# 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:** 438
**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 28, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8744 "2017-07-28T02:48:43Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > How will we tell the difference? One barrel of monkeys will have accomplished nothing, while the other may have typed out some Shakespeare. ---
**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 28, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8745 "2017-07-28T02:57:40Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Maybe Snooki becomes the press secretary. [Fingers crossed] Dennis Rodman? Gary Busey? [/Fingers crossed] ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8746 "2017-07-28T03:28:44Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > How will we tell the difference? It will start to make sense and be a consistent message. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8747 "2017-07-28T03:39:56Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Someone on Facebook posted the following in response to an article about Scaramucci: > > I expect that if Trump stays in office the entire term, by the end, the While House staff will just be a room full of howler monkeys, screaming and throwing their own shit Only 41 months left until we find out. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8748 "2017-07-28T04:03:26Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I mean this is looking more like a reality TV show. [That’s what even the NY Post thinks.](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/344247-ny-post-cover-depicts-trump-white-house-as-reality-tv-show-survivor) ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8749 "2017-07-28T04:35:14Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Simple: they have no idea anything in this thread happened and wouldn’t believe you if you told them. So much this. I am mostly watching all this in horror from afar as a Canadian. There is however a coworker, and a couple family members, and the odd client that inappropriately brings up their Trump support and they are just so ignorant of the reality it is all I can do not to scream. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8750 "2017-07-28T04:37:22Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Pretty much. > > I mean this is looking more like a reality TV show. Maybe Snooki becomes the press secretary. Maybe Flavor Flav replaces Ben Carson as HUD Secretary. Dustin Diamond as Sec. of Defense. I think OJ may be avaiable soon if the AG slot opens up. ---
**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 28, 2017, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8751 "2017-07-28T04:54:57Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Funny you should mention that, I was thinking the same thing and Kellyanne Conway seems to agree as well! > > [Kellyanne Conway: Ethical disclosures discourage people from government service](https://www.yahoo.com/news/kellyanne-conway-ethical-disclosures-discourage-people-government-service-143758652.html) > > See, Putin doesn’t trouble himself with ethical disclosures and he’s got the entire goddamn Russian mob working for him! Imagine what kind of trouble they could be causing if they weren’t gainfully employed! If we just normalize having criminals in the White House no one would be upset about the criminals in the White House! From that link: > [@](#): > > According to the form, Scaramucci earned $4.9 million from an ownership stake in his investment firm and will take home an additional $5 million from the Export-Import Bank, Politico reported. Wait, didn’t Trump stick him in the ExIm Bank spot just six months ago when Priebus blocked him from the WH staff? Someone help me out here… that’s quite a haul! ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8752 "2017-07-28T05:47:58Z")
TrumpCare failed! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8753 "2017-07-28T05:58:45Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > TrumpCare failed! 🙂 As good as that is, watching the very sad Turtle make his speech about what a horrible day this is for America was the best part. Damn, that was one seriously pissed off terrapin. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8754 "2017-07-28T06:33:24Z")
Just wow America, at least no-one can accuse you of being boring. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8755 "2017-07-28T07:40:33Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Nive interview with the above …nice…quotes. > > [Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon | The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon) “I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can’t help themselves,” he said. “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.” He’s talking about someone leaking information from the administration, and not, say, the dire mismanagement of the Department of Energy. All the awareness of a headless rat. > [@asahi](#): > > The White House is looking more like a Mafia safe house. > > It’s moments like these when I say “You know what, Trump voters, fuck you. I don’t even begin to want to understand what’s inside your goddamned warped brains and why you voted for that fucking psychotic imbecile.” I kinda hope my grandmother doesn’t make it to the midterm. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8756 "2017-07-28T07:57:00Z")
Maybe all this will finally get that damned Queen song banned from Karaoke. Anthony is definitely not doing the “fandango” part, but the “thunder bolt and lightning / Very, very frightening,” indeed. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8757 "2017-07-28T09:35:40Z")
The depravity and incompetence of the Trump Misadventure is amazing. This sociopath was getting too senescent for _The Apprentice_, so he indulged in a publicity stunt. The prank went awry, and now he’s running the largest and most important organization in the world like a demented reality-show host. :eek: Tales of the on-going tragedy get repetitious. Yet … > [@Crybaby\_Boobie](#): > > This article is terrifying: > > [Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House | Vanity Fair](http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis) > > EDIT: Regards the DoE under Trump and how unprepared and ignorant they are. It’s very long, but very informative. Thank you, **Crybaby Boobie** , for bringing this excellent article to our attention. I think it shocked even many of us whose disgust was already saturated. > [@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 expect that if Trump stays in office the entire term, by the end, the While House staff will just be a room full of howler monkeys, screaming and throwing their own shit” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8758 "2017-07-28T10:57:58Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Just wow America, at least no-one can accuse you of being boring. Make America Boring Again! Please? ---
**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 28, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8759 "2017-07-28T11:02:40Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > “I expect that if Trump stays in office the entire term, by the end, the While House staff will just be a room full of howler monkeys, screaming and throwing their own shit” > 😃 I’m finding myself–on a daily, if not hourly, basis, mind you, wondering, “How TF is that clown still alive?” There is literally no group which he has not screwed over since occupying the White House. And the one “promise” he’ hell-bent on keeping is blatantly unconstitutional, not to mention just downright mean and nasty. Then there’s his atrocious health regimen. Really; how is the clown still alive? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8760 "2017-07-28T11:04:05Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Just wow America, at least no-one can accuse you of being boring. And it comes back to this. My, my, what a goddamn joke we must look like to the rest of the civilized world, and we’re probably a joke to the parts of the world that are less civil. ---
**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 28, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8761 "2017-07-28T11:09:13Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > And it comes back to this. > > My, my, what a goddamn joke we must look like to the rest of the civilized world, and we’re probably a joke to the parts of the world that are less civil. I really don’t remember if I found it online myself or if someone on this board posted a link to it, but there’s a great [line](https://twitter.com/originalgriz/status/866711423145136129?lang=en) going around, with the line: > [@](#): > > Trump’s seamless transition from national embarrassment to global embarrassment has been the smoothest part of his Presidency. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8762 "2017-07-28T11:09:30Z")
Okay, so let’s go with this and let’s assume Cheeto Jesus and Mooch collaborate and fire the entire cabinet. Who are the likely replacements? Here’s what I got so far: Press Sec: Snooki HUD: Flava Flav Sec of Defense: Dustin Diamond Attorney General: OJ Simpson Treasurer: Vince McMahon Homeland Security: Stone Cold Steve Austin Sec of State: Fedor Emilianenko ---
**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 28, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/8763 "2017-07-28T11:21:47Z")
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