# 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:** 31
**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:** [February 5, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/601 "2017-02-05T21:32:26Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Wow. Indeed. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/602 "2017-02-05T22:20:52Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > In a final bit of childishness: > [https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/827931098676084737/photo/1?ref\_src=twsrc%5Etfw](https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/827931098676084737/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > Leaves Australia’s PM’s name off the list and gets his title wrong. If Obama had hung up on the Australian PM, and then pulled this sort of juvenile shit, the Republican leadership would have been frothing at the mouth, calling for an inquiry. It would have been all over the news, and O’Reilly would have had a special show just to talk about it. It would have been The Worst Thing Ever. Now? It ranks about 23rd in the stupidest things Trump has done IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS. ---
**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 5, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/603 "2017-02-05T23:06:33Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > If Obama had hung up on the Australian PM, and then pulled this sort of juvenile shit, the Republican leadership would have been frothing at the mouth, calling for an inquiry. It would have been all over the news, and O’Reilly would have had a special show just to talk about it. It would have been The Worst Thing Ever. > > Now? > > It ranks about 23rd in the stupidest things Trump has done IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS. Half the talking heads on Fox would have called him a thug. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/604 "2017-02-06T00:07:07Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > In a final bit of childishness: > [https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/827931098676084737/photo/1?ref\_src=twsrc%5Etfw](https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/827931098676084737/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > Leaves Australia’s PM’s name off the list and gets his title wrong. They also mistakenly referred to Trump as President instead of Emperor. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/605 "2017-02-06T01:06:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Trump is _done_ with foolishness. > He’s moving up to insanity. I believe Laurence Peter (creator of the [Peter Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle)) would call this a “Lateral Arabesque.” ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/606 "2017-02-06T02:06:06Z")
Yep, it’s the fault of those darn checks and balances - make sure you know who to blame if something happens! > [@](#): > > Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad! ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/607 "2017-02-06T02:34:54Z")
The courts are ruling against him. He acted in violation of the laws of this country. He issued a “decree” and the courts spoke. He (Trump) is attempting to delegitimize the entire judicial branch of government—in favor of his own secretly-crafted edicts. He is attempting to run the country as an authoritarian, a dictator. He is using executive orders to rule by decree. He has no interest in working with Congress, or obeying the rulings of the courts. If he were anyone else, he’'d probably be up on contempt charges and a whole slew of congressional investigations, AND impeachment. Trump is openly showing himself to be an authoritarian, autocratic, fascist. This is tremendously dangerous shit. This is an attempt to turn Americans against the rule of law, and against each other. The Economist (hardly a hotbed of commie librulism): > **[An insurgent in the White House](https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/02/04/an-insurgent-in-the-white-house)** > > As Donald Trump rages against the world he inherited as president, America’s allies are worried—and rightly so > [@](#): > > **An insurgent in the White House** > > WASHINGTON is in the grip of a revolution. The bleak cadence of last month’s inauguration was still in the air when Donald Trump lobbed the first Molotov cocktail of policies and executive orders against the capital’s brilliant-white porticos. He has not stopped. Quitting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, demanding a renegotiation of NAFTA and a wall with Mexico, overhauling immigration, warming to Brexit-bound Britain and Russia, cooling to the European Union, defending torture, attacking the press: onward he and his people charged, leaving the wreckage of received opinion smouldering in their wake. … > > His grenade-chuckers-in-chief, Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller, have now carried that logic into government… Every time demonstrators and the media rail against Mr Trump, it is proof that he must be doing something right. If the outpourings of the West Wing are chaotic, it only goes to show that Mr Trump is a man of action just as he promised. The secrecy and confusion of the immigration ban are a sign not of failure, but of how his people shun the self-serving experts who habitually subvert the popular will. Like most tyrants, he is saying “Forget the law. I dreamed up a big scary threat and I can only protect you if you give me unlimited power”. In other words, roll over, show your belly, and expose your throat so I can rip it out. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2017, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/608 "2017-02-06T05:23:54Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > The courts are ruling against him. He acted in violation of the laws of this country. He issued a “decree” and the courts spoke. He (Trump) is attempting to delegitimize the entire judicial branch of government—in favor of his own secretly-crafted edicts. He is attempting to run the country as an authoritarian, a dictator. He is using executive orders to rule by decree. He has no interest in working with Congress, or obeying the rulings of the courts. Well I’m actually heartened a bit that the administration seems to be saying that they will work the temporary ban issue out in the courts, so perhaps we have not quite plunged over the precipice yet. No question he’d very much _like_ to be ruling by decree; I’ll agree with that. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/609 "2017-02-06T12:57:28Z")
