# 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:** 2174
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43467 "2020-05-14T19:44:51Z")
Damn, I’m getting old when I can’t even remember where I stole little bits of phrases! ---
**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:** [May 14, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43468 "2020-05-14T21:13:31Z")
[All supply chains should be in the United States](https://ktul.com/news/nation-world/trump-virus-shows-supply-chains-should-be-moved-from-china)? Okay, how about you crack down on [all this foreign made MAGA-wear](https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/where-is-maga-merchandise-made)? ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43469 "2020-05-14T22:18:03Z")
It’s just so clear and obvious once he explains it: > [@A Very Stable Genius](#): > > When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing we would have very few cases. ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43470 "2020-05-14T22:26:59Z")
So our new COVID-19 federal policy is…Shoot the Messenger? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43471 "2020-05-14T22:27:12Z")
We’re being whooshed, right? That’s from the Onion…right? I mean…that’s something Stephen Colbert would say. ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43472 "2020-05-14T22:35:08Z")
“The president then closed his eyes and informed the audience that he was now invisible.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43473 "2020-05-14T22:43:28Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [All supply chains should be in the United States](https://ktul.com/news/nation-world/trump-virus-shows-supply-chains-should-be-moved-from-china)? Okay, how about you crack down on [all this foreign made MAGA-wear](https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/where-is-maga-merchandise-made)? Sure. We’ll just do without most electronics, since many of them require rare-earth elements that aren’t available here. ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43474 "2020-05-14T22:54:40Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Sure. We’ll just do without most electronics, since many of them require rare-earth elements that aren’t available here. To be fair, the reason that those are not available here has much more to do with bureaucracy than with their actual prevalence in our country. That _could_ be fixed. ---
**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 14, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43475 "2020-05-14T23:09:23Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > We’re being whooshed, right? That’s from the Onion…right? I mean…that’s something Stephen Colbert would say. I think he is trying (and failing) to make the following argument. Sure some so called experts might say that the US has more cases and deaths than anywhere else in the world, and sure the number of cases in increasing everyday with no end in sight, but that’s just because we are doing so much testing. [After all anyone who wants a test can get one.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/politics/trump-fact-check-may-11/index.html) So the fact that we have so many cases is just proof of what a great job he’s doing. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43476 "2020-05-14T23:16:59Z")
More like, we have tests at schools and people fail them. So the less testing we give the less failures we have. :rolleyes: That’s how it worked at Wharton for him. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43477 "2020-05-14T23:55:17Z")
As the election nears, I think it’s time for all those who despise Trump to settle on a consistent nickname for him. Really, drive the same phrase home for six months, over, over, and over. And over again. You can’t do that when people are using close to dozen assorted variations. Dim Donald. Simple, alliterative, hard to forget, and not nearly as nasty as it could be (a feature not a bug). Dim Donald. ---
**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 15, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43478 "2020-05-15T00:21:37Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I think he is trying (and failing) to make the following argument. Sure some so called experts might say that the US has more cases and deaths than anywhere else in the world, and sure the number of cases in increasing everyday with no end in sight, but that’s just because we are doing so much testing. [After all anyone who wants a test can get one.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/politics/trump-fact-check-may-11/index.html) So the fact that we have so many cases is just proof of what a great job he’s doing. [He doesn’t understand why we don’t understand:](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/trump-coronavirus-testing-high-case-numbers-259524) > [@](#): > > Trump said the news media had refused to report his “common sense” explanation for the country’s high case numbers. ---
**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 15, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43479 "2020-05-15T00:57:32Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It’s no surprise that Fearless Leader has decided to attempt to politically weaponize the state shutdowns, rather than to support governors and mayors who are the boots on the ground. IMO, he is not only backing the wrong horse here, he has seriously underestimated how the majority of people feel about exercising caution. Instead, he’s buying into the opinions of the very few covidiots out there who are making all the noise. In the face of tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of infections, his usual ploy of pitting people against one another is quite likely to backfire badly. At least I hope so. If there is a resurgence of the infection rate, which is quite likely, the blame will fall squarely on his narrow shoulders, and I hope the blowback is immediate and