# 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:** 209
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4165 "2018-07-18T04:18:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > One word! He only got _one word_ wrong in the press conference with his KGBFF, and of course that makes all the difference. Color me relieved: [https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/politics/white-house-mood-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-news-conference/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/politics/white-house-mood-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-news-conference/index.html) Erin Burnett has a nice bit on this. The general theme is “you gotta be kidding me – we’re not that stupid”. Listening to the message he’s clearly and almost desperately trying to convey at the original presser, “…not the Russians … not the Russians” – trying like a young puppy to please his master who stands at the other podium looking both bored and a little amused – the alleged word substitution makes absolutely no sense and has zero credibility to anyone with even half a brain. So it will definitely convince the entire Trump base, but no one else. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4166 "2018-07-18T06:47:11Z")
How can anyone who saw the original video believe that everything’s okay now because oh, gosh, he just misspoke one word? What about later, when he stated that he asked Putin if he did it, said Putin ‘extremely strongly and powerfully’ denied it, and then said he believed Putin. Where in his ‘clarification’ does he address this bit of undeniably taking Russia’s side over his own country? [Karate Kid II] “Act of coward.” [/Karate Kid II] ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4167 "2018-07-18T07:01:32Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > This is the guy who didn’t know that England and the U.K. were 2 different things. I think we can rule out 3-D chess. I think we can rule out 2D checkers. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4168 "2018-07-18T07:12:43Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > How can anyone who saw the original video believe that everything’s okay now because oh, gosh, he just misspoke one word? They really, really want to believe it. And/or they’re just impossibly stupid. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4169 "2018-07-18T07:22:05Z")
Pretty much same. Smart people just have more complex rationalizations for believing what they want to. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4170 "2018-07-18T12:38:58Z")
Tweet today: “Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!” hahaha! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4171 "2018-07-18T12:50:31Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Tweet today: “Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!” > > hahaha! This is funny? Odd. I personally don’t give a flying fuck if he gets along with Putin. I hope they had the best gay sex that is possible and also hope that one gave the other some nasty disease. What I DO care about is that he approves of a hostile act by a hostile power, refuses to enforce sanctions against them, approves of their takeover of Crimea, and says nothing about their use of nerve gas in the UK. The election hacking was an act of war by Russia and Dumb Donald has given them permission to do it again. This moron makes Neville Chamberlain look like he had balls of steel. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4172 "2018-07-18T12:53:05Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Tweet today: “Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!” > > hahaha! There are far too many contenders for TDS, but this isn’t one of them. Oh, what fun - now he’s lying about the Queen, too: [https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/uk/trump-queen-honor-guard-intl/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/uk/trump-queen-honor-guard-intl/index.html) ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4173 "2018-07-18T13:14:39Z")
Trump is purely motivated by his own self-aggrandizement. He refuses to listen to his aides because he doesn’t like to be told what to do. His motivation is chiefly to make himself look good, and as far as he’s concerned, he should be famous for hanging out with famous people. Doesn’t matter what they’ve done. They’re famous, and every famous person has haters. He only cares about photo ops. Words are too complicated, which is why Twitter is an invention of Satan, because its 140/280 character limit fits right into Trump’s linguistic limitations. He can fit in “witch hunt” “no collusion” and “fake news” and have plenty of room left over to express his genius. His followers don’t need to understand any more than the 280 character limit, and they’re happy with that. Too many words are the media’s attempts to confuse them. They see photos of him shaking hands with Putin, a living James Bond villain, and think “he looks nice.” They see him putting his hand on Kim-Jong Un’s shoulder and think, “Aw, he’s helping a poor fat Chingaling.” Then they go back to their Russian-fed Facebook feeds and look for Crooked Hilary’s child sex hideouts. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4174 "2018-07-18T13:15:23Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > I think we can rule out 2D checkers. Eeek! That’s called _damas_ in Spanish (ladies). I’m sure the ladies in question don’t want Trump grabbing them anywhere. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4175 "2018-07-18T14:30:29Z")
