# 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:** 1776
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35505 "2019-08-16T02:18:15Z")
This may be the first evidence of Trump’s impact on the Department of Justice at the district level: I can’t remember seeing anything quite like this. [https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/15/philadelphia-attorney-larry-krasner-police-standoff-1465394](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/15/philadelphia-attorney-larry-krasner-police-standoff-1465394) > [@](#): > > In an extraordinary broadside, McSwain said he wasn’t confident that Krasner’s office would bring serious-enough charges against the suspect, telling reporters in a news conference that his own office would provide “some adult supervision” as the investigation into the incident progressed. Adult supervision? WTF happened to state’s rights and feds staying out of local business unless we’re talking about violations of civil rights? > [@](#): > > McSwain’s criticisms of Krasner are not fresh concerns. Earlier this year the prosecutor went on Fox News, where he assailed Krasner as soft on crime, blasting him over support from Democratic megadonor George Soros. Soros, McSwain argued at the time, was taking “an illegitimate, anti-democratic short cut” and “trying to purchase D.A. elections” to institute criminal justice reform. Just what kind of federal prosecutor goes on Fox News and promotes this kind of nonsense? It’s fucking scary to think this guy has the power to use federal resources to put people in federal prison. I don’t necessarily have a problem with a fed having an old fashioned “throw the book at 'em” mentality but to basically go on a major network and trash talk an area DA is just way, way out of bounds. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35506 "2019-08-16T02:39:12Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > He knows some great Danes. An sturdy breed, but terminally indecisive. Will lie on their backs for hours, unable to decide which ball to lick first. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35507 "2019-08-16T02:43:49Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. > > [https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223?mod=e2tw](https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223?mod=e2tw) Well, it is losing its icepack at a rapid rate. Greenland Golf! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35508 "2019-08-16T04:48:13Z")
I don’t think Individual 1 knows that Greenland is full of brown people. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35509 "2019-08-16T04:52:55Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Well, it is losing its icepack at a rapid rate. Greenland Golf! Or maybe he thinks he could import some ice cubes to it to prevent what it’s losing. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35510 "2019-08-16T06:01:41Z")
I have heard there are people capable of selling ice cubes to Eskimos, but I rather doubt the CFSG has anywhere near that kind of talent, if he ever did. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35511 "2019-08-16T06:18:44Z")
Still very strange to me that the POTUS would cite a Fox news host. And for the purpose of attacking being “data dependent”! Yeah, if only major financial decisions could be determined by Trump’s fanciful whims, stability would return to the global economy. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35512 "2019-08-16T10:10:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > If the US purchases Greenland, can we send Trump there to live? If so, I will help chip in to the GoFundMe campaign. I’d go with tradition and inquire into the possibility of purchasing St. Helena. That seems like the logical place for Napoleon Boneyspurs. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35513 "2019-08-16T12:48:31Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Still very strange to me that the POTUS would cite a Fox news host. And for the purpose of attacking being “data dependent”! Yeah, if only major financial decisions could be determined by Trump’s fanciful whims, stability would return to the global economy. When they pull the sheet up over the face, it is fair to say that the patient’s condition is “stable”. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35514 "2019-08-16T13:08:18Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > He could be governor (or viceroy?) of Greenland for life! > > We’ll even rename it: Trump Land. I think Governor-general has a certain ring to it that would resonate with Donny. Emperor even more so, but when has an emperor been appointed? Oh, and issue him an Ig Nobel medal in economics. With his mad reading skillz, he’ll never notice. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35515 "2019-08-16T13:09:56Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Still very strange to me that the POTUS … How many sentences have begun with that phrase in the last couple of years? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35516 "2019-08-16T13:22:16Z")
Trump ridicules one of his own supporters for being a fat slob who doesn’t exercise. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-fat-shames-supporter-rally-exercise](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-fat-shames-supporter-rally-exercise) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35517 "2019-08-16T13:45:27Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Trump ridicules one of his own supporters for being a fat slob who doesn’t exercise. > > [Trump Accidentally Fat Shames One Of His Own Supporters At Rally](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-fat-shames-supporter-rally-exercise) You know he’s going to make fun of someone with a comb-over soon. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35518 "2019-08-16T13:48:26Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Trump ridicules one of his own supporters for being a fat slob who doesn’t exercise. > > [Trump Accidentally Fat Shames One Of His Own Supporters At Rally](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-fat-shames-supporter-rally-exercise) We are truly living in the alternative universe all the other universes are glad not to be. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35519 "2019-08-16T14:30:28Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > We are truly living in the alternative universe all the other universes are glad not to be. I suspect it is an ancestor simulation. Our distant descendants are playing with different historical scenarios. Some simulate what would happen if the confederacy won the civil war, some simulate what happened if Germany won WWII, and this one is a simulation of what happens if Trump won in 2016. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35520 "2019-08-16T15:24:21Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I suspect it is an ancestor simulation. Our distant descendants are playing with different historical scenarios. Some simulate what would happen if the confederacy won the civil war, some simulate what happened if Germany won WWII, and this one is a simulation of what happens if Trump won in 2016. A while back there was a short-lived BBC sketch comedy show called “The Wrong Door”. In one of the sketches a man discovers a portal to alternative universes in a corner of his flat and various alt-versions of himself come through to say hello. Eventually he’s got a roomful of them and they’re all having a party, at which point he realizes that, compared to all the others, he’s the “pathetic loser” version of himself. Even the evil version of himself is much more popular and successful. This universe has been feeling a bit like that lately. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35521 "2019-08-16T16:30:27Z")
General Electric is going to go Enron within a year or so - it’ll be interesting to see how these guys handle that. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35522 "2019-08-16T17:00:20Z")
Linky-poo? ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35523 "2019-08-16T17:01:11Z")
[Www.gefraud.com](http://Www.gefraud.com) Going to start a thread about this later, but this is a serious piece of forensic accounting, the same sort that brought down Madoff and Enron and Tyco and… The author is the guy who discovered Madoff, btw, and knows his stuff. Controversial, yes, but he knows his stuff. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35524 "2019-08-16T17:02:56Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > General Electric is going to go Enron within a year or so - it’ll be interesting to see how these guys handle that. That’s a rather…interesting statement…got anything to back it up with? But hey, if it happens, they’re smart guys in the White House who’ll know what to do…:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: ETA: See you did drop a link on us. Nevermind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1775) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1777)