# 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:** 360
**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 23, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7183 "2017-06-23T17:24:57Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Hell, he invented THE SUN. Nope. I [nailed it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20176671&postcount=35) over a month ago. He thinks he’s the sun and everything revolves around him. ---
**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 23, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7184 "2017-06-23T17:43:38Z")
In an act of defiance, [Isca Academy teen boys](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy) kick headteacher Aimee Mitchell square in the pants. ---
**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 23, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7185 "2017-06-23T17:58:51Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > That means you are in charge of him for the next 4 years. You can get cases of those extra large puppy training pads at amazon. > [@](#): > > Wait until they or one of their loved ones are on their deathbed, dying from something that could have been prevented had they had access to affordable health insurance. > > They will be more grateful for your thanks that way, knowing that their sacrifice is saving you money on your taxes. Nope. [del]If[/del] When that happens, they will blame Obama, Hillary, and the Democrats, not necessarily in that order. Nothing is ever Trump’s fault. ---
**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 23, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7186 "2017-06-23T18:00:44Z")
As a metrosexual New York City elitist Ivy League graduate foodie pantywaist liberal, I shall also enjoy a large tax cut, and I expect to spend it all on female escorts, Havana cigars, and cocaine. Will someone with a direct line to Trump supporters please let them know? There are none here in my comfortable tree-shaded neighborhood of fashionable brownstones. I will raise a glass of chilled Veuve Cliquot, flip a page in my vellum-bound book of illustrated erotic poetry, and titter with merriment as I think of their mothers’ inability to afford vital medicines. ---
**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 23, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7187 "2017-06-23T18:26:00Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Nope. [del]If[/del] When that happens, they will blame Obama, Hillary, and the Democrats, not necessarily in that order. Nothing is ever Trump’s fault. Fault, how is it anyone’s fault? Fault implies that something is wrong. They should be privileged to know that they are dying so that a few wealthy people can get an extra latte a day. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7188 "2017-06-23T19:22:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Nope. I [nailed it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20176671&postcount=35) over a month ago. He thinks he’s the sun and everything revolves around him. The former ruler of Turkmenistan had a big golden statue of himself in Ashgabat,that rotated with the sun (some say it rotated just slightly ahead of the sun as Nizazov guided the sun around) It was removed a few years back and replaced with a fixed statue. Don’t be surprised if the original turns up in Washington. . ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7189 "2017-06-23T19:22:45Z")
\*Top \*men. ---
**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 23, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7190 "2017-06-23T19:37:33Z")
In the wake of the White House press conference where neither audio nor video were allowed, yesterday’s press conference with Sarah Huckabee allowed audio. But reporters were not allowed to report that they were not allowed to show video. [http://www.slate.com/blogs/the\_slatest/2017/06/22/white\_house\_press\_conference\_no\_camera\_notice\_is\_not\_reportable\_white\_house.html](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/22/white_house_press_conference_no_camera_notice_is_not_reportable_white_house.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7191 "2017-06-23T19:42:23Z")
What’s the point of not having video if there is audio? Also, do they honestly expect reporters to not report on something, simply because the White House said “Not reportable”? I don’t get this at all. ---
**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 23, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7192 "2017-06-23T19:52:42Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > What’s the point of not having video if there is audio? Also, do they honestly expect reporters to not report on something, simply because the White House said “Not reportable”? > > I don’t get this at all. ABC news last night ran audio behind a still photo of Sarah Huckabee. ---
**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 23, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7193 "2017-06-23T20:17:39Z")
[Trump drives his golf cart across a green](https://twitter.com/SInow/status/877908744344129536). That’s a no no. And then there’s this: (might be harmful to one’s eyes) [VPL](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC97SuUWAAAsO7_.jpg:small) So suave. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7194 "2017-06-23T20:23:56Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > What’s the point of not having video if there is audio? Also, do they honestly expect reporters to not report on something, simply because the White House said “Not reportable”? > > I don’t get this at all. Not only are they stupid, they are just plain weird. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7195 "2017-06-23T21:25:40Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Trump drives his golf cart across a green. That’s a no no. Hey, I got there first. Post #7166 🙂 > [@](#): > > And then there’s this: (might be harmful to one’s eyes) > [VPL](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC97SuUWAAAsO7_.jpg:small) > > So suave. “Might”? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7196 "2017-06-23T21:29:31Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > As a metrosexual New York City elitist Ivy League graduate foodie pantywaist liberal, I shall also enjoy a large tax cut, and I expect to spend it all on female escorts, Havana cigars, and cocaine… Well, I’m going to drive my family of Tightie-Righties\* up the wall by spending my tax cut money on NPR and Planned Parenthood donations, a New Yorker subscription, ironic t-shirts from the third-world (that i’ll wear to their country club), and street burritos made by … Mexicans! Oh and artisan whiskies, and wine from socialist vineyards (that my folks can’t distinguish from the cheap stuff). – Now, of course, the other half of my plan is to not get sick. If I do, the whole shebang crumbles. - eta: did I just make up a new _sobriquet?_ Surely someone had this idea decades ago, right? ---
**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 23, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7197 "2017-06-23T21:46:05Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Fault, how is it anyone’s fault? Fault implies that something is wrong. > They should be privileged to know that they are dying so that a few wealthy people can get an extra latte a day. It’s actually pretty big money–for Cabinet members and others at their level of wealth, the money funneled out of health care for working people and into the pockets of the prosperous could be enough for a couple of nice vacations on the French Riviera, with plenty left over for a bespoke suit or two in Savile Row and/or a few couture outfits from Milan! > [@](#): > > For example, Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, …If the Republican cuts pass, then, a 3.8% reduction in his capital-gains tax could be worth between $2.8 million and $11.5 million. > > Another case is Education secretary Betsy Devos. …A 3.8% reduction in her capital gains tax could be worth more than $2 million. > **[The US health-care bill will give millions of dollars to the billionaires in...](https://qz.com/1013436/senate-bcra-the-republican-health-care-bill-means-windfall-profits-for-donald-trumps-cabinet-of-billionaires)** > > Millions of people losing coverage? Whatever, we're talking tax cuts for wealthy investors. ---
**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 23, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7198 "2017-06-23T21:52:49Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > And then there’s this: (might be harmful to one’s eyes) > \ > So suave. You asshole. Do you not know how to use spoiler tags? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7199 "2017-06-24T01:12:18Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Nope. I [nailed it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20176671&postcount=35) over a month ago. He thinks he’s the sun and everything revolves around him. You’re assuming he understands things revolve around the sun and not the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7200 "2017-06-24T01:14:55Z")
[Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) makes its bid to join the mainstream media: [7 Secret (And Stupid) Rules For Working For President Trump](http://www.cracked.com/article_24907_7-secret-and-stupid-rules-working-president-trump.html). ---
**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 24, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7201 "2017-06-24T01:38:17Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > You’re assuming he understands things revolve around the sun and not the other way around. Nah, I’m assuming he believes he’s THE sun because he believes everything revolves around him. ---
**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 24, 2017, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7202 "2017-06-24T02:32:13Z")
Whoever does the closed captioning on Trump’s videos is as ignorant as he is. Unless he really did mean he was going to put minors back to work. [Trump Touts Putting 'Minors' Back To Work, Twitter Goes Giddy | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-minors-work_us_594d99bee4b02734df2a81b4)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=359) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=361)