# 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:** 684
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13665 "2017-11-17T20:26:31Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > It didn’t “backfire.” His base isn’t swayed by any of that… If that’s how you define whether something is good for Trump or not, then he’s invincible. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13666 "2017-11-17T20:40:26Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > If that’s how you define whether something is good for Trump or not, then he’s invincible. You got it. If you see Trump commit some action, and the people on this board post about how wrong it is, then just remember, the people who voted for Trump are happy that he did that action. Because it made “liberals” cry. Appoint a moron for Sec Ed? Haha, stupid liberals are crying, so it’s good! Ban Muslims? haha, stupid liberals are crying, so it’s good! Chastise Al Franken but not Moore? haha, stupid liberals are crying, so it’s good! ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13667 "2017-11-17T20:54:00Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Trump’s tweets on Al Franken, as per usual, [backfired](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-al-franken-tweet-backfires_us_5a0e731ae4b045cf43708e39) spectacularly. Some of the quotes at that blog [I’d have left posters’ names but feared that was against sdmb rules, is it?] > [@](#): > > 1. Have not heard the “Frankenstein” nickname before > 2. It might be Autocorrect > 3. But it’s spelled wrong [Frankenstien —sgs7] > 4. Conclusion: Trump thinks this is actually his name > > Hello we are in the fucking upside down > > This is so, so, so profoundly unfunny. > > Reza Aslan ✔@rezaaslan > You should probably just shut the hell up about this topic - you know, being an accused rapist and confessed sexual predator and all. > > Stephen King ✔@StephenKing > Trump on Franken: Pot discusses sins of the kettle. I noticed two celebrities; their names are on-topic, no? What is the check mark? - two of the names I erased were checked — did the check “suggest” I could leave those names visible? ?? — (Excuse me if this question just shows my technology ignorance.) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13668 "2017-11-17T21:22:30Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Some of the quotes at that blog [I’d have left posters’ names but feared that was against sdmb rules, is it?] > I noticed two celebrities; their names are on-topic, no? What is the check mark? - two of the names I erased were checked — did the check “suggest” I could leave those names visible? ?? — (Excuse me if this question just shows my technology ignorance.) Ah, it’s because they’re relatives of even bigger celebrities. Stephen King is the illegitimate son of boxing promoter Don King. And Reza Aslan is of course the grand-daughter of the “metaphorical lion” of Narnia. Actually, I googled “twitter checkmark” and they identify “verified accounts”. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13669 "2017-11-17T22:33:08Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The signature achievement of his Administration will be making all the buses run on time. Kind of difficult with all the people being dragged underneath. ---
**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 17, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13670 "2017-11-17T22:45:59Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Ah, it’s because they’re relatives of even bigger celebrities. Stephen King is the illegitimate son of boxing promoter Don King. And Reza Aslan is of course the grand-daughter of the “metaphorical lion” of Narnia. > > Actually, I googled “twitter checkmark” and they identify “verified accounts”. Twitter right now is under fire for check marking a number of Nazi accounts, including Richard Spencer. They have since taken away their check marks, but announced that check marks just mean that they have been verified as belonging to the people claiming the name, and not an endorsement of them. ---
**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 17, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13671 "2017-11-17T22:58:05Z")
I just searched but couldn’t find the name of the comedian who suggested, yesterday, that perhaps “Unverified Status” will become the new euphemism for White Supremacist. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13672 "2017-11-18T00:08:45Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > They have already stated that they are planning to cut Medicaid by over a trillion dollars and Medicare by about half that. They consider these welfare programs. That sounds like a great way to lose Florida and Arizona in the next elections. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13673 "2017-11-18T00:16:17Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > That sounds like a great way to lose Florida and Arizona in the next elections. They’ll blame Obama and be fine. ---
**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 18, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13674 "2017-11-18T00:19:02Z")
I saw a comparative image the other day that has led me to conclude, based on the disturbing obvious similarities, that we have been deceived. The middle name of the central subject of this thread is actually “Jeltz”. He has been trying his poetry out on us, and it has not been going well. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13675 "2017-11-18T01:08:46Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > They’ll blame Obama and be fine. sadly, this is too true or Clinton, it doesn’t really matter. ---
