# 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:** 672
**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:** [November 10, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13425 "2017-11-10T15:24:40Z")
Well, [nepotism is alive and well](https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/351401/kyle-yunaska-eric-trump-brother-in-law-department-energy/) with the orange fecal matter running the show. Next, I just saw Trump’s speech where he practically gave President Xi a blow job. The orange crap congratulated China for what orangey considers damaging the American economy. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13426 "2017-11-10T18:31:04Z")
This is kind of off-topic, but it doesn’t really rate a thread of its own… Last night I did a google search for “Chauncey Gardener”[sic], the character played by Peter Sellers in _Being There_. The search results main image was of The Donald, which I thought was pretty hilarious. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13427 "2017-11-10T19:14:00Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Well, [nepotism is alive and well](https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/351401/kyle-yunaska-eric-trump-brother-in-law-department-energy/) with the orange fecal matter running the show. > > Next, I just saw Trump’s speech where he practically gave President Xi a blow job. The orange crap congratulated China for what orangey considers damaging the American economy. > > WTF? He just says what he thinks the person he’s talking to wants to hear so that person thinks highly of him. Don’t look for any sort of factual or ideological consistency in Trump’s words, they’re garbage. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13428 "2017-11-10T20:11:11Z")
In a new [interview with GQ Magazine](https://www.gq.com/story/inside-donald-trumps-election-night-war-room), Sean Spicer says, about his actions on Election Night, “A group of us gathered on the fifth floor of Trump Tower in what could be described as basically an oversized utility room.” At the time, Spicer was a paid employee of the Republican National Committee. It was illegal for a paid employee of the Party to be in that room because of a Consent Decree between the Republican Party and the federal government involving previous Republican involvement in attempts to suppress black votes. There were, literally, signs leading to the room saying that Party employees were not allowed to be there. But Spicey went there anyway. > **[Spicer’s election-night memories cause anxiety in GOP](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/10/sean-spicer-gq-magazine-story-fallout-244784)** > > Spicer highlighted his presence on the fifth floor of Trump Tower, but party employees were given strict instructions not to go there. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13429 "2017-11-10T20:27:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > In a new [interview with GQ Magazine](https://www.gq.com/story/inside-donald-trumps-election-night-war-room), Sean Spicer says, about his actions on Election Night, “A group of us gathered on the fifth floor of Trump Tower in what could be described as basically an oversized utility room.” At the time, Spicer was a paid employee of the Republican National Committee. It was illegal for a paid employee of the Party to be in that room because of a Consent Decree between the Republican Party and the federal government involving previous Republican involvement in attempts to suppress black votes. There were, literally, signs leading to the room saying that Party employees were not allowed to be there. But Spicey went there anyway. > [https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/10/sean-spicer-gq-magazine-story-fallout-244784](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/10/sean-spicer-gq-magazine-story-fallout-244784) His Spicey Sense failed him that night. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13430 "2017-11-10T21:39:53Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > He just says what he thinks the person he’s talking to wants to hear so that person thinks highly of him. …because that’s what works on **him**. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13431 "2017-11-10T22:54:38Z")
[Trump judge nominee, 36, who has never tried a case, wins approval of Senate panel](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-judge-nominee-36-who-has-never-tried-a-case-wins-approval-of-senate-panel/ar-BBEOWih?li=BBnb7Kz) > [@](#): > > Brett J. Talley, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Association’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Association. > [@](#): > > “He’s practiced law for less than three years and never argued a motion, let alone brought a case. This is the least amount of experience I’ve seen in a judicial nominee,” said Kristine Lucius, executive vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Gorammit, this should piss everyone off. I get that you want to nominate people who support your views. And I get that the Senate would want to approve someone that supported their views on this or that. But are you telling me that they could not find one lawyer \*who actually tried a case \*who could fit that bill??? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13432 "2017-11-10T23:05:51Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > [Trump judge nominee, 36, who has never tried a case, wins approval of Senate panel](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-judge-nominee-36-who-has-never-tried-a-case-wins-approval-of-senate-panel/ar-BBEOWih?li=BBnb7Kz) > Gorammit, this should piss everyone off. I get that you want to nominate people who support your views. And I get that the Senate would want to approve someone that supported their views on this or that. But are you telling me that they could not find one lawyer \*who actually tried a case \*who could fit that bill??? Make sure he has a sane clerk and that might mitigate the damage he can do. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13433 "2017-11-10T23:06:15Z")
