# 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:** 545
**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, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10884 "2017-09-03T19:38:05Z")
> **[North Korea nuclear test: South Korea says it expects further missile launches...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/03/north-korea-nuclear-test-south-korea-yohap-kim-jong-un-live)** > > Seoul is poised to give green light to install four more batteries of controversial Thaad system amid tensions with Pyongyang > [@](#): > > Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. > > We had a small-group national security meeting today with the president and the vice president about the latest provocation on the Korean peninsula. > > We have many military options and the president wanted to be briefed on each one of them. > > We made clear that we have the ability to defend ourselves and our allies, South Korea and Japan, from any attack and our commitments among the allies are iron-clad. Any threat to the United States or its territories including Guam, or our allies, will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. > > Kim Jong-un should take heed of the United Nations security council’s unified voice, all members unanimously agreed on the threat North Korea poses, and they remain unanimous in their commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. > > Because we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea, but as I said we have many options to do so. > > Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. ---
**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 3, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10885 "2017-09-03T19:48:41Z")
Either the gloves are off, or, this is simply more posturing and aggressive rhetoric by the Turnip administration. I simply can’t tell anymore. ---
**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, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10886 "2017-09-03T19:48:54Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > We need a WritingPrompt for the letter from Trump to his successor. What makes you think he will have a successor? ---
**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, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10887 "2017-09-03T20:00:06Z")
Trump threatens to stop all trade with countries doing business with North Korea. What does he think stopping trade with China would do to the US economy? > **[Mattis warns of 'massive military response' if North Korea threatens attack](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-north-korea-nuclear-242289)** > > Trump also lashes out at South Korea and China for not doing enough to confront the rogue state. ---
**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, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10888 "2017-09-03T20:01:50Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Or Dennis Rodman… what’s he up to now that we need him? Well…when Rex Tillerson quits… ---
**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 3, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10889 "2017-09-03T20:14:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump threatens to stop all trade with countries doing business with North Korea. What does he think stopping trade with China would do to the US economy? > [http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-north-korea-nuclear-242289](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-north-korea-nuclear-242289) He doesn’t think. He just says any damned fool thing that pops into his Turnip brain. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10890 "2017-09-03T20:38:26Z")
> [@Hocus\_Pocus](#): > > NK has now successfully (allegedly) tested a 10 ktn H-bomb. > > Heckuva job negotiating there, Donnie! Not a problem. Loser Donnie will just threaten to cut off all trading with China (“It’s pronounced ‘Jina’”) Threats and bluster will solve the problem! That’s pretty much Loser Donnie’s go-to strategy for business (actually the only strategy, together with “don’t pay your bills”) This is why Loser Donnie’s recent threats to stop renegotiating NAFTA have been [greeted with yawns or silence from Canada and Mexico.](http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/31/as-nafta-talks-restart-canada-and-mexico-are-unfazed-by-trumps-threats/) Loser Donnie’s bullshit bluffs are obvious and laughable. ---
**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 3, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10891 "2017-09-03T20:41:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump threatens to stop all trade with countries doing business with North Korea. What does he think stopping trade with China would do to the US economy? > [http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-north-korea-nuclear-242289](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-north-korea-nuclear-242289) It’ll make all those jobs and factories come back? ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10892 "2017-09-03T21:03:09Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Is [that other](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/white-house-aide-omarosa-being-forced-out-by-kelly-for-getting-trump-worked-up-over-negative-press-report/) reality TV loud-mouth know-nothing the next to get the ax? That is fucking hilarious. He employs at the highest level of government a Snapchat journalist. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10893 "2017-09-03T21:08:59Z")
> [@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: Yes, but they’re really long words. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10894 "2017-09-03T21:15:40Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > We can make him fit. The previous human cannonball was really one of kind, though. I’m afraid we’'ll never find another man of his caliber. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10895 "2017-09-03T21:44:45Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Yes, but they’re really long words. And there were no pictures in it _at all_. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10896 "2017-09-03T21:45:18Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > The previous human cannonball was really one of kind, though. I’m afraid we’'ll never find another man of his caliber. You should be shot for that.😉 ---
**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, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10897 "2017-09-03T21:52:27Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > 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. If you mean the people who keep threatening rebellion and civil war… Let them. And then arrest them and charge them with every damn thing imaginable … incitement, rebellion, sedition, treason, etc etc etc. But THIS time they don’t get a statue in the park, they don’t get a “reconstruction”, they get a life long prison sentence with no hope of bail/early release/parole/ anything. They get to die in prison. Hopefully with hard labor at Leavenworth. But I am betting they don’t have the guts to actually DO it. They are most likely a bunch of “the crying Nazi” types. ---
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10898 "2017-09-03T21:53:10Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You should be shot for that.😉 Surely he was loaded when he wrote it. ---
**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 3, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10899 "2017-09-03T22:01:27Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > The previous human cannonball was really one of kind, though. I’m afraid we’'ll never find another man of his caliber. He was also really shy. It took a solid kick in the butt to get him to come out of his shell. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10900 "2017-09-03T22:06:05Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You should be shot for that.😉 I think just fired would be sufficient. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10901 "2017-09-03T22:09:55Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > If you mean the people who keep threatening rebellion and civil war… > > … they get a life long prison sentence with no hope of bail/early release/parole/ anything. They get to die in prison. Hopefully with hard labor at Leavenworth. > > … Wait until Jeffery Foghorn Sessions catches wind of your plan- you are advocating treating them harsher than actual drug user convicts! ---
**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, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10902 "2017-09-03T22:14:24Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He was also really shy. It took a solid kick in the butt to get him to come out of his shell. Speaking of getting someone to come out of his shell (thanks for that segue)… Mitch “Turtle” McConnell has been rather silent these days. Where is he? Plotting and scheming? Rest cure? Having a chin installed? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/10903 "2017-09-03T22:45:02Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > The previous human cannonball was really one of kind, though. I’m afraid we’'ll never find another man of his caliber. I had an idea for an episode of _CSI_. Someone is killed at a circus convention when a human cannonball lands on him, and the CSI team has to run ballistics tests to find out which cannon he was fired from. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=544) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=546)