# Donald Trump Has Just Left The White House for Good **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972 "2021-01-20T15:10:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/41 "2021-01-21T00:59:27Z")
Did Biden mention / thank or otherwise acknowledge Trump? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/42 "2021-01-21T01:00:46Z")
He said Trump left a note and that it was “generous”. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/43 "2021-01-21T01:06:40Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Did Biden mention / thank or otherwise acknowledge Trump? Per Press conference: its not about individuals, it’s about the American people. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/44 "2021-01-21T01:09:33Z")
[quote=“DMC, post:35, topic:930972, full:true”] A cute bit of trivia. The keyboardist in that video (can be seen at the 4:12 mark) and in the inauguration video played [Stephanie Mills](https://all-in-the-family-tv-show.fandom.com/wiki/Stephanie_Mills) in All in the Family.[/quote] I still want to know who the blonde with the black rimmed glasses was at 0:20 in the video. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/45 "2021-01-21T01:26:40Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@kanicbird](#): > > > > Can we return the children now - > > They’re probably out of warranty by now. > We’ll have to do the repairs ourselves. It’s the Pit. I understand and can almost laugh but… This is a very sad issue for me, and incomprehensible how anyone would do such a thing. cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/46 "2021-01-21T01:37:51Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > It’s the Pit. I understand and can almost laugh but… > > This is a very sad issue for me, and incomprehensible how anyone would do such a thing. > > cheers. Given the horrors and the mess left I can totally see your POV. Still for me, for tonight, Happiness will just have to found in reading the words here of good people while listening to the inauguration concert. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/47 "2021-01-21T01:47:36Z")
He’s going to continue to con people. He’s never going to stop that. It’s the only thing he’s good at. I don’t believe he will ever truly face any real consequences for what he’s done, and what he will continue to do until his last day on earth. But for now, I’m just relieved as hell that his finger is off “the button.” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/48 "2021-01-21T02:02:41Z")
I think the most obvious way he can possibly recover is to lay low for a few months and then come back on the air whenever Biden’s popularity dips or whenever something triggers white rage, like a terrorist attack or some crime committed by an undocumented immigrant. But at the moment there are no guarantees: his status with some of the nuttiest of the right wing nutters is in jeopardy now that QAnon seems to be essentially exposed as a fraud among the last of the believers. At the moment, he’s probably of no use to Putin or other pro-Russian oligarchs - they’ll try to find another stooge. Russia will generally be the subject of intense counter-intelligence efforts within the intel community, so it’s going to be harder for them to troll the way they’ve become used to. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/49 "2021-01-21T02:20:04Z")
> [@RyanAdam](#): > > Twitter as a private publisher has no obligation to publish you ( yeah yeah, not technically a publisher but let’s not dupe our selves with DotCom sophistry) > Thankfully also no obligation to publish the fat Orange cretin either The needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few or the one. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/50 "2021-01-21T02:20:45Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > He said Trump left a note and that it was “generous”. It was a C-note under a post-it that said “Please don’t throw me in jail” ---
**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:** [January 21, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/51 "2021-01-21T02:23:25Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > > He said Trump left a note and that it was “generous”. > > It was a C-note under a post-it that said “Please don’t throw me in jail” - Who the hell loaned Trump a C-note? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/52 "2021-01-21T02:31:24Z")
Well, this is a bit late, and I may have missed if anyone posted it already, but this is a fine ending to the reign of terror, even if it’s a day late: A parody of _One Day More_ from Les Miserables from James Corden and many Broadway stars - celebrating the end of having to ever hear about Don the Con again. It’s fantastic! (It actually brought tears of joy to my eyes) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/E4aTjeCP0Lo/hqdefault.jpg "'One Day More' of President Trump - Les Misérables parody") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4aTjeCP0Lo) ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/53 "2021-01-21T03:23:47Z")
I actually loved this. Thank you. Joe Biden, you are a better man than I am. You’ve said that if even one person talks back to a Breitbart jerk, a Hannity dupe, or crazed alt-right meth-beard, you’d fire them on the spot. I have to be honest here: this is why I could never work for you. James Corden you are magnificent… your POV is the right one of course. Its just that I’ve seen the evil that they’ve done. I’ve seen the faces of our honored dead. I’ve seen the families starved, the children caged, the money stolen, the bribes taken, the Pardons paid for, the laws changed to rape the lands and to make sure that the criminals all go free. Both Corden and Biden are better men than I am, because I just can’t let that all go. After four full years of being cheated, robbed and punched in the face and the gut at every turn, I just can’t let them go. Give Cap back his shield. I don’t know what I am; I just know that I can’t be That. There are too many crimes to just forgive. Prosecution before Unity. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/54 "2021-01-21T03:38:04Z")
There have been fireworks all evening in my neighborhood. I’m so proud… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/55 "2021-01-21T04:41:05Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > I was banned from Twitter for telling @realDonaldTrump to “Go Fuck Yourself, Donald!”. At least you truly lived up to your username. Well done! ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/56 "2021-01-21T04:47:41Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > At least you truly lived up to your username. Well done! There are more events between God and Sundry than can be told between sips of wine given even your massive Cellars, Horatio. I sure hope I can remember even 1/3 of them for a book some day. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/57 "2021-01-21T04:51:39Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > > [@Mikemike2](#): > > > > How big was his crowd at the airport? He was inviting people 5 at a time. > > It’s interesting to compare his lukewarm sendoff to the Capitol insurrection crowd. I would have thought that everyone that hasn’t been arrested yet would have shown up to see him off. I guess maybe they are not such diehard fans after all. (To clarify, the invitation said you could RSVP for up to 5 people.) If I correctly remember what I read, it was about 200 people. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/58 "2021-01-21T04:53:45Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > There are more events between God and Sundry than can be told between sips of wine given even your massive Cellars, Horatio Did you just call me a Drunken Whore? Eh, fair enough… ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/59 "2021-01-21T07:52:26Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > He’s going to continue to con people. He’s never going to stop that. It’s the only thing he’s good at. I don’t believe he will ever truly face any real consequences for what he’s done, and what he will continue to do until his last day on earth. I wonder where he will spend eternity conning, and who, and how? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972/60 "2021-01-21T08:10:05Z")
> [@Mikemike2](#): > > How big was his crowd at the airport? He was inviting people 5 at a time. > [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > If I correctly remember what I read, it was about 200 people. Cite or link? What I want to know also is, how heavily was the event covered by the media? - . . . by the “mainstream” media? - . . . by the right-wing media? Did anybody happen to research that, so I don’t have to? Did he get his 21-raspberry salute? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-has-just-left-the-white-house-for-good/930972.md?page=4)