# 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:** 945
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18885 "2018-04-08T02:10:34Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > 50th floor - must be the Reichstag floor. The guy who owns the entire 51st floor went to jail for laundering money to Russia via Cyprus. > **[Meet the notorious characters who call Trump Tower home](https://t.co/DYtpSY2HpI?amp=1)** > > Not the least of which is Donald Trump himself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18886 "2018-04-08T02:18:17Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > The guy who owns the entire 51st floor went to jail for laundering money to Russia via Cyprus. > > [https://ny.curbed.com/2016/10/25/13405036/trump-tower-residents-list?utm\_campaign=ny.curbed&utm\_content=entry&utm\_medium=social&utm\_source=twitter](https://t.co/DYtpSY2HpI?amp=1) > … He should stick around. There might be a Cabinet post open soon. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18887 "2018-04-08T02:26:52Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He should stick around. There might be a Cabinet post open soon. He might have to compete with the guy who owns floors 48 and 49 who was convicted of bank fraud. Technically, these floors are ten higher than reality due to Trump’s [lying about how tall the tower is](http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tower-is-not-as-tall-as-trump-says-2016-10). ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18888 "2018-04-08T04:34:10Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Huh…Trump Tower is burning. Wonder if the fire broke out in the incriminating evidence storage room? So, Trump killed a guy on Fifth Ave today. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18889 "2018-04-08T05:30:03Z")
The residential floors of Trump Tower don’t have sprinklers. And Trump tweeted about the fire fighters but didn’t mention the person who died. Somebody suggested that it was because he was waiting to find out what the dead person’s skin color was, till they were corrected that there’s no way Trump allows people of color to live in his building. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18890 "2018-04-08T10:57:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [John Kelly packs up his ashtray, remote control, paddle game, magazine, and chair](https://www.axios.com/john-kelly-trump-oval-office-meeting-threatened-quit-f29667d3-d99f-4e23-92f6-9c48c360722b.html?utm_source=sidebar). (He doesn’t need his dog.) Fuck John Kelly. His only accomplishment has been enabling the worst of the president’s tendencies and essentially helping to normalize his behavior. And in the end, being the so-called “adult in the room” didn’t change him one bit. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18891 "2018-04-08T11:37:33Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > So, Trump killed a guy on Fifth Ave today. 😃 ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18892 "2018-04-08T12:15:45Z")
These “Christians” dissembling for Trump are infuriating. [Inside the White House bible study group.](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43534724) This mealy-mouthed asshole, pastor Ralph Drollinger, who apparently has an ongoing sexual relationship with a thesaurus, spells out one contradictory position after another. For example: > [@](#): > > “I think that was for [ancient] Israel, but it’s not for the church,” he says, adding he doesn’t import “the whole kit and caboodle of Old Testament law” like “the clumsy theonomist would”. Ah, so you’re picking and choosing. You know what that means: > [@](#): > > On same-sex marriage, he writes: “Homosexuality and same-sex ceremonies are illegitimate in God’s eyes. His word is repetitive, perspicuous [clearly expressed], and staid on the subject.” Worse, this bible-thumping, Trump supporter has a broken hypocrisy meter and a serious vitamin I(rony) deficiency: > [@](#): > > “Oh yeah, I get disappointed a lot when I see immaturity,” he says. "I was just talking to one member… his wife hates him. He’s been overspending his capital in his marriage by working 14 hours a day on politics. > > “That’s disappointed me, because if he is divorced, then **what kind of credibility does he really have long-term in the House [of Representatives] to make moral judgments**?” What kind of moral leadership can you get from a twice divorced, pussy-groping, serial adulterer, eh Ralphie? Does this “man of God” also counsel democrats? Why sure, even though it’s probably hopeless. For example, this one liberal bitch, who is pretty much a whore: > [@](#): > > One Democrat, struggling with her party’s support for same-sex marriage, contacted Drollinger for advice. He explained the Bible’s teaching, as he saw it. He says he won’t tell her how to vote on the issue - voicing opposition to marriage might cost her an election. " **But at the same time, she’s going to have to think, what’s different between that and a prostitute? A prostitute sells her soul to maintain a salary.** Are you as a Christian legislator, growing in Christ, selling your convictions in order to stay making a salary, or have influence? So just fuck you Ralphie. And fuck you Pence and all the rest of the Jesus freaks in the cabinet. Take your sicko, perverted version of Christianity and keep it far, far away from secular government. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18893 "2018-04-08T13:35:59Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > … > So just fuck you Ralphie. And fuck you Pence and all the rest of the Jesus freaks in the cabinet. Take your sicko, perverted version of Christianity and keep it far, far away from secular government. :smack: Jebus would be rolling over in his grave (if he were still in it). ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18894 "2018-04-08T13:46:04Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > These “Christians” dissembling for Trump are infuriating. > > So just fuck you Ralphie. And fuck you Pence and all the rest of the Jesus freaks in the cabinet. Take your sicko, perverted version of Christianity and keep it far, far away from secular government. I suspect that a lot of the recent success of progressives is attributable to the rising profile of the religious right. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18895 "2018-04-08T15:34:24Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I suspect that a lot of the recent success of progressives is attributable to the rising profile of the religious right. Possibly. Hiding behind the cross will take you pretty far even with liberal/moderate Christians, but eventually you’re going to jump too far for liberal/moderate Christians to follow in the name of your Christ. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18896 "2018-04-08T16:59:08Z")
Trump may be turning a corner on Russia. Yesterday his administration sanctioned the Russian oligarchs (Putin’s pals). Today, for the first time that I can recall, he personally said something negative about Putin: “President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay.” Has our Stable Genius finally figured out that we are not friends with Russia? Will we see a pee-pee video soon? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18897 "2018-04-08T17:08:45Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > _adds **eschereal** to The List_ You should look over your List: I think you have “added” me to it about half a dozen times. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18898 "2018-04-08T17:18:29Z")
Does this mean that Trump is going to prove his toughness by tossing another $100 million in missiles at an evacuated airbase? Because that shit was super effective. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18899 "2018-04-08T17:44:02Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > You should look over your List: I think you have “added” me to it about half a dozen times. There’s more than one list. There’s the list, The list, THE List, The List, THE LIST and then there’s the one i keep on the _plaid_ clipboard. You don’t want to get on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18900 "2018-04-08T21:30:09Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Does this mean that Trump is going to prove his toughness by tossing another $100 million in missiles at an evacuated airbase? Because that shit was super effective. It _was_ effective at the only thing that actually matters: raising Trump’s ratings and getting rally cheers. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18901 "2018-04-08T23:39:50Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > Trump may be turning a corner on Russia. Yesterday his administration sanctioned the Russian oligarchs (Putin’s pals). Today, for the first time that I can recall, he personally said something negative about Putin: “President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay.” > > Has our Stable Genius finally figured out that we are not friends with Russia? Will we see a pee-pee video soon? [That tweet](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/982966315467116544) included the sentence: > [@Somebody Using The Dotard's Twitter Account](#): > > Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. Discovering a sentence like that amongst the Dotard’s utterances is like discovering a description of an integrated circuit chip amongst a pile of Mycenaean Linear B texts – it obviously got put there by some other hand. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18902 "2018-04-09T13:44:04Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > :smack: > > Jebus would be rolling over in his grave (if he were still in it). Reagan too. Though, I think he is actually still in his grave. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18903 "2018-04-09T14:03:34Z")
Somebody should go check. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/18904 "2018-04-09T14:08:32Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Somebody should go check. It’ll be hard to tell. He needed brains when he was alive, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=944) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=946)