# 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:** 165
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3281 "2017-04-12T21:53:25Z")
This is the best part of that interview. He’s explaining how awesome missiles are as if Xi doesn’t know anything about them and will be impressed: And I said, “Mr. President, let me explain something to you.” This was during dessert. ‘We’ve just fired 59 missiles,’ —all of which hit, by the way. Unbelievable, from, you know, hundreds of miles away. All of which hit. Amazing." And then this part: "It’s so incredible. It’s brilliant. It’s genius. Our technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of technology, nobody can even come close to competing. Now we’re going to start getting it, because, you know, the military has been cut back and depleted so badly by the past administration and by the war in Iraq, which was another disaster. So what happens is I said we’ve just launched 59 missiles heading to Iraq and I wanted you to know this. And he was eating his cake. And he was silent." I’m pretty sure he was silent because he couldn’t believe that he had to sit there and listen to this idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3282 "2017-04-12T22:19:33Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > I’m pretty sure he was silent because he couldn’t believe that he had to sit there and listen to this idiot. The other big players must just be scratching their heads at the moment. How do you deal with a complete moron in charge of the USA? Not all the previous Presidents have been stellar geo-political statesmen, but this one doesn’t even have a competent team around him. It must be an intriguing mix of sense of opportunity and unease. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3283 "2017-04-12T23:09:05Z")
I had very little faith in Trump as president more than a year ago. I have to say that I couldn’t have imagined just how bad it would actually be. It’s like a sitcom written by Stephen King when he was addicted to drugs. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk ---
**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 12, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3284 "2017-04-12T23:56:00Z")
[CNN: “U.S. dollar drops sharply after Trump calls it ‘too strong’”](http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/12/news/economy/us-dollar-donald-trump-wsj/index.html) _The dollar dropped 0.7%, a major move, after Trump told the Wall Street Journal that the dollar is “getting too strong.” “I think our dollar is getting too strong, and partially that’s my fault because people have confidence in me,” Trump said. “But that’s hurting – that will hurt ultimately.”_ I have but a single [response](https://youtu.be/I3HiS49piTw). Stranger ---
**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 13, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3285 "2017-04-13T00:52:43Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I’m pretty sure slitting her wrists would have no effect on her. With her adamantium claws, undead strength, and paralyzingly screech of a voice, the only thing that can taker her down is to bring all of the Infinity Stones together into one powerful supersingularity that will bind her into a dimensional prison beyond space and time. > > Stranger **Stranger** , I think you should write up some material and send it over to the White House Correspondents Dinner. Seriously. _\_ ---
**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 13, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3286 "2017-04-13T01:05:21Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > **Stranger** , I think you should write up some material and send it over to the White House Correspondents Dinner. Seriously. _\_ Except the next White House Correspondents Dinner is going to be attended only by the cast of _Fox and Friends_, staffers from _[Breitbart.com](http://Breitbart.com)_ “news”, and the openly neoNazi Andrew Anglin from _Daily Stormer_. I don’t think they’re too big on satire even if they do have a marked affection (affliction?) for Vladimir Putin, who is actually a performance artist at the height of dry Russian humor. Stranger ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3287 "2017-04-13T01:33:29Z")
At least Trump remembered the chocolate cake properly. Big Picture, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3288 "2017-04-13T01:43:45Z")
Hey, is there anyone who _doesn’t_ mistake Iraq for Syria from time to time? Anyone important, I mean. ---
**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 13, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3289 "2017-04-13T01:50:18Z")
Just wait until the Spicer briefing where he does the John Oliver schtick about how you didn’t even realize that the nation highlighted on the map is not actually the country he has been talking about for the last five minutes…except it will turn out to actually be the country he is discussing, and he shouts down the correspondents who contradict him. “Look, it doesn’t matter, we’re going to nuke the entire region into radioactive glass shortly, so national borders are going to be irrelevant.” Stranger ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3290 "2017-04-13T02:48:16Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > At least Trump remembered the chocolate cake properly. Big Picture, folks. “We had beautiful chocolate cake, yadda yadda yadda, the president of China respects me so much.” “But you yadda-yadda-yadda’d over the most important part.” “I mentioned the beautiful chocolate cake.” ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3291 "2017-04-13T03:27:34Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Just wait until the Spicer briefing where he does the John Oliver schtick about how you didn’t even realize that the nation highlighted on the map is not actually the country he has been talking about for the last five minutes…except it will turn out to actually be the country he is discussing, and he shouts down the correspondents who contradict him. > > “Look, it doesn’t matter, we’re going to nuke the entire region into radioactive glass shortly, so national borders are going to be irrelevant.” > > Stranger As Mr. Tudball used to Mrs. Wiggins, “If this wasn’t so a-serious, it would almost be a-comical.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3292 "2017-04-13T10:09:29Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “We had beautiful chocolate cake, yadda yadda yadda, the president of China respects me so much.” > > “But you yadda-yadda-yadda’d over the most important part.” > > “I mentioned the beautiful chocolate cake.” _Anyway, this cake is great It’s so delicious and moist…_ ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3293 "2017-04-13T13:51:18Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > _Anyway, this cake is great > It’s so delicious and moist…_ For some reason this is making me think of the Onion piece from _Our Dumb Century_ where Mohandas Gandhi breaks a hunger strike by ingesting an entire German chocolate cake. Is chocolate cake a “thing” in the East? Did anyone offer Xi a choice, like some fresh Florida fruit, which he would have appreciated? I assume Trump just ordered for the both of them, off the Applebee’s-style menu Trump restaurants favor. They probably had the Home-style Meat Loaf. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3294 "2017-04-13T14:11:46Z")
According to the Miami Herald, Trump might be _poisoning_ all those dignitaries and foreign leaders by making them eat food from the Mar-a-Lago kitchens. Cool! > **[Undercooled meat. Dangerous fish. Health inspectors ding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago...](https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/article144261894.html)** > > Just days before the state visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach private club, Florida restaurant inspectors found potentially dangerous raw fish and cited the club for storing food in two... ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3295 "2017-04-13T14:50:32Z")
[Who knew diplomacy was so complicated?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUuvAYZb7mQ) ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3296 "2017-04-13T14:58:18Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > For some reason this is making me think of the Onion piece from _Our Dumb Century_ where Mohandas Gandhi breaks a hunger strike by ingesting an entire German chocolate cake. > > Is chocolate cake a “thing” in the East? Did anyone offer Xi a choice, like some fresh Florida fruit, which he would have appreciated? > > I assume Trump just ordered for the both of them, off the Applebee’s-style menu Trump restaurants favor. They probably had the Home-style Meat Loaf. Trump does amazing ads for his restaurants while discussing military strikes with the national media, just absolutely the best. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3297 "2017-04-13T15:06:17Z")
Surely someone went to the trouble of being sure that either a) there was no cheese on the menu or b) Xi was cool with it. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3298 "2017-04-13T15:43:22Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > For some reason this is making me think of the Onion piece from _Our Dumb Century_ where Mohandas Gandhi breaks a hunger strike by ingesting an entire German chocolate cake. > > Is chocolate cake a “thing” in the East? Did anyone offer Xi a choice, like some fresh Florida fruit, which he would have appreciated? > > I assume Trump just ordered for the both of them, off the Applebee’s-style menu Trump restaurants favor. They probably had the Home-style Meat Loaf. [Trump is great! Give us the chocolate cake!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3trDL5MWlw) (Warning: Links to Bill Cosby routine.) ---
**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 13, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3299 "2017-04-13T16:03:41Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “We had beautiful chocolate cake, yadda yadda yadda, the president of China respects me so much.” > > “But you yadda-yadda-yadda’d over the most important part.” > > “I mentioned the beautiful chocolate cake.” Trumpy’s great! Gave Xi some chocolate cake! Aw, dammit, I knew I should have read all the way to the bottom. Ninja’ed again. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/3300 "2017-04-13T16:14:36Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > At least Trump remembered the chocolate cake properly. Big Picture, folks. Trump \*sells \*chocolate cake. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=164) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=166)