# Butt-Hurt Trump Takes to Twitter Again (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428 "2016-11-19T15:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2181 "2017-07-24T23:07:10Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Of course it’s awful; it’s just the best thing about him _relatively speaking_. > > Sort of how a eating a shit sandwich is awful, but it’s better than eating a shit sandwich while on fire. Exactly. I was damning with faint praise. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2182 "2017-07-25T07:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=Loser Donald] s Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly? [/QUOTE] …he’s got Alzheimer’s, doesn’t he? That’s got to be the explanation. If he was in the early stages in the campaign, the stress of presidenting is only making it worse. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2183 "2017-07-25T11:18:39Z")
I’m not in a very copy-and-pastable place at the moment, but Donny is coming unglued this morning. Half a dozen rapid fire Tweets. We got Obama and Clinton in there, Sessions, McCabe. Eleven year old Barron even shows up. I can’t figure out if this shit is funny still. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2184 "2017-07-25T11:45:53Z")
Here’s this morning’s chunterings: > [@](#): > > Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign - “quietly working to boost Clinton.” So where is the investigation A.G. @seanhannity > [@](#): > > Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers! > [@](#): > > Problem is that the acting head of the FBI & the person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from H for wife! > [@](#): > > Big day for HealthCare. After 7 years of talking, we will soon see whether or not Republicans are willing to step up to the plate! > [@](#): > > ObamaCare is torturing the American People.The Democrats have fooled the people long enough. Repeal or Repeal & Replace! I have pen in hand. > [@](#): > > So great that John McCain is coming back to vote. Brave - American hero! Thank you John. > [@](#): > > Jared Kushner did very well yesterday in proving he did not collude with the Russians. Witch Hunt. Next up, 11 year old Barron Trump! Implying corruption on the part of the Acting Director of the FBI is novel. ---
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2185 "2017-07-25T12:39:42Z")
I’m glad he implicated Barron in helping the Russians hack us. He knows the cyber. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2186 "2017-07-25T13:44:52Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Donny is coming unglued this morning. That implies an assertion of fact (that Donny was ever “glued” in the first place) not in evidence. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2187 "2017-07-25T15:30:48Z")
> [@Loser Donald](#): > > Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly? No. Next question. > [@](#): > > Problem is that the acting head of the FBI & the person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from H for wife! Per [Slate](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/25/trump_slams_jeff_sessions_and_acting_fbi_director_andrew_mccabe.html): > [@](#): > > In reality, Jill McCabe received nearly $500,000 in donations for her Virginia state Senate campaign in 2015 from Common Good VA, the political action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton ally. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but hadn’t the “Hillary Investigation”, whatever that was, been put to rest long before McCabe got involved? And that right there is the problem with using Twitter to articulate policy. No context, no detail, and no way to pose follow-up questions to the person making the statements. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2188 "2017-07-25T15:33:38Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > …he’s got Alzheimer’s, doesn’t he? That’s got to be the explanation. If he was in the early stages in the campaign, the stress of presidenting is only making it worse. No, Alzheimer’s is just a recent and convenient(?) excuse. He has always been a self absorbed, petulant, spiteful, cowardly, lying, cheating, treacherous, bullying, stealing, fraudulent, scumbag piece of shit. All of his life. He just didn’t have this level of national attention before, and being a shameless attention whore, it will never get better, only worse. Now he can add collusion and treason to the list of things he should already have been in prison for. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2189 "2017-07-25T15:37:56Z")
_Now_ he calls McCain a hero? Has he no shame? (No need to answer that) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2190 "2017-07-25T15:58:07Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > _Now_ he calls McCain a hero? Has he no shame? > > (No need to answer that) And yet I must. This would be the same guy who is floating the name of Ted Cruz (Ted Cruz! Lyin’ Ted! Ted-whose-Dad-had-lunch-with-Lee-Harvey-Oswald Cruz!) for AG. So, er, no. I guess we’ll see shortly whether Mr. Cruz likewise has any shame. I have an opinion on that 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 25, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2191 "2017-07-25T16:08:42Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > No, Alzheimer’s is just a recent and convenient(?) excuse. He has always been a self absorbed, petulant, spiteful, cowardly, lying, cheating, treacherous, bullying, stealing, fraudulent, scumbag piece of shit. All of his life. > > He just didn’t have this level of national attention before, and being a shameless attention whore, it will never get better, only worse. Now he can add collusion and treason to the list of things he should already have been in prison for. As judge and jury, I’d have mercy on convict Trump. Five year sentence sewing Trump products in a Chinese sweatshop. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2192 "2017-07-25T16:10:48Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > No. Next question. > > Per [Slate](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/25/trump_slams_jeff_sessions_and_acting_fbi_director_andrew_mccabe.html): > > Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but hadn’t the “Hillary Investigation”, whatever that was, been put to rest long before McCabe got involved? > > And that right there is the problem with using Twitter to articulate policy. No context, no detail, and no way to pose follow-up questions to the person making the statements. So all of a sudden he’s interested in investigating Hillary again? After saying this right after the election and then not mentioning it again for 8 months? Why the sudden change of heart, I wonder? > [@](#): > > “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t,” Mr. Trump said during the interview. