# 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:** 1715
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34285 "2019-07-12T03:27:31Z")
Huh. You might almost think the Dems had some balls… ---
**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:** [July 12, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34286 "2019-07-12T04:03:40Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Other news you may have missed today… > > [_ **HOUSE COMMITTEE FIRES SUBPOENA CANNON** _](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/11/house-judiciary-approves-subpoenas-for-12-key-mueller-witnesses-including-jared-kushner-1407428) > > [_ **HOUSE TO HOLD BARR IN CRIMINAL CONTEMPT** _](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/11/william-barr-wilbur-ross-criminal-contempt-1407410) They have no choice. I don’t give a shit whether they succeed or fail – Barr is a fucking traitor. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34287 "2019-07-12T04:18:15Z")
That’s along list. If we’re not limiting ourselves to legal definitions and simply agree that a public servant acing in their own interest at the expense of the country counts, then the SHS certainly qualifies as well as the majority of the DJT staff present and past. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34288 "2019-07-12T05:05:59Z")
Wow, [Paul Ryan attacks Trump](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/paul-ryan-admits-he-was-a-fraud-all-along-tim-alberta-book) [_Vanity Fair_; Paywall/Article limit] > [@](#): > > In a new book, portions of which were reported by the _Washington Post_ on Thursday, Ryan tees off on the president, depicting him as a narcissistic, divisive loon and “uneducated about the government”. Trump has responded in his usual way on Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34289 "2019-07-12T05:36:46Z")
I guess shitweasels desert sinking ships too ? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34290 "2019-07-12T05:43:29Z")
I have no respect for any Republican who wasn’t speaking up back in 2016 when it mattered. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34291 "2019-07-12T05:48:09Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > This little goody just pretty much finished me off. > [The 14 Characteristics of Fascism](https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html) > Just to reiterate: written in 2003 so not tailored to the present. > I’d say the USA/Republicans are 14 for 14. To be fair, a lot of that stuff was true during the Bush administration as well. Although Trump’s taken the sexism up to new levels. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34292 "2019-07-12T05:50:28Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Yep. If republicans can completely and fully reinvent themselves, and PROVE IT, I might vote for one. It takes a long, long time to build trust in someone that fucks you over again, and again and again. They’ve been lying for forty years. They need to tell the truth for forty years before I’ll start trusting them. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2019, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34293 "2019-07-12T11:36:32Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I have no respect for any Republican who wasn’t speaking up back in 2016 when it mattered. This ^ Paul Ryan is a total Repussican. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34294 "2019-07-12T12:19:17Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I have no respect for any Republican who wasn’t speaking up back in 2016 when it mattered. A lot of them did, including Ryan, who called Trump a racist. And of course, Lindsey Beauregard Graham, who called him all kinds of bad stuff. The problem is that when Trump won the nomination, and then the election, they became knob polishers. They have no integrity at all. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34295 "2019-07-12T12:35:17Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I have no respect for any Republican who wasn’t speaking up back in 2016 when it mattered. My guess is that they remember how many of their goals have been accomplished (two Supreme Court seats, multiple other Federal judicial seats, massive tax cut for the one percent combined with a tax _increase_ for those in Democratic states, etc.) and they feel better about themselves. ---
**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 12, 2019, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34296 "2019-07-12T12:41:45Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > My guess is that they remember how many of their goals have been accomplished (two Supreme Court seats, multiple other Federal judicial seats, massive tax cut for the one percent combined with a tax _increase_ for those in Democratic states, etc.) and they feel better about themselves. The brown kids locked in cages is just a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34297 "2019-07-12T13:23:16Z")
[Mainstream media is not free speech.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-media-free-speech_n_5d282394e4b0bd7d1e1a0592) > [@](#): > > “See, I don’t think that the mainstream media is free speech either because it’s so crooked. It’s so dishonest. So to me, free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposely write bad. To me, that’s very dangerous speech, and you become angry at it. But that’s not free speech.” What a putz. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34298 "2019-07-12T13:32:55Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > [Mainstream media is not free speech.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-media-free-speech_n_5d282394e4b0bd7d1e1a0592) > > What a putz. I would love this to be every response by everyone to his every tweet. Crowds should gather in protest and shout “What A Putz!”. Holding signs and wearing t-shirts that say, “What A Putz!”. It should become a national mantra. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34299 "2019-07-12T13:41:24Z")
Acosta resigning. > ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34300 "2019-07-12T13:42:03Z")
Awww. He’ll be missed. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34301 "2019-07-12T13:44:34Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Acosta resigning. > > [https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1149675087433359363](https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1149675087433359363) Ooh, Trump will make him a martyr! Or, Trump will start to insult him. Or, hell, who can predict? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34302 "2019-07-12T13:51:45Z")
Why not both? Have you forgotten doublethink? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34303 "2019-07-12T13:55:54Z")
Acosta? Never heard of him! Someone else picked him for Labor, hell I don’t even care about Labor. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34304 "2019-07-12T14:15:46Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Donald Trump, may I take this opportunity to tell you to go fuck yourself? Hey, the back of the line is that way! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1714) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1716)