# 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:** 258
**Author:** ![sich\_hinaufwinden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sich\_hinaufwinden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sich_hinaufwinden)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5141 "2017-05-20T03:18:14Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > He may have to convert. And be circumcised. > > > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > > Impossible – there’s just no end to that prick. I heard he already had it done in a secret late night ceremony. Apparently it hurt so much that in the midnight hour he cried, “Moyel, Moyel, Moyel!” ---
**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 20, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5142 "2017-05-20T03:32:06Z")
Oh, to have a kushie job [QUOTE=“[independent(co uk)] ([Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner 'person of interest in Russia investigation' | The Independent | The Independent](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jared-kushner-russia-investigation-trump-song-in-law-probe-person-interest-a7745916.html))”]The Washington Post said a senior adviser to Mr Trump was among people investigators wanted to speak to. … the person under investigation was close to the President, but did not identify them. However, the number of people who fit such a profile would be very small. Yashar Ali, a contributor to New York magazine said on Twitter: “It’s Jared Kushner. Have confirmed this with four people. I’m not speculating.” … White House officials have previously acknowledged contacts between Russian officials and Mr Kushner, as well as with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of State Rex(xon) Tillerson. [/QUOTE] So, is it getting real yet? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5143 "2017-05-20T03:39:23Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > I hesitate to type this, but aren’t most American men’s chaps circumcised anyway? If so, that’s half the battle. Not those of Trump’s age. The operation became routine later. He’s probably not snipped. Doing so will probably reduce the presidential wiener by 50%. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5144 "2017-05-20T04:26:28Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > CNN is reporting that WH counsel is researching impeachment. > > [http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/politics/donald-trump-white-house-lawyers-research-impeachment/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/politics/donald-trump-white-house-lawyers-research-impeachment/index.html) I thought I read somewhere (I think it was another thread on this board) that the White House Counsel wouldn’t get involved in an impeachment process. Their job is to comment on the legal details of proposed policies and laws; anything having to do with impeachment or charges against Trump would have to be handled by his personal attorney. I don’t know if that distinction is mandated by law or if it’s just tradition. The fact that they’re doing it wrong almost makes me more inclined to believe it’s happening. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5145 "2017-05-20T04:28:00Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Not those of Trump’s age. The operation became routine later. He’s probably not snipped. > > Doing so will probably reduce the presidential wiener by 50%. Given how thin skinned he is,I doubt it would make that much difference. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![sich\_hinaufwinden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sich\_hinaufwinden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sich_hinaufwinden)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5146 "2017-05-20T05:17:45Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > At this point, Trump should probably just land AF1 on the Red Square and be done with it. > > > [@Bayard](#): > > > > AF1 is too big. You need a Cessna to pull that off. Not to get my pick all up in your nit or anything but when your tremendous President, a really great President, the best ever, really, gets on that Cessna then it becomes AF1 by definition. Best Defintion Ever! And besides, he’s going to make them expand Red Square, they’re going to do this, make it much longer, so long, wait till you see this, it’s going to be great, Red Rectangle they’re going to call it, and we’re not going to take any terrible deals, so it’s going to get built, we’ll build it if they don’t and he’ll make them pay for it. He’s going to be able to land the greatest planes there. Because I can tell you this - with great surety - that Trump won’t use some tiny, little Cessna. His Cessna will be huge. Really huge. I mean, trust me on this, people are saying it will be the hugest Cessna ever. Big time. No politician in history has ever had a Cessna as huge as Trump’s will be. You can ask anybody, like Roger Ailes who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice. Ask him. They’re all saying it because nobody respects Cessnas more than he does. No body. It’s the fake media spreading these hateful made-up lies about the size of his Cessna. And honestly he’s making America Great Again by repealing and replacing that tiny so-called Cessna that Obama left him with. It’s a total disaster (pathetic!). Just the Worst, most over-rated Cessna ever. And he’s the only one who could fix this. Nobody else even has the guts to talk about it. Thank God he won the election in a landside against that crook Hillary, who should be locked up by the way, so he could Make America Great Again by bringing back jobs to build that absolutely huge Cessna. In fact, and this is true, every poll, the real polls, not those horrible rigged liberal polls like the failing NY Times that are all phony, have his Cessna winning bigly. Bigly. Even though, we all know this is true, there were over three million illegal votes cast. But he’s still winning. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5147 "2017-05-20T05:30:29Z")