ferocious. Georgia reopened and had a spike in new cases. Yet, I’m still getting nonsense from certain people in that state about how evil the liberals and Democrats are for opposing the opening, how un-American and unconstitutional they are. There is now literally nothing that will persuade magats and trumpeters from their allegiance to the fearful leader. > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Getting the blood of over a hundred thousand people onto his tiny little hands is his most impressive accomplishment. And the magats and trumpeters, along with the damn dirty lying sack of dung in the White House are still blaming Obama and other Democrats and liberals for it. > [@Skywatcher](#): > > [All supply chains should be in the United States](https://ktul.com/news/nation-world/trump-virus-shows-supply-chains-should-be-moved-from-china)? Okay, how about you crack down on [all this foreign made MAGA-wear](https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/where-is-maga-merchandise-made)? Don’t forget about his wife’s (or is it his daughter’s) businesses here in China. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > So our new COVID-19 federal policy is…Shoot the Messenger? That’s not a new policy unless you consider three to four years new. > [@Smapti](#): > > “The president then closed his eyes and informed the audience that he was now invisible.” Well, of course. Don’t you know toddlers just love to play Peek-a-Boo? > [@Morgyn](#): > > Sure. We’ll just do without most electronics, since many of them require rare-earth elements that aren’t available here. What’s the matter with you? Facts have had nothing to do with this administration since before Day One! > [@KarlGauss](#): > > As the election nears, I think it’s time for all those who despise Trump to settle on a consistent nickname for him. Really, drive the same phrase home for six months, over, over, and over. And over again. You can’t do that when people are using close to dozen assorted variations. > > Dim Donald. > > Simple, alliterative, hard to forget, and not nearly as nasty as it could be (a feature not a bug). > > Dim Donald. Sounds too much like “Dem Donald”. They wouldn’t get it, and would be outraged that their hero is being accused of being a Democrat. Which is quite amusing since he used to be, didn’t he? ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43480 "2020-05-15T01:47:22Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Dim Donald. Reminds me too much of the guy who turned on Little Alex late in the story. Perhaps, playing on the dim theme, the **F** ailing **L** ight of the **U** seless **B** ull **S** hitter, though, that might just be too poetical. ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43481 "2020-05-15T01:59:03Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Dim Donald. > > Simple, alliterative, hard to forget, and not nearly as nasty as it could be (a feature not a bug). > > Dim Donald. That’s too difficult for him to understand. He’ll think you’re talking about the lighting in the room, and he’ll blame it on the very bad (and expensive!) light bulbs that Obama replaced our big beautiful bulbs with, and by the way, a lot of people are saying these new bulbs make him look orange, which is very unfair. I’m sticking with “Loser Donald” because it’ll remind him of the one thing he hates most in the world - being a losing loser who loses like a dog. ---
**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 15, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43482 "2020-05-15T03:52:47Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [All supply chains should be in the United States](https://ktul.com/news/nation-world/trump-virus-shows-supply-chains-should-be-moved-from-china)? Okay, how about you crack down on [all this foreign made MAGA-wear](https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/where-is-maga-merchandise-made)? How much will gasoline cost if we stop importing oil? ---
**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 15, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43483 "2020-05-15T04:10:48Z")
TIME Magazine’s new cover. A drawing of Individual 1 with his mouth open, an American flag mask dangling below it, with the caption, “There’s a right way to reopen America. This isn’t it." > **[Time Torches Trump's Coronavirus Blunders With Cutting New Cover](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-time-magazine-cover_uk_5ebd76d4c5b655620b140d2d)** > > The president can't even wear a face mask properly on the magazine's latest front page. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43484 "2020-05-15T10:06:05Z")
You link requires that I allow cookies to be installed on my device before I’m allowed to look at it. ---
**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 15, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43485 "2020-05-15T11:00:30Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > You link requires that I allow cookies to be installed on my device before I’m allowed to look at it. You can accept cookies and then go back and delete them. Free CCleaner\* can be set to delete cookies every time shut down your computer. But anyway, [try this.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX-MkAiXQAAxkyF?format=jpg&name=medium) - Not sure if I’m allowed to post a link, but google it. This cleaner has been around for many years. Quite customizable. ---
**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 15, 2020, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43486 "2020-05-15T11:18:34Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > You link requires that I allow cookies to be installed on my device before I’m allowed to look at it. And furthermore, the page has an auto-playing news video clip. :mad: So. The late great HuffPost is owned by Verizon now? Fuck that shit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2173) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2175)