# EU referendum: with respect, Mr Trump, fuck off. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 3, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413 "2016-06-03T19:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/1 "2016-06-03T19:33:05Z")
Donald Trump is now going to visit the UK the day before the EU Referendum. Mr Trump, it’s OUR vote, not yours. Please respect us enough to let us get on with it. President Obama’s comments were ill-received to say the least; yours… Ahem. The less said the better. You’re free to speak, but you don’t get a vote, and co-opting us into the American election is out of order; we’re not part of the US - you fought a war over that, remember? Please just fuck right off and have the courage to respect our decision, whichever it may be. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/2 "2016-06-03T19:39:29Z")
Well you have to admit, it’s pretty brave of him to be visiting an Islamic state. ---
**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 3, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/3 "2016-06-03T19:39:30Z")
Didn’t he say he didn’t know what Brexit was just the other day? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/4 "2016-06-03T19:43:13Z")
You really should be politer to your future Overlord. 😉 ---
**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 3, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/5 "2016-06-03T19:45:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Didn’t he say he didn’t know what Brexit was just the other day? Since when did that ever stop him? Ignorance is strength. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/6 "2016-06-03T19:47:33Z")
Is there an itinerary yet? I so want to do that hair/balloon thing they did in Scotland. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/7 "2016-06-03T20:07:58Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Is there an itinerary yet? I so want to do that hair/balloon thing they did in Scotland. He’s going to open the refurbished Turnberry hotel/course/whatever in Ayrshire, so there might be a replay of the earlier electrostatic hijinks documented here: > **[Meet The Scottish Man Who Rubbed A Big Balloon On Donald Trump's Head](https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/the-ballooning-of-donald-trump?utm_term=.fovvZYPbYE#.lgzXqop2ov)** > > "I think Scotland has had a wee bit more time to become accustomed to what a bawbag Trump is. I'm glad the rest of the world is catching up now." > [@](#): > > I think Scotland has had a wee bit more time to become accustomed to what a bawbag Trump is. I’m glad the rest of the world is catching up now. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/8 "2016-06-03T20:26:43Z")
I don’t see how this affects the EU referendum, or constitutes “co-opting us into the American election.” Who exactly is going to change their mind because of Donald Trump? It seems to me that there are two main groups of British opinion re Trump: 90%: Have heard the name but don’t really know who he is: 10%: Think he’s a buffoon. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/9 "2016-06-03T20:31:17Z")
A bawbag! That is exactly what Donald is! I commend Scotland for their many excellent contributions to the Queen’s English! ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/10 "2016-06-03T20:56:16Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > 10%: Think he’s a buffoon. Oh its a lot higher than 10%. Consider this, tonight in a Sky News televised debate it was an accepted shorthand to ridicule Micheal Gove’s sides position by linking it to Trump. It didn’t even need explanation, everybody there and everybody listening immediately accepted that the comparison was an easy way of ridiculing Gove’s rhetoric. I agree that nobody in the UK cares what Trump thinks about the EU, but plenty of people know who he is and far more than 10% think he is an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/11 "2016-06-03T20:58:42Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Donald Trump is now going to visit the UK the day before the EU Referendum. Mr Trump, it’s OUR vote, not yours. Please respect us enough to let us get on with it. President Obama’s comments were ill-received to say the least; yours… Ahem. The less said the better. > > You’re free to speak, but you don’t get a vote, and co-opting us into the American election is out of order; we’re not part of the US - you fought a war over that, remember? Please just fuck right off and have the courage to respect our decision, whichever it may be. Your British Prime Minister and the Mayor of London have already chosen to comment on the U.S. election. Maybe Trump would like to return the favor? OTOH, maybe those two should please respect us enough to let us get on with it? The EU doesn’t appear to be doing to well. The United States of Europe it ain’t. Maybe Britain would do better on it’s own? Maybe Scotland would do better on it’s own? Trump is visiting one of his properties in Scotland. Your media outlets may chose to take advantage of this opportunity to badger Trump with questions about your political and economic issues? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/12 "2016-06-03T21:06:27Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > You really should be politer to your future Overlord. > 😉 They had a chance to ban him, and they passed on it. Now he can go to Britain any time and say and do anything he wants. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/13 "2016-06-03T21:19:09Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > They had a chance to ban him, and they passed on it. Eh? That petition thing? Meaningless. > [@](#): > > Now he can go to Britain any time and say and do anything he wants. Nope, no foreign national can do this. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/14 "2016-06-03T21:44:47Z")
Hey, any chance you guys could keep him? I mean, I’ve been through Heathrow a bunch of times, and it seems like there is a good opportunity to get him lost in there somewhere. One of the long passageways through customs, a detour sign pointing out a seldom used door, botaboom - batabing, he goes missing till, oh, lets say late November. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/15 "2016-06-04T01:54:24Z")
I’m not seeing a debate. I’m thinking BBQ Pit. Go wild, my Euro cousins. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/16 "2016-06-04T02:06:34Z")
Britain, you sent us the comically womanizing buffoon with bad hair Benny Hill. Your move. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/17 "2016-06-04T02:34:32Z")
Trump and respecting others are two things that don’t go together. He’s going because he thinks it makes him seem presidential–in this case putting America’s thumb everywhere. That’s what his people want. He doesn’t give a shit about anything else. That said, the Brexit affects the entire world. It’s just that Trump is not the person to try and explain that. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/18 "2016-06-04T12:43:13Z")
Everyone has the right to express anything on their tiny minds. Full stop. It may not be wise, and it may not be considerate; but whatever I think of either, both the past and future presidents of America can tell Britain or any other country their views. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/19 "2016-06-04T16:20:11Z")
I say that, once he boards his flight, we should enact a temporary ban on Donald Trump entering the United States. You know, just until we figure out what is going on. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413/20 "2016-06-04T17:41:39Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Donald Trump is now going to visit the UK the day before the EU Referendum. Mr Trump, it’s OUR vote, not yours. Then maybe your PM should STFU about the US presidential election because it’s OUR vote not yours. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-referendum-with-respect-mr-trump-fuck-off/756413.md?page=2)