# 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:** 328
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6542 "2017-06-12T22:25:13Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Trump Invites His Employees [To Praise Him](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-invites-employees-praise-him-173902550.html) During Cabinet Meeting. Trump then went around the table and called on each official to deliver brief remarks, beginning with Vice President Mike Pence. The bizarre scene that ensued resembled something out of North Korea, \*\*\* as each Cabinet official attempted to outdo one another with nice statements about their boss\*\*\*… “Who would do that? … I hardly know the man. It doesn’t make sense.” “Oh, right, I would.” ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6543 "2017-06-12T22:36:00Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Trump Invites His Employees [To Praise Him](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-invites-employees-praise-him-173902550.html) During Cabinet Meeting. Trump then went around the table and called on each official to deliver brief remarks, beginning with Vice President Mike Pence. The bizarre scene that ensued resembled something out of North Korea, \*\*\* as each Cabinet official attempted to outdo one another with nice statements about their boss\*\*\*. > > Sick Fuck. Holy Cow! Truly disturbing… We are really living in the “Bizarro World”, now. ---
**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 12, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6544 "2017-06-12T22:55:21Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > Holy Cow! Truly disturbing… We are really living in the “Bizarro World”, now. Ok. I know how this happened. While everyone was praising him, in the next room, Secret Service agents were tightly gripping each person’s child or dog with one hand and holding a Zippo lighter at the ready in the other hand. Only explanation I can think of. The idea that they really believe what they said is too awful to contemplate. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6545 "2017-06-12T23:03:24Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, Orrin Hatch, who is third in line for the presidency. > **[Video: McCaskill Goes Viral for Blasting GOPers](https://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-video-of-mccaskill-ripping-gop-back-room-tactics-goes-viral/)** > > Claire McCaskill (D-MO) really let Senate Republicans have it on Thursday when she blasted Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and other members of the Senate Finance Committee... If you turn the sound up, you can hear his buxom aide telling him what to say after he dodders aimlessly. But props to Sen. McCaskill, who was very articulate in exposing the Republican turds for who they are. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6546 "2017-06-12T23:07:54Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > [Chuck Schumer on X: "GREAT meeting today with the best staff in the history of the world!!! https://t.co/ocE1xhEAac" / X](https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/874327317748883456/video/1) > > That one there? That’s it! (It’s also on the link posted by Little Pig when breaking the news in this thread about the PRAISE HIM meeting). Check out the expression on Schumer’s face after the staffer to his left repeats the ‘what a blessing it is to serve You’ remark actually used in the Trump meeting. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6547 "2017-06-12T23:09:19Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Ladies and gentlemen, Orrin Hatch, who is third in line for the presidency. > > [Video: McCaskill Goes Viral for Blasting GOPers](http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-video-of-mccaskill-ripping-gop-back-room-tactics-goes-viral/) > > If you turn the sound up, you can hear his buxom aide telling him what to say after he dodders aimlessly. > > But props to Sen. McCaskill, who was very articulate in exposing the Republican turds for who they are. Maybe he should take some of those pills with jellyfish brains. Fix him right up. ---
**Author:** ![1iLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/1ileft/32/4114_2.png) [@1iLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1iLeft)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6548 "2017-06-12T23:54:44Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > …And how many times do you think Cheetolini will rewatch it? I’d be willing to bet, he also shows [the expert](http://www.whas11.com/img/resize/content.whas11.com/photo/2017/06/12/Barron%20Trump%20The%20Expert%20Shirt_1497300331691_9755921_ver1.0.jpg?preset=534-401) – see what kind of job daddy has been doing, while you were at school… Now give me that shirt! Give it BACK! ---
**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 13, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6549 "2017-06-13T00:54:55Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Trump Invites His Employees [To Praise Him](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-invites-employees-praise-him-173902550.html) During Cabinet Meeting. Trump then went around the table and called on each official to deliver brief remarks, beginning with Vice President Mike Pence. The bizarre scene that ensued resembled something out of North Korea, \*\*\* as each Cabinet official attempted to outdo one another with nice statements about their boss\*\*\*. > > Sick Fuck. I liked Chris Matthews’ take on this, wondering if we had President Robert Mugabe. This business about firing the Special Counsel will put the whole impeachment into warp speed. I predict he will do it (perhaps by firing Rosenstein first as Nixon did (twice) because he simply does not think he is bound by any law or conventional behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6550 "2017-06-13T01:57:12Z")
Apparently Trump is already considering [firing Mueller](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/337509-trump-considering-firing-special-counsel-mueller). Luckily Trump is too stupid to understand that he technically can’t fire him, but someone will explain to him how to indirectly fire him. Just keep firing the head AG until you find a patsy willing to do your bidding. Which sucks, because I am looking forward to the Mueller investigation more than impeachment. Mueller would likely turn up a lot of criminal behavior by Trump, his family and his inner circle. Plus Mueller has the power to prosecute. I’d take that over impeachment any day. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6551 "2017-06-13T02:02:42Z")
