# 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:** 1980
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39585 "2019-12-23T07:11:39Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > The 2020 election will tell. You mean the one that Republicans are purging voter rolls by hundreds of thousands of people for? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39586 "2019-12-23T07:35:27Z")
Wonderful title on this article, though I feel like it will go over most readers’ heads: [Trump rails against windmills: ‘I never understood wind’](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/475701-trump-rails-against-windmills-i-never-understood-wind) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39587 "2019-12-23T09:16:16Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Psssssttt. Have you seen who the Democrats are running out there? I don’t want you to panic but we are deeply, deeply fucked. Okay, panic. Might as well get started. Yeah, that is worrisome. Pass the Klonopin please. I have a neighbor who thinks that Bloomberg is the only electable one. :eek: His logic is that, among all the Dem candidates, he’s the only one with no bad baggage. :dubious: Oh, and @ **TonySinclair** : Yeah, I’ve blissfully shoved that into my deepest subconscious, so traumatic it is. What Dems really need at a massive Manhattan Project magnitude voter registration and re-registration campaign and GOTV campaign and everything else that can be done to overcome crappy voter ID laws, polling place closures, early voting and mail-in voting limitations, gerrymandering, the works. Dems, liberals, progressives ARE in the majority in this country. I’m sure of it. We really need to get them to vote, and get their votes counted! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39588 "2019-12-23T12:07:53Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Wonderful title on this article, though I feel like it will go over most readers’ heads: > > [Trump rails against windmills: ‘I never understood wind’](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/475701-trump-rails-against-windmills-i-never-understood-wind) "I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody.” Also: "I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous – if you are into this – tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?” Yes, Mr. President. We are aware that we “have a world”. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39589 "2019-12-23T13:18:36Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Dems, liberals, progressives ARE in the majority in this country. I’m sure of it. We really need to get them to vote, and get their votes counted! As well as the voter purges, gerrymandering, closing of voting stations, disenfranchisement etc don’t forget that elections are held on a working day (unlike most other western democracies) and many people live in states where they do not have the right to time off to go vote. So, alas, it’s not just a matter of whether progressives are in the majority. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39590 "2019-12-23T15:05:48Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I have to hope that there is a group of patriotic super genius types formulating a plan to counteract this…I HAVE TO believe that! It’s real, I swear! [Super Patriots](https://i.imgur.com/PgIdDWs.jpg), from _Mad Magazine_, 1968. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39591 "2019-12-23T16:51:34Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Wonderful title on this article, though I feel like it will go over most readers’ heads: > > [Trump rails against windmills: ‘I never understood wind’](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/475701-trump-rails-against-windmills-i-never-understood-wind) > [@](#): > > Trump also claimed during his speech that wind power plants are responsible for killing birds, including bald eagles. > > “A windmill will kill many bald eagles,” he said, according to Mediate. “After a certain number, they make you turn the windmill off, that is true. By the way, they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one, they put you in jail. That is OK. But why is it OK for windmills to destroy the bird population?” Are the windmills giving birds cancer? Somehow, I don’t find it convincing that Trump cares about bird deaths, or anything that is detrimental to the environment in general. I suspect the only thing Trump knows about wind is how to break it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39592 "2019-12-23T16:59:40Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I suspect the only thing Trump knows about wind is how to break it. Do you smell that? That’s the smell of _PAT_R_I_O_T_I_S_M!\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39593 "2019-12-23T17:24:52Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Do you smell that? That’s the smell of _PAT_R_I_O_T_I_S_M!\*\*\* Someone should do a deep fake of this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRp7tYWnJJs) with Trump as Col. Kilgore: > [@](#): > > **Trump:** Smell that? You smell that? > > **Everyone else:** What? > > \*\*Trump: \*\*P_A_T_R_I_O_T_I_S_M, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of P_A_T_R_I_O_T_I_S_M in the morning. You know, one time we had Capitol Hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ Democrat body. The smell, you know that P_A_T_R_I_O_T_I_S\*M smell? The whole Hill. Smelled like… victory. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39594 "2019-12-23T17:40:33Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Super Patriots](https://i.imgur.com/PgIdDWs.jpg), from _Mad Magazine_, 1968. It’s like they had a window into the future… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39595 "2019-12-23T18:10:20Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Are the windmills giving birds cancer? > > Somehow, I don’t find it convincing that Trump cares about bird deaths, or anything that is detrimental to the environment in general. > > I suspect the only thing Trump knows about wind is how to break it. I would imagine that he despises birds because they constantly mistake his hair for their nests. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39596 "2019-12-23T18:55:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Yes, Mr. President. We are aware that we “have a world”. To be fair, he was speaking to a conservative group, who may well have been unaware. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39597 "2019-12-23T20:52:45Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > You mean the one that Republicans are purging voter rolls by hundreds of thousands of people for? Yes. That one. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39598 "2019-12-23T20:53:58Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > "I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody.” > > Also: > > "I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous – if you are into this – tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?” > > Yes, Mr. President. We are aware that we “have a world”. He sure is a god damn stupid motherfucker. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39599 "2019-12-23T21:28:51Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He sure is a god damn stupid motherfucker. And, of course, there’s no fumes when coal plants are constructed. That must come only after they’re in operation. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39600 "2019-12-23T21:46:28Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > And, of course, there’s no fumes when coal plants are constructed. That must come only after they’re in operation. Gee, I thought he was saying that the windmills emit poisonous fumes. Because, well, _reasons_! :dubious: ---
**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:** [December 23, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39601 "2019-12-23T22:34:34Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Gee, I thought he was saying that the windmills emit poisonous fumes. Because, well, _reasons_! :dubious: Well where else do you think the cancer comes from? Grab a brain, moran! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39602 "2019-12-23T23:00:17Z")
I’m visiting family in the NE Georgia mountains, and it is definitely Trump country. I stopped at a Walmart, and saw an extended-cab pickup in the parking lot. It had Trump’s profile pasted on the cab window, looking ahead. His lips were pressed together in a pout, and it sure looked like he was ready to suck cock. I doubt the truck’s owner thought it made his hero look like he played for the other team. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39603 "2019-12-23T23:09:00Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He sure is a god damn stupid motherfucker. I wonder how long it would take to teach him tic-tac-toe. Seriously, the President of The United States of America just says what happens to pop into his head. Something that is maybe, sort of related but has absolutely nothing to do with what he _seems_ to be trying to communicate. And his fans go wild. I weep at how stupid our country is. He is the representative of our country, and has talked to Putin in private. And Collins and his ilk think this is just peachy. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/39604 "2019-12-23T23:32:15Z")
My Trump-hating sister bought our Trump-loving brother-in-law MAGA hat for Christmas. She ordered it from the official Trump website. It’s delayed in transit. From China. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1979) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=1981)