# 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:** 351
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7002 "2017-06-19T23:24:08Z")
I keep thinking about Trump’s [promise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70hIxu4WCmM) at his stellar inauguration speech. ---
**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 19, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7003 "2017-06-19T23:27:46Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I hope that every time this happens, the press gallery turn their backs and start singing the national anthem. How about if each reporter is accompanied by a court stenographer with a small table, chair, and that machine that they use to take down every freakin’ word in court! :rolleyes: I can’t believe Sean hasn’t bailed. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7004 "2017-06-19T23:29:32Z")
Not before he’s forced out: [https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-06-19/sean-spicer-to-lead-communications-office-searches-for-new-press-secretary](https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-06-19/sean-spicer-to-lead-communications-office-searches-for-new-press-secretary) ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7005 "2017-06-20T01:16:03Z")
Strange how many people don’t do/stay in their jobs in this administration. Anyway, probably only Kellyanne Conway can fill Spicer’s shoes. ---
**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 20, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7006 "2017-06-20T01:18:29Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Strange how many people don’t do/stay in their jobs in this administration. > > Anyway, probably only Kellyanne Conway can fill Spicer’s shoes. With what? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7007 "2017-06-20T01:34:25Z")
Why, spin, spin, spin! What else? ---
**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 20, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7008 "2017-06-20T01:56:24Z")
But will she be wearing his shoes tucked up under her butt on the Oval couch? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7009 "2017-06-20T07:24:55Z")
I will miss Sean’s fumbling, dear-in-the-headlights, caught off guard, hesitating, backpedalling, quadrupling down, stammering, insecure behaviour at the press briefings, and look forward to Carter “The Smiler” Page\* as the next WHPS. \*I’m trying to go gross, here. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7010 "2017-06-20T09:08:28Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I wonder if there’s an element of…i dunno… sunk cost, or the emotional equivalent. "I supported him so hard, and if he turns out so crooked, so fast, what does that say about me? " > I doubt that most Trumpettes are really thinking that, but i wonder if some part of their brains are just refusing to believe that they were taken in by such am obvious con. I’m convinced that’s the main reason so many incompetents keep their jobs for so long. Also behind several long-lasting bad marriages of my acquaintance. ---
**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 20, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7012 "2017-06-20T12:36:56Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > I will miss Sean’s fumbling, **dear-in-the-headlights** , caught off guard, hesitating, backpedalling, quadrupling down, stammering, insecure behaviour at the press briefings, and look forward to Carter “The Smiler” Page\* as the next WHPS. > > \*I’m trying to go gross, here. Bold added. Typo, Freudian slip, or autocorrect? In any case, it made me picture Sean’s mother holding out her arms, “Poor, dumb, battered schmuck… get away from those Bad People and have some cocoa.” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7013 "2017-06-20T13:57:46Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Bold added. > > Typo, Freudian slip, or autocorrect? :smack::pMeant to say honeywuns-in-the-headlight. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7014 "2017-06-20T14:00:25Z")
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been doing a perfectly fine job of lying like a rug. I see no reason that can’t continue. You don’t even have to fill out any forms, she’s already on the payroll. ETA: Apparently Sanders has said she doesn’t want the job full time, which I find puzzling but, oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7015 "2017-06-20T14:06:57Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been doing a perfectly fine job of lying like a rug. I see no reason that can’t continue. You don’t even have to fill out any forms, she’s already on the payroll. > > ETA: Apparently Sanders has said she doesn’t want the job full time, which I find puzzling but, oh well. She doesn’t want to be the next one thrown under the bus. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7016 "2017-06-20T14:08:24Z")
It offended her to see Aidy Bryant play her on SNL, and she doesn’t want to go through a full season of it. ---
**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 20, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7017 "2017-06-20T14:13:49Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > It offended her to see Aidy Bryant play her on SNL, and she doesn’t want to go through a full season of it. This Administration certainly has more than it’s share of fragile snowflakes. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7018 "2017-06-20T14:55:38Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > ETA: Apparently Sanders has said she doesn’t want the job full time, which I find puzzling but, oh well. She has three fairly young kids. Somebody has to teach them about how Jesus defeated the gay dinosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7019 "2017-06-20T15:08:07Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > She has three fairly young kids. Somebody has to teach them about how Jesus defeated the gay dinosaurs. … is that what the SM session in the Temple was actually about? ---
**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 20, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7020 "2017-06-20T15:17:19Z")
Why don’t the reporters simply wire themselves before these not-to-be-recorded press briefings? Then go back and publish a complete transcript online? I don’t know which offends me more, that this administration is going out of their way to be opaque or that its supporters could not possibly care less. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7021 "2017-06-20T15:26:59Z")
Its supporters \*do \*care. They’re \*very \*upset at the high volume of non-adulatory, and therefore “fake”, news the Lamestream Media keeps spewing about the Dear Leader. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7022 "2017-06-20T15:56:49Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Why don’t the reporters simply wire themselves before these not-to-be-recorded press briefings? Then go back and publish a complete transcript online? I don’t know which offends me more, that this administration is going out of their way to be opaque or that its supporters could not possibly care less. I say that if there’s no recording and no video they just publish whatever the hell they want. “In the unrecorded press conference, Spicer said that Trump prefers the extra length and ribbed texture of the English cucumber for ass play over the standard salad variety, unless he can find a particularly bumpy specimen.” “What?!? I didn’t say that!” “Oh yeah? Well, that’s what my notes say. Too bad there’s no video.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=350) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=352)