# 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:** 1947
**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 20, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38925 "2019-11-20T15:16:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > She calls him “darling”? I don’t think so. I can totally hear it in Eva Gabor’s voice. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38926 "2019-11-20T15:40:19Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > “Sir”. With tears in her eyes Isn’t this the same melania who he reported wouldn’t cry for him if he got shot? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38927 "2019-11-20T15:42:32Z")
She would have said ‘Dahlink’. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38928 "2019-11-20T15:48:20Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Like. Totes stealing. Stealing? You just might be ready for the inner circle. Pad out a resume and send it to Mick Mulvaney; I believe there are going to be some positions coming open very shortly. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38929 "2019-11-20T15:50:01Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Isn’t this the same melania who he reported wouldn’t cry for him if he got shot? No, you’re thinking of Melanie. ---
**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 20, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38930 "2019-11-20T15:53:08Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Isn’t this the same melania who he reported wouldn’t cry for him if he got shot? Tears of joy. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38931 "2019-11-20T16:06:29Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Isn’t this the same melania who he reported wouldn’t cry for him if he got shot? Tears of joy??? Ahhhh! Got beat out again 😃 ---
**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 20, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38932 "2019-11-20T16:15:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1’s press secretary (and what does she do all day when there are no press conferences?) claims that Obama staffers left nasty notes telling the incoming Individual 1 staffers that “you will fail.” > [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1085601](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1085601) > > The Obama staffers are calling it a flat out lie. Also, if this were true, why was it never brought up in the past three years? Wouldn’t it have been the first thing out of Sean Spicer’s mouth? > > * * * > > A New York state judge has ordered Individual 1 to be deposed in the Summer Zervos defamation case against him. > [State Supreme Court judge rules Trump to be deposed in Summer Zervos defamation case - Alternet.org](https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/state-supreme-court-judge-rules-trump-to-be-deposed-in-summer-zervos-defamation-case) ISTR when George II took over there were claims all the keyboards in the White House were missing the Ws. Maybe the Obama staffers were one-upping the Clinton staffers. :rolleyes: > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Tears of joy. Until she found that clause in the pre-nup about inheritance. Or opened the deposit box and there were only moth-eaten IOUs. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38933 "2019-11-20T17:21:02Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I’m beginning to think that perhaps the Republican Party’s insistence on strict email security during the 2016 election [was disingenuous](https://www.thedailybeast.com/nikki-haley-used-system-for-unclassified-material-to-send-confidential-information?ref=home). > > “Nikki Haley Used System for Unclassified Material to Send ‘Confidential’ Information. Newly released emails suggest that in 2017 the then-ambassador lost her password for classified communication, and so she used a different system.” Lock her up! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38934 "2019-11-20T17:28:52Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > A lack of leverage. Obama and the Clintons (and the Bushes) would never be stupid enough to take money from the Russians and leave themselves open to blackmail. Or to let themselves get videotaped with prostitutes. Bill might’ve gotten in trouble with the latter. But I’m pretty sure he wasn’t running shady real estate deals in Moscow so soon after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38935 "2019-11-20T17:42:53Z")
> **[Pompeo reportedly looking to leave Trump admin. as impeachment hearing causes...](https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2019-11-20/ty-article/pompeo-reportedly-looking-to-exit-trump-admin-as-impeachment-hearing-causes-tension/0000017f-e7d8-dc7e-adff-f7fdfb6b0000)** > > \*\*\* > [@](#): > > Time notes that ‘rumors of a Pompeo Senate campaign have circulated for months’ and that Trump’s recent complaints about Pompeo may speed up that departure > > U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reportedly looking to resign and run for a Senate seat in Kansas in the 2020 elections, according to GOP sources. ---
**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 20, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38936 "2019-11-20T17:47:22Z")
Just saw this classic comment, Jim Wright: [indent]\* There was a joke back when I was in grade school, something about a farmer, a prize pig, and a curious monkey recently escaped from the zoo. I don’t remember how it went exactly but it ended with a giant explosion of pigshit and the punchline: “…all I saw was this little monkey trying to put the cork back in…” Devin Nunes is that monkey right now.\*[/INDENT] ---
**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:** [November 20, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38937 "2019-11-20T18:27:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Apparently even Melania was caught off-guard by the hospital visit. > > **[Trump: Melania surprised by hospital visit](https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBX0lCg?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare)** > She calls him “darling”? I don’t think so. In his world all married couples call each other “darling” because he likes to pretend he lives in the 1950s “Leave It To Beaver” universe. Also everyone calls him “sir” and cries because of his awesomeness. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38938 "2019-11-20T18:28:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Just saw this classic comment, > Jim Wright: > [indent]\* There was a joke back when I was in grade school, something about a farmer, a prize pig, and a curious monkey recently escaped from the zoo. > > I don’t remember how it went exactly but it ended with a giant explosion of pigshit and the punchline: “…all I saw was this little monkey trying to put the cork back in…” > > Devin Nunes is that monkey right now.\*[/INDENT] I remember that joke. I have it in my head that it involved an elephant, which would be appropriate. (Though I could be conflating it with the ‘Take it all, bitch!’ joke.) . ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38939 "2019-11-20T19:53:26Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > In his world all married couples call each other “darling” because he likes to pretend he lives in the 1950s “Leave It To Beaver” universe. That’s true. Remember his impression of a family whose house had wind power? “Darling, is the wind blowing today? I want to watch television.” ---
**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 20, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38940 "2019-11-20T22:39:47Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > The Whitehouse media rep is now a guy named “Randy” who shitposts on your computer while drunk and then passes out on your couch. Dammit, now I know who it was barfed all over the cat. ---
**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 20, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38941 "2019-11-20T23:15:38Z")
Trump traveled to Austin today. He was accompanied by the White House physician. [https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1197290771059236865](https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1197290771059236865) Honest question – is that normal? Cuz that doesn’t sound normal to me. Combined with his recent surprise annual physical and his need to have a notepad with him to remind him he didn’t ask for a quid pro quo, this doesn’t appear to be a hallmark of a healthy man. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38942 "2019-11-20T23:33:31Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Trump traveled to Austin today. He was accompanied by the White House physician. [https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1197290771059236865](https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1197290771059236865) > > Honest question – is that normal? Cuz that doesn’t sound normal to me. Combined with his recent surprise annual physical and his need to have a notepad with him to remind him he didn’t ask for a quid pro quo, this doesn’t appear to be a hallmark of a healthy man. God, now I can foresee trump losing the election and then his lawyers arguing he too sick to stand trial in any of the cases against him. ---
**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 20, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38943 "2019-11-20T23:54:46Z")
I don’t think it’s unusual for the White House Physician to accompany the president. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38944 "2019-11-20T23:56:37Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I don’t think it’s unusual for the White House Physician to accompany the president. So he’s got a regular room at Mar-a-Largo, then? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1946) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1948)