# 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:** 409
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8162 "2019-10-27T03:20:30Z")
His investigators finally came back from Hawaii with information about Obama’s birth certificate? ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8163 "2019-10-27T03:37:30Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > OK, so what’s happening tomorrow that he’s trying to distract attention from? Probably this: > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/38190): > > Well, apparently [we have looted Syria’s oil](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/us/politics/trump-syria-oil-fields.html). ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8164 "2019-10-27T03:42:41Z")
WaPo columnist Josh Rogin [thinks it has something to do with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being killed or captured.](https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1188286405501509632) Imagine if vaguebooking was around during WWII. **Franklin D. Roosevelt** @RealFDR August 5, 1945 • 7:09 pm Wait’ll y’all see what I just did! ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8165 "2019-10-27T03:46:14Z")
Looks like ISIS head al-Baghdadi has been killed. > **[Trump Approves Special Ops Raid Targeting Baghdadi, Military Says He's Dead](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-approves-special-ops-raid-targeting-isis-leader-baghdadi-1467982)** > > "Something very big has just happened," tweeted Trump. The Defense Department reported "high confidence" that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8166 "2019-10-27T03:48:59Z")
**Pontius Pilate** @GovPilate April IX, XXXIII • 1:10 pm Yo some shit’s going down around golgatha, don’t blame me. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8167 "2019-10-27T03:54:07Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > WaPo columnist Josh Rogin [thinks it has something to do with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being killed or captured.](https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1188286405501509632) > > Imagine if vaguebooking was around during WWII. > > **Franklin D. Roosevelt** > @RealFDR August 5, 1945 • 7:09 pm > Wait’ll y’all see what I just did! That would have been fake news, seeing as FDR died several months earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8168 "2019-10-27T03:54:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Looks like ISIS head al-Baghdadi has been killed. > [Trump Approves Special Ops Raid Targeting ISIS Leader Baghdadi, Military Says He's Dead](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-approves-special-ops-raid-targeting-isis-leader-baghdadi-1467982) Better make sure he shows us both ears and the tail. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8169 "2019-10-27T03:57:31Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > That would have been fake news, seeing as FDR died several months earlier. :smack: Should’ve been @RealHarryS ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8170 "2019-10-27T04:05:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Looks like ISIS head al-Baghdadi has been killed. > [Trump Approves Special Ops Raid Targeting ISIS Leader Baghdadi, Military Says He's Dead](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-approves-special-ops-raid-targeting-isis-leader-baghdadi-1467982) Well, that could be good news, but IMHO it would have been better when ISIS was going down, but now that many have pointed out that they are regrouping, thanks to Trump’s fumbling, the death of the leader could be considered martyrdom for those regrouping sick terrorists and continue fighting. Still, points are points, I had Baghdadi on my death pool list. 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8171 "2019-10-27T04:16:46Z")
And the people who chastised Obama for “taking the credit” for Osama bin Laden will cheer Trump when he claims he did it all by hisself armed with nothing but a box cutter. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8172 "2019-10-27T04:18:52Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > That would have been fake news, seeing as FDR died several months earlier. Well, tweets had to go by Parcel Post back then. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8173 "2019-10-27T04:30:57Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > And the people who chastised Obama for “taking the credit” for Osama bin Laden will cheer Trump when he claims he did it all by hisself armed with nothing but a box cutter. Yep. Donald Trump, a couple of weeks ago: “[I defeated the caliphate. When I came, the caliphate was all over the place. I defeated the caliphate, ISIS…](https://abcnews.go.com/International/analysis-president-trump-hands-northern-syria-turkey/story?id=66106192)” Donald Trump, last week: “[I captured ISIS. Mattis said it would take two years. I captured them in one month](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rages-at-pelosi-mattis-isis-escapees-and-communists-during-meltdown-in-white-house-syria-meeting).” ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8174 "2019-10-27T05:02:02Z")
[Paul Waldman](https://twitter.com/paulwaldman1/status/1188298991508840453), _Washington Post_ opinion writer: > [@](#): > > If the Baghdadi rumor is true, I guarantee you that at his press conference Trump will: > > 1. Say “I got him” or “I killed him” > 2. Say “Obama couldn’t get him, but I did” > > I’d also put the odds of “I think I could have gone in with the SEALS, to tell you the truth” at 60% ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8175 "2019-10-27T06:39:55Z")
> [@](#): > > If the Baghdadi rumor is true, I guarantee you that at his press conference Trump will: > > 1. Say “I got him” or “I killed him” Because Obama would never have said something like that? [Oh, wait…](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-on-news-of-bin-laden-death-we-got-him/) ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8176 "2019-10-27T06:54:20Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Because Obama would never have said something like that? [Oh, wait…](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-on-news-of-bin-laden-death-we-got-him/) I realize this is an opaque semantic quibble that I would forgive someone who hasn’t spent 5+ years studying linguistics for not noticing at first glance ; but I would like to point out to you that the words “I” and “We” are, in fact, different words that encompass different nuances of meaning. You disingenuous hack. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8177 "2019-10-27T06:58:56Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Because Obama would never have said something like that? [Oh, wait…](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-on-news-of-bin-laden-death-we-got-him/) 😕 Obama said, “_We_ got him.” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8178 "2019-10-27T12:11:43Z")
Now is the time to note that Trump made several tweets like this: > ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8179 "2019-10-27T12:28:40Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Hour and a half now… > > Love _Did you golf a perfect game or achieve world peace, I’m dying to know._ so far. Like… Well, his main squeeze, Kim Jong Il hit [five holes in one](https://www.golf.com/golf-plus/behind-kim-jong-ils-famous-round-golf) on his very first golf game. He had to come up with _something_ or turn in his Bestest at Everything card. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8180 "2019-10-27T14:09:05Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I realize this is an opaque semantic quibble that I would forgive someone who hasn’t spent 5+ years studying linguistics for not noticing at first glance ; but I would like to point out to you that the words “I” and “We” are, in fact, different words that encompass different nuances of meaning. > You disingenuous hack. One of those words is twice as long as the other. That’s quite a margin of error! ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8181 "2019-10-27T14:24:43Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I realize this is an opaque semantic quibble that I would forgive someone who hasn’t spent 5+ years studying linguistics for not noticing at first glance ; but I would like to point out to you that the words “I” and “We” are, in fact, different words that encompass different nuances of meaning. > You disingenuous hack. > [@Walken After Midnight](#): > > Obama said, “We got him.” Correction: _We_ would like to point out… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=408) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=410)