# 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:** 454
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9064 "2017-08-01T01:42:45Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Quite unsurprising, actually. From the little I know about Kelly, he would have no patience for the coke snorting, jumped up little con man. A part of me wishes that Kelly grabbed him by the throat and held him up against the wall, while shouting in the Mooch’s reddening face “You are nothing, you little man! You give me any shit and I’ll break your spine in half!” > > At least that’s how it’s going to go down in my screenplay; “The Trump Administration; A Clusterfuck in the Making” But who would play you-know-who? Too bad Philip Seymour Hoffman is no longer around. Steven Seagal? Patton Oswalt? Whoopi? Everyone would be expecting Brass Balls to do it, but I think John Goodman might work. Steve Buscemi doesn’t _look_ like the 10-day visitor Scaramucci, but could definitely _play_ him. And again, Lindsay Lohan looks nothing like Kellyanne Connway, but boyohboy she could play her. Gary Busey can be Bannon, and since John Kelly, in some photos, looks like a cousin of Christopher Lloyd, might as well make CL the Chief of Staff. I wonder if John Kelly will get a slap on the wrist for his [misgivings coming out in the wash](http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/kelly-comey-phone-call-angry/index.html) IRT the Comey firing. > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Look, you two, you’re getting on my nerves. Don’t you realise where you are? In the fuckin’ Pit! :mad: > > What’s with this “hope you don’t mind” “quite the opposite - all good” crap! You going to talk like that, get to snooty Great Debates, or even middle-brow MPSIMS. :rolleyes: > > You stay here, we want to see anger! venom!! flecks of spittle dangling from your keyboard!!! :mad::mad::mad: > > And of course, some “fuck-wit” catcalling!!! Start channelling the Mooch, not fuckin’ Mr Rogers. 🆒 > > Whew. I feel better. > > 😛 :p:mad::p:mad::p:mad:…a kinder, gentler pit > [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > I’m really surprised you didn’t say sorry at the end, eh? 🙂 Ok you two, I’m a Canuck too so let’s leave any Canuckiana outa this! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9065 "2017-08-01T01:43:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > No. It’s just like when Russia adopted Crimea. Ha! Excellent. They only want a little peace/piece in the world! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9066 "2017-08-01T01:57:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “Adoption” is their code word for “traitorous activities.” “adoption” means Mr. Putin wants his money back that is currently frozen, and what the hell is is Trump-puppet going to do about that? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9067 "2017-08-01T01:57:43Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Look, you two, you’re getting on my nerves. Don’t you realise where you are? In the fuckin’ Pit! :mad: > > What’s with this “hope you don’t mind” “quite the opposite - all good” crap! You going to talk like that, get to snooty Great Debates, or even middle-brow MPSIMS. :rolleyes: > > You stay here, we want to see anger! venom!! flecks of spittle dangling from your keyboard!!! :mad::mad::mad: > > And of course, some “fuck-wit” catcalling!!! Start channelling the Mooch, not fuckin’ Mr Rogers. 🆒 > > Whew. I feel better. Oh, for fuck’s sake. 😛 I knew he wasn’t being a dick. Just think of **Eddie** and me like Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers. “You first!” “Really, my dear, it must be you who goes first!” “Indubitably!” By the way, you have a “fuck-wit” from me on just the prior page, where **Buck Godot** quoted one of my earlier posts to tell me I’m full of shit (which is why people usually quote my posts). So quityerbitchin’. I’m glad you feel better. And I’ll work on it. :o ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9068 "2017-08-01T02:02:09Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > But who would play you-know-who? > Too bad Philip Seymour Hoffman is no longer around. Steven Seagal? Patton Oswalt? Whoopi? Everyone would be expecting Brass Balls to do it, but I think John Goodman might work. I would pay good money to see Mark Hamill play Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9069 "2017-08-01T02:08:56Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I would pay good money to see Mark Hamill play Donald Trump. Using his Joker voice. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9070 "2017-08-01T02:14:26Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I would pay good money to see Mark Hamill play Donald Trump. I bet Jeff Bridges could do it. Mostly because Jeff Bridges can do almost anything. But he’s about the right age, and with a few added pounds or a fat suit he’d be in the ballpark physically. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9071 "2017-08-01T02:15:29Z")
[White House officials tricked by email prankster](http://cnn.it/2vhjpUt) > [@](#): > > A self-described “email prankster” in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where **he convinced the White House official tasked with _cyber security_ that he was Jared Kushner** and received that official’s private email address unsolicited. I mean, really. What CAN I say? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9072 "2017-08-01T02:41:17Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > [White House officials tricked by email prankster](http://cnn.it/2vhjpUt) > > I mean, really. What CAN I say? I swear, one of these days we’re going to wake up some morning to the news that the Social Security trust fund has been transferred to a bank account in Nigeria… ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9073 "2017-08-01T02:41:58Z")
