# 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:** 2186
**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 21, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43707 "2020-05-21T21:29:52Z")
> [@solost](#): > > So the local news showed Trump speaking at the Ford Rawsonville plant, and of course he wasn’t wearing a mask. Apparently a reporter asked him about it, and he pulled a mask out of his pocket and said he did wear it, just not on camera. He’s supposed to be an example to the nation- in front of the camera is where he should most be wearing it.Idiot. Maybe he’s afraid that if he puts on the mask nobody will know who he is. 😛 ---
**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 21, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43708 "2020-05-21T21:33:52Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I don’t think he’s ever made a coherent statement involving testing. The concept of what a test does and what it tells us completely bamboozles him. It makes sense if you realize he’s trying to find a way to claim he “won” the test. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43709 "2020-05-21T21:33:57Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Maybe he’s afraid that if he puts on the mask nobody will know who he is. 😛 [Trump says he won’t wear a mask in front of cameras](https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/xandr/trump-visits-michigan-questions-masks-145529786.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump brought a navy blue mask stamped with the presidential seal to a Ford plant in Michigan on Thursday. \*\*But he refused to wear it in front of cameras. > > “I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it,\*\*” Trump said before showing off his fabric face covering, which he said he’d briefly strapped on backstage before removing for a tour of the factory. “It was very nice. It looked very nice. They said not necessary.” Petulant little toad, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43710 "2020-05-21T23:09:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Pres. Trump on his coronavirus test today: > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Trump > > I tested very positively, in another sense, this morning. I tested positively toward negative, right? No, I tested perfectly this morning – meaning I tested negative. But that’s a way of saying it: positively toward the negative. > > 😕 I would pay real money to see him jump charge a car battery… ---
**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 22, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43711 "2020-05-22T00:25:23Z")
> [@Tweetolini](#): > > I tested very positively, in another sense, this morning. I tested positively toward negative, right? No, I tested perfectly this morning – meaning I tested negative. But that’s a way of saying it: positively toward the negative. > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > That’s like [Quagmire’s emergency DNA test](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3MdOzKUVpw), that specifies “POSITIVE (BAD)” and “NEGATIVE (GOOD)”. > [@enipla](#): > > George Costanza : “Oh god, my lupus test was negative? I have lupus!”! > > Except George is way, way smarter than Don. He and his friends are better con men too. Remember [the glowing medical report](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-health-doctor-490836) he released on 2016? > [@](#): > > …The letter also has problems with sentence structure and major typographical errors, such as the opening line, “To Whom My Concern.” Most amusing, it says that his medical examination of Trump has “only positive results.” In medical terms, if the test is positive, it confirms the existence of disease. Is this doctor saying Trump has every medical ailment that could be found in examination?.. ---
**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 22, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43712 "2020-05-22T01:03:19Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The concept of what a test does and what it tells us completely bamboozles him. I think you are exaggerating and being unfair. He knows two types of tests. Those for pregnancy and those for “VD”. [COLOR=“DarkOrange”]“Negative pregnancy test, good. Negative VD test, even better”[/COLOR] ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43713 "2020-05-22T01:27:02Z")
Tests are those things he paid nerds to take for him in college. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43714 "2020-05-22T02:19:31Z")
[The good bloodlines of Henry Ford](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-henry-ford-good-bloodlines_n_5ec70aecc5b63a1f62e49030). Unbelievable. Indefensible. And there are folks here who will still vote for this man. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43715 "2020-05-22T03:22:28Z")
