# 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:** 90
**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 22, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1781 "2017-06-22T17:55:19Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > About as well as can be expected. This IS the state with the Creation Museum, after all. And Ken Ham has said that his next project is to build the Tower of Babel to go along with the lifesize Ark. And he wants us to pay for it, like we did with the museum and Ark. And with Matt Bevin in charge of Kentucky, I’m sure he’ll succeed in funneling tax money to pay for a blatant attempt to further blur the line between church and state. Wasn’t there a story about the Tower of Babel being a Bad Thing? ---
**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 22, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1782 "2017-06-22T18:04:02Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > About those White House tapes? [JK LOL U MAD COMEY?](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-make-comey-tapes/story?id=48212277) [From the recent CNN article:](http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/trump-comey-tapes-no-recordings/index.html) > [@](#): > > Trump has a history of using the prospect of audio recordings to intimidate people close to him. > Tim O’Brien, a Trump biographer, told CNN’s Brian Stelter on “Reliable Sources” earlier this month that Trump told him during interviews that he was recording their conversations. But that when the former business magnate sat down for a deposition, Trump “essentially” said he used the threat of tapes to “intimidate” him. > "My attorney said, ‘Mr. Trump, do you have a taping system?’ And he said no. And he said, ‘Well then, why did you say this to Mr. O’Brien?’ And he essentially said, ‘I wanted to intimidate him,’ " O’Brien recounted. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1783 "2017-06-22T18:13:22Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > About those White House tapes? [JK LOL U MAD COMEY?](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-make-comey-tapes/story?id=48212277) So just an attempt to intimidate and obstruct? ---
**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 22, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1784 "2017-06-22T18:25:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Wasn’t there a story about the Tower of Babel being a Bad Thing? Only to those who built it. ---
**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 22, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1785 "2017-06-22T20:04:07Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > So just an attempt to intimidate and obstruct? Absolutely. With a known history of doing just that. Trump is going to tweet himself right out of office. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1786 "2017-06-22T20:35:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > [From the recent CNN article:](http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/trump-comey-tapes-no-recordings/index.html) God, what an asshole! ---
**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 22, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1787 "2017-06-22T22:35:40Z")
[Trump continues to make his lackey’s lives easier](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/fck-my-life-trumps-new-conspiracy-theory-already-has-staffers-dreading-the-backlash/). ---
**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:** [June 23, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1788 "2017-06-23T04:36:50Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > About as well as can be expected. This IS the state with the Creation Museum, after all. And Ken Ham has said that his next project is to build the Tower of Babel to go along with the lifesize Ark. And he wants us to pay for it, like we did with the museum and Ark. And with Matt Bevin in charge of Kentucky, I’m sure he’ll succeed in funneling tax money to pay for a blatant attempt to further blur the line between church and state. Wait, he wants to build the Tower of Babel ? Didn’t god get raging mad about it the first time around ? Fuck me, America, but even your biblethumpers are ignorant. About _the Bible !_ ---
**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:** [June 23, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1789 "2017-06-23T05:24:48Z")
See for yourself: > **[Ken Ham Announces Plans for Tower of Babel Encounter](https://notexactlysubtle.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/ken-ham-announces-tower-of-babel-encounter/)** > > “The Ark Encounter has been such a massive success,” Ham stated. “It became obvious to us that the public (editor’s note: we believe that “public” means “E… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1790 "2017-06-23T07:15:51Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > And Ken Ham has said that his next project is to build the Tower of Babel … guess he really, really, really wasn’t paying attention when reading that particular story :smack: ---
**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 23, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1791 "2017-06-23T10:58:48Z")
A reading of Trump’s genius tweets might make a suitable soundtrack for the tower. ---
**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 23, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1792 "2017-06-23T12:39:17Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Wait, he wants to build the Tower of Babel ? Didn’t god get raging mad about it the first time around ? Fuck me, America, but even your biblethumpers are ignorant. About _the Bible !_ His take away from the story was that if he builds the tower, he learns a new language. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1793 "2017-06-23T13:04:14Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > See for yourself: > > [Ken Ham Announces Plans for Tower of Babel Encounter | Not Exactly Subtle](https://notexactlysubtle.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/ken-ham-announces-tower-of-babel-encounter/) It’s a [satire site](https://notexactlysubtle.wordpress.com/about/). [Poe’s Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) in effect. ---
**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 23, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1794 "2017-06-23T13:14:51Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > It’s a [satire site](https://notexactlysubtle.wordpress.com/about/). > > [Poe’s Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) in effect. It might be satirized, but it is also true enough. [ > [@](#): > > Among other plans: a depiction of the Tower of Babel, whence God, after the flood, dispersed earth’s inhabitants, according to Genesis. > > But without a specified measurement in the Bible, Ham hasn’t yet said how tall the tower might be. ]([With 'Ark Encounter' Attraction, Builder Ken Ham Invites All Comers -- and Controversy](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebuss/2016/07/05/in-opening-ambitious-noahs-ark-replica-attraction-builder-ken-ham-tempts-a-storm/#2a44267a1064)) Unless forbes is satire too, which I’ve always suspected. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1795 "2017-06-23T15:26:03Z")
Well, “depiction” could mean anything. A diorama, a pop-up book that pops back down, whatever. Forbes doesn’t go into detail. If this guy actually builds it, it will be a monument to stupidity, but I prefer to wait until the hammers start pounding before I point and laugh. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1796 "2017-06-23T15:34:33Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > About those White House tapes? [JK LOL U MAD COMEY?](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-make-comey-tapes/story?id=48212277) That doesn’t read like anything Rrump would write. I think the words came from lawyers. [ol] [li]Rrump threatened Comey with “tapes”.[/li] [li]Then he refused to provide them.[/li] [li]Comey “went public” about the threat… and remarked that he hoped there WERE tapes.[/li] [li]Rrump never released any tapes, even when there were rumblings about forcing him to (?)[/li][/ol] So. [ol] [li]Either there were no tapes and Rrump was lying, in order to bully/threaten Comey into silence (didn’t work) which is obstruction, or[/li] [li]There are tapes, and they would corroborate Comey’s story, and hang Rrump - again proving an attempt at obstruction. So he lies about there not being any now.[/li][/ol] So we have this latest tweet which does not read like anything that would come out of Rrump. It’s very careful to simply say a lot of “maybe I dunno I didn’t do anything”, without actually SAYING much that could be used to pin him down in court. It was just written too carefully, too cautious, to LITERATE to be from Rrump himself. Either way, we already know Rrump is a bullshitter and a liar. he even lies hen there is no reason to. So did he lie when he threatened to release “tapes”? Or is he lying in using a bunch of legaleze to say “I didn’t do nuthin”? Either way, soon as Comey said “I hope there are tapes” his bluff was called. ---
**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 23, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1797 "2017-06-23T16:21:30Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Well, “depiction” could mean anything. A diorama, a pop-up book that pops back down, whatever. Forbes doesn’t go into detail. If this guy actually builds it, it will be a monument to stupidity, but I prefer to wait until the hammers start pounding before I point and laugh. I feel fine with pointing and laughing now. If he gets the tower built, then we may no longer be able to communicate what we are pointing and laughing at. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1798 "2017-06-23T16:34:10Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I feel fine with pointing and laughing now. > > If he gets the tower built, then we may no longer be able to communicate what we are pointing and laughing at. Come to think of it, just the other day I saw a Se Habla Español sign. OH MY GOD IT’S TOO LATE!!! CURSE YOU HAM!! ---
**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 23, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1799 "2017-06-23T19:27:21Z")
> [@](#): > > That doesn’t read like anything Rrump would write. I think the words came from lawyers. Including the parts where it was all Obama’s fault? “With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea…whether there are “tapes” or recordings of my conversations with James Comey” ---
**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 23, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/1800 "2017-06-23T22:26:25Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > While Trump was screaming about “rigged elections,” Obama should have started an investigation into Russian collusion with Republicans? Oh, yeah, THAT would have gone over real well. He did. “Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault” > **[Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault](https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/obamas-secret-struggle-to-punish-russia-for-putins-election-assault/2017/06/23/9d67e186-51da-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html)** > > The White House debated various options to punish Russia, but facing obstacles and potential risks, it ultimately failed to exact a heavy toll on the Kremlin for its election meddling. > [@](#): > > Early last August, an envelope with extraordinary handling restrictions arrived at the White House. Sent by courier from the CIA, it carried “eyes only” instructions that its contents be shown to just four people: President Barack Obama and three senior aides. > > Inside was an intelligence bombshell, a report drawn from sourcing deep inside the Russian government that detailed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s direct involvement in a cyber campaign to disrupt and discredit the U.S. presidential race. > > But it went further. The intelligence captured Putin’s specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objectives — defeat or at least damage the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and help elect her opponent, Donald Trump. > > At that point, the outlines of the Russian assault on the U.S. election were increasingly apparent. Hackers with ties to Russian intelligence services had been rummaging through Democratic Party computer networks, as well as some Republican systems, for more than a year. In July, the FBI had opened an investigation of contacts between Russian officials and Trump associates. And on July 22, nearly 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee were dumped online by WikiLeaks. > > … > Over that five-month interval, the Obama administration secretly debated dozens of options for deterring or punishing Russia, including cyberattacks on Russian infrastructure, the release of CIA-gathered material that might embarrass Putin and sanctions that officials said could “crater” the Russian economy. > > But in the end, in late December, Obama approved a modest package combining measures that had been drawn up to punish Russia for other issues — expulsions of 35 diplomats and the closure of two Russian compounds — with economic sanctions so narrowly targeted that even those who helped design them describe their impact as largely symbolic. > > Obama also approved a previously undisclosed covert measure that authorized planting cyber weapons in Russia’s infrastructure, the digital equivalent of bombs that could be detonated if the United States found itself in an escalating exchange with Moscow. The project, which Obama approved in a covert-action finding, was still in its planning stages when Obama left office. **It would be up to President Trump to decide whether to use the capability.** … “What did Trump know and when did he know it?” I’ve had to snip a lot. Suggest you read the whole article. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=91)