# 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:** 2191
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43807 "2020-05-26T13:57:52Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Democratic governor in Nevada, though. The CNN article says he mentioned Florida, Georgia and Texas as possible alternatives. Please let it be[Florida](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTM2HQ0g98). ---
**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 26, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43808 "2020-05-26T14:29:02Z")
Maybe they can hold it in Republicans’ favorite city: [Moscow](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html). ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43809 "2020-05-26T15:38:05Z")
This article has a pretty detailed laundry list of what a corrupt fuck-up this douchebag is: [This Is Still Happening: Jared Kushner](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/this-is-still-happening-jared-kushner-pandemic-czar.html) A roundup of Trump administration malfeasance, Part 9. It starts out: > [@](#): > > **What Is Still Happening:** It’s depressing and infuriating to contemplate the amount of influence over all of our lives that has been handed to Kushner, whose greatest accomplishments prior to joining the White House were buying a $1.8 billion money pit with his family fortune and marrying Ivanka Trump. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43810 "2020-05-26T15:46:32Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > This article has a pretty detailed laundry list of what a corrupt fuck-up this douchebag is: > > [This Is Still Happening: Jared Kushner](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/this-is-still-happening-jared-kushner-pandemic-czar.html) > > A roundup of Trump administration malfeasance, Part 9. > > It starts out: Trump admires people who are able to do what he’d like to do. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43811 "2020-05-26T16:27:48Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Trump admires people who are able to do what he’d like to do. But he’d done rather well pissing away a family fortune and… Oh. ---
**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 26, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43812 "2020-05-26T17:12:42Z")
I’m certainly no fan of Ivanka the Complicit, but you got to wonder what she saw in Jared that made her go “Humma humma! This is _primo_ H material!” ---
**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 26, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43813 "2020-05-26T17:18:40Z")
It’s an aristocratic marriage. It’s not about love, it’s about scions and legacies and fortunes and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43814 "2020-05-26T17:28:51Z")
The two of them give off a Ken and Barbie, plastic toy figures brought to life vibe. Which lines up with their perfect lack of charisma and intellect. Would not shock me one bit to learn neither one has functioning genitalia. ---
**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 26, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43815 "2020-05-26T17:31:59Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > It’s an aristocratic marriage. It’s not about love, it’s about scions and legacies and fortunes and stuff. Yecch. Didn’t we fight a revolution in this country to get RID of shit like that? But I see your point. Any woman who found Kushner attractive probably got turned on by the descriptions of Bertie Wooster in Wodehouse novels. ---
**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 26, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43816 "2020-05-26T17:39:21Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Would not shock me one bit to learn neither one has functioning genitalia. She has given birth (so far as is known, at any rate), so she presumably does. Plus, daddy wouldn’t be interested in her otherwise. ---
**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 26, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43817 "2020-05-26T19:31:18Z")
File this under “Chickens Come Home to Roost.” **[Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19](https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862018484/trump-team-killed-rule-designed-to-protect-health-workers-from-pandemic-like-cov?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news)** > [@](#): > > When President Trump took office in 2017, his team stopped work on new federal regulations that would have forced the healthcare industry to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic like COVID-19. That decision is documented in federal records reviewed by NPR. > > “If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan where they made sure they had enough respirators and they were prepared for this sort of pandemic,” said David Michaels, who at the time served as head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. > > There are still no specific federal regulations protecting healthcare workers from deadly airborne pathogens like influenza, tuberculosis or the coronavirus. This fact hit home during the last respiratory pandemic, the H1N1 outbreak in 2009. Thousands of Americans died and dozens of healthcare workers got sick. At least four nurses died. > > Studies conducted after H1N1 found voluntary federal safety guidelines designed to limit the spread of airborne pathogens in medical facilities often weren’t being followed. There were also shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). > > “H1N1 made it very clear OSHA did not have adequate standards for airborne transmission and contact transmission and so we began writing a standard to do that,” Michaels said. > … > > Federal records reviewed by NPR show OSHA went step-by-step through that process for six years and by early 2016 the new infectious disease rule was ready. The Obama White House formally added it to a list of regulations scheduled to be implemented in 2017. > > Then came the presidential election. > > **An emphasis on deregulation** > > In the spring of 2017, two years before COVID-19 hit, the Trump team formally stripped OSHA’s airborne infectious disease rule from the regulatory agenda. NPR could find no indication the new administration had specific policy concerns about the infectious disease rules. > > Instead, the decision appeared to be part of a wider effort to cut regulations and bureaucratic oversight. > > “Earlier this year we set a target of adding zero new regulatory costs onto the American economy,” President Trump said in December 2017. “As a result, the never-ending growth of red tape in America has come to a sudden, screeching and beautiful halt.” > > The impact on the federal effort to protect healthcare workers from diseases like COVID-19 was immediate. > > “The infectious disease standard was put on the back burner. Work stopped,” said Michaels, now a professor at George Washington University. > … Bold is in the original. Underlining is mine. “Beautiful…” yeah, this lack of consistent, widespread regulation is really _beautiful_ if you feel that safety policies and regulations are a greater evil than 100,000 deaths. :mad: More detail and history at the link. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43818 "2020-05-26T21:43:33Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I’m certainly no fan of Ivanka the Complicit, but you got to wonder what she saw in Jared that made her go “Humma humma! This is _primo_ H material!” She was smitten from the moment she saw him emerge from his pupal casing, his glabrous membrane still glistening with ectoplasm. ---
