# 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:** 177
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3521 "2017-12-03T04:19:52Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Ok, now the Washington Post is [reporting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/02/trumps-first-tweet-about-michael-flynns-guilty-plea-could-be-a-problem-for-him/?utm_term=.159b83e13511) that Trump’s lawyer, John Dowd wrote the Tweet about firing Flynn. I guess that makes it all better :dubious: We would have to assume that Trump’s lawyer doesn’t know that the past tense of “to plead” is “pleaded”, not “pled”. A lawyer probably wouldn’t make that mistake, but a racist toddler with tiny fingers just might. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3522 "2017-12-03T05:48:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > When is he going to realize that the Department of Justice works for him? Hopefully never. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3523 "2017-12-03T06:51:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “Many people in our Country are asking what the “Justice” Department is going to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress, deleted and “acid washed” 33,000 Emails? No justice!” > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/937142713211813889) > > When is he going to realize that the Department of Justice works for him? Actually…this is a good thing. One of the things I’ve learned in this horrible year is the special relationship between the Justice Department and the President. It’s one of the cherished norms of our democracy that, even thought Justice ostensibly works for the President, the President keeps Justice at arm’s length, to avoid the appearance that the president can use the federal law enforcement agencies at his command to punish his political enemies. Now, Trump is chafing at that, and whines incessantly about it. But he seems to have stopped short of issuing any direct orders to Justice, thank God. Or if he has, Sessions is ignoring him – which gives Sessions more integrity than seems likely. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3524 "2017-12-03T12:44:52Z")
Who’s hungry for word salad? > [@Loser Donald](#): > > Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI “agent’s role in Clinton probe under review.” Led Clinton Email probe. @foxandfriends Clinton money going to wife of another FBI agent in charge. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3525 "2017-12-03T13:09:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Who’s hungry for word salad? Wow. Even imagining it read in E E Cummings’ voice is hardly an improvement. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3526 "2017-12-03T13:58:18Z")
He’s in quite the mood. > [@](#): > > **Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump** > > Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI “agent’s role in Clinton probe under review.” Led Clinton Email probe. @foxandfriends Clinton money going to wife of another FBI agent in charge. > _7:42 AM - 3 Dec 2017_ > > * * * > > After years of Comey, with the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more), running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters - worst in History! But fear not, we will bring it back to greatness. > \*8:00 AM - 3 Dec 2017 \* > > * * * > > People who lost money when the Stock Market went down 350 points based on the False and Dishonest reporting of Brian Ross of @ABC News (he has been suspended), should consider hiring a lawyer and suing ABC for the damages this bad reporting has caused - many millions of dollars! > \*8:15 AM - 3 Dec 2017 \* > > * * * > > Report: “ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED CLINTON EMAIL PROBE” Now it all starts to make sense! > \*8:36 AM - 3 Dec 2017 \* He’s had twenty minutes of Fox ‘n’ Friends since that last tweet and there’s still another hour of the show to go so we may not be done yet this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3527 "2017-12-03T14:09:35Z")
So our shit economy is the fault of this “Brian Ross”? How can one man wield such power? ---
**Author:** ![Ambrosio\_Spinola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Ambrosio\_Spinola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambrosio_Spinola)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3528 "2017-12-03T15:12:00Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Actually…this is a good thing. One of the things I’ve learned in this horrible year is the special relationship between the Justice Department and the President. It’s one of the cherished norms of our democracy that, even thought Justice ostensibly works for the President, the President keeps Justice at arm’s length, to avoid the appearance that the president can use the federal law enforcement agencies at his command to punish his political enemies. > > Now, Trump is chafing at that, and whines incessantly about it. But he seems to have stopped short of issuing any direct orders to Justice, thank God. Or if he has, Sessions is ignoring him – which gives Sessions more integrity than seems likely. I’m coming to view the incessant whining as a good thing. I figure there’s about a 0% chance that the Trump Organization’s finances survive an encounter with a serious federal investigation based on his prior track record (e.g., all the fines he had to pay the New Jersey Gaming Commission). This is arguably the worst threat outstanding to him and it’s clear Mueller is looking at it what with all the white-collar finance and forensic accountant types he’s got on his team. His best bet - and the page from the authoritarian playbook - is to fire Mueller and ensure all investigations into himself are quashed. Sure, there would be some complaining on editorial pages but I figure he can claim it’s all fake news and dare Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to do something about it (they won’t). Instead he lets the investigation proceed and whines about it. Is it some combination of not wanting to fire people and simply not understanding what sort of report is likely to come out of all this? Or just laziness? I don’t know, but every day he complains without actually doing something is a good one. