# 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:** 315
**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:** [May 29, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6288 "2019-05-29T15:37:00Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Being a Democrat. Duh. Or appointing one to SCOTUS. Speaking of which, Mitch McConnell just proved yet again, for anyone who had any doubt, that he is utterly unprincipled and opportunistic: [https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/29/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-scotus/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/29/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-scotus/index.html) ---
**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:** [May 30, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6289 "2019-05-30T01:04:19Z")
Every time you think he can’t get any more embarrassing, he does: > [@](#): > > [White House Wanted USS John McCain “Out of Sight” During Trump Japan Visit](https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-wanted-uss-john-mccain-out-of-sight-during-trump-japan-visit-11559173470) > > The White House wanted the U.S. Navy to move “out of sight” a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain, a war hero who became a frequent target of President Trump’s ire, ahead of the president’s visit to Japan last week, according to an email reviewed by _The Wall Street Journal_… > > There were discussions within the U.S. military over the past week about how to handle the warship, another U.S. official said. The ship is being repaired after a 2017 collision, and any ship undergoing such repair or maintenance would be difficult to move, officials said. A tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of the president’s trip, according to photos reviewed by the Journal, and sailors were directed to remove any coverings from the ship that bore its name. After the tarp was taken down, a barge was moved closer to the ship, obscuring its name. Sailors on the ship, who typically wear caps bearing its name, were given the day off during Mr. Trump’s visit, people familiar with the matter said… Words fail me. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6290 "2019-05-30T01:08:34Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Every time you think he can’t get any more embarrassing, he does: > > Words fail me. CPO Shirley McCain was ordered belowdeck until Air Force One left Japanese airspace. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6291 "2019-05-30T01:19:34Z")
Shirley? You can’t be serious. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6292 "2019-05-30T04:46:03Z")
He is, and stop calling him Mr. President. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2019, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6293 "2019-05-30T04:58:52Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Every time you think he can’t get any more embarrassing, he does: > > Words fail me. I guess someone forgot that the Sailors’ uniforms have the ship’s name on a tab on the sleeve. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6294 "2019-05-30T12:20:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > He is, and stop calling him Mr. President. Never even started. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 30, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6295 "2019-05-30T14:23:12Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Every time you think he can’t get any more embarrassing, he does: > > Words fail me. Well, face it. Sometimes it’s easier to get whatever enrages a toddler out of his sight than endure it tantrum. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6296 "2019-05-30T16:23:14Z")
Aren’t a lot of sailors proud of their ships? I wonder what they thought about covering up the name with a tarp? ---
**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:** [May 30, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6297 "2019-05-30T16:57:53Z")
You wouldn’t even see the name unless you were facing the stern and close enough to read it painted there. What a bunch of petty, ignorant idjits we have in the White House these days. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6298 "2019-05-30T17:01:57Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Aren’t a lot of sailors proud of their ships? I wonder what they thought about covering up the name with a tarp? They maybe thought: "Gee, those McCains sure have a strong history of military service, which I respect, but then again, Trump has MAGA!!! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6299 "2019-05-30T17:02:52Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Don’t you mean moran? He is a moron, he is fluent in moran so he can communicate with his supporters. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6300 "2019-05-30T19:04:05Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > There are social memes out there that I’ve seen posted by Trump supporters like photos of Biden hugging women and smelling their hair with captions about how creepy Biden is. > > Yes, that’s pretty weird smelling their hair, but it’s pretty ironic Trump supporters calling Biden out on that when Trump himself has bragged about committing sexual assault. > > **But for some in the Trump cult, the leader, by definition, can do no wrong.** “Some”? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6301 "2019-06-01T22:10:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > You wouldn’t even see the name unless you were facing the stern and close enough to read it painted there. What a bunch of petty, ignorant idjits we have in the White House these days. And a Navy that denies fearing to piss off the idjit(s)—but there seems to be evidence to the contrary: > [@](#): > > The U.S. Navy has acknowledged that a request was made to hide the USS John S. McCain during President Donald Trump’s recent state visit to Japan. > > “A request was made to the U.S. Navy to minimize the visibility of USS John S. McCain, however, all ships remained in their normal configuration during the President’s visit,” Rear Admiral Charlie Brown, chief of information… > > The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that it had reviewed an email to Navy and Air Force officials dated May 15 that included the direction “USS John McCain needs to be out of sight” for Trump’s Japan visit. > **[Navy acknowledges request to hide USS John McCain during Trump visit](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/navy-acknowledges-request-was-made-hide-uss-john-s-mccain-n1012731)** > > "A request was made to the U.S. Navy to minimize the visibility of USS John S. McCain" during President Donald Trump's recent state visit to Japan, the Navy said in a statement. So the tarp and the barge were just there obscuring the name by accident? I don’t know what’s worse: a branch of the military quaking in their boots lest they trigger the C-in-C’s tantrum, or a branch of the military doing the quaking, and then misleading the public about the matter. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6302 "2019-06-01T22:13:13Z")
