# 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:** 336
**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:** [April 28, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6702 "2019-04-28T20:40:04Z")
A couple of (ridiculously minor) nitpicks. First, the ruling party is just “the Party” (why give it distinctive name when there can be only one?). Ingsoc — English Socialism — is the underlying philosophy. From _The Book_:In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self. The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all.Second (and even nitipckier), it’s MiniTrue. One of the objectives of Newspeak is to compress every possible letter out of the language, on the principle that every little bit cut makes thoughtcrime less possible. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6703 "2019-04-28T22:47:13Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Perhaps at some point Trump was capable of being nice to someone in order to sell them something, but right now he doesn’t seem to be able of reaching beyond “being ‘nice’” (sometimes for very strange definitions of nice) “to someone unless they’re actively stroking his ego”. The new standard for dealing with Trump was highlighted in a tweet by David Frum, in which he quoted an excerpt from a FoxNews interview by Chris Wallace with the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif: > [@](#): > > [ZARIF] “Chris, the people of Iran admire your very very handsome president. Very tough, very high IQ. He truly has made America great again.” > > [WALLACE] “Mr Zarif, do you really expect anyone to believe this loathsome flattery?” > > [ZARIF] “Oh yes” > > > Fox News Sunday @FoxNewsSunday ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6704 "2019-04-28T22:47:16Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Second (and even nitipckier), it’s MiniTrue. OTOH, MiniTruth works as a Trump reference. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6705 "2019-04-29T00:12:44Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > OTOH, MiniTruth works as a Trump reference. In that context, I absolutely agree. In fact, we seem to be approaching NanoTruth (on the way to PicoTruth). ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6706 "2019-04-29T00:50:44Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I know I’ve mentioned this several times, but perhaps this is another appropriate time for a definition from the Newspeak Dictionary (Eleventh Edition): **crimestop** _n._ The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. In short…protective stupidity. So that’s what we’re supposed to leave those anonymous tips for. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6707 "2019-04-29T01:44:52Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > The new standard for dealing with Trump was highlighted in a tweet by David Frum, in which he quoted an excerpt from a FoxNews interview by Chris Wallace with the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif: > > [https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1121946886946996224](https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1121946886946996224) Heh. I was scrolling through some of the comments, and saw my cousin on there! > [@kaylas\_first\_cousin\_once\_removed](#): > > Talking to an audience of one. With an IQ of 0.5. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6708 "2019-04-30T01:06:52Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Heh. I was scrolling through some of the comments, and saw my cousin on there! Actually your cousin? (Or just a coincidence of the name?) Anyway, I rather liked Chris Wallace better for his blunt response: > [@](#): > > …[WALLACE] “Mr Zarif, do you really expect anyone to believe this loathsome flattery?” > > [ZARIF] “Oh yes” And the honesty of the flatterer was funny-and-horrifying, at the same time. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6709 "2019-05-01T11:22:35Z")
“Butthurt” is spot on. It’s 6:19am where I live and Dotard, the Firstest of All Individuals, has retweeted _over 60 tweets_ (some from Trump haters) in a 20 minute period, nearly all pertaining to Biden getting some firefighters union endorsement. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6710 "2019-05-01T11:25:20Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “Butthurt” is spot on. > > It’s 6:19am where I live and Dotard, the Firstest of All Individuals, has retweeted _over 60 tweets_ (some from Trump haters) in a 20 minute period, nearly all pertaining to Biden getting some firefighters union endorsement. One of those retweeted has changed their name to “Fuck Donald Trump”. It’s still there on Trump’s Twitter feed now. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6711 "2019-05-01T13:12:58Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “Butthurt” is spot on. > > It’s 6:19am where I live and Dotard, the Firstest of All Individuals, has retweeted _over 60 tweets_ (some from Trump haters) in a 20 minute period, nearly all pertaining to Biden getting some firefighters union endorsement. The pressure of explosive Twitterrhea is so bad his tiny thumbs can’t keep up, so he has to retweet drivel from other morons. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6712 "2019-05-01T13:17:54Z")