Jeff Sessions joined in the praise of Trump as well. I don’t know how to read that in advance of his testimony tomorrow. Is it a signal that he’s going to back up Trump fully tomorrow? Or did Trump stage this so that he can undermine Sessions if Sessions doesn’t fully support him? “Just yesterday he said I was wonderful, and now he’s saying these very unfair things! You can’t trust this guy! What a nut job!” ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6552 "2017-06-13T02:09:05Z")
Seriously, now y’all are breathlessly awaiting Sessions’ testimony? Aren’t you tired of having that football yanked away? ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6553 "2017-06-13T02:17:59Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > Seriously, now y’all are breathlessly awaiting Sessions’ testimony? Aren’t you tired of having that football yanked away? Wow; you just don’t understand what going on at all. ---
**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 13, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6554 "2017-06-13T02:24:21Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Wow; you just don’t understand what going on at all. Yeah, he’s kind of dumb. Just pat his head and give him a cookie, he’ll wander off. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6555 "2017-06-13T03:13:17Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’m sure the GOP is thrilled that they can now be seen as the party of Big Government. You realize, of course, that if this administration continues to be the debacle it is, that Trump will quickly be painted with the RINO brush and all his complete failures will be because he wasn’t a “true” conservative. Hell, in a few years, he’ll be called a closet liberal, the Democrats will be to blame, and the Republican base will lap it up and conveniently forget how he was aided and abetted by the Republicans in power now. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6556 "2017-06-13T03:23:12Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Trump Invites His Employees [To Praise Him](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-invites-employees-praise-him-173902550.html) During Cabinet Meeting. Trump then went around the table and called on each official to deliver brief remarks, beginning with Vice President Mike Pence. The bizarre scene that ensued resembled something out of North Korea, \*\*\* as each Cabinet official attempted to outdo one another with nice statements about their boss\*\*\*. > > Sick Fuck. From article : > [@](#): > > During a Cabinet meeting at the White House, the president touted the “record-setting pace” of his legislative agenda and claimed “never has there been a president, with few exceptions” who has accomplished more while in office. […]“It’s the greatest privilege of my life to serve as vice president to a president who is keeping his word to the American people, and assembling a team that’s bringing real change, real prosperity, real strength back to our nation,” Pence said. “I reject your reality and substitute my own !” ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6557 "2017-06-13T03:27:58Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Yeah, he’s kind of dumb. Just pat his head and give him a cookie, he’ll wander off. I’m all outta cookies and he’s still here. What’s your next idea? ---
**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 13, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6558 "2017-06-13T03:58:18Z")
The New York Times has provided a handy multiple-choice template for journalists who are trying to keep up with leaks coming from the White House. It contains choices to facilitate quickly putting a report together. “The White House Leak Template for Journalists” [Opinion | The White House Leak Template for Journalists - The New York Times](https://nyti.ms/2s8Rgxm) > [@](#): > > With an endless stream of revelations and leaks about the Trump administration, it can be difficult for reporters to keep up. Here’s an easy-to-fill-in template that can help. It’s a graphic, so hard to quote. It ends: > [@](#): > > The president then added, /“Pthtckfefe”/ “Saddfefe” /“Weekfefe”/! (As the world mocked his misspelling, he enacted 43 new laws.) Pretty funny. 🙂 ---
**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 13, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6559 "2017-06-13T04:02:33Z")
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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6560 "2017-06-13T04:35:25Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “The White House Leak Template for Journalists” > [Opinion | The White House Leak Template for Journalists - The New York Times](https://nyti.ms/2s8Rgxm) That’s pretty awesome. Especially the “rousing game of Taboo” option. (I think I’m actually going to have to subscribe, because they deserve to have some money thrown at them for their good work in recent months.) ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6561 "2017-06-13T11:48:11Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > I’m all outta cookies and he’s still here. What’s your next idea? Tell the intentionally obtuse troll to fuck off. It should be the default response to anything he posts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=327) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=329)