# 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:** 296
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5901 "2018-12-27T22:43:05Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Jesus Christ on a crutch… > > > [@](#): > > > > Donald Trump Twitter Account Video Reveals Covert U.S. Navy SEAL Deployment During Iraq Visit > > > > President Donald Trump and the White House communications team revealed that a U.S. Navy SEAL team was deployed to Iraq after the president secretly traveled to the region to meet with American forces serving in a combat zone for the first time since being elected to office. > > > > While the commander-in-chief can declassify information, usually the specific special operations unit is not revealed to the American public, especially while U.S. service members are deployed. Official photographs and videos typically blur the individual faces of special operation forces, due to the sensitive nature of their job. > > > > The president’s video posted Wednesday did not shield the faces of special operation forces. Current and former Defense Department officials told Newsweek that information concerning what units are deployed and where is almost always classified and is a violation of operational security… It’s tough to know which Trump debacle is the “main one” for today: \*\*\*Trump carelessly posts faces of covert US Navy SEAL team, endangering their fucking lives; or \*\*\*Trump boasts about using Iraq as we please, for bases or whatever, and declines to meet with top Iraq leaders—with predictable result that a massive movement to boot US out of Iraq has arisen; or \*\*\*Independent evidence from multiple sources places Michael Cohen in Prague during the 2016 campaign, at a time the Steele dossier reported he was there, but which Cohen and Trump-enablers denied strenuously, mocking the Steele dossier for being wrong when it was clearly spot-on----and this particular bit of interfacing between the Trump campaign and Russians will be impossible to hand-wave away; or \*\*\*Some other shit Trump will do between now and midnight. Head-spinning–not least, that Mitch McConnell still thinks all this is hunky-dory. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5902 "2018-12-27T22:58:27Z")
Well, to be fair, Mitch has no values. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5903 "2018-12-27T23:11:16Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Well, to be fair, Mitch has no values. Of course not. But what’s so galling about his type is that about 98% of his public pronouncements are claims of having the moral high ground against Those Iniquitous and Unpatriotic Democrats. (One of my hopes for the ongoing investigations is that they will reveal that McConnell, and/or his wife, have been amassing wealth in unlawful ways. I mean, the rest of the Cabinet appears to be doing it, so what odds Elaine Chao has been refraining from adding to her existing millions?) ---
**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 28, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5904 "2018-12-28T02:42:48Z")
Now this is just getting pathetic; > [@Loser Donald](#): > > This isn’t about the Wall, everybody knows that a Wall will work perfectly (In Israel the Wall works 99.9%). This is only about the Dems not letting Donald Trump & the Republicans have a win. They may have the 10 Senate votes, but we have the issue, Border Security. 2020! Or, in other words, “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, I wanna win one you guys, this isn’t FAAAAAAAAAAAAAIR”. Failing Donny is at his most powerless that he’s been since he was elected. Democrats aren’t going to cave on his wall, and Senate Republicans don’t think it’s a hill worth dying on. When Congress convenes on the 3rd, the House is going to pass a clean CR, the Senate will approve it just like they did the last one, and he’s going to decide whether he wants people to think he’s a LOSER or whether the shutdown is ALL HIS FAULT. It’s the kind of decision that makes robots overload and shut down in old sci-fi movies, so the only response he has is to whine uselessly into the void. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5905 "2018-12-28T03:17:17Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Nobody has any fucking idea what he’s saying. Including him. At this point, Chump is just throwing any shit he can think of on the wall and seeing what will stick. ---
**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 28, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5906 "2018-12-28T03:54:28Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > At this point, Chump is just throwing any shit he can think of on the wall and seeing what will stick. He finally got a wall? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5907 "2018-12-28T03:56:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > He finally got a wall? That’s the only wall Chump will ever see, this one he’s throwing shit onto. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5908 "2018-12-28T05:50:36Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > That’s what I don’t get. Is he REALLY stupid enough to think he can put the money “saved” by the shutdown into a personal slush fund to pay for his wall? Yeah, I know he’s as dumb as a bag of rocks, but a GOOD thief at least has some animal cunning to fall back on. Trump is every bit as stupid as the holdup man who thought a splash of lemon juice would render him invisible. Who has enabled him all these years so he can think he’s a savvy businessman? This was [posted in jest](http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2018/12/trump-doesnt-understand-how-anything.html#comment-4255495045) (mostly) in a comment thread at No More Mister Nice Blog: > [@](#): > > Clearly, Tom, you are not a very stable genius like our President, or you would understand the intricacy of his thinking. > > See, while all that money in salaries isn’t being spent during the shutdown, he makes money off the float, which he then uses as a down payment on the wall, which he then mortgages at a very low rate of interest by borrowing the money from himself. He then sells the debt to the Mexican government, and that’s how Mexico pays for the wall, since we do the logical thing and default. See? Easy-peasy! > > Yours crankily, > The New York Crank As I (in my online janicket persona) noted in reply: > [@](#): > > I started to laugh, then thought, “Shit, I bet that’s exactly what he’s thinking.” > > Then I stopped laughing. ---
**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 28, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5909 "2018-12-28T06:56:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Now this is just getting pathetic; > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Loser Donald > > This isn’t about the Wall, everybody knows that a Wall will work perfectly (In Israel the Wall works 99.9%). This is only about the Dems not letting Donald Trump & the Republicans have a win. They may have the 10 Senate votes, but we have the issue, Border Security. 