# 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:** 2126
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42506 "2020-04-14T21:52:56Z")
Wonder how he feels about _Downfall_. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42507 "2020-04-14T21:57:50Z")
I wonder why he didn’t say that Mutiny On The Bounty was one of his favorite books? Ha-ha, just kidding, Republican Trump supporting dipshits! I don’t wonder at all why he didn’t lie that way, instead. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42508 "2020-04-14T22:00:16Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Apparently he doesn’t remember that Capt. Bligh ended up being set adrift in a small boat while the mutineers took the ship to their desired destination. Now, in real life, the captain made it back to England because, for all his other faults, he was a competent sailor. But while he was exonerated of misdeeds by a military court, didn’t they still find that he had been the wrong person to be named a captain? Or was that just in the movie? It’s been awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42509 "2020-04-14T22:03:13Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Trump is referring to state governors who refuse to concede his total authority as “[mutineers](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/trumps-may-1-target-too-optimistic-for-u-s-coronavirus-reopening-adviser-fauci-says-idUSKCN21W20G)”. He wants them to know that “_Mutiny on the Bounty_ is one of my all-timefavorite movies.” I’m not entirely sure Trump caught the main plot of that movie… > [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Apparently he doesn’t remember that Capt. Bligh ended up being set adrift in a small boat while the mutineers took the ship to their desired destination. Now, in real life, the captain made it back to England because, for all his other faults, he was a competent sailor. … And then later on Bligh got himself a jail cell during the New South Wales Rum Rebellion. He was a competent sailor and a world-class navigator, but for some reason he managed multiple times to piss off his subordinates to the point they overturned his authority and sent him packing. Not sure he’s a commander a leader to aspire to emulate… ---
**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:** [April 14, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42510 "2020-04-14T22:04:34Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Not sure he’s a commander a leader to aspire to emulate… Why not? His current role model seems to be Jabba the Hutt. ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42511 "2020-04-14T22:12:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > How about ‘Anatomically Deficient Ken’? 😛 Sorry. Anatomically _Challenged_ Ken. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42512 "2020-04-14T22:24:11Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Apparently he doesn’t remember that Capt. Bligh ended up being set adrift in a small boat while the mutineers took the ship to their desired destination. Now, in real life, the captain made it back to England because, for all his other faults, he was a competent sailor. So to be fair, I’m willing to set Trump adrift in a small boat in the middle of the ocean and see if he makes it back to land. Knowing the way Loser Donald thinks, I imagine the point he got from the movie was “Captain Bligh was a great and strong leader, and the haters and losers (of which there were many) were very unfair to him and spread Fake News to make him look bad. Sad!” ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42513 "2020-04-14T22:34:18Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Not sure he’s a commander a leader to aspire to emulate… From most accounts, he was actually an able naval officer and sailor. Not nearly as harsh as his peers or as he’s been made out to be by the Pitcairn mutineers and the Bounty’s log tends to bear this out. That said, he wasn’t a great governor as compared to naval officer, which the Rum Rebellion showed. Trump is notably averse to reading, so all he knows of the actual Bligh are probably from movies and even there, he’s showing his usual and remarkable lack of insight if he thinks Bligh got the best of the mutineers. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42514 "2020-04-14T22:37:43Z")
“At potential” Ken. ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42515 "2020-04-14T22:40:52Z")
So, no more funding for WHO. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42516 "2020-04-14T22:45:53Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > So, no more funding for WHO. Just watched that live. Fucking moron. ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42517 "2020-04-14T22:46:01Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > This is what the last thirty years would have looked like if we had democracy: > > 1988: George H.W. Bush > 1992: Bill Clinton > 1996: Bill Clinton > 2000: Al Gore > 2004: Al Gore > 2008: Barack Obama > 2012: Barack Obama > 2016: Hillary Clinton No. Al Gore probably would have had two terms, but he would not have been able to prevent the collapse of '08, so you would have to include at least a full term of Rmoney, possibly two. On the upside, Barack Obama would be President today, but if this were the tail end of his second term, I could not begin to guess who would be taking over for him next year. ---
**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 14, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42518 "2020-04-14T23:06:47Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > So, no more funding for WHO. I hope Xi picks up the US’s tab. ---
**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 14, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42519 "2020-04-14T23:22:09Z")
All this on the WHO because they corrected him on the Chinese Virus thingy. They offered us tests in January, the WH said no. Now he does this. I wouldn’t mind if the WHO went ballistic. Like, “You know what? No funding from US is fine for us. Matter of fact, we’re not offering any help from now on. We’ve asked all Americans working for us to resign. Remove the phony fucker from his job and we’ll help again.” ---
**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:** [April 14, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42520 "2020-04-14T23:28:47Z")
And he’s going to “let” the governors decide when to reopen. Why doesn’t at least one of these governors come out and say Chump is a horse’s ass, in those exact words? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42521 "2020-04-14T23:31:40Z")
Because he can make things tough for you. He signs an executive\* fuck you \*order, your people suffer, you take him to court. Sit back and relax, might be a while. ---
**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 14, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42522 "2020-04-14T23:53:01Z")
It’s now clear to me that he wants this disease at its worst when Election Day happens. Putin must be proud. ---
**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 15, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42523 "2020-04-15T00:04:40Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > On the Wisconsin Supreme Court win by the Democrat: The implications are even more enormous. > > There is one conservative justice on that now 4-3 court who sides with the liberals on the Republican voter suppression effort to throw 200,000 Wisconsin voters off the rolls. It seems likely now that the Republican effort will fail. Since Trump won the state by a mere 23,000 votes and Barr-ing unforeseen events, looks like Wisconsin is again a safe Democratic stronghold for 2020. > > In short, the Democratic win in this instance is huge. As much shit as I and others have talked about Bernie Sanders, I also have to turn around and give him some credit. It’s very possible, if not likely, that his staying in the race motivated some left-leaning voters to come out and participate in a race they might otherwise not have voted in. ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42524 "2020-04-15T01:09:21Z")
The Washington Post [just reported](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/coming-to-your-1200-relief-check-donald-j-trumps-name/2020/04/14/071016c2-7e82-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&wpisrc=al_news__alert-economy--alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1) that the fuckstick in chief managed to get his name printed on the stimulus checks, first time ever something like this has been done. Because, you know, Trump. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/42525 "2020-04-15T01:38:41Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > So, no more funding for WHO. How exactly is he going to be able to do this? Congress controls the pursestrings, not the president. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2125) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2127)