# 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:** 848
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16945 "2018-02-20T23:05:03Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > His tweetstorms usually come from that other place, which would be opposite about 26°40’S 99°58’E. Still in the sea, though. He would probably come up under a big piece of mh370 – then all that water would come pouring through the hole and flood the fairways. No no no! It’s -47.15° N, -126.717° E R’lyeh! ---
**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:** [February 20, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16946 "2018-02-20T23:12:10Z")
[Why vote for the lesser evil?](https://cthulhuforamerica.com) ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16947 "2018-02-21T06:02:53Z")
Donnie Jr. is shocked, \*shocked \*that poor people can be happy, when rich people he knows are so miserable. [https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-jr-poor-people-india/](https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-jr-poor-people-india/)? ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16948 "2018-02-21T16:53:45Z")
[Coming Soon! NO Chief of Staff!](https://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/21/things-get-really-bonkers-trump-may-fire-john-kelly-not-chief-staff.html) > [@](#): > > Jeremy Peters of The New York Times told MSNBC, ” I don’t know that Trump wants to fill it. What I’ve heard in recent days this could be a place where John Kelly goes, and Trump doesn’t appoint a chief of staff. Really he’s going to do whatever he wants anyway. He doesn’t like being told what to do, he doesn’t like the perception he has to have his hand held or his words and thoughts edited by an adult in the room.” He thinks his job is to watch Fox News and tweet, just like he did in private life. Now that’s all he’s going to do. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16949 "2018-02-21T16:59:15Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > [Coming Soon! NO Chief of Staff!](https://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/21/things-get-really-bonkers-trump-may-fire-john-kelly-not-chief-staff.html) > > He thinks his job is to watch Fox News and tweet, just like he did in private life. Now that’s all he’s going to do. And play golf. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16950 "2018-02-21T16:59:27Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > He thinks his job is to watch Fox News and tweet, just like he did in private life. Now that’s all he’s going to do. Good. That would be an improvement. Can they lock his bedroom door from the outside? ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16951 "2018-02-21T17:07:55Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Good. That would be an improvement. Can they lock his bedroom door from the outside? That would be like lunatic on the inside surrounded by drooling morons on the outside. Is that an improvement? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16952 "2018-02-21T17:07:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Like Hell I do! Bugger off! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16953 "2018-02-21T17:11:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > That would be like lunatic on the inside surrounded by drooling morons on the outside. Is that an improvement? Trump doing nothing is always better than Trump doing anything. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16954 "2018-02-21T18:04:37Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Trump doing nothing is always better than Trump doing anything. Ya got that right! The only problem is, there are plenty of other lesser idiots in this administration. Now, if we could get all of ‘em on board with doin’ nothing, that would really be something! 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16955 "2018-02-21T20:01:27Z")
HHS official placed on leave after posting unfounded conspiracy theories about Trump opponents. > **[Senior HHS official placed on leave for promoting unfounded claims and...](https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/politics/kfile-hhs-social-media-postings/index.html)** > > A top official at the Department of Health and Human Services has been placed on administrative leave after a CNN KFile inquiry while the agency investigates social media postings in which he pushed unfounded smears on social media. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16956 "2018-02-21T22:21:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > HHS official placed on leave after posting unfounded conspiracy theories about Trump opponents. > [https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/politics/kfile-hhs-social-media-postings/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/politics/kfile-hhs-social-media-postings/index.html) Who knew letting nutters run the government was a bad idea? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16957 "2018-02-22T00:00:03Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Who knew letting nutters run the government was a bad idea? > [@](#): > > In his current role, Cordova oversees day-to-day operations for the Office of Human Relations, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Office of Security and Strategic Information, Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance and Operations Office and the Program Support Center, according to his biography posted on the HHS website. In other words, he kept a chair moist. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16958 "2018-02-22T00:13:54Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Donnie Jr. is shocked, \*shocked \*that poor people can be happy, when rich people he knows are so miserable. > [https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-jr-poor-people-india/](https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-jr-poor-people-india/)? And he is supposed to give a foreign policy address - don’t know in what capacity - don’t ask Rex Tillerson, the [del] so called [/del] actual Secretary of State. > **[Donald Trump Jr. to give foreign policy speech during business trip to India...](https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2018/02/19/trump-give-foreign-policy-speech-during-business-trip-india/4AJfnza08E9oDGxKCfox7L/story.html)** > > He will deliver a speech on Indo-Pacific relations at an event with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16959 "2018-02-22T01:13:05Z")