Trump continues his quest to turn the Presidential Medal of Freedom into a Republican participation trophy. The next recipient will be Arthur Laffer, creator of the appropriately named Laffer Curve and co-author of a book called _Trumponomics_, both of which I’m sure Donald Trump studied in detail before deciding on the award. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-medal-of-freedom-trickle-down-arthur-laffer](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-medal-of-freedom-trickle-down-arthur-laffer) ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6303 "2019-06-01T23:47:23Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Trump continues his quest to turn the Presidential Medal of Freedom into a Republican participation trophy. The next recipient will be Arthur Laffer, creator of the appropriately named Laffer Curve and co-author of a book called _Trumponomics_, both of which I’m sure Donald Trump studied in detail before deciding on the award. > > [Trump Giving Medal Of Freedom To ‘Trickle Down’ Evangelist Laffer](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-medal-of-freedom-trickle-down-arthur-laffer) The co-author is Stephen Moore, Trump’s Fed pick who withdrew after his anti-women musings were revisited. I found this review: [An Insider Book Tries to Praise Trump, But Instead Exposes His Corruption](http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/trumponomics-book-trump-tax-cuts-rich-deficits.html) > [@](#): > > _Trumponomics_ is a damning exposé of the corrupt bargain between Donald Trump and the party’s wealthy insiders. The odd thing is that the book is not intended as an exposé at all, but as an auto-hagiography written by three Republican policy entrepreneurs who helped win Trump over and shape his program, and are so lacking in self-awareness that they earnestly believe they are defending both Trump and his partners. > > The authors of _Trumponomics_ are Larry Kudlow (who left in the middle of its writing to accept a job as director of the National Economic Council), Stephen Moore, and Arthur Laffer. The three fervently propound supply-side economics, a doctrine that holds that economic performance hinges largely on maintaining low tax rates on the rich. In the 1990s, the supply-siders insisted Bill Clinton’s increase in the top tax rate would create a recession and cause revenue to plummet. The following decade, they heralded the Bush tax cuts as the elixir that had brought in a glorious new era of prosperity. Moore wrote _Bullish on Bush: How George Bush’s Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger_, and Kudlow wrote the foreward to _The Bush Boom_. > > Their record of being wrong about everything is so incomprehensibly vast it is astonishing they have retained their positions of influence over a major party. _Trumponomics_ inadvertently clarifies how an economist who was declaring the U.S. housing market to be perfectly sound and on its way up in _July 2008_ secured a job as chief economist to the president of the United States as a matter of course. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6304 "2019-06-02T00:58:39Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Trump continues his quest to turn the Presidential Medal of Freedom into a Republican participation trophy. The next recipient will be Arthur Laffer, creator of the appropriately named Laffer Curve and co-author of a book called _Trumponomics_, both of which I’m sure Donald Trump studied in detail before deciding on the award. > > [Trump Giving Medal Of Freedom To ‘Trickle Down’ Evangelist Laffer](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-medal-of-freedom-trickle-down-arthur-laffer) From the citation: “Arthur B. Laffer, the ‘Father of Supply-Side Economics,’ is one of the most influential economists in American history.” Well, who can argue with that? The influence of his ideas is responsible for the looting of the federal treasury to the tune of several trillion dollars. That’s trillion with a T…Yup, if that’s not influential, I don’t know what is. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6305 "2019-06-02T01:28:51Z")
Mark Alan Stamaty, cartoonist for the Village Voice, was already mocking the Laffer Curve back in 1984, with his strip about the “Giggle Wiggle.” I wish I could make a link to that particular strip, because the depiction of the wild-haired lunatic “Professor Giggle” was a masterpiece of underground satiric political art. I can still picture it 35 years later. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6306 "2019-06-02T01:44:16Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Mark Alan Stamaty, cartoonist for the Village Voice, was already mocking the Laffer Curve back in 1984, with his strip about the “Giggle Wiggle.” > > I wish I could make a link to that particular strip, because the depiction of the wild-haired lunatic “Professor Giggle” was a masterpiece of underground satiric political art. I can still picture it 35 years later. Martin Gardner, who at the time was still writing his [I[Mathematical Games\* column in [I[Scientific American\*, also lambasted the absurd simplicity and stupidity of the Laffer Curve, suggesting it be replaced with the more realistic “Technosnarl” > **[Trump's massive tax-cut plan is discredited, dangerous "voodoo economics":...](https://www.salon.com/2017/04/27/trumps-massive-tax-cut-plan-is-idiotic-and-dangerous-last-laugh-of-the-laffer-curve/)** > > Reagan and George W. Bush blew up the deficit. Sam Brownback wrecked Kansas. Radical tax cuts simply don't work [A Delville of a Tolkar: Martin Gardner’s “Undiluted Hocus-Pocus” | Los Angeles Review of Books](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-delville-of-a-tolkar-martin-gardners-undiluted-hocus-pocus/#)! ---
**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:** [June 2, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6307 "2019-06-02T02:48:46Z")
Did anyone ever mention that the Laffer Curve drawing looked exactly like a…tongue? And which assholes it was going to be licking? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=314) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=316)