# 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:** 1970
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39385 "2019-12-17T20:50:43Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Holy shit, anyone read [this 6-page letter from Trump to Pelosi?](https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/788982994/read-president-trump-sends-pelosi-letter-protesting-partisan-impeachment-charade) It’s something…special. My inner reading voice keeps flipping back and forth between Mark Hamill as the Joker and Andy Serkis as Gollum. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39386 "2019-12-17T20:51:21Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There is _no_ way he wrote a six page letter. It’s too coherent though someone did an excellent job of replicating Trump-speech. Has anyone seen **Smapti** around lately? You don’t suppose they flipped him, do ya? _ **SMAPTI!!!** _ ---
**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:** [December 17, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39387 "2019-12-17T20:54:42Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There is _no_ way he wrote a six page letter. It’s too coherent though someone did an excellent job of replicating Trump-speech. Pshaw. That’s, like, 80 tweets. He can shit that out before breakfast without wiping the flop sweat from his upper lip. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39388 "2019-12-17T21:10:05Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Holy shit, anyone read [this 6-page letter from Trump to Pelosi?](https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/788982994/read-president-trump-sends-pelosi-letter-protesting-partisan-impeachment-charade) It’s something…special. I especially love this - > [@DJT](#): > > By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy. Is this how he gets them to Gitmo? Was this his strategy all along? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39389 "2019-12-17T21:16:46Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There is _no_ way he wrote a six page letter. It’s too coherent though someone did an excellent job of replicating Trump-speech. I doubt he could even pronounce the word “jurisprudence,” let alone use it correctly in a sentence. As noted by someone in a WaPo comment thread, this is a man who has to write down “NO QUID PRO QUO” so he won’t forget it, and that’s only four words. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39390 "2019-12-17T21:27:04Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Holy shit, anyone read [this 6-page letter from Trump to Pelosi?](https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/788982994/read-president-trump-sends-pelosi-letter-protesting-partisan-impeachment-charade) It’s something…special. I just read it. It’s 6 pages of whiney self pitying lying shit stirring fucking bullshit. It’s almost as if he’s pushing for civil war. Fuck that traitorous lying bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39391 "2019-12-17T21:32:06Z")
He _is_ pushing for civil war. You should see the latest newsletter I got from the Appleseed Project. From its founder: > [@](#): > > And you likely know the founders were concerned for the future of liberty, that it always be preserved and passed on. You may recall they did not place faith in preservation of Liberty in government, the military, the Supreme Court, the President, or Congress. > > ``` > So, to what did they entrust Liberty? If you answered "Me?", give yourself a pat on the back. Yep, the founders looked to an "alert and educated American people" as the ultimate protector of Liberty in our country. > > But then, the big question: Are the American people, in 2019, "alert and educated" in the eyes of the founders? I'll let you answer that. (Shakes head) > > ``` Something tells me my notion of “alert and educated” is different than his. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39392 "2019-12-17T21:42:06Z")
He… really likes letters. He likes getting them. He _loves_ posing with them (unopened). And now, it seems, he likes signing ones that other people write for him (no way did he write this, it’s more than occasionally coherent). It’s enough to make you wonder if he wasn’t allowed to go near the mailbox as a child. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39393 "2019-12-17T21:50:58Z")
> [@](#): > > By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy. - does anyone think he wrote this? That’s a lovely “rule of three” rhetorical flourish. Trump _never uses those_. We hear him speak all the time, that’s not part of his style. The whole letter is full of tells. You’d think that someone would have done a better job ghostwriting him. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39394 "2019-12-17T22:07:57Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Has anyone seen **Smapti** around lately? You don’t suppose they flipped him, do ya? > _ **SMAPTI!!!** _ If I’d written it, I would’ve included a lengthy aside where a very respected leader calls him and says “Sir, what they’re doing to you with this fake impeachment is the worst thing any president has had to go through”, a cutie about how he invented the word “impeach”, and a conspiracy theory about Michelle Obama doing quid pro quos with ISIS. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39395 "2019-12-17T22:45:40Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I just read it. It’s 6 pages of whiney self pitying lying shit stirring fucking bullshit. It’s almost as if he’s pushing for civil war. > > Fuck that traitorous lying bastard. Does it bother you that much that the glorious orange one can write six lucid pages while you struggle to complete a sentence that doesn’t make you look like a nut? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39396 "2019-12-17T22:50:04Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Does it bother you that much that the glorious orange one can write six lucid pages while you struggle to complete a sentence that doesn’t make you look like a nut? Wait, you think he actually wrote that letter? That’s adorable! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39397 "2019-12-17T22:51:45Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Wait, you think he actually wrote that letter? > > That’s adorable! And he thinks it’s “lucid.” ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39398 "2019-12-17T22:56:10Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Wait, you think he actually wrote that letter? > > That’s adorable! He signed it at least. 🙂 I think. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39399 "2019-12-17T23:14:17Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Does it bother you that much that the glorious orange one can write six lucid pages while you struggle to complete a sentence that doesn’t make you look like a nut? You really are a special kind of moron aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39400 "2019-12-17T23:24:06Z")
“Trump wrote a six page letter” doesn’t tell you much if you don’t know [what font size he used.](https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2019/11/GettyImages-1188927586-e1574467894641.jpg?resize=865,452) ---
**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:** [December 17, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39401 "2019-12-17T23:36:00Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Does it bother you that much that the glorious orange one can write six lucid pages while you struggle to complete a sentence that doesn’t make you look like a nut? You say that as if writing “six lucid pages” is something to be proud of, when really any bright middle school student ought to be able to do it. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39402 "2019-12-18T00:54:27Z")
What’s the rule for evaluating Republican speech or written word? **Every Accusation Is A Confession.** It’s been said by many people but this letter shows once again how true it is. And yeah, no way that dumbfuck wrote that. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39403 "2019-12-18T01:22:49Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > “Trump wrote a six page letter” doesn’t tell you much if you don’t know [what font size he used.](https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2019/11/GettyImages-1188927586-e1574467894641.jpg?resize=865,452) Very true. But I’m just thrilled to live in a country where it’s an accomplishment for the so-called president if he actually penned a six page letter. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39404 "2019-12-18T01:34:03Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Here’s my hoped-for response from Pelosi: > > \*Dear Mr. President, > > TL;DR. > > signed > Nancy Pelosi > (Speaker, House of Representatives)\* That would be awesome. But Trump is famously not much on the Internet except for Twitter and conspiracy theory sites, where “TL;DR” is unlikely to appear. He’s therefore likely to misinterpret the phrase. > [@](#): > > _Today Nancy told me Trump Landslide; Democrats Ridiculous. She’s finally admitting how Great I am! Many people are saying that was going to happen. Your Favorite President wins “over” all the haters!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1969) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1971)