> [@sich\_hinaufwinden](#): > > Not to get my pick all up in your nit or anything but when your tremendous President, a really great President, the best ever, really, gets on that Cessna then it becomes AF1 by definition. Best Defintion Ever! It depends. If it’s a civilian aircraft, it gets the call sign Executive One when the President is on board. I suspect Bayard was referring to Mathias Rust, who flew a Cessna 172 from Helsinki and landed near Red Square in 1987. The U.S. Air Force does operate a small number of T-41s (a military derivative of the 172) and other small Cessnas, but they’re vastly outnumbered by the civilian versions. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5148 "2017-05-20T05:43:02Z")
> [@sich\_hinaufwinden](#): > > Not to get my pick all up in your nit or anything but when your tremendous President, a really great President, the best ever, really, gets on that Cessna then it becomes AF1 by definition. Best Defintion Ever! And besides, he’s going to make them expand Red Square, they’re going to do this, make it much longer, so long, wait till you see this, it’s going to be great, Red Rectangle they’re going to call it, and we’re not going to take any terrible deals, so it’s going to get built, we’ll build it if they don’t and he’ll make them pay for it. He’s going to be able to land the greatest planes there. Because I can tell you this - with great surety - that Trump won’t use some tiny, little Cessna. His Cessna will be huge. Really huge. I mean, trust me on this, people are saying it will be the hugest Cessna ever. Big time. No politician in history has ever had a Cessna as huge as Trump’s will be. You can ask anybody, like Roger Ailes who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice. Ask him. They’re all saying it because nobody respects Cessnas more than he does. No body. It’s the fake media spreading these hateful made-up lies about the size of his Cessna. And honestly he’s making America Great Again by repealing and replacing that tiny so-called Cessna that Obama left him with. It’s a total disaster (pathetic!). Just the Worst, most over-rated Cessna ever. And he’s the only one who could fix this. Nobody else even has the guts to talk about it. Thank God he won the election in a landside against that crook Hillary, who should be locked up by the way, so he could Make America Great Again by bringing back jobs to build that absolutely huge Cessna. In fact, and this is true, every poll, the real polls, not those horrible rigged liberal polls like the failing NY Times that are all phony, have his Cessna winning bigly. Bigly. Even though, we all know this is true, there were over three million illegal votes cast. But he’s still winning. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5149 "2017-05-20T06:17:07Z")
> [@sich\_hinaufwinden](#): > > Not to get my pick all up in your nit or anything but when your tremendous President, a really great President, the best ever, really, gets on that Cessna then it becomes AF1 by definition. Best Defintion Ever! And besides, he’s going to make them expand Red Square, they’re going to do this, make it much longer, so long, wait till you see this, it’s going to be great, Red Rectangle they’re going to call it, and we’re not going to take any terrible deals, so it’s going to get built, we’ll build it if they don’t and he’ll make them pay for it. He’s going to be able to land the greatest planes there. Because I can tell you this - with great surety - that Trump won’t use some tiny, little Cessna. His Cessna will be huge. Really huge. I mean, trust me on this, people are saying it will be the hugest Cessna ever. Big time. No politician in history has ever had a Cessna as huge as Trump’s will be. You can ask anybody, like Roger Ailes who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice. Ask him. They’re all saying it because nobody respects Cessnas more than he does. No body. It’s the fake media spreading these hateful made-up lies about the size of his Cessna. And honestly he’s making America Great Again by repealing and replacing that tiny so-called Cessna that Obama left him with. It’s a total disaster (pathetic!). Just the Worst, most over-rated Cessna ever. And he’s the only one who could fix this. Nobody else even has the guts to talk about it. Thank God he won the election in a landside against that crook Hillary, who should be locked up by the way, so he could Make America Great Again by bringing back jobs to build that absolutely huge Cessna. In fact, and this is true, every poll, the real polls, not those horrible rigged liberal polls like the failing NY Times that are all phony, have his Cessna winning bigly. Bigly. Even though, we all know this is true, there were over three million illegal votes cast. But he’s still winning. Although slightly more coherent than the POTUSl would be, I give this an 8/10 for channeling his spirit and yet also being funny as hell. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5150 "2017-05-20T06:18:13Z")
Not sure if it’s been mentioned here yet – been busy these past few days – but one interesting comment I’ve heard is pointing out that Trump simply will not say an unkind word about Flynn, who is arguably the source of all his problems, but he’s more than willing to drag Comey’s name through the mud. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5151 "2017-05-20T06:32:20Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Not those of Trump’s age. The operation became routine later. He’s probably not snipped. > > Doing so will probably reduce the presidential wiener by 50%. And in unrelated weiner news – there’s been a conviction of the Weiner who was into sending pics of his weiner to young women. The investigation found unrelated gov’t emails from Clinton to his wife which opened up Clinton to attack by Agent Orange et alii. Gotta love American politics, with so many dicks running about. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5152 "2017-05-20T09:08:53Z")
