# 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:** 680
**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:** [November 16, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13585 "2017-11-16T01:19:50Z")
[Mooch is shopping](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-scaramucci-writing-book-white-house-712109) for a publisher for a memoir of his era in the Whitehouse. Back in August, he said, _Could I write a book? I could possibly write a book. It will be an uplifting book. It will be a positive book that helps people. It’s not going to be a tell-all tale or something like that._ How to Improve Your Life with Vulgarity! ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13586 "2017-11-16T01:39:30Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [Mooch is shopping](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-scaramucci-writing-book-white-house-712109) for a publisher for a memoir of his era in the Whitehouse. Back in August, he said, > _Could I write a book? I could possibly write a book. It will be an uplifting book. It will be a positive book that helps people. It’s not going to be a tell-all tale or something like that._ > > How to Improve Your Life with Vulgarity! And front-stabbing! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13587 "2017-11-16T01:49:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [Mooch is shopping](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-scaramucci-writing-book-white-house-712109) for a publisher for a memoir of his era in the Whitehouse. Back in August, he said, > _Could I write a book? I could possibly write a book. It will be an uplifting book. It will be a positive book that helps people. It’s not going to be a tell-all tale or something like that._ > How to Improve Your Life with Vulgarity! How to Lose a Job in 10 Days! ---
**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 16, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13588 "2017-11-16T02:25:17Z")
[Trump to allow imports of African elephant trophies](https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBF1qJx?m=en-us) > [@](#): > > The Trump administration is reversing an Obama administration ban on bringing to the United States the heads of elephants killed in two African countries… Mother. Fucker. :mad: ---
**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:** [November 16, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13589 "2017-11-16T02:31:01Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [Trump to allow imports of African elephant trophies](https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBF1qJx?m=en-us) > > Mother. Fucker. :mad: Because, how else will we be sure he is a Republican? ---
**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 16, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13590 "2017-11-16T02:35:45Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [Trump to allow imports of African elephant trophies](https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBF1qJx?m=en-us) > > Mother. Fucker. :mad: Is this something the Republican base has been demanding? I don’t see how this helps the unemployed autoworker. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13591 "2017-11-16T02:41:44Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > (Also, why is his wife traveling with him, exactly?) She is a Republican Trophy Wife. The contract stipulates that she act as a semen depository whenever the Ugly Money Guy snaps his fingers. If she’s lucky, he doesn’t demand the lingerie and high heels every time. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13592 "2017-11-16T02:43:33Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Is this something the Republican base has been demanding? I don’t see how this helps the unemployed autoworker. All the poor Republicans are merely _temporarily embarrassed_ millionaire elephant hunters. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13593 "2017-11-16T03:13:13Z")
“…Ma, I’ll be there. Everywhere they dine on whooping crane livers while sipping 1926 Chateau Effete Rothschild, I’ll be there, wherever baby harp seals are clubbed to make their pampered tampons, I’ll be there, Ma…” ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13594 "2017-11-16T03:15:36Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > They could have used $100 bills. So, there’s some progress. Yes, but they called the one dollar bills “plebeian money”. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**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 16, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13595 "2017-11-16T03:22:04Z")
Upon viewing the sheet of one dollar bills, the Secretary of the Treasury’s wife remarked, “Adorbs!” ---
**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 16, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13596 "2017-11-16T03:33:03Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > She is a Republican Trophy Wife. The contract stipulates that she act as a semen depository whenever the Ugly Money Guy snaps his fingers. If she’s lucky, he doesn’t demand the lingerie and high heels every time. On him or her? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13597 "2017-11-16T03:36:13Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Has anyone counted? Reagan holds the [record](http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-02-23/news/9001160156_1_iran-contra-testimony-recall) at 88 “I don’t recall” or “I don’t remember” statements during his Iran-contra testimony. I was gonna say the same thing. Someone doesn’t remember or wasn’t around for Iran-Contra! ---
**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 16, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13598 "2017-11-16T03:47:21Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Is this something the Republican base has been demanding? I don’t see how this helps the unemployed autoworker. It was an Obama regulation. That’s all that matters to Loser Donald. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13599 "2017-11-16T04:04:12Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Is this something the Republican base has been demanding? I don’t see how this helps the unemployed autoworker. [It’s so the Trump boys can bring home their he-man hunter trophies.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114122/Donald-Eric-Trump-pictured-posing-trophy-carcasses-big-African-hunt.html) ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13600 "2017-11-16T04:10:06Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Is this something the Republican base has been demanding? I don’t see how this helps the unemployed autoworker. Aren’t Eric & Don Jr. Big game hunters? [Yep](https://goo.gl/images/nsFCR2). He can finally bring his trophy home! ---
**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 16, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13601 "2017-11-16T04:21:41Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Is this something the Republican base has been demanding? I don’t see how this helps the unemployed autoworker. It’s probably something Orange Chimp’s African trophy hunting sons lobbied for. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13602 "2017-11-16T05:13:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [Mooch is shopping](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-scaramucci-writing-book-white-house-712109) for a publisher for a memoir of his era in the Whitehouse. How big a book could that possibly be? Just a little pamphlet? He was only there for 35 minutes! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13603 "2017-11-16T05:17:40Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > “…Ma, I’ll be there. Everywhere they dine on whooping crane livers while sipping 1926 Chateau Effete Rothschild, I’ll be there, wherever baby harp seals are clubbed to make their pampered tampons, I’ll be there, Ma…” (Uh… Help me out here. This is a take-off on Grape-Nuts of Wrath, right?) ---
**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:** [November 16, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13604 "2017-11-16T05:24:24Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > [It’s so the Trump boys can bring home their he-man hunter trophies.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114122/Donald-Eric-Trump-pictured-posing-trophy-carcasses-big-African-hunt.html) Eeurgh. Why couldn’t their last name have been Macomber? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=679) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=681)