# 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:** 436
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8704 "2017-07-27T18:44:14Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > We could see the T-word replace the F-word completely. > > “Trump you!” “No, trump you, mothertrumper!” > > “Trumpin-a, right!” > > “Oh baby, trump me harder! Trump me in the kushner!” > > “That’s a trump-load of goats you got there mister.” I don’t think that’s the right four-letter word to replace with the T-word. “Eat trump, asshole!” “Well this is a big pile of trump.” “You expect me to eat your trump sandwich and like it?” “Damn it, I’ve got a trump-stain in my underwear.” ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8705 "2017-07-27T18:46:53Z")
> [@PatriotX](#): > > Personally, I think he is experimenting with altering his brain chemistry. > > Seems kinda manic the way some people get when they do that sort of thing. As was written in [James](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_4bp8bBNVw), “Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.” ---
**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 27, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8706 "2017-07-27T19:00:18Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “Oh baby, trump me harder! Trump me in the kushner!” “Honey, you know it’s my birthday. I was thinking maybe tonight we could do it in the Bannon.” ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8707 "2017-07-27T19:03:55Z")
> [@duality72](#): > > I don’t think that’s the right four-letter word to replace with the T-word. > > “Eat trump, asshole!” > > “Well this is a big pile of trump.” > > “You expect me to eat your trump sandwich and like it?” > > “Damn it, I’ve got a trump-stain in my underwear.” Excuse me while I go to the bathroom to take a trump. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8708 "2017-07-27T19:04:49Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “Honey, you know it’s my birthday. I was thinking maybe tonight we could do it in the Bannon.” This is so disturbing I just cannot even. Let us not desecrate these sacred acts with that name. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8709 "2017-07-27T19:14:11Z")
Isn’t there anyone who can throw a yellow “Tangent Flag”, blow their little coach’s whistle, and get us back on track? “Paterno, where are you now that we need you?” (copied from Mooch’s next tweet) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8710 "2017-07-27T19:30:23Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > This is so disturbing I just cannot even. > > Let us not desecrate these sacred acts with that name. But at least concede the irony of associating His Most Alt-Whiteness with something so decidedly not white. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8711 "2017-07-27T19:40:10Z")
So in the 9 minutes from Trump tweeting that there was something he wouldn’t accept or allow to when he clarified that it was transgendered troops, folks in the Pentagon were [panicking](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-transgender-pentagon-fear-north-korea-declare-war-a7862091.html) that he was about to kick off a war. ---
**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 27, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8712 "2017-07-27T19:48:26Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I sent this article to my husband, and then we discussed the recent, pointless health care vote, and he said, ‘‘Huh. This really isn’t about government, is it? It’s about anarchy.’’ > > The anarchists are running the show now. Funny you should mention that. “Welcome to the United States of Anarchy” > **[Opinion | Welcome to the United States of Anarchy](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-it-might-look-like-if-there-were-no-president-at-all/2017/07/26/33f06914-723f-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html)** > > Stuff happens, but nothing gets done. > [@](#): > > Welcome to the United States of Anarchy. > > Health-care legislation languishes without presidential leadership. The Senate fails to pass a measure crafted by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, fails to pass an outright repeal and even fails to pass a proposal to go back to the drawing board. > > Huge majorities in Congress, declining to bless President Trump’s love affair with Vladimir Putin’s regime, vote for new sanctions against Russian officials; legislation passes the Senate, 98 to 2, and the House, 419 to 3. The veto-proof rebuke to the president seizes a foreign-policy function from an unreliable commander in chief. > > As the deadline looms to avoid a default on U.S. debt, Susan Collins (R-Maine), a Senate committee chairman, is heard on a hot mic saying she’s “worried” about the president’s stability and calling his administration’s handling of spending matters “just incredibly irresponsible.” She says she doubts Trump even knows how the budget process works… ---
**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 27, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8713 "2017-07-27T19:58:35Z")
Bannon crony and Iran hawk Derek Harvey has been fired from the National Security Council after clashing with Tillerson, Mattis and McMaster. > **[Top Trump Middle East adviser ousted from National Security Council](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344140-top-trump-middle-east-adviser-ousted-from-national-security-council/)** > > The White House said Friday that Derek Harvey, a senior Middle East adviser to President Trump, is no longer with the National Security Council (NSC). An NSC spokesperson said the re… ---
