# 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:** 345
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6882 "2017-06-16T22:24:48Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Certainly it was my own first reaction when hearing that Trump planned to deep-six many or most of the Obama-era Cuba reforms–that Trump planned to substitute deals that would personally profit him. > > That’s a pretty safe assumption about _any_ policy changes for which Trump advocates. You know, I used to think along those lines. Now, I’m pretty sure that Trump does not even think that much… I don’t think he put one iota of thought behind this, and is just following along what the last person who talked to him said. ---
**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 16, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6883 "2017-06-16T22:59:48Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > You know, I used to think along those lines. > > Now, I’m pretty sure that Trump does not even think that much… I don’t think he put one iota of thought behind this, and is just following along what the last person who talked to him said. Well, maybe. But I’d guess that if Trump has any self-generated thoughts at all, they’re basically _get the money get the money make that guy sorry he crossed me get the money get the money get the money make them pay for disrespecting me get the money get the money get the money…_ ---
**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 16, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6884 "2017-06-16T23:05:10Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > … and Trump “Kellyanne” Massage Parlors. Cripes, I would definitely not want those bony-ass fingers leaving scars on my flesh. The scars on my psyche are bad enough. ---
**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 16, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6885 "2017-06-16T23:07:44Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Cripes, I would definitely not want those bony-ass fingers leaving scars on my flesh. The scars on my psyche are bad enough. You mean you don’t want an alternative ending? ---
**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 16, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6886 "2017-06-16T23:14:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You mean you don’t want an alternative ending? No, because the alternative ending is that these people do not get run out of town with there asses handed to them on a spit. I do not want the alternative ending. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6887 "2017-06-16T23:33:59Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Hold your nose when clicking [on this link](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/16/trump-says-hes-canceling-obamas-one-sided-cuba-deal.html). > > Maybe The Trumpster is angling for a better “Deal” regarding future “Koo-Bah” Trump Hotels, Trump Casinos, Trump Golf Courses and Trump “Kellyanne” Massage Parlors. > > Thoughts? That sounds about right. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6888 "2017-06-16T23:35:45Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Where to start? Doesn’t Trump remember running for president? Did he understand what job he was asking for? He must know that he got the job- he incessantly repeats details about his electoral college victory. And remember that inauguration thingy? The one with the biggest crowd ever? Yeah, that’s when the job starts. > > So- is he president or not? Does he make decisions as the head of the executive branch, or do the Rosensteins of the world tell him what to do and that’s it? :smack: But we have video of him saying he was going to fire Comey becaue of Russia ANYWAY, regardless. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6889 "2017-06-17T00:02:01Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > So Donald Trump is basically [Belkar Bitterleaf](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0335.html) with a Twitter account? How dare you slander Belkar so horribly. Trump isn’t even capable of fake, self interested character development, let alone real. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6890 "2017-06-17T02:30:01Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > It’s lawyers all the way down! Russian nesting dolls. ---
**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 17, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6891 "2017-06-17T03:02:34Z")
Nice. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6892 "2017-06-17T03:34:54Z")
what gets me is trump and company just seem to be repealing obamas policies just to be dicks … even when theres no real reason to other than they can ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6893 "2017-06-17T04:44:45Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > what gets me is trump and company just seem to be repealing obamas policies just to be dicks … even when theres no real reason to other than they can It’s how the despicable Cheetolini is paying the Repugs back for their blind support of a man whose every daily decision goes against the ethics and morals they’ve been pretending to uphold for generations. He’s making it as though their 8 years of obstruction were but a launching pad for erasing every move by that Uppity Black Man. ---
**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 17, 2017, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6894 "2017-06-17T06:21:36Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Well, _yeah_. We are all getting jobbed. That is what “job growth” actually means. ---
**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 17, 2017, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6895 "2017-06-17T06:31:02Z")
Lynne Patton, [a wedding planner](http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-appointment-of-trump-wedding-planner-to-1497646929-htmlstory.html) and longtime Trump family associate, to head the Housing and Urban Development’s office for New York and New Jersey. What could possibly go wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6896 "2017-06-17T07:06:47Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Lynne Patton, [a wedding planner](http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-appointment-of-trump-wedding-planner-to-1497646929-htmlstory.html) and longtime Trump family associate, to head the Housing and Urban Development’s office for New York and New Jersey. > > What could possibly go wrong? Well, it’s not like there are any major urban centers in NY or NJ. Shouldn’t be a problem. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2017, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6897 "2017-06-17T07:17:42Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Well, it’s not like there are any major urban centers in NY or NJ. Shouldn’t be a problem. [QUOTE] Fry: [looking at a really nice rental place]: "Well, I give up, what’s the catch? Renter: “Oh, no catch, although we are technically in New Jersey…” Fry: [Back at HQ and sad] “Not one place even remotely livable…” [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6898 "2017-06-17T08:04:56Z")
On the plus side, all the tenements will surely have beautiful center pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6899 "2017-06-17T09:39:28Z")
To give her credit, she organized a large wedding with Donald Trump as the boss. That takes some effort to pull off. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6900 "2017-06-17T10:39:36Z")
Appointment in lieu of payment, I assume? She’s one of the lucky ones. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/6901 "2017-06-17T13:03:07Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > what gets me is trump and company just seem to be repealing obamas policies just to be dicks … even when theres no real reason to other than they can Yep. His EO’s have no substance other than to overturn something that others took time to thoughtfully examine and research. But it makes him feel like he’s ‘presidentin’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=344) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=346)