> [@solost](#): > > So the local news showed Trump speaking at the Ford Rawsonville plant, and of course he wasn’t wearing a mask. Apparently a reporter asked him about it, and he pulled a mask out of his pocket and said he did wear it, just not on camera. He’s supposed to be an example to the nation- in front of the camera is where he should most be wearing it.Idiot. I was watching _The Last Word_ with Lawrence O’Donnell tonight and apparently someone took a pic of Trump wearing his mask and tweeted it out. O’Donnell showed it a few times. Hopefully it goes viral just to aggravate Trump, maybe with the meme of “What a pussy–wearing a mask”. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43716 "2020-05-22T04:21:01Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > [The good bloodlines of Henry Ford](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-henry-ford-good-bloodlines_n_5ec70aecc5b63a1f62e49030). Unbelievable. Indefensible. > > And there are folks here who will still vote for this man. 100% his Nazi sidekick Stephen Miller wrote that. ---
**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 22, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43717 "2020-05-22T05:09:21Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > 100% his Nazi sidekick Stephen Miller wrote that. I always wonder about him. He can’t be unfamiliar with how a lot of his current colleagues actually feel about Jewish people or how such people have treated Jewish people in the past (including Henry Ford). And his own family have been the victims of such behavior, and they’ve reminded him of this repeatedly. He thinks, despite vast historical evidence, that he’ll be the exception? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43718 "2020-05-22T10:43:28Z")
He’s Trump’s capo. ---
**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 22, 2020, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43719 "2020-05-22T11:30:58Z")
“Good bloodline”? Good God! Yeah, there’s no way that won’t summon up visions of a certain dictatorial regime. Seriously, it is far past the time to remove the damn dirty lying sack of dung from office. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43720 "2020-05-22T13:09:56Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I always wonder about him. He can’t be unfamiliar with how a lot of his current colleagues actually feel about Jewish people or how such people have treated Jewish people in the past (including Henry Ford). And his own family have been the victims of such behavior, and they’ve reminded him of this repeatedly. > > He thinks, despite vast historical evidence, that he’ll be the exception? As long as Trump hurts all the non-whites worse, then that’s a risk he’s fine with. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43721 "2020-05-22T14:41:07Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > [The good bloodlines of Henry Ford](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-henry-ford-good-bloodlines_n_5ec70aecc5b63a1f62e49030). Unbelievable. Indefensible. > > And there are folks here who will still vote for this man. I know, That was quite a WTF moment. But it’s a dog whistle to his base. Many of them vote for him \*\*\*because \*\*\* he says stuff like that. The less racist part of his base just ignore it or don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43722 "2020-05-22T15:16:01Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I know, That was quite a WTF moment. But it’s a dog whistle to his base. Many of them vote for him \*\*\*because \*\*\* he says stuff like that. The less racist part of his base just ignore it or don’t get it. I get that actual scumball nazis like this stuff. But how can you admit to supporting this man but also not admit you must be a nazi sympathizer to do so. This is so awfully clear, even for the ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43723 "2020-05-22T15:26:01Z")
Generally they just declare it to be the case then get upset when you tell them they’re wrong. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43724 "2020-05-22T15:27:40Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > I get that actual scumball nazis like this stuff. > > But how can you admit to supporting this man but also not admit you must be a nazi sympathizer to do so. This is so awfully clear, even for the ignorant. “By good bloodlines, Trump just meant the Fords are a smart, hardworking, good American family. You libtard snowflakes read the worst into everything he says. Sure, he’s raw and he might not speak like a polished politican, but nobody loves this country more than President Trump”. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43725 "2020-05-22T15:27:54Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I know, That was quite a WTF moment. But it’s a dog whistle to his base. Many of them vote for him \*\*\*because \*\*\* he says stuff like that. The less racist part of his base just ignore it or don’t get it. I don’t know that that is really even a good dog whistle to his base. While “anti-semite asshole” is a good description of Ford, I don’t think it is the first (or even 10th) thing that most people think about when he is brought up. There are people on both sides who are aware of this aspect of Ford, but they either think it is a good thing and already support Trump, or they think it is a bad thing and already would never vote for him. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43726 "2020-05-22T15:35:30Z")
If you support Trump, what possible excuses can you give for this behavior: 1. Trump is a nazi ideology sympathizer. 2. Trump is so incompetent that he would say this without realizing its meaning. And it really would be grossly incompetent for any president to say this unknowingly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2185) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2187)