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8714 "2017-07-27T20:16:45Z")
> [@](#): > > The White House said Friday that Derek Harvey, Based on that article, now I need to be concerned that the White House has access to Time Travel??? Or did this happen last friday and is only being reported now. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8715 "2017-07-27T20:40:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Bannon crony and Iran hawk Derek Harvey has been fired from the National Security Council after clashing with Tillerson, Mattis and McMaster. > [http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344140-top-trump-middle-east-adviser-ousted-from-national-security-council](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344140-top-trump-middle-east-adviser-ousted-from-national-security-council) As he was a Flynn hire, I assume they’re done watching him, have waited the appropriate interval for the sake of appearances, and _gotten him the hell away from the NSC!_ ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8716 "2017-07-27T20:54:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Interior Secretary Zinke threatened Alaska after its Republican Senators voted against healthcare takeaway: > [Trump administration threatens retribution against Alaska over Murkowski health votes - Anchorage Daily News](https://www.adn.com/politics/2017/07/26/trump-administration-signals-that-murkowskis-health-care-vote-could-have-energy-repercussions-for-alaska/) > > So Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, as Chairwoman of the Senate Interior Committee, has postponed hearings on Zinke’s appointees > [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/27/lisa-murkowskis-energy-committee-delays-hearing-fo/](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/27/lisa-murkowskis-energy-committee-delays-hearing-fo/) Excellent. “Murkowski strikes back: She delays committee hearings for Trump administration nominees” More of them need to start doing this, and put that fat fuck and his cronies in their place (hopefully federal prison). ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8717 "2017-07-27T20:55:52Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > You don’t have to assume it at all. Bannon stated it was his intention to do so, explicitly. Yes, he DID. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8718 "2017-07-27T20:57:59Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > So in the 9 minutes from Trump tweeting that there was something he wouldn’t accept or allow to when he clarified that it was transgendered troops, folks in the Pentagon were [panicking](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-transgender-pentagon-fear-north-korea-declare-war-a7862091.html) that he was about to kick off a war. Of course… because he had already discussed it all with “his” generals\> RIGHT??? ---
**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 27, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8719 "2017-07-27T20:57:59Z")
Republican strategist and Daily Beast columnist just tweeted, “Does anyone else think Scaramucci might be hoovering up a little Bolivian marching powder before these manic interviews?” > ---
**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:** [July 27, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8720 "2017-07-27T23:47:08Z")
Just ran across a promo for a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to, well, you know how long that kind of thing can go on. It seemed to have an oddly political tone … [Make America Bait Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAuIXCDd2Fw). ---
**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 27, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8721 "2017-07-27T23:58:07Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Due in part to articles like this, it’s been a while since I’ve slept a full night without waking around 4 a.m. and fighting to quell the racing thoughts so I can fall back asleep. Angst, trepidation, and despair are not the best soporifics, it turns out. > [@Bayard](#): > > Looks like I picked the wrong administration to quit drinking! Take heart. There’s no deeper sleep that awaits you than on the other side of the silent, pure white flash of a thermonuclear detonation. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8722 "2017-07-28T00:03:12Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Take heart. There’s no deeper sleep that awaits you than on the other side of the silent, pure white flash of a thermonuclear detonation. I worry about not being close enough. I do not want to die, just now, but I would rather not suffer so much. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8723 "2017-07-28T00:07:17Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Every single thing that has happened is part of the plan. There is no such thing as a fact, because things can be “emotionally true” and that’s more important. Sounds like a liberal Christian talking about the Bible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=435) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=437)