# 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:** 590
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11784 "2017-10-03T19:42:18Z")
He’s [Stuart Best](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDSILA_AGeQ&t=13m38s) without the integrity. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11785 "2017-10-03T20:08:36Z")
[Edgar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmYoMIrYZxI). ---
**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:** [October 3, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11786 "2017-10-03T23:20:13Z")
The US votes against a UN resolution condemning the death penalty for homosexuality. > **[U.S. Votes Against U.N. Ban On Death Penalty For Homosexuality](https://www.logotv.com/news/txxu56/u-s-votes-against-u-n-ban-on-death-penalty-for-homosexuality)** > > We were joined by Iraq, China and Saudi Arabia. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11787 "2017-10-03T23:24:02Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > He’s [Stuart Best](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDSILA_AGeQ&t=13m38s) without the integrity. Chauncey Gardiner without the innocence. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11788 "2017-10-03T23:25:54Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The US votes against a UN resolution condemning the death penalty for homosexuality. > [http://www.newnownext.com/u-s-votes-against-u-n-ban-on-death-penalty-for-homosexuality/10/2017/](http://www.newnownext.com/u-s-votes-against-u-n-ban-on-death-penalty-for-homosexuality/10/2017/) > [@](#): > > The resolution doesn’t call for the end to capital punishment altogether, but asks member nations not to use it in a “discriminatory manner”—including against **against minors** and pregnant women, or for blasphemy and consensual same-sex relations. It was more important to them that they can keep sending 17 year olds to the chair… ---
**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:** [October 4, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11789 "2017-10-04T00:27:22Z")
Not even sure what he was talking about, but Trump went to Puerto Rico and started talking about invisible airplanes. > **[Trump's Puerto Rican Air Ball](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12774237/trumps-puerto-rico-budget-comment/)** > > Another day, another cringe. > **[Trump praises fighter jet unrelated to relief efforts while on Puerto Rico trip](https://thehill.com/policy/defense/353715-trump-praises-fighter-jet-unrelated-to-relief-efforts-while-on-puerto-rico/)** > > President Trump on Tuesday launched into an extended appraisal of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter during a visit to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, even though the fighter jet isn’t involved in t… ---
**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:** [October 4, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11790 "2017-10-04T00:29:10Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > It feels like Trump has observed humans, but can’t quite capture any human qualities. It’s like our country is being run by Beldar Conehead, but without the intelligence. Or the funny “French” accent. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11791 "2017-10-04T00:40:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Not even sure what he was talking about, but Trump went to Puerto Rico and started talking about invisible airplanes. Wonder Woman _could_ be helping out, y’know. She’s even almost kinda vaguely light-brownish. (Plus - a slightly funny Frenchly accent.) ---
**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:** [October 4, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11792 "2017-10-04T00:45:23Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > It was more important to them that they can keep sending 17 year olds to the chair… I think it was the blasphemy part. I mean, that nuisance First Amendment May yet be repealed. Gotta keep our options open. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11793 "2017-10-04T00:46:57Z")
“Ms Woman, do you deny that you murdered the President with this rope?” “Well, its the Lasso of Truth, and I didn’t throw it around his neck but his middle…” “And then what happened?” “Fuckin’ burst into flames! Yelled something that might have been ‘Bitch!!’, but I couldn’t hear and didn’t care.” ---
**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:** [October 4, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11794 "2017-10-04T00:54:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [http://thehill.com/policy/defense/353715-trump-praises-fighter-jet-unrelated-to-relief-efforts-while-on-puerto-rico](http://thehill.com/policy/defense/353715-trump-praises-fighter-jet-unrelated-to-relief-efforts-while-on-puerto-rico) > [@](#): > > Lockheed announced in February that it would sell the new batch of F-35s for a total of $8.5 billion, a nearly 8 percent decrease over the last batch of aircraft that was delivered. > > Shortly thereafter and several times since, Trump took credit for the driving down the price per aircraft. Analysts and Pentagon insiders, however, have said the price would have come down already, regardless of Trump’s involvement. Literally no thing that comes out of OSG’s mouth can be believed. If someone were to nail his nose with one of those oversize golf driver things in full swing and he were to say “ow!” I doubt I could believe 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:** [October 4, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11795 "2017-10-04T03:00:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Literally no thing that comes out of OSG’s mouth can be believed. If someone were to nail his nose with one of those oversize golf driver things in full swing and he were to say “ow!” I doubt I could believe him. And people think he’s not good at anything! When it comes to lying, he it The Best! The Best, Biggest, Most Hurtful, Most Confusing Lies EVER! WTG, Mr. President! You are a winner when it comes to lying. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11796 "2017-10-04T05:14:27Z")
I expect he’ll do better in Vegas tomorrow because so far it looks like largely white people in that disaster. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11797 "2017-10-04T07:04:57Z")
The audience was racially mixed and so were the dead. I’m sure he thinks of them all as white. His reality wins. Las Vegas has hotels and golf courses though, and bling-bling baby. Really more his scene. He’ll be great. Bigly ratings. The best! He is such an embarrassment, which is a wholly inadequate word in this circumstance. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11798 "2017-10-04T07:51:25Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I expect he’ll do better in Vegas tomorrow because so far it looks like largely white people in that disaster. “So sorry about the tragedy I heard about. Still won’t give me a casino. And… and, no applause yet, but I’m buying Mandalay Bay no matter what and making sure this doesn’t happen again! Now… applause is welcome. Thanks. Thank you. Boy, only 59 deaths. If this were a real tragedy…” I expect nothing better than this. Why should anyone? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11799 "2017-10-04T11:04:54Z")
[Looks like we can start the Tillerson resignation pool.](https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/04/tillerson-called-trump-a-moron-says-report.html) > [@](#): > > The U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson openly referred to President Donald Trump “a moron” after a July 20 meeting at the Pentagon, according to NBC News who cited multiple senior administration officials. > > According to three separate officials, Tillerson made the comment in front of members of Trump’s national security team and Cabinet officials. The report also claims Tillerson was on the verge of resigning this summer and had to be talked out of it by Vice President Mike Pence. > > Officials said the tensions reached a high point around the time Trump gave a politicized speech to the Boy Scouts of America in late July. Tillerson was once leader of the youth organization. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11800 "2017-10-04T11:08:07Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > [Looks like we can start the Tillerson resignation pool.](https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/04/tillerson-called-trump-a-moron-says-report.html) I’m giving him until November 1. Thanksgiving at the longest. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11801 "2017-10-04T12:10:42Z")
So Price is out, Tillerson may be next. At this pace Jared will end up Secretary of Everything. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11802 "2017-10-04T12:27:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Not even sure what he was talking about, but Trump went to Puerto Rico and started talking about invisible airplanes. > [http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12774237/trumps-puerto-rico-budget-comment/](http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12774237/trumps-puerto-rico-budget-comment/) > > [http://thehill.com/policy/defense/353715-trump-praises-fighter-jet-unrelated-to-relief-efforts-while-on-puerto-rico](http://thehill.com/policy/defense/353715-trump-praises-fighter-jet-unrelated-to-relief-efforts-while-on-puerto-rico) “Ooh! Not Shiny!” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/11803 "2017-10-04T12:36:13Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > So Price is out, Tillerson may be next. At this pace Jared will end up Secretary of Everything. That’s why he needs so many email accounts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=589) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=591)