# 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:** 879
**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:** [March 7, 2018, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17565 "2018-03-07T11:21:41Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Uh, you know those cites are from the Onion. While usually on point; the Onion is satirical. > > Related: Why can’t the idiots resign. Perry - head of some agency he can’t remember. Calron - unqualified in every respect except for racial cover. Betsy - inadvertantly gave herself a failing grade in education. Self quote. It’s Carson, not Calron. No, I haven’t been drinking. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17566 "2018-03-07T11:59:51Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Colin Kahl (Joe Biden’s National Security adviser): [If [John] Bolton replaces McMaster (and I’ve heard Kelly likes Bolton), we are all going to die.](https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/969322838342688769) > > ([John Bolton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton), for those who may have forgotten.) > > Guess who’s been hanging around the WH lately? Oh yes, everyone’s favorite walrus, Mr. Bolton. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17567 "2018-03-07T12:04:02Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > The amateur presidency bumbles and fumbles for yet another day. It’s seems obvious now how Trump ran his real estate business. New projects began with Shit Gibbon shitting his diaper and screaming “I want a brand new shiny building. With my name on it” and then his minions would do all the work. > > Doable as a private enterprise funded by a couple hundred million from daddy. Absolute shit as government policy. What’s obvious is that Trump is a fake billionaire, propped up by banks and shady interests who hope to recover the massive amounts of money he owes them. He gets deals by deciding which person he’s going to pay and which one he’s going to stiff - because he can’t pay them all. He doesn’t have the money. Much of it simply isn’t his to begin with. He conned people into believing he had some sort of ability to put up profitable high rises, and he conned them into believing that putting his name on things would turn a profit. And he’s conned a country into believing he could make it great again. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17568 "2018-03-07T13:11:57Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > What’s obvious is that Trump is a fake billionaire, propped up by banks and shady interests who hope to recover the massive amounts of money he owes them. He gets deals by deciding which person he’s going to pay and which one he’s going to stiff - because he can’t pay them all. He doesn’t have the money. Much of it simply isn’t his to begin with. He conned people into believing he had some sort of ability to put up profitable high rises, and he conned them into believing that putting his name on things would turn a profit. And he’s conned a country into believing he could make it great again. Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Orange Motion. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17569 "2018-03-07T13:18:46Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “And I don’t need anything. Except this ashtray. And that’s all I need…” If a genuine picture of him shambling about the residence with kleenex boxes on his feet turns up, is that when we start to worry? In earnest, I mean. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17570 "2018-03-07T13:39:07Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Trump refused to sit through a synopsis of a book. So they gave him a synopsis of the movie _Lincoln_ instead.) I’m afraid it was _Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter_. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17571 "2018-03-07T13:57:37Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > What’s obvious is that Trump is a fake billionaire, propped up by banks and shady interests who hope to recover the massive amounts of money he owes them. He gets deals by deciding which person he’s going to pay and which one he’s going to stiff - because he can’t pay them all. It may have sunk in that he had better decide to put his Russian creditors in the “going to pay” column so that he can keep his diet confined to the upper rows of the periodic table, hence his need to scramble more desperately than usual to come up with the cash. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17572 "2018-03-07T14:30:53Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Wasn’t that the message of Atlas Shrugged? I didn’t actually finish the book… Is that the one with the gorgon? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17573 "2018-03-07T14:37:16Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > It may have sunk in that he had better decide to put his Russian creditors in the “going to pay” column so that he can keep his diet confined to the upper rows of the periodic table, hence his need to scramble more desperately than usual to come up with the cash. I truly wonder if his idea of steel and aluminum tariffs are a quick way to make a buck. With no consideration of long (or even short) term effects. Does he own US Steel and ALCO stock? As his approach to business and life in general is “screw everyone but me” it would not surprise me one bit. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17574 "2018-03-07T14:59:39Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Oh yes, everyone’s favorite walrus, Mr. Bolton. I seem to recall that when GWB appointed Bolton to the UN it was considered an eyebrow-raiser — perhaps even a bit scandalous — to name someone as a representative to a body that the individual didn’t think should even exist. How far we’ve come (direction not specified). ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17575 "2018-03-07T15:20:01Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Now Mrs. Trump, you gonna take that or are you leaving the [del]two[/del] _googolplex_ timing bastard? FTFY. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17576 "2018-03-07T15:25:10Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I truly wonder if his idea of steel and aluminum tariffs are a quick way to make a buck. With no consideration of long (or even short) term effects. Does he own US Steel and ALCO stock? > > As his approach to business and life in general is “screw everyone but me” it would not surprise me one bit. A quick buck for him, perhaps not, but he could still use the information as a way to repay creditors. Oleg Deripaska, whose name we’ve heard a lot, [quit as the president of Russian aluminum corporation Rusal](http://cnb.cx/2EOigpr) about a week before the tariff announcement, which caused an aluminum panic. Man, lucky he got out just in time, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17577 "2018-03-07T15:26:34Z")
All this winning… it’s just too much! ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17578 "2018-03-07T15:38:45Z")
I wonder what President David Dennison has planned for today? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [March 7, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17579 "2018-03-07T15:47:09Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > I wonder what President David Dennison has planned for today? He’ll let you know when he’s finished his planning conference with John Barron and John Miller. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17580 "2018-03-07T16:35:43Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > I wonder what President David Dennison has planned for today? > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > He’ll let you know when he’s finished his planning conference with John Barron and John Miller. Many great people are saying great things about this presidency! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17581 "2018-03-07T17:06:36Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > … And he’s conned a country into believing he could make it great again. To be fair, he’s conned a little fewer than half of the people that voted in the last Presidential election. He hasn’t conned a country. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17582 "2018-03-07T17:30:53Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > He Only Hires The Best, [Part… oh, screw it, we’ve all lost count by now](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/notorious-crusader-advocate-of-stripper-registry-named-to-health-department-by-trump/): > > You’re hiring a stripper registry guy? Really? Geez, Donnie, get an Ashley Madison account or something… It’s a sure bet that this turd is knee deep in porn and strippers. He’ll be resigning in a few weeks once his face is in the news and his skeletons come a’ dancin’. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17583 "2018-03-07T17:50:08Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > his skeletons come a’ dancin’. [Here you go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q&t=2m32s). ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/17584 "2018-03-07T18:27:58Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > [@Morgenstern](#): > > > > Now Mrs. Trump, you gonna take that or are you leaving the [del]two[/del] _googolplex_ timing bastard? > > FTFY. [Moderating] Altering text inside the body of an attributed quote tag is a violation of the board rules. Please do not do this again. No warning issued. [/Moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=878) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=880)