# 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:** 327
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6528 "2019-06-26T14:28:38Z")
Trump is making my head hurt. It may be the first time in his life he’s rejected money. His handlers are SO keen on torturing children and their caretakers that they’ve gotten him to say no to money. Kobal2, since we’re closeish, do you happen to have a bottle of high-grade aspirin open? I’m pretty much a teetotaler but these people could drive a bronze statue to drink, I swear. I’ve got serrano. We can eat the serrano to make the guzzling easier. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6529 "2019-06-26T14:42:17Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Trump is making my head hurt. It may be the first time in his life he’s rejected money. His handlers are SO keen on torturing children and their caretakers that they’ve gotten him to say no to money. > > Kobal2, since we’re closeish, do you happen to have a bottle of high-grade aspirin open? I’m pretty much a teetotaler but these people could drive a bronze statue to drink, I swear. I’ve got serrano. We can eat the serrano to make the guzzling easier. Well I’m sorry m’lady, but I’m afraid I couldn’t be seen in public with a _teetotaler_. I’ve got a reputation to think about. What would my AA buddies think ?! ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6530 "2019-06-26T15:16:26Z")
[Trump, without offering evidence, accuses Mueller of illegal activity](https://news.yahoo.com/1-trump-without-offering-evidence-131748547.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca) > [@yahoo](#): > > U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, without offering evidence, that Special Counsel Robert Mueller “terminated” FBI communications in what he called an illegal move. > > “Mueller terminated them illegally. He terminated all of the emails … Robert Mueller terminated their text messages together. He terminated them. They’re gone. And that’s illegal. That’s a crime,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network, referring to two former FBI employees who exchanged disparaging messages about the president. Just how does one terminate an email or a text message? ---
**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:** [June 26, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6531 "2019-06-26T15:36:49Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > [Trump, without offering evidence, accuses Mueller of illegal activity](https://news.yahoo.com/1-trump-without-offering-evidence-131748547.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca) > > Just how does one terminate an email or a text message? Maybe he meant “delete”? That’s what he gets for trying to use a three-syllable word. Not enough RAM in his brain to handle it. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6532 "2019-06-26T16:22:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Maybe he meant “delete”? That’s what he gets for trying to use a three-syllable word. Not enough RAM in his brain to handle it. Trump claims Mueller, as Special Counsel, somehow had authority to delete records of FBI E-mails and text messages? Hey, I’m not asking you to explain; I’m just acknowledging that Trump’s claim makes exactly zero sense. Or, as the saying goes, he’s not even wrong. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6533 "2019-06-26T17:26:56Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Quite right. Give those freeloading kids toothpaste and soap, and next they’ll be expecting food. Give them food, and next they’ll want clean clothing. When will it ever end? That’s right! Those illegal immigrant freeloaders don’t know how good they have it: _Raising Arizona_–“…and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.” > [@Railer13](#): > > [Trump, without offering evidence, accuses Mueller of illegal activity](https://news.yahoo.com/1-trump-without-offering-evidence-131748547.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca) > > Just how does one terminate an email or a text message? Skynet exists and the Deep State controls it… …for now. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6534 "2019-06-26T19:14:05Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Sigh … he’s far from the first President to have those thoughts. He’s far from the brightest President to have those thoughts either ( and those thoughts aren’t particularly bright ) . ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6535 "2019-06-26T21:22:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Maybe this is one of those times when he’ll stomp around and wave his big [del]dick[/del] stick and then back off at the last minute so he can be the hero and bestow food, toothpaste, blankets, and soap on those undeserving [del]future terrorists[/del] brown rugrats. Or maybe he’ll just throw some paper towels at them and claim that he’s a hero. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6536 "2019-06-27T00:24:03Z")
> [@Anny\_Middon](#): > > Or maybe he’ll just throw some paper towels at them and claim that he’s a hero. You know that bit about the paper towels is because that’s the best his fevered mind could come up with on short notice when his handlers finally got it through his thick skull that Puerto Ricans are, in fact, Americans. You just know his first, second, third, maybe twentieth reaction to being told that was, “Are you fucking kidding me? No, they’re not. It’s righ there in the name: Puerto Rican. They’re Puerto Ricans, not Americans. Hell, I’ve never even seen them [del]hump[/del] display the American flag back in New York, just the Puerto Rican flag.” ---
**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:** [June 27, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6537 "2019-06-27T00:34:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > You know that bit about the paper towels is because that’s the best his fevered mind could come up with on short notice when his handlers finally got it through his thick skull that Puerto Ricans are, in fact, Americans. You just know his first, second, third, maybe twentieth reaction to being told that was, “Are you fucking kidding me? No, they’re not. It’s righ there in the name: Puerto Rican. They’re Puerto Ricans, not Americans. **Hell, I’ve never even seen them [del]hump[/del] display the American flag back in New York, just the Puerto Rican flag.**” Like he knows what the Puerto Rican flag looks like. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6538 "2019-06-27T01:41:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Like he knows what the Puerto Rican flag looks like. Hanging in the windows of apartments he was evicting tenants from, most likely. