# 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:** 2078
**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, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41545 "2020-03-15T22:10:12Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > “America First”. He wasn’t kidding or exaggerating. Remember when Trump said that when he says America, he means himself? Yeah, there’s no possible way he’s doing this in a desperate hope for a cure for a disease he (supposedly) does not have. ---
**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 15, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41546 "2020-03-15T22:19:27Z")
Fed cuts rates to zero and issues QE. I agree with the QE, but the Fed has now run out of bullets when it comes to interest rates. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41547 "2020-03-15T22:32:35Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Can we share this around? And how would you like credit? Sure. That’s why I made it. 😉 But it’s important to note that **OttoDaFe** is the one who wrote the words. I just stole them and stuck them on top of a picture and added the ‘Whuuuuuuut…?’ . ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41548 "2020-03-15T22:35:55Z")
If you ever saw Kill Bill, vol 1, this latest Fed action is reminiscent of the anime sequence where the guards rush in, firing wildly, smoke clouding everything… then Oren Ishi’i shoots the legs out from under the guards. I’ll leave it to others to decide if the Fed is Oren or the guards. ---
**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, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41549 "2020-03-15T22:36:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > \ > Individual 1 is threatening to pardon Michael Flynn. > [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1239242219019735042](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1239242219019735042)? Post 41622. 🙂 ---
**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 15, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41550 "2020-03-15T22:43:46Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [I made a meme of this](https://imgur.com/a/CsRXuZU). I’ve never been associated with a meme (that I know of — and any I don’t know of are probably not suitable for family use). I’m … what should I be? Honored? Chagrined? Humiliated? All of the above? ---
**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:** [March 16, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41551 "2020-03-16T00:47:16Z")
Well, since it came from me, it’s obviously a high honour. 😉 😛 ---
**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 16, 2020, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41552 "2020-03-16T06:43:06Z")
Maybe this should go into a corona virus thread, but there are none here. You’d think that after the Grand Princess sat off the San Francisco coast for days and days the government would be ready for the passengers. [Not hardly.](https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/03/15/bay-area-woman-worries-about-parents-quarantined-at-georgia-air-force-base/) > [@](#): > > Alicia Lemoine from Livermore and says her parents are on their fourth day at Dobbins Air Force Base in Georgia quarantined to a small room, with only the clothes they arrived in. Their luggage and medication still have not been delivered. > > “My dad has some pre-existing conditions so he needs his medications. My mom has a C-pak machine that she is not able to sue because it is in her big luggage. The friends they are traveling with are in the same position. They are trying to get their medication,” Lemoine explained. I have medication I have to take every day, and I’m sure if I were in that position I’d try to carry it with me. I can only think that they were not permitted to bring it, but were told there luggage would be right there. Is there nothing these morons can’t fuck up? ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41553 "2020-03-16T14:26:10Z")
The stupid fuck is going to address the nation again this afternoon. Every time he talks people panic more. He only cares about getting reelected so everything he does is done with that aim. What’s he going to do this time? “In addition to filling our strategic oil reserve, which is so strategic, some say it’s the most strategic in the world, I have ordered the creation of a strategic toilet paper reserve. We’re keeping America number 1 at number 2.” ---
**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:** [March 16, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41554 "2020-03-16T14:31:18Z")
At this point, he’d do well to just yell, “Remain calm! All is well!!” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41555 "2020-03-16T14:41:23Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I’ve got a shit ton of beads (being a South Louisiana guy around Mardi Gras time), but I ain’t got no bell-bottoms. I’ve got a Whamo Gratetfull Dead frisbee, still in the box. I may just have to break it out. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41556 "2020-03-16T14:57:24Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > From the link: > > “His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.[7]” > > Seems familiar. I think Trump also got similar advice from Roy Cohn. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41557 "2020-03-16T14:58:27Z")
[And now a word from the government.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hks6Nq7g6P4) (parody Youtube video contains words that are NSFW) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41558 "2020-03-16T15:24:06Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > (parody Youtube video contains words that are NSFW) As if anyone’s still at work. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41559 "2020-03-16T15:45:03Z")
> [@Gus\_Gusterson](#): > > The stupid fuck is going to address the nation again this afternoon. Every time he talks people panic more. He only cares about getting reelected so everything he does is done with that aim. What’s he going to do this time? On Friday, he said magic words - “national emergency” – and the Dow went up 2000 points. But the magic wore off, and the Dow is giving it mostly back today. So he needs to say more powerful juju today to make the magic Dow go up again. So he’ll go on TV and say “super double secret national emergency”, and the Dow gods will smile upon him. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41560 "2020-03-16T16:01:09Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > At this point, he’d do well to just yell, “Remain calm! All is well!!” [Something like this, then](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNOrp_83RU). ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41561 "2020-03-16T16:09:21Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > On Friday, he said magic words - “national emergency” – and the Dow went up 2000 points. Well, they were “[two very big words](https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007032704/trump-coronavirus-live.html).” :rolleyes: ---
**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 16, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41562 "2020-03-16T16:22:00Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > [And now a word from the government.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hks6Nq7g6P4) > (parody Youtube video contains words that are NSFW) Arrgh. We had a whole thread on the subject of _what the fuck is up with those damn edits?_ Why the hell do they think it is necessary to put in those fucking audio skips in the monologue, even where they do not even belong? Fuck. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41563 "2020-03-16T16:55:44Z")
> [@robby](#): > > Well, they were “[two very big words](https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007032704/trump-coronavirus-live.html).” :rolleyes: I was hoping for, “I QUIT”. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41564 "2020-03-16T17:57:15Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > At this point, he’d do well to just yell, “Remain calm! All is well!!” Or maybe… [Emergency! Everybody to get from street!](https://youtu.be/QGgJPmOUmDU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2077) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2079)