# 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:** 1943
**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, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38845 "2019-11-18T03:20:18Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Well, we saw him carry an umbrella once. And toilet paper on at least 2 occasions. Then there were the paper towels. But right away he threw them into a crowd, so maybe that doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38846 "2019-11-18T03:40:33Z")
And of course, he carries a torch for Vladimir Putin. ---
**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, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38847 "2019-11-18T04:00:23Z")
> [@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. Did it look [like this](http://home.avvanta.com/~sydde/pbmri.jpeg)? ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38848 "2019-11-18T04:19:35Z")
**ThelmaLou** , [don’t look to an august publication like the National Enquirer for breaking news](https://apnews.com/1beb4bf23d0043eab87396ec56054814). It is the Publication of Record for the Trump family. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38849 "2019-11-18T05:29:45Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > Do you have a link? I’d love to show that to my Republican friends that believe everything the white house says > ---
**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 18, 2019, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38850 "2019-11-18T06:24:49Z")
> [@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. Someone pointed out that he’s not wearing a tie in that clip (which suggests that it’s NOT how he always looks). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38851 "2019-11-18T14:49:36Z")
Wasn’t the original story something about how he was visiting a wounded veteran and family at Walter Reed, and just decided, Heck, long as I’m here, might as well take some time for a partial physical. These doctors aren’t doing anything important… Latest versions have disappeared the wounded soldier bit. _Poof!_ Gone! What, no photos? No teary-eyed warriors calling him “Sir”? The wounded guy didn’t want any pictures of a fat stupid lout looming over him? Nobody noticed, a stealth motorcade and fifty invisible Secret Service goons? No adoring doctors and nurses setting aside their minor duties to bask in his aura? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38852 "2019-11-18T15:09:01Z")
It looks like he’s carrying a pretty large file folder of some kind,maybe like one of [these](https://www.staples.com/Staples-3-1-2-Expansion-File-Pockets-Legal-25-Pack/product_418319?cid=PS:GooglePLAs:418319&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=418319&KPID=418319&gclid=Cj0KCQiAn8nuBRCzARIsAJcdIfPoqEID9BfMlM9Y9h72HNT8ZiRMyDMhkaIB-hE8RH53bDCNoRws_1oaAlV-EALw_wcB). Maybe a bunch of past medical records? ---
**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:** [November 18, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38853 "2019-11-18T15:24:50Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > I have never in my life wished someone dead. I sometimes feel that I not only wish him dead, but I wish a long, slow, painful death. I want him to suffer the way he has made others suffer, stealing from working people- not paying contracters, Trump “University”, his bullshit foundation, etc etc. And I don’t like the way that makes me feel. > > And so I do not wish that death on him. I just want the motherfucker gone, and out of my, and your, life. As I said some months ago, I do not want him dead, I want him in jail. I want him in jail a long, long time. I want him to contemplate about how he could have remained what he was, a grifter squeezing a couple hundred grand here, maybe a million there, for the rest of his life but then he hit upon the idea of running for president as a vanity project\* and it all came crashing down when people who mattered (like attorneys general) started paying attention to what he was doing. Death is too good for him. \*Or an enhancement to the Trump brand, I can’t tell which. ---
**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, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38854 "2019-11-18T15:41:06Z")
Anyone know if he’s back at the White House? ---
**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, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38855 "2019-11-18T15:45:38Z")
[John Harwood](https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1196406564925706241), _CNBC_: > [@](#): > > WH press secretary defending her credibility: “I’ve given plenty of on-the-record statements that were truthful and accurate” ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38856 "2019-11-18T15:49:32Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Probably because an emergency partial annual physical is not an actual thing that happens. Especially seeing as the last one was in February. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38857 "2019-11-18T16:02:41Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > [John Harwood](https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1196406564925706241), _CNBC_:Quote: > WH press secretary defending her credibility: “I’ve given plenty of on-the-record statements that were truthful and accurate” The best response I saw to this was from Soledad O’Brien. > [@Paraphrase by Soledad](#): > > I have—on occasion—not lied to you [Link, I hope](https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1196412424313802754). ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38858 "2019-11-18T16:16:51Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Is it possible to overdose on Diet Coke and Sudafed? Twitter is reporting Stage 4 Windmill Cancer. ---
**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, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38859 "2019-11-18T17:28:06Z")
Donald Trump: “I am fortunate to have been blessed with great genes” (2015) Trump’s doctor, Harold Bornstein: “His blood pressure, 110/65, and laboratory test results were astonishingly excellent…His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary… If elected, Mr Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency” (2015)\* Steve Mnuchin: “Trump has perfect genes” (2017) Jeanine Pirro: “He’s almost superhuman” (2019) - Bornstein later admitted that [Trump dictated to him](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43970908) what he should write. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38860 "2019-11-18T18:06:07Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Steve Mnuchin: “Trump has perfect genes” (2017) Well, that explains all those perfect phone calls, I guess. ---
**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 18, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38861 "2019-11-18T18:10:04Z")
[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the country has a “behavioral problem” as he called on both sides of the political spectrum to defuse the anger now swirling around political debates.](https://news4sanantonio.com/news/connect-to-congress/mcconnell-lack-of-civility-is-countrys-biggest-problem) Let’s start with getting Trump and his family of trolls off social media! ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38862 "2019-11-18T18:17:31Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Donald Trump: “I am fortunate to have been blessed with great genes” (2015) > > Trump’s doctor, Harold Bornstein: “His blood pressure, 110/65, and laboratory test results were astonishingly excellent…His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary… If elected, Mr Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency” (2015)\* > > Steve Mnuchin: “Trump has perfect genes” (2017) > > Jeanine Pirro: “He’s almost superhuman” (2019) Don’t forget… Dr. Ronny Jackson: “if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years old” ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38863 "2019-11-18T18:18:43Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > 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. I do hope it’s nothing trivial. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38864 "2019-11-18T18:22:51Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Steve Mnuchin: “Trump has perfect genes” (2017) > > Jeanine Pirro: “He’s almost superhuman” (2019) Do you know who else thought he was a superman with perfect genes? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1942) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1944)