# 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:** 334
**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 14, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6662 "2017-06-14T21:56:37Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Anthony Sher turns 68. Steffi Graf 48. Yasmine Bleeth 49. These people and others deserve our sympathies. Might as well add [Che](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara). Yeah, Boy George, Che and the Imperial Turdsickle. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6663 "2017-06-14T22:22:54Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > It might be time to start a single payer omnibus thread. Since we are going to see several states at least consider enacting this, I think it would be helpful. I’ll and get it set up either later tonight or tomorrow. If you want to beat me to it, feel free. 🙂 (IMHO or MPIMS do you think?) Guys - I’m having a reaction to some medication I started taking and not wording so well. Does anyone else want to start this? If not, I’ll do it as soon as I get the medication situation sorted out. ---
**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 14, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6664 "2017-06-14T22:33:51Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Not on the inside. > > I claim no knowledge regarding the colour of Trump’s insides. Has to be brown, since he’s full of shit. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6665 "2017-06-14T22:38:42Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > …What’s a scooch? A term borrowed by American servicemen from the Japanese _sukoshi_, “a little bit”. Usually, “a skosh” of something, also “scooch”. Similar derivation as “mama-san”. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6666 "2017-06-14T22:45:35Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Might as well add [Che](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara). Yeah, Boy George, Che and the Imperial Turdsickle. Best argument yet against astrology. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6667 "2017-06-15T00:13:07Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Well at the least the shooter wan’t Muslim. Can’t blame them this time. > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Blaming it on Dems and Liberals :smack: ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6668 "2017-06-15T00:15:40Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > In other news, Boy George [turns 56](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-june-a-star-is-born-boy-george-turns-56-1497262415-htmlstory.html) today. > > Oh yeah, some other [Fucker](http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/06/14/why_does_twitter_celebrate_trump_s_birthday.html) is having a birthday today too. Happy birthday to Boy George. To hell with that other asshole. ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6669 "2017-06-15T00:29:43Z")
Someone must be spiking the water coolers in the Senate office building with testosterone. **[Senate overwhelmingly votes to curtail Trump’s power to ease Russia sanctions](https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-overwhelming-votes-to-curtail-trumps-power-to-ease-up-on-russia-sanctions/2017/06/14/8c02d73a-5134-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html)** > [@](#): > > The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow Congress to block any efforts by the president to scale back sanctions against Russia, and to strengthen those sanctions in retaliation for Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 election and its actions in Syria. > > The vote of 97 to 2 is a sharp rebuke to President Trump’s posture on Russia and his resistance to the intelligence community’s assessment that the country was behind efforts to influence the election he won. > > The two senators who voted against the measure were Republicans Rand Paul (Ky.) and Mike Lee (Utah)… It will be interesting to see what Trump tweets about this. Mean Senate–trying to break up his bromance with Vlad. Not to mention: **[Trump calls House health bill that he celebrated in the Rose Garden ‘mean’](https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-calls-house-health-bill-that-he-celebrated-in-the-rose-garden-mean/2017/06/13/ede11784-5060-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html)** > [@](#): > > President Trump told Republican senators Tuesday that the House GOP health-care bill was “mean” and he expects the Senate to “improve” the legislation considerably, according to several Republicans familiar with the gathering. > > Trump’s comments, during a White House lunch with a group of 15 GOP senators from across the ideological spectrum, signaled that he may be willing to embrace a less-aggressive revision of the Affordable Care Act than Republicans have previously promised. > > The meeting came as Senate Republicans were struggling to build support for their health-care rewrite among conservatives who are concerned that the legislation is drifting too far to the left… I guess someone finally told DJT what was [del]not[/del] in it. “Drifting too far to the left”?? :smack: Yeah, it might accidentally help someone. Can’t have that. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6670 "2017-06-15T01:09:02Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I fully expected Trump to break away from his scripted-by-Kellyanne (probably) Teleprompter speech to add the information that Today Is His Birthday. But he didn’t. Maybe someone off-camera was holding a bucket of KFC and had told him it would be thrown out the window if he went off-script. Yes, he stuck to the script today. But remember when Trump suggested that someone should shoot Hillary in Aug 2016: > [@](#): > > If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know. Today he realized that he is not loved by everyone with a gun. I guess he will start doing fewer rallies in front of big crowds. I think this will probably make him feel more paranoid and isolated. ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6671 "2017-06-15T01:20:50Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > A term borrowed by American servicemen from the Japanese _sukoshi_, “a little bit”. Usually, “a skosh” of something, also “scooch”. Similar derivation as “mama-san”. No fooling? I always thought “skosh” was a Polish-American term. Prolly cause I heard it as a kid in Cleveland. “Just a skosh a th’ yella mustard on my kielbasa sandwich, buddy.” ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6672 "2017-06-15T01:22:26Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > No fooling? I always thought “skosh” was a Polish-American term. Prolly cause I heard it as a kid in Cleveland. > > “Just a skosh a th’ yella mustard on my kielbasa sandwich, buddy.” I grew up with “skosh,” too. But my mother’s family is Slovak AND we spent time in Japan when I was little. _\_ ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6673 "2017-06-15T01:29:51Z")
Also because the default Christian name in Polish jokes was “Stosh.” ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6674 "2017-06-15T01:36:22Z")
Trump is a GEMINI sun sign? That doesn’t seem right, somehow. What are his moon and ascending signs? Virgo and Taurus, I’ll bet. Fussy and stubborn and a general fuckhead. And he probably has Mercury in the Fourth House. ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6675 "2017-06-15T01:46:17Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Trump is a GEMINI sun sign? That doesn’t seem right, somehow. What are his moon and ascending signs? Virgo and Taurus, I’ll bet. Fussy and stubborn and a general fuckhead. And he probably has Mercury in the Fourth House. [Here ya go.](http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Trump,_Donald) You have to be able to read the little symbols at the bottom of the box. [Astro.com](http://Astro.com) (Astrodienst)is a pretty serious astrology site (if you’re into astrology). Here’s detail from [another site](https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Donald_Trump): > [@](#): > > Born: June 14, 1946, 10:54 AM > In: Jamaica, Queens, New York (NY) (United States) > Sun: 22°56’ Gemini > AS: 29°58’ Leo > Moon: 21°12’ Sagittarius > MC: 24°22’ Taurus > Dominants: Leo, Gemini, Cancer > Mars, Sun, Venus > Houses 10, 11, 12 / Fire, Air / Fixed > Chinese Astrology: Fire Dog ---
**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 15, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6676 "2017-06-15T02:46:51Z")
Damn. I KNEW it. Fire and air signs lead to red hot farts. Poor Melania. Keep the windows open, cookie. Scuse me, I have to go and forge an iron dagger to fend off his connection to Mars. ---
**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 15, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6677 "2017-06-15T03:44:32Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > Yes, he stuck to the script today. But remember when Trump suggested that someone should shoot Hillary in Aug 2016: > > Today he realized that he is not loved by everyone with a gun. I guess he will start doing fewer rallies in front of big crowds. I think this will probably make him feel more paranoid and isolated. He cut and ran on his planned visit to the Congressional baseball game which is still on tomorrow. ---
**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 15, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6678 "2017-06-15T06:08:12Z")
[QUOTE=ThelmaLou] “Drifting too far to the left”?? :smack: Yeah, it might accidentally help someone. Can’t have that. [/QUOTE] “How about… please, bear with me there, how about we make it so that people put money into their insurance package, right, and then we just split it three ways between private insurers, pharmaceutical company owners and us ? Streamline the whole thing and eliminate the middle man ?” ---
**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 15, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6679 "2017-06-15T06:08:16Z")
**DeVos overturning student loan forgiveness rule.** The Education Department announced Wednesday that it will change two key Obama-era [rules governing student loan forgiveness in cases involving fraud and misconduct by universities](https://www.yahoo.com/news/rules-help-defrauded-students-clear-loans-being-revised-165834301--politics.html). Who would have thunk it? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6680 "2017-06-15T10:36:33Z")
Australian PM takes the piss out of Trump: > **[Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull mimics Trump in humorous speech to press ball](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/malcolm-turnbull-mimicks-donald-trump-in-humorous-speech-to-press-ball)** > > Prime minister recorded making jokes about US president’s alleged links to Russia, his views on fake news and poor poll ratings ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6681 "2017-06-15T10:57:02Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > Our friend Vicente is back with an [epic video message to Il Douche](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZKrn7Bbl8). Holy crap, that can’t be shared enough! Bravo! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=333) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=335)