# 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:** 52
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1021 "2017-03-28T04:28:50Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > Not on Twitter so help a brother out. > > Does he not see the replies? Or does he only see certain replies? > > Because every one of his dumb ass tweets that I have seen, has been immediately shot down. That would be an **awful lot** of reading. And he’s a very busy man. You know, presidentin’ and golfing and all. And sending tweets. I mean, if he stopped to read the replies, when would he find the time to send more tweets? Be sensible, man. Besides, those mean tweets are probably _fake_. Hillary and Obama are behind them. Yeah, that’s the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![CatandMouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@CatandMouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatandMouse)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1022 "2017-03-28T05:18:09Z")
Last year Trump said he was the only one who could fix things, and this year it’s all Obama’s and Hillary’s fault. And what’s up with this tweet? This doesn’t make a lick of sense. **"The Republican House Freedom Caucus was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. After so many bad years they were ready for a win!"** ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1023 "2017-03-28T05:33:33Z")
> [@CatandMouse](#): > > Last year Trump said he was the only one who could fix things, and this year it’s all Obama’s and Hillary’s fault. > > And what’s up with this tweet? This doesn’t make a lick of sense. > > **“The Republican House Freedom Caucus was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. After so many bad years they were ready for a win!”** I actually went and looked at his twitter account, which I try and avoid (I don’t want to feed his ego). I have no idea what this means. It’s 2 completely different thought streams as far as I can tell. Or he forgot the part the middle where he meant to say “They shouldn’t have done that, after so many years…” Every time I try and figure out what he means by anything I can feel my brain cells dying. ---
**Author:** ![CatandMouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@CatandMouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatandMouse)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1024 "2017-03-28T05:42:40Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I actually went and looked at his twitter account, which I try and avoid (I don’t want to feed his ego). I have no idea what this means. It’s 2 completely different thought streams as far as I can tell. Or he forgot the part the middle where he meant to say “They shouldn’t have done that, after so many years…” > > Every time I try and figure out what he means by anything I can feel my brain cells dying. I wonder if he has decided to take up drinking? Honestly, I thought about taking up drinking but I cannot commit. I never remember to stop by the liquor store when I’m out on errands. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1025 "2017-03-28T05:56:22Z")
I’m clinical and have taken up self-medication from time to time. Nothing he tweets indicates he’s sober, or non-medicated. Me, I try hard to not indicate it, since I have a sense of shame. He doesn’t. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1026 "2017-03-28T05:59:12Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I actually went and looked at his twitter account, which I try and avoid (I don’t want to feed his ego). I have no idea what this means. It’s 2 completely different thought streams as far as I can tell. Or he forgot the part the middle where he meant to say “They shouldn’t have done that, after so many years…” Bill Moyers has [an article up today](http://billmoyers.com/story/gibberish-white-houses-new-normal/) on the nature of Trump’s word salad; > [@](#): > > Now we have a president who, when he speaks, spatters the air with unfinished chunks, many of which do not qualify as sentences, and which do not follow from previous chunks. He does not release words into a stream of consciousness but into a heap. He heaps words on top of words, to overwhelm meaning with vague gestures. He does not think, he lurches… > > But the problem is not just that Trump lies, or that he lies about having lied. The problem is not just that he distracts — for example, changing the subject from his entanglements with Russians to the leakers who leak stories about his entanglements with Russians. The problem is that he insinuates more than he argues. He disdains not only evidence but logic. He asserts by indirection. This is bubble-think. It makes a sort of sense only if you’re trapped in the bubble with him. > > What explains this? Is Donald Trump the heir of generations of avant-garde poetry? > > Probably not. What’s more likely is that he is deranged. It is a peculiar sort of derangement. It is the derangement of a man who is used to getting what he wants, and arranging his mental universe so as to convince himself that what he has gotten is what he wanted. His operating theory is that he makes things so because he is powerful. His power is such that he is not subject to laws of ordinary grammar. I think that just about covers it. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1027 "2017-03-28T06:24:35Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I’m clinical and have taken up self-medication from time to time. Nothing he tweets indicates he’s sober, or non-medicated. Me, I try hard to not indicate it, since I have a sense of shame. He doesn’t. I’ve tried it. He is a drunk. And wears adult diapers. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1028 "2017-03-28T06:45:59Z")
