# 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:** 616
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12304 "2017-10-13T15:56:23Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I just changed my mind about the Trump administration. Because Steven Mnuchin just took the time to e-mail me personally! Apparently loser international governments have been keeping my money and keeping America from being great again! > But Stevie has been strong and fought for me! > So I’m going to receive $19’500,000.00 - yes Nineteen Million Five Hindred Thousand Dollars! As soon as I send my personal info to Stevie. Make America Great Again!! Obviously a scam. Not obvious that it isn’t actually from Mnuchin. ---
**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 13, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12305 "2017-10-13T16:25:09Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Obviously a scam. > > Not obvious that it isn’t actually from Mnuchin. So Mnuchin is really a Nigerian prince? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12306 "2017-10-13T16:30:07Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > In feeble defense, that appears to have been due to his ignorance of the significance of the ceremony. But it’s telling that his first thought was that it was all about him. He’s just fucking ignorant. About everything. He’s gone through life stupid and ignorant. Why would he change now?? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12307 "2017-10-13T16:31:08Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > He…he [thinks](https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/12/trump-just-claimed-stock-market-gains-actually-offset-national-debt.html) that when the stock market goes up, the national debt goes down? What? > > Is it really that easy to **buy** a degree from an Ivy League business school? Yes - if Daddy has money. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12308 "2017-10-13T16:31:46Z")
[Trump says that he met with the President of The Virgin Islands](https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/white-house-transcript-corrects-trumps-widely-mocked-claim-he-met-with-president-of-the-virgin-islands/). ---
**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 13, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12309 "2017-10-13T16:33:16Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He’s just fucking ignorant. About everything. > > He’s gone through life stupid and ignorant. Why would he change now?? _How_ would he change now? This isn’t some fucking Dickens novel or Hollywood movie; this is real life. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12310 "2017-10-13T16:37:40Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Trump says that he met with the President of The Virgin Islands](https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/white-house-transcript-corrects-trumps-widely-mocked-claim-he-met-with-president-of-the-virgin-islands/). Well, he [consults with himself](http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/trump-foreign-policy-adviser-220853), so why not meet with himself? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12311 "2017-10-13T16:39:16Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’m calling attention to this. It’s important. Puerto Rico is part of the United States, for fuck’s sake. These are American citizens. :smack: > > Ninja’d. Trump and his cronies don’t care. If it doesn’t fill their own pockets, it doesn’t matter. We all KNEW it was gong to be this way, right from the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12312 "2017-10-13T16:43:29Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And he thinks he’s the equal of someone who actually served. > > [Snopes.](http://www.snopes.com/donald-trump-military-training-quote/) > The fact is, he is, and always was, a civilian. and a draft dodger. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12313 "2017-10-13T16:45:34Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Yes - if Daddy has money. He pulled himself up by his Daddy’s bootstraps. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12314 "2017-10-13T16:46:01Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > _How_ would he change now? This isn’t some fucking Dickens novel or Hollywood movie; this is real life. Thank you for the unexpected giggle. “Donnie Two Scoops, you will be visited by THREE SPIRITS…” Or an angel showing the Short Fingered Vulgarian what life would be like if he had never been born: “The Art Deco statues from the Bonwit Teller Building are safe in the Metropolitan Museum…you weren’t there to have them jackhammered!” “Thousands of people have a secure nest egg for their old age…you weren’t there to scam them out of their money!” “Hundreds of celebrities’ pussies went ungrabbed…you weren’t there to molest them!” “Melania never married, Donnie…she’s an OLD MAID! Without plastic surgery! In Slovenia!” ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12315 "2017-10-13T16:47:09Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Why do you think I forbade the election of any more Republican Presidents? > > I _ **was** _ prepared to accept responsibility for the planet falling into the sun, if it ever happened, provided the Pubbies were denied the White House forever. No more. > > Also, you seem to be giving Little Ronnie Rea-shit a pass in the rogue’s gallery listed above.\* Any particular reason? > > \*I have to admit, putting them in alphabetical order was a nice touch. Ronnie RayGun was a real piece of work. He brought us that trickle down supply side voodoo economics bullshit. He introduced the dumping of the old sick and insane onto the streets. He opened the door for Robertson, Falwell, and all the other religious freaks. He also was the one who was first and foremost in deliberately ignoring what would become an AIDS epidemic. Now people talk as if he was a saint or something. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12316 "2017-10-13T16:54:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Trump says that he met with the President of The Virgin Islands](https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/white-house-transcript-corrects-trumps-widely-mocked-claim-he-met-with-president-of-the-virgin-islands/). God, what an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12317 "2017-10-13T17:02:40Z")
No fair! The President of the Virgin Islands has no way to answer such a slur as “idiot”! There is nothing he can…wait, _she_ can?..what gender are people who don’t exist? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12318 "2017-10-13T17:09:08Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > “Melania never married, Donnie…she’s an OLD MAID! Without plastic surgery! In Slovenia!” And seems much much happier this way. ---
**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 13, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12319 "2017-10-13T17:11:54Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I have to wonder if he’s the only person in the Department who’s allowed to write anything in green ink. And if he only identifies himself by his initials, saving the use of his full name for situations in which he is under duress by enemy combatants who have captured him. Been reading Kingsley Amis’ _Colonel Sun_, have we? Trump isn’t my idea of M. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12320 "2017-10-13T17:12:00Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > And seems much much happier this way. No doubt. Ljubljana is quite a beautiful city. And barely anything is covered in gilt. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12321 "2017-10-13T17:21:02Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > God, what an idiot. But wait, it gets better. Trump was speaking at the _Values Voters Summit._ Values Voters! For serial adulterer, “grab 'em by the pussy,” Donald Trump. Bwahahahahahah. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12322 "2017-10-13T17:23:14Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > But wait, it gets better. Trump was speaking at the _Values Voters Summit._ Values Voters! For serial adulterer, “grab 'em by the pussy,” Donald Trump. Bwahahahahahah. I wonder if he quoted Two Corinthians. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/12323 "2017-10-13T17:29:02Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > No fair! The President of the Virgin Islands has no way to answer such a slur as “idiot”! There is nothing he can…wait, _she_ can?..what gender are people who don’t exist? Come now - the President of the Virgin Islands is a short-fingered vulgarian (assuming we’re talking about the US Virgin Islands). He can tweet a response any time Kelly gives him his phone back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=615) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=617)