# 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:** 336
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6709 "2019-08-02T04:17:14Z")
In Cincinnati tonight. > [@](#): > > President Trump promised he would cure AIDS and childhood cancer “very soon” at a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. > > “We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine,” the president said Thursday night. “I see what they are doing. I see it. They show me. The things we are doing in our country today. There’s never been anything like it. We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America, and curing childhood cancer very shortly.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6710 "2019-08-02T04:20:07Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Trump supporters have armor against that ammo. Denial and ignorance are powerful drugs. The target isn’t Trump supporters, it’s people who didn’t vote. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6711 "2019-08-02T08:14:19Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > In Cincinnati tonight. > > > [@](#): > > > > Quote: > > President Trump promised he would cure AIDS and childhood cancer “very soon” at a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. > > > > “We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine,” the president said Thursday night. “I see what they are doing. I see it. They show me. The things we are doing in our country today. There’s never been anything like it. We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America, and curing childhood cancer very shortly.” He could **guarantee** re-election if he would run on 1) curing baldness and 2) increasing penis size. You know, the stuff they advertise in spam and the backs of pulp magazines. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6712 "2019-08-02T08:26:20Z")
Has anyone ever attempted to keep track of the things that, under Trump, are the likes the world as never seen before, or have they not invented the microprocessor that can keep up yet? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6713 "2019-08-02T09:19:30Z")
That one’s easy: everything is the greatest, the bestest, like you wouldn’t believe, believe me, except those things which are the worst rat-infested shitholes full of drug dealers. The same thing, location or person can be the bestest and the worst within a single speech, nay, sentence. It’s Schrodinger’s world, except I don’t think Trump can spell Schrodinger’s. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6714 "2019-08-02T09:31:42Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > That one’s easy: everything is the greatest, the bestest, like you wouldn’t believe, believe me, except those things which are the worst rat-infested shitholes full of drug dealers. The same thing, location or person can be the bestest and the worst within a single speech, nay, sentence. It’s Schrodinger’s world, except I don’t think Trump can spell Schrodinger’s. He probably can’t spell cat. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6715 "2019-08-02T13:25:41Z")
Trump on Twitter this morning: > [@](#): > > Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. Too bad! Jesus Christ. > ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6716 "2019-08-02T13:41:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He could **guarantee** re-election if he would run on 1) curing baldness and 2) increasing penis size. You know, the stuff they advertise in spam and the backs of pulp magazines. Yup. Why cure child cancer??? They can’t vote and have no money to steal. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6717 "2019-08-02T13:55:52Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > You had it right the first time, without the rolleyes. > > I’d like to hear about any precedent for a president countermanding the orders and procedures of low-level military officers. You consider the Secretary of the Navy to be a “low-level military officer”? No wonder you don’t understand how awards and decorations work. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6718 "2019-08-02T14:06:21Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Yup. Why cure child cancer??? They can’t vote and have no money to steal. EGG-zackly! And you know who gets AIDS. 'Nuff said. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6719 "2019-08-02T14:29:41Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Has anyone ever attempted to keep track of the things that, under Trump, are the likes the world as never seen before, or have they not invented the microprocessor that can keep up yet? You wouldn’t believe how many times he’s said something like that. People are saying it’s the greatest number in history. They’re flooding the White House phone lines to express their awe and with requests to keep it up. > [@](#): > > President Trump promised he would cure AIDS and childhood cancer “very soon” at a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. > > “We will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine,” the president said Thursday night. “I see what they are doing. I see it. They show me. The things we are doing in our country today. There’s never been anything like it. We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America, and curing childhood cancer very shortly.” So, no progress on Small Hands syndrome then? Pity. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6720 "2019-08-02T15:24:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He could **guarantee** re-election if he would run on 1) curing baldness and 2) increasing penis size. You know, the stuff they advertise in spam and the backs of pulp magazines. Or he could simply say that he’s already cured baldness, and use this [cite](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/hair-for-all/594826/) as an example. This really has nothing to do with Trump, though I wouldn’t put it past him. I only bring it up because I find the headline hilarious. Spoilered here, for anyone that wants to go to the link first. _Soon There Will Be Unlimited Hair_ I imagine huge tufts of hair, rolling about the streets of New York City, like tumbleweed through an old west ghost town, or piles of the stuff in drifts, like mounds of snow after a particularly violent snowstorm. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6721 "2019-08-02T17:35:15Z")
Speaking of hair, did anyone notice Trump’s hair at the rally last night? It looked liked he dyed it with mustard. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6722 "2019-08-02T17:51:46Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > You consider the Secretary of the Navy to be a “low-level military officer”? No wonder you don’t understand how awards and decorations work. SECNAV did that at the direction of the president, did he not? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6723 "2019-08-02T18:09:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > SECNAV did that at the direction of the president, did he not? Yes. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6724 "2019-08-02T18:20:25Z")
Then don’t be daft. The question was concerning presidential interference in a process that starts with low level military officers. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6725 "2019-08-02T18:22:36Z")
[Ratcliffe withdraws from consideration.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/08/02/ratcliffe-withdraws-from-consideration-for-intelligence-chief-trump-says/?utm_term=.8563b2edb380) ---
**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:** [August 2, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6726 "2019-08-02T18:32:53Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > [Ratcliffe withdraws from consideration.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/08/02/ratcliffe-withdraws-from-consideration-for-intelligence-chief-trump-says/?utm_term=.8563b2edb380) > [@](#): > > Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex.) **faced questions about a padded résumé and lack of experience** , which led to a lukewarm reception on Capitol Hill. > > “John has therefore decided to stay in Congress **where he has done such an outstanding job representing the people of Texas, and our Country,”** President Trump tweeted, adding that he would have a new nominee shortly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6727 "2019-08-02T18:32:57Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Speaking of hair, did anyone notice Trump’s hair at the rally last night? It looked liked he dyed it with mustard. It was hard not to notice. “Radioactive-horse-piss hair” is an [accurate description](https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1157077948358254593). What is it with far-right people and ridiculously-dyed hair? Here’s [Giuliani](https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1155938545758023682). Here’s [Geert Wilders](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1150051513936556035/JhT6gVIq.jpg). Here’s [Stephen Miller](https://twitter.com/cptfunkadunk/status/1154913773733535744) with spray-on hair. Self-indulgent narcissism appears to be a common characteristic among far-right politicians. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6728 "2019-08-02T18:40:08Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Then don’t be daft. The question was concerning presidential interference in a process that starts with low level military officers. Whatever you say. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=335) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=337)