# 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:** 1526
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30505 "2019-02-13T18:59:59Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m not really sure why anyone would complain about this. It’s his own money, and the more time he spends golfing the less time he has to Make America Suck Again. I agree. Thus one just doesn’t seem offensive or outrageous. A Stephanie Clifford simulator would raise a lot more eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30506 "2019-02-13T19:04:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > He was a Whig, and played some major part in creating the Republican party. The Republican Party was Liberal at least until Teddy Roosevelt. (Of course ‘liberal’ requires context, blahblahblah…) The Democrats, in the mid-19th Century, were Conservatives. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30507 "2019-02-13T19:27:22Z")
Darla Shine, the wife of ex-Fox producer and current White House communications director Bill Shine, is ranting against vaccinations. Measles keep us from getting cancer, apparently. > **[Top Trump Official's Wife Goes on Pro-Measles, Anti-Vaccine Rant](https://www.thedailybeast.com/darla-shine-wife-of-top-trump-official-goes-on-pro-measles-anti-vaccine-rant/)** > > ‘Bring back our #ChildhoodDiseases,’ wrote the former Fox News executive’s wife, ‘they keep you healthy & fight cancer.’ Surprise: she’s dangerously wrong. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30508 "2019-02-13T19:32:33Z")
Dead people in fact do not get cancer. That is a valid point. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30509 "2019-02-13T20:13:10Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I believe Trump also said he was the hardest working president in history. In the same way that William J. LePetomane was the hardest working governor. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30510 "2019-02-13T20:13:34Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Dead people in fact do not get cancer. That is a valid point. And it is hard to argue against her other point: that Baby Boomers who are alive today were not, in fact, killed by preventable childhood diseases. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30511 "2019-02-13T21:45:23Z")
[Another one bites the dust.](https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/politics/brock-long-fema/index.html) > [@](#): > > Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Brock Long announced Wednesday that he is resigning. > “It has been a great honor to serve our country as @fema Administrator for the past two years. While this has been the opportunity of the lifetime, **it is time for me to go home to my family,** ” Long tweeted. Wonder what he did? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30512 "2019-02-13T21:52:36Z")
“While this has been the opportunity of a lifetime” it turns out that two years was plenty! ---
**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:** [February 13, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30513 "2019-02-13T22:39:14Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Another one bites the dust.](https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/politics/brock-long-fema/index.html) > > Wonder what he did? Probably tried to convince Tan the Conman that asylum seekers are not a national emergency. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30514 "2019-02-13T22:46:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Another one bites the dust.](https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/politics/brock-long-fema/index.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Brock Long announced Wednesday that he is resigning. > > “It has been a great honor to serve our country as @fema Administrator for the past two years. While this has been the opportunity of the lifetime, it is time for me to go home to my family,” Long tweeted. > > Wonder what he did? Wasn’t he the one who went home too often - in agency vehicles with an agency driver? ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30515 "2019-02-13T23:03:07Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Maybe James Cameron can come up with hologram projection technology that allows a simulation of a wall to be thrown up to satisfies these yahoos. Just convince them it’s made of [transparent aluminum.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaVgRj2e5_s) > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The report said he’s going to be healthy enough to survive to the end of his term, and real doctors are saying, “Doctors don’t predict that you’re going to live for any particular length of time.” Technically, his term ends when he dies, so they’re not wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30516 "2019-02-13T23:18:24Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Wasn’t he the one who went home too often - in agency vehicles with an agency driver? Yes > [@](#): > > His resignation comes months after a controversy over his use of government vehicles. > Last fall, Long was the subject of a Department of Homeland Security probe into whether he was misusing government resources when he used government vehicles and personnel for six-hour drives between his home in North Carolina and FEMA headquarters in Washington. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30517 "2019-02-14T00:02:42Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Come now, this is a man who thinks gold taps are chic. Think less GWB in flight suit and more Elvis in Las Vegas. > > (I’m thinking something like Uncle Sam, but star spangled in a cacophony of red, white, and blue rhinestones with a screaming American Eagle on the back in sequins.) 😉 Evil Kneivel, basically. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30518 "2019-02-14T00:06:49Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I want to see him in a flight suit tailored for a guy that weighs 239. He’d look like Francis Buxton from _Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure_. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30519 "2019-02-14T01:12:12Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Evil Kneivel, basically. more like Offul Knofful. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30520 "2019-02-14T01:38:03Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > What color do you get when you mix orange and purple? I don’t know, but I do know that nothing rhymes with it. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30521 "2019-02-14T01:47:41Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Trump fans are willing to accept a lot of lies—big and small—from the guy who’s delivering to them that ‘_you are the only Real Americans_’ message. > > But I suspect they may have trouble with a new imperative to ‘_let’s all pretend the Wall is real, and if we stick together, that will make the Libtards just as angry as if there were an actual Wall_.’ … > [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > Sure, it’d be hard for them to PRETEND, but aren’t they also gullible enough to believe it if he says it’s true? If he says it’s done, how many are going to doubt? Who would they believe that would tell them otherwise? They’ll expect to see pictures. And pics of the Great Wall of China will satisfy only _some_ of them. So, sure: Trump will lie and his enablers will lie—they’ve already rolled out “Finish the Wall” as their new slogan, after all. (One of the news shows had a clip of the guy introducing Trump trying to teach the slogan to those assembled at the El Paso rally. They seemed confused, but game.) But it’s going to be a huge strain on their double-think abilities. > [@Zakalwe](#): > > If we can lose the stupid pins and NASCAR discussion (used to be a big fan, dead to me now), I’ll bring the 'tater salad. Sounds like a party! > [@digs](#): > > Yeah, I’m thinking I’d be willing to dress up in overalls and flannel if there’s a ham ‘n’ mayonnaise sandwich involved. You may both have my share of the ham ‘n’ mayo, as well as the 'tater salad. Politics aside, mayonnaise stands as one of humankind’s least lovely concoctions. Ick! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30522 "2019-02-14T02:08:07Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > No, you misunderstand. The third word was a typo. The ‘E’ was placed in the middle of the word, instead of where it should have been, at the end. He was reverting to the Scots of his ancestry - the third word should have been spelled with [two e’s](https://literalbarrage.org/blog/2005/02/03/your-scottish-slang-word-o-the-day-greet/) ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30523 "2019-02-14T02:46:30Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > You may both have my share of the ham ‘n’ mayo, as well as the 'tater salad. Politics aside, mayonnaise stands as one of humankind’s least lovely concoctions. Ick! It is worse than that, it is Kraft Salad Dressing. .\>urp\< ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/30524 "2019-02-14T03:59:37Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > I don’t know, but I do know that nothing rhymes with it. _Someone in the White House is choking; it’s Agent Orange. He’s choking so hard he’s turning Purple. And not a soul care a whit about the twerp’s dilemma, Except for all of his sheeple._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1525) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1527)