# 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:** 330
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6582 "2017-06-13T16:24:23Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Imagine how much worse Trumps situation would be without the Obama economy. Everyone knows there is a supply-side train wreck coming…it’s a matter of when, not if. One sure sign is the wave of store and mall closings. That isn’t just the culture changing, that is a forerunner of an economic downturn. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6583 "2017-06-13T16:24:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The assault on the First Amendment is continuing from the party of Gianforte: The Press is no longer allowed to have impromptu filmed interviews of Senators/Congresspeople while in Congressional hallways. > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/kasie/status/874650189885263872) I’m sure someone will be by shortly to explain that that’s not an assault on the first amendment. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6584 "2017-06-13T16:31:10Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > 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. Keep in mind that this collection of ass-kissing morons are the ones that we’re depending on to invoke the 25th Amendment. So we can kiss that fantasy good-bye. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6585 "2017-06-13T16:33:50Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I’m sure someone will be by shortly to explain that that’s not an assault on the first amendment. But where will they film the interview? ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6586 "2017-06-13T16:57:06Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Trump campaigned on a platform of ‘everything Obama did needs to be undone’ - as well as “if a democrat likes it , well, I hates it”. > > If anything falls into those two categories - its going to suffer. Thanks, Obama! /s ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6587 "2017-06-13T17:56:05Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I’m sure someone will be by shortly to explain that that’s not an assault on the first amendment. Assault is a legal term, with a very careful definition. Nothing about this meets the definition of assault. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6588 "2017-06-13T18:08:06Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Assault is a legal term, with a very careful definition. Nothing about this meets the definition of assault. You’re applying the wrong definition. [Try this one from Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assault): > [@](#): > > Definition of assault > 1 . . . > c : a concerted effort (as to reach a goal or defeat an adversary) . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6589 "2017-06-13T18:15:09Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Trump campaigned on a platform of ‘everything Obama did needs to be undone’ - as well as “if a democrat likes it , well, I hates it”. > > If anything falls into those two categories - its going to suffer. It really does feel like this is just one big “Fuck you” from Trump for that one White House Correspondent’s Dinner. ---
**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 13, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6590 "2017-06-13T18:50:02Z")
Stephen King has been active on Twitter criticizing Trump, and he announced today that Trump had blocked him on Twitter. JK Rowling assured King that she would pass along all of Trump’s tweets to him. ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6591 "2017-06-13T18:56:02Z")
: > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Stephen King has been active on Twitter criticizing Trump, and he announced today that Trump had blocked him on Twitter. JK Rowling assured King that she would pass along all of Trump’s tweets to him. It was his SURNAME ! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6592 "2017-06-13T19:17:17Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Regardless of one’s feelings about Mexicans and Muslims, there’s something everybody (except Wall St and their Republican lackeys) can agree on: nobody wants another Great Recession. Congress didn’t seem to get the memo. Guess who profited the most from the great recession? Filthy amounts of profit… ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6593 "2017-06-13T19:25:49Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Guess who profited the most from the great recession? Filthy amounts of profit… It was smart. This time, since he caused the recession, he will be in a better position to make even more money. Even smarter. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6594 "2017-06-13T19:32:18Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > You’re applying the wrong definition. [Try this one from Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assault): You got all the way to (c) before you found a suitable definition? The fact of the matter is that the Constitution is a legal document, and as such, legal definitions are required when discussing it. [18 U.S.C. 351(e) covers it, with the common law definition reading:](https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1610-assault-18-usc-351e) > [@](#): > > An attempt with force or violence to do a corporal injury to another; may consist of any act tending to such corporal injury, accompanied with such circumstances as denotes at the time an intention, coupled with present ability, of using actual violence against the person. Unless someone’s threatening to break in to the National Archives Museum and attempting to tear up, burn, or dissolve in acid the Bill Of Rights, there’s no assault, plain and simple. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6595 "2017-06-13T19:34:12Z")
Here’s hoping Jeff Sessions gets pantsed on his way home from work today. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6596 "2017-06-13T19:42:33Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > You’re applying the wrong definition. [Try this one from Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assault): Whoosh! ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6597 "2017-06-13T19:46:48Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Assault is a legal term, with a very careful definition. Nothing about this meets the definition of assault. > [@Chisquirrel](#): > > You got all the way to (c) before you found a suitable definition? The fact of the matter is that the Constitution is a legal document, and as such, legal definitions are required when discussing it. > [18 U.S.C. 351(e) covers it, with the common law definition reading:](https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1610-assault-18-usc-351e) > Unless someone’s threatening to break in to the National Archives Museum and attempting to tear up, burn, or dissolve in acid the Bill Of Rights, there’s no assault, plain and simple. Using [this definition](http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/trump-nra-speech/index.html), defined by the president of the united states, it sounds like the national archives needs a security guard. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6598 "2017-06-13T21:04:21Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > You got all the way to (c) before you found a suitable definition? The fact of the matter is that the Constitution is a legal document, and as such, legal definitions are required when discussing it. > [18 U.S.C. 351(e) covers it, with the common law definition reading:](https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1610-assault-18-usc-351e) > Unless someone’s threatening to break in to the National Archives Museum and attempting to tear up, burn, or dissolve in acid the Bill Of Rights, there’s no assault, plain and simple. What about pussy grabbing? Asking for a friend. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6599 "2017-06-13T21:16:13Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > What about pussy grabbing? Asking for a friend. Given that Trump has never been convicted, he’s committed no crime in that regard. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6600 "2017-06-13T21:21:39Z")
It seems as if Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the 3rd is suffering from senile dementia. Has anyone bothered to ask him about that? ---
**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, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6601 "2017-06-13T21:22:50Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > You got all the way to (c) before you found a suitable definition? The fact of the matter is that the Constitution is a legal document, and as such, legal definitions are required when discussing it. > [18 U.S.C. 351(e) covers it, with the common law definition reading:](https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1610-assault-18-usc-351e) > Unless someone’s threatening to break in to the National Archives Museum and attempting to tear up, burn, or dissolve in acid the Bill Of Rights, there’s no assault, plain and simple. This post, like your prior one, is farcical. ETA: So is this one: > [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Given that Trump has never been convicted, he’s committed no crime in that regard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=329) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=331)