# 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:** 248
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4945 "2018-11-13T05:20:51Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Ballots infected? Did he touch them? I wouldn’t want him to touch my ballots, who knows what pussy those hands have been in… > > Also, this once more shows that he’s shooting at random: doesn’t the military skew Republican? Those votes are likely to favor his guys! Everything President Chump touches becomes infected. He’s like the opposite of King Midas, turning everything into shit instead of gold. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4946 "2018-11-13T16:17:05Z")
[\*\*Trump Tweets Incoherent Warning to Macron, Suggests Germany Could Invade France Again \*\*](https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/trump-tweets-bizarre-warning-against-a-european-army-1.6652471) > [@](#): > > \*While the text of the tweet is cryptic, Trump appeared to be warning that Germany may invade France again without NATO and U.S. protection \* > > U.S. President Donald Trump issued a bizarre warning Tuesday about French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal for Europe to create its own army. > > Trump tweeted, “Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two - How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!” > > ``` > The problem is that Emmanuel suffers from a very low Approval Rating in France, 26%, and an unemployment rate of almost 10%. He was just trying to get onto another subject. By the way, there is no country more Nationalist than France, very proud people-and rightfully so!........ > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2018 > > ``` > > While the text of the tweet is cryptic, Trump appeared to be warning that Germany may invade France again without NATO and U.S. protection. Trump followed his initial tweet with four more, including “MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN,” and an apparent rebuke of Macron’s recent attack on nationalism. > … Thump continues to astound and amaze. Not in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4947 "2018-11-13T16:44:12Z")
I am sure my coworkers would be trés surprised to learn that la belle France needs to be made great again. They’re reasonably sure it is quite great thank you, despite the occasional blemish (those are, after all, temporary). ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4948 "2018-11-13T16:54:43Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Also, this once more shows that he’s shooting at random: doesn’t the military skew Republican? Those votes are likely to favor his guys! I don’t doubt there is a higher percentage conservatives in the military than in the general populace, but it’s hardly all, especially among officers who tend to be better educated. Who has more experience with communal effort and working as a team? Besides, they tend to be big on duty and honor, which doesn’t describe Republicans at all any more. Remember how pissed they got at Ollie North when he tried to use his Marine card during Iran-Contra? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4949 "2018-11-13T17:14:08Z")
Trump is now blaming the Secret Service for his non-appearance at this week’s memorial service. He says they wouldn’t let him go to the cemetery. Which he misspelled cemetary. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4950 "2018-11-13T18:48:57Z")
Gee, isn’t the Secret Service responsible for keeping Trump safe from assassins, violent protests, and general unpleasantness? One would think that he shouldn’t piss them off. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4951 "2018-11-13T19:11:45Z")
They’re liable to let a fella walk around with toilet paper stuck to his shoe! ---
**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:** [November 13, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4952 "2018-11-13T21:57:10Z")
Today Trump tweeted: > [@](#): > > Today, we gathered for Diwali, a holiday observed by Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains throughout the United States & around the world. Hundreds of millions of people have gathered with family & friends to light the Diya and to mark the beginning of a New Year. Hmmm. Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains. I think he’s missing someone there. Not sure. It’s on the tip of my tongue… Anyway, apropos of nothing, when I celebrated Diwali this past weekend, it was mighty nice of the local Hindu temple to let all us Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains use their excellent facilities. (I’m actually a white, former-Catholic, atheist, but my wife is an Indian Hindu. The Diwali celebration at the local temple is great. The fireworks are _nuts_. Get a whole bunch of people in close quarters in a parking lot at night and start setting off a few thousand pounds of sparklers and fountains…) ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4953 "2018-11-13T22:27:47Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Hmmm. Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains. I think he’s missing someone there. Not sure. It’s on the tip of my tongue… What’s worse… there’s no way that POTUS typed that himself, and the staffer who did, who is apparently able to generally string words together so that they can be read by humans, still managed to screw this up. (Yes, I have higher expectations of anonymous WH staffers than himself.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4954 "2018-11-14T07:30:45Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Gee, isn’t the Secret Service responsible for keeping Trump safe from assassins, violent protests, and general unpleasantness? > > One would think that he shouldn’t piss them off. Trump probably figures having the Secret Service take the blame for his bad decisions is part of their mission. It’s the metaphorical equivalent of taking a bullet for him. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4955 "2018-11-14T07:59:03Z")