More Twitter ravings from the lunatic-in-chief: > [@Trump](#): > > Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/610 "2017-02-06T16:52:14Z")
Oh, and by the way…all these lunatic ravings that Trump is putting on Twitter are coming from an unsecured device. Anybody with rudimentary hacking skills could turn his phone into a listening device. So there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/611 "2017-02-06T16:58:40Z")
Great! Then I could be shocked, sickened and horrified sooner than most folks! ---
**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:** [February 6, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/612 "2017-02-06T17:01:10Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > More Twitter ravings from the lunatic-in-chief: > [QUOTE=Trump] > Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. [/QUOTE] He’s practicing his best [Svengali](https://youtu.be/vnVFZIByQHY) on his impressionable fans. He knows that Americans (enough, at least) will eat this stuff up. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/613 "2017-02-06T17:07:31Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Oh, and by the way…all these lunatic ravings that Trump is putting on Twitter are coming from an unsecured device. Anybody with rudimentary hacking skills could turn his phone into a listening device. > > So there’s that. So why isn’t the FBI investigating? They were going to hang Clinton for it. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/614 "2017-02-06T17:09:48Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Yep, it’s the fault of those darn checks and balances - make sure you know who to blame if something happens! This being the United States, Trump cannot **(yet)** dismiss judges at any time for any reason, or even at all. But he’s made it clear—more than once, now—that he wishes he could and doesn’t really understand why a judge can stand in his way. That’s a frightening sign of how he wants to govern. It’s how Hitler handled judges… historical FACT. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/615 "2017-02-06T17:44:44Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > So why isn’t the FBI investigating? > They were going to hang Clinton for it. [Cite](http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/02/03/513256171/is-trump-tweeting-from-a-secure-smartphone-the-white-house-wont-say) ---
**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:** [February 6, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/616 "2017-02-06T17:47:47Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > [Cite](http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/02/03/513256171/is-trump-tweeting-from-a-secure-smartphone-the-white-house-wont-say) what’s that “work” on his desk? Magazines and the Daily News? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/617 "2017-02-06T17:50:51Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > The courts are ruling against him. He acted in violation of the laws of this country. He issued a “decree” and the courts spoke. He (Trump) is attempting to delegitimize the entire judicial branch of government—in favor of his own secretly-crafted edicts. He is attempting to run the country as an authoritarian, a dictator. He is using executive orders to rule by decree. He has no interest in working with Congress, or obeying the rulings of the courts. > > If he were anyone else, he’'d probably be up on contempt charges and a whole slew of congressional investigations, AND impeachment. > > Trump is openly showing himself to be an authoritarian, autocratic, fascist. This is tremendously dangerous shit. This is an attempt to turn Americans against the rule of law, and against each other. > > The Economist (hardly a hotbed of commie librulism): > [An insurgent in the White House](http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21716026-donald-trump-rages-against-world-he-inherited-president-americas-allies-are-worriedand) > Like most tyrants, he is saying “Forget the law. I dreamed up a big scary threat and I can only protect you if you give me unlimited power”. > > In other words, roll over, show your belly, and expose your throat so I can rip it out. Agreed with all of this. Trump is currently being run by Bannon, whose \*\*explicitly stated goal \*\*is the destruction of the county in it’s current form, and a re-making of it as a right wing fascist dictatorship. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/618 "2017-02-06T17:51:54Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > So why isn’t the FBI investigating? > They were going to hang Clinton for it. It’s OK If A Republican Does It. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/619 "2017-02-06T17:52:43Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > In a final bit of childishness: > [https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/827931098676084737/photo/1?ref\_src=twsrc%5Etfw](https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/827931098676084737/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > Leaves Australia’s PM’s name off the list and gets his title wrong. Maybe he disagree’s with the ‘One Australia’ policy? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/620 "2017-02-06T18:16:23Z")
I just wondered if trump’s continued SNL bashing is motivated by a desire to boost the ratings of the show among his numerous detractors because it’s part of a deal he’s made with NBC, which also broadcasts the Apprentice. Maybe he owns stock in NBC. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=32)