# 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:** 1942
**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:** [November 18, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38825 "2019-11-18T01:15:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There is video of Individual 1 being hustled into an SUV hunched over and looking ill on the way to the hospital. Are there any videos of him arriving back at the White House? Is it very wrong of me to hope that there will never be sufch a video because he never does return to the White House? ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38826 "2019-11-18T01:21:01Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > I I just want the motherfucker gone … Then you need to be proactive, in an innocent-looking sorta way. Send him a get-well gift, [a big bottle of fresh cold milk and an irresistible platter of fruit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor). ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38827 "2019-11-18T01:41:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Out of curiosity, I put on a pair of vinyl gloves, attached a clothespin to my nose, and went over to Twitter to check out the Real soon-to-be-ex’s thread. There have been a steady stream of tweets criticizing and insulting the Democrats, but they’re strangely passionless and subdued. Mostly spelled correctly, not an excessive use of exclamation points. They’re sort of robotic. I wonder if he’s in an induced coma and a computer is sending them? The answer may well be “Dan Scavino”: > [@](#): > > … Wired Magazine says text-only tweets sent between 6 p.m. and 10 a.m. are the most likely to be written by the president, due to his schedule and cable TV news viewing habits. If there’s a thread of tweets, the magazine surmises Scavino is more likely to have written them. … > **[He wrote Trump’s tweets. This Hudson Valley man has been with his campaign...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/18/donald-trump-twitter-president-white-house-dan-scavino-golf-course-covfefe/1495205001/)** > > He met Trump as a teenager working at his golf course. Now he works side-by-side with the President in the White House. > [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I would agree with you except for the lid today, and another lid for [tomorrow](https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1196212773014900736). That’s not normal. The thing is, the only people left at the White House are corrupt. Who would be surprised if they covered up Trump’s complete incapacity—or even demise—for some period of time, so as to facilitate arrangements for their own personal advantage? Another consideration: what’s going to happen to the stock market when it opens tomorrow morning, if no one knows whether or not Trump is functioning (or alive)? Is it possible that this entire episode is yet another attempt to manipulate the market? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38828 "2019-11-18T01:53:03Z")
CNN said that normally when he goes to Walter Reed for a scheduled visit, there is a notice sent round to everyone there of a VIP visitor but that wasn’t done in this case. I’m not normally prone to conspiracy theories, but there is something weird here. ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38829 "2019-11-18T01:56:44Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > The answer may well be “Dan Scavino”: Yeah, Scavino resides in a closet off the Oval Office. [From a _NYT_ article](http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2019/trumps-twitter-habit-is-most-intense-in-the-morning/): > [@](#): > > Once Mr. Trump arrives in the West Wing — usually after 10 a.m. — Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, takes control of the Twitter account, tweeting as @realDonaldTrump from his own phone or computer. Mr. Trump rarely tweets in front of others, those close to him say, because he does not like to wear the reading glasses he needs to see the screen. > > Instead, the president dictates tweets to Mr. Scavino, who sits in a closet-size room just off the Oval Office until Mr. Trump calls out “Scavino!” Often, he prints out suggested tweets in extra-large fonts for the president to sign off on. (A single-page article that Mr. Scavino recently printed out for him ran to six pages after the fonts were enlarged, according to one person who saw it.) ---
**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 18, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38830 "2019-11-18T02:00:02Z")
Here’s video of [Trump getting into the motorcade](https://twitter.com/KellyO/status/1196196826086617091). He’s only visible for a second or two, but looks normal. Let me rephrase that: he looks like he always does. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38831 "2019-11-18T02:24:52Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Goodness. WaPo quoted the press secretary Stephanie What’s-Her-Name as saying he’s fine, great, blahblahblah, but the reader comments beg to differ. Over two thousand of them ain’t buyin’ it. Very interesting. Probably because an emergency partial annual physical is not an actual thing that happens. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38832 "2019-11-18T02:31:11Z")
“I’ve got some free time today; what should I do: play golf? Or move up that prostate check that I’ve got scheduled for January?” Yeah, somethings fishy. ---
