# 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:** 328
**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:** [April 16, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6542 "2019-04-16T01:58:07Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Exactly. When are the French ever going to finish putting up the siding on the Eiffel Tower? It’s just an eyesore of superstructure. And the design is all wonky anyway. How can you make any money selling luxury condo space on something with such tiny upper floors? ---
**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:** [April 16, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6543 "2019-04-16T01:59:22Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > And the design is all wonky anyway. How can you make any money selling luxury condo space on something with such tiny upper floors? Yeah. And from a distance, the struts look almost, just almost like…well, they look like fingers. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6544 "2019-04-16T02:05:52Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > IIRC, the only time dumping tons of water on a building fire worked was in _The Towering Inferno_. I had to look it up. According to [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Towering_Inferno), the fire was extinguished when the rooftop water tanks are blown up and the water rushes down through the building, extinguishing the flames. You would have thought that those 13th century French architects would have thought to place water tanks on the roof. Of course, they hadn’t seen the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6545 "2019-04-16T02:24:38Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Actually, I’m quite confident that Trump has tried to order them to arrest his enemies. But so far, they have simply ignored him. They’ve seen what’s happened to people who broke the law for Trump. Bill Barr is wiling to do whatever Trump wants - right up to the point where it puts Bill Barr at risk. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6546 "2019-04-16T02:49:42Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I had to look it up. According to [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Towering_Inferno), the fire was extinguished when the rooftop water tanks are blown up and the water rushes down through the building, extinguishing the flames. I’m familiar with the flick because my parents thought it would be a good idea to take slightly acrophobia-afflicted me to (I think it was ) the Peachtree Plaza’s revolving restaurant to a dinner/movie event. It was kind of fun, except for myacrophobia bit and the stupid ending. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6547 "2019-04-16T04:24:28Z")
And if only they hadn’t let the Mob take the asbestos out of Notre Dame everything’d be fine. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6548 "2019-04-16T04:27:20Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I believe the French tweeted pretty much the same, and in English, probably so a certain expert on everything could read it (or a least sound it out). I read that the Tweet was the sole [English Tweet](https://twitter.com/seccivilefrance/status/1117874924268376064) from the French Civil Authorities today. > [@@SecCivileFrance](#): > > Hundreds of firemen of the Paris Fire Brigade are doing everything they can to bring the terrible #NotreDame fire under control. All means are being used, except for water-bombing aircrafts which, if used, could lead to the collapse of the entire structure of the cathedral. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6549 "2019-04-16T09:56:30Z")
That’s a pretty restrained way of telling Trump to fuck right off. Almost unFrench, really. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6550 "2019-04-16T11:15:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > except for myacrophobia It turns out that \*myacrophobia \*isn’t a word. It’s probably too early for me to be reading the internet, although I was hoping I was going to learn my one new thing for the day before sunrise. yes, I figured out that there is a missing space ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6551 "2019-04-16T11:26:37Z")
I just learned that now. I too assumed _myacrophobia_ was a specific kind of acrophobia. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6552 "2019-04-16T11:40:38Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > That’s a pretty restrained way of telling Trump to fuck right off. Almost unFrench, really. I’m beginning to wonder if you guys are trying to corner the Stiff Upper Lip market, now that the usual purveyors are on their way out. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6553 "2019-04-16T14:12:59Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Exactly. When are the French ever going to finish putting up the siding on the Eiffel Tower? It’s just an eyesore of superstructure. And it wasn’t branded, either. How is anybody supposed to know it was [del]owned[/del] designed by Gustave Eiffel since he didn’t stick his name on it in big, gold letters? ---
**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:** [April 16, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6554 "2019-04-16T19:11:27Z")
So, it’s been long-suspected, but apparently Trump is [now officially affiliated with Fox News.](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1118155023849017345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1118155023849017345&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollcall.com%2Fnews%2Fwhitehouse%2Ftrump-refers-to-fox-news-as-we-after-years-of-echoing-the-network) > [@Don Trump](#): > > So weird to watch Crazy Bernie on @FoxNews. Not surprisingly, @BretBaier and the “audience” was so smiley and nice. Very strange, and now _ **we** _ have @donnabrazile? Emphasis mine. “We” have @donnabrazile? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6555 "2019-04-16T20:56:52Z")
Meh. That seems similar to people saying “We won the Superbowl!” when their favorite sports team wins the superbowl. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6556 "2019-04-16T21:24:09Z")
The interesting part of this tweet is that Trump thinks it’s “weird” to see a presidential candidate on Fox who hasn’t received his blessing. In other words, it’s weird when they actually act fair and balanced. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6557 "2019-04-16T21:47:44Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Meh. That seems similar to people saying “We won the Superbowl!” when their favorite sports team wins the superbowl. Yeah, maybe if he were still Private Citizen Trump, you might have a point. But this is the chief executive of the United States showing a direct alliance to a specific media outlet, basically publicly bitching that his PR team made a questionable hire. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6558 "2019-04-17T02:43:36Z")
Let’s deep dive here for a moment: > “Many Trump Fans & Signs were outside of the @FoxNews Studio last night in the now thriving (Thank you President Trump) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for the interview with Crazy Bernie Sanders. Big complaints about not being let in-stuffed with Bernie supporters. What’s with @FoxNews?” **Strategic** Fauxist News is beginning a new effort which may have the beneficial (to Trump) effect of splitting the Democratic Party. This does not help that. **Authoritarian** Trump obviously thinks Fox News is _his_ channel, in place to promote _him_, and by (brand) extension, all things GOP/Right. State TV, baby, right here in the Land of the Free! **Psychological** Holy shit, where do I begin? First: Trump is _whining_ about how **he** is being unfairly treated on Fox News! … jealous, much? “Thank you President Trump” is a pout. No doubt about it. Soon it’ll be “poor me”. **Business** It will be interesting to see how Fauxist News responds. **The Base and Bots Respond** Look at those replies! … there’s a lot in these 280 characters. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6559 "2019-04-17T12:25:24Z")
Bethlehem, PA, thriving? What, did they re-open the steel mill without telling me? My Gramma lived in Bethlehem, I know it well, and I call shenanigans. Meanwhile, regarding this latest expostulation from Grand Nagus Trump: > [@](#): > > Bernie Sanders and wife should pay the Pre-Trump Taxes on their almost $600,000 in income. He is always complaining about these big TAX CUTS, except when it benefits him. They made a fortune off of Trump, but so did everyone else - and that’s a good thing, not a bad thing! “Pre-Trump taxes?” I admit, it took a couple reads to parse that. I initially thought he was referring to some special tax on Presidential candidates running against him. But Hey Donnie, weren’t you the guy who, back during the debates, said that paying the minmum in taxes made you “smart”? ---
**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:** [April 18, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6560 "2019-04-18T02:32:40Z")
Personally, I find the irony rather strong in Trump attacking a politician about their taxes. Where’re you returns, Tan the Conman? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6561 "2019-04-19T01:04:14Z")
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