# 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:** 68
**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:** [February 15, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1341 "2017-02-15T21:00:37Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > The ones who need safe spaces, the ones who are anti-free speech, the ones who claim to put other posters on ignore, the ones who attempt to get rid of posters that they don’t like, the college campus liberal brownshirts that attempt to shut down all speech that they disapprove of, etc. Change “posters” to “reporters” and “campus liberal brownshirts” (whatever the fuck those are) to “Make America Great Zealots” and you’ve describe Trump’s administration to a tee. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1342 "2017-02-15T21:02:42Z")
[Puzder is out.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/now-6-republicans-are-on-the-fence-about-andrew-puzder/2017/02/15/e34cada6-f38b-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?utm_term=.9553259e2fe2) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1343 "2017-02-15T21:17:38Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > And for the record, I do not have a single person on ignore here, because I am not afraid of any words written by any liberal, and no liberal person is significant enough to warrant their placement on an ignore list. Donald, its good to know after this many years that you still haven’t changed. I know you don’t think that we can make any effective changes to the world… Your World… …but you don’t mind if we TRY, do you…? 😉 “I’m gonna Miss Him…” - Bill Murray, Ghost Busters . . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1344 "2017-02-15T21:45:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Puzder is out.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/now-6-republicans-are-on-the-fence-about-andrew-puzder/2017/02/15/e34cada6-f38b-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?utm_term=.9553259e2fe2) Awww, da poor widdle snowflake couldn’t take the heat… ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1345 "2017-02-15T22:07:22Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > Reality check. > > Snowflakes are found exclusively on the left. > > The ones who need safe spaces, \ Like the Vice President? > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Donald J Trump** > The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize! ---
**Author:** ![Blinkyandpinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@Blinkyandpinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blinkyandpinky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1346 "2017-02-15T22:48:07Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Like the Vice President? The last thing that somebody needs after purchasing a ticket to a show is to be lectured to by a bunch of rude, extremist leftists who have no class. If radical, brainwashed liberals believe that it is ok to spread their hateful and anti-American political ideas that nobody wishes to hear to all arenas, including non-political arenas, then they shouldn’t be surprised if they get the same in return soon because the pendulum has already begun to swing in the opposite direction. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1347 "2017-02-15T22:50:21Z")
> [@Blinkyandpinky](#): > > The last thing that somebody needs after purchasing a ticket to a show is to be lectured to by a bunch of rude, extremist leftists who have no class. > > If radical, brainwashed liberals believe that it is ok to spread their hateful and anti-American political ideas that nobody wishes to hear to all arenas, including non-political arenas, then they shouldn’t be surprised if they get the same in return soon because the pendulum has already begun to swing in the opposite direction. The Constitution is hateful and un-American? ---
**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:** [February 15, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1348 "2017-02-15T22:54:10Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The Constitution is hateful and un-American? Yes, except the 2nd amendment, commie. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1349 "2017-02-15T22:55:31Z")
Democrats pushing for Trump’s tax records again, interested in whether they might reveal the President’s business links to Russia … that would just about be the end of that 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Blinkyandpinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@Blinkyandpinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blinkyandpinky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1350 "2017-02-15T22:57:32Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The constitution is hateful and un-American? I don’t know what you believe. I suppose that it is within the realm of possibility that you believe that it’s hateful and un-American. I haven’t mentioned a word about any constitution. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1351 "2017-02-15T23:04:57Z")
What do you think the play \*Hamilton \*is about you moron? Do you even know what the “lecture” consisted of? Hint: it wasn’t a lecture. ---
**Author:** ![Blinkyandpinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@Blinkyandpinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blinkyandpinky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1352 "2017-02-15T23:10:42Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > What do you think the play \*Hamilton \*is about you moron? Do you even know what the “lecture” consisted of? Hint: it wasn’t a lecture. It was. **“We, sir — we — are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights,” he said. “We truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.”** ---
**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:** [February 15, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1353 "2017-02-15T23:17:04Z")
Yeah. Jeez. What a slap-down. What kind of fucking snowflake are you anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1354 "2017-02-15T23:20:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Puzder is out.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/now-6-republicans-are-on-the-fence-about-andrew-puzder/2017/02/15/e34cada6-f38b-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?utm_term=.9553259e2fe2) Oh Joy! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1355 "2017-02-15T23:37:06Z")
Somebody give Snowflake Blinkie his blankie, already… ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1356 "2017-02-16T00:02:35Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Remember all those people who said they didn’t want to deal with the endless drama of having the Clintons back in the White House? Hillary has weak, pathetic scandals that don’t go anywhere. Trump scandals are tremendous, the best, the kind of scandals high school students will be learning about in fifty years. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1357 "2017-02-16T00:05:27Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Hillary has weak, pathetic scandals that don’t go anywhere. Trump scandals are tremendous, the best, the kind of scandals high school students will be learning about in fifty years. Make scandals great again! Russiagate forever! Russiaghazi! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1358 "2017-02-16T00:11:17Z")
Shit For Brains finally gets his name [trademarked in China](http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-awards-trump-valuable-trademark-45504953). ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1359 "2017-02-16T00:24:29Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Shit For Brains finally gets his name [trademarked in China](http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-awards-trump-valuable-trademark-45504953). Uh huh. The registration became official on Feb. 14. Trump tried for years to get the “rights” to his “brand” back from Dong Wei. Suddenly, he now gets it. Any special treatment from China would mean that Trump effectively accepted a present from Beijing, an act that would violate the Constitution, Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said. “A different conclusion might be reached if Trump had been treated like everyone else seeking a trademark, but the evidence does not point in that direction.” ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/1360 "2017-02-16T00:25:47Z")
Netanyahu paid a visit today. In a joint press conference, Trump was asked if he supported the two-state solution. His reply was: “So I’m looking at two states and one state. And I like the one that both parties like. I’m very happy with the one that both parties like. I can live with either one … To be honest, if Bibi and the Palestinians, if Israel and the Palestinians, are happy, I’m happy with the one they like the best.” Now, full disclosure: I haven’t the foggiest fucking idea how to pursue peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Because I’m not the President of the United States. I would hope that the goddamned President of the goddamned United States would have a better answer than, “Meh. Whatever you kids want is fine with me.” Here’s the thing: the parties don’t agree on what they want. Saying, “you guys work it out” is not the solution we’ve all been waiting for. And even if Trump’s approach is to remove the US from the peace process (and maybe that’s a good idea, fuck if I know), even so, wouldn’t you want to finesse that strategic shift a bit rather than just dropping it casually during a press conference? Read it and weep: [Trump’s Netanyahu meeting showed his ignorance of the Middle East.](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2017/02/trump_s_netanyahu_meeting_showed_his_ignorance_of_the_middle_east.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=69)