:29:01Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Pelosi [spiking](https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1088872307274235904) the ball: > > _Pelosi, asked how Trump will handle backdown on reopening government without wall money, gestures toward her office decorations: “we could plant these flowers along the border and he’d say, ‘I got my wall.’ “_ It’s very clever and I love it - but between that tweet and Coulter calling him a bigger wimp than decorated naval hero GHW Bush, I think we’re guaranteed going through this again in three weeks (unless McConnell decides the Senate is actually separate from the Executive). ---
**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 25, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29983 "2019-01-25T20:31:01Z")
My cynical self thinks that I-1 just agreed to a temporary reopening of the government so he can give his State of the Union address. ---
**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 25, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/29984 "2019-01-25T20:32:05Z")
Well, yeah. Pelosi knew his triggers and got him to cave because of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1498) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1500)