[Trump doesn’t _need_ a teleprompter, and no, he’s not as dumb as Sarah Palin\*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/21/this-photo-of-trumps-notes-captures-his-empathy-problem-better-than-anything/?utm_term=.81924b2833ec). > [@](#): > > 1. I hear you. :dubious: \*Hey, at least he didn’t write it on his hand. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16960 "2018-02-22T01:19:54Z")
Oh, I guess this’ll fit here:[url=]Melania Trump’s parents are now legal permanent residents of the US. > [@](#): > > First lady Melania Trump’s parents are legal permanent residents of the United States and on the cusp of obtaining citizenship, according to The Washington Post. > > An attorney for Viktor and Amalija Knavs confirmed to the paper that the couple is “lawfully admitted to the United States as permanent residents,” but declined to comment further, including on how or when they obtained green cards, citing the family’s desire for privacy. > > The report comes amid swirling speculation that the couple was given legal status based on family reunification, also called “chain migration” by detractors, which President Trump has repeatedly called on Congress to end. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [February 22, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16961 "2018-02-22T01:21:18Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > :dubious: > > \*Hey, at least he didn’t write it on his hand. not enough room ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16962 "2018-02-22T01:23:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Trump doesn’t _need_ a teleprompter, and no, he’s not as dumb as Sarah Palin\*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/21/this-photo-of-trumps-notes-captures-his-empathy-problem-better-than-anything/?utm_term=.81924b2833ec). > :dubious: > > \*Hey, at least he didn’t write it on his hand. Look this is just a clear sign of Trump’s efforts to make the country more mature and adult. After all, how could a president who needs a reminder to say “I hear you” not be exactly what America needs to be a more mature and adult country. I really have to thank Starving Artist for saying that, because it is truly one of the most comical things I’ve ever seen. Although his latest tirade on liberalism actually make me snort with laughter too. And I say this as somebody who is (as far as a Canadian goes) a bit conservative, which of course from an American point of view makes me a raging Communist but what can you do. People like Starving Artist (not to mention the other usual suspects on this board) make me realize how intellectually bankrupt is a significant part of the conservative movement. American conservatives are rapidly making me more embracing of liberalism so I guess that’s something and as I embrace more (Canadian) liberal ideas, I kind of have to thank them for opening my eyes. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16963 "2018-02-22T01:34:11Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Trump doesn’t _need_ a teleprompter, and no, he’s not as dumb as Sarah Palin\*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/21/this-photo-of-trumps-notes-captures-his-empathy-problem-better-than-anything/?utm_term=.81924b2833ec). > :dubious: > > \*Hey, at least he didn’t write it on his hand. Non paywalled article: [Photo reveals Trump’s notes at gun violence listening session](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/374971-photo-reveals-trumps-notes-at-gun-violence-listening-session) In addition to needing a reminder to say “I hear you”, Trump also needed a crib sheet to get through such complex issues as, “What would you most want me to know about your experience” and “What can we do to help you feel safe”. I know it goes without saying, but if Obama had needed a fucking cheat sheet to fake sympathy for the families of shooting victims, Fox News would spend at least 72 straight hours beating it into the ground. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/16964 "2018-02-22T01:41:10Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Non paywalled article: [http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/374971-photo-reveals-trumps-notes-at-gun-violence-listening-session](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/374971-photo-reveals-trumps-notes-at-gun-violence-listening-session) > > In addition to needing a reminder to say “I hear you”, Trump also needed a crib sheet to get through such complex issues as, “What would you most want me to know about your experience” and “What can we do to help you feel safe”. > > I know it goes without saying, but if Obama had needed a fucking cheat sheet to fake sympathy for the families of shooting victims, Fox News would spend at least 72 straight hours beating it into the ground. At least he didn’t wear a tan suit ok? That’s the real benefit of having a real American for president. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=847) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=849)