If Trump actually attended any sort of Diwali celebration I’ll eat my socks. He probably thinks chicken tandoori is a cowardly eye-talian. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4956 "2018-11-14T12:02:31Z")
Caravan? What caravan? I don’t see any caravan. Do you see a caravan? [**A Week After the Midterms, Trump Seems to Forget the Caravan**](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/politics/trump-caravan-midterms.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — For weeks before the midterm elections, President Trump warned ominously about the threat from a caravan of migrants streaming from Central America toward Mexico’s border with the United States. It was a fearsome mix of criminals and “unknown Middle Easterners,” Mr. Trump claimed darkly, one that constituted a genuine national emergency. > > But since the election last week, Mr. Trump has tweeted about the caravan exactly once — to issue a proclamation preventing those who cross the border illegally from applying for asylum in the United States. Fox News, which faithfully amplified Mr. Trump’s warnings about the migrants, has gone similarly quiet on the subject. > > There was little dispute, even before Election Day, that Mr. Trump was exploiting the caravan for political purposes. But analysts, historians and veterans of previous administrations said there were few comparable instances of a commander in chief warning about what he called a looming threat, only to drop it as soon as people voted. > > While the caravan has faded from television screens, the costs of Mr. Trump’s response to it have not. Nearly 6,000 active-duty troops remain deployed from the Gulf Coast to Southern California, where they are putting up tents and stringing concertina wire to face a ragtag band that is still not near the border. > > “Now that the political utility of troops on the southern border to face a fictitious caravan invasion threat is over,” said Adm. James G. Stavridis, a former commander of the military’s Southern Command, “let’s hope the president will stand down the troops so they can be with their families — especially over the holidays.” > … Ha! Not fucking likely! Given the cranky-two-year-old mood he’s in, he’ll probably leave them there permanently. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4957 "2018-11-14T20:19:02Z")
“If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID.” [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416716-trump-calls-for-snipes-to-be-fired-shes-a-disaster](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416716-trump-calls-for-snipes-to-be-fired-shes-a-disaster)? ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4958 "2018-11-14T20:46:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID.” > [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416716-trump-calls-for-snipes-to-be-fired-shes-a-disaster](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416716-trump-calls-for-snipes-to-be-fired-shes-a-disaster)? Sudafed flakes? ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4959 "2018-11-14T20:48:21Z")
I know those are all English words, but what the fuck does it mean? ETA: Now that I think about - need answer fast … I just got home from the grocery store with a box of Cheerios in tow. Am I a Senator for Florida now or something? ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4960 "2018-11-14T21:24:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID.” > [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416716-trump-calls-for-snipes-to-be-fired-shes-a-disaster](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416716-trump-calls-for-snipes-to-be-fired-shes-a-disaster)? > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I know those are all English words, but what the fuck does it mean? > ETA: > Now that I think about - need answer fast … I just got home from the grocery store with a box of Cheerios in tow. Am I a Senator for Florida now or something? IIRC, in a previous rant, Trump said something to the effect that you have to have ID to purchase goods, even including cereal, but you don’t have to have ID to vote. (This is, of course, wrong on many levels, but I’ll put that aside for the moment.) I presume his defective brain compressed that into “If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID”. I predict this will be further compressed into “cereal - ID” at some point, and ultimately to a two-syllable word like “cerid”, which he will repeat as a mantra while he holds the door closed against the FBI agents who come to haul him out of the Oval Office. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4961 "2018-11-14T21:28:54Z")
Maybe there are different rules at the supermarket nearest to Mar-A-Lago - probably after he bounced his third check there. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4962 "2018-11-14T21:40:27Z")
From the same interview, he opines on the master criminals who vote multiple times: “Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again.” No word on whether they bother to put on a fake mustache or glasses. I mean, just stepping back and realizing what a ridiculously stupid crime this is. Voter fraud like this is all risk and no reward. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4963 "2018-11-14T21:50:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID.” > [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416716-trump-calls-for-snipes-to-be-fired-shes-a-disaster](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416716-trump-calls-for-snipes-to-be-fired-shes-a-disaster)? Well maybe if your [Russel Wilson.](https://www.wheaties.com/) ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/4964 "2018-11-14T22:15:21Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > … > “Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again.” > … Trump is one of the dumbest motherfuckers ever to step up to a microphone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=247) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=249)