# 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:** 2157
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43127 "2020-05-04T18:38:03Z")
Even the WH’s own models project we’ll be up to 3000 deaths a day by June from about 2000 a day now. Winning? Of course it’s only a model, but remind me again why we’re opening stuff? > **[Coronavirus model projects 134,000 deaths in US, nearly double its last...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html)** > > An influential coronavirus model often cited by the White House is now forecasting that 134,000 people will die of Covid-19 in the United States, nearly double its previous prediction. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43128 "2020-05-04T18:40:57Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Even the WH’s own models project we’ll be up to 3000 deaths a day by June from about 2000 a day now. Winning? > > Of course it’s only a model, but remind me again why we’re opening stuff? > > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html) Because 'Murka. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43129 "2020-05-04T18:53:31Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Because 'Murka. Actually, yeah. I saw a meme over the weekend that said this response is classically American: we’re bored; let’s go back to normal. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43130 "2020-05-04T18:56:20Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Even the WH’s own models project we’ll be up to 3000 deaths a day by June from about 2000 a day now. Winning? > > Of course it’s only a model, but remind me again why we’re opening stuff? > > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html) Because the “Wealth creators” have discovered that they cannot create diddly squat if they don’t have a large workforce of poorly paid serfs to generate the money for them. So it’s “High, Ho, off to work you go, and sorry if you die, but we have profits to make!” ---
**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:** [May 4, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43131 "2020-05-04T19:17:24Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Even the WH’s own models project we’ll be up to 3000 deaths a day by June from about 2000 a day now. Winning? > > Of course it’s only a model, but remind me again why we’re opening stuff? > > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html) From the link > [@](#): > > “This is not a White House document nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task Force or gone through interagency vetting,” Deputy White House press secretary Judd Deere said. "This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or data that the task force has analyzed. In other words this model has a chance of actually representing reality. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43132 "2020-05-04T19:26:41Z")
But an administration official did confirm the authenticity of the document and that it had been distributed to the relevant agencies, whatever that means. I guess the WH task force isn’t relevant! And probably would-be relevant agencies will be hamstrung and kept from taking action or probably even making impotent recommendations because it would make Trumpy angry. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43133 "2020-05-04T19:29:10Z")
Individual 1 spreading the conspiracy theory that Joe Scarborough is involved in a murder. > **[Trump raises conspiracy theory to attack MSNBC’s Scarborough](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/495940-trump-raises-conspiracy-theory-to-attack-msnbcs-scarborough/)** > > President Trump on Monday referred to the accidental death of an intern in former Rep. Joe Scarborough’s office to take a shot at the MSNBC “Morning Joe” host, who the president has frequently feud… ---
**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:** [May 4, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43134 "2020-05-04T19:56:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1 spreading the conspiracy theory that Joe Scarborough is involved in a murder. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/495940-trump-raises-conspiracy-theory-to-attack-msnbcs-scarborough](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/495940-trump-raises-conspiracy-theory-to-attack-msnbcs-scarborough) > [@The Orange Messiah](#): > > \*\*I… will state on the record that he is ‘nuts’. \*\* Not ‘I think’; he wrote ‘is’. Sounds like libel to me. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43135 "2020-05-04T21:21:15Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Not ‘I think’; he wrote ‘is’. Sounds like libel to me. _Your honor, counsel for the defense moves that the case be dismissed on the grounds that a charge of libel demands that the statement must originate from a credible source._ ---
**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:** [May 4, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43136 "2020-05-04T22:26:26Z")
What that revised CDC report tells us is that many of the dead are ceasing to be dead, proving that the Rapture has indeed begun. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43137 "2020-05-04T22:46:46Z")
Or the zombie apocalypse. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43138 "2020-05-04T22:57:36Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > What that revised CDC report tells us is that many of the dead are ceasing to be dead, proving that the Rapture has indeed begun. Well, he did tweet, yesterday, **…And then came a Plague, a great and powerful Plague, and the World was never to be the same again! But America rose from this death and destruction, always remembering its many lost souls, and the lost souls all over the World, and became greater than ever before!** so maybe that rapture thing is taking longer than they thought. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43139 "2020-05-04T23:53:25Z")
The short-fingered vulgarian has finally accepted JAYSUS and th’ HOLY BLOOD OF THE LAMB into his heart! ---
**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:** [May 5, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43140 "2020-05-05T00:09:24Z")
What the tweet doesn’t tell you is that Jesus took one look around the SFV’s heart, puked, and took off for parts unknown. Taking His holy blood with him. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43141 "2020-05-05T00:35:04Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > The short-fingered vulgarian has finally accepted JAYSUS and th’ HOLY BLOOD OF THE LAMB into his heart! It doesn’t sound like he has accepted Jesus-It sounds like he thinks he _is_ Jesus. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43142 "2020-05-05T00:44:38Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Or the zombie apocalypse. It has been established that persons who have recently died of COVID-19 have been returning to life and committing acts of murder. A widespread investigation of funeral homes, morgues, and hospitals has concluded that the unburied COVID-19 victims have been returning to life and seeking human victims. It’s hard for us here to be reporting this to you, but it does seem to be a fact. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43143 "2020-05-05T03:37:57Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Even the WH’s own models project we’ll be up to 3000 deaths a day by June from about 2000 a day now. Winning? > > Of course it’s only a model, but remind me again why we’re opening stuff? > > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html) The Republican party and apparently a fair number of their fanboys are basically saying “Okay, pandemic’s over now, and in case it’s not, we’re going to pretend that it is.” Institutions we’ve come to depend on and trust have essentially abdicated their responsibility. In short, **you’re on your own.** Each person is on his or her own. Whether you end up getting hospitalized for weeks or in a graveyard is literally up to you - not your employer, not your mayor, not your governor, and certainly not the president. Whether we’re still here posting this time next year will depend on the decisions we make and don’t make. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43144 "2020-05-05T04:28:50Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Because the “Wealth creators” have discovered that they cannot create diddly squat if they don’t have a large workforce of poorly paid serfs to generate the money for them. So it’s “High, Ho, off to work you go, and sorry if you die, but we have profits to make!” You make that sound like a bad thing. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43145 "2020-05-05T05:34:44Z")
> [@](#): > > …And then came a Plague, a great and powerful Plague, and the World was never to be the same again! The 2016 election. > [@](#): > > But America rose from this death and destruction, always remembering its many lost souls, and the lost souls all over the World, and became greater than ever before! The 2020 election. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43146 "2020-05-05T11:52:30Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, he did tweet, yesterday, > **…And then came a Plague, a great and powerful Plague, and the World was never to be the same again! But America rose from this death and destruction, always remembering its many lost souls, and the lost souls all over the World, and became greater than ever before!** > so maybe that rapture thing is taking longer than they thought. I liked this response from another Twitter user: > [@](#): > > And at first the King did say the Plague would blow over like a mighty wind, and that the numbers would shrinketh from 15 to 0, and his apostles did rejoice at this news for the Plague, in their eyes, was just a flu. And so the King did return to his holy golf game. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2156) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2158)