**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 18, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38833 "2019-11-18T02:33:53Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Here’s video of [Trump getting into the motorcade](https://twitter.com/KellyO/status/1196196826086617091). He’s only visible for a second or two, but looks normal. Let me rephrase that: he looks like he always does. Fat. ---
**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 18, 2019, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38834 "2019-11-18T02:36:40Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Yeah, somethings fishy. [Hmm…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGR65CXaNA) :rolleyes: ---
**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 18, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38835 "2019-11-18T02:39:59Z")
Big Mac awareness and avoiding drinks made by Melania. “She loves me so much she makes me drinks with gold in them! Even Oatmeal!” ---
**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 18, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38836 "2019-11-18T02:43:23Z")
Is it possible to overdose on Diet Coke and Sudafed? ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38837 "2019-11-18T02:54:28Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > In a perfect world, he’d have no coverage at all - due to preexisting conditions, and because he did his best to wreck healthcare coverage for other people. Remember when Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face on a “hunting trip”? (The quotes are because it was evidently more like shooting animals at a petting zoo). The thing that was buried near the bottom of the accounts was that the victim was treated on site by the medical aides who traveled with Cheney, and then transported by the ambulance that was standing by in case Cheney needed it. That’s what you call a gold plan. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38838 "2019-11-18T03:07:31Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Do you suppose one of those tests was a search to determine if he even has a heart (or brain, for that matter)? The White House released the CAT scan of his head. It showed an abnormally large skull, with a brain the size of a walnut, and a much larger brain drawn around it with a Sharpie. ---
**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 18, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38839 "2019-11-18T03:07:44Z")
**[We need a second opinion on the president’s health](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/17/we-need-second-opinion-presidents-health/)** > [@](#): > > The only thing of which we can be fairly certain about President Trump’s mysterious Saturday-afternoon trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is this: The White House is not telling the truth when it claims the president was there “to begin portions of his routine annual physical exam.” > > **We know this because — well, because those people lie about pretty much everything.** > … > > So now the oldest president in U.S. history claims the purpose of his two-hour medical visit, which was not on his public schedule, was to conduct “phase one of my yearly physical. Everything very good (great!). Will complete next year.” Phase one? What does that entail? Has anyone else ever taken a routine physical in installments spread out over months? Has he signed up for some kind of quirky flexible spending plan with his insurance? > … > > But medical privacy is something that should not be granted the most powerful person in the world. > > As Trump embarks on his effort to convince us that he deserves another four years in office, Americans should demand something more than what they are getting, starting with a briefing from the physicians who treated him at Walter Reed. > … My bold. Hehe. Surely someone will leak the info. Where’s the National Enquirer and their fat checkbook when we need them? > [@TonySinclair](#): > > The White House released the CAT scan of his head. It showed an abnormally large skull, with a brain the size of a walnut, and a much larger brain drawn around it with a Sharpie. 😃 ---
**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 18, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38840 "2019-11-18T03:09:40Z")
I remember Nagasaki Day 1974, when tricky dick departed DC and slunk off to San Clemente. For months afterward, he appeared to be in shit health, even with the murmur of the surf and squawking of the maritime skyotes to calm him. Individual-ONE is currently twelve years more advanced in chronological age than dick was as the WG controversy brought him to his bony knees. Surely this Ukraine QPQ scandal cannot be good for the CFSG’s general health. ---
**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 18, 2019, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38841 "2019-11-18T03:12:27Z")
There is one odd thing about the video - Trump is carrying something, possibly a folder. I don’t recall ever seeing Trump carry anything. ---
**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 18, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38842 "2019-11-18T03:15:33Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > There is one odd thing about the video - Trump is carrying something, possibly a folder. I don’t recall ever seeing Trump carry anything. Something he REALLY doesn’t want anyone else to see? ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38843 "2019-11-18T03:15:43Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > There is one odd thing about the video - Trump is carrying something, possibly a folder. I don’t recall ever seeing Trump carry anything. Well, we saw him carry an umbrella once. And toilet paper on at least 2 occasions. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38844 "2019-11-18T03:18:03Z")
I think he was having his stomach pumped after having accidentally eaten a vegetable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1941) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1943)