# 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:** 1876
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37505 "2019-10-08T00:35:36Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > Dunno if this is even really news > > [https://youtu.be/tPFVHM\_G05o](https://youtu.be/tPFVHM_G05o) > > Evidence of his drug abuse was lying in plain sight. > > sniff sniff snorff sniffffffff Nah, those are there because Don and Jared Pinkman had to switch to a psuedo cook. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37506 "2019-10-08T01:04:19Z")
I’d love for a reporter to ask Trump if he’d be willing to submit to a drug test. The dancing to get around that would be awesome to see. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37507 "2019-10-08T01:09:03Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The obvious follow-up question: what did Erdogan promise in return? I think Trump has land, or a hotel there. Plus, it’s just what Putin wants. Sell out the Kurds, tell our allies to never trust us ever again, create chaos in the area, etc etc etc etc etc. Plus Trump loves and blows dictators every chance he gets. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37508 "2019-10-08T01:09:40Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’d love for a reporter to ask Trump if he’d be willing to submit to a drug test. The dancing to get around that would be awesome to see. “I do the best drugs. I know all about them, I don’t need to be tested. Is it multiple choice?” ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37509 "2019-10-08T01:10:20Z")
> [@Mike\_H](#): > > Does that mean Bill Clinton is eligible for a third term? He probably is now, since there has been a lapse of several years. I think (but not for sure) that the law only addresses consecutive terms. I just can’t swear to it. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37510 "2019-10-08T01:15:12Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > OMG! Is God getting ready to dump Former President Trump\*?? > > **[Pat Robertson: Trump ‘in danger of losing the mandate of heaven’](https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAIqPOM?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare)** > Oh no!! :eek: Pat is God’s mouthpiece on earth, amirite? > [@](#): > > The President, who allowed Khashoggi to be cut in pieces without any repercussions whatsoever, is now allowing the Christians and the Kurds to be massacred by the Turks,” Robertson said. “And I believe ― and I want to say this with great solemnity ― the president of the United States is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven if he permits this to happen.” So all this just puts him close to crossing the divine line but not quite. Hmm, I wonder what one has to do to actually cross that line? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37511 "2019-10-08T01:17:52Z")
I think breaking one more of the ten commandments should do it… ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37512 "2019-10-08T01:36:16Z")
Replies Trump: “My Man Date from Heaven? What does Putin have to do with this?” ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37513 "2019-10-08T01:46:24Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > OMG! Is God getting ready to dump Former President Trump\*?? > > **[Pat Robertson: Trump ‘in danger of losing the mandate of heaven’](https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAIqPOM?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare)** > Oh no!! :eek: Pat is God’s mouthpiece on earth, amirite? Trump is also losing the mandate from Fox News: [EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower writes WH official described Trump-Ukraine call as ‘crazy,’ ‘frightening’](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whistleblower-memo-trump-ukraine-call-white-house-crazy-frightening) ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37514 "2019-10-08T02:12:31Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I think breaking one more of the ten commandments should do it… He’s only got one left. And I’m not sure what he thinks of his father. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37515 "2019-10-08T02:58:02Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He probably is now, since there has been a lapse of several years. I think (but not for sure) that the law only addresses consecutive terms. I just can’t swear to it. You can only be elected twice, so consecutiveness doesn’t come in to play. You can also serve up to half a term if you get into office without being elected and still get elected twice. President dies being the normal method, but if Trump and Pence both get booted, Nancy would be eligible to run twice after serving out the remainder of Trump’s term. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37516 "2019-10-08T03:31:21Z")
Individual 1’s construction crews tasked with building WALL recorded bulldozing down some of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument’s most “iconic” cacti. > **[Trump's Border Wall Crew Bulldozes Through Cacti National Park Protects](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-border-wall-construction-saguaro-cacti-organ-pipe-cactus-national-monument-1463559)** > > "What they were doing was destruction, not construction," said Kevin Dahl, the Arizona senior program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37517 "2019-10-08T04:00:30Z")
This is why we can’t have nice things. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37518 "2019-10-08T04:13:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1’s construction crews tasked with building WALL recorded bulldozing down some of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument’s most “iconic” cacti. > [Donald Trump's Border Wall Construction Crew Just Bulldozed Through the Iconic Cacti This National Park Was Created to Protect](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-border-wall-construction-saguaro-cacti-organ-pipe-cactus-national-monument-1463559) It’s like we’ve got our very own American Taliban! ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37519 "2019-10-08T06:58:01Z")
Sir alert: “When I took over our military, we did not have ammunition. I was told by a top general, maybe the top of them all, ‘Sir, I’m sorry sir, we don’t have ammunition.’ I said, I will never let that happen to another president.” Does he just hear batshit nonsense in his head all the time? There’s a whole bunch of other crazy in his “remarks” from yesterday. > ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37520 "2019-10-08T08:58:40Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > What I took from that article was a bedrock belief that there’s not enough to go around. That fundamentally the economy is zero sum and you absolutely have to scrimp, save and take from others. There’s no understanding of just how much wealth exists, that the economy isn’t zero sum and that if they’d just unclench for a moment they might notice. Reminds me of those stories about people catching monkeys by baiting traps with food; the trap was large enough for the monkey’s hand to go inside when it was empty, but not when it was holding the food. While I suspect most monkeys would be smart enough to open the hand once they see a human approaching, maybe some of them think that’s the only food in the world. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37521 "2019-10-08T10:25:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > OMG! Is God getting ready to dump Former President Trump\*?? > … ““The President, who allowed Khashoggi to be cut in pieces without any repercussions whatsoever, …” Oh, so Republicans _ **DO** _ know about that. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37522 "2019-10-08T10:46:19Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He probably is now, since there has been a lapse of several years. I think (but not for sure) that the law only addresses consecutive terms. I just can’t swear to it. No, it’s just two terms, consecutive or not. [22nd amendment](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution). You can get elected to two, four year terms. If someone takes over for an elected president and serves two years or less in that capacity they can be elected twice. If they serve more than two years of someone else’s term they can be elected only once. These days, no one gets elected a third time. It’s not just the law, it’s the constitution. You know - that thing conservitards claim to uphold but don’t seem to have ever read. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37523 "2019-10-08T10:55:12Z")
Welp, there go my hopes for a third Cleveland administration. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37524 "2019-10-08T11:19:45Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > **[Pat Robertson: Trump ‘in danger of losing the mandate of heaven’](https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAIqPOM?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare)** I had no idea Robertson was a devout Confucianist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1875) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1877)