# 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:** 981
**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 26, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19605 "2018-04-26T01:05:55Z")
Yeah, he may [be in trouble](https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/25/trump-va-pick-ronny-jackson-allegedly-gave-opioids-to-staffer-wrecked-car-while-drunk.html), _… summary says that Jackson’s medical staff was thrown “into a panic” when that unit could not locate missing Percocet. It turned out, according to the report, that Jackson allegedly gave the drugs to a military office staff member at the White House._ ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19606 "2018-04-26T01:06:32Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, Islamabad is a city, so, uh … But Trump only likes it because he thinks the place is actually called “Islam Is Bad.” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19607 "2018-04-26T03:17:32Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Hey! I LIKE opera. > > Not that Trump could understand it. I wonder what kind of music he likes to listen to? Any? > [@Bayard](#): > > Prussian Blue. Wagner, probably. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19608 "2018-04-26T03:28:52Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Wagner, probably. I was thinking Carl Orff. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19609 "2018-04-26T04:56:47Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Wagner, probably. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > I was thinking Carl Orff. I’m sure it doesn’t go beyond Rossini’s _Theme to the Lone Ranger_ or Gounod’s _Theme to Alfred Hitchcock Presents._ ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19610 "2018-04-26T06:12:32Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump’s Solicitor General, in his argument before the Supreme Court on defending the Muslim ban: “He has made crystal clear that Muslims in this country are great Americans and there are many, many Muslim countries who love this country and he has praised Islam as _ **one of the great countries of the world** _.” > [Trump lawyer: There’s no Muslim ban because Trump thinks Islam is ‘one of the greatest countries’ – ThinkProgress](https://thinkprogress.org/scotus-hearing-trump-lawyer-says-trump-praised-islam-one-of-the-greatest-countries-cd1ec5da4c17/) This ignorance astounded me enough that I Googled Noel Francisco, Trump’s appointee to Solicitor General. He is a political hack lawyer. His first big case was _Gore v Bush_ or _Florida Voters vs GOP_, whatever it was called. Another big case was _McDonnell v. United States_, in which a GOP Governor’s conviction for taking a bribe was overturned, partly on a technicality. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19611 "2018-04-26T07:27:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I’m sure it doesn’t go beyond Rossini’s _Theme to the Lone Ranger_ or Gounod’s _Theme to Alfred Hitchcock Presents._ You mean the _William Tell Overpass_? I’ve heard he is deeply moved by the ballet about _The Dying Swine…_ ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19612 "2018-04-26T08:18:20Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Islam is a country? Not to defend him, but I’m pretty sure that he meant “nation”, a word that can mean either a country or a group of people. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19613 "2018-04-26T10:19:35Z")
Not to defend him, but let me put words in his mouth that make what he said sound less stupid. C’mon, 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:** [April 26, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19614 "2018-04-26T10:23:37Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I was thinking Carl Orff. One of the very fine people on the Nazi side. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19615 "2018-04-26T10:42:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ben Carson wants to triple the rent on people on housing assistance. > [http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/384845-carson-to-propose-rent-increases-for-americans-receiving-housing](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/384845-carson-to-propose-rent-increases-for-americans-receiving-housing) From the article: “(The plan) would also require that the money be made by at least 15 hours of work at the federal minimum wage level.” So if you can’t find a job or are too sick to work a part-time job or have a part-time job and have gotten called less that 15h you’re SOL? Who does that help? It doesn’t seem to help either the people on assistance or those who rent to them. > [@Morgenstern](#): > > I just learned that ALL of you are no more than a 50th cousin of the trumpanzee. You’re remotely related to that bastard. > > I had to come to the pit to say that because some would consider it an insult. In my case, the clossest common relative is an actual baboon who gives that branch of the family some style. ---
**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 26, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19616 "2018-04-26T10:59:38Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Not to defend him, but I’m pretty sure that he meant “nation”, a word that can mean either a country or a group of people. Trump loves the Nation of Islam, ha ha. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19617 "2018-04-26T12:17:23Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Wagner, probably. Trump has claimed to dislike Wagner operas. [Or at least he thinks he does](http://www.therestisnoise.com/2017/12/trump-on-wagner.html)… ---
**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:** [April 26, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19618 "2018-04-26T12:25:44Z")
Donald’s favorite drunk-driving pill-pushing physical-falsifying doctor dropped out of the VA cabinet nomination. About time. ---
**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 26, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19619 "2018-04-26T12:42:31Z")
Maybe he was drunk when he weighed and measured the Stay-Puft Cheeto Man. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19620 "2018-04-26T13:05:13Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Maybe he was drunk when he weighed and measured the Stay-Puft Cheeto Man. Given how many pills the Admiral Doctor was allegedly pushing, maybe he was examining [Kam Chancellor](https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2018/01/16/donald-trump-height-weight-tim-tebow-mike-trout) and was too fucked up to tell them apart, given their identical height and weight. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19621 "2018-04-26T13:25:11Z")
Fox and Friends interview is a must listen. Grandpa Ranty is [starting to sound crazy](http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-stayed-overnight-in-moscow-russia-steele-dossier-2018-4). Among the highlights, his proof that Comey is lying is that Comey claims that Trump didn’t stay the night in Russia, but that’s a lie, because obviously he spent the night in Russia. Leaving out the part that Comey is making no such claim. Comey’s claim is that Trump says he never spent the night in Russia. Also, he barely knows Cohen who does very little work for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19622 "2018-04-26T13:30:14Z")
Trump [also has a non-existent phony cloud over his head](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/trump-just-gave-batsht-crazy-fox-news-interview-6-bonkers-moments/). ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19623 "2018-04-26T13:38:10Z")
Ronny Jackson has an “unblemished record” once you look past all the blemishes on his record ---
**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:** [April 26, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/19624 "2018-04-26T13:40:17Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Trump [also has a non-existent phony cloud over his head](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/trump-just-gave-batsht-crazy-fox-news-interview-6-bonkers-moments/). I just want to quote the president here. “I have a phony cloud over my head that doesn’t exist.” Said while calling into a morning show like a soccer mom trying to win tickets to the upcoming Train concert. Leader of the free world, folks. Breathtaking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=980) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070.md?page=982)