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6539 "2019-06-27T03:06:32Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Trump claims Mueller, as Special Counsel, somehow had authority to delete records of FBI E-mails and text messages? I think he may be referring to The Hillary Emails. The investigation was closed, and then there was the Weiner wiener’s scandal, and his wife Huma Abedin was an aide of Hillary Clinton’s, and Abedin had used Weiner’s laptop. So the laptop had to be scrubbed for emails from HC, and this was announced because transparency, but then it turned out there were no new emails so nothing to see here folks. The comparison between the already-known emails and the ones in Weiner’s laptop is the kind of thing where you can set up a program to do it, it’s a matter of comparing two large files whose content is in different order and looking for any chunk which appears in one file but not in the other (and vice versa): takes a while to set up the program and some time to run it, but you don’t need eyeballs on screens. Chapter 6 in McCabe’s book, plus multiple newspaper articles. I’ve got the book in my kindle, so I just searched it for the names… Trump would probably think it’s magic. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6540 "2019-06-27T03:56:47Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > I think he may be referring to The Hillary Emails. No, he’s specifically referring to communications between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. They are mentioned in the linked article, although not by name. In any event, I’m certain Mueller had no formal authority to delete agency communications. The whole notion is preposterous. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6541 "2019-06-27T04:00:46Z")
Not that that has ever stopped Twitler before… ---
**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:** [June 27, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6542 "2019-06-27T12:35:15Z")
[**Trump Wants To Withdraw Deportation Protections For Families Of Active Troops**](https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736362986/trump-wants-to-withdraw-deportation-protections-for-families-of-active-troops?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news) > [@](#): > > The Trump administration wants to scale back a program that protects undocumented family members of active duty troops from being deported, according to attorneys familiar with those plans. > > The attorneys are racing to submit applications for what is known as parole in place after hearing from the wives and loved ones of deployed soldiers who’ve been told that option is “being terminated.” > > The protections will only be available under rare circumstances, the lawyers said they’ve been told. > > “It’s going to create chaos in the military,” said Margaret Stock, an immigration attorney who represents recruits and veterans in deportation proceedings. “The troops can’t concentrate on their military jobs when they’re worried about their family members being deported.” > … > > “I don’t think people really understand we have a global military that has a multitude of immigration problems because of the fact that we deploy immigrants overseas all the time and we recruit immigrants and we recruit U.S. citizens who are married to immigrants and have immigrant parents,” [Margaret] Stock said. “The military is very international, and if you got rid of everybody in the military who had a connection to a foreigner — you wouldn’t have anyone in the military.” ---
**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:** [June 27, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6543 "2019-06-27T13:01:14Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > **How has President Trump pissed you off today?** > > Oh I guess _(today)_ I’ll go with this reason: > > [U.S. House passes border aid bill, Trump vows veto.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-aid/us-house-passes-border-aid-bill-trump-vows-veto-idUSKCN1TQ1WR) > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Quite right. Give those freeloading kids toothpaste and soap, and next they’ll be expecting food. Give them food, and next they’ll want clean clothing. When will it ever end? With mice and cookies? ---
**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 27, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6544 "2019-06-27T13:34:01Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [**Trump Wants To Withdraw Deportation Protections For Families Of Active Troops**](https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736362986/trump-wants-to-withdraw-deportation-protections-for-families-of-active-troops?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news) So Trump is proposing actions that will probably lead to the families of some active troops in combat situations being deported? People in sensitive military positions who have guns? I’m sure he’s thought this through with his customary thoroughness. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6545 "2019-06-27T13:42:38Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > So Trump is proposing actions that will probably lead to the families of some active troops in combat situations being deported? > > People in sensitive military positions who have guns? > > I’m sure he’s thought this through with his customary thoroughness. He’ll probably reverse the order soon and declare himself a HERO! Worth of the Nobel prize, or of a celebration on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6546 "2019-06-27T13:55:19Z")
Speaking of next week’s dog and pony show, has any of the security details been worked out? ---
**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:** [June 27, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6547 "2019-06-27T14:38:10Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Speaking of next week’s dog and pony show, has any of the security details been worked out? [A few vague details here](https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/the-scene/Trump-Administration-Releases-Details-on-A-Salute-to-America-July-4-Celebration-in-Washington-DC-Schedule-511515431.html) > [@](#): > > National Independence Day Parade, A Capitol Fourth concert on the West Lawn of the Capitol building and a fireworks display. These events remain largely unchanged from years past. Trump’s one hour military dog and pony show will be later: > [@](#): > > “Salute to America,” which Trump will lead in honoring the U.S. military, is scheduled 6:30-7:30 p.m. on July 4, according to a release from the Department of the Interior. There will be music, military demonstrations and flyovers, organizers say. > [@](#): > > The event featuring Trump, “Salute to America,” opens its gates at 3:30 p.m. It’s unclear what kind of security will be present. Can’t see anything that could go wrong here. Nope. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=326) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=328)