> [@Bill Moyers](#): > > Now we have a president who, when he speaks, spatters the air with unfinished chunks, many of which do not qualify as sentences, and which do not follow from previous chunks. This is incorrect, actually. Trump’s verbal chunkery actually often _does_ follow from earlier chunkery, in the sense that his speech pattern is very repetitive, i.e. “It’ll be great. It’ll be very great. Trust me, it’s going to be great.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1029 "2017-03-28T10:36:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The bus stops here. . . . And the bus is of the short variety. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1030 "2017-03-28T12:31:28Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I actually went and looked at his twitter account, which I try and avoid (I don’t want to feed his ego). I have no idea what this means. It’s 2 completely different thought streams as far as I can tell. Or he forgot the part the middle where he meant to say “They shouldn’t have done that, after so many years…” > > Every time I try and figure out what he means by anything I can feel my brain cells dying. It’s awkwardly phrased, but I’m now at least conversationally fluent in Trumpish (a unique language that has no spelling rules, seldom uses tenses or subject-predicate-object constructions, and is always emphatic) so the meaning seems clear enough. “The Republican House Freedom Caucus managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. After so many bad years, they should’ve been ready for a win!” ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1031 "2017-03-28T12:37:37Z")
[Excuse me, I speak Trump.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSLcYQHqFQ) ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1032 "2017-03-28T13:10:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Bill Moyers has [an article up today](http://billmoyers.com/story/gibberish-white-houses-new-normal/) on the nature of Trump’s word salad; > > I think that just about covers it. Essentially he lives in [“the bubble.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15MwhPv3Ud4) He thinks he speaks fluent English. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1033 "2017-03-28T13:12:51Z")
great link, Smapti, thanks for sharing it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1034 "2017-03-28T14:18:35Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > great link, Smapti, thanks for sharing it. 🙂 Lawrence O’Donnell absolutely [excoriates](http://www.mediaite.com/online/msnbcs-lawrence-odonnell-the-presidency-effectively-ended-after-bill-pull/) Trump. Brutal. But true. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1035 "2017-03-28T14:30:12Z")
I wonder if Lord Dampnut has heard about [this](https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/27/with-a-service-that-donates-to-the-aclu-when-trump-tweets-make-tweets-great-again-is-a-prime-example-of-apps-as-activism/): > [@](#): > > Earlier this month, Sarah Silverman tweeted about a new website called Make Tweets Great Again that had sprung up to give money to the ACLU every time President Donald Trump dropped a tweet bomb from his personal account… ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1036 "2017-03-28T14:39:46Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Lawrence O’Donnell absolutely [excoriates](http://www.mediaite.com/online/msnbcs-lawrence-odonnell-the-presidency-effectively-ended-after-bill-pull/) Trump. Brutal. But true. L.O’D.: "Trump is the laziest, most ignorant, most incompetent, most irrelevant president in history… " ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1037 "2017-03-28T16:43:17Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Essentially he lives in [“the bubble.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15MwhPv3Ud4) He thinks he speaks fluent English. He speaks clearly. [It’s everyone else that doesn’t.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdyGfiIirD8) ---
**Author:** ![CatandMouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@CatandMouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatandMouse)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1038 "2017-03-28T18:14:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Bill Moyers has [an article up today](http://billmoyers.com/story/gibberish-white-houses-new-normal/) on the nature of Trump’s word salad; > > I think that just about covers it. That was a pretty good assessment. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1039 "2017-03-28T19:06:27Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > > [@dropzone](#): > > > > I’m clinical and have taken up self-medication from time to time. Nothing he tweets indicates he’s sober, or non-medicated. Me, I try hard to not indicate it, since I have a sense of shame. He doesn’t. > > I’ve tried it. He is a drunk. And wears adult diapers. I’m guessing you’re kinda drunk right now, then? ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1040 "2017-03-28T20:38:28Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > great link, Smapti, thanks for sharing it. 🙂 I agree. That was a very good explanation of what he does. There are words, but he almost never says _anything_. On the rare occasion he does rant out something coherent, the words are used to blame someone else. Which he then denies having ever said. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=53)