# 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:** 27
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/521 "2017-02-24T05:46:38Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [Trump family trips cost taxpayers $11.3m in one month – almost as much as Obama’s cost in a year](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-costs-trips-security-taxpayer-barack-obama-month-year-a7586261.html) > > The three Mar-a-Lago trips in Palm Beach cost the federal treasury around $10m, based on figures used in an October government report analysing White House travel. > > This includes cash for coast guards to patrol the exposed shoreline. > > Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw also says it has cost local taxpayers $360,000 in police overtime for his three weekends in Florida since 20 January. > > The Post also revealed it cost $88,320 to put secret service agents up in a hotel while son Eric Trump visited Uruguay to promote a Trump-brand condo tower. > > etc. etc. etc. > The 70-year-old leader of the free world repeatedly criticized Mr. Obama for his taxpayer-funded travel during his tenure. Yeah but that was different… ---
**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:** [February 24, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/522 "2017-02-24T06:24:54Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > The 70-year-old leader of the free world repeatedly criticized Mr. Obama for his taxpayer-funded travel during his tenure. But now that Agent Orange is tarnishing the White House, he’s petulantly bleating that the President of the United States is actually never on vacation. Funny how he figured that out when he’s the one criticized, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/523 "2017-02-24T15:01:37Z")
He also complained via numerous tweets about the amount Obama golfed… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/524 "2017-02-24T15:19:04Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [Trump family trips cost taxpayers $11.3m in one month – almost as much as Obama’s cost in a year](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-costs-trips-security-taxpayer-barack-obama-month-year-a7586261.html) > > The three Mar-a-Lago trips in Palm Beach cost the federal treasury around $10m, based on figures used in an October government report analysing White House travel. > > This includes cash for coast guards to patrol the exposed shoreline. > > Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw also says it has cost local taxpayers $360,000 in police overtime for his three weekends in Florida since 20 January. > > The Post also revealed it cost $88,320 to put secret service agents up in a hotel while son Eric Trump visited Uruguay to promote a Trump-brand condo tower. > > etc. etc. etc. > The 70-year-old leader of the free world repeatedly criticized Mr. Obama for his taxpayer-funded travel during his tenure. So if Trump goes to Mar-A-lago every weekend\*, that alone will cost 686 million for four years. Compared to Obama’s horrifying 97 million for eight years. \*Yes, there will be times he won’t go or he’s on official business elsewhere. Something else I haven’t seen mentioned is the amount of time the travel portion takes out of a “workday”. Monday and Friday every week. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/525 "2017-02-24T15:52:05Z")
[Seth Meyers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_hJObPo49Q) ---
**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 24, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/526 "2017-02-24T19:00:23Z")
I’m sorry if this has been mentioned in this or another Trump thread, but yesterday Trump said he wants to make sure the US is “at the top of the pack” in nuclear weapons. I guess what the world needs in these tense times is more nukes. The Ploughshares Fund estimates that Russia has 7000 warheads and the US has 6800. Great Scott! Do you mean to tell me the Russians can destroy 200 more cities than we can? This is unacceptable! Trump also also said China could solve the national security challenge posed by North Korea “very easily if they want to.” I don’t know what he has in mind. But I’m guessing that China doesn’t really like having an impoverished, batshit insane, nuclear armed dictatorship on its doorstep either and would rather the situation be different. That leads me to conclude that dealing with the DPRK is perhaps more complicated than Trump believes. > **[Trump wants to make sure U.S. nuclear arsenal at 'top of the pack'](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1622IF)** > > President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants to ensure the U.S. nuclear arsenal is at the "top of the pack," saying the United States has fallen behind in its weapons capacity. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/527 "2017-02-24T21:01:39Z")
