# 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:** 565
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11284 "2017-09-20T14:40:48Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > … and the forty thieves. That would be the Alabama Legislature… ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11285 "2017-09-20T16:13:32Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > You know somebody thought of that, right? Yeah, sorry, not really good enough. It needs more than a time stamp. I need to see exactly what Kelly was doing, and not just a 1/500sec grab that may or may not be representative of his response to the speech. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11286 "2017-09-20T16:43:26Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Jeez, don’t you libtards even know Asmodeusetelian logic? > > - Taxes is evil. > - Refugees pays teh taxes > - Therefour refugees is teh evil. OMG! It’s been right there, right in front of me the entire time! 😃 ---
**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 20, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11287 "2017-09-20T16:50:29Z")
Still, look at the second image, where Kelly is eating his knuckles. That is not an image of a person who is fired up and enthusiastic about orangeshitgibbon’s performance. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11288 "2017-09-20T16:50:32Z")
Is it just me, or did Trump’s face look awfully red during that speech? Our little problem might just solve itself. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11289 "2017-09-20T16:51:16Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Yeah, sorry, not really good enough. It needs more than a time stamp. I need to see exactly what Kelly was doing, and not just a 1/500sec grab that may or may not be representative of his response to the speech. I’m with **mhendo** on this one. I look that way at any meeting lasting longer than 15 minutes. ---
**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 20, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11290 "2017-09-20T17:53:03Z")
Sarah Huckabee said Kelly’s just tired from all of the work he’s doing for the country. ---
**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 20, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11291 "2017-09-20T17:58:42Z")
Trump aide Keith Schiller is leaving his White House position, claiming he can’t make it on his meager $165,000 salary. > **[Longtime Trump aide Keith Schiller tells people he intends to leave White...](https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/01/politics/keith-schiller-donald-trump/index.html)** > > President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller has told people he intends to leave the White House, three sources familiar with the decision told CNN. ---
**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 20, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11292 "2017-09-20T18:06:46Z")
You guys, time stamps are irrelevant. It’s all about where Kelly is touching his face. Touching his chin: “Things are pretty good.” Touching his nose: “Not bad.” Touching his forehead: “I gotta get outta here.” ---
**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 20, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11293 "2017-09-20T18:09:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump aide Keith Schiller is leaving his White House position, claiming he can’t make it on his meager $165,000 salary. > [http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/01/politics/keith-schiller-donald-trump/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/01/politics/keith-schiller-donald-trump/index.html) All the bribes and re-directed money he expected never materialized. ---
**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 20, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11294 "2017-09-20T18:46:31Z")
Has Trump made any comments about either Mexican earthquake? ---
**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 20, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11295 "2017-09-20T19:00:14Z")
Trump’s nominee for a federal judgeship in Texas described transgender children as evidence of “Satan’s plan,” lamented that states were banning conversion therapy and argued that sanctioning same-sex marriage would lead to polygamy and bestiality. > **[Trump judicial nominee said transgender children are part of 'Satan's plan',...](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/09/20/politics/kfile-jeff-mateer-lgbt-remarks/index.html)** ---
**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 20, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11296 "2017-09-20T19:04:02Z")
[Trump pledged to devote everything “within [his] heart and within [his] soul” to get a Mideast peace deal.](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/20/trump-mideast-peace-israel-palestine-242928?cmpid=sf) I think it’s gonna take more than cobwebs, dead flies and the fiery stench of Satan to get that done. ---
**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 20, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11297 "2017-09-20T19:17:06Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I think it’s gonna take more than cobwebs, dead flies and the fiery stench of Satan to get that done. It starts with him telling Jared to call some Imirs that stayed in Trump Towers. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11298 "2017-09-20T19:30:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Has Trump made any comments about either Mexican earthquake? Some office staffer probably arranged a call and did a “thoughts and prayers”-style tweet. I can’t recall that Trump made any reference to it in recent speeches. [http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/trump-mexico-earthquake-twitter-response-242890](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/trump-mexico-earthquake-twitter-response-242890) and [Donald Trump responds to Mexico City earthquake: 'We are with you' | The Independent | The Independent](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-mexico-city-earthquake-response-tweet-latest-news-updates-us-president-god-bless-a7956351.html) ---
**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 20, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11299 "2017-09-20T19:52:24Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Has Trump made any comments about either Mexican earthquake? > [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Some office staffer probably arranged a call and did a “thoughts and prayers”-style tweet. I can’t recall that Trump made any reference to it in recent speeches. > [http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/trump-mexico-earthquake-twitter-response-242890](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/trump-mexico-earthquake-twitter-response-242890) and [Donald Trump responds to Mexico City earthquake: 'We are with you' | The Independent | The Independent](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-mexico-city-earthquake-response-tweet-latest-news-updates-us-president-god-bless-a7956351.html) My guess is that his instincts tell him his base doesn’t want to hear him expressing sympathy for Mexicans. Silence is the prudent choice. ---
**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 20, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11300 "2017-09-20T20:05:33Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > [Trump pledged to devote everything “within [his] heart and within [his] soul” to get a Mideast peace deal.](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/20/trump-mideast-peace-israel-palestine-242928?cmpid=sf) > > I think it’s gonna take more than cobwebs, dead flies and the fiery stench of Satan to get that done. You give him more credit than I do; I’da thought there was nothing in at least one of those two places. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11301 "2017-09-20T20:06:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Has Trump made any comments about either Mexican earthquake? Yes. [http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/351548-trump-speaks-with-mexican-president-after-major-earthquake](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/351548-trump-speaks-with-mexican-president-after-major-earthquake) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11302 "2017-09-20T20:07:35Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > My guess is that his instincts tell him his base doesn’t want to hear him expressing sympathy for Mexicans. Silence is the prudent choice. Trump condemned in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of natural disaster on many sides, on many sides. It has been going on for a long time in our country – not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. It has been going on for a long, long time. It has no place in America. What about the ‘hurricanes’ that came charging at, as you say, the ‘earthquakes,’ do they have any semblance of guilt? What about the fact they came charging with winds blowing, throwing debris, do they have any problem? I think they do. You had a natural disaster on one side that was bad and you had a natural disaster on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11303 "2017-09-20T20:20:08Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > What about the ‘hurricanes’ that came charging at, as you say, the 'earthquakes, And some of them, I’m sure, are good weather systems. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=564) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=566)