2020! > > Or, in other words, “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, I wanna win one you guys, this isn’t FAAAAAAAAAAAAAIR”. > > Failing Donny is at his most powerless that he’s been since he was elected. Democrats aren’t going to cave on his wall, and Senate Republicans don’t think it’s a hill worth dying on. When Congress convenes on the 3rd, the House is going to pass a clean CR, the Senate will approve it just like they did the last one, and he’s going to decide whether he wants people to think he’s a LOSER or whether the shutdown is ALL HIS FAULT. > > It’s the kind of decision that makes robots overload and shut down in old sci-fi movies, so the only response he has is to whine uselessly into the void. This part “but we have the issue, Border Security. 2020!” sounds like he doesn’t really care if it gets the wall now - he’ll just use it as a issue for re-election. But that couldn’t be right, right? Surely, he doesn’t want two more years of rally cries of “build the wall!”. Well, except that’s all he’s got. ---
**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 28, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5910 "2018-12-28T07:15:15Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > This part “but we have the issue, Border Security. 2020!” sounds like he doesn’t really care if it gets the wall now - he’ll just use it as a issue for re-election. But that couldn’t be right, right? Surely, he doesn’t want two more years of rally cries of “build the wall!”. Well, except that’s all he’s got. Let alone the fact that “we have the issue, Border Security. 2018!” cost them 40+ seats and control of the House. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5911 "2018-12-28T15:01:34Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > So basically, in Donald’s world, the only people you should care about are the one’s who share your political affiliation. e.g. repairing Puerto Rico’s hurricane damage. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5912 "2018-12-28T15:51:37Z")
Is it possible for him to do this? Gawd, I hope not. > [@deranged cheeto man](#): > > We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall & also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our Country is saddled with. > ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5913 "2018-12-28T16:10:33Z")
So Trump is threatening to shut down the Southern Border if he doesn’t get his way. But what exactly would that mean? Would that just be the border crossings? Or would it apply to air travel for people wanting to visit the Caribbean, or any other city in Mexico? My company is involved in agriculture and we’ve suffered heavily thanks to Trumps tariffs, and Mexico is one of our major buyers. If he closes trade with Mexico then he’s truly fucking with the economy. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5914 "2018-12-28T16:23:55Z")
The company I work for has a plant in Tijuana. He’s probably just throwing words and threats around, and I can’t conceive that he has the authority to make good on that. ---
**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 28, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5915 "2018-12-28T17:10:02Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Is it possible for him to do this? Gawd, I hope not. > > [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1078625779670503426](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1078625779670503426) “Finish” the wall? While I am fully aware that there are sections of wall/fence - The “WALL” has not even been started. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5916 "2018-12-28T17:14:27Z")
Can someone take one for the team and tell us how FAUX news is covering this latest bit of insanity? (We owe ya.) ---
**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 28, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5917 "2018-12-28T17:18:04Z")
> [@simster](#): > > “Finish” the wall? > > While I am fully aware that there are sections of wall/fence - The “WALL” has not even been started. He’s all over the place on this. Wall, fence, slats, mostly done, being repaired, working great, not working. Any minute he will say the great wall is almost done and he needs that $5 billion to put up the last section. The one with the beautiful door. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5918 "2018-12-28T18:18:13Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Is it possible for him to do this? Gawd, I hope not. It would cause economic devastation all across the southern border, including in the Red States of Texas and Arizona. [About a million people cross the border legally every day, many of them to work in the other country, along with $1.4 billion in goods and services daily.](https://mexiconewsdaily.com/opinion/a-million-people-will-cross-border-legally/) ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5919 "2018-12-28T19:06:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Can someone take one for the team and tell us how FAUX news is covering this latest bit of insanity? (We owe ya.) Their article is halfway down the front page (the top article, in big font, is about the undocumented alien who is accused of killing a policeman, of course). The headline is just straightforward, not Fox News hysteria. ---
**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 28, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/5920 "2018-12-28T20:35:19Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It would cause economic devastation all across the southern border, including in the Red States of Texas and Arizona. [About a million people cross the border legally every day, many of them to work in the other country, along with $1.4 billion in goods and services daily.](https://mexiconewsdaily.com/opinion/a-million-people-will-cross-border-legally/) Those states voted for him? Then good tidings of joy if he does have the wherewithal to shut the border and cause that much economic fallout. Maybe that’s what it will take to wake them–and congress–up to how dangerous and anti-America he is. Oh, and dictator wannabe would just be proving that he doesn’t need a wall if he can shut the border now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=295) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=297)