# 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:** 716
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14305 "2017-12-14T06:53:38Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > A beautiful night! Trump and Bannon’s candidate, Roy Moore, goes down in flames. > > Republicans lose a Senate seat and Trump/Bannon lose credibility. But Trump claims that Moore losing actually vindicates Trump. > **[Trump: Roy Moore's Loss Proves 'I Was Right'](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-roy-moore-loss_n_5a30fca1e4b07ff75afeeb29/amp)** > > Trump initially backed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange (R) in the Alabama special election. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14306 "2017-12-14T12:31:44Z")
We have always been at war with Eastasia. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14307 "2017-12-14T12:55:12Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > But Trump claims that Moore losing actually vindicates Trump. > > [Trump: Roy Moore's Loss Proves 'I Was Right' | HuffPost](https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a30fca1e4b07ff75afeeb29/amp) That moron thinks the sun rising in the east vindicates him. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14308 "2017-12-14T14:57:21Z")
[USA Today is not a fan of Trump’s tweets about Senator Gilliland.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/12/trump-lows-ever-hit-rock-bottom-editorials-debates/945947001/) This was so harsh I thought it had to be fake. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14309 "2017-12-14T17:11:23Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > [USA Today is not a fan of Trump’s tweets about Senator Gilliland.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/12/trump-lows-ever-hit-rock-bottom-editorials-debates/945947001/) This was so harsh I thought it had to be fake. Pretty harsh opening paragraph: > [@](#): > > With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he is not fit for office. Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low. And they don’t back off: > [@](#): > > Donald Trump, the man, on the other hand, is uniquely awful. His sickening behavior is corrosive to the enterprise of a shared governance based on common values and the consent of the governed. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14310 "2017-12-14T17:47:12Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > [USA Today is not a fan of Trump’s tweets about Senator Gilliland.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/12/trump-lows-ever-hit-rock-bottom-editorials-debates/945947001/) This was so harsh I thought it had to be fake. I’m surprised Trump has been quiet about this. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14311 "2017-12-14T17:55:43Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I’m surprised Trump has been quiet about this. ‘USA Today is guided by a partisan anti-american front. USA Today is not good for americans! USA Today - SAD!’ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14312 "2017-12-14T17:57:09Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I’m surprised Trump has been quiet about this. ETA: Er, trumped by **Simster**. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14313 "2017-12-14T17:58:14Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I’m surprised Trump has been quiet about this. I guess RT hasn’t reported it yet. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14314 "2017-12-14T18:27:16Z")
Kinda envious Omarosa could get away with going by just her first name like those Brazilian footy stars. Too bad Sessions’s first name wasn’t Beauregard. That woulda stuck. (come to think of it, “Jefferson” is the long form of his first name…too president-y, though) Rand? Orrin? Too bad Priebus wasn’t still around because I think “Reince” stood out particularly well on its own - daring, bold, assertive. > [@jsc1953](#): > > [USA Today is not a fan of Trump’s tweets about Senator Gilliland.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/12/trump-lows-ever-hit-rock-bottom-editorials-debates/945947001/) This was so harsh I thought it had to be fake. > [@](#): > > White House Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders flatly denied that President Donald Trump’s tweet about NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was in any way sexist, insisting only people with their minds “in the gutter” would have read it that way Pudding proof that WH press corps are always the worst pervs with all their pussy-grabbin’ talk. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14315 "2017-12-14T20:51:30Z")
Meanwhile, Putin is sitting back and literally trolling to the point of almost goading this country at this spectacle that has become America under pathetic, corrupt, dictator-loving, teen groping, plutocratic Republican misrule. > **[‘Are You Normal?’ Putin Asks U.S. Congress in Annual News Gathering...](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/world/europe/vladimir-putin-media.html)** > > As much circus as news conference, the event provided the Russian president with a platform to bolster his campaign and to attack the United States. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14316 "2017-12-14T22:37:40Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > […actual footage of Omarosa trying to get back into the White House.](https://youtu.be/GqYRHQaJFKg?t=22m51s) (Well not actual footage, but this is how I imagined it.) It’s a fair comparison to Omarosa; Sir Humphrey always was a bit of a drama queen, too. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14317 "2017-12-14T22:42:42Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Too bad Priebus wasn’t still around because I think “Reince” stood out particularly well on its own - daring, bold, assertive. My problem is that every time I see that name I think of the instructions on the back of the shampoo bottle: Lather, Reince, Repeat. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14318 "2017-12-14T23:52:45Z")
but leave out the first comma ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14319 "2017-12-15T01:09:22Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > My problem is that every time I see that name I think of the instructions on the back of the shampoo bottle: > > Lather, Reince, Repeat. I’ve been unable to resist referring to him as Prince Rebus since I first stumbled over his name. And I always picture him with a small crown and a pictogram. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14320 "2017-12-15T02:12:31Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > I’ve been unable to resist referring to him as Prince Rebus since I first stumbled over his name. And I always picture him with a small crown and a pictogram. Now I’m picturing him as the guy from the [old margarine commercials](https://youtu.be/S8ylG5o3AWc?t=1m52s). ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14321 "2017-12-15T04:00:54Z")
Based on recent comments it looks like Omarosa could really be a thorn in Trumps side. I’m imagining her on the phone with publishers as we speak and the tell-all book deals flying. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14322 "2017-12-15T04:52:25Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Based on recent comments it looks like Omarosa could really be a thorn in Trumps side. I’m imagining her on the phone with publishers as we speak and the tell-all book deals flying. She’ll have the same problem as Flynn will. They’re both egomaniacal liars who only look out for themselves. With Flynn it’s avoiding a long prison sentence, with Omarosa it’s whatever story to will get her the most money when she sells it to the highest bidder. It’s a benefit for surrounding yourself with lying pieces of human waste … when they turn on you, they’re still lying pieces of human waste. People will believe what they want to believe. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14323 "2017-12-15T05:32:30Z")
Reading rumblings around the Twitterverse that something big is coming up tomorrow, possibly involving Jared Kushner…I don’t know how reliable these rumours are, I must stress. Also, Senator Kennedy was interviewing a candidate for US District Court judge. The interview…did not go well. [https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/941534519609479168](https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/941534519609479168) Link is to a Twitter comment; the video is embedded below. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2017, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/14324 "2017-12-15T05:53:49Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > Reading rumblings around the Twitterverse that something big is coming up tomorrow, possibly involving Jared Kushner…I don’t know how reliable these rumours are, I must stress. > > Also, Senator Kennedy was interviewing a candidate for US District Court judge. The interview…did not go well. > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/941534519609479168) Link is to a Twitter comment; the video is embedded below. Is it too late to nominate Vincent Gambini? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=715) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=717)