# How has Former President Trump pissed you off today? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640 "2017-01-20T17:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 104
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2061 "2017-10-11T12:55:12Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Agreed. But here is something I don’t understand. Over the last year, I have met (sadly, in person) a few people from countries with functioning social welfare networks, no pretense at not being a unitary state, less injustice for its minorities, better education system and policies, and less isolationist than the US. Yet these people I’ve met are full-on Trump supporters. Are they blind? Is there some reason they hate their own country and present that hatred as love for America’s buffoon? Are they white people? ---
**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:** [October 11, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2062 "2017-10-11T14:03:11Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Are they white people? Almost every one of them is White. One is a Chinese immigrant from Singapore. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2063 "2017-10-11T14:06:29Z")
Trump’s approval rating has now dropped in every. Single. State: > **[Poll: Trump's approval rating drops in every state](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/10/poll-trumps-approval-rating-drops-in-every-state/23239078/)** > > Trump has been suffering from low approval ratings for some time, and a new poll reveals the dwindling enthusiasm has spread across all 50 states. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2064 "2017-10-11T14:27:33Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Almost every one of them is White. One is a Chinese immigrant from Singapore. Well, there you have it. When I travel overseas, every single old white guy from Europe that I meet bitches about their country and states how great Trump is. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2065 "2017-10-11T14:57:57Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Well, there you have it. > > When I travel overseas, every single old white guy from Europe that I meet bitches about their country and states how great Trump is. Bizarre. I was in Europe this summer and saw absolutely zero admiration for Trump or for Americans’ electing him. I must have managed to avoid the neo-Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2066 "2017-10-11T15:09:17Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Bizarre. I was in Europe this summer and saw absolutely zero admiration for Trump or for Americans’ electing him. I must have managed to avoid the neo-Nazis. That has also been my experience. And I am not merely a tourist. I am brown, so maybe racists just steer clear of me. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2067 "2017-10-11T15:18:25Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > That has also been my experience. And I am not merely a tourist. > > I am brown, so maybe racists just steer clear of me. Be weird for someone to say they hate brown people to a brown person 🙂 I’m white, so maybe I just look racist. I also get the same thing in Southern Maryland, so who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2068 "2017-10-11T15:27:46Z")
I posted this in the Trump Administration Clusterfuck thread, but thought it deserved to be here too: [From the President of the United States of America](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/918110279367643137): > [@Donald Trump](#): > > Fake @NBCNews made up a story that I wanted a “tenfold” increase in our U.S. nuclear arsenal. Pure fiction, made up to demean. NBC = CNN! [and](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/918112884630093825) > [@Donald Trump](#): > > With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country! So now he’s actively threatening the media. Great. :rolleyes: And the best part is, his threat reveals that he doesn’t actually understand how the FCC works. [Cite](https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/11/trump-reportedly-wanted-nearly-10-times-more-nuclear-weapons.html): > [@](#): > > Trump is apparently referencing the licenses granted to individual television stations by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC does not license news organizations or television networks. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2069 "2017-10-11T15:39:48Z")
When has ignorance ever stopped him from tweeting before? ---
**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:** [October 11, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2070 "2017-10-11T15:44:31Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Be weird for someone to say they hate brown people to a brown person 🙂 Before Trump entered politics, it would have been weird. Now, though, I’m seeing Whites tell minorities that there is no such thing as White privilege, and the minorities got where they are only because of affirmative action. Yeah, those Whites don’t see the contradiction in their stance. > [@](#): > > I’m white, so maybe I just look racist. I also get the same thing in Southern Maryland, so who knows. Maybe those dumbfucks believe “real Whites” are bigoted. Congratulations to you and me, I guess. They consider our Whiteness real. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2071 "2017-10-11T16:22:15Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Be weird for someone to say they hate brown people to a brown person 🙂 Oh sweet summer child… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2072 "2017-10-11T16:33:43Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > When I travel overseas, every single old white guy from Europe that I meet bitches about their country and states how great Trump is. Next time don’t go backpacking with Nigel Farage. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2073 "2017-10-11T16:42:52Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Bizarre. I was in Europe this summer and saw absolutely zero admiration for Trump or for Americans’ electing him. I must have managed to avoid the neo-Nazis. Me too. In any political discussion, the unanimous viewpoint from Europeans and Aussies was: what the hell were you guys thinking?? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2074 "2017-10-11T19:31:45Z")
Trump has threatened to challenge NBC`s broadcasting license after they reported Trump wants to increase the nation’s nuclear arsenal ten-fold and that SoS Rex Tillerson reportedly called him a moron. > [@](#): > > “It is frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it,” the US president said. > **[Trump threatens broadcaster NBC after nuclear report](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41584194)** > > The president takes aim at NBC after it reported he wanted a tenfold increase in atomic weapons. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2075 "2017-10-11T20:28:12Z")
He probably doesn’t have the authority to pull a license, but he could work his hand-picked refs to call some ticky-tac fouls and fine the shit out of them if they broadcast indecency or anything of the sort. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2076 "2017-10-11T20:35:13Z")
He never had a problem with Faux news, what the fuck? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2077 "2017-10-12T13:51:18Z")
This morning, Trump tweeted more criticism of Puerto Rico, including: > [@The Fucking President of the Fucking United States](#): > > We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever! Yeah, you tell those lazy Puerto Ricans that they have to pull themselves up by their own very soggy bootstraps! Chuck Schumer responded: > [@An Actual Adult in the Senate](#): > > FEMA needs to stay until the job is done and right now, it’s not even close to done. Why do you continue to treat Puerto Ricans differently than other Americans when it comes to natural disasters? I believe that’s what’s called a rhetorical question. > **[Trump: We Cannot Help Puerto Rico ‘Forever!’](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-cant-help-puerto-rico-forever)** > > President Donald Trump continued his relentless criticism of Puerto Rico Thursday morning, suggesting the U.S. couldn't aid in recovery and relief efforts in the U.S. territory "forever!" ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2078 "2017-10-12T14:00:06Z")
Even if we don’t reneg on the Iran deal, huge damage has already been done. The US’s word is now worth shit in the world. Why would anyone ever make a deal with us? And this fuckwad “wrote” a book called _Art of the Deal?_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2079 "2017-10-12T14:37:08Z")
_His_ deals are the best. Anyone else’s are sad! ---
**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:** [October 12, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/2080 "2017-10-12T16:30:37Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > This morning, Trump tweeted more criticism of Puerto Rico, including: > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by The Fucking President of the Fucking United States > > We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever! > > Yeah, you tell those lazy Puerto Ricans that they have to pull themselves up by their own very soggy bootstraps! > > … I just heard this on NPR driving home. Holy. Fuck. This supports the idea that he one day plans to buy the whole island, bulldoze everything, and turn it into TrumpLand. Does FOX News report stuff like this? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=105)