# 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:** 377
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7522 "2019-09-08T02:15:58Z")
I don’t know which is weirder: (a) if there really were secret negotiations with the Taliban at Camp David; (b) it’s a Trump fantasy; or © it was true and he blabbed the whole story on Twitter. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7523 "2019-09-08T02:21:56Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I don’t know which is weirder: (a) if there really were secret negotiations with the Taliban at Camp David; (b) it’s a Trump fantasy; or (c) it was true and he blabbed the whole story on Twitter. Out of all the myriad possibilities about this latest twit, er tweet, not a single one of them comes out good for that worthless jerk pretending to be a president. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7524 "2019-09-08T02:22:38Z")
Trump sure seems to be tweeting a lot of classified information lately. Seems odd for a President. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7525 "2019-09-08T02:37:08Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Trump sure seems to be tweeting a lot of classified information lately. Seems odd for a President. For a mentally-stable president, yes. But this is Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7526 "2019-09-08T02:48:08Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Of course, it’s crap. Consider the source. The only question is from which fuck up he’s trying to steer the “fake media” away. Maybe he’s tired of hearing about Alabama. Neither one is a particularly notable fuck-up. My guess would be that he’s trying to bury news about something actually important. Maybe just the idea that there’s an impending bad economy, maybe something to do with the impeachment investigations / Deutsche Bank, hard to say. The media is too easily distracted away from substance over to fluff that it can be hard to spot the things that Trump likes to hide and I haven’t been paying close enough attention to the news, this time around. Everyone in America should probably know about the Polar Silk Road. I doubt that almost anyone does, despite the whole Greenland nonsense. The media is really composed of morons. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7527 "2019-09-08T03:11:44Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > That has GOT to be utter crap, right? 😕 The Taliban at Camp Fucking David?? I understand that Taylor Swift was going to be there to perform a few cuts from her new album, as well. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7528 "2019-09-08T03:39:25Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Secret meetings with the Taliban in camp David y’all. Cancelled by Fearful Leader: > > [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1170469618177236992?s=19](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1170469618177236992?s=19) Someone needs to tell him “Either we take your phone or we break glass on the 25th Amendment.” It’s like he hears things, information that a president should be privy to, from people who are important in his life, but he can’t process this information like a lucid adult anymore. And yet, he’s still aware that he’s important, so feels he has to present himself, and the information he has, as he thinks an important person might. Therefore, we get Tweets with satellite pics of Iran, week-long obsessions over trivial verbal mistakes, and announcements that super-secret meetings with the Taliban have been hereby canceled because of reasons. He’s heard words regarding Category 5 hurricanes, states in the south, Afghanistan, the Taliban, Camp David, Iran, etc, but is absolutely unfit to handle or process or discuss this information anymore. My dad was recently diagnosed with vascular dementia. As his son, I’ve seen big changes in his personality even before the formal diagnosis, and I’m beginning to think he shouldn’t do certain things anymore, like drive in unfamiliar places. So I just don’t know how Trump’s loved ones and/or the people in the West Wing can allow him to continue to stay in this position much longer. I mean, ffs, this isn’t just a drivers license we’re talking about. I have to think there are family and friends who are seriously getting concerned about his mental health, just from a personal standpoint, politics and re-election aside. It’s getting harder and harder to ignore. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7529 "2019-09-08T03:57:07Z")
**Happy** : Did you ever consider that his “family and loved ones” are as awful as he is? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7530 "2019-09-08T04:33:40Z")
Individual 1 just tweeted a video of him playing with a cat and a laser pointer while holding his Alabama map. I don’t even. > ---
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7531 "2019-09-08T04:34:04Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > **Happy** : Did you ever consider that his “family and loved ones” are as awful as he is? It’s more than just being awful at this point. He’s been publicly awful for pertinear 50 years, and he’s been presidentially awful for 960 days. It’s one thing to be on-board with that shit, but now he’s slipping mentally. I have a hard time believing the people around him, as awful as they \*ab-sol-utely \*are, are just seeing this shit as Donald-as-Usual. It’s not. No one wants to see their father/brother/friend/husband lose cognitive ability even within their small circle, let alone on such a grand, historic, public display. This \*has \*to be eating at them a little. I hope it is, actually. I hope they’re losing sleep, and that they’re worried sick about what to do next about this situation. Public hatred and public adoration are two things he and his garbage-bag bootlickers thrive in. But we’re on the verge of something new, and it’s Trump’s worst possible nightmare: Looking pathetic and being pitied. I can’t imagine the people who are there to protect him and his brand want that. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7532 "2019-09-08T04:59:26Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Public hatred and public adoration are two things he and his garbage-bag bootlickers thrive in. But we’re on the verge of something new, and it’s Trump’s worst possible nightmare: Looking pathetic and being pitied. I can’t imagine the people who are there to protect him and his brand want that. I think the people who are “there to protect him and his brand” are well aware that he’s continuing to trash his brand with every word he utters. Maybe they figure that their own best hope is for the public to see him crumbling into obvious crippling debility and perhaps ease off on him out of pity. I would be surprised if consideration for Trump’s own feelings of distaste for seeming pathetic and pitiable is high on their list. If President Trump pulling down his adult diapers on national television and proudly showing the world the great poo-poo he just did makes a graceful exit easier for themselves, I think they’ll cheerfully sacrifice his dignity. (Not that Trump himself didn’t shamelessly trample on his dignity every chance he got; but it was always in ways that he fondly imagined provoked admiration and envy on the part of others.) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7533 "2019-09-08T05:11:10Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > **Happy** : Did you ever consider that his “family and loved ones” are as awful as he is? You’re gonna love this news then: [Manager: Trump family building ‘dynasty’ for decades to come](https://apnews.com/bb8c30ee6b0b4d579f1a915871b1fa80)! > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump’s campaign manager predicted Saturday that the president and his family will become “a dynasty that will last for decades,” transforming the Republican Party while hewing to conservative values. > > Speaking to a convention of Republican Party delegates in Indian Wells, California, Brad Parscale also said the campaign’s goal is to build a national army of 2 million trained volunteers, far beyond the president’s 2016 organization, that in California could help the GOP retake a string of U.S. House seats captured by Democrats last year. > > “The Trumps will be a dynasty that will last for decades, propelling the Republican Party into a new party,” he said. “One that will adapt to changing cultures. One must continue to adapt while keeping the conservative values that we believe in.” > > Parscale later declined to elaborate on his prediction of a coming Trump “dynasty,” or whether the president’s children could become candidates for public office. > > He told reporters after the speech, “I just think they are a dynasty. I think they are all amazing people with … amazing capabilities.” Where can I write in to suggest that they call their “army” the Friends of the American People? ---
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7534 "2019-09-08T05:28:48Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I don’t know which is weirder: (a) if there really were secret negotiations with the Taliban at Camp David; (b) it’s a Trump fantasy; or (c) it was true and he blabbed the whole story on Twitter. I guess we’ll hear from the Taliban tomorrow whether it was true or not. Frankly, they are a more reliable source than Deal Leader. :dubious: ---
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7535 "2019-09-08T05:38:10Z")
I’m thinking President Talibama Cat Laser is going to have a difficult time graciously accepting an election loss. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7536 "2019-09-08T12:56:31Z")
“Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday.” It was such a sekrit meeting, even the Taliban or the President of Afghanistan didn’t know about it! ---
**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:** [September 8, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7537 "2019-09-08T13:27:29Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > “Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday.” > > It was such a sekrit meeting, even the Taliban or the President of Afghanistan didn’t know about it! I’m expecting those same Taliban leaders to announce sometime today, “The meeting was so secret even WE didn’t know about it!” ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7538 "2019-09-08T15:32:54Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1 just tweeted a video of him playing with a cat and a laser pointer while holding his Alabama map. I don’t even. > [https://twitter.com/i/status/1170546650651271169](https://twitter.com/i/status/1170546650651271169) He’s obviously just trying to get ahead of Yakety Sax with this one ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7539 "2019-09-08T22:48:09Z")
I wonder how the toasts would have gone on the anniversary of 9/11. No doubt the Chump brigade would have blamed the 3000 dead for being in the way of the airplanes. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7540 "2019-09-09T01:10:16Z")
[Economist article](https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/09/08/donald-trump-pulls-out-of-afghan-peace-talks-with-the-taliban) on the peace talks with the Taliban. I think they are implying that this should \*not \*be filed in one of the vaults of Trump’s mistakes. a) It made sense to organize peace talks, because in fact the Taliban have captured a lot of Afghanistan at this point, and any peace must now involve negotiations with them. b) Then it made sense to cancel those talks, because the deal being proposed had virtually no concessions from the Taliban, and they were using the dreadful tactic of ramping up attacks to try to strengthen their negotiating hand further. It’s not the end though, so Trump still has a chance to do something stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/7541 "2019-09-09T03:03:08Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > [Economist article](https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/09/08/donald-trump-pulls-out-of-afghan-peace-talks-with-the-taliban) on the peace talks with the Taliban. > > I think they are implying that this should \*not \*be filed in one of the vaults of Trump’s mistakes. > a) It made sense to organize peace talks, because in fact the Taliban have captured a lot of Afghanistan at this point, and any peace must now involve negotiations with them. > b) Then it made sense to cancel those talks, because the deal being proposed had virtually no concessions from the Taliban, and they were using the dreadful tactic of ramping up attacks to try to strengthen their negotiating hand further. > > It’s not the end though, so Trump still has a chance to do something stupid. He already did. He had a chance at doing something grown up and presidential looking, but had to tweet a “Hey, look at me” moment and turn it into a toddler moment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=376) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=378)