# 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:** 349
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6962 "2019-06-08T12:17:14Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > The same way I can talk about going from Minnesota to NYC without discussing it as a trip to Avery, Ohio, even though it would involve going through Avery. > > Okayyy…and? We weren’t talking about that tweet. My point is simply that there is no actual evidence that he thinks **“the Moon is a part of Mars”**. Other than a direct quote. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6963 "2019-06-08T12:23:28Z")
Again, running coach, this standard that you’re holding Trump to, regarding grammar and coherence, its kind of…average. There is no way Trump can be expected to meet such a high standard. Why don’t you back off of that great man? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6964 "2019-06-08T12:29:07Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Other than a direct quote. Riiight, and Mitt Romney actually had flesh-and-blood women in those binders. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6965 "2019-06-08T12:29:08Z")
Where’s the fun in that? (to **bobot** ) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6966 "2019-06-08T12:31:29Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Riiight, and Mitt Romney actually had flesh-and-blood women in those binders. :rolleyes: Since Romney didn’t have a history of displaying total ignorance of every possible topic, no one thought he meant that. Trump is a whole 'nother bucket of slop. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6967 "2019-06-08T12:33:35Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Trump is a whole 'nother bucket of slop. He is that, but I feel confident he didn’t think the Moon is part of Mars or vice versa. And I’m not one known to bend over backward to give him the benefit of the doubt! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6968 "2019-06-08T13:31:03Z")
The most generous interpretation is that he knows that in order to get to Mars, we must go back to the Moon first, which makes what he said initially (“NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon”) stupid. But then again, he’s a moron, so there you go. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6969 "2019-06-08T14:15:14Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I mean that was the interpretation I made the first time I read the tweet in question. From Trump. Well, perhaps he should give a [speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRbkBAOGEw) instead of compressing his thoughts into a Tweet. That way he can cogently lay out his thoughts instead of making us guess. That’s assuming, of course, that he can speak coherently for seventeen minutes at a time. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6970 "2019-06-08T14:37:18Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Well, perhaps he should give a [speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRbkBAOGEw) instead of compressing his thoughts into a Tweet. That way he can cogently lay out his thoughts instead of making us guess. > > That’s assuming, of course, that he can speak coherently for seventeen minutes at a time. “That’s assuming, of course, that he can speak coherently for seventeen [del]minutes[/del] seconds at a time.” FTFY ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6971 "2019-06-08T15:07:50Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Well, perhaps he should give a [speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRbkBAOGEw) instead of compressing his thoughts into a Tweet. That way he can cogently lay out his thoughts instead of making us guess. Nailed it. Winner. End of discussion. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6972 "2019-06-08T16:13:49Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > That’s assuming, of course, that he can speak coherently for seventeen minutes at a time. Of course he can’t. But that doesn’t make this tweet incoherent. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > The most generous interpretation is that he knows that in order to get to Mars, we must go back to the Moon first, which makes what he said initially (“NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon”) stupid. But then again, he’s a moron, so there you go. Yeah, he’s a moron, but why would \*this \*particular utterance be stupid? It amounts to “NASA is emphasizing the wrong thing” or “NASA is burying the lede”. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6973 "2019-06-08T16:29:02Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > He really doesn’t, and it’s driving me nuts to see everyone yukking it up about this on social media. That is actually one of the most coherent and sensible things he has ever tweeted, and snickering about it just allows his defenders to paint his critics as nitpickers who take his words out of context and distort them. :smack: It’s difficult to refrain from mockery when a politician’s mental processes convert an idea like _this_… > [@Science 101](#): > > Mars’ surface environment is more similar to Earth’s than that of any other planet in the solar system. …into a statement like _this_: > [@Dan Quayle](#): > > Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6974 "2019-06-08T16:31:33Z")
ENOUGH on the tweet, for fuck’s sake!! ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6975 "2019-06-08T16:46:19Z")
Steve, that blast from the Quayle past was gold. I remembered him as a dumbass, but had not recalled that he was quite \*that \*much of a dumbfuck. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > ENOUGH on the tweet, for fuck’s sake!! Uhhhh…you \*have \*read the thread title? What do you think would be a more appropriate topic? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6976 "2019-06-08T17:26:32Z")
Learlier? ---
**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:** [June 8, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6977 "2019-06-08T17:57:50Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Steve, that blast from the Quayle past was gold. I remembered him as a dumbass, but had not recalled that he was quite \*that \*much of a dumbfuck. He’s the one who misspelled \*potato \*and no one ever let him forget it. It takes more than that to bring down a career these days. > [@](#): > > Uhhhh…you \*have \*read the thread title? What do you think would be a more appropriate topic? :dubious: Geez Louise, Mr. Obvious. The topic per se is appropriate enough. It’s just the hamster-wheel nature of the discussion on this particular tweet. Round and round, going nowhere new. Aren’t YOU tired of saying the same thing over and over. Do you think those resisting your point will get it on the 1,000th repetition? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6978 "2019-06-08T18:24:32Z")
Yeah, I often wonder what my fellow Pitsters are like in real life. Do they keep bringing up the same point over and over again? Sit around family dinner or the local coffee joint and just interrupt a discussion with “Yeahwellwhatdabout…” every five minutes? Or are they doing that here because they’ve been uninvited by the family and everyone who goes out for coffee? ---
**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:** [June 8, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6979 "2019-06-08T19:19:57Z")
I often wonder about dopers who whine about people venting in the Pit. Fuck off to the Little Priss forum if it bothers you so. And take Slacker’s spin turds with you. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6980 "2019-06-08T23:02:53Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > The most generous interpretation is that he knows that in order to get to Mars, we must go back to the Moon first, which makes what he said initially (“NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon”) stupid. But then again, he’s a moron, so there you go. Yeah. It’s not unreasonable to expect a President to be able to express an idea clearly (as Jack Batty did in this post). But the bigger story may be how easily-manipulated Trump is. As has been mentioned, his new position contradicts what his Administration has been saying for months—and apparently it’s all because he saw something on Fox Business: > [@](#): > > Trump’s tweet on NASA came shortly after a segment on Fox Business in which NASA’s chief financial officer Jeff DeWitt discussed NASA’s initiatives on the moon and their planned moon expedition in 2024 with host Neil Cavuto. > **[Twitter users mercilessly mocked Trump after he tweeted implying the moon is...](https://www.businessinsider.com/best-reactions-trumps-tweet-moon-part-of-mars-2019-6)** > > "Mars is part of the moon sounds like collusion to me," tweeted former Obama White House photographer Pete Souza in response to Trump's tweet. That phenomenon—show Trump something on TV and he’ll change his entire Administration’s policy on a dime—is well worth discussing. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/6981 "2019-06-09T00:26:40Z")
The short-fingered vulgarian’s “weak spot” and “soft belly” might well be his fear of wearing the ball and chain. > **[New Pelosi Attack Bares Trump's 'Trigger' Over Prison, Says MSNBC's Nicolle...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pelosi-prison-trigger-nicolle-wallace_n_5cfb02dae4b0aab91c066456)** > > There's suddenly a “new ‘I’ word, and it’s ‘imprisonment,’ not 'impeachment,'” says former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=348) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=350)