If the media is going to let cartoonist Scott Adams pontificate about Trump, they should invite R. Crumb to do so as well. In 1989, Crumb published a comic wherein two muscular young women upend Trump and dunk him in th’ toilet. > **[R. Crumb v. D. Trump, 1989 \[NSFW\] | Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net/2016/06/21/r-crumb-v-d-trump-1989-ns.html)** > > R Crump’s “Point the Finger” series of comics about his disgust with America appeared in the first run of Hup! in 1989. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9074 "2017-08-01T02:44:24Z")
> [@](#): > > I bet Jeff Bridges could do it. Mostly because Jeff Bridges can do almost anything. But he’s about the right age, and with a few added pounds or a fat suit he’d be in the ballpark physically. a\* few\* added pounds? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9075 "2017-08-01T02:45:20Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > He also said he and Putin talked about adoption during the unscheduled and unsupervised second meeting at the G20 dinner. Is that the go-to lie when they get caught talking to Russians? > [@silenus](#): > > “Adoption” is their code word for “traitorous activities.” > [@Chimera](#): > > Russians ‘adopting’ sensitive information from Trump. > [@davidm](#): > > “Adoption” is their codeword for the Magnitsky Act. > > Saying that they were discussing adoption is kinda sorta true if you squint and look at it from the right angle, but it’s actually a misleading way of describing discussion of the Magnitsky Act. > [@Monty](#): > > No. It’s just like when Russia adopted Crimea. > [@JKellyMap](#): > > Ha! Excellent. > They only want a little peace/piece in the world! > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “adoption” means Mr. Putin wants his money back that is currently frozen, and what the hell is is Trump-puppet going to do about that? No, no, all of you are wrong. Trump was begging Putin to adopt HIM. He wants to be Vlad’s own [Meilinki Meilchick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIBcaGuKG9I) and have Vladdy dandle Donnie on his knee while giving him sips of vodka from Vladdy’s personalized shot glass. Now Donnie has blown it, Vlad’s mad, and that’s not gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9076 "2017-08-01T03:00:18Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > If the media is going to let cartoonist Scott Adams pontificate about Trump, they should invite R. Crumb to do so as well. In 1989, Crumb published a comic wherein two muscular young women upend Trump and dunk him in th’ toilet. > > [http://boingboing.net/2016/06/21/r-crumb-v-d-trump-1989-ns.html](http://boingboing.net/2016/06/21/r-crumb-v-d-trump-1989-ns.html) And let us not forget Berke Breathed, who wrote the definitive account of Mr Trump’s brain being transplanted into Bill the Cat’s skull. ---
**Author:** ![Hocus\_Pocus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/41988e/32.png) [@Hocus\_Pocus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hocus_Pocus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9077 "2017-08-01T03:05:09Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And let us not forget Berke Breathed, who wrote the definitive account of Mr Trump’s brain being transplanted into Bill the Cat’s skull. Ack! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9078 "2017-08-01T03:39:49Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And let us not forget Berke Breathed, who wrote the definitive account of Mr Trump’s brain being transplanted into Bill the Cat’s skull. And Bill lost IQ points. ThbbfffffffT!!! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9079 "2017-08-01T03:43:01Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > [White House officials tricked by email prankster](http://cnn.it/2vhjpUt) > > I mean, really. What CAN I say? I was just coming in to post this. The guy really had Scaramucchi on the hook. But Eric Trump, to his credit, spotted the con and referred it to law enforcement. Thankfully the scammer didn’t convince anyone to start a war. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9080 "2017-08-01T03:47:26Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > a\* few\* added pounds? Yeah, I guess Bridges isn’t close to Trump’s weight. I just looked, and some website puts him at 190. For some reason I thought he was heavier, maybe because he looked kind of flabby in _True Grit_ under his big coat. Anyway, the underlying point still stands: Jeff Bridges could play Trump because Jeff Bridges could play pretty much anyone. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9081 "2017-08-01T04:09:19Z")
I am enjoying looking at conservative site [Drudge Report](http://drudgereport.com/) which seems to have turned on Trump and is featuring lots of negative Trump news. > [@](#): > > WASHPOST: Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer… > > CNN: White House officials tricked by email prankster… > > CBSNEWS: SCARAMUCCI ESCORTED OFF WH GROUNDS… > > RASMUSSEN: TRUMP SLIPS BELOW 40% FOR FIRST TIME… > > THERE. IS. NO. CHAOS. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9082 "2017-08-01T04:14:16Z")
Of course there is no chaos. This is nothing different than what anyone sane should have expected with that twerp as president. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9083 "2017-08-01T04:24:49Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Of course there is no chaos. This is nothing different than what anyone sane should have expected with that twerp as president. What’s hilarious is that “False Witness” Sarah claimed there’s no chaos in the WH by comparing the clusterfuck to her children at home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=453) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=455)