# 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:** 544
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10864 "2017-09-03T15:37:25Z")
[Addicting Info](http://addictinginfo.com/2017/09/02/russian-tv-host-just-admitted-russia-elected-trump/) says ‘Russian TV Host Just Admitted Russia Elected Trump’. > [@Russian State TV Host](#): > > So why did we elect such a President? There’s a link to the entire show, but Я не говорю по-русски. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10865 "2017-09-03T15:51:27Z")
> [@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: We need a WritingPrompt for the letter from Trump to his successor. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10866 "2017-09-03T16:00:28Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > We need a WritingPrompt for the letter from Trump to his successor. It will be 1,000 words about how great he is and how he left this country in such a great condition that his successor should spend every day talking about how Trump was such a great President. I wish I were kidding. ---
**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, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10867 "2017-09-03T16:12:59Z")
I was kind of hoping he would not have the opportunity to write that letter. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10868 "2017-09-03T16:16:35Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I was kind of hoping he would not have the opportunity to write that letter. We’re damned if he does, and we’re damned if he doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10869 "2017-09-03T16:18:18Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > We’re damned if he does, and we’re damned if he doesn’t. Hopefully the next guy will immediately toss it in the trash. OR hold it up to the world for ridicule. ---
**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, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10870 "2017-09-03T16:35:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I was kind of hoping he would not have the opportunity to write that letter. The only letter he is going to leave is a big “T” carved into the resolute desk. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10871 "2017-09-03T16:37:23Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Hopefully the next guy will immediately toss it in the trash. OR hold it up to the world for ridicule. What I meant was, when Loser Donnie resigns or is impeached, it will be a helluva mess that further fans the flames of sedition. If he somehow makes it through his term, we have three and a half more years of his bumbling and malice aforethought destruction of the country. ---
**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, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10872 "2017-09-03T17:16:21Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > The only letter he is going to leave is a big “T” carved into the resolute desk. And he’ll send the GSA a bill for the use of of his brand. ---
**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 3, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10873 "2017-09-03T17:16:41Z")
> [@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: Hey! That’s as long as TWO TWEETS! IOW very very very long. ---
**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 3, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10874 "2017-09-03T17:37:24Z")
Points to ponder: 1. Kim now has nuclear armed ICBM capability. 2. Trump is all “fire and fury” re. North Korea. 3. Barnum and Bailey Circus with its human cannonball cannon closed last spring. Query: would Trump fit? ---
**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, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10875 "2017-09-03T17:42:31Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Points to ponder: > > 1. Kim now has nuclear armed ICBM capability. > > 2. Trump is all “fire and fury” re. North Korea. > > 3. Barnum and Bailey Circus with its human cannonball cannon closed last spring. > > Query: would Trump fit? We can make him fit. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10876 "2017-09-03T18:13:52Z")
> [@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. Well, _lots_ of presidents have wanted to do that. ---
**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, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10877 "2017-09-03T18:34:12Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Hey! That’s as long as TWO TWEETS! IOW very very very long. Tweets are limited to 140 _characters_. Generally speaking, the average _word_ is something like 5 letters; adding in spaces, emojis, hashtags and exclamation points, it would take at least a dozen tweets for him to barf out that much text. ---
**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, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10878 "2017-09-03T18:43:18Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > the average _word_ is something like 5 letters; Probably three for the ones the Donald uses. _Sad!_ ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10879 "2017-09-03T18:49:35Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > 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! 🙂 Sberbank just happens to be owned by the government of Russia. > **[Sberbank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sberbank_of_Russia)** > > PJSC Sberbank (Russian: Сбербанк, initially a contraction of Russian: сберегательный банк, romanized: sberegatelnyy bank, lit. 'savings bank') is a Russian majority state-owned banking and financial services company headquartered in Moscow. It was called Sberbank of Russia until 2015 (currently: Sber). Sberbank has operations in several European nations, primarily post-Soviet countries. > By 2022, the bank accounted for about a third of all bank assets in Russia. The bank's rise since 1990s is i... ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10880 "2017-09-03T18:50:46Z")
> [@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 wonder who read it to him. ---
**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 3, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10881 "2017-09-03T19:06:14Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Tweets are limited to 140 _characters_. Generally speaking, the average _word_ is something like 5 letters; adding in spaces, emojis, hashtags and exclamation points, it would take at least a dozen tweets for him to barf out that much text. A \*dozen \*tweets? OMG, even longer than I thought. No wonder he couldn’t get through the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10882 "2017-09-03T19:11:33Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Points to ponder: > > 1. Kim now has nuclear armed ICBM capability. > > 2. Trump is all “fire and fury” re. North Korea. > > 3. Barnum and Bailey Circus with its human cannonball cannon closed last spring. > > Query: would Trump fit? Or Dennis Rodman… what’s he up to now that we need him? ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10883 "2017-09-03T19:17:49Z")
Giving a statement about NK now. Like all things about this WH, I prefer to wait until its done before I go in and see the wreckage, so I rarely see them live… might make an exception. ETA: Damn, must have been short. C’est la vie. Mattis only, nobody else from cabinet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=543) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=545)