# 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:** 334
**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, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6662 "2019-04-24T18:02:51Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Is the US Supreme Court under some obligation to reference 18th century British law when making their rulings? I dunno, you lot seem pretty hung up about that Constitution of yours and its original intent. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6663 "2019-04-24T18:17:08Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I dunno, you lot seem pretty hung up about that Constitution of yours and its original intent. Only when convenient. When it’s not, then we can redefine what the Constitution meas by terms such as “sole power” or " advice and consent". ---
**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 24, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6664 "2019-04-24T18:18:13Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I dunno, you lot seem pretty hung up about that Constitution of yours and its original intent. The original intent of the Constitution is **what I say it is.** This seems to be the thinking. ---
**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, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6665 "2019-04-24T18:31:00Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I dunno, you lot seem pretty hung up about that Constitution of yours and its original intent. What ‘lot’ would that be? The ‘lot’ who thinks Supreme Court precedent doesn’t really prevent new Supreme Courts from changing what the Constitution means? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6666 "2019-04-24T19:04:26Z")
Can with start with which case is being heard by the court in this scenario? Donnie Dumbshit sues Congress? ---
**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:** [April 24, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6667 "2019-04-24T19:11:58Z")
The So-Called President Versus The United States Of America. ---
**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, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6668 "2019-04-24T19:16:36Z")
_The Mysterious Case of Individual-One_ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6669 "2019-04-25T15:09:30Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > But they don’t NEED to do anything other than say “Those are not the High Crimes and Misdemeanors the Constitution means. Those Articles of Impeachment are invalid.” It’s theoretically possible, in the same way that it’s theoretically possible for SCOTUS to decide the term “homicide” means “eating a banana.” The Supreme Court has always deferred to the political branches when the Constitution explicitly granted certain powers to them. So it doesn’t interfere with Congress’ authority to raise armies, to the POTUS’ authority to grant pardons, and so forth. The Constitution very explicitly grants impeachment power to Congress and there are 200 years of precedent indicating SCOTUS will not interfere. One of the articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson was based on mean speeches he made about Congress; there’s never been one iota of evidence that this was deemed constitutionally infirm. ---
**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 25, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6670 "2019-04-25T15:15:03Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > It’s theoretically possible, in the same way that it’s theoretically possible for SCOTUS to decide the term “homicide” means “eating a banana.” The same way it’s theoretically possible for a reality show star/dubiously successful brash businessman to be elected as President 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6671 "2019-04-25T16:09:01Z")
I think we have a partisan court, but for the court to intervene in a process that is so incontrovertibly political would forever diminish the Court in terms of being a credible arbiter. You absolutely would have court packing the moment Democrats took over the WH and Senate at the same time, though that could be a while from now. As partisan and ideological as the Court is, I find it hard to believe that 5 justices would agree to stop an impeachment from the bench. They could rule any number of ways on specific cases related to evidence or crimes related to whatever the House decides to impeach Trump on, but to go full on Scalia in this case would be the end of the SCOTUS and federal judiciary as we know it. I think most justices, save maybe Clarence Thomas, are aware of that. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6672 "2019-04-25T18:15:45Z")
A [side note](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-treat-white-supremacy-like-isis-because-it-would-mean-banning-some-republican-politicians-too) relevant to the topic: > [@](#): > > At a Twitter all-hands meeting on March 22, an employee asked a blunt question: Twitter has largely eradicated Islamic State propaganda off its platform. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacist content? > > An executive responded by explaining that Twitter follows the law, and a technical employee who works on machine learning and artificial intelligence issues went up to the mic to add some context… > > In separate discussions verified by Motherboard, that employee said Twitter hasn’t taken the same aggressive approach to white supremacist content because the collateral accounts that are impacted can, in some instances, be Republican politicians… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6673 "2019-04-25T18:39:48Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > There has to be a new case argued in front of the Supremes for them to overturn a previous decision. What case would iDJiT have? I think it should be the other Supremes. The ones Diana Ross used to be in. At least that way we’d get a decent-sounding song and dance. ---
**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 25, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6674 "2019-04-25T19:53:28Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > I think it should be the other Supremes. The ones Diana Ross used to be in. At least that way we’d get a decent-sounding song and dance. He’d just whine that, what with them being [del]negroes[/del]liberal, it’d be a biased trial. Not fair ! Witch hunt ! Sad ! ---
**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 26, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6675 "2019-04-26T11:38:31Z")
> [@Loser Donald](#): > > No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else. This is not the Obama Administration that paid 1.8 Billion Dollars for four hostages, or gave five terroist hostages plus, who soon went back to battle, for traitor Sgt. Bergdahl! > > “President Donald J. Trump is the greatest hostage negotiator that I know of in the history of the United States. 20 hostages, many in impossible circumstances, have been released in last two years. No money was paid.” Cheif Hostage Negotiator, USA! Go to your rooms, kids. The Commander-in-Cheif is yelling at the terroists on TV again. (Amusingly enough, Internet Explorer’s autocorrect is so insistent that “Cheif” is wrong that I have to actively fight it to stop it from fixing it, but the Very Stable Genius with the Best Words managed to fart it out while hunt-and-pecking on his iPhone.) ---
**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 26, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6676 "2019-04-26T11:49:42Z")
Wait… did he call a Sergeant a traitor? I know the guy deserted, but holy fuck! ---
**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:** [April 26, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6677 "2019-04-26T11:52:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > … > (Amusingly enough, Internet Explorer’s autocorrect is so insistent that “Cheif” is wrong that I have to actively fight it to stop it from fixing it, but the Very Stable Genius with the Best Words managed to fart it out while hunt-and-pecking on his iPhone.) The Greatest Republican Hero. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6678 "2019-04-26T12:29:16Z")
Is there really someone in the U.S. Federal Government with the title (however you spell it) “Chief Hostage Negotiator”? ---
**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 26, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6679 "2019-04-26T12:37:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > (Amusingly enough, Internet Explorer’s autocorrect is so insistent that “Cheif” is wrong that I have to actively fight it to stop it from fixing it, but the Very Stable Genius with the Best Words managed to fart it out while hunt-and-pecking on his iPhone.) He probably turned if off. After all, like every thing else he’s [del]done[/del] heard about, he’s the bestest speller in the history of the world and, like the Constitution, that damn autocorrect keeps getting in the way of what he really wants to do. Besides, Bill Gates is a known librul so, FAKE SPELING!! ---
**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:** [April 26, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6680 "2019-04-26T12:50:23Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Is there really someone in the U.S. Federal Government with the title (however you spell it) “Chief Hostage Negotiator”? If so, the guy writes like Trump’s doctor > [@](#): > > Mr Trump has had a recent complete medical examination that showed only positive results. Actually, his blood pressure, 110/65, and laboratory test results were astonishingly excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6681 "2019-04-26T13:52:21Z")
> [@](#): > > complete medical examination that showed only positive results So he has every disease known to man? That would explain a lot… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=333) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=335)