# 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:** 2068
**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 12, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41345 "2020-03-12T21:01:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > All the man had to do was **read the words** on the teleprompter. How did he screw that up? I’ve bolded the word above which contains your answer. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41346 "2020-03-12T21:24:40Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > IF they can find a plane going their way. There was a lot of angry Americans at the Copenhagen airport today. The flights was cancelled. If the passengers are not allowed to embark, why fly the route? > It will all work out, I’m sure, in a few days. > The Danish government has today declared USA orange zone, where people must be quarantined if they return. I think she’s returning via LHR so there should be more options. But we’ll see. ---
**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 12, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41347 "2020-03-12T21:38:50Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > It wouldn’t be the worst thing if he got the virus. Maybe he can arrange it so his former trippy doctor can certify the cause of death as “Hoax”. So, suicide by self-awareness. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41348 "2020-03-12T21:45:35Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > The Dow opened 7.13% below last night’s closing. It looks like trading was halted again. We’ll see what happens in about ten minutes. Dow down 9.99% at the close of trading. You gotta give the Chump credit for one thing, though - he has managed to reduce wealth inequality more than anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41349 "2020-03-12T21:47:49Z")
On CNN they noted that Trump still hasn’t been tested for the virus. The White House said that he hasn’t been exposed. Except for the photo showing him standing right next to the Brazilian press secretary who tested positive. The CNN anchor’s eyes rolled up so far that they made a mark on my ceiling. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41350 "2020-03-12T21:50:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > A pandemic that’s killing old people and destroying his nest-egg may be just the nudge my old man needs to get off the Trump train. Heck, he told me yesterday they were thinking about cancelling their church services. \*That \*never happened under Obama! You are neglecting the point that, however great Biden’s Presidential speech might have been… He won’t actually be President for almost a year. GW Bush was a lame duck during the last year of his presidency and we all had to wait for him to leave before any real action could be taken, because Congress isn’t structured to lead. Because of that, things had longer to keep getting worse. The recession didn’t kill anyone. People were stressed out, but that was the full scale of the crisis. That’s not what we’re looking at with this one. Unless the Cabinet declares Trump incompetent and installs Pence, we’re looking at some who is liable to be worse than a lame duck. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41351 "2020-03-12T22:01:17Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > On CNN they noted that Trump still hasn’t been tested for the virus. The White House said that he hasn’t been exposed. Except for the photo showing him standing right next to the Brazilian press secretary who tested positive. > > The CNN anchor’s eyes rolled up so far that they made a mark on my ceiling. Typhoid Donnie ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41352 "2020-03-12T22:01:40Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > On CNN they noted that Trump still hasn’t been tested for the virus. The White House said that he hasn’t been exposed. Except for the photo showing him standing right next to the Brazilian press secretary who tested positive. > > The CNN anchor’s eyes rolled up so far that they made a mark on my ceiling. Ya know, a president who was interested in leadership and moral authority and all that stuff would stage a photo op of himself getting tested. Speaking of CNN, one of their correspondents has the unenviable task of pulling out the most ridiculous statements from most Trump pronouncements for our amusement. [Here’s what he had from today.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories%29)… I hate to sound like click-bait, but #16 cracked me up. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41353 "2020-03-12T22:10:44Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Ya know, a president who was interested in leadership and moral authority and all that stuff would stage a photo op of himself getting tested. > > Speaking of CNN, one of their correspondents has the unenviable task of pulling out the most ridiculous statements from most Trump pronouncements for our amusement. [Here’s what he had from today.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories%29)… I hate to sound like click-bait, but #16 cracked me up. All of that reminds me of when I’d bullshit my way through essay questions I wasn’t in any way prepared to give an answer. ETA: Except I’m not a sociopath. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41354 "2020-03-12T22:33:58Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > On the one hand, I’ll like to see him live long enough to be tried, convicted and hauled away in handcuffs. On the other, a nationally televised incoherent, drooling, shits himself, stroke would be fitting as well. But respiratory failure due to corona virus, while very instant karma, seems too good for him. Well, you know, he could have a “_nationally televised incoherent, drooling, shits himself, stroke_” and be removed from office via the 25[sup]th[/sup], which would be at least a start (though I have no faith in Pence being a more manageable PoS). Then he could remain a more recognizable caricature of Individual-ONE, a quivering mass of orange jelly exhaling gasps of incoherence and exuding endless rivulets of various suppurating fluids, yet still be aware enough to realize the extent of his suffering. And remain that way for years on end, watching people parade past him with pity in their eyes, most of them managing to suppress their gag reflex but barely able to struggle to hide that they are. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41355 "2020-03-12T22:53:47Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Ya know, a president who was interested in leadership and moral authority and all that stuff would stage a photo op of himself getting tested. > > Speaking of CNN, one of their correspondents has the unenviable task of pulling out the most ridiculous statements from most Trump pronouncements for our amusement. [Here’s what he had from today.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories%29)… I hate to sound like click-bait, **but #16 cracked me up**. Gad zooks. He’s just pissing himself with wanting so bad to tell us what he’s got in store for suspending the election, or worse. I can’t say it made me laugh, but forewarned is forearmed. Why are we putting up with this deranged asshole?? ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41356 "2020-03-12T22:57:07Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Ya know, a president who was interested in leadership and moral authority and all that stuff would stage a photo op of himself getting tested. I’m a little surprised that he hasn’t done that to show how real manly men with the best health don’t come down with some pathetic foreign virus. Maybe he got it. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41357 "2020-03-12T23:12:04Z")
Anthony Fauci gonna get himself fired quick. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41358 "2020-03-12T23:12:39Z")
I liked this line from a [great comment](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-oval-office-speech-undermined-the-presidents-own-credibility/2020/03/12/ad4eeb7e-6471-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html#comments-wrapper?outputType=comment&commentId=85851909-fc2c-4b10-89cb-338d1e261345) in WaPo: > [@](#): > > . . . reading his speech off a teleptompter, the trump sounded like a hostage reading a ransom note. . . . ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41359 "2020-03-12T23:25:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Trump’s travel ban sidesteps his own European resorts](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-travel-europe-resorts-126808) Fucking hell. We were wondering last night why he had exempted the UK, and I immediately said “There’s something in it for him, I’m sure.” Fucking soulless piece of shit. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41360 "2020-03-12T23:48:40Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Fucking soulless piece of shit. [Indeed](https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814881355/white-house-knew-coronavirus-would-be-a-major-threat-but-response-fell-short): > [@](#): > > …Secretary Azar has not always given the president the worst-case scenario of what could happen. My understanding is he did not push to do aggressive additional testing in recent weeks, and that’s partly because more testing might have led to more cases being discovered of coronavirus outbreak, and the president had made clear – the lower the numbers on coronavirus, the better for the president, the better for his potential reelection this fall… ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41361 "2020-03-13T00:02:43Z")
This is some serious shit - too serious to be mishandled by a man-baby. A deadly epidemic is like having small terrorist attacks in cities over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41362 "2020-03-13T00:41:55Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Why are we putting up with this deranged asshole?? Those with the power to oust him are too fucking afraid of the bully and his million toadies. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41363 "2020-03-13T00:50:45Z")
who is good at stats here? I know some people (not here) are going to say it’s just a coincidence. So if you take all of the countries where travel is banned from, what are the odds of those 3 countries being selected randomly? ---
**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:** [March 13, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41364 "2020-03-13T01:02:16Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Those with the power to oust him are too fucking afraid of the bully and his million toadies. I know. I should probably have clarified it was a rhetorical question. :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2067) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2069)