# 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:** 584
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11664 "2017-09-30T00:19:06Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Price is rotten to his core, but yes, I’m sure they’ll find another disgusting bottom feeder to take the job. I mean, look who the Senate Judiciary Committee just approved as the head of the DOJ Criminal Division. [Brian Benczkowski, a lawyer who represented Alfa Bank (ties to Putin), and who has no prosecutorial experience](https://www.courthousenews.com/judiciary-committee-approves-trump-pick-doj-crime-chief/). (Courthouse News) > > This is the person who will decide which cases the Justice Department will prosecute. And which they won’t. Coulda been worse. He could have appointed [Robert Mericle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal). Who also may have no prosecutorial experience. Or be a lawyer. I can’t tell. Or maybe he’s saving him for later. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11665 "2017-09-30T00:21:33Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Is it too early to agree this administration is the most corrupt in American history? Well, it’s too early to predict precisely how low the bar needs to be set, so the next Pubbie president knows where to set his sights. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11666 "2017-09-30T00:29:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > \*\*I’d appreciate it if someone would point out anything relevant I’ve missed in **Robot Arm** ’s posting history. I don’t think you’re missing anything. RA did nothing wrong. ---
**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 30, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11667 "2017-09-30T00:31:00Z")
> [@PatriotX](#): > > That was pretty funny. > I wish I had an appropriate come back The appropriate response is: “_I am a physicist_[sup]_[/sup]_. I cut in four dimensions: Long, Wide, Deep and Repeatedly\*.” [sup]\*[/sup]even if you are not a physicist, it is still a good comeback ---
**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 30, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11668 "2017-09-30T00:51:18Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Honestly, reading this, I feel I need a program. **Robot Arm** has not struck me in the past as a particularly avid supporter of the America-hating fuckstick currently defiling the Oval Office\*. Or, verily, as any kind of supporter. I’m not a supporter of Trump; I think his conduct (political, professional, and personal) has been almost universally abhorrent. Nor do I agree with modern conservatism. I just hate the idea that other people’s pain or frustration is ever cause for celebration. But your post is still interesting. 20,000 posts over 17 years and apparently I haven’t made much of an impression. Maybe it is the people who are the most strident who get noticed and remembered. I deeply dislike that idea, but I can’t say that it’s false, either. > [@jsgoddess](#): > > I don’t think you’re missing anything. RA did nothing wrong. Thank you. ---
**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 30, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11669 "2017-09-30T01:39:02Z")
Not that you haven’t made much of an impression, just that you didn’t make an impression _as a Trump supporter_. Feel better? 😃 ---
**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 30, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11670 "2017-09-30T01:46:30Z")
> [@Crybaby\_Boobie](#): > > See, this is why the thread title can never go away. The administration is forever re-clusterfuckering. It’s the Möbius strip of clusterfucking. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11671 "2017-09-30T01:53:03Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > It’s the Möbius strip of clusterfucking. Klein bottle. Remember Occupy White House himself, according to him, thinks in _four_ dimensions. ---
**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 30, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11672 "2017-09-30T02:04:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Klein bottle. Remember Occupy White House himself, according to him, thinks in _four_ dimensions. A Klein bottle is two dimensional with no boundaries. Which _really_ describes The Howling Yam. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11673 "2017-09-30T02:11:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > A Klein bottle is two dimensional with no boundaries. Which _really_ describes The Howling Yam. True, true. But there are interesting 4D issues with the Klein. There is, in reality, nothing interesting about the mental midget in question. ---
**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 30, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11674 "2017-09-30T02:26:54Z")
Elaine Duke, acting Secretary of Homeland Security, was on TV spouting off about how the government’s actions in Puerto Rico are “a really good news story.” Unfortunately for her, the mayor of San Juan was listening in, and she replied, “Dammit, this is not a good news story.” > **[San Juan mayor outraged after DHS chief calls Hurricane Maria relief 'a good...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/29/acting-homeland-security-director-calls-reach-hurricane-maria-a-good-news-story-mayor-san-juan-outra/716464001/#)** > > Mayor of San Juan says acting homeland security director should come see the devastation herself after calling hurricane relief reach "a good news story" ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11675 "2017-09-30T03:14:57Z")
Did she mean…good news…story or good…news story? Because the latter I could see. ---
**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 30, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11676 "2017-09-30T03:31:25Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Not that you haven’t made much of an impression, just that you didn’t make an impression _as a Trump supporter_. Feel better? 😃 I suppose I still wonder how often I’m remembered around here, but I appreciate the thought. ---
**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 30, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11677 "2017-09-30T03:51:25Z")
Accept that you and I are only as memorable as our last posts. As in, unmemorable. ☹ ---
**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 30, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11678 "2017-09-30T04:53:25Z")
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke: “Every time I travel, I submit the travel plan to the ethics department, who then evaluates it line by line **to make sure that I am above the law** , and I follow the law." > **[Zinke calls flight controversy ‘a little BS’](https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/353113-zinke-calls-flight-controversy-a-little-bs/)** > > Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke defended his past charter and military flights Friday, calling the controversy surrounding them “a little BS.”Zinke prefaced his prepared remarks by saying: ̶… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11679 "2017-09-30T11:51:49Z")
Price has resigned, rather than face a bleak future of flying commercial like a common peasant. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11680 "2017-09-30T12:58:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke: “Every time I travel, I submit the travel plan to the ethics department, who then evaluates it line by line **to make sure that I am above the law** , and I follow the law." > [http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/353113-zinke-calls-flight-controversy-a-little-bs](http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/353113-zinke-calls-flight-controversy-a-little-bs) Clumsy bit of misspeaking; more appropriate terms could have been “above **board** ,” “above **reproach** ,” or “above **suspicion**.” Personally, I’m satisfied that his intended meaning was within that range, and that this is a nothingburger. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11681 "2017-09-30T13:44:55Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Clumsy bit of misspeaking; more appropriate terms could have been “above **board** ,” “above **reproach** ,” or “above **suspicion**.” Personally, I’m satisfied that his intended meaning was within that range, and that this is a nothingburger. Yeah, it was nothing–but it was a really unfortunate phrase to stumble into, since it gives exactly the opposite meaning of what he intended. You usually only hear the phrase “above the law” when it follows "no one is … ". ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11682 "2017-09-30T15:42:55Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I suppose I still wonder how often I’m remembered around here, but I appreciate the thought. You’re C-3PO’s red arm. Like ‘WTF was that all about?’ 😃 Just kidding, came to mind as the obvious robot arm joke. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11683 "2017-09-30T20:06:11Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I suppose I still wonder how often I’m remembered around here, but I appreciate the thought. Oh you’re remembered. Just not for your political views. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=583) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=585)