# 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:** 169
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3362 "2018-02-26T20:14:47Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Trump is the fat loudmouth Monday morning quarterback, who spouts off uninformed “common sense” solutions to every problem, starting with the phrase “If I were president…” The problem of course is that he is. It’s consistent with the Republian response to any mass shooting, which is: throw any shit at the wall and hope something sticks that doesn’t involve guns. It’s a mental health issue! It’s cowardice in the sheriff’s department! We need to arm teachers! Any solution will do as long as it doesn’t piss off the NRA. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3363 "2018-02-26T20:40:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > [Trump On Shooting Response: ‘I Really Believe I’d Run In There’ Even Without Gun - TPM – Talking Points Memo](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-shooting-response-believe-id-run-in-there) > [@](#): > > “But I think, I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon and I think most of the people in this room would’ve done that too because I know most of you.” Liked to have seen the expressions on the reporters’ faces. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3364 "2018-02-26T21:05:21Z")
It weirds me out how he keeps saying teachers love their students. They…do? :dubious: ---
**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:** [February 26, 2018, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3365 "2018-02-26T22:01:43Z")
More than he loves his country, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3366 "2018-02-26T22:12:57Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > It weirds me out how he keeps saying teachers love their students. They…do? :dubious: Teachers get arrested for it fairly often.😛 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3367 "2018-02-26T22:31:18Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > [Yeah, he definitely would have run in there to confront the shooters.](https://i.redd.it/5r1i3zg5e51z.gif) The bald eagle the symbol of our country, a figure we use to represent freedom, power and strength, HATED him. If that was not an omen of things to come, I don’t know WHAT is. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3368 "2018-02-26T22:32:57Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Liked to have seen the expressions on the reporters’ faces. Trump, about seeing blood: “I’m not good for medical. In other words, if you cut your finger and there’s blood pouring out, **I’m gone** ,” — Donald Trump ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3369 "2018-02-26T23:18:24Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > It weirds me out how he keeps saying teachers love their students. They…do? :dubious: I have a lot of teachers in the family. Yes, they do. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3370 "2018-02-26T23:18:50Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > It weirds me out how he keeps saying teachers love their students. They…do? :dubious: Of course it’s creepy. But it’s also typical of the American cultural tradition that says, quite firmly, that teachers are expected to be selfless martyrs. Because, make no mistake: this ‘arm the teachers’ idea is dependent on the idea that each and every teacher will willingly DIE in order to make sure that Amurrica can go on giving mentally-ill teenagers access to assault weapons. It doesn’t matter if the teacher in question has children of his or her own at home–he or she WILL die to keep the gun manufacturers’ profit margins up, up, up. Because teachers LOVE their students. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3371 "2018-02-26T23:47:22Z")
It’s precisely because I know that teachers (for the most part, of course) love their students that makes this proposal so loathsome. “You love your kids, right? Great: strap this on. Their safety is now in your hands.” (problem solved!) Every teacher I know feels that this idea is, to quote David Brooks’ pithy response, demented. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3372 "2018-02-27T00:39:27Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > From our good friends at _Talking Points Memo_… > Comment would be superfluous. > > [Trump On Shooting Response: ‘I Really Believe I’d Run In There’ Even Without Gun - TPM – Talking Points Memo](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-shooting-response-believe-id-run-in-there) Borowitz Report weighs in: [Trump orders parade to celebrate his hypothetical act of heroism in Florida school](https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-orders-parade-to-celebrate-his-hypothetical-act-of-heroism-in-florida-school). ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3373 "2018-02-27T04:24:18Z")
Please Mr. President, leave the Secret Service behind and go confront an armed maniac with your bare hands. I’m begging you to go do that, for the good of the country. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3374 "2018-02-27T05:04:57Z")
What’s sad and a little frightening is I honestly believe that Trump really believes he would have done that. He’s a master at retconning his life. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3375 "2018-02-27T05:15:56Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > None so blind as those who will not see. I read this sentence as code for **Clothahump**. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2018, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3376 "2018-02-27T05:17:50Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Please Mr. President, leave the Secret Service behind and go confront an armed maniac with your bare hands. I’m begging you to go do that, for the good of the country. :rolleyes: I’ll be glad to have the White House on speed-dial the next time we have one around here. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3377 "2018-02-27T13:04:33Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > What’s sad and a little frightening is I honestly believe that Trump really believes he would have done that. He’s a master at retconning his life. He’s a master at lying–including to himself. Well, everybody has to be good at something. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3378 "2018-02-27T14:00:28Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Of course Ivanka has been nominated as an ambassador and the Senate has given its advice and consent to her appointment, right? > > Right? As I was saying: [https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/ivanka-trump-south-korea-white-house-tension/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/ivanka-trump-south-korea-white-house-tension/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3379 "2018-02-27T14:08:11Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > What’s sad and a little frightening is I honestly believe that Trump really believes he would have done that. He’s a master at retconning his life. That pathetic draft dodging bone spurs coward? I on’t think it could/would ever happen, in any universe or multiverse. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3380 "2018-02-27T14:37:21Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > The bald eagle the symbol of our country, a figure we use to represent freedom, power and strength, HATED him. “The last time I saw one act this way was at the bar.” “What was in the bar?” “Russians…” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/3381 "2018-02-27T14:48:47Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > What’s sad and a little frightening is I honestly believe that Trump really believes he would have done that. He’s a master at retconning his life. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He’s a master at lying–including to himself. Well, everybody has to be good at something. > [@SteveG1](#): > > That pathetic draft dodging bone spurs coward? I on’t think it could/would ever happen, in any universe or multiverse. To give Trump the benefit of the doubt (something I seldom have to do given his noxious behavior), I think most of us believe we (as individuals) could/would have done _something_ if given the chance to (potentially) save lives, especially of children. If not in this instance, at least in some hypothetical place (call it the Walter Mitty effect, if you will). If he had said something like “like everyone, I wish that I could have done something to prevent this tragic event”, he might have been called on it, but it wouldn’t have seemed dumb, just political. Difference is Trump is President, so he needs to be the grownup in the room (HA!) and monitor what he says (and again, HA!). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=168) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=170)