# ...1000 Days of Trump. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670 "2019-10-12T04:49:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/1 "2019-10-12T04:49:12Z")
…this isn’t a rant thread, nor is it a great debate, if you want to rant or debate there are more than enough threads around to be able to do that. We are coming up to 1000 days of the Trump administration, today is day 994. A New Zealander living in Texas, going by the online handle “Sassy Little Hobbit”, has been documenting the administration since Day 1 in a series of daily tweets that tried to capture the flavour of the insanity that happened on that particular day. She originally was only going to do it for a week, then a month, then a year. But she has decided that she will probably stop when she gets to 1000 because it isn’t the kind of thing anyone could do without needing to be able to take a time-out. So as we enter what might be the “endgame” for this administration, I thought some people might be interested in looking back to see how it all started. There isn’t a single day without drama. There are stuff that are really really important that I can’t remember that it happened, who was involved, or what actually happened. For example on Day 25: > [@Day 25](#): > > Day 25: National Security Adviser resigns after basically compromising… er… security [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/831353956416765952](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/831353956416765952) What was that about? Which National Security Advisor and what did he or she do? > [@Day 27](#): > > Day 27: Labor Secretary pulls out. Allegations of domestic abuse. > > Day 28: National Security Adviser replacement declines offer. Who were these people? > [@Day 44](#): > > Day 44: Accuses Barack Obama of surveilling him and Trump tower in an early morning tweetstorm and then goaded Arnold Schwarzenegger. [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/838245026731806721](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/838245026731806721) I had forgotten that he had gotten into a twitter fight with the Terminator. > [@Day 5](#): > > Day 5: Rogue National Parks. [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/824031844249305088](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/824031844249305088) The launch of the resistance 🙂 The rogue government twitter accounts 😃 > [@Day 9](#): > > Day 9: ACLU gets first win against Trump. Oh and a Nazi replaced the Joint Chiefs at National Security Council. [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/825552269340971008](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/825552269340971008) Remember when Bannon sat on the National Security Council? That was Day 9 of the administration. > [@Day 76](#): > > Day 76: White Supremacist removed from security council. He is actually jealous of his own staff (Bannon getting attention) [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/849850691074109440](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/849850691074109440) Bannon had access to security council meetings for 67 days. > [@Day 18](#): > > Also Press Secretary had to come out and say Trump doesn’t own a bathrobe [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/828789007790202880](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/828789007790202880) What was this one about again? > [@82](#): > > Day 82: Press sec refers to concentration camps as “Holocaust centers” & forgot Hitler gassed his own people. FISA warrant on Trump Adviser. [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/852007879615758337](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/852007879615758337) Ah, Sean Spicer. Remember the days when they still had press briefings? > [@Day 105](#): > > Day 105: celebrated house GOP trying to take healthcare away from 24mil ppl. Praised Australia for having universal healthcare the same day. [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/860344149312241665](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/860344149312241665) > [@Day 110](#): > > Day 110: Census director quit, FBI director fired, grand jury subpoenas issued to Flynn associates, name calling on official POTUS account. [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/862156146702004228](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/862156146702004228) Sometimes a lot of things happened on the same day. > [@111](#): > > Day 111: The President of the USA rage livetweeted CNN, Russian media allowed in Oval but not American media, **press sec hid in bushes.** [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/862517673053302784](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/862517673053302784) Sometimes so many things happened that the only sensible thing to do was hide in the bushes. Day 122 is just a picture. But what a [picture](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/866500724317970432). Day 132 bought us [covfefe](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/866500724317970432). Even though I think I’ve been pretty good at keeping up with most of this, I’m still astonished at the pace that everything happened, at at how quickly things that weren’t normal have just become normalised. How much of this stuff do you remember? The thread starts here: > [@](#): > > Day 1: pretty shit eh [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/822611239876620293](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/822611239876620293) ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/2 "2019-10-12T04:51:12Z")
