# 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:** 787
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15725 "2018-01-19T17:38:13Z")
Galveston’s finest ballerina. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15726 "2018-01-19T17:42:18Z")
> [@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. Just a more expensive bath robe? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15727 "2018-01-19T17:43:42Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Nixon acted like a grown-up in public and confined his expletive-filled rants and ramblings to the Oval Office. He was also a LOT more competent, for all his faults. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15728 "2018-01-19T17:44:46Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Except for the missing 18 minutes when he kept pushing things off his desk and getting Henry Kissinger to pick them up. Why didn’t he just get a cat to do it for him? 🆒 ---
**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, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15729 "2018-01-19T17:53:49Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Galveston’s finest ballerina. Actually, [probably not](https://www.galvestonballet.org/). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15730 "2018-01-19T18:01:40Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > True, although he wore it with no shirt underneath, making it awfully close to being a fancy bathrobe. I hate that I know this, but he often wore a silky pajama shirt under it. That doesn’t make it any less a fancy bathrobe. ---
**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, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15731 "2018-01-19T18:06:09Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I hate that I know this, but he often wore a silky pajama shirt under it. That doesn’t make it any less a fancy bathrobe. I was going by [this photo](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57e3a5f6d2b8570ffef91526/t/59f3b91fec212dff083c2e95/1509144883300/hugh-hefner-velvet-burgundy-smoking-jacket.jpg), where it doesn’t look like there’s anything underneath; but just now I looked for some more pics and you are right: most of the time he had a fancy shirt 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:** [January 19, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15732 "2018-01-19T20:02:35Z")
> [@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. The porn star says he chased her around in his tighty whities. Now I need brain bleach. ---
**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 19, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15733 "2018-01-19T20:15:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The porn star says he chased her around in his tighty whities. > > Now I need brain bleach. If they were tighty whiteys on her, imagine how they look on him. More bleach, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15734 "2018-01-19T21:05:13Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Except for the missing 18 minutes when he kept pushing things off his desk and getting Henry Kissinger to pick them up. Nixon was a cat?!? Sigh… ninja’d by **SteveG1** , alas. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15735 "2018-01-19T21:13:14Z")
Trump just called Chuck Shumer to the White House to try to negotiate a deal on the budget. I do wonder if any mention of his anti-Shumer tweets will come up. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15736 "2018-01-19T21:26:11Z")
The budget, or the CR? ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15737 "2018-01-19T21:28:36Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > The budget, or the CR? The budget, from what I read. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15738 "2018-01-19T21:33:33Z")
Huh. I would have thought Senator Schumer would have more urgent matters on his plate today… ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15739 "2018-01-19T21:36:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > The budget, or the CR? I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking, so I’ll say that he met with Trump in an attempt to find a deal to avert the shutdown which is looming because of the imminent expiration of the CR that is a temporary appropriations patch, which many people are likely to refer to as “the budget.” ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15740 "2018-01-19T21:53:47Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Huh. I would have thought Senator Schumer would have more urgent matters on his plate today… What’s more important than trying to prevent the government from shutting down? ---
**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 19, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15741 "2018-01-19T22:17:50Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Huh. I would have thought Senator Schumer would have more urgent matters on his plate today… That’s very cryptic… is there another scandal we don’t know about yet? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15742 "2018-01-19T22:22:35Z")
> [@digs](#): > > That’s very cryptic… is there another scandal we don’t know about yet? I think Kayla’s Dad is implying that Schumer meeting with Trump would be a complete waste of time, so he might as well do something constructive. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15743 "2018-01-19T23:07:44Z")
No, what I’m implying is that I thought the CR and the budget would be distinct topics. I appear to have been mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15744 "2018-01-19T23:53:20Z")
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