# 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:** 1661
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33205 "2019-06-03T02:09:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1 says he never called Meghan Markle “nasty”. The video clearly shows him calling her nasty. > [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48491602](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48491602) I see that the White House is trying to say Trump didn’t call \*Markle herself \*nasty, just what she said about him. How soon until we hear the “He was only joking” defense? Ha ha ha! Liberals just don’t get his brilliant humor. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > I heard about this group yesterday. They have the potential to become a game changer in this nightmare. > > I wondered if/when any principled Republicans working in the legal field were ever going to stand up for the rule of law. I guess they’ve finally shown up. Some speculation I’ve heard is that this is not so much about the rule of law as it’s about rich Republican donors getting sick of Trump’s tariffs and trade wars affecting the stock market and therefore their wealth. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33206 "2019-06-03T03:29:59Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Today’s news ranged from petty disrespect to global-order-threatening. > > On the one hand, Trump made a rare appearance in a church today, having come straight from the golf course. That explains the awesome thunder and lightning I saw yesterday. > [@](#): > > He still had on his golf attire, complete with ill-fitting khakis and golf spikes. He wore his golf spikes into a church. > > [Trump Visits Church On Franklin Graham’s ‘Pray For Donald Trump Day’ With Hat Hair, Golf Shoes | HuffPost](https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5cf463aae4b0e346ce8032ee/amp?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004&__twitter_impression=true) Well, of course he did. He, along with his dumbass supporters, probably think that he’s King Ralph. > [@](#): > > On the other hand, Trump has been considering tariffs against Australia. Australia. Because apparently we don’t need allies in Oceania. > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/business/trump-australia-tariffs.html#click=https://t.co/woDorTFhzF](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/business/trump-australia-tariffs.html#click=https://t.co/woDorTFhzF) And Australia’s going to pay for those tariffs, too! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33207 "2019-06-03T03:41:57Z")
I’m an atheist, generally hostile to religion, and especially hostile to evangelical Christianity. But still, when I go into someone’s house of worship, I try to be passably respectful. Seriously, golf spikes in a church? WTF? I know asking “what if Obama had done this” has been done to death. But, really. Imagine that for two seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33208 "2019-06-03T03:42:42Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I’m confused. Haven’t we always been at war with Oceana? ^I found an Eastasian spy! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33209 "2019-06-03T03:56:31Z")
… _dammit!_ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33210 "2019-06-03T04:52:17Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > I’m an atheist, generally hostile to religion, and especially hostile to evangelical Christianity. But still, when I go into someone’s house of worship, I try to be passably respectful. Seriously, golf spikes in a church? WTF? That’s not even a matter of being respectful to the worshippers, it’s a matter of being respectful to the floor! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33211 "2019-06-03T04:59:57Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > I’m an atheist, generally hostile to religion, and especially hostile to evangelical Christianity. But still, when I go into someone’s house of worship, I try to be passably respectful. Seriously, golf spikes in a church? WTF? I was once hounded out of a church for wearing sneakers. > [@](#): > > I know asking “what if Obama had done this” has been done to death. But, really. Imagine that for two seconds. Actually, visualizing that kinda makes me laugh. But then, I do miss Obama ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33212 "2019-06-03T05:07:23Z")
[Trump says top White House economist Kevin Hassett leaving](https://apnews.com/da751d4a0aaa41eb9d449977266ed232). The headline there says it all, really. I don’t know who the guy is, but I note that he’s an economist. > [@](#): > > In a tweet Sunday night, Trump says the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Kevin Hassett, will be departing “shortly” and praises him as having “done such a great job for me and the Administration.” > > Trump says he will name what he calls a “very talented replacement” as soon as he returns to the U.S. from his trip to Europe. I hear you can get -710 at Leroy’s that Trump says Jared Kushner is gonna be doing the economist’s job. 😛 Srsly, isn’t it odd that an economist would leave just after Trump talks about slapping tariffs on the trading partner with whom he just renegotiated a trade deal? :dubious:😛 ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33213 "2019-06-03T05:35:04Z")
That Laffer guy is probably available. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33214 "2019-06-03T09:53:49Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > On the one hand, Trump made a rare appearance in a church today, having come straight from the golf course. He still had on his golf attire, complete with ill-fitting khakis and golf spikes. He wore his golf spikes into a church. And then he drove his golf cart onto the altar. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33215 "2019-06-03T10:00:34Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > On the one hand, Trump made a rare appearance in a church today, having come straight from the golf course. He still had on his golf attire, complete with ill-fitting khakis and golf spikes. He wore his golf spikes into a church. At least that way he won’t ruin a good suit when he gets struck by lightning or bursts into flame or melts down\* or whatever for of divine retribution Jehovah is dishing out at the moment. \*In the “Nazis at the end of _Raiders of the Lost Ark_” sense rather than his usual “cranky toddler” sense. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33216 "2019-06-03T11:34:48Z")
Regarding the tariffs, I’m really going to be disappointed if Mexico misses this opportunity to ask the U.S. to pay for a wall along their southern border. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33217 "2019-06-03T11:38:12Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > And then he drove his golf cart onto the altar. He got two ultra conservatives on the supreme court bench, so he could probably walk into church buck naked and they wouldn’t care. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33218 "2019-06-03T12:35:36Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > At least that way he won’t ruin a good suit when he gets struck by lightning or bursts into flame or melts down\* or whatever for of divine retribution Jehovah is dishing out at the moment. > > \*In the “Nazis at the end of _Raiders of the Lost Ark_” sense rather than his usual “cranky toddler” sense. He owns a “good suit”? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33219 "2019-06-03T12:44:01Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He owns a “good suit”? He owns expensive suits, but no good ones. A good suit fits. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33220 "2019-06-03T13:56:37Z")
> [@Kyrie\_Eleison](#): > > Regarding the tariffs, I’m really going to be disappointed if Mexico misses this opportunity to ask the U.S. to pay for a wall along their southern border. "Gun smuggling into Mexico has reached critical levels. Please build a wall to keep your guns in your country, and get your people to pay for it. Gracias. " ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33221 "2019-06-03T14:02:36Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > "Gun smuggling into Mexico has reached critical levels. Please build a wall to keep your guns in your country, and get your people to pay for it. Gracias. " Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33222 "2019-06-03T14:34:16Z")
This church? Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, I wondered? “Non-denominational”. For whatever that’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33223 "2019-06-03T14:44:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > This church? Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, I wondered? “Non-denominational”. For whatever that’s worth. I couldn’t understand why he went to a church at all. The man is less religious than I am. So, just out of curiosity I clicked on the link and discovered (to my horror) it was national Pray for Donald Trump Day. I guess if they have a national day of prayer for me I could get my ass in the pews for 15 minutes too. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/33224 "2019-06-03T15:09:35Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > He owns expensive suits, but no good ones. A good suit fits. And gives you a clearer idea of what lies underneath. Trust me, it’s better this way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1660) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1662)