# 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:** 1900
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37985 "2019-10-19T20:55:07Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump has issued a Presidential Proclamation for National “Character Counts Week” urging Americans to “positively influence the next generation of our Nation’s leaders and inspire them to lead lives of virtue and integrity.” > > [https://twitter.com/ChrisJansing/status/1185513845160402947/photo/1](https://t.co/gt9dvGcwO6) Are we still on Earth? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37986 "2019-10-19T22:00:32Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Are we still on Earth? I was always quite skeptical about the many worlds theory, but since Trump became president I think some random particle put me in one of those “funny” universes… ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37987 "2019-10-19T23:44:51Z")
Yes, we are in the darkest timeline. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37988 "2019-10-19T23:48:44Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > In Trump’s mind, if it doesn’t include his getting pissed on by prostitutes in a Russian hotel, it isn’t _quid pro quo_. I thought it was Obama’s bed that was pissed on. Just trying to keep my talking points straght here. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37989 "2019-10-19T23:53:10Z")
How come we haven’t come up with a good nickname for this mess? I read “Stupid Watergate” the most, but that’s inelegant. With all the smart people and funny people who despise him, why can’t we (collectively, in general, not necessarily Dopers) come up with a witty, snappy title that covers it without using “-gate”? I mean, “clusterfuck” is an apt description but I don’t think that’s going to be chapter titles in future history books. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37990 "2019-10-20T00:31:21Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Are we still on Earth? Just not our earth. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37991 "2019-10-20T01:00:16Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > And his minions will all re-tweet it and say he is the best person on the planet. After all, “He’s not Hillary”. The way they say, character is something your born with, kinda like white skin. ---
**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 20, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37992 "2019-10-20T01:37:16Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > How come we haven’t come up with a good nickname for this mess? I read “Stupid Watergate” the most, but that’s inelegant. With all the smart people and funny people who despise him, why can’t we (collectively, in general, not necessarily Dopers) come up with a witty, snappy title that covers it without using “-gate”? I mean, “clusterfuck” is an apt description but I don’t think that’s going to be chapter titles in future history books. The whole thing, when it’s finally over, will all of it be known as a “Trump”. It will be synonymous with, as this thread so appropriately states, a clusterfuck that isn’t merely a clusterfuck. Like hyperbole isn’t merely exaggeration. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37993 "2019-10-20T02:41:48Z")
> **[Trump reverses course and says his Florida resort won't be used for G7 summit...](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/19/politics/trump-property-no-longer-considered-for-g7-summit/index.html)** > > President Donald Trump on Saturday night abruptly reversed course and announced next year's G7 economic summit of world powers would not be held at Trump National in Doral, Florida, in a rare departure after facing bipartisan backlash. Trump says his resort wil not be used for the summit. He gave no explanation. Didn’t even have the intelligence to say something like, "Because of the perceived impropriety of having the summit here, and in conjunction with the Character Counts Week, we have decided to choose another location. " Damn, I am now writing press releases for Trump. ---
**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 20, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37994 "2019-10-20T02:42:55Z")
USA Today is reporting that Individual 1 has withdrawn Doral from the G7 hosting choices. > **[Donald Trump pulls his Doral property from consideration for G-7 after...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/19/donald-trump-doral-out-g-7-following-criticism-lawmakers/4014702002/)** > > Trump announced he will not use his Doral resort in Miami for the G-7 summit, reversing course after the move drew swift condemnation from lawmakers. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37995 "2019-10-20T03:10:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > USA Today is reporting that Individual 1 has withdrawn Doral from the G7 hosting choices. > [Donald Trump: Doral out for G7 following criticism from lawmakers](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/19/donald-trump-doral-out-g-7-following-criticism-lawmakers/4014702002/) Confirmed by the son of an orang-u-tan: > [@Donald Trump](#): > > …as usual, the Hostile Media & their Democrat Partners went CRAZY! > > …Therefore, based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020… He still manages to get in some free publicity for it, though: > [@Donald Trump](#): > > It is big, grand, on hundreds of acres, next to MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, has tremendous ballrooms & meeting rooms… ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37996 "2019-10-20T03:16:34Z")
From that USA Today article: “Republicans expressed relief Saturday.” Translation: we are getting tired of your shit and tired of carrying water for you, dofus… ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37997 "2019-10-20T03:21:11Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > “Republicans expressed relief Saturday.” Well, it was an open-and-shut article of impeachment all on its own. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37998 "2019-10-20T04:09:07Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > He still manages to get in some free publicity for it, though: > > > [@](#): > > > > **Originally Posted by Donald Trump** > > > > It is big, grand, on hundreds of acres, next to MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, has tremendous ballrooms & meeting rooms… I can never hear anyone say “tremendous,” “beautiful,” or “beautifully” without vomiting a little in my mouth after this presidency. Really surprised he went back on this but not surprised that he just announced it abruptly with no explanation. He can never admit he was wrong about anything. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/37999 "2019-10-20T05:23:52Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > I can never hear anyone say “tremendous,” “beautiful,” or “beautifully” without vomiting a little in my mouth after this presidency. > > Really surprised he went back on this but not surprised that he just announced it abruptly with no explanation. He can never admit he was wrong about anything. “Look ‘mr president,’ when we said distract from the impreachment inquiry, we didn’t mean \* do more impeachable stuff.” \* ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38000 "2019-10-20T05:25:24Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > “Look ‘mr president,’ when we said distract from the impreachment inquiry, we didn’t mean \* do more impeachable stuff.” \* “I got a call the other day from lawyers, top lawyers, very respected from the standpoint of legal, and they said ‘Sir, two years and nine months ago we never knew a president could do so much in terms of impeach’.” ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38001 "2019-10-20T06:54:24Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > The way they say, character is something your born with, kinda like white skin. Yep. > [@bobot](#): > > The whole thing, when it’s finally over, will all of it be known as a “Trump”. It will be synonymous with, as this thread so appropriately states, a clusterfuck that isn’t merely a clusterfuck. Like hyperbole isn’t merely exaggeration. Future generations will wonder why trump cards in Bridge automatically lose the trick. > [@raventhief](#): > > “Look ‘mr president,’ when we said distract from the impreachment inquiry, we didn’t mean \* do more impeachable stuff.” \* The Tanerine Twerp got the wrong message from _The Distinguished Gentlemen_. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38002 "2019-10-20T12:03:17Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > The whole thing, when it’s finally over, will all of it be known as a “Trump”. It will be synonymous with, as this thread so appropriately states, a clusterfuck that isn’t merely a clusterfuck. Like hyperbole isn’t merely exaggeration. Sort of like quisling or boycott. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38003 "2019-10-20T13:41:52Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Translation: we are getting tired of your shit and tired of carrying water for you, dofus… …as they keep riding the Trump train. Dude, don’t delude yourself; they’re not even tired of carrying his colostomy bag. They’re going to keep ridin’ in that crazy car until it goes completely over the cliff. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38004 "2019-10-20T13:46:06Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > [https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/19/politics/trump-property-no-longer-considered-for-g7-summit/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/19/politics/trump-property-no-longer-considered-for-g7-summit/index.html) > > Trump says his resort wil not be used for the summit. He gave no explanation. Didn’t even have the intelligence to say something like, "Because of the perceived impropriety of having the summit here, and in conjunction with the Character Counts Week, we have decided to choose another location. " > > Damn, I am now writing press releases for Trump. The whole point is, he doesn’t care how he says it; he knows his supporters actively embrace his blatant lying, because…“liberal tears.” And another good chunk of the country is just too confused to understand or care. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1899) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1901)