# 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:** 769
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15365 "2018-01-12T22:23:42Z")
It could be one of those 4D theaters. “I’d like to remind everyone in the first three rows: You will get wet!” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15366 "2018-01-12T22:56:18Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Trump’s lawyer [paid off a porn star](https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-lawyer-arranged-130-000-payment-for-adult-film-stars-silence-1515787678) a month before the election to cover up Trump’s affair. The WSJ article is paywalled. The Daily Beast article ([Report: Trump Lawyer Arranged $130K Hush Money to Keep Porn Star Quiet](https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-trump-lawyer-arranged-dollar130k-hush-money-to-keep-porn-star-quiet)) is light on details. My questions: Was it an affair or a one-time “encounter”? If the latter, does it sound like a consensual hook up for mutual fun times, a professional engagement, or a pussy grabbing? ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15367 "2018-01-12T23:00:05Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > It could be one of those 4D theaters. > > “I’d like to remind everyone in the first three rows: You will get wet!” And the sad part is, the lines’ll be around the block. “Most. Popular. Presidential library… ever.” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15368 "2018-01-12T23:06:39Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > From the article in the other thread, Ryan calls it “very unfortunate, unhelpful” and actually says something positive about immigration. I hate Trump for making me think a shithole like Ryan is sometimes a reasonable guy. I’m sure it won’t last. > \<\ > “First thing that came to my mind was: Very unfortunate, unhelpful,” he said. “But you know what I thought of right away? I thought about my own family. … It is a beautiful story of America, and that is a great story and that is the story we have today and that is a story we had yesterday and that is what makes this country so exceptional and unique in the first place. So I see this as a thing to celebrate, and I think it’s a big part of our strength.”\>\> > > [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-acknowledges-tough-language-but-appears-to-deny-sthole-remark/ar-AAuAKbR?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp) > [@RickJay](#): > > What a pathetic, weasel-worded “condemnation.” What a g.d. coward. Have ANY Republicans condemned thump for the shithole comment? ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15369 "2018-01-12T23:08:51Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > What a g.d. coward. > > Have ANY Republicans condemned thump for the shithole comment? Flake did. But then, he’s retiring so he doesn’t have to be a two-faced weasel anymore. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15370 "2018-01-12T23:13:37Z")
> [@Crybaby\_Boobie](#): > > He posted about FISA and then changed his mind in the same day, so if he’s trying to distract us, tweeting about it confusingly isn’t exactly 12 D chess. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It isn’t even 2D chess. His speed is 1D tic-tac-toe. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15371 "2018-01-12T23:18:03Z")
Apparently people have found a line in that Trump book where [Bannon states](http://www.businessinsider.com/bannon-trump-lawyer-took-care-of-a-hundred-women-2018-1)that: “Look, Kasowitz has known [Trump] for twenty-five years. Kasowitz has gotten him out of all kinds of jams. Kasowitz on the campaign — what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them.” Considering today’s news of a porn star being bought off, anyone wanna put money on the under/over on pornstars coming forward? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15372 "2018-01-12T23:19:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > What a g.d. coward. > > Have ANY Republicans condemned thump for the shithole comment? Congresswoman Mia Love (R-UT), but then she’s of Haitian descent. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15373 "2018-01-12T23:19:42Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > What a g.d. coward. > > Have ANY Republicans condemned thump for the shithole comment? One notable exception. I must confess I don’t know much about Congresswoman Love, but I admire this: > [@](#): > > Republican Rep. Mia Love of Utah called on President Donald Trump to apologize Thursday for his reported comments criticizing immigrants coming to the United States from what he called “shithole countries.” > “The (President’s) comments are unkind, divisive, elitist, and fly in the face of our nation’s values,” Love said in a statement Thursday night. “The President must apologize to both the American people and the nations he so wantonly maligned.” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15374 "2018-01-12T23:21:34Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > anyone wanna put money on the under/over on pornstars coming forward? Some forward. Some backwards. Some standing still. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15375 "2018-01-12T23:25:23Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Some forward. Some backwards. Some standing still. I guess I walked into that. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15376 "2018-01-12T23:45:04Z")
Here’s a headline I never expected to see, from Politico: [Demoralized Trump aides grapple with ‘shithole’-gate](https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/12/trump-shithole-comment-aides-react-337961) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15377 "2018-01-13T00:20:02Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Here’s a headline I never expected to see, from Politico: [Demoralized Trump aides grapple with ‘shithole’-gate](https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/12/trump-shithole-comment-aides-react-337961) Poor, poor beta parasites, all latched on to the rear end of the king parasite and drowning in his crap. I feel so bad for them. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15378 "2018-01-13T00:28:37Z")
Walter Reed Doctor After Physical: Trump In ‘Excellent’ Health From the daily beast link above. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15379 "2018-01-13T00:32:41Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Walter Reed Doctor After Physical: Trump In ‘Excellent’ Health > > From the daily beast link above. [Newsweek.](http://www.newsweek.com/trump-white-house-doctor-physician-who-ronny-jackson-778734) > [@](#): > > Obama underwent four periodic physical exams as president. After Jackson last examined Obama, in February 2016, **the memo he prepared included the president’s height, weight, body mass index, resting heart rate, blood pressure, pulse oximetry and body temperature. The memo also included laboratory results; past medical, surgical and social histories; medications and immunizations.** White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said **the physician will probably follow the model for Obama when examining Trump.** Wanna bet? There won’t be shit released. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15380 "2018-01-13T00:35:16Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Poor, poor beta parasites, all latched on to the rear end of the king parasite and drowning in his crap. I feel so bad for them. I do find myself wondering how many of these ‘aides’ predated the shitgibbon, and are now left stunned by a career that suddenly turned from ‘promising’ to ‘deranged and evil’. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15381 "2018-01-13T00:35:31Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Walter Reed Doctor After Physical: Trump In ‘Excellent’ Health > > From the daily beast link above. Didi you put the air quotes around Excellent? Or was that a direct quote from the Dr at Walter Feed? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15382 "2018-01-13T00:37:27Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I guess I walked into that. They do it that way, too. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15383 "2018-01-13T00:43:30Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Considering today’s news of a porn star being bought off, anyone wanna put money on the under/over on pornstars coming forward? [Well, that didn’t take long;](https://www.thedailybeast.com/porn-star-donald-trump-and-stormy-daniels-invited-me-to-their-hotel-room) > [@](#): > > According to fellow porn star Alana Evans—who was not only Daniels’ neighbor and close friend at the time, but also happened to be staying in the area—Daniels confided in her that she and Trump were more than just friends. > > “Stormy calls me four or five times, by the last two phone calls she’s with Donald [Trump] and I can hear him, and he’s talking through the phone to me saying, ‘Oh come on Alana, let’s have some fun! Let’s have some fun! Come to the party, we’re waiting for you.’ And I was like, ‘OMG it’s Donald Trump!’ Men like him scare me because they have so much power and this was way before his presidential nomination. So I bailed on them and turned my phone off.” ---
**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:** [January 13, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15384 "2018-01-13T00:49:04Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Newsweek.](http://www.newsweek.com/trump-white-house-doctor-physician-who-ronny-jackson-778734) > > Wanna bet? > There won’t be shit released. Oh, I think we can guarantee that the ONLY thing that will be released is shit. :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=768) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=770)