# 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:** 26
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/501 "2017-01-17T17:20:34Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Is St. Elizabeth’s still open? [Partially.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elizabeths_Hospital) > [@](#): > > If not I’m sure there is some similar place to keep him. Send him to NYC. Bellevue. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/502 "2017-01-17T18:06:21Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > The People are not showering him with praise anymore? He must be pissed. His golden days are over. He’s done the typical ten year presidential aging before the inauguration has even happened. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/503 "2017-01-17T19:17:51Z")
Thinking more and more that he will simply bail. Come up with some plausible excuse, and let Pence have the keys. Which will improve our situation from the nightmarish to the merely dreadful. Does that automatically make Ryan VP? And if Pence pulls the same thing, President? Nurse? Nurse? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/504 "2017-01-17T19:21:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Thinking more and more that he will simply bail. Come up with some plausible excuse, and let Pence have the keys. Which will improve our situation from the nightmarish to the merely dreadful. > > Does that automatically make Ryan VP? And if Pence pulls the same thing, President? Nurse? Nurse? If I remember correctly, Pence would nominate a new VP. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/505 "2017-01-17T19:22:56Z")
I think our Russian rentboy president has plenty of time for twitter fights. He doesn’t really focus in detail on issues and policy; everything is pretty much a spur of the moment decision or comment. Twitter is a good place for him to get lots of positive feedback, feedback that he uses to help make his major decisions and shape his belief structure. Oh, yeah, it’s idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/506 "2017-01-17T19:25:36Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > I think our Russian rentboy president has plenty of time for twitter fights. He doesn’t really focus in detail on issues and policy; everything is pretty much a spur of the moment decision or comment. Twitter is a good place for him to get lots of positive feedback, feedback that he uses to help make his major decisions and shape his belief structure. > > Oh, yeah, it’s idiotic. He gets a metric shit ton of negative feedback on Twitter. Which he ignores but he’s not in an isolated bubble. I’m surprised he doesn’t try to answer each one. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/507 "2017-01-17T19:26:03Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > The People are not showering him with praise anymore? He must be pissed. His golden days are over. You’re in trouble for that one! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/508 "2017-01-17T19:30:47Z")
We were doing pretty good at generously ignoring. Until _somebody_ brought it up again! ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/509 "2017-01-17T19:35:20Z")
Somebody walk me through this. Trump says the prostitute dossier is fake. And now he says that the CIA director is responsible for leaking it. If the dossier is fake, why would the CIA have leaked it? Couldn’t it have been released by the people who made it up? ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/510 "2017-01-17T19:59:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Somebody walk me through this. > > Trump says the prostitute dossier is fake. And now he says that the CIA director is responsible for leaking it. If the dossier is fake, why would the CIA have leaked it? Couldn’t it have been released by the people who made it up? You’ve just put more thought into the subject than the orange jackass elect. ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/511 "2017-01-17T19:59:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Somebody walk me through this. > > Trump says the prostitute dossier is fake. And now he says that the CIA director is responsible for leaking it. If the dossier is fake, why would the CIA have leaked it? Couldn’t it have been released by the people who made it up? Apparently he believes it was made up, but the CIA believed it, classified it, then leaked it. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/512 "2017-01-17T20:01:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Somebody walk me through this. > > Trump says the prostitute dossier is fake. And now he says that the CIA director is responsible for leaking it. If the dossier is fake, why would the CIA have leaked it? Couldn’t it have been released by the people who made it up? Well, Putin says it’s fake too. And under the new Trump regime, Putin is our best friend and we must believe him. Our friend Putin had the freakin’ headline on Fox News. Fox News loves Putin, and will give him lots of publicity now. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/513 "2017-01-17T20:14:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > If I remember correctly, Pence would nominate a new VP. That’s the way it happened with Ford. Agnew (VP) resigned. Ford was appointed (VP). Nixon resigned. Ford became President and nominated Nelson Rockefeller for VP. Per wiki, it’s covered by the [25th Amendment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution). ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/514 "2017-01-17T20:41:53Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > That’s the way it happened with Ford. Agnew (VP) resigned. Ford was appointed (VP). Nixon resigned. Ford became President and nominated Nelson Rockefeller for VP. > > Per wiki, it’s covered by the [25th Amendment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution). Prior to the 25th Amendment, the VP position was just left unfilled. Between the assassination of JFK in Nov '63 and the election of Johnson/Humphrey in '64, there was no VP. The Speaker of the House was 2nd in line for the presidency but didn’t become the VP; he remained just the Speaker. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/515 "2017-01-17T20:45:51Z")
What would happen if Twitter had to close down? (I’ve read a few articles saying it is losing a lot of money and has no real future) What would the big baby do then? Would he try to prop up Twitter with a government bail out? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/516 "2017-01-17T20:49:48Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > I think our Russian rentboy president has plenty of time for twitter fights. He doesn’t really focus in detail on issues and policy; everything is pretty much a spur of the moment decision or comment. Twitter is a good place for him to get lots of positive feedback, feedback that he uses to help make his major decisions and shape his belief structure. > > Oh, yeah, it’s idiotic. On NPR this weekend there was a discussion of how Trump and his Cabinet will actually govern, and the NPR moderator referred to the Cabinet as “the grown-ups in the room” and he did so without finger quotes, irony, or apology. :eek: ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/517 "2017-01-17T20:53:29Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > On NPR this weekend there was a discussion of how Trump and his Cabinet will actually govern, and the NPR moderator referred to the Cabinet as “the grown-ups in the room” and he did so without finger quotes, irony, or apology. > > :eek: Perhaps the NPR moderator is afraid of President Trump siccing the FCC on 'em? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/518 "2017-01-17T21:19:58Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > He’s so thin-skinned I expect he doesn’t cast a shadow. It is to laugh. You could give him a paper cut with a tissue. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/519 "2017-01-17T23:40:31Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Perhaps the NPR moderator is afraid of President Trump siccing the FCC on 'em? I think it’s weird, that the only apparently sane Cabinet “nominee” is the one they call Mad Dog. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/520 "2017-01-17T23:42:36Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > You’re in trouble for that one! I thought it was pretty good too 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=27)