# 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:** 518
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10344 "2017-08-18T18:52:10Z")
> [@Evin](#): > > The resignation letter is an acrostic. The first letter of each paragraph combine to spell “RESIST.” > > Intentional or not, I don’t know. That’s brilliant. If it’s unintentional, I’ll eat Donny’s scalp marmot. Did you just happen to notice that? ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10345 "2017-08-18T18:52:24Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 16 of the 17 members of the Presidential Committee on the Arts and Humanities have resigned _en masse_. I always wondered what Leni Riefenstahl was up to these days… ---
**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:** [August 18, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10346 "2017-08-18T18:58:07Z")
Somebody has set up a website for Mike Pence, 46th President of the United States. The website says “Private link, do not share.” So I thought I’d share it here. [http://www.officialmikepence.com/](http://www.officialmikepence.com/) ---
**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:** [August 18, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10347 "2017-08-18T19:04:29Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Why is Trump going to Camp David? Something about Afghanistan. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10348 "2017-08-18T19:06:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Why is Trump going to Camp David? A golf course with no reporters. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10349 "2017-08-18T19:09:42Z")
The White House’s director of the Office of Public Liaison George Sifakis is out. > **[Another White House aide follows Bannon out the door - was Priebus friend and...](https://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/another-white-house-aide-follows-bannon-out-the-door-was-priebus-friend-and-ally/)** > > In addition to the news that President Donald Trump wants his aides to "remove" former Breitbart.com CEO Stephen K. Bannon from the White House staff, Politico reported on Friday that the White House's director of the Office of Public Liaison George... ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10350 "2017-08-18T19:14:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Somebody has set up a website for Mike Pence, 46th President of the United States. The website says “Private link, do not share.” So I thought I’d share it here. > [http://www.officialmikepence.com/](http://www.officialmikepence.com/) Are the recipes a response to Trump’s trolling america? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10351 "2017-08-18T19:15:56Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > Which means he can still put words in Donald’s mouth. I guess at least we’ll see it happen. Maybe, but Donald would have to actually read. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10352 "2017-08-18T19:25:23Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Should be [fun](https://theweek.com/speedreads/719343/bannon-now-reportedly-ramping-war-against-trump). > \* > “New York reporter Gabriel Sherman said Bannon is expected to return to Breitbart, the far-right news website he helmed before joining the White House. Not only that, however, but Sherman also reported that Bannon is “ramping up for war” against President Trump now that he’s been fired”\* Trump supporters who get all their news from breitbart may soon experience a terminal case of cognitive dissonance. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10353 "2017-08-18T19:27:46Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Are the recipes a response to Trump’s trolling america? I hadn’t dug very deep in that website when I posted that link. The entire page is hysterical. Somebody did a lot of work there. ---
**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 18, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10354 "2017-08-18T19:34:50Z")
Today is the day Donald Trump became President. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10355 "2017-08-18T19:43:42Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Trump supporters who get all their news from breitbart may soon experience a terminal case of cognitive dissonance. I’m imagining it kind of like the Star Trek TOS androids getting forced into a logical paradox, except for the part of where logic is involved. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10356 "2017-08-18T19:55:12Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Today is the day Donald Trump became President. Not sure how to take that. No way do I believe that Bannon was completely responsible for the incompetent mess that Trump is. I do like the Mike/Christ page. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10357 "2017-08-18T19:56:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The entire page is hysterical. Somebody did a lot of work there. Yeah it is pretty funny. Also a wee bit scary. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10358 "2017-08-18T20:02:23Z")
Joel B. Pollak, the editor of Breitbart, tweeted out one word: #WAR Although it looks like it’s been taken down. > **[Washington Journal | Series | C-SPAN.org](https://www.c-span.org/series/?washingtonJournal)** > > Watch Washington Journal full episodes, clips and more. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10359 "2017-08-18T20:14:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 16 of the 17 members of the Presidential Committee on the Arts and Humanities have resigned _en masse_. Who is the odd man out, er, in? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10360 "2017-08-18T20:19:05Z")
Nobody is praying harder right now for Trump to go down in flames and quit than Mike Pence. I bet he practices daily for when he finally gets to stand there and act embarrassed and have an “Aw, shucks! You fellas want me?!?” moment. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10361 "2017-08-18T20:21:04Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I’m imagining it kind of like the Star Trek TOS androids getting forced into a logical paradox, except for the part of where logic is involved. I swear I’m not making this up. My Trumpette FB friend just posted that she thinks this is a brilliant strategic move–that Bannon will now be more effective as a free agent than as a member of the administration. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10362 "2017-08-18T20:28:56Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Nobody is praying harder right now for Trump to go down in flames and quit than Mike Pence. > > I bet he practices daily for when he finally gets to stand there and act embarrassed and have an “Aw, shucks! You fellas want me?!?” moment. I, for one, would welcome a Pence Presidency at this point. It would be horrible, but at least it would be competent. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10363 "2017-08-18T20:29:04Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Who is the odd man out, er, in? That’s what I want to know. And why they stayed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=517) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=519)