# 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:** 384
**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:** [July 2, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7664 "2017-07-02T18:05:22Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Less than seven months into Traitor Trump’s “accomplishments.” Look at his rapid descent into excessive juvenileness with his tweets, and the descent is only gaining speed, as witnessed by his tweets of the past week including the video this mornig. The record disapproval ratings this soon into his presidency. And there are people who thinks this shitbag could be reelected? That he could magically somehow turn himself around – which he shows no signs of being interested in doing – and make a success of his presidency? No way. > > **Has Traitor Trump made any statement about the Arkansas shooting yet, or has he been too busy making childish videos for his Twitter feed.** Golf and rallies. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7665 "2017-07-02T18:07:26Z")
Just now saw that Traitor Trump veered off of honoring veterans at an event last night to take still more jabs at the press. He’s just a whiny little baby who is shocked the press is not throwing roses and kisses at him. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” – Harry Truman \<—(great President) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7666 "2017-07-02T18:15:25Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Just now saw that Traitor Trump veered off of honoring veterans at an event last night to take still more jabs at the press. He’s just a whiny little baby who is shocked the press is not throwing roses and kisses at him. > > “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” – Harry Truman \<—(great President) His closing words to the press were: “I’m President, you’re not.” I guess he was channeling Chevy Chase in the old _SNL_. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7667 "2017-07-02T18:22:15Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > His closing words to the press were: “I’m President, you’re not.” I guess he was channeling Chevy Chase in the old _SNL_. Did he trip and fall down the stairs? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7668 "2017-07-02T18:24:35Z")
We can only hope! ---
**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:** [July 2, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7669 "2017-07-02T20:47:55Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [‘I’m president and they’re not’](http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rally-veterans-media-evangelical-christians-religious-freedom-terrorism-2017-7-2). Trump slams media in speech honoring veterans. … I foresee a coming revision to the First Amendment: > [@](#): > > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, but the press shall recall that He is the president and they are not. The joint resolution Congress will approve and send to the states will append a Nyaah Nyaah Nyaah, but when fourteen states make clear they won’t ratify as-is, it will come back and go through the process again with the Nyaah Nyaah Nyaah excised. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7670 "2017-07-03T03:27:57Z")
One of the Department of Justice’s chief prosecutors for enforcing corporate crime has resigned, claiming she can’t enforce corruption laws while working for a corrupt administration. > **[DOJ's Corporate Crime Watchdog Resigns, Slamming Trump's Conduct](https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/justice-departments-corporate-crime-watchdog-resigns-saying-trump-makes-it)** > > Department's compliance counsel says Trump officials are engaging in "conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company." ---
**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:** [July 3, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7671 "2017-07-03T03:43:46Z")
Trump plans to end subsidies for heating fuel for poor people, claiming that utilities won’t cut off their heat in the winter. > **[Trump proposes end to heating aid for low-income Americans](https://www.wcvb.com/article/trump-proposes-end-to-heating-aid-for-low-income-americans/10251853)** > > People needn't worry about being left in the cold, he says, because utilities cannot cut off customers in the dead of winter. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7672 "2017-07-03T03:55:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump plans to end subsidies for heating fuel for poor people, claiming that utilities won’t cut off their heat in the winter. > [Trump proposes end to heating aid for low-income Americans](http://www.wcvb.com/article/trump-proposes-end-to-heating-aid-for-low-income-americans/10251853) When they freeze to death (or perhaps they can be euthanised), their bodies can be burned to provide heat for the better off. Has Dolt 45 suggested that yet? ---
**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:** [July 3, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7673 "2017-07-03T05:01:19Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump plans to end subsidies for heating fuel for poor people, claiming that utilities won’t cut off their heat in the winter. > [Trump proposes end to heating aid for low-income Americans](http://www.wcvb.com/article/trump-proposes-end-to-heating-aid-for-low-income-americans/10251853) “Health and Human Services Secretary Thomas Price, who contends the LIHEAP program ( Low-Income Energy Assistance Program) doesn’t demonstrate ‘strong performance outcomes,’ said difficult decisions are necessary to streamline the government to focus on the administration’s goals of defense _ **and public safety** _”. Huh? Sick Fuck. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7674 "2017-07-03T05:29:17Z")
Cosmic Shitstain Scott “Um, this…peer review, thing” Pruitt wants to get a little healthy [red team/blue team](https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/06/pruitts-red-team-blue-team-exercise-bad-fit-epa-climate-science) competitiveness going in the WH. > [@](#): > > His latest move would challenge scientific consensus on climate change through a “red team-blue team” exercise designed for crafting defense and intelligence strategies. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7675 "2017-07-03T22:41:17Z")
[Loser Trump loses again](http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/340536-court-rejections-trumps-delay-of-epa-drilling-pollution-rule). Scott “I Never Met A River I Didn’t Want To Light On Fire” Pruitt wanted to delay an EPA rule on methane and drilling using the excuse that the “stakeholders” weren’t allowed to comment on the regulation despite, as the court points out, “the administrative record thus makes clear that industry groups had ample opportunity to comment on all four issues on which EPA granted reconsideration, and indeed, that in several instances the agency incorporated those comments directly into the final rule.” The EPA is considering its options, they say. What options? Stick your fingers in your ears and pretend the court ruling doesn’t exist? It’ll probably be something shitty like putting up a few radon detectors on a few pipeline couplings and calling it good. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7676 "2017-07-03T23:17:55Z")
Last night on TV news, I saw one of Trump’s flacks trying to defend the asinine tweets, especially the infamous CNN takedown one. Watching the defense of the cretin was more painful than actually watching the cretin. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7677 "2017-07-04T00:30:23Z")
[![](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170704/469ef7fb7ac350dfa86ceb51e7070e22.jpg) ](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170704/469ef7fb7ac350dfa86ceb51e7070e22.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7678 "2017-07-04T06:17:44Z")
Someone, I think Jeffrey Lord, was trying to compare Trump’s use of Twitter with FDR’s use of radio. Use of new technology to reach the masses and all that. Really pathetic. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7679 "2017-07-04T09:00:05Z")
Twitter is new technology? I guess some people consider 2006 to be recent. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7680 "2017-07-04T13:30:40Z")
I’d say that’s a fair comparison. However, FDR didn’t get on the radio and make fart noises and personally attack people who disagreed with him. So, a president making use of new(ish) technology to reach and calm the masses = good thing. A president making use of new(ish) technology to reach and rile up the masses, with a dose of “embarrass” and a pinch of “endanger” = a horrible, horrible thing. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7681 "2017-07-04T13:37:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Last night on TV news, I saw one of Trump’s flacks trying to defend the asinine tweets, especially the infamous CNN takedown one. Watching the defense of the cretin was more painful than actually watching the cretin. It’s been like this for a year now. The Yam says something stupid, and the Yam supporters all tall us what it means. The covfefe definition got Spicer laughed at by the press corps, and thereafter, Spicer got a new “off camera” assignment. Same happened to Kellyanne. The Yam’s cronies have to try and make sense of his rambling incoherent Twitter rants and then they lose their heads if they get it wrong, which is inevitable because his rants have little or no meaning. Being the Yam’s spokesman is a death sentence. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7682 "2017-07-04T13:50:02Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Being the Yam’s spokesman is a death sentence. And yet, not a single one of the lying bottom feeders has developed the spine and self-respect to quit. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7683 "2017-07-04T14:08:10Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > And yet, not a single one of the lying bottom feeders has developed the spine and self-respect to quit. Their collecting stories to really cash in on the screenplay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=383) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=385)