# 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:** 1938
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38745 "2019-11-14T23:40:06Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > [Dotard wants 500% more money from South Korea.](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/politics/trump-south-korea-troops-price-hike/index.html) Is another bogus “investigation” announcement involved? ---
**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:** [November 14, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38746 "2019-11-14T23:50:08Z")
(BOT)- In breaking news, South Korea has announced that an investigation has been launched into the hadicapped reporter that Trump psycho-childishly mocked during the campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38747 "2019-11-15T01:36:35Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Is another bogus “investigation” announcement involved? Maybe from NORTH Korea… Kim says yes to investigating Bidens, Turd extorts South Korea for protection. Would not surprise even a nun. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38748 "2019-11-15T02:44:49Z")
Hm, who’d’a thunk venerable Stephen Miller is, oh, perhaps a [fucking nazi?](https://www.pbs.org/video/hateful-words-1573761343/) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38749 "2019-11-15T02:50:17Z")
Or should I temper that to ‘white supremacist scumbag’? ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38750 "2019-11-15T03:22:52Z")
I love this story for its infinite potential: [Rudy Giuliani says Trump will stay loyal to him but jokes that he has ‘insurance’](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/14/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-insurance-loyal) You have it completely backwards Rudy. Loyalty **to** Trump is required. Any suggestion of disloyalty and Trump will keep arguing with you and trashing your name until long after you die, see John McCain for example. Loyalty _from_ Trump? Who ever heard of such a ridiculous thing?! But you do you Rudy. Remind Trump that he owes you something. I’m sure it’ll be fine. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38751 "2019-11-15T03:57:40Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > [Dotard wants 500% more money from South Korea.](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/politics/trump-south-korea-troops-price-hike/index.html) > [@](#): > > This year, Trump raised the asking price from approximately $1 billion to $5 billion before being convinced by officials at the State Department and Pentagon to winnow that down to $4.7 billion, according to a congressional aide and the administration official. :mad: :mad: :mad: GAH! :mad: :mad: :mad: A $4B increase to a $1B price tag is a **400%** increase, not a 500% increase. I hate seeing innumeracy from people who should know better. Also, fuck the America-hating fuckstick and his goddamned shakedowns. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38752 "2019-11-15T14:05:44Z")
A little compassion and understanding for the mathtard community would be appreciated. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38753 "2019-11-15T14:32:05Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > A little compassion and understanding for the mathtard community would be appreciated. _womp, womp_ Sorry, this administration prefers people who don’t have disabilities. Or require compassion. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38754 "2019-11-15T14:55:28Z")
Come on, it says 400% right in the article. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38755 "2019-11-15T16:59:09Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > This does not make me concerned that AI text generation is getting too good…it’s making me concerned that the _President of the United States is such an incoherent, rambling speaker, he can be successfully replicated by an AI text generator_. Hell, even ELIZA could outdo Trump. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38756 "2019-11-15T17:04:17Z")
Does anyone happen to remember [where I left my garden rake](https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/470479-ex-simpsons-writer-accuses-republicans-of-sideshow-bob-defense)? _(Bill Oakley, a former writer for “The Simpsons,”) invoked a line from the episode “Sideshow Bob Roberts,” which he co-wrote with Josh Weinstein, in which the title character complains that he should not be in prison for attempted murder, rhetorically asking, “Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?”_ So now we can accuse the Republicans of plagiarism for what is now being called the “Sideshow Bob Defense”. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38757 "2019-11-15T17:24:57Z")
Roger Stone just got convicted about lying about Wikileaks–and Trump’s knowledge about that. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38758 "2019-11-15T17:25:27Z")
Did you see that the scum in the White House (inaccurately)attacked the former Ukraine ambassador via tweet during her testimony, and Schiff wisely brought it into the hearing? I was moved by the exchange. Hopefully more people will see this as witness intimidation (not to mention bullying a woman). (Apologies to all the harmless scum out there, covering parts of ponds). As BobLibDem put it: “Fucker can’t help himself. Intimidate and insult a witness while she’s on the stand. He’s all class, except for the C and the L.” ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38759 "2019-11-15T18:06:00Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Did you see that the scum in the White House (inaccurately)attacked the former Ukraine ambassador via tweet during her testimony, and Schiff wisely brought it into the hearing? I was moved by the exchange. Hopefully more people will see this as witness intimidation (not to mention bullying a woman). > > (Apologies to all the harmless scum out there, covering parts of ponds). > > As BobLibDem put it: “Fucker can’t help himself. Intimidate and insult a witness while she’s on the stand. He’s all class, except for the C and the L.” The guy has a military and nuclear weapons at his disposal, and his fans will protest he’s not intimidating witnesses. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38760 "2019-11-15T18:55:16Z")
> [@margin](#): > > Roger Stone just got convicted about lying about Wikileaks–and Trump’s knowledge about that. You know, I hate prison rape jokes. I hate that they’re acceptable, I hate that so many people seem to treat prison rape as not only some kind of natural and unavoidable fact of life but an integral, justified, almost commendable even aspect of incarceration. It’s callous, it’s trite, it’s banally cruel, it’s very much not funny, and it doesn’t even have the redeeming aspect of being original. But. But. But this is just _too_ good a setup to miss goddammit. The spirit is willing, but the spirit is weak. One lucky American is finally going to be able to hatefuck Nixon face to face. I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry ---
**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:** [November 15, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38761 "2019-11-15T20:37:07Z")
[да, конечно](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/470683-trump-everyone-knows-who-whistleblower-is) “_**Everyone in Washington knows who it is, by the way. The whistleblower is no great secret. Everybody knows who the whistleblower is, and [it] has to be revealed.**_” BTW, **Kobal2** , the correct word is “ratfuck” ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38762 "2019-11-16T03:46:50Z")
Trump just pardoned the guy that was turned in by his squad mates for murdering children. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38763 "2019-11-16T03:53:27Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > You know, I hate prison rape jokes. I hate that they’re acceptable, I hate that so many people seem to treat prison rape as not only some kind of natural and unavoidable fact of life but an integral, justified, almost commendable even aspect of incarceration. It’s callous, it’s trite, it’s banally cruel, it’s very much not funny, and it doesn’t even have the redeeming aspect of being original. > > But. > > But. > > But this is just _too_ good a setup to miss goddammit. The spirit is willing, but the spirit is weak. > > One lucky American is finally going to be able to hatefuck Nixon face to face. > > I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry In the words of The Who (_A Quick One_): You are forgiven! ---
**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:** [November 16, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38764 "2019-11-16T14:08:49Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > One lucky American is finally going to be able to hatefuck Nixon face to face. The [Nixon tattoo on Stone’s back](https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/25/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.17.12-AM.png) could be a useful deterrant in prison, like how Indian villagers [wear masks on the back of their head](https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/article-2429236-182ccb2700000578-961_634x429.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600) to deter tigers from sneaking up on them from behind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1937) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1939)