# 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:** 2169
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43367 "2020-05-12T05:20:38Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > And speaking of him acting like a petulant, fucking child, президент Trump goes waaaaaaaaaaaa nasty woman reporters!!!111!!! > Again. [Trump storms out of press conference.](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-storms-out-of-press-conference.html) I particularly enjoyed the last paragraph of that item, which dripped sarcasm: > [@](#): > > All in all, another successful attempt at reassuring the American public that, in this time of unprecedented stress and tragedy, Trump has everything under control. I was reminded of Kevin Bacon, as Chip Diller, wearing his ROTC uniform at the end of _Animal House_, after the Deltas have disrupted the parade. “Remain calm! All is well!,” he pleads, while he is stampeded by the panicking crowd. When the crowd passes, we see a flattened Chip Diller, _a la_ Wile E. Coyote, now more frantically pleading “Remain calm! All is well!” ---
**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:** [May 12, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43368 "2020-05-12T06:08:33Z")
Loser Donald actually [retweeted the footage of his temper tantrum](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1260051164206333954) because He apparently thinks it proves how the Fake News are working together to be UNFAIR to Him. SAD! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43369 "2020-05-12T09:08:23Z")
Not sure whether this post should be here or in the Coronavirus forum, but whatever. With China, Wuhan, 5G, Clintons, Rothschilds, Gates, Soros, Fauci, and the umpteen other conspiracy theories out there, wouldn’t all these conspirators WANT someone like Trump as the POTUS? Surely if you are evil enough to infect gazillions with microchips and viruses to take over the world, you’d want a numptie like Trump, right, who believes any shit written on his paper napkin at Maccas? So why do the Conspiracy Cabal also believe that The New World Order ™ is trying to silence Trump? I mean, he’s their biggest defender ffs. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43370 "2020-05-12T09:35:46Z")
Incidentally, on the “Why don’t you ask China [about thousands dying every day]?” thing: to the extent that it even made sense as a response, note that Shanghai Disneyland just reopened. So not only has the Chinese government managed to fool its own citizens into believing the epidemic is essentially over there, and obliviously go about their lives and work as normal, but _fucking Mickey Mouse_ is in on it! Et tu, Pluto? Seriously though, I don’t know what “ask Jhina” means, other than an attempt to shift blame and just being racist against the journalist. But since it came up in the context of comparing countries, I wanted to point out how absurd all the talk of China somehow hiding an ongoing epidemic is. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43371 "2020-05-12T11:31:55Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Seriously though, I don’t know what “ask Jhina” means, other than an attempt to shift blame and just being racist against the journalist. Of course that’s all there is to it. The damn dirty lying sack of dung has zero depth; don’t look for it. > [@](#): > > But since it came up in the context of comparing countries, I wanted to point out how absurd all the talk of China somehow hiding an ongoing epidemic is. The Beijing Education Commission is like a bunch of hawks right now watching each and every campus that has reopened for two grades (9th and 12th). They’re checking for compliance with the commission’s instructions regarding pandemic control measures. Nope, this is not something they are hiding in this town. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43372 "2020-05-12T13:27:10Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Heh, the millisecond I saw Newsom announce that I was like, yeah, Don’ll like that. > > And speaking of him acting like a petulant, fucking child, президент Trump goes waaaaaaaaaaaa nasty woman reporters!!!111!!! > Again. [Trump storms out of press conference.](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-storms-out-of-press-conference.html) Does Trump _ever_ refer to a man as “nasty”? (Stupid question… of course not!) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43373 "2020-05-12T13:45:10Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The level of crap that trump [continues to generate](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-deaths-mount-trump-tries-to-convince-americans-its-safe-to-inch-back-to-normal/2020/05/09/bf024fe6-9149-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html) is a marvel to behold… I just realized that another way Trump is like a baby is that the amount of poop he generates daily is a lot larger than one would expect based on his body weight. Yeah, it’s taken me 3 years and change. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43374 "2020-05-12T13:57:12Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > …Et tu, Pluto?.. Ooooo-- _sweet!