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3529 "2017-12-03T15:17:39Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Wow. Even imagining it read in E E Cummings’ voice is hardly an improvement. Try some other voices – Mark Hamill as the Joker or Andy Serkis as Gollum usually work. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3530 "2017-12-03T15:31:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > We would have to assume that Trump’s lawyer doesn’t know that the past tense of “to plead” is “pleaded”, not “pled”. > > A lawyer probably wouldn’t make that mistake, but a racist toddler with tiny fingers just might. Apparently [both _pleaded_ and _pled_ are acceptable for the past tense](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/plead). The funny thing about Trump’s excuse making is that his excuses are just as bad as the stuff he’s trying to avoid blame for. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3531 "2017-12-03T15:32:20Z")
Make the FBI great again? J. Edgar Hoover! Nabbed “Pretty Boy” Floyd, exposed MLK, and could totally rock a little black dress! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3532 "2017-12-03T15:34:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Make the FBI great again? J. Edgar Hoover! Nabbed “Pretty Boy” Floyd, exposed MLK, and could totally rock a little black dress! Apparently, it was good just up to the point where Comey took it over… Yup. Right before James Comey became the Director of the FBI, it was a magnificent organization. Right before him. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3533 "2017-12-03T16:31:30Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Ok, now the Washington Post is [reporting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/02/trumps-first-tweet-about-michael-flynns-guilty-plea-could-be-a-problem-for-him/?utm_term=.159b83e13511) that Trump’s lawyer, John Dowd wrote the Tweet about firing Flynn. I guess that makes it all better :dubious: So, the Twitter feed of ‘realDonaldTrump’ may or may not be the real Donald Trump - depending on if the twit in question is potentially incriminating. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3534 "2017-12-03T17:06:44Z")
> [@simster](#): > > So, the Twitter feed of ‘realDonaldTrump’ may or may not be the real Donald Trump - depending on if the twit in question is potentially incriminating. Does Twitter have an official policy about letting others use your account and pretending to be you? ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3535 "2017-12-03T19:07:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Does Twitter have an official policy about letting others use your account and pretending to be you? If Twitter hasn’t suspended his account by now, what makes you think they’d even consider doing so for this last Tweet even if it did break their rules. Doesn’t Twitter have an anti-bullying policy? How many people has Trump bullied through his Twitter account? Seems like an appropriate reason to ban someone from Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3536 "2017-12-03T21:42:41Z")
As long as the president of the United States is stirring up anything by using Twitter, that company does not need to advertise. He can openly call for armed rebellion against the government, mass murder, or any other crime and Twitter will jyst sit back and enjoy the exposure. What will be bad for the company will be the next president’s statement that he or she will not use Twitter at all while in office ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3537 "2017-12-03T21:54:49Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > The Moron Idiot Kindergarten Dope digs himself deeper: > > So… he admits to knowing that Flynn had committed crimes when he pressured Comey to back off him? Isn’t that pretty much the textbook definition of “obstruction of justice”? This is the first think I thought of when I saw this on the news . ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3538 "2017-12-03T21:59:38Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > If Twitter hasn’t suspended his account by now, what makes you think they’d even consider doing so for this last Tweet even if it did break their rules. Doesn’t Twitter have an anti-bullying policy? How many people has Trump bullied through his Twitter account? Seems like an appropriate reason to ban someone from Twitter. I don’t have a Twitter account, but I suspect that Trump is the best thing that has ever happened to them. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3539 "2017-12-04T02:56:52Z")
But can anyone actually answer the question? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/3540 "2017-12-04T03:16:33Z")
> [@](#): > > People who lost money when the Stock Market went down 350 points based on the False and Dishonest reporting of Brian Ross of @ABC News (he has been suspended), should consider hiring a lawyer and suing ABC for the damages this bad reporting has caused - many millions of dollars! > 8:15 AM - 3 Dec 2017 Hey, great idea Donnie! And everyone who lost money because of your tweets should sue you! Many millions of dollars! Amazon Stock Market Value Drops By $5B After Single Tweet By Trump > **[Amazon Stock Market Value Drops $5B After Trump Tweet](https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-stocks-fall-5-bn-after-single-tweet-trump-651675)** > > The president has had a long-running feud with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Trump’s tweet cost Boeing Shareholders more than $500 million [https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-tweet-cost-boeing-shareholders-more-than-550-million-2016-12-06](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-tweet-cost-boeing-shareholders-more-than-550-million-2016-12-06) Stocks drop after Trump’s threat to shut down government > **[Stocks drop after Trump’s threat to shut down government](https://nypost.com/2017/08/23/stocks-drop-after-trumps-threat-to-shut-down-government/)** > > US stocks remained lower on Wednesday as investors mulled President Donald Trump’s threat to shut down the government if funds are not secured to build a Mexico border wall. Stocks did briefl… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=176) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=178)