# 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:** 441
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8802 "2020-06-03T18:00:42Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > News reports I’ve been reading, or at least the ones that are not bylined “FOX News”, indicate that acts of violence have tapered off considerably over the past 48 hours, so I’m a bit unclear who the cops are supposed to get tough with. President Dick Tater seems to be a day late and a dollar short, as usual. His “Get Tough!” tweet was probably “aspirational”, as they say. He’s wistful that the violence is subsiding. “C’mon guys – crack some heads! how can I be a wartime president without a war???” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8803 "2020-06-03T18:48:37Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > News reports I’ve been reading, or at least the ones that are not bylined “FOX News”, indicate that acts of violence have tapered off considerably over the past 48 hours, so I’m a bit unclear who the cops are supposed to get tough with. Anyone brown, anyone suspected of being a “liberal” or an opponent of Donald Trump of course. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s had to be talked down from trying to order the police to beat on Democratic Congresspeople and imprison them for defying him. He’s clearly thought of himself as some sort of god-king this whole time he’s been in office, not a President. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8804 "2020-06-03T20:40:04Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Anyone brown, anyone suspected of being a “liberal” or an opponent of Donald Trump of course. > > I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s had to be talked down from trying to order the police to beat on Democratic Congresspeople and imprison them for defying him. He’s clearly thought of himself as some sort of god-king this whole time he’s been in office, not a President. I wonder how many times he’s had to be talked down out of sending troops into the offices of media, news, or social outlets. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8805 "2020-06-03T21:51:44Z")
‘This Face Will Be The Last Thing You See Before You Die,’ Says Trump In Healing Address To Nation “…At press time, Trump reached across partisan lines to heal the divided nation by adding to reporters that some specific Americans would be seeing his face far sooner than others.” > **[‘This Face Will Be The Last Thing You See Before You Die,’ Says Trump In...](https://www.theonion.com/this-face-will-be-the-last-thing-you-see-before-you-di-1843888214)** > > WASHINGTON—In a powerful effort to bring unity to a fractured populace, President Donald Trump delivered a healing address to citizens Wednesday that his face would be the last thing they see before they die. “My fellow Americans, in this time of... ---
**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:** [June 3, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8806 "2020-06-03T23:31:45Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > His “Get Tough!” tweet was probably “aspirational”, as they say. He’s wistful that the violence is subsiding. “C’mon guys – crack some heads! how can I be a wartime president without a war???” Well, at least he’s had a chance to deal with the clear and imminent threat posed by Australian news reporters. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8807 "2020-06-03T23:37:22Z")
Just to get ahead of the game, how many hours until Trump issues a tweet denouncing [General Mattis](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/) (probably lying and claiming that he fired Mattis) and gives the MAGAts their latest marching orders? ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8808 "2020-06-04T00:27:20Z")
“I fired Lying Mattis like a dog! Begged to keep his job. Now he smears me with lies. UNFAIR!” Not an actual quote ---
**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 4, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8809 "2020-06-04T00:36:24Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “I fired Lying Mattis like a dog! Begged to keep his job. Now he smears me with lies. UNFAIR!” > Not an actual quote [Yoda] It will be. _It will be!_ [/Yoda] ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8810 "2020-06-04T00:37:03Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “I fired Lying Mattis like a dog! Begged to keep his job. Now he smears me with lies. UNFAIR!” > Not an actual quote Yet. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8811 "2020-06-04T01:15:05Z")
(Also posted in the Clusterfuck thread) > [@](#): > > Tweeted by **Bunker Baby Bonespurs** : > > Probably the only thing Barack Obama & I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world’s most overrated General. I asked for his letter of resignation, & felt great about it. His nickname was “Chaos”, which I didn’t like, & changed to “Mad Dog”… > > · > > …His primary strength was not military, but rather personal public relations. I gave him a new life, things to do, and battles to win, but he seldom “brought home the bacon”. I didn’t like his “leadership” style or much else about him, and many others agree. Glad he is gone! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8812 "2020-06-04T02:51:00Z")
Not to go overboard on the mirroring, but just noting my [reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22336716&postcount=44290) to you in that other thread: > [@Kimstu](#): > > Gosh, wonder how Mattis got so “overrated”? Oh, [that’s right](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/01/james-mattis-secretary-of-defense-donald-trump): > > > [@](#): > > > > Trump made the announcement at an Ohio rally on the first day for his “thank you tour” [December 2016]. > > > > “I don’t want to tell you to this, I refuse to tell you, don’t let it outside of this room. I will not tell you that one of our great great generals, don’t let it outside, we are going to appoint Mad Dog Mattis as our secretary of defense and we’re not announcing it until Monday so don’t tell it to anybody.” […] > > > > The retired general declined to talk to the media at the time, but Trump praised him. “All I can say is he is the real deal. The real deal,” he said. > > Even after what feels like all these centuries, it can still surprise me how brazenly Trump praises himself for his acumen in having recruited or selected some “great” “terrific” “brilliant” “best” “star” person, and shortly thereafter praises himself for his shrewdness in having got rid of that very same person, now disparaged as a “weak” “overrated” “unstable” “dumb” “moron” “loser”. AFAICT he honestly believes that it makes him look good. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8813 "2020-06-04T03:11:24Z")
> Probably the only thing Barack Obama & I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world’s most overrated General. I asked for his letter of resignation, & felt great about it. His nickname was “Chaos”, which I didn’t like, & changed to “Mad Dog”… > …His primary strength was not military, but rather personal public relations. I gave him a new life, things to do, and battles to win, but he seldom “brought home the bacon”. I didn’t like his “leadership” style or much else about him, and many others agree. Glad he is gone! ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8814 "2020-06-04T05:51:17Z")