Thumb spurs? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6713 "2019-05-01T13:47:48Z")
Trump, who apparently sees the mission of the Federal Reserve as: Make Me Look Good, said this: > [@Idiot-in-Chief](#): > > We have the potential to go up like a rocket if we did some lowering of rates, like one point, and some quantitative easing On NPR’s Marketplace, host Kai Ryssdal said (paraphrase - can’t find a transcript): Things go crazy when the Fed makes a _quarter-point_ rate change. If they lowered rates by a _full_ point, it would be very very interesting, and also contra-indicated. Which is NPR-speak for: mass-steria, biblical proportions, dogs and cats living together. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6714 "2019-05-01T13:56:45Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Trump, who apparently sees the mission of the Federal Reserve as: Make Me Look Good, said this: > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Idiot-in-Chief > > We have the potential to go up like a rocket if we did some lowering of rates, like one point, and some quantitative easing > > On NPR’s Marketplace, host Kai Ryssdal said (paraphrase - can’t find a transcript): Things go crazy when the Fed makes a _quarter-point_ rate change. If they lowered rates by a _full_ point, it would be very very interesting, and also contra-indicated. > > Which is NPR-speak for: mass-steria, biblical proportions, dogs and cats living together. I vote for him going up like a rocket. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6715 "2019-05-01T13:59:20Z")
I vote for him going up on a rocket … to Mars. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6716 "2019-05-01T14:17:15Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “Butthurt” is spot on. > > It’s 6:19am where I live and Dotard, the Firstest of All Individuals, has retweeted _over 60 tweets_ (some from Trump haters) in a 20 minute period, nearly all pertaining to Biden getting some firefighters union endorsement. Well, he also found time on his busy schedule to crap out a bunch of what read like reruns. Wall, check. No collusion, check. Russian hacking was Obama’s fault, check. I’m being treated so unfairly, poor poor pitiful me. Investigate the investigators, check. Blah blah fucking blah. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6717 "2019-05-01T14:54:15Z")
[“Go up” or “rise like a rocket”:](https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/rise+like+a+rocket) > [@](#): > > To experience a meteoric rise in success (and then have one’s fortunes reversed just as suddenly and dramatically). Yep. That’d happen. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6718 "2019-05-01T14:58:34Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I vote for him going up on a rocket … to Mars. Make him Emperor of Mars. With uniforms, busty women in brass bikinis and all. Lure him with his adolescent Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasies… ---
**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:** [May 1, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6719 "2019-05-01T18:44:17Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Make him Emperor of Mars. With uniforms, busty women in brass bikinis and all. Lure him with his adolescent Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasies… And don’t forget all the children in the basement of the pizzeria on Mars. Some of the girls must be of beauty pageant age by now. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6720 "2019-05-01T19:46:19Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Make him Emperor of Mars. With uniforms, busty women in brass bikinis and all. Lure him with his adolescent Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasies… The busty women on Mars didn’t wear brass bikinis. They were dressed in jewelry. > [@](#): > > And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life… Her face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect. She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure. - > **[Dejah Thoris](https://barsoom.fandom.com/wiki/Dejah_Thoris)** > > Dejah Thoris is the princess of Helium and the Red Martian wife of John Carter. Dejah Thoris is first seen captured by the Tharks as political ploy during the war seen in the novel. And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish... You’re thinking of the comic book Red Sonya, or Honi from Hagar the Horrible, or something. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6721 "2019-05-01T19:48:43Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “Butthurt” is spot on. > > It’s 6:19am where I live and Dotard, the Firstest of All Individuals, has retweeted _over 60 tweets_ (some from Trump haters) in a 20 minute period, nearly all pertaining to Biden getting some firefighters union endorsement. That would be 14:19 (2:19 p.m.) Trump White House Time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=335) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=337)