# 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:** 2016
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40305 "2020-02-03T11:17:16Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Who could imagine they would freak out in Kansas? Or Washington! It can’t happen here! (It did) ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40306 "2020-02-03T13:10:03Z")
WTF was that cheato’s commercial. Minority woman, that you Mr President Trump for saving my family. No details, nothing as for what that was about, if anything. Just praising the current head of the beast. This time around you can take the mark upon your forehead and let the world see it by wearing your MAGA cap. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40307 "2020-02-03T14:17:03Z")
She was the woman that Ms Kardashian championed for clemency. Convicted of cocaine conspiracy, did about twenty years of her sentence, and Il Douche cut her some slack. African Americans are apparently expected to gasp with surprise and gratitude. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40308 "2020-02-03T14:51:50Z")
Yes, his claimed criminal justice reform was pardoning a couple of people that had celebrities championing their causes. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40309 "2020-02-03T14:54:35Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > She was the woman that Ms Kardashian championed for clemency. Convicted of cocaine conspiracy, did about twenty years of her sentence, and Il Douche cut her some slack. African Americans are apparently expected to gasp with surprise and gratitude. A really stupid waste of money, if you ask me. it’s not going to make a dent in his abysmal popularity with African Americans, and his Base is gonna say: “WTF? He’s letting black people out of jail?!?” ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40310 "2020-02-03T15:01:38Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > A really stupid waste of money, if you ask me. it’s not going to make a dent in his abysmal popularity with African Americans, and his Base is gonna say: “WTF? He’s letting black people out of jail?!?” His base doesn’t care what he does, or doesn’t do. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40311 "2020-02-03T15:02:43Z")
Which kind of racism is this? Thinking black people are dumb enough to fall for this kind of shit, when its a fact of history that white people _are_. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40312 "2020-02-03T15:25:37Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > Yes, his claimed criminal justice reform was pardoning a couple of people that had celebrities championing their causes. Don’t forget the part about being the best at “reuniting families.” ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40313 "2020-02-03T15:58:09Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > I feel better now. The President of the United States thinks the Chiefs play in Kansas. I was way closer. Meme seen on the web–Dorothy Gale [on the Chiefs]: “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Missouri anymore.” This also made me note that Trump is a combination of Dorothy’s companions: he doesn’t have a heart, brain, or courage. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40314 "2020-02-03T16:28:32Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Meme seen on the web–Dorothy Gale [on the Chiefs]: “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Missouri anymore.” > > This also made me note that Trump is a combination of Dorothy’s companions: he doesn’t have a heart, brain, or courage. And there’s nobody behind the curtain, either. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40315 "2020-02-03T16:30:46Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Meme seen on the web–Dorothy Gale [on the Chiefs]: “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Missouri anymore.” > > This also made me note that Trump is a combination of Dorothy’s companions: he doesn’t have a heart, brain, or courage. > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > And there’s nobody behind the curtain, either. You calling Vladimir Putin a “nobody”? If I were you, I’d start running my food past a Geiger counter… ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40316 "2020-02-03T17:06:55Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Don’t forget the part about being the best at “reuniting families.” Right?! My jaw just dropped when I saw that! ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40317 "2020-02-03T18:01:29Z")
> [@Hermione](#): > > Right?! My jaw just dropped when I saw that! I admire the ability to retain the capacity for surprise at anything the orange assclown says or does anymore. Think of any single president over the past 50 years and I bet you’d be shocked to learn any number of bad things about each and every one of them. Imagine if Reagan was accused of rape. Imagine if Carter or Clinton was accused of racism. Imagine if either Bush was accused of emolument offenses. Imagine if Obama was accused of philandering or sex with minors. I mean, if any of those things would come out, there would undoubtedly be room for shock and surprise. Right? Can anybody think of a single reprehensible thing that Trump hasn’t already been credibly accused of and, in being revealed, would come as a total and complete surprise, to anyone? ONE. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40318 "2020-02-03T18:03:56Z")
I would be both shocked and surprised to learn Donald Trump was a cannibal. Stephen Miller, not so much. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40319 "2020-02-03T18:27:00Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > I would be both shocked and surprised to learn Donald Trump was a cannibal. Stephen Miller, not so much. I stand corrected. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40320 "2020-02-03T18:37:31Z")
**[Will Lamar Alexander’s Warning Restrain Trump?](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/lamar-alexanders-gambit/605986/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlantic+%28The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%29)** Ummmm… not just no, but _ **HELL NO!** _ What kind of insane thinking is this? > [@](#): > > “Hopefully he won’t do that again.” > > That’s what Senator Lamar Alexander told me on Friday, discussing President Donald Trump’s push to have political rivals investigated in Ukraine. A lot of weight rests on those six words, especially the first. The veteran lawmaker would like the president not to abuse his power, and is relying on the political system to check him, even though Alexander does not think it is right to apply the most powerful check Congress has. > > The Tennessee Republican had been seen as an essential vote if the Senate was to call witnesses in the president’s trial. Last week he said he needed no testimony, because the House had already proven its case: “If you’ve got eight witnesses saying that you left the scene of an accident, you don’t need nine.” Alexander said he was equally certain that the president’s offenses do not merit removal. “You don’t apply capital punishment to every offense,” he said. > … How does Alexander propose to keep trump from misbehaving/overstepping in the future? _[Warning: cover your mouth. This could trigger a spit-take.]_ > [@](#): > > …“I think it’s appropriate for me as a United States senator to say, ‘Mr. President, you shouldn’t do that,’” Alexander told me. … :smack: Hold that football, Lucy. Here comes Charlie Brown. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40321 "2020-02-03T21:42:28Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > As of 1 1/2 months ago: [President Trump has made 15,413 false or misleading claims over 1,055 days](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/16/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/) > > At his rate of 46 lies/day, that’s only 672 extra lies bringing the total to ~16,100. > > Ask and ye shall receive. 🆒 **FAKE NEWS!** Just like you libtards to use out of date data to underestimate out glorious leader. As of [January 20](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/)his count already was 16,241, since then (conservatively, assuming his current trend of 24 per day). Comes to another 292 by the time you posted for a total of over 16,500. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40322 "2020-02-03T23:50:45Z")
I sit corrected. 🆒 ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40323 "2020-02-04T06:59:24Z")
A thought to ponder: The Sharpie brand has been in the news a lot, thanks to Trump. Has all this publicity been good or bad for the Sharpie brand? ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/40324 "2020-02-04T07:49:26Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > I would be both shocked and surprised to learn Donald Trump was a cannibal. Stephen Miller, not so much. Does anyone know what happens to those children detained at the border? Separated from their parents, with no idea how to find them again, disappearing into the Swiftian depths of CBP, has anyone actually tracked where the slowly-turning veals of the bureaucracy take them? What is really in his hamberders? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2015) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2017)