# 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:** 25
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/481 "2017-02-18T17:16:03Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Shit For Brains calls the news media [‘the enemy of the American People’](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/17/trump-calls-the-media-the-enemy-of-the-american-people/?utm_term=.620f7000396e). This is an interesting choice of words, but I doubt if Trump knows the significance. [An Enemy of the People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People) is a famous 1883 Ibsen play, adapted by Arthur Miller in the 1950’s, that has been made into a movie more than once. Simply put, in a small town, some well-meaning residents, backed by a newspaper publisher, set out to improve living conditions, but are taken the wrong way and everything gradually backfires. It’s a study in psychology and sophism. IMHO, Steve McQueen made the best version of the movie, now available on YouTube for a fee. Watch it if you can; it has never been more relevant than now. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/482 "2017-02-18T17:32:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Some of those questions are unparseable. I had to answer No Opinion on like three or four of them. Hmmm… I think I might have to build a bot to answer the poll repeatedly. Darn shame there’s no bot protection on the poll. Darn darn shame. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/483 "2017-02-18T18:04:09Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Hmmm… I think I might have to build a bot to answer the poll repeatedly. > > Darn shame there’s no bot protection on the poll. > > Darn darn shame. Oh God yes please do this oh please oh please oh please. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/484 "2017-02-18T18:08:07Z")
“The press is the enemy, the establishment is the enemy, the professors are the enemy” - Nixon, December 1972 Trump blasted out this tweet, and then deleted it: The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews and many more) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people, SICK!" - Trump 17 February 2017 and replaced it with… “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” - Trump 17 February 2017 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/485 "2017-02-18T18:11:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Some of those questions are unparseable. I had to answer No Opinion on like three or four of them. When I hit ‘vote’ it sent me to a 404 error page. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/486 "2017-02-18T18:13:29Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > When I hit ‘vote’ it sent me to a 404 error page. :dubious: I guess it didn’t like your answers? 😃 ---
**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 18, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/487 "2017-02-18T19:54:13Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Personally, I can’t wait for the bill that mandates coal-burning cars. That’s gonna be awesome. aw cmon lil coal-rollin buddy - here - ride shotgun! (almost [nine fucking minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wfzUAF2X5s) of this) > [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Sometimes… > Sometimes I wonder. > I wonder if this is the country my parents gave me life in. > I wonder if is the same country I was raised in… to know… to Honor & to Respect. > I wonder if its my fault, being just 1 of 325 million, that we went so very far off track. > > But… I’m not blind… and even I can see on the ground the rope all of my forefathers pulled to try to keep us on course. > > Its not all that hard to pick it up. > Its not all that hard to throw it over my shoulder. > Its not even all that hard to pull on it with all the strenth that I have. > > Whats hard… is to Keep pulling. Today. All day. > Tomorrow. All day. > Everyday after that. Everyday… Other than the hints of self-doubt at the end - very well-stated. This Canuck used to be politically lazy (at least no activist of any sort, anyway) but manoman if I was a Yank I’d be front and centre with _any_ kind of grassroots activity, pamphleting, etc., trying to engage folks who voted Trump (avoiding, of course, knuckle-dragging alt-right trogs - good luck with that), contacting state leaders, etc. Like one of the elder civil rights leaders interviewed last night on PBS Newshour (my only go-to non-local news source these days) said: the successes on this level will not be grandiose. So true, but methinks there’ll be a groundswell of such successes - the 60’s all over? Sue me for a tattered shred of optimism, then. Maybe I didn’t read this thread closely enough - has there been, um… ONE post from a right-of-centre poster here? Really? NOTHING Trump’s done has pissed off any of them? ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/488 "2017-02-18T21:37:53Z")
What’s pissing me off is that it’s Trump’s fault we have this: Reporting truth someone doesn’t like - fake news. Unfavorable polling results - rigged. Angry constituents at a town hall - paid agitators. Protests in the streets - sore losers. Republicans are falling in line to alter reality and they are getting away with it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/489 "2017-02-18T23:06:02Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > What’s pissing me off is that it’s Trump’s fault we have this: > > Reporting truth someone doesn’t like - fake news. > Unfavorable polling results - rigged. > Angry constituents at a town hall - paid agitators. > Protests in the streets - sore losers. > > Republicans are falling in line to alter reality and they are getting away with it. This. On the long list of awful things that Trump is responsible for, not least among them is the Orwellian reality distortion. We can’t even talk to each other using our common language. When you say “fake news” do you mean “deliberate misinformation”? Or “news I don’t like”? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/490 "2017-02-19T00:51:07Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > What’s pissing me off is that it’s Trump’s fault we have this: > > Reporting truth someone doesn’t like - fake news. > Unfavorable polling results - rigged. > Angry constituents at a town hall - paid agitators. > Protests in the streets - sore losers. > > Republicans are falling in line to alter reality and they are getting away with it. And from the lips of his She-Minion: **alternative facts** Not surprising, considering Trump’s limited language ability. He finds reading difficult & never worked to gain that skill. So he can read one-page Updates with bullet points. Or read from a teleprompter–badly. But he obviously can’t write. And never, never reads for enjoyment… ---