_ 🙂 > [@Nava](#): > > I just realized that another way Trump is like a baby is that the amount of poop he generates daily is a lot larger than one would expect based on his body weight. Yeah, it’s taken me 3 years and change. Good observation, even if it does make a person run for the eye-bleach. Which the stores are probably out of. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43375 "2020-05-12T13:58:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Loser Donald actually [retweeted the footage of his temper tantrum](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1260051164206333954) because He apparently thinks it proves how the Fake News are working together to be UNFAIR to Him. > > SAD! As if the whole press-conference setup, with the signs just begging for [mocking photo-manips](https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1259942224118382592), weren’t sad enough… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43376 "2020-05-12T14:43:00Z")
What the fuck is “Obamagate?” ---
**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:** [May 12, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43377 "2020-05-12T14:43:44Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > What the fuck is “Obamagate?” [That’s the fun, nobody knows!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=896038) ---
**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:** [May 12, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43378 "2020-05-12T14:55:05Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Does Trump _ever_ refer to a man as “nasty”? > (Stupid question… of course not!) Does Trump call white women “nasty” as often as minority women? Same answer. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43379 "2020-05-12T15:16:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > What the fuck is “Obamagate?” Competence, integrity, honesty. All the things that are enemies of this administration. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43380 "2020-05-12T15:26:05Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Does Trump _ever_ refer to a man as “nasty”? > (Stupid question… of course not!) Well, there was [French President Macron](https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784364028/from-nato-critic-to-defender-trump-calls-macron-comments-nasty), though Trump’s semi-favorite adjective does seem to apply mostly to women. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43381 "2020-05-12T15:50:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Loser Donald actually [retweeted the footage of his temper tantrum](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1260051164206333954) because He apparently thinks it proves how the Fake News are working together to be UNFAIR to Him. > > SAD! Donald Trump’s take on “Blame Canada.” _Blame China, Blame China, With their crazy Wuhan flu, And President Winnie the Pooh Blame China, Blame China, Why, they’re not even a real democracy, anyway_ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43382 "2020-05-12T15:58:04Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > What the fuck is “Obamagate?” You should ask Phil Rucker of the _Washington Post_. When he asked Trump more or less the same thing yesterday, twice, all Donnie said was, “You know what I’m talking about”. Clearly, the answer is “Covfefe”. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43383 "2020-05-12T16:14:15Z")
Summary of Obamagate on the [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/12/what-is-obamagate-and-why-is-trump-so-worked-up-about-it). The TL;DR is that Obama got dirty cops to force Flynn to plead guilty. Of course it doesn’t make any sense, particularly in terms of the timeline, but anyway it’s something for Trump’s supporters to rage about instead of the handling of the coronavirus. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43384 "2020-05-12T16:23:30Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Summary of Obamagate on the [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/12/what-is-obamagate-and-why-is-trump-so-worked-up-about-it). > > The TL;DR is that Obama got dirty cops to force Flynn to plead guilty. Of course it doesn’t make any sense, particularly in terms of the timeline, but anyway it’s something for Trump’s supporters to rage about instead of the handling of the coronavirus. So basically, it’s just Trump’s clumsy attempt to change the conversation away from his incompetence. What a fool. ---
**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 12, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43385 "2020-05-12T16:26:58Z")
More like it’s his reelection strategy since he can’t run on the economy now. There will probably be endless Benghazi-esque investigations now and they will say Biden was involved also. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43386 "2020-05-12T16:30:17Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > More like it’s his reelection strategy since he can’t run on the economy now. There will probably be endless Benghazi-esque investigations now and they will say Biden was involved also. I wonder if the coward-in-chief will refuse to debate Biden. Biden would rip him to shreds over any accusations of that nature. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2168) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2170)