# 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:** 1784
**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 22, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35665 "2019-08-22T12:07:07Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > For God’s sake anyone not talking about impeachment is as insane as our president obviously is. He was trolling the fake news media and owning the libs! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35666 "2019-08-22T12:08:24Z")
**Trump Admits He Gives Himself Awards** : > [@](#): > > Chris Hayes on Wednesday picked apart President Donald Trump’s habit of handing himself non-existent awards. > > The host of MSNBC’s “All In” aired multiple clips of Trump bragging about receiving accolades that aren’t real. “The real question is, does Trump believe it’s true or does he just think we’re all stupid?” asked Hayes. > > He answered his own question by running footage of Trump in 2011 confessing to an audience in Australia that he gives himself bogus awards “all the time.” > > “And then I announce ‘I’ve just received an award,’ and there’s nothing deceptive about it because I actually did, but I gave it to myself,” Trump explained in the old clip. > **[Trump Admits To Just Making Up Awards In Newly Resurfaced Video](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-awards-video_n_5d5e67f4e4b0b59d256ffc73)** > > The president confesses to giving himself bogus awards "all the time" in the 2011 video. ---
**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 22, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35667 "2019-08-22T12:16:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Correct. Denmark did not make a big deal about it. But DJT had his customary [reaction](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/politics/trump-greenland-prime-minister.html?emc=rss&partner=rss)when a woman turns him down: Any woman who stands up to him or talks back is “nasty.” :rolleyes: Trump is very sensitive about his manliness and his, ahem, brain. The way to troll him is to insinuate he’s not so manly, not so smart, and not so stable. It’ll get an unhinged reaction every time. Whoever wins the democratic nomination need not worry about debating him on facts and policy points; just question his intelligence and sanity, and his penis size, and it’ll be a guaranteed win. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35668 "2019-08-22T12:17:25Z")
You’ve got to laugh at how for eight years the right wing evangelical pundits have been crying foul about Obama being the antichrist yet they excuse Trump blagging about being chosen by God. Sarah Huckerbee Sanders saying Trump was chosen by God to be president yet doesn’t want to answer if by that same logic God chose Obama. If Trump is defeated next year will they say God chose Biden or Sanders or Harris or whoever to be president. Did God get bored of Trump? The politicisation of God if he a higher power even exists is moronic. Some televangelist actually had a show segment titled “why God hates open borders”. This people are the closest thing to the antichrist if there even is such a thing!! ---
**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 22, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35669 "2019-08-22T12:28:51Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Trump is very sensitive about his manliness… Clearly, he has reason to be. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35670 "2019-08-22T13:49:59Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > For God’s sake anyone not talking about impeachment is as insane as our president obviously is. I saw this article this morning. It’s a pretty funny takedown of Trump by Republican strategist Rick Wilson, although kinda scary, too. [This Isn’t the Madman Theory. This Is a Madman President.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-isnt-playing-madman-theory-hes-a-madman-president) _In business, Trump could paper over his bankruptcies, flops, asinine remarks, and failed cons. The presidency is different._ > [@](#): > > The recognition that Donald J. Trump—President of the United States, Commander in Chief of the U.S. armed forces, leader of the Republican Party and now King of Israel and Chosen One—is, to use the psychiatric term of art, batshit crazy is dawning even on the slowest members of society. Also, that there’s not a damn thing we can do about it until November of 2020. > > The big cons of the first term haven’t just been embarrassing flops but concatenating failures putting our economy and security at existential risk. The tax bill blew out the debt and deficit to unimaginable depths. North Korea’s serial humiliation of Trump proved to Kim Jong Un that he could pants the President of the United States and move the DPRK closer to full nuclear capabilities to threaten our allies and even our own shores. > > The cruel nostalgia of Trump’s promises to restore coal, steel, and auto jobs are shattered on the altar of President Bigly Negotiator’s moronic shitshow of an unwinnable trade war. The fact that he was spanked by Denmark, a country the size of Delaware, after his absurd “Buy Greenland” campaign was just one more humiliation of a President who clearly likes having his ass handed to him by bijou nations. > > … > > But no one would wake up thinking, “Hey, I wonder if this is the day that Barack Obama nukes Denmark?” or “Is George H.W. Bush gonna declare war on Belize because they tweeted something critical of him?” > > No matter the partisan differences, we had the luxury of going about our lives with the knowledge that the men charged with running the country were, fundamentally, mentally sound. > > Only his most deluded followers still buy that the phrase “Stable Genius” can be applied without irony to this president. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35671 "2019-08-22T13:57:12Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Clearly, he has reason to be. :dubious: Lot of us guys are like that, it’s why we are always looking for someplace to hide it. Except Chuck Norris. Other karate guys, want to break a board, they use their hand. But not Chuck Norris! