# 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:** 489
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9764 "2017-08-11T02:30:37Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Trump thanks Putin for expelling diplomats and saving the U.S. a bunch of money. > > [http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/10/trump-thanks-vladimir-putin-diplomats-241498](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/10/trump-thanks-vladimir-putin-diplomats-241498) > > Have his spokespeople started the “he was just joking” defense yet? So, Putin expelled diplomats and Trump thanked him for it. Very cuck move, right Trump fans? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9765 "2017-08-11T02:34:10Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > So, Putin expelled diplomats and Trump thanked him for it. Very cuck move, right Trump fans? No, you don’t get it. It’s a brilliant move by a man who’s, like, a smart person, with a very good brain. He knows words, he has the best words - believe me, folks. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yeS8xF3gN2M/maxresdefault.jpg "Donald Trump I Have Very Good Brain") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeS8xF3gN2M) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9766 "2017-08-11T02:42:19Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > So, Putin expelled diplomats and Trump thanked him for it. Very cuck move, right Trump fans? Naah, it’s just one of those _quien es mas macho_ things. “Shoot me in the kneecap? I wasn’t using that leg anyway!” ---
**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 11, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9767 "2017-08-11T02:43:51Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Hey, even in these troubled times, I can appreciate a bit of lowbrow humor. > > Speaking of jokes, Chris Hayes’ show tonight ran a montage of about 20 clips of Trump bitching about Obama’s supposed excessive golfing, how Trump was going to spend all his time “working his ass off” in the White House, etc., then mentioned that as of today, Trump has spent fifty days (out of 200 as President) at one of his golf clubs. And his ass is as big as ever. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9768 "2017-08-11T02:43:58Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Naah, it’s just one of those _quien es mas macho_ things. “Shoot me in the kneecap? I wasn’t using that leg anyway!” Reminds me of the Monty Python skit. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690) ---
**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:** [August 11, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9769 "2017-08-11T04:04:19Z")
> [@el\_kabong](#): > > don’t make him turn this country around! _again?_ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9770 "2017-08-11T07:31:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by **el\_kabong** > > don’t make him turn this country around! > > _again?_ I guess this is where I’m supposed to demonstrate my intellectual superiority by complaining about my _nom de plume_ not being spelled right. Or something. Eh, can’t be arsed. Carry on. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9771 "2017-08-11T07:51:11Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I guess this is where I’m supposed to demonstrate my intellectual superiority by complaining about my _nom de plume_ not being spelled right. Or something. > > Eh, can’t be arsed. Carry on. Curious. I typed “again?” all in caps. Apparently some part of something responded to that by killing all the caps in the post. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2017, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9772 "2017-08-11T08:02:36Z")
I consider **Okrahoma** to be a laughable and doltish right-winger. He probably had an average IQ until he became a Trumpist; that dropped him to the moron level. Yet I assumed the three links he invested time Googling for were sensical. (Still I saw no point in bothering with a click.) > [@Sherrerd](#): > > !!! Those citations do not inspire confidence. > > But since you don’t seem to know what a “false-flag operation” actually _is_: It is a _political_ act, carried out with the express purpose of framing a _political_ opponent. > > It is not a confused or mentally-ill or malicious person committing an act, and then trying to escape responsibility for that act. Thanks for making some clicks for the team, **Sherrerd**! I see now that **Okrahoma** is even more comically insipid than I 'd thought! ---
**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:** [August 11, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9773 "2017-08-11T08:15:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Curious. I typed “again?” all in caps. Apparently some part of something responded to that by killing all the caps in the post. The board’s software doesn’t let your post consist of entirely capital letters, so if you don’t have at least one lower case letter (apparently not counting stuff in quote tags), it automatically reformats everything as lower case. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2017, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9774 "2017-08-11T10:32:57Z")
> [@](#): > > … You can type in ALL-CAPS if you want, just add an invisible lower-case character … LIKEaTHIS ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9775 "2017-08-11T10:48:44Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > LIKEaTHIS YOU CAN ALSO DO THlS. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9776 "2017-08-11T13:35:18Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > LIKEaTHIS I would, but the board doesn’t have a ‘like’ button. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9777 "2017-08-11T14:53:15Z")
Let’s assume that the Korean situation de-escalates (as we all hope and pray that it does): cooler heads prevail, quiet back-channel diplomacy does its job, despite Trump’s chest-thumping saber-rattling bluster. You just \*know \*that Trump will claim that he saved the world from destruction due to his “tough stance”, and he’ll nominate himself for the Nobel Peace Prize. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9778 "2017-08-11T15:09:05Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Meanwhile, Trump is getting into it with Kentucky’s favorite turtle, Senator McConnell. > > [http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/trump-mcconnell-scavino/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/trump-mcconnell-scavino/index.html) > > McConnell is the guy who basically made Trump’s lone victory, the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, even possible to begin with. Without McConnell blocking the nomination of Garland, there’s no seat for Trump to fill. And considering how badly Trump has failed in terms of coalition building and, fer fucks sake, managing his own staff, I’d say this might be one fight he might want to pass up. Put the two bastards in the Thunderdome. Give them both chainsaws and grenades and don’t open the door until BOTH are dead. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9779 "2017-08-11T15:10:34Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Honestly, this boggles my mind. McConnell is the biggest fucking cunt in the Senate, but he’s a loyal, partisan one. I have no idea why Trump would want to alienate him. Because he is not subservient. He will not bow down and worship. That is why. Remember, Resident Chump is the ultimate narcissist. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9780 "2017-08-11T15:12:21Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Someone has to take the blame for Trump’s failure to deliver that wonderful health care bill he said he could deliver. That bill, on which had did no real work, that bill HE helped to sabotage with his own stupidity and incompetence? Yep, that one 😃 Who know in this case, HIS stupidity and incompetence and dishonesty and laziness would SAVE so many people (in spite of himself) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9781 "2017-08-11T15:14:56Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > BREAKING NEWS: Trump has started counting to 3. How are his ABCs coming? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9782 "2017-08-11T15:16:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump on Russia cutting 755 staffers from the US Embassy in Moscow: > [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DG5VP0tWAAEEvpN.jpg:large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DG5VP0tWAAEEvpN.jpg:large) > > This guy is an absolute moron. Still sucking on Putin’s dick. Just like always. ---
**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 11, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/9783 "2017-08-11T15:17:50Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Put the two bastards in the Thunderdome. Give them both chainsaws and grenades and don’t open the door until BOTH are dead. I’m not into blood and gore, but I’d pay good money to watch them mud-wrestle each other. In deep, slippery mud, wearing only tiny spandex bikinis. Of course, then I’d have to gouge my eyes out. But it might be worth it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=488) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=490)