> [@jshore](#): > > Just to get ahead of the game, how many hours until Trump issues a tweet denouncing [General Mattis](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/) (probably lying and claiming that he fired Mattis) and gives the MAGAts their latest marching orders? > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “I fired Lying Mattis like a dog! Begged to keep his job. Now he smears me with lies. UNFAIR!” > Not an actual quote > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Yet. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268347256748507136](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268347256748507136) > Probably the only thing Barack Obama & I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world’s most overrated General. I asked for his letter of resignation, & felt great about it. His nickname was “Chaos”, which I didn’t like, & changed to “Mad Dog”… > > [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268347259713880064](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268347259713880064) > …His primary strength was not military, but rather personal public relations. I gave him a new life, things to do, and battles to win, but he seldom “brought home the bacon”. I didn’t like his “leadership” style or much else about him, and many others agree. Glad he is gone! Wow. What has the world come to when it’s not even possible to tell satire from reality? I wonder how long it will be before the juandiced jackass recalls General Mattis to active duty for disciplinary action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8815 "2020-06-04T12:37:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Wow. What has the world come to when it’s not even possible to tell satire from reality? When reality mocks satire: Covfefe > [@](#): > > I wonder how long it will be before the juandiced jackass recalls General Mattis to active duty for disciplinary action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Does one have to be recalled to active duty to be court martialed? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8816 "2020-06-04T12:43:56Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Wow. What has the world come to when it’s not even possible to tell satire from reality? I used to play a game with a co-worker: real or satire trump headline? I fooled him with this one: _[“Wouldn’t that make a great condo?” Trump is excited by North Korea’s real estate potential](https://qz.com/1303129/trump-kim-summit-north-koreas-real-estate-potential-excites-trump/)_ trump quote from the article: _“As an example they have great beaches. You see that whenever they’re exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said, boy, look at that view. Wouldn’t that make a great condo? And I explained, I said, you know, instead of doing that you could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real estate perspective. You have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle. How bad is that, right? It’s great.”_ ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8817 "2020-06-04T13:28:18Z")
[Roger Stone can sleep well at night](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/trump-promises-roger-stone-will-serve-no-prison-time-300351)… Trump says he won’t do jail time. ---
**Author:** ![Kelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@Kelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelby)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8818 "2020-06-04T13:51:55Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > [Roger Stone can sleep well at night](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/trump-promises-roger-stone-will-serve-no-prison-time-300351)… Trump says he won’t do jail time. The “law and order” president, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8819 "2020-06-04T14:12:04Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “I fired Lying Mattis like a dog! Begged to keep his job. Now he smears me with lies. UNFAIR!” > Not an actual quote Trump wouldn’t use “like a dog” on Mattis. He’s white. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8820 "2020-06-04T15:12:37Z")
> [@Kelby](#): > > The “law and order” president, folks. Someone already posted this 2017 article in _The Atlantic_ by David Frum in one of the Trump threads and this quote caught my eye: [How to Build an Autocracy](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/) The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism. > [@](#): > > “The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.” Seems like everyone convicted in the Mueller probe may receive their get out of jail card. Of course, Trump also wants Barr and Senate Republicans to persecute the innocent as well. It looks like Lindsey Graham wants to start a real witch hunt: [Lindsey Graham seeks broad authority to subpoena former Obama officials](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/18/lindsey-graham-obama-subpoena-trump-266471) Those who could be targeted include Loretta Lynch, James Clapper and John Brennan, among others. > [@](#): > > Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham is preparing to ask his colleagues on the panel for blanket permission to subpoena dozens of Obama and Trump administration officials connected to the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election — and contacts between President Donald Trump’s team and Russians. > > His proposal would permit the South Carolina Republican to demand testimony and documents from figures involved in the intelligence associated with the launch of the Russia investigation, including Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former national intelligence director James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey. > > But it also stretches into the Trump era, with authorization to subpoena current and former figures involved in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller — including former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and current FBI Director Christopher Wray. We have the most incompetent, corrupt president in history, who Senate Republicans wouldn’t even consider convicting on impeachment–even before hearing any evidence, but it’s the career civil servants that need investigating and punishing. If the witnesses refuse to abide by the subpoenas as the Trump people did with the House investigations, can you imagine all the Republican wailing and teeth-gnashing? ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/8821 "2020-06-04T21:22:46Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I used to play a game with a co-worker: real or satire trump headline? I fooled him with this one: > > _[“Wouldn’t that make a great condo?” Trump is excited by North Korea’s real estate potential](https://qz.com/1303129/trump-kim-summit-north-koreas-real-estate-potential-excites-trump/)_ > > trump quote from the article: > _“As an example they have great beaches. You see that whenever they’re exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said, boy, look at that view. Wouldn’t that make a great condo? And I explained, I said, you know, instead of doing that you could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real estate perspective. You have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle. How bad is that, right? It’s great.”_ Years ago David Letterman did a skit called “[Trump or Monkey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-WD-7dAuKM)?”. Three photos of the top of a head with wild hair were presented, with the face covered. The viewers were invited to guess which two were Donald, and which one was an orangutan. We guessed wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=440) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=442)