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35672 "2019-08-22T14:00:35Z")
**The Property Brothers Weigh in on Buying Greenland** Conan O’Brien contacted them about the deal > **[Conan Calls In 'The Property Brothers' To Help Trump Buy Greenland](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/conan-obrien-donald-trump-property-brothers_n_5d5e74cae4b0b59d2570245f)** > > The island would be perfect with a few changes, the HGTV stars say as Conan announces a trip there. > [@](#): > > The two praised Greenland’s location near quiet neighbors Canada and Iceland, but they recommended a few renovations. > > “I would knock out this glacier just to get a more open concept plan and add a kitchen island,” Jonathan Scott told Conan, who plans to visit Greenland for his “Conan Without Borders” series. It could’ve been worse. He could’ve contact the Ghost Hunters. I can imagine them sneaking around the glaciers with their infrared cameras and microphones looking for the Ghost of Eric the Red. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35673 "2019-08-22T14:29:25Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The jackass doesn’t understand it’s the _Congressional_ Medal of Honor? No, it isn’t. It’s simply the Medal of Honor, and although it is awarded in the name of Congress, Congress is rarely involved in who gets it. With few exceptions, it’s handled like other military awards (i.e. through the chain of command of the service member, up to the Commander-in-Chief in the case of the Medal of Honor). [Cite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor). > [@Wikipedia](#): > > There are two distinct protocols for awarding the Medal of Honor. The first and most common is nomination and approval through the chain of command of the service member. The second method is nomination by a member of the U.S. Congress, generally at the request of a constituent. In both cases, if the proposal is outside the time limits for the recommendation, approval to waive the time limit requires a special Act of Congress. The Medal of Honor is presented by the President on behalf of, and in the name of, the Congress. Which is not to say that Trump isn’t a jackass. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35674 "2019-08-22T15:05:06Z")
I fondly remember the time when [this MadTV skit](https://youtube.com/watch?v=va71a7pLvy8) was silly and unrealistic… ---
**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:** [August 22, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35675 "2019-08-22T15:51:01Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > [I thought this was a humorous hypothetical.](https://www.theroot.com/did-forever-president-obama-punk-trump-out-of-visiting-1837447022) From the linked story: > [@](#): > > it turns out that the real story might be that Trump fears being upstaged by forever President Barack Obama. The author probably meant _former_ President, but these days, who the hell knows? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35676 "2019-08-22T16:50:13Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > From the linked story: > The author probably meant _former_ President, but these days, who the hell knows? Or, the author transposed “by” and “forever”. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35677 "2019-08-22T17:41:22Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Or, the author transposed “by” and “forever”. Valid alternative, I admit. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35678 "2019-08-22T17:53:04Z")
When I saw the [CNN](https://us.cnn.com/) headline “ **Something is eating at President Trump** ”, my first thought was some sort of parasitic wasp larvae or brain-eating amoeba, but it turns out it’s the possibility of a recession and ebbing poll numbers. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35679 "2019-08-22T17:54:57Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > From the linked story: > The author probably meant _former_ President, but these days, who the hell knows? Meh, I’d be down for Forever President Obama. I mean he was a spineless centrist shit, but you take the Forever President you can get, yeah ? ---
**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 22, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35680 "2019-08-22T18:02:43Z")
Individual 1 “joked” about swapping Greenland for Puerto Rico. [Trump Joked About Swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland: Report](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-joked-about-swapping-puerto-rico-for-greenland-report)? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35681 "2019-08-22T19:06:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1 “joked” about swapping Greenland for Puerto Rico. > [Trump Joked About Swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland: Report](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-joked-about-swapping-puerto-rico-for-greenland-report)? I noticed the next story down on the webpage said Sarah Huckabee Sanders is joining Fox News as a contributor next month. Contributing what? More lies and disinformation? But I’m sure she’ll be popular with the MAGAsses that watch Fox. I used to see the memes on social media about how she constantly “owned and embarrassed the Fake News Media stooges” like Jim Acosta and Co. ---
**Author:** ![Kelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@Kelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelby)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35682 "2019-08-22T19:35:22Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I noticed the next story down on the webpage said Sarah Huckabee Sanders is joining Fox News as a contributor next month. > > Contributing what? More lies and disinformation? > > But I’m sure she’ll be popular with the MAGAsses that watch Fox. I used to see the memes on social media about how she constantly “owned and embarrassed the Fake News Media stooges” like Jim Acosta and Co. So, Sanders and Sean Spicer, both previous Trump spokespersons, were announced as appearing on reality televsion shows this week. Or should I have said, “other” reality TV. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35683 "2019-08-22T19:42:31Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > …Contributing what? More lies and disinformation? > … Sure. It’s not like Faux news is ever concerned with delivering too much of 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 22, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35684 "2019-08-22T20:01:54Z")
> [@Kelby](#): > > So, Sanders and Sean Spicer, both previous Trump spokespersons, were announced as appearing on reality televsion shows this week. > > Or should I have said, “other” reality TV. It’s the only way they can get Trump to pay attention to them these days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1783) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1785)