# 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:** 2118
**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:** [April 7, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42346 "2020-04-07T22:13:51Z")
The little white-lie phrases still astound me. He’s now on TV asked about Navarro warning him about the markets in January due to the virus and says, “He did tell me, and that was around the same time I was concerned about it…”. What a loser. We’ve all seen the timeline of his statements about the virus over and over again throughout January, February, March… Yet he still puts out the white lie and most of his base will say, “I remember him being so concerned around January.” ---
**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:** [April 7, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42347 "2020-04-07T22:15:36Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “You will see!” “I’m the smartest person here!” “You’re all sheep who are too scared to admit I’m the most correct person ever!!” Yeah, **Snowboarder Bo** gets on my nerves, too. Prolly too often. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42348 "2020-04-07T22:24:45Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Fully aware of it, but they’re “punchy” when I’m not smug but simply saying things they’re not prepared to accept, like the fact that they’re watching their country turn into a kleptocratic authoritarian state, that it’s because dumb shit voters are letting it happen, and that something extraordinary will have to happen to these dumbshit voters to help them achieve enlightenment. I guess I’m the kid who has to point out that Santa Claus isn’t real, and people hate me for it. But it’s better that they know the truth now. But the thing is that WE ALL KNOW IT! You bring no big revelations to the party, just the same old same old. If you want to be treated like Moses stand on a fruit crate in the real world and declaim to your heart’s content. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42349 "2020-04-07T22:46:10Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Trump has had himself quite a week, hasn’t he? In addition to his ongoing bungling of the coronavirus response, he’s: > > Fired the Inspector General who kicked off the Ukraine investigation > Fired the Inspector General who would have overseen the $2T CV aid package distribution > Used his daily “briefings” to berate reporters who asked him tough questions without first prefacing it with “You’re doing a great job!” > Blocked Dr Fauci from answering a question he (Trump) was tired of hearing > Fired (through his toady) the captain of an aircraft carrier for going outside of the chain of command in asking for help with a CV outbreak onboard, and then > Fired the toady. > > And I’ve probably missed some. Shared. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42350 "2020-04-07T23:09:51Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > \ > “You will see!” “I’m the smartest person here!” “You’re all sheep who are too scared to admit I’m the most correct person ever!!”\ Gawd, he even _sounds_ like Trump. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42351 "2020-04-07T23:25:56Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > But the thing is that WE ALL KNOW IT! You bring no big revelations to the party, just the same old same old. If you want to be treated like Moses stand on a fruit crate in the real world and declaim to your heart’s content. No, you don’t. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42352 "2020-04-07T23:28:04Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I daresay a good chunk of posters have put the little fucker on ignore at this point. Half of the shit he says is just bleeding obvious and the other half is chicken little shit, some of it is smattered with some real over-the-top sociopathic fantasies, but nearly every damn thing he says is said with a pathetic need for validation. > > “You will see!” “I’m the smartest person here!” “You’re all sheep who are too scared to admit I’m the most correct person ever!!” > > He could be the smartest guy on Earth, he’s a nutjob who fits well on my ignore list. Genius is rarely appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42353 "2020-04-07T23:29:29Z")
Starting to sound like the fucking Monty Python argument sketch. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42354 "2020-04-07T23:51:35Z")
Back to the Novartis drug company that Michael Cohen was paid by, where is Cohen in all of this? Surely he can shed some light on that now. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42355 "2020-04-07T23:59:11Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > This is precisely why I have been saying that we probably need some good carnage. No, it’s not a pleasant thought. It’s probably not even a sane thought. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42356 "2020-04-08T00:01:17Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Genius is rarely appreciated. Yes it is, you’re not it. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42357 "2020-04-08T00:04:28Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Genius is rarely appreciated. Oh, give it a rest. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42358 "2020-04-08T00:09:39Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I was talking about the so called thought process of those who defend Trump. It requires an Etch-A-Sketch like mind. And now that Etch-A-Sketch can [actually draw curves](https://technabob.com/blog/2020/02/24/etch-a-sketch-revolution-can-draw-circles/), this is an incredibly astute observation for the circular thinking going on with them. