# 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:** 403
**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:** [July 14, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8044 "2017-07-14T02:05:37Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > At least he didn’t try to grab her by the pussy. Well, she’s old. By Trump’s standards. He prefers to grab the pussies of young beauty contest participants, and fashion models. Women without power. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8045 "2017-07-14T02:14:18Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > [http://theslot.jezebel.com/trump-scopes-beautiful-french-hottie-known-to-everyone-1796890391](http://theslot.jezebel.com/trump-scopes-beautiful-french-hottie-known-to-everyone-1796890391) > Trump’s little performance today involving the First Lady of France, which included … commenting on her body. Just like the “jokes” about casually racist grandparents, Trump’s a casually sexist grandpa. He’s thinks he’s charming and polite when he’s being a sexist ass. ---
**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 14, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8046 "2017-07-14T02:58:16Z")
Republican Senator Robert Lankford says that the federal investigators knew about Orange Junior’s meeting with the Russians in April. And yet Orange Senior only found about it three days ago? > **[GOP Senator: Kushner’s Meeting With Russian Lawyer Was ‘Known’ In April](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/james-lankford-senate-intel-committee-knew-kushner-meeting)** > > Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Wednesday said federal entities knew about Jared Kushner's attendance of a June 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-connected… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8047 "2017-07-14T03:40:44Z")
Trump St. knew about it no later than the day it was arranged. Oh, I get it, you were doing an irony thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8048 "2017-07-14T13:16:59Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > So he thinks bad hombres will throw 60 pounds of drugs over the wall just randomly? Is he concerned about American drug dealers getting hurt and not having beautiful insurance coverage? I’m really not following his logic here. Oh, wait. Well, maybe next he’ll suggest that we put trampolines all along the American side of the wall. Then the 60 pound bags of drugs will spring back over the wall and hit the MEXICANS in their heads! That’ll show them! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8049 "2017-07-14T13:20:16Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The Cowardly Lyin’ [isn’t near as tough](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/us/politics/trump-russia-putin.html?partner=rss&emc=rss) as he pretends to be. > And there’s this little narcissistic moment. > Well co-ordinated communications there, Trumpy. I think the impromptu press conference may have been an amphetamine-fueled inspiration. It’s like he forgot he hated the press. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8050 "2017-07-14T14:24:23Z")
> [@PatriotX](#): > > Just like the “jokes” about casually racist grandparents, Trump’s a casually sexist grandpa. > He’s thinks he’s charming and polite when he’s being a sexist ass. I watched the video of him making the comments and it is shocking! If I or any coworker, boss, etc made that type of comment it would be off to HR for us and we’d be lucky to keep our job. He is what you’d call a “dirty old man”. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8051 "2017-07-14T14:37:39Z")
[Looking more and more like Junior’s meeting had to do with offering to hack the DNC exchange for repealing the Magnitsky Act rather than sharing dirt on Clinton.](http://www.mediaite.com/online/who-is-rinat-akhmetshin-the-fifth-person-in-the-don-jr-meeting/) ---
**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:** [July 14, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8052 "2017-07-14T14:42:00Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I watched the video of him making the comments and it is shocking! If I or any coworker, boss, etc made that type of comment it would be off to HR for us and we’d be lucky to keep our job. He is what you’d call a “dirty old man”. :mad: And these dirty old guys just don’t get it. “What? I gave her a compliment! I said she had a nice ass! It was a good thing for me to say, right?” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8053 "2017-07-14T14:42:44Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Looking more and more like Junior’s meeting had to do with offering to hack the DNC exchange for repealing the Magnitsky Act rather than sharing dirt on Clinton.](http://www.mediaite.com/online/who-is-rinat-akhmetshin-the-fifth-person-in-the-don-jr-meeting/) Wait, what? There was a former KGB agent at the meeting? That’s fucking insane. That can’t be right, not even a Trump would be that stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8054 "2017-07-14T14:53:01Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > Wait, what? There was a former KGB agent at the meeting? That’s fucking insane. That can’t be right, not even a Trump would be that stupid. [Probably thought he was just some random lobbyist for Russian orphans.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20344523#post20344523) 😃 ---
**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 14, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8055 "2017-07-14T14:53:57Z")
[And now we have a body count](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/republican-donor-kills-himself-talking-021051687.html). ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8056 "2017-07-14T14:58:10Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Looking more and more like Junior’s meeting had to do with offering to hack the DNC exchange for repealing the Magnitsky Act rather than sharing dirt on Clinton.](http://www.mediaite.com/online/who-is-rinat-akhmetshin-the-fifth-person-in-the-don-jr-meeting/) When they make a movie of this debacle, Patton Oswalt has to play that KGB man From the end of that article: > [@](#): > > Don Jr.’s lawyer told NBC on Thursday that there also may have been a sixth person at the meeting. Ah, probably nobody. Some Putin guy. Never heard of him before. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8057 "2017-07-14T14:59:53Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > When they make a movie of this debacle, Patton Oswalt has to play that KGB man > > From the end of that article: > Ah, probably nobody. Some Putin guy. Never heard of him before. They’re claiming the Sixth Man (woman?) was an interpreter. Which begs the question… who was present at the meeting didn’t speak English? ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8058 "2017-07-14T15:02:17Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > Wait, what? There was a former KGB agent at the meeting? That’s fucking insane. That can’t be right, not even a Trump would be that stupid. Of course. Someone who has been a US citizen for 20+ years, and has been a Washington lobbyist for 20 years. How dare Trump campaign meet with lobbyists!!!111!!! No campaigns ever do! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8059 "2017-07-14T15:04:14Z")
> [@Trump associates may have coordinated with Russians, according to US officials](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-associates-may-have-coordinated-with-russians-according-to-us-officials/782799/965): > > I avoid the Pit Suuure you do. Liar. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8060 "2017-07-14T15:05:16Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Suuure you do. Liar. This is the only Pit thread I ever posted in. So yes, I avoid the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8061 "2017-07-14T15:07:41Z")
[Pants](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20310905#post20310905) [on](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20208439#post20208439) [fire](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=825515). ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8062 "2017-07-14T15:11:38Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Pants](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20310905#post20310905) [on](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20208439#post20208439) [fire](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=825515). You caught me. I am not as good at avoiding the Pit as I thought I am. I usually weigh in to correct or educate posters on the subject matter. I still consider it a silly place where people come to behave like schoolgirls giggling over the ability to use naughty words. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8063 "2017-07-14T15:15:34Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > This is the only Pit thread I ever posted in. So yes, I avoid the Pit. The board’s Search function reveals you have posted in twenty-five Pit threads. Your credibility remains at zero. As with your Dear Leader, there is no difference for you between truth and fiction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=402) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=404)