# 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:** 392
**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:** [July 7, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7824 "2017-07-07T21:43:57Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Haven’t heard much about Bannon recently. Is he still living in that George-Costanza-cubbyhole under Trump’s Oval Office desk? > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > He’s sharing a “secure undisclosed location” with Conway and Spicer. They all committed the cardinal sin of taking press attention away from Trump, and in embarrassing ways. So… that would be a yes? 😃 > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Somebody actually sent Melania in to break up the Putin Trump meeting because it was running over the time scheduled for it. Why would anybody think that Trump would care about Melania’s opinion on anything? It didn’t work, by the way. Should have sent Ivanka. ---
**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 7, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7825 "2017-07-07T21:55:16Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Should have sent Ivanka. There’s a limit to who Trump will share. ---
**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 7, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7826 "2017-07-07T21:57:03Z")
What is it about [DO NOT TOUCH](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/07/internet-explodes-after-pence-touches-flight-hardware-labeled-do-not-touch/?utm_term=.8d6983ac70f8) that you do not understand? ---
**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 7, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7827 "2017-07-07T22:00:13Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > What is it about [DO NOT TOUCH](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/07/internet-explodes-after-pence-touches-flight-hardware-labeled-do-not-touch/?utm_term=.8d6983ac70f8) that you do not understand? His wife wasn’t there to slap his hand away. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7828 "2017-07-07T22:07:40Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > What is it about [DO NOT TOUCH](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/07/internet-explodes-after-pence-touches-flight-hardware-labeled-do-not-touch/?utm_term=.8d6983ac70f8) that you do not understand? Gotta give credit where credit is due: “Rubio dared me to do it!” is pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7829 "2017-07-07T22:29:01Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > What is it about [DO NOT TOUCH](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/07/internet-explodes-after-pence-touches-flight-hardware-labeled-do-not-touch/?utm_term=.8d6983ac70f8) that you do not understand? Surely that sign only applies to the little people, not an important man like the Vice President. To be fair, I’ll bet the tape holding the “DO NOT TOUCH” sign in place leaves more residue than Pence’s hand. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7830 "2017-07-07T22:35:46Z")
This is a man who would try to walk up and sneak a peek inside the Ark of the Covenant if it were on display. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7831 "2017-07-07T22:59:23Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > This is a man who would try to walk up and sneak a peek inside the Ark of the Covenant if it were on display. [We can all hope.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ythpzsu18) ---
**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 7, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7832 "2017-07-07T23:13:10Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Gotta give credit where credit is due: “Rubio dared me to do it!” is pretty funny. Agreed **jsc1953**. Rubio told Pence, “You break it, you own it.” 😃 ---
**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:** [July 7, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7833 "2017-07-07T23:56:17Z")
OK, it was stupid. But what exactly did touching do to it? And if it couldn’t be touched, why let people walk by it? ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7834 "2017-07-07T23:56:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > To be fair, I’ll bet the tape holding the “DO NOT TOUCH” sign in place leaves more residue than Pence’s hand. Actually the yellow tape is most likely Kapton tape with acrylic adhesive. It’s extremely clean and low-outgassing. We use it in our vacuum chambers all the time in our lab, where we make sensitive UV measurements. ---
**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 8, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7835 "2017-07-08T00:06:44Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > OK, it was stupid. But what exactly did touching do to it? And if it couldn’t be touched, why let people walk by it? Maybe it’s an area that’s not open to the public and the adults allowed in have impulse control. ---
**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 8, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7836 "2017-07-08T05:26:50Z")
PBS Newshour mentioned a Republican senator’s document recently given to Squirrely Sessions poo-pooing all those inconvenient leaks besmirching президент Trump’s administration (on an almost daily basis…yyyyeeeeah!), but I guess my crummy intrawebs skillz have yet to scare up a cite, even when googling the phrase: “PBS newshour - republican senator document on leaks criticized by Committee to Protect Journalists”. Judy Woodruff added that the CPJ went on to say that this resembles measures seen “more often in authoritarian countries”. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7837 "2017-07-08T12:26:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Somebody actually sent Melania in to break up the Putin Trump meeting because it was running over the time scheduled for it. Why would anybody think that Trump would care about Melania’s opinion on anything? It didn’t work, by the way. It would have been more effective to send in a Russian hooker saying “I got to pee”. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7838 "2017-07-08T12:40:52Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > … Judy Woodruff added that the CPJ went on to say that this resembles measures seen “more often in authoritarian countries”. Which is where Trump would take us if he were smarter and less of a doofus. Then he would be like his bros Putin, Duterte and Kim. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > It would have been more effective to send in a Russian hooker saying “I got to pee”. Good one. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7839 "2017-07-08T12:46:49Z")
Today, an unelected hand bag designer represented the President during a G20 session. Meanwhile, Der Spiegel has [this](https://twitter.com/sparkychick3233/status/883667315300192257) to say. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7840 "2017-07-08T13:00:28Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > OK, it was stupid. But what exactly did touching do to it? And if it couldn’t be touched, why let people walk by it? It’s what NASA engineers call an “asshole test.” Pence failed, or passed, depending on your point of view. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7841 "2017-07-08T14:02:31Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It’s what NASA engineers call an “asshole test.” Pence failed, or passed, depending on your point of view. It’s too bad NASA didn’t run 50,000 volts through that thing. ---
**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 8, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7842 "2017-07-08T14:17:46Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > It’s too bad NASA didn’t run 50,000 volts through that thing. Still wouldn’t have messed his hair. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/7843 "2017-07-08T14:19:18Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > It’s too bad NASA didn’t run 50,000 volts through that thing. But for that to work, Pence would have to be grounded. Should have covered it in Spray Mount. That aerosol glue. Nasty, sticky stuff. But the picture is enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=391) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=393)