# 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:** 2084
**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 21, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41666 "2020-03-21T00:35:02Z")
[US Intelligence agencies had been providing early warning of something very bad about to happen since January](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html). > [@WAPO](#): > > “Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,” this official said. “The system was blinking red.” From [WAPO](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html). I am still awed that the most powerful man in the world is a corrupt, ignorant, incurious narcissist. ---
**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 21, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41667 "2020-03-21T01:16:36Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > [US Intelligence agencies had been providing early warning of something very bad about to happen since January](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html). > > From [WAPO](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html). Why does that sound like a synonym for “August 6[sup]th[/sup] PDB”? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41668 "2020-03-21T02:33:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Why does that sound like a synonym for “August 6[sup]th[/sup] PDB”? [History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Napoleon) – Karl Marx … or as tragic farce. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41669 "2020-03-21T04:34:24Z")
Tragic farts is more like it. ---
**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 21, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41670 "2020-03-21T05:17:11Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Tragic farts is more like it. You mean, just about every CFSG attempt at making word noises that I have ever been foolish enough not to mute? ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41671 "2020-03-21T05:59:47Z")
I am so worried that Fauci is on thin ice, and he’s at least credible, but that face palm today scares me for him ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41672 "2020-03-21T06:48:41Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > I am so worried that Fauci is on thin ice, and he’s at least credible, but that face palm today scares me for him I’m sure Trumpy was told, hands off the doctors. He’ll ruin his chances if he even tweets about Fauci. ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41673 "2020-03-21T08:14:17Z")
How in the name of og does he even still have chances??? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41674 "2020-03-21T08:39:35Z")
> [@Quint](#): > > How in the name of og does he even still have chances??? Fifth Avenue. Or more specifically, rationalization. People were told that Trump was incompetent. If they now admit it’s true, they’re also admitting they were as stupid as everyone said they were for not seeing it earlier. So they have to keep believing in Trump or admit they were stupid to have ever believed in Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41675 "2020-03-21T08:39:16Z")
> [@Quint](#): > > How in the name of og does he even still have chances??? Still wondering that myself. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41676 "2020-03-21T10:52:30Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > I am so worried that Fauci is on thin ice, and he’s at least credible, but that face palm today scares me for him I saw that mentioned somewhere, so I found a video clip of it on twitter. One of the comments, by one “ **ChilliJon** ” was an interesting idea. He suggested that Bloomberg should hire Fauci just to hold daily press conferences, and provide him with a real studio and all the necessary resources to do so. ---
**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 21, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41677 "2020-03-21T15:49:19Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Another clip to add to “I take no responsibility” and “a miracle will happen” etc campaign ads > > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/media/trump-rant-at-nbc-news-peter-alexander/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/media/trump-rant-at-nbc-news-peter-alexander/index.html) > > And in a couple of weeks, as the situaltion gets worse, so will Trump. He can’t fix this and he can’t spin it away any longer Well, like the rest of us, it’s a new situation for him. He can’t appoint a toady virus as ‘acting’ disease or take Covid-19 to court so his battery of lawyers can wear it down with legal expenses, or refuse to pay the bill it presents. The reporters need to keep prodding him with sticks making him devolve even further into the shit-flinging gibbon he’s kept hidden until now. They need to keep reporting that the emperor has no clothes. ---
**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 21, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41678 "2020-03-21T16:51:50Z")
Well, you know, they say that touching contaminated surfaces and then touching your face is how you get/spread the foxtrump virus, so clearly the ShitGibbon will be forced to blame Fauci for causing the pandemic. ---
**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 21, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41679 "2020-03-21T17:04:38Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > The reporters need to keep prodding him with sticks making him devolve even further into the shit-flinging gibbon he’s kept hidden until now. They need to keep reporting that the emperor has no clothes. This, and fucking eh. Go [Yamiche!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSMiSTdthE) ---
**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 21, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41680 "2020-03-21T17:39:31Z")
However, hasn’t he always been more or less a shit-flinging gibbon? Possibly a little more so, lately, with reporters starting to call him on it. Sure, his base will take it as “oooo nasty librul press”, but, as I think it was **asahi** who said, that 5% - 10% is really democracy’s only fucking chance, (let’s not kid ourselves), so hopefully that bunch will see Don further devolving into a foaming-at-the-mouth flailing toddler who can only resort to increasingly incoherent interruptions, now, when dealing with those oooo nasty reporters. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41681 "2020-03-21T18:19:55Z")
> [@Quint](#): > > How in the name of og does he even still have chances??? Many Americans are very bad people, it’s as simple as that. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41682 "2020-03-21T18:42:06Z")
From the Guardian’s blog re: today’s Whitehouse presser > [@](#): > > Trump jumps in on one final question before handing over to Pence and departing the briefing room: “We inherited an obsolete, broken system and when you hear the number of tests that we’ll be providing, and are now, it’s incredible,” the president says. “I’ve heard a lot of governors say the same thing. We took over an obsolete, broken testing system that wouldn’t have worked for even a small problem, let alone one of the biggest pandemics in history, and what [the members of the coronavirus task force] have done is incredible.” OMFG. It’s all Obama’s fault dontchaknow. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41683 "2020-03-21T19:00:04Z")
When ones support base is comprised entirely of fucking morons, that is all it takes to “accomplish something”. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41684 "2020-03-21T19:24:50Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > From the Guardian’s blog re: today’s Whitehouse presser > > > [@](#): > > > > Trump jumps in on one final question before handing over to Pence and departing the briefing room: “We inherited an obsolete, broken system and when you hear the number of tests that we’ll be providing, and are now, it’s incredible,” the president says. “I’ve heard a lot of governors say the same thing. We took over an obsolete, broken testing system that wouldn’t have worked for even a small problem, let alone one of the biggest pandemics in history, and what [the members of the coronavirus task force] have done is incredible.” > > OMFG. It’s all Obama’s fault dontchaknow. Hmm, Trump has been in office three years. If the previous system was so broken, I wonder why it took him so long to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41685 "2020-03-21T20:19:38Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Hmm, Trump has been in office three years. If the previous system was so broken, I wonder why it took him so long to fix it. Because Trump had much more important stuff to do, like root out corruption in Ukraine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2083) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2085)