# 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:** 226
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4501 "2017-05-13T20:15:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump began his commencement speech at Liberty University by bragging about how big the crowd was. > [Donald Trump Uses His First Commencement Speech As President To Brag About Crowd Size | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-liberty-university-commencement_us_5917269fe4b0031e737df937)? Attendance was mandatory for LU “students”. ---
**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 13, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4502 "2017-05-13T20:32:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump began his commencement speech at Liberty University by bragging about how big the crowd was. > [Donald Trump Uses His First Commencement Speech As President To Brag About Crowd Size | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-liberty-university-commencement_us_5917269fe4b0031e737df937)? > [@](#): > > The president also offered a robust defense of public faith in American life, saying graduates shouldn’t let other people tell them what do believe, “especially when you know that you’re right.” > > **“In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God,”** he said. I’ll bet those morons actually believed him. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4503 "2017-05-13T20:33:53Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Good way to ruin a steak. It just proves how stupid he really is. Trump is a Bond villain writ large. He’s obsessed with himself, prefers gaudy buildings with gilded decorations, and his plans, which he enjoyes monologuing about at length, make no sense whatsoever. He surrounds himself with beautiful young women who want nothing to do with him and he eliminates henchmen and assiciated whenever it suits hum with no consideration to loyalty or necessity. On that basis, we can look forward to his dying in some unlikely but horrible fashion, perhaps being sucked out of an airplane at thirty thousand feet, dropped down a furnace chimney, or crushed by an ediface with his own stupid visage on it. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4504 "2017-05-13T20:55:31Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Trump is a Bond villain writ large. He’s obsessed with himself, prefers gaudy buildings with gilded decorations, and his plans, which he enjoyes monologuing about at length, make no sense whatsoever. He surrounds himself with beautiful young women who want nothing to do with him and he eliminates henchmen and assiciated whenever it suits hum with no consideration to loyalty or necessity. On that basis, we can look forward to his dying in some unlikely but horrible fashion, perhaps being sucked out of an airplane at thirty thousand feet, dropped down a furnace chimney, or crushed by an ediface with his own stupid visage on it. > > Stranger Ooooh! I especially like that last one. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4505 "2017-05-13T21:12:45Z")
> [@](#): > > The president also offered a robust defense of public faith in American life, saying graduates shouldn’t let other people tell them what do believe, “especially when you know that you’re right.” > > “In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God,” he said. I half-suspected Obama to be an atheist. I’m certain Trump is. Maybe not a principled one, but one by default. He doesn’t have a religious bone in his body and no faith or reverence for anything but pussy, power and money. And I think he’s aged out of caring about pussy grabbing. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4506 "2017-05-13T21:19:41Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I half-suspected Obama to be an atheist. I’m certain Trump is. Maybe not a principled one, but one by default. He doesn’t have a religious bone in his body and no faith or reverence for anything but pussy, power and money. And I think he’s aged out of caring about pussy grabbing. He’d be willing to believe in a God who appeared, put his hand on Trump’s shoulder, and proclaimed “you are my Chosen, the Most Important Being Ever Created, even including Me. I stand in awe before _You_.” Short of that, though: no. Atheist. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4507 "2017-05-13T22:39:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Attendance was mandatory for LU “students”. The Resistance lives even _there_? ---
**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 13, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4508 "2017-05-13T22:52:55Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Trump is a Bond villain writ large. More like a Dick Tracy villain. Just look at him, and his plans are equally ridiculous. ---
**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 13, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4509 "2017-05-13T22:55:44Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I half-suspected Obama to be an atheist. I’m certain Trump is. Maybe not a principled one, but one by default. He doesn’t have a religious bone in his body and no faith or reverence for anything but pussy, power and money. And I think he’s aged out of caring about pussy grabbing. Obama was brought up as a thiessen, possibly agnostic; however, he did become Christian as an adult. AFAIK, his conversion predated by quite some time his search for elected office. Obama is not atheist. Nor is Trump. Trump worships something: himself. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4510 "2017-05-13T23:00:33Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I half-suspected Obama to be an atheist. I’m certain Trump is. Maybe not a principled one, but one by default. He doesn’t have a religious bone in his body and no faith or reverence for anything but pussy, power and money. And I think he’s aged out of caring about pussy grabbing. He has no reverence for pussy. He’d have to some actual respect for women to have that. And to be honest, he doesn’t even like himself that much, all boasting aside. The guy is just basically an asshole. Zemeckis nailed it with Back to the Future II. