# 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:** 2212
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44227 "2020-06-04T17:16:11Z")
Bill Barr mentions Antifa at his briefing, “and other groups”. Sure, mention the fictional organization but don’t mention the real right wing groups orchestrating much of the violence and looting. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44228 "2020-06-04T17:20:15Z")
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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44229 "2020-06-04T17:44:55Z")
Sen. Murkowski (R-AK) just endorsed Mattis’ statement. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44230 "2020-06-04T17:51:20Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Trump using Bureau of Police personnel for riot control. They are wearing mostly unmarked uniforms and aren’t allowed to say who they are. Bureau of Prisons, I believe. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44231 "2020-06-04T17:54:57Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Sen. Murkowski (R-AK) just endorsed Mattis’ statement. The dominoes are going to start to fall. These last several days are the first time since that motherfucker was elected that I feel pretty confident he won’t get another term. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44232 "2020-06-04T18:07:59Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > The dominoes are going to start to fall. These last several days are the first time since that motherfucker was elected that I feel pretty confident he won’t get another term. The dominoes have been falling for over three years. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44233 "2020-06-04T18:12:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The dominoes have been falling for over three years. Is been a shitshow for 3 years, but what I mean is that his supporters are going to start falling away more frequently, and publicly. And that will resonate with some of his voters, who will start to voice their concerns. Which will encourage others and so on. His rock solid block of support is going to start losing pieces here and there. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44234 "2020-06-04T18:47:39Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Bureau of Prisons, I believe. Oh oops, yeah. I think they usually guard federal prisoners. Maybe they specialize in riot control in said prisons. Not sure why there had to be such secrecy about who these guys were. I’m getting more and more upset by the day after already having suffered constant stress because of mango Mussolini these last 4 years. Would be interested to know about the legality of this, although I’m sure nobody who is in a position to stop it would do so if it were illegal. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44235 "2020-06-04T19:11:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > —- Shouldn’t that be: > [@](#): > > -. – ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44236 "2020-06-04T19:16:57Z")
[Well well welly-well](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inspectorgeneral/grassley-blocks-nominees-over-trumps-inspector-general-firings-idUSKBN23B2XZ?il=0). (Reuters) > [@](#): > > Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley on Thursday said he would seek to block two of Donald Trump’s nominees in response to the president’s firing of two inspectors general, citing the need for “checks and balances.” > > Grassley has been pressing the White House to provide a rationale for Trump’s decision to dismiss the intelligence community’s inspector general and his counterpart at the State Department, and has said responses from the White House have fallen short. Ok, it’s not much, but at this point I’ll take what we can get. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44237 "2020-06-04T19:23:40Z")
Grassley was one of the ringleaders of the no-hearing-for-Garland posse. Pushback from him raises my eyebrow, as he is about as rock-ribbed a Republican as there is. Imagining him as “rock-ribbed” raises my other eyebrow, but you know what I mean. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44238 "2020-06-04T19:31:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > —- N or TE? In either case, huh? 😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44239 "2020-06-04T20:15:04Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Grassley was one of the ringleaders of the no-hearing-for-Garland posse. Pushback from him raises my eyebrow, as he is about as rock-ribbed a Republican as there is. Imagining him as “rock-ribbed” raises my other eyebrow, but you know what I mean. Yes, I know. I always think of him as Snake-in-the-Grass(ley). But it’s something. He _has_ consistently been a supporter of the independent inspectors general. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44240 "2020-06-04T20:21:17Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Well, maybe he did [speak out before](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html), but this time he actually signed his statement. Nah. The NYT withheld the name to protect the writer’s job. After Mattis resigned, that should no longer have been an issue. Plus the story about the resignation would have been the perfect time to disclose it. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44241 "2020-06-04T20:31:35Z")
Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia has introduced a bill to make it illegal for Individual 1 to drop atomic bombs on hurricanes. > **[Bill Would Prevent the President from Nuking Hurricanes](https://www.nextgov.com/policy/2020/06/bill-would-prevent-president-nuking-hurricanes/165900/)** > > It came on the first day of hurricane season, in response to a recommendation Trump reportedly made in the past. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44242 "2020-06-04T20:32:37Z")
Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia has introduced a bill to make it illegal for Individual 1 to drop atomic bombs on hurricanes. > **[Bill Would Prevent the President from Nuking Hurricanes](https://www.nextgov.com/policy/2020/06/bill-would-prevent-president-nuking-hurricanes/165900/)** > > It came on the first day of hurricane season, in response to a recommendation Trump reportedly made in the past. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44243 "2020-06-04T21:00:23Z")
That’s cool, but “illegal” has never stopped that fucking prick from doing anything. It kind of entices him. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44244 "2020-06-04T21:09:37Z")
McConnell to block in 3…2…1… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44245 "2020-06-04T21:29:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia has introduced a bill to make it illegal for Individual 1 to drop atomic bombs on hurricanes. > [Bill Would Prevent the President from Nuking Hurricanes - Nextgov/FCW](https://www.nextgov.com/policy/2020/06/bill-would-prevent-president-nuking-hurricanes/165900/) trump: “You have to get TOUGH with these hurricanes. Ever notice they’re not himmicanes. Wonder why? Even the ones with guys’ names. Anyway, if you don’t show these storms who’s boss, they’ll walk right over you. You’ll look like a JERK.” Kayleigh McEnany: “The president@#onetueleadergodblessdonaldjtrump should not have his options limited just because traitorous democrats don’t like nuclear weather control. President #trumpisgodreally is the best at weather control. No president has done as much to protect America from godless hurricanes as our Dear Leader has! What a MAN!” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44246 "2020-06-04T22:26:33Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > The dominoes are going to start to fall. These last several days are the first time since that motherfucker was elected that I feel pretty confident he won’t get another term. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > The dominoes have been falling for over three years. \*“Mr. Wise old Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?”” “I’m not sure yet, but so far, 1235…”\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2211) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2213)