**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 26, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43819 "2020-05-26T21:48:10Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > This article has a pretty detailed laundry list of what a corrupt fuck-up this douchebag is: > > [This Is Still Happening: Jared Kushner](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/this-is-still-happening-jared-kushner-pandemic-czar.html) > > A roundup of Trump administration malfeasance, Part 9. > > It starts out: And it includes this absolutely beautiful sentence which is gospel truth: > [@](#): > > As with Donald Trump himself, it’s difficult to summarize all of the damage that Kushner has done to U.S. institutions, constitutional democracy, and global alliances through the sheer distance between his limited capacities and the immense responsibility he holds. ---
**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 26, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43820 "2020-05-26T21:54:36Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > She was smitten from the moment she saw him emerge from his pupal casing, his glabrous membrane still glistening with ectoplasm. You use your keyboard prettier than a twenty dollar editor. ---
**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 26, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43821 "2020-05-26T22:45:12Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > File this under “Chickens Come Home to Roost.” > > \*\*[Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19](https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862018484/trump-team-killed-rule-designed-to-protect-health-workers-from-pandemic-like-cov?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news)\*\*Bold is in the original. Underlining is mine. > > > [@](#): > > > > … The Obama White House formally added it to a list of regulations scheduled to be implemented in 2017. … > > “Beautiful…” yeah, this lack of consistent, widespread regulation is really _beautiful_ if you feel that safety policies and regulations are a greater evil than 100,000 deaths. :mad: > > More detail and history at the link. Obviously it was a setup job. The Obama WH _knew_ that the R/Cheetolini agenda was all about deregulation. They _knew_ that putting such a big, fat, glittery regulation right up there in front of the new guys was exactly like pointing a laser in front of a cat, _knew_ that it would be an irresistible target for attack. _The **evil** Obama administration was **deliberately setting the ShitGibbon up to fail!** _ ---
**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 26, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43822 "2020-05-26T23:20:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Obviously it was a setup job. The Obama WH _knew_ that the R/Cheetolini agenda was all about deregulation. They _knew_ that putting such a big, fat, glittery regulation right up there in front of the new guys was exactly like pointing a laser in front of a cat, _knew_ that it would be an irresistible target for attack. _The **evil** Obama administration was **deliberately setting the ShitGibbon up to fail!** _ No flies on you. 😉 ---
**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 26, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43823 "2020-05-26T23:53:29Z")
Trumpelthinskin [shows his capacity](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-whines-about-his-covid-19-victimhood-as-campaign-flails) for mature adult leadership: > [@](#): > > As he headed into Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump complained that he was COVID-19’s biggest victim. “He was just in a fucking rage,” said a person who spoke with Trump late last week. “He was saying, ‘This is so unfair to me! Everything was going great. We were cruising to reelection!’” Even as the death toll neared 100,000 and unemployment ranks swelled to over 38 million, Trump couldn’t see the pandemic as anything other than something that had happened to him. “The problem is he has no empathy,” the adviser said. Trump complained that he should have been warned about the virus sooner. “The intelligence community let me down!” he said… ---
**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 27, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43824 "2020-05-27T00:28:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You use your keyboard prettier than a twenty dollar editor. Yeah. That was so goooooood. (lights a cigarette) ---
**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 27, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43825 "2020-05-27T01:20:04Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Yecch. Didn’t we fight a revolution in this country to get RID of shit like that? I thought the traitor Washington and his seditious co-conspirators didn’t want to pay taxes. > [@](#): > > But I see your point. Any woman who found Kushner attractive probably got turned on by the descriptions of Bertie Wooster in Wodehouse novels. Have you seen her look at Jared Kushner? Have you seen her look at Justin Trudeau? I think she finds Kushner useful and convenient. ---
**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 27, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/43826 "2020-05-27T01:22:50Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Trumpelthinskin [shows his capacity](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-whines-about-his-covid-19-victimhood-as-campaign-flails) for mature adult leadership: Yeah, those 100,000 people just upped and died for one reason: to make him look bad. And, of course, to get the last laugh. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2190) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2192)