# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![HeweyLogan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heweylogan/32/547_2.png) [@HeweyLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeweyLogan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/641 "2017-03-17T01:57:30Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > Trump is planning on cutting funding for Meals on Wheels programs ! How the fuck is this going to " Made America Great Again!!!??" MOW does wellness checks on seniors that live alone to made sure they have heat in the winter and that they’re OK . And this is sometime the only company an elderly person will have to all day ! It’s this type of hyperbole and misrepresentation that pisses some people off (and how got Trump into office, I suspect). You ignore facts to present an argument that’s nothing more than an appeal to emotion, a fallacy ([Appeal to emotion - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion)). Trump proposes cuts to HUD in an effort to reduce spending. An overdue need in a bloated American government. As a byproduct of this reduction is the Meals on Wheels program. It’s not strictly a cut to them, as you insinuate, but to the entity that supports them, to a degree. A degree that’s pretty minimal… > [@](#): > > Meals on Wheels reports that 3 percent of its funding comes from government grants, while 84 percent comes from corporate and foundation grants and individual contributions. [http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/324316-trump-proposed-budget-nixes-funds-for-meals-on-wheels](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/324316-trump-proposed-budget-nixes-funds-for-meals-on-wheels) I think the meals on wheels program will survive just fine, on the basis that it’s a charity that gets funding from the people. It’s not a government subsidy. And it’s Make America Great Again. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/642 "2017-03-17T01:58:40Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > Trump is planning on cutting funding for Meals on Wheels programs ! How the fuck is this going to " Made America Great Again!!!??" MOW does wellness checks on seniors that live alone to made sure they have heat in the winter and that they’re OK . And this is sometime the only company an elderly person will have to all day ! > I had clients that told me it was good to have company for 5 minutes b/c they don’t have health aide everyday . This made my blood boil , Trump has no compassion for poor olds and sick people ! Trump is going to let people go hungry to build his fucking wall to keep immigrants out and 2 of this wives are immigrants and so was his grandfather ! We should build a wall around the White House to keep Trump out! More alarming is the plan to cut the budget of the National Institutes of Health – which conduct and fund medical research – by $5.8 billion, or about 18 percent from 2017 levels. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/643 "2017-03-17T02:40:56Z")
Cutting disaster funding? Sounds like a great idea!: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/politics/trump-budget-cdbg-block-grant-cuts/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/politics/trump-budget-cdbg-block-grant-cuts/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/644 "2017-03-17T02:46:43Z")
How much money is Hewey’s bloated government saving by sending his torture-supporting rapist of a president on his weekly golf junkets while guarding his sequestered trophy wife in New York? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/645 "2017-03-17T16:15:52Z")
Ooo! Ooo! I know! Let’s piss off our closest ally with an unproven allegation of espionage!: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/gchq-trump-wiretap-denial/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/gchq-trump-wiretap-denial/index.html) ---
**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:** [March 17, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/646 "2017-03-17T17:55:29Z")
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, Trump quoted his favorite Irish proverb. And worldwide, Irish people rose up with one voice and said, “Huh?” > **[Google News](https://news.google.com/home?caurl=https:%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Famphtml%2Fhayesbrown%2Fmeet-the-nigerian-author-of-trumps-favorite-irish&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en)** > > Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/647 "2017-03-18T04:09:48Z")
Huh. Is the poet of the Dublin or the Tipperary Alhassans? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/648 "2017-03-18T04:38:23Z")
I can’t decide which Trump thread this should go in, so I’ll arbitrarily put it here. Cartoonist Tom Toles had a cartoon just recently (today or yesterday, I think) lambasting Trump’s so-called “budget”. It included this marvelous line: > [@Tom Toles](#): > > _We have elected the enemy and we are his._ (Sorry, I can’t find it on-line at the moment.) ---
**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:** [March 18, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/649 "2017-03-18T05:25:47Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I can’t decide which Trump thread this should go in, so I’ll arbitrarily put it here. > > Cartoonist Tom Toles had a cartoon just recently (today or yesterday, I think) lambasting Trump’s so-called “budget”. It included this marvelous line: > > (Sorry, I can’t find it on-line at the moment.) Got you [covered](http://www.gocomics.com/tomtoles/2017/03/17). ---
**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:** [March 18, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/650 "2017-03-18T13:57:33Z")
The fucker is at Mar-A-Lago. For the fifth time. In 58 days. [Trump’s Frequent Visits Disrupt Palm Beach Life And Businesses](http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515753028/trumps-frequent-visits-disrupt-palm-beach-life-and-businesses) > [@](#): > > Whenever Trump is in Mar-a-Lago, Federal Aviation Administration restrictions ban all flights out of the airport. > > The weekend restrictions are especially a problem for Jorge Gonzalez. > His company, SkyWords, owns four planes that tow advertising banners targeting beachgoers in Palm Beach County. > Enlarge this image > > Jorge Gonzalez, whose planes tow advertising banners, says the flight restrictions in place while President Trump is at Mar-a-Lago may put him out of business. > “For our banner towing, 97 percent of our business is done on Saturdays and Sundays and on holidays,” Gonzalez says. > > It’s a similar story for nearly every business at Lantana, one of the busiest small airports in the country. Flight schools, sightseeing flights and the company that operates the airport say if Trump’s visits and the current restrictions continue, they may lose millions of dollars this year. > > When Trump is there, the Secret Service shuts down a major thoroughfare, making it difficult to get anywhere in Palm Beach. In the town’s tony shopping district, sales are down. > > Marley Herring, the president of the merchants association, recently asked members of the town council for help. > > “As you know, the season’s very short for us,” she said. “We have great concern regarding how the small businesses, my own included, will survive over the next four or maybe eight years.” ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/651 "2017-03-18T15:17:35Z")
