# 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:** 332
**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:** [April 23, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6622 "2019-04-23T15:28:32Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > “The wall is being rapidly built,” eh? > > Welp, if he said it, I guess it must be true. It’s being built by the 138 million dead people from Sri Lanka. ---
**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 23, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6623 "2019-04-23T15:54:48Z")
Tweeted on August 12, 2018: > [@DJTrump](#): > > Many @harleydavidson owners plan to boycott the company if manufacturing moves overseas. Great! Most other companies are coming in our direction, including Harley competitors. A really bad move! U.S. will soon have a level playing field, or better. Tweeted this morning, as noted by **Banquet Bear** : > [@DJTrump](#): > > “Harley Davidson has struggled with Tariffs with the EU, currently paying 31%. They’ve had to move production overseas to try and offset some of that Tariff that they’ve been hit with which will rise to 66% in June of 2021.” @MariaBartiromo So unfair to U.S. We will Reciprocate! Harley, of course, announced that it would move some manufacturing to Europe, because it couldn’t eat the tariffs imposed by the EU, which were in direct response to Trump’s tariffs on European steel and aluminum. As also noted by **Banquet Bear** , our president is fucking nuts. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6624 "2019-04-23T16:07:12Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …just to put the Presidents tweet storm today in context: (All posted 4 hours ago) > > The current President of the United States of America is fucking nuts. This is fucking scary as shit. Will you Americans stop fucking around and impeach the motherfucker already? > ) Trump’s psychological projection where he accuses others of what he actually is: > [@](#): > > has lost all credibility > > obsessed with hatred > > how stupid he is. > > truly the Enemy of the People! > > have gone totally insane! > > Morning Psycho > > too Angry… > > …Dumb and Sick. > > and will only get worse. > > Our Country is Respected again! [I throw this in because it’s another example of the opposite of reality] Trump is subconsciously describing himself. ---
**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 23, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6625 "2019-04-23T16:22:52Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s being built by the 138 million dead people from Sri Lanka. Actually, it’s being built _of_ the 138 million dead people from Sri Lanka. The odor alone should reduce border traffic considerably. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6626 "2019-04-23T16:58:04Z")
If he’s spending all this time tweeting, when is he presidentin’? I guess to him tweeting IS presidentin’. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6627 "2019-04-23T18:07:04Z")
It’s called “executive time”. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6628 "2019-04-23T18:40:30Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Tweeted on August 12, 2018: > > Tweeted this morning, as noted by **Banquet Bear** : > > Harley, of course, announced that it would move some manufacturing to Europe, because it couldn’t eat the tariffs imposed by the EU, which were in direct response to Trump’s tariffs on European steel and aluminum. > > As also noted by **Banquet Bear** , our president is fucking nuts. What did he think would happen? Was he thinking that European countries, in response to American tariffs, would open American plants, employing good old American citizens, thus WINNING? He clearly didn’t expect the EU to say yeah, here’s some tariffs for you, so what did he think the response would be? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6629 "2019-04-23T19:09:27Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > What did he think would happen? Was he thinking that European countries, in response to American tariffs, would open American plants, employing good old American citizens, thus WINNING? He clearly didn’t expect the EU to say yeah, here’s some tariffs for you, so what did he think the response would be? Is that a rhetorical question? 😃 Trump doesn’t think. In his hamster-wheel-powered brain, trade wars are “easy to win”. [Trump doesn’t understand economics, says former Fed chair Janet Yellen](https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47369123) > [@](#): > > Asked on Marketplace, the BBC’s US radio partner, if she thought the president had a grasp of macroeconomic policy, she replied: “No, I do not.” > > She went on to say Mr Trump did not seem to understand the Fed’s two responsibilities of controlling inflation and supporting employment. > > “Well, I doubt that he would even be able to say that the Fed’s goals are maximum employment and price stability, which is the goals that Congress have assigned to the Fed,” Ms Yellen told the programme. > > On the trade gap with China, she said: “When I continually hear focus by the president and some of his advisers on remedying bilateral trade deficits with other trade partners, I think almost any economist would tell you that there’s no real meaning to bilateral trade deficits, and it’s not an appropriate objective of policy.” It seems like Trump thinks the job of the Fed is to cut interest rates and get him reelected. That’s why he proposed incompetents like Stephan Moore and Herman Cain to the board. Cain withdrew and Moore is a misogynist. Only the best people! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6630 "2019-04-23T19:30:01Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > What did he think would happen? Was he thinking that European countries, in response to American tariffs, would open American plants, employing good old American citizens, thus WINNING? He clearly didn’t expect the EU to say yeah, here’s some tariffs for you, so what did he think the response would be? Nah, he thought (using the term loosely) that European countries wouldn’t do anything, European firms would merrily pay the tariffs, and trans-Atlantic companies would never shuffle production from a factory to another in a way which avoids certain tariffs. Dude doesn’t even understand how construction works and that was supposed to be his business. Anything related to manufacturing doesn’t so much go over his head as directly where his momma split him. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6631 "2019-04-23T19:48:57Z")
[Does Trump Even Understand How Tariffs Work?](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/the-fog-of-trumps-trade-war/577495/) _It’s unclear what the president wants to accomplish with his trade war._ > [@](#): > > Fundamentally, Trump seems to misunderstand how tariffs work, insisting that they act as a tax on foreign companies and translate into more American wealth. “I am a Tariff Man,” he wrote on Twitter. “When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. It will always be the best way to max out our economic power. We are right now taking in $billions in Tariffs.” But the tariffs are acting, as one would expect them to act, as a tax on American consumers, raising domestic prices and slowing the domestic economy. (They’re slowing the global economy, too.) So it seems that Trump thinks foreign countries are paying money into the Treasury because of his tough tariffs. MAGA!!! [Customs duties in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_duties_in_the_United_States) > [@](#): > > The United States imposes tariffs (customs duties) on imports of goods. The duty is levied at the time of import and is paid by the importer of record. ---
**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 23, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6632 "2019-04-23T20:18:30Z")
Tariffs cause foreign imports to cost more, at which point Americans start buying “Made in the USA” tariff-less goods because they are cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6633 "2019-04-23T20:28:56Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Tariffs cause foreign imports to cost more, at which point Americans start buying “Made in the USA” tariff-less goods because they are cheaper. I thought Republicans were all about the free market, not using the power of government to influence our purchasing choices. Government interference!!! Let the market decide which goods are bought. And, a tariff is basically a tax on the domestic importer. I thought Republicans are against more taxes. Looks like Trump loves more taxes. And your comment doesn’t address the fact that Trump thinks foreign countries pay the tariffs. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6634 "2019-04-23T20:35:38Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Tariffs cause foreign imports to cost more, at which point Americans start buying “Made in the USA” tariff-less goods because they are cheaper. Right, that’s as far as Trump’s thinking goes. He doesn’t seem to realize: - Tariffs cause other countries to retaliate with their own tariffs on American goods, thus hurting American businesses. - Tariffs hurt American manufacturers who rely on imported materials and parts. And they can’t just switch to American suppliers because, in modern times, all materials are highly specialized. You don’t just buy “steel,” for example - there are literally thousands of types of steel, and they come in thousands of different shapes, sizes, etc. And you can’t easily change your product design to use American-made parts. - Tariffs hurt American consumers, because less supply = higher prices. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6635 "2019-04-23T21:33:06Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > Right, that’s as far as Trump’s thinking goes. He doesn’t seem to realize: > > - Tariffs cause other countries to retaliate with their own tariffs on American goods, thus hurting American businesses. > > - Tariffs hurt American manufacturers who rely on imported materials and parts. And they can’t just switch to American suppliers because, in modern times, all materials are highly specialized. You don’t just buy “steel,” for example - there are literally thousands of types of steel, and they come in thousands of different shapes, sizes, etc. And you can’t easily change your product design to use American-made parts. > > - Tariffs hurt American consumers, because less supply = higher prices. Who gives a shit about any of this? The question is: Will tariffs help **TRUMP**? If the answer is “yes”, then tariffs are good. Case closed. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2019, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6636 "2019-04-24T08:43:28Z")