So I’m reading today that Trump went on Tucker Carlson’s show last night, and Carlson came up with a hypothetical about why the US should defend, say, Montenegro if they were attacked. Montenegro is a member of NATO, and their troops are in Afghanistan fighting alongside US troops. Trump said he understood Carlson’s concerns and wasn’t sure it would be worth risking WWIII to defend Montenegro, which again, **is a goddamned NATO member and is fighting alongside us in Afghanistan!** Trump reasoned that Montenegro is a tiny country and its people are “very aggressive”. So he worked in some ethnic stereotyping along with his undermining of the most significant alliance probably in the history of the world. Make it stop! ETA: lots of stories about it. Here’s one: [Trump calls out 'very aggressive' Montenegro in latest NATO jibe](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-calls-out-very-aggressive-montenegro-latest-nato-jibe-n892311) ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4176 "2018-07-18T14:32:24Z")
Of course they’re aggressive…the country has ‘negro’ right there in the name. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4177 "2018-07-18T14:37:54Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Of course they’re aggressive…the country has ‘negro’ right there in the name. He probably heard that as “mount a negro” and that fogged what little mind he has. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4178 "2018-07-18T14:44:10Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > So I’m reading today that Trump went on Tucker Carlson’s show last night, and Carlson came up with a hypothetical about why the US should defend, say, Montenegro if they were attacked. Montenegro is a member of NATO, and their troops are in Afghanistan fighting alongside US troops. Trump said he understood Carlson’s concerns and wasn’t sure it would be worth risking WWIII to defend Montenegro, which again, **is a goddamned NATO member and is fighting alongside us in Afghanistan!** Trump reasoned that Montenegro is a tiny country and its people are “very aggressive”. So he worked in some ethnic stereotyping along with his undermining of the most significant alliance probably in the history of the world. > > Make it stop! > > ETA: lots of stories about it. Here’s one: [Trump calls out 'very aggressive' Montenegro in latest NATO jibe](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-calls-out-very-aggressive-montenegro-latest-nato-jibe-n892311) Yeah, Montenegro is so aggressive that their Prime Minister, [when roughly shoved aside by Trump at a previous NATO summit](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/05/26/trumps-shove-was-inoffensive-montenegro-prime-minister-says/102184518/), shrugged it off as an “inoffensive situation”. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4179 "2018-07-18T15:25:05Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > How can anyone who saw the original video believe that everything’s okay now because oh, gosh, he just misspoke one word? What about later, when he stated that he asked Putin if he did it, said Putin ‘extremely strongly and powerfully’ denied it, and then said he believed Putin. Where in his ‘clarification’ does he address this bit of undeniably taking Russia’s side over his own country? > > [Karate Kid II] > > “Act of coward.” > > [/Karate Kid II] If it’s good enough for the GOP leadership, well, the Trump fans should have no problem with it. > **[GOP Senators: Trump’s Obvious Russia Lie Is Good Enough for Us](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/gop-senators-trumps-obvious-russia-lie-good-enough-for-us.html)** > > Congress is getting back to business as usual one day after the president’s national embarrassment. > [@Marco Rubio](#): > > “I’m just glad he clarified it. I can’t read his intentions or what he meant to say at the time. suffice it to say that for me as a policy maker, what really matters is what we do moving forward.” This is the go-to answer from him about anything Trump does. “I can’t be bothered with what he does, I’m busy making policy”. If he dares to run for President again, all those quotes should be in every ad about him. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4180 "2018-07-18T17:56:23Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > One word! He only got _one word_ wrong in the press conference with his KGBFF, and of course that makes all the difference. Color me relieved: [https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/politics/white-house-mood-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-news-conference/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/politics/white-house-mood-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-news-conference/index.html) You should be locked up for implying that the Dear Leader made such a mistake! (He only admitted to getting a _fraction_ of a word wrong!) ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4181 "2018-07-18T19:21:18Z")
Trump calls former CIA director John Brennan "a very bad guy " > **[Trump calls Brennan a ‘very bad guy’ after treason comments](https://nypost.com/2018/07/17/trump-calls-brennan-a-very-bad-guy-after-treason-comments/)** > > WASHINGTON — President Trump hit back at former CIA Director John Brennan, who had called the president’s performance at Monday’s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin “nothing sho… ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4182 "2018-07-18T21:02:32Z")
“A lot of things.” That’s his new nickname, for me. Donnie LottaThings. “Many things happened, if you look a lot of things happened. If you look at Hillary, and Comey, and McCabe, and Strzok, and Rosentstein, and Gildenstern, and a lot a lot of things.” He just fills the air with words. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4183 "2018-07-18T21:15:36Z")
You’re not _looking_! Gotta _look_ at the lot of things! Then you’ll see, there’s a _lot_ of them! ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4184 "2018-07-19T05:48:16Z")
[Turns out Trump wasn’t joking when he called the offer to allow interrogation of 12 Russian officials in exchange for them interrogating 11 Americans an, “incredible offer.”](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-entertaining-russian-proposal-to-interrogate-u-s-citizens/) :eek: :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=208) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=210)