I remember a Doper saying, after 4 weeks into the Trump presidency, that this was unsustainable and the idea of having to endure 4 years of Trump was unfathomable. Well, we’re closing in on three years already. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/3 "2019-10-12T05:02:41Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I remember a Doper saying, after 4 weeks into the Trump presidency, that this was unsustainable and the idea of having to endure 4 years of Trump was unfathomable. Well, we’re closing in on three years already. It’s no less exhausting today than it was on Day 1. I still wake up every morning, roll over and look at my phone to make sure someone didn’t get nuked overnight. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/4 "2019-10-12T05:24:42Z")
I remember on the night he won the election, I predicted this was going to be the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. Though I predicted the corruption, I hadn’t predicted a total break with reality. Didn’t know I was an optimist. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/5 "2019-10-12T06:52:31Z")
Well I’m loving it. Just watched the Trump rally in Louisiana on TV. I actually stood up and cheered when Trump made this very un-Presidential statement: “The radical Democrat’s policies are crazy, their politicians are corrupt, their candidates are terrible, and they know they can’t win on election day, so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment.” I just gotta love that kind of no-holds-barred honesty. How many elected officials have the balls to call “bullshit” when they see it? ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/6 "2019-10-12T06:59:06Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Well I’m loving it. Just watched the Trump rally in Louisiana on TV. I actually stood up and cheered when Trump made this very un-Presidential statement: > > “The radical Democrat’s policies are crazy, their politicians are corrupt, their candidates are terrible, and they know they can’t win on election day, so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment.” > > I just gotta love that kind of no-holds-barred honesty. How many elected officials have the balls to call “bullshit” when they see it? …was that the rally where the President of the United States faked an orgasm on stage? ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/7 "2019-10-12T07:30:07Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Well I’m loving it. Just watched the Trump rally in Louisiana on TV. I actually stood up and cheered when Trump made this very un-Presidential statement: > > “The radical Democrat’s policies are crazy, their politicians are corrupt, their candidates are terrible, and they know they can’t win on election day, so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment.” > > I just gotta love that kind of no-holds-barred honesty. How many elected officials have the balls to call “bullshit” when they see it? This pretty much encapsulates the confused views of most Trump supporters: they mistake undignified vitriol for honesty and courage. Who’s telling the truth? It must be the guy spewing crap about people I want to hate! A sad and dangerous state of affairs. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/8 "2019-10-12T13:51:53Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Well I’m loving it. Just watched the Trump rally in Louisiana on TV. I actually stood up and cheered when Trump made this very un-Presidential statement: > > “The radical Democrat’s policies are crazy, their politicians are corrupt, their candidates are terrible, and they know they can’t win on election day, so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment.” > > I just gotta love that kind of no-holds-barred honesty. How many elected officials have the balls to call “bullshit” when they see it? [Aren’t you embarrassed?](https://giphy.com/gifs/sebastiancomedy-edP47Sn6tYB7MiYK9t/fullscreen) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/9 "2019-10-12T15:17:36Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Well I’m loving it. Just watched the Trump rally in Louisiana on TV. I actually stood up and cheered when Trump made this very un-Presidential statement: > > “The radical Democrat’s policies are crazy, their politicians are corrupt, their candidates are terrible, and they know they can’t win on election day, so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment.” > > I just gotta love that kind of no-holds-barred honesty. How many elected officials have the balls to call “bullshit” when they see it? I have close family members who hold similar views, and might make comparable remarks. That I am not related to them by blood is no small consolation. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/10 "2019-10-12T15:36:35Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Well I’m loving it. Just watched the Trump rally in Louisiana on TV. I actually stood up and cheered when Trump made this very un-Presidential statement: > > “The radical Democrat’s policies are crazy, their politicians are corrupt, their candidates are terrible, and they know they can’t win on election day, so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment.” > > I just gotta love that kind of no-holds-barred honesty. How many elected officials have the balls to call “bullshit” when they see it? You must have loved it when Biden told Obama “This is a big fucking deal” when the ACA was signed ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/11 "2019-10-12T19:47:01Z")
