# 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:** 2088
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41746 "2020-03-23T19:45:17Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > OK, I have no idea what you mean with all of those idiotic acronyms. Please try using words, all spelled out. I’ll translate for you: you got wooshed. ---
**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 23, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41747 "2020-03-23T19:45:18Z")
The people of Wyoming should be able to pull themselves up by their job-creating bootstraps if they want ventilators. ---
**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 23, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41748 "2020-03-23T20:39:02Z")
If Wyoming ends up with more equipment than they need, hey, they can just sell the excess for an excess to whichever other state needs it most. Or at least whichever can make the highest bid. It is another delightful way to get even more money flowing to the red states (which generally tend to be less populous) from the blue states (which are more likely to have greater need). ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41749 "2020-03-23T20:50:39Z")
One perspective of Trump on this crisis: [“I don’t take responsibility at all”: Trump fails the Trolley Problem. | by Mike Selinker | Medium](https://medium.com/@mikeselinker/i-dont-take-responsibility-at-all-trump-fails-the-trolley-problem-192fe5c1eaf0) ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41750 "2020-03-23T23:54:32Z")
Reporter: What is the administration doing to get materials for wider testing? Trump: We have 150 miles of new wall… ---
**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 24, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41751 "2020-03-24T00:42:26Z")
Asked what oversight will be done of the billions of dollars the Republicans want to give to corporations, “I’ll be the oversight.” > ---
**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 24, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41752 "2020-03-24T00:49:35Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > OK, I have no idea what you mean with all of those idiotic acronyms. Please try using words, all spelled out. I See What You Did There He Did Not See What You Did There ---
**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 24, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41753 "2020-03-24T01:01:02Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > One perspective of Trump on this crisis: [“I don’t take responsibility at all”: Trump fails the Trolley Problem. | by Mike Selinker | Medium](https://medium.com/@mikeselinker/i-dont-take-responsibility-at-all-trump-fails-the-trolley-problem-192fe5c1eaf0) That was excellent and devastating. ---
**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 24, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41754 "2020-03-24T01:02:57Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > I See What You Did There > > He Did Not See What You Did There Bingo = But It Never Gets Old Used when somebody makes the third joke in a series. ---
**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 24, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41755 "2020-03-24T01:03:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Asked what oversight will be done of the billions of dollars the Republicans want to give to corporations, “I’ll be the oversight.” > [https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1242240610930765824](https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1242240610930765824) :dubious::rolleyes::eek: ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41756 "2020-03-24T14:19:05Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > That’s fair? Why should Wyoming (population under 600,000) get the same number as New York (population over 19,400,000)? But Wyoming has 97,914 sq miles of land, while New York has only 54,555. Wyoming should get nearly double the amount New York gets. This message brought to you by my Facebook “friends” who keep showing those red-blue maps of the US broken down by county. ---
**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 24, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41757 "2020-03-24T17:43:04Z")
> [@CurtC](#): > > But Wyoming has 97,914 sq miles of land, while New York has only 54,555. Wyoming should get nearly double the amount New York gets. > > This message brought to you by my Facebook “friends” who keep showing those red-blue maps of the US broken down by county. Can you share with them one of those maps that has counties shown larger if their population is large and smaller if their population is small? I tried finding a link, but my google (and other search engine) searches kept timing out on me… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41758 "2020-03-24T17:50:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Asked what oversight will be done of the billions of dollars the Republicans want to give to corporations, “I’ll be the oversight.” > [https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1242240610930765824](https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1242240610930765824) So the money won’t even go to the corporations, let alone the people. It’s going to go straight into Trump’s pockets. (Maybe with a detour into Ivanka and Jared’s.) ---
**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 24, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41759 "2020-03-24T18:19:11Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > So the money won’t even go to the corporations, let alone the people. It’s going to go straight into Trump’s pockets. (Maybe with a detour into Ivanka and Jared’s.) Don’t forget Jared’s little brother [Josh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Health). ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41760 "2020-03-24T19:25:48Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > So the money won’t even go to the corporations, let alone the people. It’s going to go straight into Trump’s pockets. (Maybe with a detour into Ivanka and Jared’s.) After he pays off his loans so he doesn’t get ‘umbrellaed’ ---
**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 24, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41761 "2020-03-24T19:38:22Z")
Individual 1 decided to have a Town hall on Fox News today instead of his usual daily press briefing (Fine by me, let them have him). While Dr. Birx was talking about the spread of the virus in New York, Individual 1 interrupted her to ask if she blamed Governor Cuomo for it. > **[As Dr. Birx Spoke About The Virus Spreading In NY, Trump Interrupted Her To...](https://polinews.org/as-dr-birx-spoke-about-the-virus-spreading-in-ny-trump-interrupted-her-to-ask-if-she-blamed-the-governor-for-that/)** > > Dr. Deborah Birx ignored Trump when he acted like a smug prick. ---
**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 24, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41762 "2020-03-24T19:43:02Z")
Trump can’t even protect the things he said were the most important to him: [Iconic plant’s end spells doom for struggling coal industry](https://apnews.com/ece48ac60642d759764e37e55fbc744d). Biden should have emails and mailers and digital ads targeting folks impacted by this or just sympathetic to those impacted, IMO. Amy McGrath should as well. > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump tried to stop it from happening. The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, did too. > > Despite their best efforts to make good on Trump’s campaign promise to save the beleaguered coal industry, including an eleventh-hour pressure campaign, the Tennessee Valley Authority power plant at Paradise burned its last load of coal last month. > > The plant’s closure — in a county that once mined more coal than any other in the nation — is emblematic of the industry’s decadeslong decline due to tougher environmental regulations, a major push toward renewable energy and a rise in the extraction of natural gas. The shuttering of businesses nationwide and a reduced need for energy amid the global coronavirus pandemic threatens to deal coal yet another devastating blow. > > “It’s not just one 1,000-megawatt unit closing; they’re going down all over the place,” said John Rogers, a former mine owner who lives in western Kentucky near the Paradise plant, located in Muhlenberg County. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41763 "2020-03-24T20:17:12Z")
Expect a tweet crowing about “DOW looking good! Biggest gain ever! Breaking 20,000!!” any moment now. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41764 "2020-03-24T21:31:16Z")
I said this almost a month ago: > [@Toxgoddess](#): > > But this feels different. This feels like the thing that might, actually, bring Trump down. If the virus halts international travel and trade, worldwide economies take a big hit, people start dying over here, and the Administration does nothing but hem and haw and step on its dick…there will be consequences. Consequences beyond Trump’s ability to spin or his minions’ ability to control. Big business and donors will be furious, jobs will be lost, money will be lost, big money…big-time political donors might turn on Trump…oh, and did I mention people will die? That’s going to piss a few voters off. > > This feels different. This is not political maneuvering. This is a force of nature coming at us. > > g. I’m not happy to be right about the people dying part, and like a lot of people (most people?) I am taking a financial hit during this but I still hope I’m right that this brings Trump down. ---
**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 24, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/41765 "2020-03-24T21:33:50Z")
He and Moscow Mitch McConnell are about to give their biggest supporters $500 billion in untraceable no-strings-attached taxpayer cash; why would they want that to end? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2087) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2089)