The white house staff sees an article called trumps budget will fix America, has no idea it’s satire, seems out our to recipients of wh newsletter. > **[White House sends satirical news story by accident in daily newsletter and do...](https://mashable.com/article/white-house-newsletter-satire)** > > Schoolchildren will be taught by an F-35 wearing a MAGA hat, according to a story promoted by the White House. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/652 "2017-03-18T15:28:55Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > The white house staff sees an article called trumps budget will fix America,\*\* has no idea it’s satire,\*\* seems out our to recipients of wh newsletter. > [White House sends satirical news story by accident in daily newsletter and do you guys even read | Mashable](http://mashable.com/2017/03/17/white-house-newsletter-satire/) More like “didn’t read past the headline”. > [@](#): > > This budget will make America a lean, mean fighting machine with bulging, rippling muscles and not an ounce of fat. America has been weak and soft for too long. BUT HOW WILL I SURVIVE ON THIS BUDGET? you may be wondering. I AM A HUMAN CHILD, NOT A COSTLY FIGHTER JET. You may not survive, but that is because you are SOFT and WEAK, something this budget is designed to eliminate. This is brilliant. > [@](#): > > Affordable housing is a luxury and we are going to get rid of it. Donald Trump does not live in affordable housing and neither should you. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/653 "2017-03-18T17:27:19Z")
[Washington Post article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/17/president-trump-won-big-in-these-places-now-he-wants-to-eliminate-3-agencies-dedicated-to-helping-them/?utm_term=.c1d6a9d3f1f0) (I could see it, but it may be blocked for some). Synopsis: there are three small agencies — total spending about $175M/year — which provide services such as clean water, roads, and job retraining to impoverished areas such as Appalachia, the lower Mississippi delta, and far northern New England. Areas which, BTW, went strongly for Donald of Orange in the last election. Not only is their collective spending minuscule on the Federal scale, but one director claims to generate $8 in private investment for every agency dollar. Quiz: How much do these agencies get in DoO’s budget proposal? Hint: his budget director told MSNBC, “folks who voted for the president are getting exactly what they voted for.” Disclaimer: I am not (financially) impoverished, nor am I from any of the affected areas, so technically I suppose my reaction could be classified as RO. But I’m a human being, and I like to think that carries some obligation to be mindful of my fellows, however much they may have voted this on themselves. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/654 "2017-03-19T03:09:20Z")
The German Chancellor and the American President have a quiet word: [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7LcQcmVoAAYcCP.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7LcQcmVoAAYcCP.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/655 "2017-03-19T03:39:03Z")
OttodaFe, there’s an excellent article in Forbes about how White lower-middle-class Americans (lots of Trump voters) don’t like the welfare state, but because they’ve benefitted from “white socialism” – benefits channeled through employers, and they had the jobs in the post-WW2 era (and are fooled into thinking many of these jobs will cone back). It helped me understand better why these folks SEEM to vote against their own interests: > **[Unspeakable Realities Block Universal Health Coverage In America](https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisladd/2017/03/13/unspeakable-realities-block-universal-health-coverage-in-the-us/#37b1692a186a)** > > When it seems like people are voting against their interests, I have probably failed to understand their interests. We cannot begin to understand Election 2016 until we acknowledge the power and reach of socialism for white people. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Lucky\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_Mike)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/656 "2017-03-19T04:26:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > During the campaign and even after being elected, Donald Trump has proved again and again that he’s not going to change from being the same arrogant, corrupt, bullying, bigoted, misogynistic, unfiltered braggart with zero interest in wise public policy that that he’s always been. > > But what has he done to prove that on the day that you post here? Actually Trump never pisses me off. He is EXACTLY as advertised. The only thing I get mad at is any moron who voted for him. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/657 "2017-03-19T05:29:49Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I would be surprised if Trump could pick Andrew Jackson out of a lineup, even if you let him hold a $20 bill. And even if the other two guys in the lineup were Tito and Jermaine. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/658 "2017-03-23T18:39:07Z")
“I’m President, and you’re not” - Trump rolls out the Chevy Chase defense: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/23/politics/trump-time-interview-wiretaps-falsehoods/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/23/politics/trump-time-interview-wiretaps-falsehoods/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/659 "2017-03-23T20:14:16Z")
You know, Chevy Chase is probably more physically representative of cheeto brain then Alec Baldwin is. And no one really likes him either. Maybe he should be back on SNL now that Baldwin seems tired of it all. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/660 "2017-03-23T20:28:31Z")
Still has not tripped and fallen into the disguised Hell-Mouth in the sand trap on the ‘back nine’ at Mar-A-Lago. Only time will tell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=34)