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways, and I am not looking to hurt them at all. The campaign was vicious.” > **[Donald Trump Drops Threat of New Hillary Clinton Investigation (Published 2016)](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-investigation.html)** > > “Lock her up”? The president-elect signaled that he would prefer to move on rather than pursue inquiries into Mrs. Clinton’s email use and the Clinton Foundation. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2193 "2017-07-25T16:13:34Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Okay, he’s lost me (again). Are there _any_ allegations that Hillary had any “Russia relations?” > > And, of course, he seems to have forgotten he’s President and can simply ask his beleaguered A.G. if Hillary is being investigated and why. Between the “real estate murders” (Vince Foster) and Ben Ghazi (never mind it was the Repubs who cut security funding for embassies), and “billions of deleted emails” etc etc etc, every time they tried to do a number on HRC they came up with nothing. And yet this dirty traitor bastard Rrump gets a free pass on every shitty dirty thing he’s ever done - and it goes back decades. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2194 "2017-07-25T16:14:38Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > So all of a sudden he’s interested in investigating Hillary again? After saying this right after the election and then not mentioning it again for 8 months? Why the sudden change of heart, I wonder? > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-investigation.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-investigation.html) A cornered dog bites without much thought. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2195 "2017-07-25T16:22:13Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Between the “real estate murders” (Vince Foster) and Ben Ghazi (never mind it was the Repubs who cut security funding for embassies), and “billions of deleted emails” etc etc etc, every time they tried to do a number on HRC they came up with nothing. > > And yet this dirty traitor bastard Rrump gets a free pass on every shitty dirty thing he’s ever done - and it goes back decades. Hillary’s “Russia relations” should be investigated. If such an investigation goes anywhere, it can only lead back to the Trumps. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2196 "2017-07-25T16:30:11Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > No, Alzheimer’s is just a recent and convenient(?) excuse. He has always been a self absorbed, petulant, spiteful, cowardly, lying, cheating, treacherous, bullying, stealing, fraudulent, scumbag piece of shit. All of his life. > > He just didn’t have this level of national attention before, and being a shameless attention whore, it will never get better, only worse. Now he can add collusion and treason to the list of things he should already have been in prison for. Also, he is burdened by a rather peculiar paradox of the Presidency, at least for someone like Trump. On the one hand, he’s now about the most powerful person in the world, which only serves to further inflate his ego and reinforce his sense of authority. On the other hand, though, he is subject to restrictions (legal and political) that he never faced in his private life as head of his companies. He’s not just the CEO anymore, and he can’t just bully people into doing what he wants by calling them into his office or sending an abusive email or terminating their employment. There are actual legal and constitutional impediments to his idiocy, and even when there those legal barriers aren’t there, he still has to at least consider the public relations consequences of what he’s doing (although it certainly seems that appearances are a long way down on his list of concerns). At some level, he recognizes that he’s playing by different rules now, but he either can’t or won’t do whatever it takes to adjust to the parameters of his new position. All of his tweets, and all of his stupid rambling political diatribes focused on Hillary and “fake news” and electoral college results (like that abortion of an address he gave to the Scouts yesterday) demonstrate that he just can’t really cope with his new reality, and keeps trying to make it conform to the good old days when he was just the boss in the big office, and anyone who got in his way could be steamrolled or dismissed. Unfortunately, it seems that about 30-40 percent of the American population seems to think that he should be able to run the country the way he ran his business, i.e., into the ground. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2197 "2017-07-25T18:11:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign - “quietly working to boost Clinton.” So where is the investigation A.G. @seanhannity Er. Is he saying he wants Sean Hannity for AG? ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2198 "2017-07-25T20:35:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Er. Is he saying he wants Sean Hannity for AG? I think he’s saying he heard that on Sean Hannity. Which just makes it that much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2199 "2017-07-25T21:57:42Z")
> [@Ambrosio\_Spinola](#): > > Even by the standards of the very strange times we live in, Trump’s Twitter (and other media) attacks against Jeff Sessions are just _weird_. He can pick up the phone and demand that Sessions pack up his desk within the hour literally any time he wants to. I understand that many of the things that annoy him in this world are outside his immediate control and he likes to bitch and moan about them constantly, but this one particular thing he can do something about if he wants to. > > There have been plenty of Cabinet officials let go for various good and bad reasons, but I’m straining to think of a time where a President has been so openly critical of one of his Cabinet and not immediately fired them. What has happened is that the grownups around Trump have sat him down and explained to him in very small words that he is not allowed to fire Jeff Sessions, because that would only make The Russia Thing worse. So while his aides can talk him into not firing Jeff Sessions, they can’t talk him into not being upset about it. It rankles him. So he does what he always does when something upsets him, he goes on Twitter and complains about it. Nevermind that a grown-ass man acting in his own self interest would either confine his remarks to anodyne “we look forward to this investigation that will clear our names, now let’s get back to fixing health care” type statements, or go ahead and fire Sessions and dare Congress to do something about it. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2200 "2017-07-28T06:28:52Z")
[QUOTE=Loser Donald] 3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch! [/QUOTE] That’s not only not what you said from the beginning, Dummy Donald, it’s not even what you said _yesterday_. Looks like the Big Loser isn’t getting his 3 hours of sleep tonight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=111)