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4511 "2017-05-13T23:20:15Z")
And now Trump managed to find a place for Jabba the Hutt, I mean, Sam Clovis; he is likely to be named undersecretary of the USDA. > **[Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist](https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=1494631930)** > > Sam Clovis likely to be named undersecretary of the USDA department that manages research on everything from climate change to nutrition. > [@](#): > > The USDA’s research section studies everything from climate change to nutrition. Under the 2008 Farm Bill, its leader is supposed to serve as the agency’s “chief scientist” and be chosen “from among distinguished scientists with specialized or significant experience in agricultural research, education, and economics.” > > But Sam Clovis — who, according to sources with knowledge of the appointment and members of the agriculture trade press, is President Trump’s pick to oversee the section — appears to have no such credentials. > > Clovis has never taken a graduate course in science and is openly skeptical of climate change. > [@](#): > > Clovis has repeatedly expressed skepticism over climate science and has called efforts to address climate change “simply a mechanism for transferring wealth from one group of people to another.” He has indicated the Trump administration will take a starkly different approach at the USDA. Representing the campaign at the Farm Foundation Forum in October, Clovis told E&E News that Trump’s agriculture policy would focus on boosting trade and lessening regulation and not the impact of climate change. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4512 "2017-05-13T23:37:55Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’ll bet those morons actually believed him. Well yeah. That is why they are Morons. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4513 "2017-05-14T00:41:43Z")
[This](https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/794255968448020480) is why I’m not on twitter. If you don’t want to click, it’s Sarah Huckabee’s post from before the election which reads: “When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing”. I hope someone asks her about this. ---
**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 14, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4514 "2017-05-14T00:47:57Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > [This](https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/794255968448020480) is why I’m not on twitter. If you don’t want to click, it’s Sarah Huckabee’s post from before the election which reads: > > “When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing”. > > I hope someone asks her about this. Eek! She used the L-word. No one used the L-word about El Jefe (see what I did there) and gets away with it. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4515 "2017-05-14T18:14:58Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Trump is a Bond villain writ large. He’s obsessed with himself, prefers gaudy buildings with gilded decorations, and his plans, which he enjoyes monologuing about at length, make no sense whatsoever. He surrounds himself with beautiful young women who want nothing to do with him and he eliminates henchmen and assiciated whenever it suits hum with no consideration to loyalty or necessity. On that basis, we can look forward to his dying in some unlikely but horrible fashion, perhaps being sucked out of an airplane at thirty thousand feet, dropped down a furnace chimney, or crushed by an ediface with his own stupid visage on it. > > Stranger I like it. Bring out the sharks with frickin’ lasers on their heads. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4516 "2017-05-14T18:16:51Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > [This](https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/794255968448020480) is why I’m not on twitter. If you don’t want to click, it’s Sarah Huckabee’s post from before the election which reads: > > “When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing”. > > I hope someone asks her about this. She calls her boss a loser then. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4517 "2017-05-14T18:21:22Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > He doesn’t realise he’s dealing with sophisticated people here. Marie, now just stay calm. Stay calm. Don’t look down, don’t look down! Look up! Just keep your eyes up and keep them that way, o.k.! Waiter there are snails on her plate. Now get them out of here before she sees them! Look away, just look away, keep your eyes that way! You would think that in a fancy restaurant at these prices you could keep the snails off the food! There are so many snails there you can’t even see the food! Now take those away and bring us those melted cheese sandwich appetizers you talked me out of! > Waiter: Would monsieur care for another bottle of Chateau Latour? > Navin: Ah yes, but no more 1966. Lets splurge! Bring us some fresh wine! The freshest you’ve got – this year! No more of this old stuff > > Sent from my LGLS990 using Tapatalk Gotta love Steve Martin! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4518 "2017-05-14T21:17:54Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Eek! She used the L-word. No one used the L-word about El Jefe (see what I did there) and gets away with it. There’s a rumor that LBJ’s maid called him El BJ. ---
**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 14, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4519 "2017-05-14T22:05:14Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > There’s a rumor that LBJ’s maid called him El BJ. Good one! ---
**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 14, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/4520 "2017-05-14T22:48:31Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Obama was brought up as a thiessen, possibly agnostic; however, he did become Christian as an adult. AFAIK, his conversion predated by quite some time his search for elected office. Obama is not atheist. > > Nor is Trump. Trump worships something: himself. “Thiessen” above should be “athiest”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=225) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=227)