**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 18, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13676 "2017-11-18T04:25:22Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > They have already stated that they are planning to cut Medicaid by over a trillion dollars and Medicare by about half that. They consider these welfare programs. What’s fascinating to me is the trumpers realize Medicaid is a social welfare program and despise those who need it, but do not realize Medicare is also social welfare. Of course they have no problem with the latter government assistance. Of course thr trumpers also believe undocumented aliens are raking in the dough via Medicare, too, so let’s not believe the trumpers are practiced in thinking. ---
**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 18, 2017, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13677 "2017-11-18T08:38:51Z")
Slightly off-topic, and hopefully not already posted anywhere - Samantha Bee recently did a piece on how Vice President Teflon-Coated-Smoothie-Jaberwocky made a prescient 2003 tribute in the House to someone he considered [large, orange, slovenly, lazy.](https://youtu.be/Stl6OZo7wzg?t=347) ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13678 "2017-11-18T15:20:29Z")
Trump supporters are now demanding Hillary’s impeachment: > **['Jimmy Kimmel Live' tricks Trump supporters into detailing why they think...](https://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-live-why-hillary-clinton-should-be-impeached-trump-russia-2017-11)** > > "Jimmy Kimmel Live" talked to people in LA about why they think Hillary Clinton should be impeached — even though Clinton currently holds no public office. Putting the 'tard in Republitard ---
**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:** [November 18, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13679 "2017-11-18T15:24:02Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Trump supporters are now demanding Hillary’s impeachment: > > ['Jimmy Kimmel Live' Asks People If Hillary Clinton Should Be Impeached - Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-live-why-hillary-clinton-should-be-impeached-trump-russia-2017-11) > > Putting the 'tard in Republitard I’m all in favor of impeaching Hillary as soon as possible. I think that if the House appoints her Speaker (since the Speaker doesn’t need to be a member of the House), and then Trump and Pence resign, we’ll be good to go! I don’t think the Senate will convict, of course. ---
**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 18, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13680 "2017-11-18T17:22:10Z")
“Law clerk by day, ghost hunter by night, now Trump’s judiciary nominee” > **[Law clerk by day, ghost hunter by night, now Trump’s judiciary nominee](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/law-clerk-by-day-ghost-hunter-by-night-now-trumps-judiciary-nominee/2017/11/17/518b66a8-ca51-11e7-b244-2d22ac912500_story.html)** > > Brett Talley, a political speechwriter and horror author, has never tried a case in court. > [@](#): > > … > Brett Joseph Talley is now President Trump’s nominee for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench as a U.S. District Court judge in Alabama. > > Few in memory have been nominated with credentials quite like those of Talley, 36, an Alabama native, a political speechwriter, an author of horror books and a fledgling lawyer who has never tried a case. > > In 2009 and 2010, he was a member of the Tuscaloosa Paranormal Research Group, a volunteer operation that since the early 2000s has held all-night vigils and used infrared cameras, handheld sensors and other devices to search for spectral entities in plantation mansions, abandoned hospitals and other buildings. > … Has never tried a case. Hunts ghosts. Oh goody. What favor is Thump repaying with this? ---
**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 18, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13681 "2017-11-18T17:43:11Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “Law clerk by day, ghost hunter by night, now Trump’s judiciary nominee” > [Law clerk by day, ghost hunter by night, now Trump’s judiciary nominee - The Washington Post](http://wapo.st/2hBE51u) > > Has never tried a case. Hunts ghosts. Oh goody. What favor is Thump repaying with this? His wife works for White House Counsel’s Office, [a fact he forgot to mention](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/trump-judge-brett-talley-nomination.html) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13682 "2017-11-18T17:43:48Z")
The Republican Party cares deeply about you before you are born and after you are dead. ---
**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 18, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13683 "2017-11-18T19:01:19Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > His wife works for White House Counsel’s Office, [a fact he forgot to mention](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/trump-judge-brett-talley-nomination.html) And in fact has been talked to by the Mueller team. The nomination of her husband could be considered witness tampering. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13684 "2017-11-18T21:06:52Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Of course thr trumpers also believe undocumented aliens are raking in the dough via Medicare, too, so let’s not believe the trumpers are practiced in thinking. An alien raking in the dough via Medicare I can believe, but there’s no way Rick Scott is undocumented! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=683) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=685)