# 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:** 2076
**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 15, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41505 "2020-03-15T02:43:40Z")
Missed the edit window again. I do realize that the presidential term expires in January. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41506 "2020-03-15T02:55:52Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > He needs to be removed from office. If Congress won’t do it, the Cabinet should. We really do not have until November to dick around with this jackass as president. If we’re real lucky, coronavirus will get the rotten fuck. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41507 "2020-03-15T02:58:42Z")
The Senate is too craven and too corrupt to remove him. The House tried, but the Senate simply ignored _everything_, deciding Two-Scoops was innocent before there were any charges so there was no need to listen to anything like evidence and testimony. And ShitGibbon has spent 3 years making sure anyone who might say a bad word about him is removed from any position where they might 25th Amendment him. Expecting the traitors in the Senate to grow a sack at this point of the game is like expecting Donald Jr. or Eric to actually say something insightful. Never gonna happen. ---
**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 15, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41508 "2020-03-15T03:03:48Z")
Supposedly trump tested negative for the virus. But (show of hands, please) how many of you think that we’d be told the truth if he tested positive? I don’t. This administration doesn’t believe in telling the truth about anything. ---
**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 15, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41509 "2020-03-15T03:06:54Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Damn dirty fucking lying sack of dung cannot tell the truth no matter what is happening](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/google-reportedly-had-no-clue-153300119.html): **He claims Google is making a website that they are not.** > > He needs to be removed from office. If Congress won’t do it, the Cabinet should. We really do not have until November to dick around with this jackass as president. It’s worse than that. The idea arose out of Jared Kushner’s efforts to get ideas on how to address the crisis via his father-in-law’s _Facebook group_ ([I shit you not](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/politics/coronavirus-jared-kushner-kloss.html). NY Times) and was half-baked at best. These people are so far out of their depth they may as well be in the middle of the Pacific during a hurricane. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41510 "2020-03-15T03:09:40Z")
It sounded like the Google app consisted of: do you have a fever and a cough? If yes, here’s directions to WalMart. It’s not like it’s a cure for cancer. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41511 "2020-03-15T03:12:35Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > He missed probably the most relevant one from ole Harry Truman’s desk: “The buck stops here.” I know. The only place Trump cares about a buck stopping is in his and his immediate family’s bank accounts. Tax-payer dollars especially welcomed, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41512 "2020-03-15T03:16:12Z")
Due to increased screening at customs and everyone trying to get into or out of the US before the expanded travel ban takes effect Monday, major airports are a clusterfuck at the moment. I’m seeing a lot of tweets with pictures from O’Hare and other airports of people crammed together cheek-by-jowl waiting for customs ([example](https://twitter.com/twhitfill/status/1239017436491505664)). So while much of the country is shutting down to prevent people gathering together, airports have become a public health tinderbox. ---
**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 15, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41513 "2020-03-15T04:12:17Z")
Schadenfreude. Fuck. This will take Trump down. We only need a few thousand people in a few states to get rid of him. But how many people will die because he said it was a hoax, or that it was ok to go to work because you will get better, I’ve seen videos of MAGA-hat-wearing idiots saying the virus was no more than the common cold…well you all know the bullshit. We will never know how many people who had flu-like symptons and did not go to the doctor and who went to work and infected others. Because their leader, and Rush Limbaugh, and FOX news, said it was ok. I will take great pleasure in the downfall of Trump. But at what cost? People are going to fucking die to make this happen. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41514 "2020-03-15T05:19:06Z")
Anyone who has watched HBO’s Chernobyl will immediately recognize how superior their crisis management was compared to our approach to COVID-19. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41515 "2020-03-15T05:42:24Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Anyone who has watched HBO’s Chernobyl will immediately recognize how superior their crisis management was compared to our approach to COVID-19. And yet the Chernobyl disaster was a major factor for the fall of the Soviet Union. ---
**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 15, 2020, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41516 "2020-03-15T05:42:27Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > The Senate is too craven and too corrupt to remove him. The House tried, but the Senate simply ignored _everything_, deciding Two-Scoops was innocent before there were any charges so there was no need to listen to anything like evidence and testimony. And ShitGibbon has spent 3 years making sure anyone who might say a bad word about him is removed from any position where they might 25th Amendment him. Expecting the traitors in the Senate to grow a sack at this point of the game is like expecting Donald Jr. or Eric to actually say something insightful. Never gonna happen. Aha! That’s why he’s so happy to have “acting” members of his administration. If he could get the entire cabinet staffed by nothing but “acting secretaries”, then he could claim they don’t have the constitutional authority to remove him. