# 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:** 1745
**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 27, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34885 "2019-07-27T05:16:09Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > He’s having hot and cold flashes? > > Time to call in the doctor. Menopause, right ? ---
**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 27, 2019, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34886 "2019-07-27T05:25:37Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Menopause, right ? God, that is _so_ sexist! :mad: Say ‘personopause’. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34887 "2019-07-27T05:36:21Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > This is a dangerous road for Rudy to travel. > > If he publicly proclaims that he’s broke, where does he think the NEXT 50-years-younger girlfriend is going to come from? Some alternate universe where he’s considered either attractive, charming, or sane? Immigrant needing papers, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34888 "2019-07-27T05:38:30Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > The third world banana republic shit-hole will have affordable healthcare 😛 _applause_ ---
**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 27, 2019, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34889 "2019-07-27T06:33:04Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > _And_ it fairly disposes with those who no longer deserve to live. “No longer deserve to live”. Quaint idea there. Again, the state can protect the populace it serves without resorting to killing. > [@](#): > > You assume wrongly. The process we have in place today does a thorough job of ensuring that the convicted is truly guilty, the trial and sentencing process was fair, and the sentence is just. It works well - that’s why we haven’t had a wrongful execution in 50+ years, and I do not support weakening it. You are sorely mistaken. > [@](#): > > By that logic, absolute pacifism, even in the face of invasion, civil war, or NBC attack, would have to be our defense policy. Nope. But there are places where they actually have that idea. > [@](#): > > Fortunately, in our system of government, the president does not have the power to have people executed by decree. Yeah, but the jackass who is currently president does not understand what the constitution says and does not say. He, quite recently, crowed that the very constitution which actually limits his power gives him unlimited power. ---
**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 27, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34890 "2019-07-27T07:31:39Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “No longer deserve to live”. Quaint idea there. Again, the state can protect the populace it serves without resorting to killing. The death penalty has nothing to do with protecting anyone and everything to do with _punishing_ the guilty. > [@](#): > > Yeah, but the jackass who is currently president does not understand what the constitution says and does not say. He, quite recently, crowed that the very constitution which actually limits his power gives him unlimited power. He can think he’s a God-King all he wants, but if he calls into Fox & Friends tomorrow and declares that he’s ordering Crooked Hillary to be broken on the wheel, she’s not going to have to worry about finding a country that won’t extradite her. ---
**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 27, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34891 "2019-07-27T13:20:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The death penalty has nothing to do with protecting anyone and everything to do with _punishing_ the guilty. Once you croak someone, he ceases to exist. No punishment! ---
**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:** [July 27, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34892 "2019-07-27T13:39:55Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Little known fact: while getting his JD, Obama picked up a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Late at night, President Obama could be glimpsing wandering around the White House in overalls and tool belt, tweaking things. Replacing lightbulbs, putting new washers into faucets, slipping matchbooks under tippy tables, straightening pictures. ---
**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 27, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34893 "2019-07-27T13:56:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Once you croak someone, he ceases to exist. No punishment! Crap. There I go continuing a hijack. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34894 "2019-07-27T14:36:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > God, that is _so_ sexist! :mad: > > Say ‘personopause’. You consider Donny Two-scoops a person? …Huh. ---
**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 27, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34895 "2019-07-27T14:45:03Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > You consider Donny Two-scoops a person? …Huh. It’s person-_ish_… sort of. ---
**Author:** ![Lurking\_Quahog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lurking_quahog/32/21274_2.png) [@Lurking\_Quahog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lurking_Quahog)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34896 "2019-07-27T15:15:11Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump is angry at Obama for screwing up the White House air conditioning: > [https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1154857324160397312?s=19](https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1154857324160397312?s=19) I have this wonderful image of Obama using a Nest thermostat app on his phone to constantly turn the heat up and down in the White House to mess with Individual 1. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34897 "2019-07-27T15:32:36Z")
> [@Lurking\_Quahog](#): > > I have this wonderful image of Obama using a Nest thermostat app on his phone to constantly turn the heat up and down in the White House to mess with Individual 1. Excellent. Someone needs to glue a quarter to the floor in his bathroom. We’d never hear from him again. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34898 "2019-07-27T16:00:59Z")
> [@Lurking\_Quahog](#): > > I have this wonderful image of Obama using a Nest thermostat app on his phone to constantly turn the heat up and down in the White House to mess with Individual 1. That would be a thing of beauty. So petty, so perfect. ---
**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 27, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34899 "2019-07-27T16:04:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > God, that is _so_ sexist! :mad: > > Say ‘personopause’. _offended voice_ Did you just assume Donald’s personhood ?! ---
**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 27, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34900 "2019-07-27T16:21:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The death penalty has nothing to do with protecting anyone and everything to do with _punishing_ the guilty. > > He can think he’s a God-King all he wants, but if he calls into Fox & Friends tomorrow and declares that he’s ordering Crooked Hillary to be broken on the wheel, she’s not going to have to worry about finding a country that won’t extradite her. She’d have to rely on the protection of OTHER COUNTRIES for her personal safety? What happens to Joe Schmoe, who doesn’t have the resources to GET to another country, and happens to point out that 45 is an America-hating fuckstick to, say, Stephen Miller? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34901 "2019-07-27T16:55:39Z")
“Trump Does Not Care for Those Negroes, Part CDLXXIV” > **[Trump Attacks Elijah Cummings As 'Brutal Bully' From 'Rodent Infested' District](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-elijah-cummings-brutal-bully-rodent-infested-district_n_5d3c4ec1e4b0c31569eb6234)** > > The president's tweets targeting the House Oversight Committee head are the latest in a series of attacks on lawmakers of color. Today’s candidate: Elijah Cummings! ---
**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:** [July 27, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34902 "2019-07-27T17:05:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > God, that is _so_ sexist! :mad: > > Say ‘personopause’. Channel Archie Bunker: “mentalpause”. Ongoing, with possible scarce interruptions (though none have been definitively identified). ---
**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:** [July 27, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34903 "2019-07-27T17:12:06Z")
_… [he found](https://theweek.com/speedreads/713214/first-lady-japan-apparently-pretended-not-speak-english-avoid-talking-trump) (Japanese First Lady Akie) Abe to be a “terrific woman,” but noted the fact that she “doesn’t speak English” made it “hard” to sit next to her at the dinner …_. She explained that if Americans can pretend to comprehend him, I can feign ignorance of the opposite sort. ---
**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 27, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/34904 "2019-07-27T17:32:30Z")
> [@Lurking\_Quahog](#): > > I have this wonderful image of Obama using a Nest thermostat app on his phone to constantly turn the heat up and down in the White House to mess with Individual 1. You win [del]the thread[/del] this portion of the thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1744) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1746)