# 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:** 796
**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 25, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15905 "2018-01-25T10:17:41Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Melania is backing out of accompanying Chump to Davos. Word is she’s royally pissed off about Stormy Daniels. In fact, she’s not made any appearances since the story broke on January 12 except to make an MLK Day tweet (which Chump didn’t do) and to release a photo of her and a Marine on Inauguration Day on the anniversary thereof with no mention of Chump. And speaking of anniversaries, their 13th just passed, and it was suspiciously quiet. > > First divorce in the White House? I actually feel sorry for Melania. She must wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how the fuck she got here. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15906 "2018-01-25T11:15:35Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I actually feel sorry for Melania. She must wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how the fuck she got here. Oh, she knows. She’s just hoping to hang on long enough to be there when the massive coronary finally happens to Mr. “239 Pounds and completely healthy apart from that heart disease” and she inherits everything. Then she can cut Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka out of her life and leave the bulk of the fortune to Barron. It’s what she dreams about to get her through those difficult moments. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15907 "2018-01-25T13:33:35Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I actually feel sorry for Melania. She must wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how the fuck she got here. She knowingly married a piece of shit human being. She shouldn’t be surprised when she wakes up and the sheets are all brown and smelly. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15908 "2018-01-25T13:35:08Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > She’s just hoping to hang on long enough to be there when the massive coronary finally happens to Mr. “239 Pounds and completely healthy apart from that heart disease” and she inherits everything. Then she can cut Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka out of her life and leave the bulk of the fortune to Barron. There’s no way her prenup would allow that. ---
**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 25, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15909 "2018-01-25T13:51:10Z")
Some Davos attendees plan to walk out after thump starts to talk. > [@](#): > > A growing number of Davos attendees are planning to walk out of US president Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum this Friday (Jan. 26), several conference-goers told Quartz, to protest his remarks about African countries earlier this month. > > Trump repeatedly called African countries “shitholes” in a closed-door meeting about immigration, attendee Senator Dick Durbin and others have said. > … > African CEOs said they’d like Trump to acknowledge that he said something inappropriate, and say he’s sorry. “We’re only looking for that, just to apologize” said Luvuyo Rani, the CEO of Silulo Ulutho Technologies, a South African internet company. There’s no way Trump realizes the “damage” he’s caused, said Rani, who added he wasn’t sure whether he’d attend the speech or not. > … > [Cite](https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAv8DH1?m=en-us) Emphasis added. Good luck with that. Thump has said that he has never apologized in his life. He said that he would if he were ever wrong, but he never has been. Yup, totally normal, that man. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15910 "2018-01-25T15:00:53Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > There’s no way her prenup would allow that. Comic hyperbole aside, while she almost certainly can’t override DJT’s will if he opts to give lots of money and stuff to his other children, once he’s dead and she’s got her share (and potentially control of Barron’s share) I’m not seeing how a pre-nup would prohibit her from cutting off contact from the other kids if she wanted to. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15911 "2018-01-25T15:25:15Z")
She can run away FROM the circus, as it were. ---
**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 25, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15912 "2018-01-25T15:41:26Z")
Does Gucci make bindles? ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15913 "2018-01-25T16:03:15Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Does Gucci make bindles? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15914 "2018-01-25T16:55:13Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I actually feel sorry for Melania. She must wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how the fuck she got here. She married for money. She always knew what it meant. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15915 "2018-01-25T17:05:38Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > She married for money. She always knew what it meant. I don’t think she could ever foresee the fishbowl she’d be living in. It’s one thing to be married to a shitbird gameshow host/real estate crook for his money. It’s entirely another to be married to that shitbird when he becomes the most scrutinized man in the world. When you marry someone with political aspirations, your skin thickens from race to race, usually starting out at the city or school level. Never in a million years could she have envisioned waking up one morning and being fucking first lady. ---
**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 25, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15916 "2018-01-25T17:30:23Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > She married for money. She always knew what it meant. What it meant when she did it was trophy wife duties to him and the ladies who lunch lifestyle for her. The First Lady fishbowl wasn’t anywhere on the horizon, nor could a rational human being have expected it 13 years ago. ---
**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 25, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15917 "2018-01-25T19:06:44Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Tide Pods look delicious! 🙂 Trying to be a YouTube star, huh? ---
**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:** [January 25, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15918 "2018-01-25T19:44:18Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > She can run away FROM the circus, as it were. [Melania Trump skips Davos, visits museum and heads to Florida](https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/25/politics/melania-trump-holocaust-museum/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15919 "2018-01-25T20:49:51Z")
> [@simster](#): > > [Melania Trump skips Davos, visits museum and heads to Florida](https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/25/politics/melania-trump-holocaust-museum/index.html) Kudos to her for acknowledging Holocaust Remembrance. Her husband will probably declare National Be Nice to Germany Day, or Support Your Local Gas Oven Distributor Week. ---
**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 25, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15920 "2018-01-25T20:54:09Z")
Another one bites the dust. [Trump’s 24-Year-Old Deputy Drug Czar To Resign After Questions Over Work History](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/taylor-weyeneth-resign_us_5a696507e4b0022830094616?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313) All you need to do to get a position in this administration is kiss Trump’s ass. He probably didn’t even read Weyeneth’s phony resume. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15921 "2018-01-25T21:03:05Z")
They’re doing some awesome vetting over there, aren’t they? Something something about “only the best people”? ---
**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:** [January 25, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15922 "2018-01-25T22:26:00Z")
Interesting little snippet from this paywalled article about [making China great again,](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/08/making-china-great-again) a shining beacon of Trump’s science and research legacy: > [@](#): > > The Trump Administration’s proposed 2018 budget would cut scientific research by fifteen per cent, or $11.1 billion. That includes a ten-per-cent decrease in the National Science Foundation’s spending on “intelligent systems.” In November, Eric Schmidt, then the chairman of Alphabet, told the Artificial Intelligence & Global Security Summit, in Washington, that reductions in the funding of basic-science research will help China overtake the U.S. in artificial intelligence within a decade. \*\*“By 2020, they will have caught up. By 2025, they will be better than us. By 2030, they will dominate the industries of A.I.,” \*\*he said. Schmidt, who chairs the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, added that the ban on visitors from Iran was an obstacle to technology development. “Iran produces some of the top computer scientists in the world. I want them here. I want them working for Alphabet and Google. It’s crazy not to let these people in.” ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15923 "2018-01-25T22:45:28Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Kudos to her for acknowledging Holocaust Remembrance. Her husband will probably declare National Be Nice to Germany Day, or Support Your Local Gas Oven Distributor Week. I’ll just leave this quote here… \*"You look at both sides — I think there’s blame on both sides,” “They didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you have some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. " - Donald Trump\* I think that says it ALL. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15924 "2018-01-25T22:48:09Z")
Oh, yes. We’re [MAGA, all right. But France is heralding MAPA](http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/french-president-s-climate-talent-search-nabs-18-foreign-scientists). (Science Magazine) > [@](#): > > French President Emmanuel Macron’s effort to lure disgruntled foreign climate scientists to France—especially from the United States—has produced its first harvest. France today announced that Macron’s Make Our Planet Great Again initiative has recruited its first class of 18 scientists. Of the new recruits, 13, including a few French nationals, now work in the United States, whereas others are based in Canada, India, and elsewhere in Europe. Smart guy, that Macron. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=795) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=797)