# Awesome Trump Answer at Presser **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999 "2017-02-16T19:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/21 "2017-02-16T20:54:13Z")
Cue President Pence in 10…9…8… ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/22 "2017-02-16T20:55:50Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Good. God. What have we done? Thank God I bookmarked this just after the election: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sIvsTXnik7Q/hqdefault.jpg "McNulty, The Wire: What the fuck did I do?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvsTXnik7Q) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/23 "2017-02-16T21:06:17Z")
> **[Analysis | Donald Trump’s combative, grievance-filled news conference, annotated](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/16/donald-trumps-grievance-filled-press-conference-annotated/?utm_term=.48b38f3e4ad9)** > > Trump said four times that he inherited a 'mess.' Partial transcript if interested. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/24 "2017-02-16T21:22:17Z")
I think Jake Tapper from CNN got it right when he said it was Festivus: An Airing of the Grievances. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/25 "2017-02-16T21:30:58Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > He apparently has nothing else on his mind besides himself. When Prime Minister Trudeau was in town on Monday, there was a joint press conference with Trump. Which is, of course, the sort of press conference where the subject is the relationship between the two countries, and each leader says kind things about the other. When Trump opened his pie-hole this is what came out, roughly paraphrased: “We have a great border with Canada, a great border. The border with Mexico, not so great. But I’m going to fix that. Only I know how to fix it, and we’re going to have a great border with Mexico, thanks to me. And another thing I did is stop businesses from moving offshore, and now they’re making big investments here in America, big investments, believe me. And all thanks to me. I did it. I am so great it’s unbelievable, believe me.” Or something like that. While the Canadian PM stood there looking bemused at this self-aggrandizing windbag of pomposity praising himself for things that (a) he had not done, and that (b) had nothing to do with the purpose of the press conference. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/26 "2017-02-16T21:47:19Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > He’s rattled. No question. It’s like the Bismark, alone and under attack from all directions. Takes a torpedo in the rear then sails in circles until sunk after being abandoned by it’s crew. Most appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/27 "2017-02-16T21:50:10Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “Have you zeen ze remote, Donald?” > “We won with so many electoral votes. People couldn’t believe. I have a tremendous amount of support from Americans. Tremendous, yuge. Just yuge. No one’s seen anything like our electoral votes, like, ever.” I was with you till this one. There is no way anyone who knows him would bother asking the Donald where the remote was. That’s the sort of detail that is for little people. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/28 "2017-02-16T22:00:42Z")
Never mind. I typed in the wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/29 "2017-02-16T22:08:23Z")
CNN has a full transcript of today’s presser. I tried to read it. Oh my God, I tried to read it. It is just this amazing jumble of words – the best words – that make no sense in the order presented. After about fifteen minutes, my head hurt from trying to follow along. Trump has no train of thought. It’s more like a bee’s hive of chaos. The only unifying theme is that he is, in fact, wonderful. Beyond compare. Sad. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/30 "2017-02-16T22:21:43Z")
Pretty much answers the thread about Trump being a barely functioning illiterate? ---
**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 16, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/31 "2017-02-16T22:22:23Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > Given the content of the link, I assume this is sarcasm. Well, the article did say, “And, truly, our president’s answer will inspire you (to live the rest of your life in a remote Mongolian cave).” > [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Takes a torpedo in the rear then sails in circles until sunk after being abandoned by it’s crew. Most appropriate. Reminds me of a friend of mine who used to talk about the guy who ran around in ever-decreasing concentric circles until he disappeared up his own asshole. The USA should be so lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/32 "2017-02-16T22:31:01Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > He’s rattled. No question. It’s like the Bismark, alone and under attack from all directions. “Ladies and Gentleman, Queens is burning.” ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/33 "2017-02-16T22:38:35Z")
Out of that swirling froth of verbiage I dragged up this slimy old thing: > [@Donald Trump](#): > > We’ve undertaken the most substantial border security measures in a generation to keep our nation and our tax dollars safe. And are now in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border, met with general — now [Homeland Security] Secretary [John] Kelly yesterday, and we’re starting that process. And the wall is going to be a great wall, and it’s going to be a wall negotiated by me. The price is going to come down just like it has on everything else I’ve negotiated for the government. “The price is going to come down”? On the wall that Mexico was supposedly going to pay for? Is this a tacit acknowledgement that any such wall will, in fact, be paid for by the US government (i.e., us taxpayers), rather than Mexico? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/34 "2017-02-16T22:45:20Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Good. God. What have we done? Yes, America - what have you done?! I never thought I’d say it, but Trump makes GW Bush sound good. :smack: ---
**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 16, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/35 "2017-02-16T22:47:31Z")
He almost makes Sarah Palin sound good. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/36 "2017-02-16T22:51:43Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Good. God. What have we done? What you mean ‘we,’ white man? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/37 "2017-02-16T22:58:03Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > This is about the 30th “answer” I’ve seen from Trump where he starts off by talking about the election results. In several of them he references the need to “get to 51”, by which I assume he means 51% of the vote, although he seems to have gotten away from that line recently. > > I think it really disturbs him that he lost the popular vote, he’s constantly in need of reassuring himself that he won. I think he’s referring to approval of his Cabinet appointees…guess he never figured out that he really only needs 50, since Pence is always there as the tie-breaker. But then, I don’t expect him to know anything specific about the process, or much of anything else that doesn’t appear on Infowars, Breitbart, or Faux News. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/38 "2017-02-16T23:01:56Z")
Complete this sentence: Nuclear holocaust would be \_\_\_\_\_\_. Fill in the blank, then continue. My personal favorite: > [@](#): > > We’re a very powerful nuclear country and so are they. I have been briefed. And I can tell you one thing about a briefing that we’re allowed to say because anybody that ever read the most basic book can say it, nuclear holocaust would be like no other. > > They’re a very powerful nuclear country and so are we. He wants you to know that a nuclear holocaust would be like no other [nuclear holocaust]. They told him this in a briefing, and of course, he’s allowed to say it. Just so we’re clear. Leader of the free world, here, people! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/39 "2017-02-16T23:02:09Z")
I just wanted to say that when I first saw the thread title, I thought it said “Awesome Trump Answer at Passover.” ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999/40 "2017-02-16T23:04:02Z")
> [@Drum\_God](#): > > CNN has a full transcript of today’s presser. I tried to read it. Oh my God, I tried to read it. It is just this amazing jumble of words – the best words – that make no sense in the order presented. > > After about fifteen minutes, my head hurt from trying to follow along. Trump has no train of thought. It’s more like a bee’s hive of chaos. The only unifying theme is that he is, in fact, wonderful. Beyond compare. You missed the dark side flip - that the media is the source of all problems. The trend of dropping confidence in news media (for no genuine reason that I can see) and the hate from Trump supporters for “the media” is taking things in a really, really dangerous direction. Too many people who see snips from today’s tirade are going to nod smugly that AO is putting those damned libraletists in their place, which is dutifully writing down what he says. > [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Faux News. Time to update. Fux News. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-trump-answer-at-presser/779999.md?page=3)