Fuck these guys. > **[White House hand-picks select media outlets for briefing](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321049-white-house-hand-picks-select-media-for-briefing/)** > > The White House blocked a number of news outlets from covering spokesman Sean Spicer’s question-and-answer session on Friday afternoon.  "The White House blocked a number of news outlets from covering spokesman Sean Spicer’s question-and-answer session on Friday afternoon. Spicer decided to hold an off-camera “gaggle” with reporters inside his West Wing office instead of the traditional on-camera briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. Among the outlets not permitted to cover the gaggle were news organizations President Trump has singled out for criticism, including CNN. The New York Times, The Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, BBC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News were among the other news organizations not permitted to attend.Journalists from several right-leaning outlets were allowed into Spicer’s office, including Breitbart, the Washington Times and One America News Network. " I don’t know about The Hill as a news organization, I saw this on the Google news feed. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/528 "2017-02-24T22:14:01Z")
Well, there’s [this chart](http://imgur.com/gallery/iPLkz) but I can’t commit to it’s accuracy. The Hill is listed as “skews conservative, analytical”. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/529 "2017-02-24T22:36:40Z")
Thanks, and just to clarify: By “fuck these guys” I meant Trump and his asshole bastards, not the news organization. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/530 "2017-02-25T00:23:29Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Thanks, and just to clarify: By “fuck these guys” I meant Trump and his asshole bastards, not the news organization. Well the news guys kept giving him free advertisement air time during the election, kept giving him a pass for all the crap he said and did, never brought his sordid past to light, and they are still mostly soft peddling and normalizing all his egregious shit, so yeah, fuck them too. They sold their souls for ratings and to make an “exciting horse race” out of the campaign, so again, fuck 'em. They helped make this monster. ---
**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 25, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/531 "2017-02-25T00:41:02Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Fuck these guys. > > [http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321049-white-house-hand-picks-select-media-for-briefing](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321049-white-house-hand-picks-select-media-for-briefing) > [@](#): > > The Wall Street Journal said in a statement that “had we known at the time, we would not have participated and we will not participate in such closed briefings in the future.” Not sure if I want to speculate on the possible implications on such an action. That move could snowball in an ungainly manner. > [@](#): > > It’s **highly unusual** for White House staff to hand-pick outlets to attend daily, on-the-record briefings with spokespeople, which are typically open for all reporters to attend. My bold. I had no luck - if anyone can ferret out anything about previous administrations pulling this shit, I’m curious. Certainly never been chancres like Breitbart, the Washington Times and One America News Network in a gaggle before, IIRC. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/532 "2017-02-25T04:04:35Z")
[He is still an antisemitism, a hypocrite, a conspiracy theorist, a bigot, and a liar](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/is-donald-trump-an-anti-semite-you-bet-he-is_us_58af51b0e4b0e5fdf6196fb9?ref=yfp). In the link, Trump is quoted: > [@](#): > > “The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil,” the president said Tuesday. WTF, Trump, you disgusting pile of discarded desiccated citrus peels? You ran on a platform of hatred and prejudice. You have surrounded yourself with other bigots whose evil is of the same cloth as yours. You disgraced the flag when you were dry-humping it on stage, and now you are embroiled in the most glaring example of how much of a Nazi–today’s ultimate example of “hate and prejudice and evil”–you, personally, are: your continuing fight to flagrantly violate the constitution you hypocritically swore to uphold. You gave quite the momentum to the incredibly vile racist CT of birtherism, and when it became too hot for you to handle, instead of manning up and admitting birtherism is cut from whole cloth (care to guess what cloth?), you announced that you would no longer respond to questions about it and your support of it. And you got a pass on that from the very media you now villify! You have no concept of truth, justice, and the American way. Show some actual concern for the United States of America and resign now. Then you, Bannon, and Duke can don your favorite headgear without screwing the country further. Hey, Black History Month isn’t over yet. If you hurry, you can buy some new hoods at a white sale. You won’t even have to j-----well, you know, don’t you? ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/533 "2017-02-25T04:15:02Z")
Darn Autocorrect! The link above should say “antisemite”, not “antisemitism”. ---