Okay. We’re way into the Twilight Zone now. [Trump meets with Twitter CEO, complains about follower count](https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBWdGC8?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare) > [@](#): > > President Trump on Tuesday met privately with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a huddle at the White House between one of the site’s most prolific users and an executive who’s faced criticism for the way Twitter has handled the president’s tweets. > > The meeting came as Trump continues to attack the tech industry, threatening to regulate Facebook, Google and Twitter out of concern that they censor conservatives online — an allegation those companies fiercely deny. The president’s latest salvo arrived just hours before he met with Dorsey: Trump accused Twitter of playing “political games" and tampering with his nearly 60 million followers. > > A significant portion of the meeting focused on Trump’s concerns that Twitter quietly, and deliberately, has limited or removed some of his followers, according to a person with direct knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity because it was private. Trump said he had heard from fellow conservatives who had lost followers for unclear reasons as well. > > But Twitter long has explained that follower figures fluctuate as the company takes action to remove fraudulent spam accounts. In the meeting, Dorsey stressed that point, noting even he had lost followers as part of Twitter’s work to enforce its policies, according to the source, who described the meeting as cordial. > … _[Insert relevant quotation about the [keys to the strawberry locker.](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny_(film))]_ ---
**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 24, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6637 "2019-04-24T09:59:30Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Tariffs cause foreign imports to cost more, at which point Americans start buying “Made in the USA” tariff-less goods because they are cheaper. In case you haven’t been paying attention over the past, uuuuh, 40 years or so ? there’s nothing being “Made in the USA” any more. Just like every other first world country, y’all have outsourced the “making shit” to Asia. Or, [as The Wire put it…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-j5XWo1fPI) ---
**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 24, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6638 "2019-04-24T12:16:23Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I thought Republicans were all about the free market, not using the power of government to influence our purchasing choices. Government interference!!! Let the market decide which goods are bought. > > And, a tariff is basically a tax on the domestic importer. I thought Republicans are against more taxes. Looks like Trump loves more taxes. > > And your comment doesn’t address the fact that Trump thinks foreign countries pay the tariffs. > [@scr4](#): > > Right, that’s as far as Trump’s thinking goes. He doesn’t seem to realize: > > - Tariffs cause other countries to retaliate with their own tariffs on American goods, thus hurting American businesses. > > - Tariffs hurt American manufacturers who rely on imported materials and parts. And they can’t just switch to American suppliers because, in modern times, all materials are highly specialized. You don’t just buy “steel,” for example - there are literally thousands of types of steel, and they come in thousands of different shapes, sizes, etc. And you can’t easily change your product design to use American-made parts. > > - Tariffs hurt American consumers, because less supply = higher prices. > [@Kobal2](#): > > In case you haven’t been paying attention over the past, uuuuh, 40 years or so ? there’s nothing being “Made in the USA” any more. Just like every other first world country, y’all have outsourced the “making shit” to Asia. Or, [as The Wire put it…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-j5XWo1fPI) Wow! When you guys put it that way, tariffs almost seem like a bad idea! 😉 ---
**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 24, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6639 "2019-04-24T13:17:46Z")
The Grand Nagus [appears to threaten war with Mexico](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1121021160827887616). Gotta keep stoking that boiler, I guess. ---
**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 24, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6640 "2019-04-24T14:36:18Z")
LOL, on Twitter I just had a Russian troll bot throw at me the immortal phrase: “Strike two, you’re out!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6641 "2019-04-24T14:43:42Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > LOL, on Twitter I just had a Russian troll bot throw at me the immortal phrase: > > “Strike two, you’re out!” Strike two! We have touchdown! All net! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=331) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=333)