# 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:** 2052
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41025 "2020-03-03T23:49:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pence was at Sarasota Military Academy recently for a fundraiser (why at a high school, I don’t know), and he shook hands with the cadets. One of those cadets and his mother have since been quarantined with symptoms of Covid-19. (oh please, please please!) ---
**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:** [March 4, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41026 "2020-03-04T00:16:19Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I had a Facebook friend (ok, ok it was my cousin) post how this was all overblown and that the coronavirus can’t be a legitimate problem because it’s _ **nothing new** _. What was her proof? A picture of a Lysol can that shows it can kill coronavirus. “Wake up people,” she posted. “This is nothing new! It’s just the media trying to make Trump look bad! If this was just suddenly some big new problem, how come it’s mentioned on a Lysol can I bought over a year ago?” > > :smack::smack::smack: My gene pool, ladies and gentlemen. :smack: I suppose she thinks the frequent official references to it being a “novel coronovirus” are something about a new upcoming title by Stephen King… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41027 "2020-03-04T01:40:37Z")
He finished typing about three hours ago, first print run tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41028 "2020-03-04T06:08:10Z")
[Defense Secretary Warns Commanders Not to Surprise Trump on Coronavirus](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/politics/esper-trump-military-coronavirus.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper has urged American military commanders overseas not to make any decisions related to the coronavirus that might surprise the White House or run afoul of President Trump’s messaging on the growing health challenge, American officials said. And once again, the party that always beats its chest about how pro-military it is shows complete disdain when it comes the lives of the actual people in it. And Trumps “pretend it isn’t a problem” tactic isn’t going to do anything but help the virus spread. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41029 "2020-03-04T06:58:21Z")
Uppity chick defense official who questioned the withholding of Ukraine aid has been [nixed from a list of nominees for a top pentagon post.](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/02/white-house-defense-official-nomination-118909) > [@](#): > > Senate Armed Services Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a close Trump ally, had initially planned to move quickly to advance [Elaine McCusker’s] nomination and fill the senior vacancy. Following the New York Post report that the president may withdraw the pick, the Oklahoma Republican said he hadn’t heard of any change in her status and **wouldn’t weigh in with the Trump administration**. Oops - caught off guard? Re: the bolded, I’m surprised he didn’t automatically do the usual flip-flop by immediately corroborating whatever Pres. Hai Karate extrudes, and instead choose not to “weigh in”. A small thing, but whenever I see even little cracks of discord-among-scum like that, a capybara sits in sleepy-eyed contentment in a bath-tub-sized wading pool.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41030 "2020-03-04T07:09:25Z")
Forgot to add that his has been expected for the past month, but to see more and more shit like this come to fruition, seeing the mob family building up… ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41031 "2020-03-04T11:20:12Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Uppity chick defense official who questioned the withholding of Ukraine aid has been [nixed from a list of nominees for a top pentagon post.](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/02/white-house-defense-official-nomination-118909) > > Oops - caught off guard? Re: the bolded, I’m surprised he didn’t automatically do the usual flip-flop by immediately corroborating whatever Pres. Hai Karate extrudes, and instead choose not to “weigh in”. A small thing, but whenever I see even little cracks of discord-among-scum like that, a capybara sits in sleepy-eyed contentment in a bath-tub-sized wading pool.🙂 [I ninja’d you, but I like your take on it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22169370&postcount=41100) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41032 "2020-03-04T14:38:13Z")
ACK :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41033 "2020-03-05T03:14:51Z")
Okay. Who called this one? [url=][Trump is now trying to blame Obama for his coronavirus response](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-now-trying-blame-obama-183000196.htmlOf) course the corona virus situation in the United States is Obama’s fault, according to \*45. In that link, you’ll see a tweet from President Obama: > [@Our Last Real President](#): > > Let’s stay calm, listen to the experts, and follow the science. Maybe that’s why \*45 is all bent out of shape over this. Those are three things of which he is incapable. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41034 "2020-03-05T07:39:20Z")
While the first and third are problematical, Dolt 45 would have no problem with the second. After all, to use Louis XIV’s semi-apocryphal expression, _Les experts, sont moi_. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41035 "2020-03-05T09:09:58Z")
Huh? Since when has \*45 listened to anyone, let alone experts? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41036 "2020-03-05T09:54:50Z")
ISTM that it’s about time for [Dr. Anthony Fauci to start shopping around his resume](https://news.yahoo.com/uss-top-virus-expert-lowered-232851082.html). You know full well that \*45 won’t put up with his nonsense of pointing out facts that go against \*'s cohort’s spiel. > [@from the link above](#): > > The US’s top virus expert lowered expectations on a coronavirus vaccine after Trump’s health secretary boasted about its development ---
**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:** [March 5, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41037 "2020-03-05T10:16:54Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Okay. Who called this one? [Of course the corona virus situation in the United States is Obama’s fault, according to \*45](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-now-trying-blame-obama-183000196.html). Fixed link. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41038 "2020-03-05T10:23:50Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > ISTM that it’s about time for [Dr. Anthony Fauci to start shopping around his resume](https://news.yahoo.com/uss-top-virus-expert-lowered-232851082.html). You know full well that \*45 won’t put up with his nonsense of pointing out facts that go against \*'s cohort’s spiel. I was just talking about this yesterday with a coworker. Trump is also now blaming Obama for some non-existant action that helped allow the US outbreak and now Trump has to fix it. Or something. No one knows what he’s referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41039 "2020-03-05T10:42:59Z")
Well, maybe he [had a hunch about it](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-has-a-hunch-who-report-of-coronavirus-death-rate-is-false-082202592.html)? For the of all that is good and decent in the universe, someone, please make the tan twerp shut the fuck up! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41040 "2020-03-05T10:52:43Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Well, maybe he [had a hunch about it](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-has-a-hunch-who-report-of-coronavirus-death-rate-is-false-082202592.html)? Kinda like how Trump makes up numbers about his net worth. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41041 "2020-03-05T14:48:23Z")
Trump is now openly advertising that he will give pardons in exchange for cash. [Rachel Maddow tells it like it is.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roGPWFUCz0c) ---
**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:** [March 5, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41042 "2020-03-05T17:16:20Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > …Trump is also now blaming Obama for some non-existant action that helped allow the US outbreak and now Trump has to fix it. Or something. No one knows what he’s referring to. B-b-b-but I thought Dear Leader said the coronavirus was no big deal and people should go to work and they’ll just get over it and besides, the WHO’s numbers are fake, wrong, exaggerated, not to mention _ **lies** _! Now I’m really confused… :mad: ---
**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:** [March 5, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41043 "2020-03-05T19:16:08Z")
Individual 1 says he has a “hunch” that the World Health Organization’s numbers on Covid-19 aren’t true. He also suggested that it’s okay to go to work if you have it. > **[Trump floats his own coronavirus hunches on 'Hannity'](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/05/trump-disputes-coronavirus-death-rate-121892)** > > The president contradicts public health experts statements on death rate, contagion. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41044 "2020-03-05T19:24:19Z")
It’s all gut feelings and you have to admit his gut is quite impressive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2051) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2053)