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Modly resigns. > [Acting Navy Secretary Modly Resigns After Calling Capt. Crozier 'Stupid'](https://taskandpurpose.com/news/modly-fired) > (I had to chuckle that the URL says “fired”) For family trees we have the terms _father, grandfather, great grandfather, great great grandfather, etc._. I think it’s time, for this (mal)administration to do something similar. [ul][li]Stackley Acting Secretary[/li][li]Spencer Secretary[/li][li]Modley Acting Acting Secretary[/li][li]Next toady in line Acting Acting Acting Secretary[/ul][/li] We can do this for any office under the orange clown. > [@asahi](#): > > Tried to channel his inner Trump and still got shit-canned. Must by some mighty damn strong kool aid these fuckers are drinking to do his bidding and end up getting stiffed anyway. I wonder when it finally dawns on the average soldier that Trump is not a military guy and likely thinks of the department of defense as just another way to fund his corrupt criminal business enterprise and enrich himself - just how he views pretty much every other agency. I’m still surprised at the number of military personnel who support him, given his atrocious record regarding military personnel and their families. > [@Nava](#): > > Was it last week or yesterday that he did that thing of putting a question over to Pence and after Pence made noises for five minutes, said “that was a great answer, Mike has just spent five minutes talking without getting anywhere near your question!”? You know the old saying that if your only tool is a hammer, everything you see is a nail? Well, the only tool the orange clown has is a mirror. And he does not understand that. > [@](#): > > Dude doesn’t just fart, he yells “that was me!!!” in case anybody didn’t realize it. Usually the people who do that wear strange clothing and a ton of makeup… oh wait… I did a search for “Which clown does Trump resemble” and got plenty of drawings of Trump in clown make-up. Now I’m seriously curious. What professional clown does he resemble? > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Two weeks. Two minutes. What difference does it make anymore. There are no consequences for any of the countless lies or unintentional damning truths that he tells on a daily basis. > > Listen to him now. He’s a mental deficient. He should be gagged and dragged away for the good of everyone concerned. But he won’t. Perfectly competent and otherwise intelligent people are powerless to stop a lunatic who has taken over the entire system of government, making **checks and balances irrelevant**. I’ve bolded the problem. Trump only cares about checks coming to him. And look at his history in relation to balances (Can you say “casino”?) > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Starting to sound like the fucking Monty Python argument sketch. Watcing that sketch, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Seeing it play out in real life, not so much fun. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42359 "2020-04-08T00:10:17Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Genius is rarely appreciated. Now you’ve finally snapped into the same mental realm as your nemesis. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42360 "2020-04-08T00:42:16Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What professional clown does he resemble? Donald J. Trump ---
**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:** [April 8, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42361 "2020-04-08T01:11:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What professional clown does he resemble? [This one](https://www.biography.com/.image/c_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_400%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTE5NDg0MDU1MjM2NDc4NDc5/john-wayne-gacy-10367544-2-402.jpg)? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42362 "2020-04-08T01:22:16Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > [This one](https://www.biography.com/.image/c_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_400%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTE5NDg0MDU1MjM2NDc4NDc5/john-wayne-gacy-10367544-2-402.jpg)? BWA-HA-HA! You made me spurt on my laptop! (wiping with bathroom cleaner, JIC) ---
**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:** [April 8, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42363 "2020-04-08T04:48:09Z")
Hospitals are reporting that the federal government is seizing their medical supply orders without explanation or warning. [Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word](https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies)? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42364 "2020-04-08T08:35:31Z")
President Trump: “I think mail-in voting is horrible, it’s corrupt.” Reporter: “You voted by mail in Florida’s election last month, didn’t you?” Trump: “Sure. I can vote by mail” Reporter: “How do you reconcile with that?” Trump: “Because I’m allowed to.” > ---
**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:** [April 8, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42365 "2020-04-08T13:23:12Z")
[https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/kushner-coronavirus-surveillance-174165](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/kushner-coronavirus-surveillance-174165) > [@](#): > > White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s task force has reached out to a range of health technology companies about **creating a nationa** l coronavirus **surveillance system** to give the government a near real-time view of where patients are seeking treatment and for what, and whether hospitals can accommodate them, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2117) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2119)