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > These people are so far out of their depth they may as well be in the middle of the Pacific during a hurricane. Great metaphor! You know what I like most about it? Hurricanes are in the Atlantic, while the Pacific has typhoons. That’s not only how far out of their depth these clowns are, but also how far off they are. > [@jsc1953](#): > > It sounded like the Google app consisted of: do you have a fever and a cough? If yes, here’s directions to WalMart. It’s not like it’s a cure for cancer. Speaking of which, didn’t that [damn dirty fucking lying sack of dung promise to have a cure for cancer](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cincinnati-promises-cure-cancer-and-aids-very-shortly-2019-8)? > [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Schadenfreude. Fuck. This will take Trump down. We only need a few thousand people in a few states to get rid of him. But how many people will die because he said it was a hoax, or that it was ok to go to work because you will get better, I’ve seen videos of MAGA-hat-wearing idiots saying the virus was no more than the common cold…well you all know the bullshit. > > We will never know how many people who had flu-like symptons and did not go to the doctor and who went to work and infected others. Because their leader, and Rush Limbaugh, and FOX news, said it was ok. > > I will take great pleasure in the downfall of Trump. But at what cost? People are going to fucking die to make this happen. At this point, I honestly do not feel bad, God forgive me, for the magats who die from their stupidity. I think we all should have realized that somehow Trump was going to get people killed. Well, he’s managed to do so a few different ways thus far, always blaming others, and the magats still support him. > [@jasg](#): > > Anyone who has watched HBO’s Chernobyl will immediately recognize how superior their crisis management was compared to our approach to COVID-19. That’s pretty sad when the Soviet Union’s crisis management then was better than that of the United States now. ---
**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 15, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41517 "2020-03-15T05:48:25Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > \ > > Great metaphor! You know what I like most about it? Hurricanes are in the Atlantic, while the Pacific has typhoons. That’s not only how far out of their depth these clowns are, but also how far off they are. > > \ :smack: LOL, I knew I should have left it at, “big ass storm.” In the moment I wrote it, it didn’t seem right… but I couldn’t work out exactly what was wrong. Glad if it gave you a laugh. 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 15, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41518 "2020-03-15T07:11:03Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > And yet the Chernobyl disaster was a major factor for the fall of the Soviet Union. Chernobyl was a symptom of the deep and irreversible decay that had rotted out the once-superpower. Much like Trump 2016, truth be told. ---
**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 15, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41519 "2020-03-15T08:12:35Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > :smack: LOL, I knew I should have left it at, “big ass storm.” In the moment I wrote it, it didn’t seem right… but I couldn’t work out exactly what was wrong. Glad if it gave you a laugh. 🙂 Nah; I think the way you put it is perfect and for the reason I said. ---
**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 15, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41520 "2020-03-15T08:41:06Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Due to increased screening at customs and everyone trying to get into or out of the US before the expanded travel ban takes effect Monday, major airports are a clusterfuck at the moment. I’m seeing a lot of tweets with pictures from O’Hare and other airports of people crammed together cheek-by-jowl waiting for customs ([example](https://twitter.com/twhitfill/status/1239017436491505664)). So while much of the country is shutting down to prevent people gathering together, airports have become a public health tinderbox. Checking the twitter thread you linke, I noticed the trumpeters still support Trump and blame the Democrats for the problem. They seem to have a very serious problem with differentiating between state and federal responsibilities. ---
**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 15, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41521 "2020-03-15T12:38:11Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > At dinner tonight, I mentioned that Trump was getting tested but there was no way anything but a “negative” result would be announced. A few minutes later, CNN reported Trump tested negative. I commented, “Of course he did.” Where’s the long-form test certificate? ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41522 "2020-03-15T13:11:19Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Where’s the long-form test certificate? Hah! I wonder if the doctor’s spouse and other family members are staying in the same house with the doctor for the foreseeable future (the next fortnight). ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41523 "2020-03-15T13:18:23Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > I will take great pleasure in the downfall of Trump. But at what cost? People are going to fucking die to make this happen. > [@Monty](#): > > Checking the twitter thread you linke, I noticed the trumpeters still support Trump and blame the Democrats for the problem. Having just seen _The Magnificent Seven_ on the big screen this week, I’m reminded of what Calvera told the gang after he got the drop on them. “What’s going to happen to these people is going to happen to them whether you’re still alive or not.” People are going to die whether it triggers Trump’s downfall or not. Might as well hope he’s gone come January. I don’t want anybody to die but if someone’s refusing to jump out of the way of a truck because someone they thought deserved their trust told them it’s not really there, I’m finding it hard to be sympathetic. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41524 "2020-03-15T15:52:50Z")
[Trump offers ‘large sums’ for exclusive access to coronavirus vaccine](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/15/trump-offers-large-sums-for-exclusive-access-to-coronavirus-vaccine) _German government tries to fight off aggressive takeover bid by US, say reports_ > [@](#): > > The Trump administration has offered a German medical company “large sums of money” for exclusive access to a Covid-19 vaccine, German media have reported. > > The German government is trying to fight off what it sees as an aggressive takeover bid by the US, the broadsheet Die Welt reports, citing German government circles. > > The US president had offered the Tübingen-based biopharmaceutical company CureVac “large sums of money” to gain exclusive access to their work, wrote Die Welt. > > According to an anonymous source quoted in the newspaper, Trump was doing everything to secure a vaccine against the coronavirus for the US, “but for the US only”. Looks like Trump is apparently attempting to buy his way out of a disaster he helped exacerbate with the added bonus of sticking it to non-Americans. And, I’m willing to bet a lot of MAGAsses will say this is an example of the benefit of having a genius businessman like Trump in charge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2075) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2077)