# 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:** 786
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15705 "2018-01-19T03:02:51Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Of course, his takeaway from “90% of news coverage of Trump has been negative” is “so there’s a problem with the news !” rather than "Gee, even Dubya didn’t catch _that much_ shit, maybe I’m doing something wrong ? " Who would have thought someone could make me nostalgic for Dubya? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15706 "2018-01-19T05:29:57Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Who would have thought someone could make me nostalgic for Dubya? Hell, who would have thought someone could make me nostalgic for friggin’ Harding? ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15707 "2018-01-19T07:05:47Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I have this image of Trump shambling out of the white house in his bathrobe carrying an ashtray, a paddle game, a remote control, a lamp… That’s FAKE NEWS, Trump doesn’t wear a bathrobe! I know this because, incredibly, that’s actually a paraphrase of something Trump himself stated recently. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15708 "2018-01-19T07:20:24Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > That’s FAKE NEWS, Trump doesn’t wear a bathrobe! > > I know this because, incredibly, that’s actually a paraphrase of something Trump himself stated recently. In other bathrobe related matters, [Vanity Fair has declared the bathrobe “over for men”](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/12/2017-killed-the-bathrobe) due to the accumulated tales of Donald Trump, Hugh Hefner, Charlie Rose, and Harvey Weinstein. Men, take note! PS: From that link we learn that Sean Spicer once actually officially denied that Trump had ever worn a bathrobe! ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15709 "2018-01-19T07:31:24Z")
I hate to chain post, but I just have to direct link [this image](https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/828714232610951168/photo/2) from the same link. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15710 "2018-01-19T08:04:20Z")
Fake picture! ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15711 "2018-01-19T08:14:37Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Hell, who would have thought someone could make me nostalgic for friggin’ Harding? Trump is making me yearn for the forthright and steadfast honesty of Richard Nixon for fuck’s sake!\* \*(Only, you understand, by comparison. At least Nixon could lie reasonably well.) ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15712 "2018-01-19T08:26:34Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > In other bathrobe related matters, [Vanity Fair has declared the bathrobe “over for men”](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/12/2017-killed-the-bathrobe) due to the accumulated tales of Donald Trump, Hugh Hefner, Charlie Rose, and Harvey Weinstein. Men, take note! Hefner’s getup wasn’t really a bathrobe, though, was it? I thought it was a “smoking jacket”, a garment slightly more formal - more in the vein of “loungewear” than the full-length bathrobe made from towel-like material that’s essentially designed to be a full-body towel for immediately after showering/bathing. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15713 "2018-01-19T09:47:45Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > Hefner’s getup wasn’t really a bathrobe, though, was it? I thought it was a “smoking jacket”, a garment slightly more formal - more in the vein of “loungewear” than the full-length bathrobe made from towel-like material that’s essentially designed to be a full-body towel for immediately after showering/bathing. True, although he wore it with no shirt underneath, making it awfully close to being a fancy bathrobe. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Is this a whoosh? > > If anything, SNL portrays Don Jr. as a barely effective spin doctor. He may be smarter than Eric, but in the sense that he’s not a complete idiot, but still an idiot. I’m not bothered by those “sketches” (is that what you call a bit on Weekend Update?) but I think “a smart guy who’s kind to the mentally disabled” is a fair description of the way Donald Trump Jr. is portrayed in them. ---
**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 19, 2018, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15714 "2018-01-19T11:11:28Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > His successor will get _two_ Nobel Peace Prizes. How about one for his (not connected to this maladministration) successor and one for Mueller? ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15715 "2018-01-19T12:02:59Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Trump is making me yearn for the forthright and steadfast honesty of Richard Nixon for fuck’s sake!\* > > \*(Only, you understand, by comparison. At least Nixon could lie reasonably well.) At least Nixon had some shame. And he fully staffed the government. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15716 "2018-01-19T12:07:47Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > At least Nixon had some shame. And he fully staffed the government. Nixon was also intelligent enough to lie consistently and have a clear goal he was trying to attain. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15717 "2018-01-19T12:52:22Z")
> **[‘I just don’t like Muslim people’: Trump appointee resigns after racist,...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/18/i-just-dont-like-muslim-people-trump-appointee-resigns-after-racist-sexist-and-anti-gay-remarks/?utm_term=.78306ab770dc)** > > Carl Higbie, a senior official at the agency that runs AmeriCorps, had a history of disparaging minority groups during radio and podcast appearances. From WaP’s article: > [@](#): > > Higbie said that black women think “breeding is a form of government employment,” that blacks were “lax of morality,” and that culture “is breeding this welfare and the high percentage of people on welfare in the black race.” > > On another talk show in 2013, he expressed dislike for the term “African Americans.” > > “The whole African American thing gets me whipped up because it’s like 99 percent — and I’m paraphrasing here — of people who write down African American have never been to Africa,” he said. > > He also spoke disparagingly of Islam, saying that he didn’t like Muslims “because their ideology sucks,” and that he was fine if his views caused him to be labeled a racist. > > “I just don’t like Muslim people. People always rip me a new one for that. ‘Carl, you’re racist, you can’t, you’re sexist.’ I’m like Jesus Christ,” Higbie said on “Sound of Freedom” in 2013. Higbie’s apparently not alone either: > [@](#): > > In November, the Department of Homeland Security’s Jamie Johnson, another Trump appointee, resigned after comments he made that linked blacks to “laziness” and “promiscuity” came to light. Last week, Pete Hoekstra, the new U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands and a former Republican congressman, apologized after uproar over baseless anti-Muslim theories he had spread numerous times in past. I don’t actually recall Hoekstra’s apology, but who cares at this point. Anyone who denies that this administration is loaded with bigots is in denial. It might be the most racist administration since Woodrow Wilson’s. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15718 "2018-01-19T13:29:06Z")
I think you’re forgetting that Trump is not only not racist, he is the _least_ racist person you will ever meet. That is _very_ unracist. It’s as unracist as you can possibly get! ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15719 "2018-01-19T14:13:31Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Higbie’s apparently not alone either: > > I don’t actually recall Hoekstra’s apology, but who cares at this point. > > Anyone who denies that this administration is loaded with bigots is in denial. It might be the most racist administration since Woodrow Wilson’s. > [@SlackerInc](#): > > I think you’re forgetting that Trump is not only not racist, he is the _least_ racist person you will ever meet. That is _very_ unracist. It’s as unracist as you can possibly get! Well, looking at **asahi** ’s post, he may well be the least racist person in his administration. ---
**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 19, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15720 "2018-01-19T14:35:28Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > At least Nixon had some shame. And he fully staffed the government. Nixon acted like a grown-up in public and confined his expletive-filled rants and ramblings to the Oval Office. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15721 "2018-01-19T16:13:57Z")
Except for the missing 18 minutes when he kept pushing things off his desk and getting Henry Kissinger to pick them up. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15722 "2018-01-19T17:01:49Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Well, looking at **asahi** ’s post, he may well be the least racist person in his administration. Good point! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15723 "2018-01-19T17:04:59Z")
He may be the best looking person in the leper colony! ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15724 "2018-01-19T17:06:27Z")
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