**Author:** ![thunderdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@thunderdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thunderdog)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/491 "2017-02-19T17:14:01Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > The “vacation” thing burns my ass, as well. After mocking Obama for playing golf and taking vacations, Trump has spent $10 million taxpayer dollars going to Mar-a-Lago every weekend within his FIRST MONTH. The Obamas racked up less than $97 mill in EIGHT YEARS. > > Not to mention that we’re paying to guard his hooker wife in Manhattan and pinhead sons as they travel the globe. > > As a NYC resident and taxpayer, I’d love to hear the Mayor say “Fuck this, the NYPD is officially off Trump Tower patrol. Let the Feds take care of her. Or let Trump pay for his own Blackshirts.” So now people on the left aren’t satisfied to to just complain about political policies they don’t like. Because you don’t like a man you call his wife a hooker? I’ll hold my breath and watch how many dopers show up to tell you how much of a classless, ignorant ass you are. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/492 "2017-02-19T17:16:56Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > That’s because Trump sees them as his enemy and he thinks he’s people. He sees anyone who isn’t a complete and utterly servile toady, as the enemy. Typical NPD and sociopathy. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/493 "2017-02-19T17:19:17Z")
> [@thunderdog](#): > > So now people on the left aren’t satisfied to to just complain about political policies they don’t like. Because you don’t like a man you call his wife a hooker? I’ll hold my breath and watch how many dopers show up to tell you how much of a classless, ignorant ass you are. Pres. Donald Shitgibbon: “you have to take out their families” Problem??? ---
**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:** [February 19, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/494 "2017-02-19T17:25:46Z")
**Ukulele Ike** , you’re a classless, ignorant ass. Melania Trump isn’t a hooker; she’s just a completely classy former nude/lesbian model who plagiarizes and lies about her educational background and who most likely wouldn’t come within a country mile of her husband if he didn’t have a 5th Avenue penthouse and an AmEx Black Card for her. Other than that, your post was iron-clad spot-on. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/495 "2017-02-19T19:57:15Z")
I guess they couldn’t trust Melania to make an actual speech in her own words, so she spoke The Lord’s Prayer. Plagiarizing the Bible. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/496 "2017-02-19T21:05:31Z")
Shit For Brains Says, [‘Look What’s Happening In Sweden.’](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/19/516097504/trump-says-look-whats-happening-in-sweden-sweden-asks-wait-what) Sweden Asks, ‘Wait, What?’ ---
**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:** [February 19, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/497 "2017-02-19T21:25:53Z")
> [@thunderdog](#): > > So now people on the left aren’t satisfied to to just complain about political policies they don’t like. Because you don’t like a man you call his wife a hooker? I’ll hold my breath and watch how many dopers show up to tell you how much of a classless, ignorant ass you are. No, I call his wife a hooker because she worked for an escort agency as a prostitute, and possibly while an illegal alien to boot. > [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Shit For Brains Says, [‘Look What’s Happening In Sweden.’](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/19/516097504/trump-says-look-whats-happening-in-sweden-sweden-asks-wait-what) Sweden Asks, ‘Wait, What?’ I’m waiting for him to repeat that old falsehood about socialist Sweden having the highest suicide rate. After all, no lie is beneath Donald J. Trump. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/498 "2017-02-19T21:27:39Z")
I’m going to have a talk with my computer. It is clearly a Trump supporter having now answered the survey at least 1300 times. 🙂 I really should have put a counter on it. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/499 "2017-02-19T22:28:54Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > I’m going to have a talk with my computer. It is clearly a Trump supporter having now answered the survey at least 1300 times. 🙂 > > I really should have put a counter on it. You may not want to discuss this publicly. IIRC,people have been charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for shenanigans like this. And with a vindictive, thin skinned White House… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/500 "2017-02-19T23:05:29Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Donald: thoughtful people don’t buy that mumbo jumbo nothingspeak. And no, thank you, we don’t want to buy a bridge either. Have you delivered your voters their bridges yet? Yeah. > [@Donald J Trump](#): > > **bobot** : I didn’t win the election because of the votes of _thoughtful_ people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=26)