Opinions from inside the White House: > **[Trump Officials: ‘He Looks More and More Like a Complete Moron’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-officials-he-looks-more-and-more-like-a-complete-moron)** > > In the wake of yet another Russia-related bombshell, Trump aides despaired because they know President Trump only has himself to blame. > [@](#): > > “Every day he looks more and more like a complete moron,” said one senior administration official who also worked on Trump’s campaign. “I can’t see Trump resigning or even being impeached, but at this point I wish he’d grow a brain and be the man that he sold himself as on the campaign.” ---
**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 20, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5153 "2017-05-20T09:23:29Z")
Advice to foreigners meeting with The Donald on his Bigly Trip: \*dumb things down. \* “Tips for Leaders Meeting Trump: Keep It Short and Give Him a Win” [https://nyti.ms/2rxkYIP](https://nyti.ms/2rxkYIP) > [@](#): > > …After four months of interactions between Mr. Trump and his counterparts, foreign officials and their Washington consultants say certain rules have emerged: Keep it short — no 30-minute monologue for a 30-second attention span. Do not assume he knows the history of the country or its major points of contention. Compliment him on his Electoral College victory. Contrast him favorably with President Barack Obama. Do not get hung up on whatever was said during the campaign. Stay in regular touch. Do not go in with a shopping list but bring some sort of deal he can call a victory. > > “If you were prepping people for Donald Trump, the two or three points would be: one, bear in mind this is still a guy who focuses on wins,” Peter Westmacott, a former British ambassador to the United States, said. “He likes to have wins for America and wins for himself from bilateral meetings.” > > “Secondly,” he continued, “he is a deal maker, a pragmatist. Third, this is a guy with a limited attention span. He absolutely won’t want to listen to visitors droning on for a half-hour — or longer if they need an interpreter.” > … Fourthly, when he puts his underpants on his head during the state dinner, if you want the “deal” (whatever it is) to go through, just act like it’s a perfectly normal thing. Because for him, it is. ---
**Author:** ![ganthet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de0a6/32.png) [@ganthet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ganthet)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5154 "2017-05-20T09:27:09Z")
[QUOTE=Anonymous senior Trump official] … but at this point I wish he’d grow a brain and be the man that he sold himself as on the campaign. [/QUOTE] Hopefully in the next few months we’ll see whom Trump sold himself to and what price he fetched. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5155 "2017-05-20T11:24:56Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > One even commented on a post about sea salt having plastic microsphere contamination that it is good that Trump is rolling back Obama’s environmental legacy. Yes. This person is cool with having polluted food if that’s the price for sticking it to Obama and liberals. I have to admit that one thing I’ve underestimated or misjudged is just how many people in this country are disconnected from fact-based reality. Not trying to insult anyone here but in my experience – including conversations with pro-Trump family members and friends – people who support Trump live in a world in which their own perceptions are real, and facts from official sources aren’t to be trusted. It’s as if they truly believe that the traditional institutions of the government and of the free press are conspiring to take their culture and livelihood away from them. A majority of these people are white and either rural or suburban, though a good many are city dwellers as well. This is why I am not optimistic about the future of this country. These people have real power and they’re not going away. They won’t be convinced of the dangers of a right wing government as more educated progressives are until they are the ones who find themselves screwed by their policies, which is why I’ve felt that we are inevitably headed for financial ruin sometime in the coming decade – not like 2008 but like 1931 (or worse) ---
**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 20, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5156 "2017-05-20T12:41:25Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > – people who support Trump live in a world in which their own perceptions are real, and facts from official sources aren’t to be trusted. It’s as if they truly believe that the traditional institutions of the government and of the free press are conspiring to take their culture and livelihood away from them. A majority of these people are white and either rural or suburban, though a good many are city dwellers as well. This is why I am not optimistic about the future of this country. These people have real power and they’re not going away. They won’t be convinced of the dangers of a right wing government as more educated progressives are until they are the ones who find themselves screwed by their policies – You know … morons. