# 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:** 155
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3081 "2017-04-06T14:24:49Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Now Nunes is" temporarily" stepping down from Russia probe. > > [http://thehill.com/homenews/house/327570-nunes-steps-aside-from-russia-investigation](http://thehill.com/homenews/house/327570-nunes-steps-aside-from-russia-investigation) Hilarious: > [@](#): > > “Several leftwing activist groups have filed accusations against me with the Office of Congressional Ethics,” Nunes said in the statement. “The charges are entirely false and politically motivated, and are being leveled just as the American people are beginning to learn the truth about the improper unmaking of the identities of U.S. citizens and other abuses of power.” > > Nunes said he will step aside while the House Ethics Committee “looks into this matter.” uuuuuuh Devin…um…the matter they’ll be looking into will _not_ be your retarded spin, from above, but: > [@](#): > > The House Ethics Committee confirmed an investigation into Nunes in a statement shortly after Nunes’s statement. > > “The Committee is aware of public allegations that Representative Devin Nunes may have made unauthorized disclosures of classified information, in violation of House Rules, law, regulations, or other standards of conduct,” the ethics panel said. Nice try, though, you useless fucking eel. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3082 "2017-04-06T14:24:51Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Now Nunes is" temporarily" stepping down from Russia probe. > > [http://thehill.com/homenews/house/327570-nunes-steps-aside-from-russia-investigation](http://thehill.com/homenews/house/327570-nunes-steps-aside-from-russia-investigation) I should hope so. The clown disclosed classified information. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3083 "2017-04-06T14:34:13Z")
Bannon is out, but Rick Perry is in. Clearly the reason is that [Bannon](http://images.dailykos.com/images/329010/story_image/steve-bannon.jpg?1479426748)is irredeemably ugly. Even an improved haircut and a good suit didn’t help. [Rick Perry](http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161213095949-perry-energy-trump-exlarge-169.jpg), however, has that Marlboro man look-- great hair, a good smile, and he will look really classy in those photos of the group around the conference table. Let’s remember what Trump’s priorities are, after all. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3084 "2017-04-06T14:37:06Z")
[QUOTE=Devin Nunes] “The charges are entirely false and politically motivated, and are being leveled just as the American people are beginning to learn the truth about the improper unmaking of the identities of U.S. citizens and other abuses of power.” [/QUOTE] This is the political equivalent of a cheating husband saying the problem isn’t that he spend $3000 on call girls, it’s that his wife found the escort service business card in his pants pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3085 "2017-04-06T15:16:21Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I must vent: Trump’s statements about the gas attacks on Syria piss me off to no end. > > Trump said, “It crossed a lot of lines for me. When you kill innocent children, innocent babies — babies, little babies — with a chemical gas that is so lethal … that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line… That attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. Big impact. It was a horrible, horrible thing. It’s very, very possible that my attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much.” > > You ignorant dolt – what do you think has been happening in Syria for the last many years? Hospitals bombed, toddlers being pulled out of bomb craters, entire cities being leveled, and for years you basically concluded that Assad ain’t so bad. > > Now it’s like reality somehow broke through that immense field of stupidity that surrounds you, so that you finally encounter for the first time what is actually occurring in Syria – and it’s like a gamechanger for you. > > How dare you be so completely unaware of what’s going on in the world while running for the most important elected office in the world. Sure, there’s the silver lining that you finally seem to care a little bit about someone other than yourself, but these comments make me seethe with how totally unprepared you are to have the job you do. > > It’s like if your closest friend died of cancer, and you’re compelled to tell the world, “Hey, I just found this out – cancer isn’t nearly as good as I once thought it was. I may be changing my mind on cancer, that’s for sure.” > > You fucking prick. You stole my post. This is exactly the thoughts that ran through my head when I heard him say that. I’d love for some reporter to get in his face and on the record ask him, if by allowing them entry into the United States as refugees, he could have saved those children from the horrible deaths that so moved him when he saw them on television would he have done so. Yes Mr. president, those children are exactly the people your refugee ban is targeted against. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3086 "2017-04-06T15:21:22Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Sure, there’s the silver lining that you finally seem to care a little bit about someone other than yourself… Nonsense. Trump cares not a whit for the victims of a Syrian gas attack. If he could make money off it he’d be doing it himself. He made those vague statements because he thought it’d make him look good. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3087 "2017-04-06T15:27:55Z")
Il Douche does not do “vague”, his statements are explicit and starkly clear! The niggling detail of being in direct contradiction to his previous statements does not change that. Repent! ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3088 "2017-04-06T15:30:21Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Nonsense. Trump cares not a whit for the victims of a Syrian gas attack. If he could make money off it he’d be doing it himself. > > He made those vague statements because he thought it’d make him look good. Maybe somehow convince him that, if making those remarks makes him look good, actually saving the lives of those children would make him look even better. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3089 "2017-04-06T16:38:18Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Yes Mr. president, those children are exactly the people your refugee ban is targeted against. Excellent point. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3090 "2017-04-06T18:35:46Z")
