# 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:** 560
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11184 "2017-09-15T15:52:13Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Ann Coulter has suggested that it’s time to [impeach](http://theweek.com/speedreads/724580/ann-coulter-calls-trumps-impeachment-president-pence-series-brutal-tweets) Trump. This is interesting. Assuming that Trump has a strategy, and is not just pinballing from one idea to the next (bear with me, here): it’s a really stupid strategy. If he thinks he can broaden his appeal by pivoting to the left–it’s hopeless. Democrats and independents have written him off based on every other position he’s ever espoused and every other action he’s ever taken. So now he’s just pissing off his base. But we’ll see, when the next polls come out. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11185 "2017-09-15T16:20:02Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Since I don’t want her stink on my computer, can you tell me what she said? “At this point, who DOESN’T want Trump impeached?” “If we’re not getting a wall, I’d prefer President Pence.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11186 "2017-09-15T16:22:05Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Most people want Trump impeached because he’s so awful. Coulter wants him impeached because he isn’t awful enough. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11187 "2017-09-15T16:29:41Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Most people want Trump impeached because he’s so awful. Coulter wants him impeached because he isn’t awful enough. Coulter’s been critical of Trump for awhile now, especially in regards to immigration. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11188 "2017-09-15T16:54:34Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Coulter’s been critical of Trump for awhile now, especially in regards to immigration. Yes I know. The reason being Trump isn’t awful enough for that Nazi bitch. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11189 "2017-09-15T17:35:53Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Yes I know. The reason being Trump isn’t awful enough for that Nazi bitch. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11190 "2017-09-15T18:07:00Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Since I don’t want her stink on my computer, can you tell me what she said? The most direct says: > [@GuanoPsychosis Woman](#): > > At this point, who DOESN’T want Trump impeached? and > [@](#): > > If we’re not getting a wall, I’d prefer President Pence. ---
**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 15, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11191 "2017-09-15T18:11:12Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He may be gone but he’s not forgotten. > [Anthony Scaramucci wants paternity test for newborn son](http://start.att.net/news/read/article/page_six-anthony_scaramucci_wants_paternity_test_for_newbor-rnypost) > [@Catamount](#): > > In a surprise twist, the test reveals the baby’s father is Steve Mnuchin. :eek: > [@k9bfriender](#): > > And the mother is Kellyanne Conway. Coming to a Maury Povitch baby-daddy episode near you! ---
**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 15, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11192 "2017-09-15T18:37:55Z")
An anti-Trump Super PAC has filed an ethics complaint against Sarah Huckabee for calling for the firing of Jemele Hill, citing the Hatch Act, which prevents employees of the Executive Branch from interfering with the employment of a person who works for a private entity. > **[Sarah Huckabee Sanders Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Call for ESPN to Fire...](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/09/15/sarah-huckabee-sanders-hit-with-ethics-complaint-over-call-for-espn-to-fire-jemele-hill/23210648/)** > > "She crossed the line and put herself in dubious legal territory," Democratic Coalition Chairman Jon Cooper says ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11193 "2017-09-15T18:59:05Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. \ Has it occurred to anyone else that there’s at least one generation old enough to vote who has no idea what this idiom even _means_? \ ---
**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 15, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11194 "2017-09-15T19:07:36Z")
[del]Disinfected[/del] Disaffected Trump supporters burning their [del]magic[/del] MAGA hats is now a thing, with its [own BBC article](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41279520). ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11195 "2017-09-15T19:18:38Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > [del]Disinfected[/del] Disaffected Trump supporters burning their [del]magic[/del] MAGA hats is now a thing, with its [own BBC article](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41279520). And of course they’re doing it for the wrong reasons. Surprise, surprise. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11196 "2017-09-15T19:19:36Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > There are a couple of things about that wedding (which skipped my notice when it happened back in June) that make me roll my eyes and laugh. > > [Photos: Extravagant Wedding of Steven Mnuchin, Actress Louise Linton - Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-mnuchin-louise-linton-wedding-dress-trump-pence-photos-2017-6/#commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-was-there-he-accidentally-let-it-slip-that-mnuchin-was-getting-married-earlier-in-the-week-when-he-introduced-his-friend-for-a-speech-10) > > The bride is in her mid-thirties and it’s not her first marriage. Yet she wore an over the top Cinderella wedding dress and…in her words…heaps of diamonds. From the Business Insider account – Linton reportedly wore a pile of jewelry including a tiara, a diamond necklace, pearl drop earrings, multiple diamond rings, diamond bracelets and, of course, her giant Oval diamond engagement ring. > > I’m thinking Lintons jewelry pieces could serve the same function as the rings on a tree stump. Count them and you’ll know how many times she has sex with Mnuchin. (Funny side note - I just had quite the wrestling match with autocorrect to keep Mnuchin from being changed to Munchkin.) > > But, back to the wedding … Mike Pence officiated. Now I guess maybe Vice Presidents are like sea captains or something but more likely it’s just like …Oh, Pence is the religious White House guy and he’ll look distinguished in the photos so he’s the obvious choice. Even though Mnuchin is Jewish. > > And the official wedding portraits show the Mnuchins with the Trumps and Pences. Now, I know most people that get married are photographed with their boss and his second in command… no, actually normal people are photographed with their families. Which are no where to be found in the photos. Maybe because they’re Jewish. And possibly embarrassed. I am, unapologetically, a guy and a goy. I can but laugh. ---
**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 15, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11197 "2017-09-15T19:23:51Z")
The video of the kid burning his MAGA hat in the BBC link above is especially amusing as he places the flaming headwear on a glass table in his house. I imagine his parents will not be best pleased to see the inevitable scorch marks. His idiocy kind of sums up Trump supporters. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11198 "2017-09-15T19:40:08Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > There are a couple of things about that wedding (which skipped my notice when it happened back in June) that make me roll my eyes and laugh. > > [Photos: Extravagant Wedding of Steven Mnuchin, Actress Louise Linton - Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-mnuchin-louise-linton-wedding-dress-trump-pence-photos-2017-6/#commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-was-there-he-accidentally-let-it-slip-that-mnuchin-was-getting-married-earlier-in-the-week-when-he-introduced-his-friend-for-a-speech-10) > > The bride is in her mid-thirties and it’s not her first marriage. Yet she wore an over the top Cinderella wedding dress and…in her words…heaps of diamonds. I know, right. If only she was a proper lady and had the shame to keep herself in the kitchen like a real woman would. And how dare she fall in love in again. Only whores do that. ---
**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 15, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11199 "2017-09-15T19:47:58Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I know, right. If only she was a proper lady and had the shame to keep herself in the kitchen like a real woman would. And how dare she fall in love in again. Only whores do that. **Drunky** , you’re not even a good troll. Just pulling the old switcheroo isn’t going to do the job. That’s just lazy. ---
**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 15, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11200 "2017-09-15T20:21:20Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > **Drunky** , you’re not even a good troll. Just pulling the old switcheroo isn’t going to do the job. That’s just lazy. I don’t think he’s going for "troll"l… I get more of a “drooling idiot” vibe from his posts. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11201 "2017-09-15T20:34:20Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I don’t think he’s going for "troll"l… > > I get more of a “drooling idiot” vibe from his posts. I think you’re being a wee bit too kind there. ---
**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 15, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11202 "2017-09-15T20:42:59Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I read the entire story. The best part was when he managed to mention how the plastic gloves he was given ( I think they had him handing out food ) were too small for his big giant hands. It’s like the Saudis putting his picture on a building, or the Poles busing in people paid to cheer for him: if you have a disaster for which you need funding, and you know Donald could bollix it up if he’s not well-entertained and flattered while visiting—then you make sure to order some child-size plastic gloves, to hand him while the cameras are rolling. ---
**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 15, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11203 "2017-09-15T20:48:26Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > \ Has it occurred to anyone else that there’s at least one generation old enough to vote who has no idea what this idiom even _means_? \ Hmmm… well, it applies to digital clocks, too, right? But I often think things like this, especially when I’m working the NYTimes mini crossword puzzle on my kindle. (“Would a 20-year old get this clue?”) Carry on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=559) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=561)