# 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:** 1948
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38945 "2019-11-21T00:04:42Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > So he’s got a regular room at Mar-a-Largo, then? And that’s only costing the taxpayer $1000/night! Bargain! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38946 "2019-11-21T00:05:40Z")
Pretty sure every president has a doctor travelling with him wherever he goes. ---
**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 21, 2019, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38947 "2019-11-21T00:07:44Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Pretty sure every president has a doctor travelling with him wherever he goes. Yes - but is there a difference between the 'WHite House Doctor(s) and medical staff" and “Trumps Personal Physician” ? I agree that they always have medical standing by - but this (as phrased) seems more than that. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38948 "2019-11-21T00:57:22Z")
[In case you thought the Ukrainians were blasting Russian tanks with their new Javelin missiles.](https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/03/far-from-the-front-lines-javelin-missiles-go-unused-in-ukraine/) ---
**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 21, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38949 "2019-11-21T01:23:37Z")
Maybe he had a stroke and they became concerned because he was suddenly coherent. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38950 "2019-11-21T14:38:43Z")
Impeachment Hearings go better with Trump[sup] **TM** [/sup] Wine > [@](#): > > **Eric Trump Burned For Using Impeachment Hearing To Sell Trump Wine** > > Eric Trump wasn’t exactly drunk with power during Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s testimony on Wednesday ― but he definitely thought about getting drunk. > > While Sondland was directly implicating President Donald Trump in a Ukraine shakedown, the president’s second-born son was figuring out how to make a buck off the whole impeachment situation. > > His solution was to push Trump wines. > **[Eric Trump Burned For Using Impeachment Hearing To Sell Trump Wine](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-trump-wine-impeachment_n_5dd5c9e3e4b0fc53f20d8629)** > > One Twitter user said the wine "pairs well with bribery." ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38951 "2019-11-21T15:00:19Z")
We already knew that Eric was a bit of a dim bulb. I mean he called the impeachment inquiry boring. What kind of idiot thinks that the future of his country and family is boring? ---
**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 21, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38952 "2019-11-21T15:11:54Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Impeachment Hearings go better with Trump[sup] **TM** [/sup] Wine > > [Eric Trump Burned For Using Impeachment Hearing To Sell Trump Wine | HuffPost Latest News](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-trump-wine-impeachment_n_5dd5c9e3e4b0fc53f20d8629) You know when Trump saw that he said with a tear in his eye “That’s my Boy!” ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38953 "2019-11-21T16:54:20Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > We already knew that Eric was a bit of a dim bulb. I mean he called the impeachment inquiry boring. What kind of idiot thinks that the future of his country and family is boring? Becuz thats whut the TV talking people on the TeeVee says. So I am gonna say it too! Becuz I am smart! ---
**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 21, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38954 "2019-11-21T19:16:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Impeachment Hearings go better with Trump[sup] **TM** [/sup] Wine > > [Eric Trump Burned For Using Impeachment Hearing To Sell Trump Wine | HuffPost Latest News](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-trump-wine-impeachment_n_5dd5c9e3e4b0fc53f20d8629) Hey, it says right in the linked story, you forgot the ‘h’. ---
**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 21, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38955 "2019-11-21T21:34:58Z")
There is now a new, free font, called “[tiny hand](https://www.fastcompany.com/3064790/donald-trumps-crazy-handwriting-is-now-a-free-font-called-tiny-hand)”, which will allow you to have Individual-ONE’s sharpie scrawl appear in your documents. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38956 "2019-11-21T23:52:14Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Pretty sure every president has a doctor travelling with him wherever he goes. Yeah, what if he got a splinter or something? ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38957 "2019-11-22T00:00:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Maybe he had a stroke and they became concerned because he was suddenly coherent. Anybody remember the Kevin Kline movie “Dave?” Where a nice guy who’s a presidential impersonator gets called in b/c the real one had a stroke during an illicit affair? Ends with the fake prez pretending to have a stroke when the original’s illegal dealings came out. Except for the “good guy” president, I’m imagining Trump will use his health (either real or sham) as a way of escaping all of this. Fox News interview, fake stroke, “retiring due to health concerns,” and disappearing for six months to recuperate, then resurfacing to make a buck off of his latest scam. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38958 "2019-11-22T00:24:08Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Pretty sure every president has a doctor travelling with him wherever he goes. [Yes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_to_the_President). > [@](#): > > The White House Physician is metaphorically the “shadow of the President” because he or she is always close at hand whether the President is at the White House, overseas, on the campaign trail, or aboard presidential plane Air Force One; ---
**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 22, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38959 "2019-11-22T00:47:58Z")
> [@Swampwolf](#): > > Anybody remember the Kevin Kline movie “Dave?” #38861, a couple pages back > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > That’s just what Kevin Dunn and Frank Langella want you to think. Anybody can write a tweet. They need a little cover. It’ll take a few days to get the new guy up to speed. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38960 "2019-11-22T01:49:21Z")
I like to think that the guy at Kinko’s was going to let the Republicans know about [their error](https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1197580679975964672), but decided not to. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38961 "2019-11-22T02:21:52Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I like to think that the guy at Kinko’s was going to let the Republicans know about [their error](https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1197580679975964672), but decided not to. Perhaps I’m missing something; doesn’t that sign imply Schiff _is_ obeying House rules? Am I overthinking this? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38962 "2019-11-22T02:27:47Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Perhaps I’m missing something; doesn’t that sign imply Schiff _is_ obeying House rules? Yup. > [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Am I overthinking this? Nope. As **Fiveyearlurker** noted, it was the Republicans who designed the sign who turned out to be underthinking it. ---
**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 22, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38963 "2019-11-22T02:38:50Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Perhaps I’m missing something; doesn’t that sign imply Schiff _is_ obeying House rules? Am I overthinking this? They have lost the war with words. Words are victorious and are dancing upon their fallen. Having demonstrated a total inability to comprehend and deploy language, these individuals need to be enjoined from (ab)using it. At all. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38964 "2019-11-22T02:43:11Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Perhaps I’m missing something; doesn’t that sign imply Schiff _is_ obeying House rules? Am I overthinking this? It does, which is the error - that he’s followed the rules since right now. They should have said “0 days **that** he’s followed the rules.” I’ll bet the Kinko’s guy is from Normay. (That’s never gonna get old.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1947) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1949)