Trump has no balls, but boyoboyoboy, he’s just full of bullshit! I’m sure his “handlers” go batshit every time he sits on his solid gold toilet and tweets his particular flavor of nonsense. I am old enough to where I have frequent flashbacks of Nixon going down in flames. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/12 "2019-10-12T22:45:13Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I remember a Doper saying, after 4 weeks into the Trump presidency, that this was unsustainable and the idea of having to endure 4 years of Trump was unfathomable. Well, we’re closing in on three years already. I’ve mostly moved past anger into despondency and dark humor. Also I don’t expect better from America anymore. I guess this is the new normal. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/13 "2019-10-13T02:21:00Z")
So the OP has questions about the following days. I thought I’d make it easier to google by converting them to dates. Day 18: Feb 7, 2017 - The New York Times [had reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-aides-strategy.html) that Trump was often found sitting watching TV new in his bathrobe, and marking up the bad reports about him, as part of the general disarray in the White House. In response, Press Secretary Sean Spicer claimed that the report was inaccurate, and specifically mentioned that Trump did not even own a bathrobe, let alone wear one. So, of course, pictures which showed wearing a bathrobe flooded social media. Day 25: Feb 13, 2017 - National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigns. I presume everyone remembers why. (hint: Russian ambassadors) Day 27: Feb 16, 2017 - Anti-labor fast food executive Andrew Puzder withdraws his name for Labor secretary, due in part to his crappy business practices, and having employed an undocumented worker as a housekeeper. Trump quickly nominates Alex Acosta to replace him, who resigned this year due to the Epstein case. Day 28: Feb 17, 2017 - Vice Adm. Robert Harward, a retired Navy SEAL and former deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, turned down Trump’s offer to become National Security Adviser, citing personal issues. It’s possible the issue was that he would not be allowed to replace his staff. The job eventually went to H. R. McMaster, who lasted a bit more than a year. John Bolton (1.5 years) and now Robert O’Brien (since last month) followed. In short, we have an unstable Administration, and this was clear even less than a month after Trump was elected. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/14 "2019-10-15T01:37:40Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > It’s no less exhausting today than it was on Day 1. I still wake up every morning, roll over and look at my phone to make sure someone didn’t get nuked overnight. I do the same but it’s to see if Trump’s died overnight. Fingers crossed! ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/15 "2019-10-18T10:31:06Z")
…and we hit 1000 days today. > [@Sassy Little Hobbit](#): > > Day 1,000: Trump selected his own Trump Doral golf resort as the site of June’s G-7 summit. His CoS claimed Trump held back aid from Ukraine as quid pro quo and then changed his mind. Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, is the latest official to call it quits. [https://twitter.com/LI\_politico/status/1185074832037306368](https://twitter.com/LI_politico/status/1185074832037306368) And what a day it was. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-days-of-trump/841670/16 "2019-10-18T10:35:45Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > So the OP has questions about the following days. I thought I’d make it easier to google by converting them to dates. > > Day 18: Feb 7, 2017 - The New York Times [had reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-aides-strategy.html) that Trump was often found sitting watching TV new in his bathrobe, and marking up the bad reports about him, as part of the general disarray in the White House. In response, Press Secretary Sean Spicer claimed that the report was inaccurate, and specifically mentioned that Trump did not even own a bathrobe, let alone wear one. So, of course, pictures which showed wearing a bathrobe flooded social media. > > Day 25: Feb 13, 2017 - National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigns. I presume everyone remembers why. (hint: Russian ambassadors) > > Day 27: Feb 16, 2017 - Anti-labor fast food executive Andrew Puzder withdraws his name for Labor secretary, due in part to his crappy business practices, and having employed an undocumented worker as a housekeeper. Trump quickly nominates Alex Acosta to replace him, who resigned this year due to the Epstein case. > > Day 28: Feb 17, 2017 - Vice Adm. Robert Harward, a retired Navy SEAL and former deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, turned down Trump’s offer to become National Security Adviser, citing personal issues. It’s possible the issue was that he would not be allowed to replace his staff. The job eventually went to H. R. McMaster, who lasted a bit more than a year. John Bolton (1.5 years) and now Robert O’Brien (since last month) followed. > > In short, we have an unstable Administration, and this was clear even less than a month after Trump was elected. …thank you 🙂