# 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:** 1707
**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:** [July 5, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34125 "2019-07-05T04:02:20Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > No mention of the Confederate battalion who stopped Cuban missiles from hitting Pearl Harbor? Stealing. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34126 "2019-07-05T04:05:01Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Also, Fort McHenry wasn’t built until 1798. That “rockets red glare” stuff was from the War if 1812, not the Revolution. :smack: At least Trump got who we were fighting correct. Would it have been all that shocking if, when he got to WWII, he said: “When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor”? (Props to _Animal House_) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34127 "2019-07-05T04:07:15Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Also glad to know the Continental Army was named for George Washington Lincoln Continental. Yeah, I scratched my head over that one too. I suspect the speechwriter actually wrote _“the Continental Congress created a unified army […] and named the great George Washington commander-in-chief.”_ Not that they named the army **after** George Washington. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34128 "2019-07-05T04:07:41Z")
What’s his record for most wrong in the fewest words? Not counting lies. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34129 "2019-07-05T04:08:41Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > At least Trump got who we were fighting correct. Would it have been all that shocking if, when he got to WWII, he said: “When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor”? (Props to _Animal House_) Bluto is the president now… He is just missing the drinking. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34130 "2019-07-05T04:15:46Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Bluto is the president now… > > He is just missing the drinking. I suspect Trump substitutes snorting Aderall. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34131 "2019-07-05T04:22:18Z")
Well, we’ll be ok as long as we remember our great history. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34132 "2019-07-05T04:49:54Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Yeah, I scratched my head over that one too. I suspect the speechwriter actually wrote _“the Continental Congress created a unified army […] and named the great George Washington commander-in-chief.”_ Not that they named the army **after** George Washington. Loser Donald, of course, can’t conceive of being in charge of something and **not** naming it after yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34133 "2019-07-05T04:57:21Z")
Well, he already leveled that [criticism](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/donald-trump-mount-vernon-george-washington-1264073) towards George Washington about Mount Vernon, so almost certainly true. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34134 "2019-07-05T05:01:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Loser Donald, of course, can’t conceive of being in charge of something and **not** naming it after yourself. Which reminds me of this story: [Trump’s ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon The 45th president — no student of history — marveled at the first president’s failure to name his historic compound after himself.]([https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/donald-trump-mount-vernon-george-washington-1264073](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/donald-trump-mount-vernon-george-washington-1264073)) > [@](#): > > “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump said, according to three sources briefed on the exchange. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.” > > … > > The president’s disinterest in Washington made it tough for tour guide Bradburn to sustain Trump’s interest during a deluxe 45-minute tour of the property which he later described to associates as “truly bizarre.” The Macrons, Bradburn has told several people, were far more knowledgeable about the history of the property than the president. Even with speechwriters, Trump is still an idiot about this country’s history (among many, many other topics). And, in contrast with the Macrons’ knowledge of the US, what would Trump know of French history? That they never finished putting the outside panels on the Eiffel Tower? Lazy Frenchmen! Trump could have finished the Tower in a month and gotten England to pay for it! EDIT: Ninja’ed! ---
**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:** [July 5, 2019, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34135 "2019-07-05T06:48:45Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > At least Trump got who we were fighting correct. Would it have been all that shocking if, when he got to WWII, he said: “When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor”? (Props to _Animal House_) Don’t you mean when he said, “When the Germans, you know, like my father, a great patriot, bombed Pearl Harbor…”? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34136 "2019-07-05T07:47:26Z")
I wonder if he thinks the rockets’ red glare was the OG Space Force… ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34137 "2019-07-05T10:50:04Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Bluto is the president now… > > He is just missing the drinking. Senator Blutarsky would be infinitely preferable to Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34138 "2019-07-05T11:25:30Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > What’s his record for most wrong in the fewest words? Not counting lies. My standard for him lying has ironically gone up in the past 3 years because he’s too stupid to know when some things are lies, which has to be balanced against his disdain for the truth. If this quote from the campaign didn’t have a lot of padding it would be pretty rich in compact wrongness: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. [Their] rapists.” Mexico isn’t sending them; they aren’t even mostly Mexicans and so aren’t “theirs”, and they’re not bringing drugs, crime, or rape to a greater extent per capita. It’s ironic that among all this fertile soil of wrongness, many people interpreted the last “they’re” in the least charitable way; to me, it was obviously a shortening of the phrase “They’re bringing their rapists”. Now, who knows how much of the above he knows is false and how much are lies is up for debate, but he might think that Guatemala is a “Mexican country” which would make part of it wrong rather than a lie 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34139 "2019-07-05T13:27:29Z")
“Rammed the ramparts”?!?? ---
**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:** [July 5, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34140 "2019-07-05T13:33:48Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > “Rammed the ramparts”?!?? What else are you supposed to do with the damned things? Man them? ---
**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:** [July 5, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34141 "2019-07-05T13:36:50Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > What else are you supposed to do with the damned things? Man them? At least he didn’t say “Rammed the manparts!” ---
**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:** [July 5, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34142 "2019-07-05T13:37:33Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > At least he didn’t say “Rammed the manparts!” 😃 Good one! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34143 "2019-07-05T15:12:24Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > At least he didn’t say “Rammed the manparts!” Poor Donald. His view from the Lincoln Memorial during the speech must have been a bigly reminder of how he can never measure up to George Washington in more ways than one. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34144 "2019-07-05T16:55:43Z")
So #RevolutionaryWarAirportStories is now a thing… > [@](#): > > Dear James, We ran out of covfefe near a fortnight ago. We raided the planes’ hospitality carts to no avail. The Redcoats had diamond status and entered the jetway before us. I fear the Dunkin’ at Gate 35B has been overrun. We are at a disadvantage. > [@](#): > > Dearest Eliza, The men are near mutiny. The 4 ounce liquid limit means their rum ration has been severly curtailed. We may not survive this campaign. Yours always, A. Hamilton > [@](#): > > The red zone is for loading and unloading muskets only > [@](#): > > Give me an aisle seat or give me death! > [@](#): > > Thank God Gen Washington had those Sherman tanks to help him capture the airports and free Frederick Douglass in what later became known as the Battle of Bowling Green. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1706) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1708)