# 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:** 2242
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44827 "2020-06-16T01:14:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A bad day for Individual 1. > 1-The Supreme Court ruled, with Gorsuch writing the majority opinion, that employers can’t discriminate against LGBTQ employees. > 2-The Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court’s ruling that states cannot be required to work with ICE. > 3-The FDA removed authorization of malaria drugs in treating Covid 19. There were also many [gun](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/15/supreme-court-will-not-hear-gun-cases-blow-to-2nd-amendment-backers.html) cases they refused to hear. Not sure why “conservative judges” were such a good reason to vote for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44828 "2020-06-16T02:46:26Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Thinking more about it’s posture, well, Trump has been a bully his entire life. Getting in your face and yelling is a common tactic I would think, so he naturally leans over to do so. I think that’s precisely it. “Looming” is a known tactic of intimidation. Obviously it doesn’t work when one isn’t in close proximity to somebody who is to be loomed over, but then the whole bravado “puff-up” bullshit is so inveterate in his persona, it comes as naturally as breathing. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44829 "2020-06-16T03:08:08Z")
“Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House, arrival of new Trump-appointed director” > **[Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House, arrival of...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/top-voice-of-america-editors-resign-amid-strife-with-white-house-arrival-of-new-trump-appointed-director/2020/06/15/5880a684-af1f-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html)** > > After attacks from White House over coronavirus stories, journalists Amanda Bennett and Sandy Sugawara step down. > [@](#): > > The top two editors at Voice of America resigned Monday amid White House criticism of the government-funded but editorially independent news agency and as a new overseer loyal to President Trump was about to take office. > > It wasn’t immediately clear why VOA Director Amanda Bennett and Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara submitted their resignations. In a memo to staff on Monday, they jointly wrote, “It is time for us to leave,” but cited no specific reason other than the arrival of Michael Pack, a Trump appointee who will head the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA. Pack is an ally of Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist. > > They added, “As the Senate-confirmed C.E.O., he has the right to replace us with his own VOA leadership.” > > Their departure comes amid concerns within the agency that the Trump administration is seeking to exert greater control over what and how VOA reports. > > The organization’s relationship with the Trump administration was already fraught, but over the weekend, a new rift developed. After news emerged that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had instructed its communications staff to deny interviews to VOA reporters — a policy prompted by the White House’s criticism of the agency — Bennett issued a strongly worded statement condemning the policy. > > **“Efforts such as those outlined in the CDC memo can result in the kind of chilling effect on our journalism that we regularly see in the markets we broadcast to that have no free press,” she wrote.** > … My bold. That’s what trump has in mind. Don’t need no stinkin’ free press. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44830 "2020-06-16T03:20:13Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > I think that’s precisely it. “Looming” is a known tactic of intimidation. Obviously it doesn’t work when one isn’t in close proximity to somebody who is to be loomed over, but then the whole bravado “puff-up” bullshit is so inveterate in his persona, it comes as naturally as breathing. If only Hillary had turned around and kicked him square in the nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44831 "2020-06-16T05:16:18Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Not sure why “conservative judges” were such a good reason to vote for Trump. Because conservative judges hurt people, and the point of voting for Trump \*was \*to hurt people. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44832 "2020-06-16T05:45:41Z")
did any see or hear of the press conference today where he was trying to throw Bolton under a bus? and he was just doing him a favor appointing him to the sec of state and mentioned that his book might be “illegal”? the dullard doesn’t even know that even if such a book is printed the CIA and NSA both read it to make sure nothing classified gets printed? ---
**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 16, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44833 "2020-06-16T06:00:52Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > “Looming” is a known tactic of intimidation. But I think I have seen him weaving from time to time as well. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44834 "2020-06-16T06:05:10Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > But I think I have seen him weaving from time to time as well. What a warped sense of humor you have. ---
**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 16, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44835 "2020-06-16T10:05:07Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > “Looming” is a known tactic of intimidation. > [@eschereal](#): > > But I think I have seen him weaving from time to time as well. > [@OttoDaFe](#): > > What a warped sense of humor you have. I used to have one, but it weft… ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44836 "2020-06-16T11:26:13Z")
Rotten tomatoes! Rotten tomatoes for sale! Get them while they’re squashy! Only 25 cents each or 3 for a dollar! ---
**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:** [June 16, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44837 "2020-06-16T12:43:35Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > But I think I have seen him weaving from time to time as well. > [@OttoDaFe](#): > > What a warped sense of humor you have. Let’s not knit-pick here. I thought that was a pretty good yarn. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44838 "2020-06-16T13:07:34Z")
I can’t believe no one else have said it, but can we refer to his two-handed drinking technique as his “drinking problem”? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44839 "2020-06-16T13:51:06Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > If you look at the virus, it collapses its waveform and the illness becomes real. A quantum virus sounds dangerously cool. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44840 "2020-06-16T15:26:38Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Between the air in his head, and the load in his pants, he’s very well balanced there. Now you got me thinking of a [dippy bird](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTkx3cdO5rM). ---
**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 16, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44841 "2020-06-16T15:46:15Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > I can’t believe no one else have said it, but can we refer to his two-handed drinking technique as his “drinking problem”? Once he starts spilling it, go for it. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44842 "2020-06-16T15:54:20Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > If you look at the virus, it collapses its waveform and the illness becomes real. > > A quantum virus sounds dangerously cool. Actually, you may have broken CFSG’s code. It’s Schrödinger’s Virus: there’s no infection unless someone tests for it. No tests, no infections; no infections, no hospitalizations; no hospitalizations, no deaths. Problem solved! Now I need to go take a very long shower to get the stink of that “logical” progression off. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44843 "2020-06-16T16:45:06Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Actually, you may have broken CFSG’s code. It’s Schrödinger’s Virus: there’s no infection unless someone tests for it. No tests, no infections; no infections, no hospitalizations; no hospitalizations, no deaths. Problem solved! We had to test a few people. Just enough to win that badge of honor. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44844 "2020-06-16T16:48:06Z")
I just flipped on the television and he was talking about the AIDS vaccine and how great it is. I wasn’t aware that there was an AIDS vaccine… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44845 "2020-06-16T16:49:50Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Actually, you may have broken CFSG’s code. It’s Schrödinger’s Virus: there’s no infection unless someone tests for it. No tests, no infections; no infections, no hospitalizations; no hospitalizations, no deaths. Problem solved! > > Now I need to go take a very long shower to get the stink of that “logical” progression off. Plus, if you haven’t been recently tested, you have to act as if you are simultaneously infected and not infected. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/44846 "2020-06-16T17:09:28Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Plus, if you haven’t been recently tested, you have to act as if you are simultaneously infected and not infected. Depends when you are located in the multiverse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2241) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=2243)