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5157 "2017-05-20T13:22:04Z")
> [@sich\_hinaufwinden](#): > > Not to get my pick all up in your nit or anything but when your tremendous President, a really great President, the best ever, really, gets on that Cessna then it becomes AF1 by definition. Best Defintion Ever! And besides, he’s going to make them expand Red Square, they’re going to do this, make it much longer, so long, wait till you see this, it’s going to be great, Red Rectangle they’re going to call it, and we’re not going to take any terrible deals, so it’s going to get built, we’ll build it if they don’t and he’ll make them pay for it. He’s going to be able to land the greatest planes there. Because I can tell you this - with great surety - that Trump won’t use some tiny, little Cessna. His Cessna will be huge. Really huge. I mean, trust me on this, people are saying it will be the hugest Cessna ever. Big time. No politician in history has ever had a Cessna as huge as Trump’s will be. You can ask anybody, like Roger Ailes who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice. Ask him. They’re all saying it because nobody respects Cessnas more than he does. No body. It’s the fake media spreading these hateful made-up lies about the size of his Cessna. And honestly he’s making America Great Again by repealing and replacing that tiny so-called Cessna that Obama left him with. It’s a total disaster (pathetic!). Just the Worst, most over-rated Cessna ever. And he’s the only one who could fix this. Nobody else even has the guts to talk about it. Thank God he won the election in a landside against that crook Hillary, who should be locked up by the way, so he could Make America Great Again by bringing back jobs to build that absolutely huge Cessna. In fact, and this is true, every poll, the real polls, not those horrible rigged liberal polls like the failing NY Times that are all phony, have his Cessna winning bigly. Bigly. Even though, we all know this is true, there were over three million illegal votes cast. But he’s still winning. That’s a bigly thing of beauty. I can’t do it, is there a coherent speech to Trump converter? You must have had to lie down after that. ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5158 "2017-05-20T14:00:08Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > That’s a bigly thing of beauty. I can’t do it, is there a coherent speech to Trump converter? You must have had to lie down after that. You better not even try. A friend of mine did, he lost 70 % of his IQ. Doctors say he may never recover. ---
**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 20, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5159 "2017-05-20T14:59:49Z")
[https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170520/7110c8cec819b4c1a149f0275395c387.jpg](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170520/7110c8cec819b4c1a149f0275395c387.jpg) > [@](#): > > Natalie Matthews-Ramo > Natalie Matthews-Ramo > > I’m getting ready for my big foreign trip. > > I will be strongly protecting American interests—that’s what I like to do! > > The airplane ride is hours and hours. I get lots of screen time! No one wants to give me my phone, but I shout and shout until they say OK. > > On the plane, the pilot pins shiny wings to my jacket. Yay! I like planes as much as I like trucks! > > Our first stop is Saudi Arabia. Jared says it is like a beach, big and hot and full of sand. No girls are allowed on the beach. > > They eat crazy food in Saudi Arabia, like hummus! But I get to order a steak with ketchup, just the way I like it. > > Mr. Steve tells me Muslims are the bad guys, but General Jim says I have to be nice to them. It’s confusing! > > I wish General Mike was here. I’m not allowed to play with him anymore. > > After Saudi Arabia we go to Israel, where the best Jews live. My friend Bibi sneaks into my room after dark and tells me scary stories about the bad ISIS men. I can’t wait to go home and tell my friends Sergey and Sergey. > > I don’t want to go to the sad museum. > > In Italy, they call pizza PIZZA! My teachers tell me that if I sit by myself and think about the long-term economic and security benefits of our multilateral North Atlantic defense regime, I can have pepperoni. > > I get to meet the “pope”! > > Don’t tell anyone, but before I left I was a little bit scared about my trip. > > What if the other leaders laughed at me? > > What if I had to touch Melania? > > What if I had an accident? > > But Ivanka said I should be brave. “Who’s my big brave boy?” Ivanka asked me. > > “I am,” I said. “I’m a big brave boy.” > > It’s been an exciting trip, but when it’s over, I’ll be glad to be home at Mar-a-Lago, where I get as much ice cream as I want. > **[My First Big Boy Trip, an Easy Reader Book by Donald J. Trump](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/05/em-my-first-big-boy-trip-em.html)** > > I’m getting ready for my big foreign trip. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/5160 "2017-05-20T16:12:22Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > A majority of these people are white and either rural or suburban, though a good many are city dwellers as well. This is why I am not optimistic about the future of this country. Yes, and it’s not just the right wing. I’m not trying to make a false equivalency; the American right _bathes_ in ignorance right now. It’s their home, while others merely visit. But one feature of our time is that the cynical theory always wins. It “Trumps” other theories, if you will. The one good thing I can say about Trump is he tapped into that perfectly. I’m also not optimistic. A year or two ago I was looking forward to a technological and societal evolution in my lifetime. So many possibilities seemed round the corner. But now I see it’s not going to happen; the US in particular, but also sizeable chunks of other countries, have taken a massive, inconceivable, step backwards. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=257) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=259)