We know that the gas attack was in response to Tillerson saying Assad could stay. I wonder if the Bannon shakeup is connected to that. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3091 "2017-04-06T18:49:44Z")
I am offended by the gas attack pivot too, but for a different reason. Yes, this is nothing new. But why is this administration, and the GOP in general, only capable of outrage over events in the Middle East? Why isn’t Trump outraged about all the unarmed black men gunned down by the police? Why isn’t he outraged by the 30,000 gun deaths per year in THIS COUNTRY? What about the evil callousness of Ryan’s plan to drop 24 million Americans from health insurance for the sake of a tax cut for the wealthy? Because I guarantee sending in ground troops over 100 dead foreigners will cost far more than simply taking care of our own people, for only a tiny fraction of the benefit. Like every GOP politician, the priority is: Get those troops into the Middle East, not No Matter What! Waste enough trillions of dollars on that hopeless quagmire and maybe someday the country will be brought to its knees economically, and we’ll have NO CHOICE but to eliminate Social Security and Medicare! Every Republican is exactly the same: evil towards the public in the service of the ultra wealthy. And every GOP voter is an ignorant fucking rube :mad: ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3092 "2017-04-06T19:04:02Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > And every GOP voter is an ignorant fucking rube :mad: While there are many republican voters who do not understand the consequences of their actions and of the repercussions of their vote, there are other republicans who are very aware of, and are quite happy with the results. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3093 "2017-04-06T19:15:54Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Why isn’t he outraged by the 30,000 gun deaths per year in THIS COUNTRY? Can’t take the risk of pissing off the NRA. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3094 "2017-04-06T19:26:04Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > While there are many republican voters who do not understand the consequences of their actions and of the repercussions of their vote, there are other republicans who are very aware of, and are quite happy with the results. You are probably right. What is the breakdown? 90% rubes? 95%? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3095 "2017-04-06T19:26:09Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > [It appears the “Burn-It-All-to-The-Ground Savage” branch of the West Wing is coming into conflict with the “Caviar Enema” branch of the West Wing.](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/bannon-resign-mercer-trump-236939?cmpid=sf) > > On the one hand, if Bannon loses this war, our threat of nuclear annihilation goes down considerably, but with Kushner’s ascent, the chance that the 99% will be reduced to sustaining ourselves off of twigs and dog food within the next two years goes up significantly. > > I suppose I should just stop being such a pussy and enjoy the political theater. But I still weep for my children. I said to my husband just the other night: “I am enjoying this presidency so much more than I thought I would.” It’s true. I am. It’s like watching clowns at a circus, bumbling around and unable to empty water from a boot without instructions on the heel. The health care bill: priceless. It probably helps that I was trained as a historian, so I find a certain level of fascination with all of the political theater, as you say. It also helps that I am fairly certain he will be impeached over the Russia thing. “Treason folks. I am the best at treason. No one can do treason better than me.” On the off chance that doesn’t work out, we do all we can to keep the pressure on him and Congress. FFS, we haven’t hit 100 days yet and they can’t pass a bill with a majority in the House and the Senate. By the mid-terms, the Republicans are going to be facing some serious problems. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3096 "2017-04-06T20:06:38Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I said to my husband just the other night: “I am enjoying this presidency so much more than I thought I would.” It’s true. I am. It’s like watching clowns at a circus, bumbling around and unable to empty water from a boot without instructions on the heel. The health care bill: priceless. “It’s like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob.” -Patches O’Houlihan (Rip Torn), _Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story_ ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3097 "2017-04-06T20:20:18Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > You are probably right. What is the breakdown? 90% rubes? 95%? 99% rubes. Leaves the One Percent. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3098 "2017-04-06T21:40:28Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I said to my husband just the other night: “I am enjoying this presidency so much more than I thought I would.” It’s true. I am. It’s like watching clowns at a circus, bumbling around and unable to empty water from a boot without instructions on the heel. The health care bill: priceless. > > It probably helps that I was trained as a historian, so I find a certain level of fascination with all of the political theater, as you say. My friend Irish Storyteller is the same way for the same reason. He’s been rereading the Federalist Papers and other founding documents and finding all the ways the Constitution is going to curbstomp the Great Circus Peanut. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3099 "2017-04-06T23:02:28Z")
You hired a clown, you got a circus, why are you surprised? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3100 "2017-04-06T23:15:18Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > You hired a clown, you got a circus, why are you surprised? Hey, I voted for Public Policy Nerd Lady, not the Human-Chinchilla-Troll Hybrid and his Mery Band of Post-Apocalyptic Fundamisfits. At this point, having an actual clown as President accompanied by Barnum and Bailey’s Circus would be an improvement, and would also have had a better showing at the inauguration. Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=154) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=156)