So, an _actual_ so-called judge? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13434 "2017-11-10T23:13:55Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Make sure he has a sane clerk and that might mitigate the damage he can do. Judge’s hire their own clerks. We’re doomed. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13435 "2017-11-10T23:34:21Z")
Well, he probably doesn’t even know that. Let’s get someone in there quick before he looks it up. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13436 "2017-11-10T23:36:31Z")
I’m completely unqualified for tons of open government positions; how to I apply to get on this gravy train? ---
**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:** [November 10, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13437 "2017-11-10T23:52:39Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > I recall in past seeing American politicians publicly apologizing and/or retiring when the skeletons in their closet were revealed, and yet here we have someone perched on a **throne of bones** that George R R Martin might have designed, atop an extensive ossuary dating back decades. [Dead Label - Throne Of Bones](https://vimeo.com/149781402) > [@Dead Label](#): > > Slaughter the weaker > Strip them of their pride > Crush them to nothing > Destroy all who hide > Ignite the fire > Burn away the skin > Scatter all the souls > And build yourself a throne of bones ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13438 "2017-11-10T23:55:46Z")
Good Christ what awful music. I curse the inventor of the double bass drum. And can someone get that singer a lozenge ferchrissakes. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13439 "2017-11-11T00:00:43Z")
> [@aktep](#): > > I’m completely unqualified for tons of open government positions; how to I apply to get on this gravy train? Got a diploma from Trump University? If so, too bad. Trump don’t hire losers or suckers. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13440 "2017-11-11T00:03:20Z")
> [@aktep](#): > > I’m completely unqualified for tons of open government positions; how to I apply to get on this gravy train? Warning. The “gravy” is made from [hagfish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish) slime and food coloring. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13441 "2017-11-11T04:22:58Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Good Christ what awful music. I curse the inventor of the double bass drum. And can someone get that singer a lozenge ferchrissakes. They must have collected and distilled the sludgy runoff of the aftemath of a dozen Burning Man festivals and combined it with the dreams of an emotionally overcharged 16 year old boy who was dreaming of the Paris catacombs to create that video. The mind shudders. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13442 "2017-11-11T07:22:31Z")
Hey classy move throwing $10 million into [“improv[ing] teen pregnancy prevention and sexual risk avoidance programs.”](http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-teen-pregnancy-20171110-story.html) like it’s some make-up move (or something) for those unbridled scumfucks cutting $200 million in teen pregnancy prevention programs a couple months ago. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I curse the inventor of the double bass drum. yeah right admit it, you [love you some John Longstreth](https://youtu.be/7NzzrpdwB4A?t=31) ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13443 "2017-11-11T08:07:42Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > I’m assuming the American press will be banned. I would love some footage of Trump heading into a room with Putin and the door being shut. Looks like I was right. First they cancelled the [“formal” meeting](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-10/trump-scraps-possible-formal-putin-meeting-as-results-unclear). It’s tough to hide with people watching. Then they [banned](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/10/new-york-times-photographer-tweets-photo-of-black-box-to-protest-white-house-coverage-blackout/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trump-tpp-1115pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e2a126785615) the American press. This has to be a story… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13444 "2017-11-11T09:14:20Z")
Well, they can’t very well debrief Trump in public, can they? And besides, I’m sure he has a lot more intel to turn in to his handlers that would be embarrassing if the public saw it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=671) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=673)