# 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:** 543
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10844 "2017-09-02T20:05:41Z")
President Orange Snowflake complains that [the gloves are too small for his big hands](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348993-trump-jokes-his-hands-are-too-big-while-serving-food-to-harvey). ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10845 "2017-09-02T20:14:03Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > President Orange Snowflake complains that [the gloves are too small for his big hands](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348993-trump-jokes-his-hands-are-too-big-while-serving-food-to-harvey). In his dreams. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10846 "2017-09-02T20:23:24Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > President Orange Snowflake complains that [the gloves are too small for his big hands](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348993-trump-jokes-his-hands-are-too-big-while-serving-food-to-harvey). Those were for Melania. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10847 "2017-09-02T20:31:21Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > President Orange Snowflake complains that [the gloves are too small for his big hands](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348993-trump-jokes-his-hands-are-too-big-while-serving-food-to-harvey). [Do Trump’s hands tell a story?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYLNEFY-Gnc) ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10848 "2017-09-02T22:14:40Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > President Orange Snowflake complains that [the gloves are too small for his big hands](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348993-trump-jokes-his-hands-are-too-big-while-serving-food-to-harvey). A normal person says the glove is too small. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10849 "2017-09-02T22:51:00Z")
OJ, Trump, what’s with bad people and glove fitment? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10850 "2017-09-02T23:13:48Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > OJ, Trump, what’s with bad people and glove fitment? If the glove don’t fit, Trump must quit. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10851 "2017-09-03T03:55:05Z")
You know, I have the most absurd hope. Maybe Trump will bask in the adoration of people stuck in homeless shelters with noting to go back to. People who know he holds the purse strings to a decent federal reaction. Maybe an unconditionally supplicant group will give him the egojob he wants and he will waddle off on a high note. That hope will wear off along with my hangover tomorrow. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10852 "2017-09-03T04:15:38Z")
I feel like the only thing he knows to do with the glove is to hold it forth for Ivanka to smell. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10853 "2017-09-03T05:03:48Z")
> [@Nigel Tufnel](#): > > What’s wrong with bein’ sexy? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10854 "2017-09-03T05:54:35Z")
I’m just waiting for Trump to order the arrest of journalists, media company leaders, sanctuary city mayors, or even members of Congress or the judiciary. I think he really really wants to. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10855 "2017-09-03T07:07:48Z")
NK has now successfully (allegedly) tested a 10 ktn H-bomb. Heckuva job negotiating there, Donnie! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10856 "2017-09-03T07:41:05Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I’m just waiting for Trump to order the arrest of journalists, media company leaders, sanctuary city mayors, or even members of Congress or the judiciary. I think he really really wants to. I wouldn’t be surprised if he already has and thinks it’s “unfair” that he was told that’s not how it works. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10857 "2017-09-03T13:04:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised if he already has and thinks it’s “unfair” that he was told that’s not how it works. I was going to say that - I assume he already has tried :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10858 "2017-09-03T14:29:50Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > I was going to say that - I assume he already has tried :mad: Yep > **[Trump reportedly urged Comey to jail reporters | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/comey-memo-press-jailed-trump/index.html)** > > Before President Donald Trump reportedly asked then-FBI Director James Comey to end the investigation into deposed national security adviser Michael Flynn’s ties to Russia, he also reportedly made a remarkable suggestion about journalists. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10859 "2017-09-03T14:34:51Z")
I just learned [via Rachel Maddow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8mvx_TCl3Y) that Russia’s Sberbank hired Marc Kasowitz, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, to represent it in a New York civil suit. She mentions this after two other unexplained connections between the Trumpettes and Russian banks: [ul] [li] Jared Kushner failed to disclose a meeting he had with a top official of Kremlin-controlled VEB Bank;[/li][li] There was peculiar traffic last October between Net servers in New York’s Trump Tower and Moscow’s Alfa bank.[/li][/ul] Clear evidence of misdoing? No. But when we saw Maurice Levy show up to represent someone in _The Wire_ we always had a pretty clear idea what was going on! 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10860 "2017-09-03T15:11:41Z")
[Obama left an Inauguration Day letter for Trump](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/03/politics/obama-trump-letter-inauguration-day/index.html) wishing him luck in his Presidency and offering a few words of advice. > [@](#): > > “It was long. It was complex. It was thoughtful,” Trump said of the letter the week after taking office in an interview with ABC News. “And it took time to do it, and I appreciated it.” It was 275 words long. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10861 "2017-09-03T15:20:50Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > [Obama left an Inauguration Day letter for Trump](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/03/politics/obama-trump-letter-inauguration-day/index.html) wishing him luck in his Presidency and offering a few words of advice. > > It was 275 words long. :rolleyes: I find it remarkable that Trump actually had kind words for something Obama did. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10862 "2017-09-03T15:29:26Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I find it remarkable that Trump actually had kind words for something Obama did. He (probably) only read the first line or two, which were complimentary to him. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10863 "2017-09-03T15:37:19Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > [Obama left an Inauguration Day letter for Trump](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/03/politics/obama-trump-letter-inauguration-day/index.html) wishing him luck in his Presidency and offering a few words of advice. > > It was 275 words long. :rolleyes: TL;DR [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=542) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=544)