**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 25, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/534 "2017-02-25T04:28:29Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Fuck these guys. > > [http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321049-white-house-hand-picks-select-media-for-briefing](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321049-white-house-hand-picks-select-media-for-briefing) > > “The White House blocked a number of news outlets from covering spokesman Sean Spicer’s question-and-answer session on Friday afternoon…” Spicer had said just a few weeks (months?) ago that he would never exclude some news organizations from briefings and include others. Fucker. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/535 "2017-02-25T05:22:30Z")
So much for states’ rights, eh Donald? > [@](#): > > Washington (CNN) – The White House said Thursday it expects law enforcement agents to **enforce federal marijuana laws when they come into conflict with states** where recreational use of the drug is permitted. > “I do believe you will see **greater enforcement** of it,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said regarding federal drug laws, which still list marijuana as an illegal substance. > That’s a **reversal from the Obama administration’s stance** , which laid out in an official memo that the **federal government wouldn’t interfere** in states where nonmedical use of marijuana is allowed. > > [http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/white-house-marijuana-donald-trump-pot/](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/white-house-marijuana-donald-trump-pot/) ---
**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 25, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/536 "2017-02-25T17:49:24Z")
Trump proves his economics credentials are just as impressive as his military ones: [Trump tweets wildly misleading comparison of the national debt in his first month to Obama's](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/25/trump-tweets-wildly-misleading-comparison-of-the-national-debt-i/21721587/) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/537 "2017-02-25T18:13:06Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Fuck these guys. > > [http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321049-white-house-hand-picks-select-media-for-briefing](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321049-white-house-hand-picks-select-media-for-briefing) > > "The White House blocked a number of news outlets from covering spokesman Sean Spicer’s question-and-answer session on Friday afternoon. > Spicer decided to hold an off-camera “gaggle” with reporters inside his West Wing office instead of the traditional on-camera briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. > Among the outlets not permitted to cover the gaggle were news organizations President Trump has singled out for criticism, including CNN. > The New York Times, The Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, BBC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News were among the other news organizations not permitted to attend.Journalists from several right-leaning outlets were allowed into Spicer’s office, including Breitbart, the Washington Times and One America News Network. " > I don’t know about The Hill as a news organization, I saw this on the Google news feed. The SCROTUS is simply using #alternativefacts. And really, who are you going to believe? Our Dear Leader, or some hippie fake guy from the newbie Brookings Institution. I mean who’s ever heard of them? > [@](#): > > “I know of no senior American military officer who says ‘I would like to trade American nuclear forces with anybody else,’” said Steven Pifer, director of arms control and nonproliferation at the Brookings Institution, who said he and other experts are " **just not sure where Trump’s getting his information."** ---
**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 25, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/538 "2017-02-25T20:00:07Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > The New York Times, The Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, _ **the Daily Mail** _, BBC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News were among the other news organizations not permitted to attend. My emphasis… When the Daily Heil is too left-wing for you… ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/539 "2017-02-26T16:26:58Z")
Trump has [GE’s Immelt tell everyone about his hole in one](http://www.golfchannel.com/news/grill-room/trump-makes-ge-ceo-recount-trump-hole-one-story/). ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/540 "2017-02-26T19:40:23Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Trump has [GE’s Immelt tell everyone about his hole in one](http://www.golfchannel.com/news/grill-room/trump-makes-ge-ceo-recount-trump-hole-one-story/). That’s nothing. Kim Jong Un got 13 holes in one the first time he ever played golf1!!!11!! And so it goes. The first thing to go in a dictatorship is the free press. Freeing up marijuana laws to the states has created 7-10,000 jobs in Colorado. And 40 million dollars to build new public schools. Of course the AG won’t consider that. [Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/19/benefits-legalizing-weed-by-the-numbers_n_5173785.html) From the above link - $40 million: The amount of marijuana tax revenue Colorado is devoting to public school construction in Colorado. 7,500-10,000: The estimated number of marijuana industry jobs that currently exist in Colorado, according to Michael Elliott, the Executive Director of the Marijuana Industry Group, a trade association that advocates for responsible marijuana regulation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=28)