# 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:** 342
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6829 "2019-08-16T16:07:49Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Hmmm. This idea of buying Greenland has possibilities. A few minutes with google and a calculator reveals fun stuff. > > Like Rhode Island is 1,212 sq. miles, which is apparently acceptable for a state. Greenland is 836,300 square miles, so it could be turned into 690 states! Not that I’ve ever (knowingly) talked with a Greenlander, my bet is they’d be far more likely to lean Democratic than Republican. Just think: 13800 more Democratic senators! Their population is something around 57,000. Meaning each of these new states would have about 82.5 people. (Great odds if you aspire to get into politics.) > > On the other hand, that’s certainly enough for them to change the official language of the United States. (I wonder how hard it is to learn Danish?) > > I think out of fairness the state lines should be drawn up radially, like pizzas. Then each state would get about 39 miles of coastline (unless I screwed up the km to mile conversion. Plenty for shipping purposes. And every single person could have a 4.8 mile stretch of beach for his very own! > > Sounds like paradise. You get to be a senator and you get to be a senator and … ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6830 "2019-08-16T16:29:32Z")
POTUS, who is not exactly svelte, insults an overweight supporter at a New Hampshire rally. The supporter, true to, er, form, is totally cool with that: [Trump mocks supporter's physique at New Hampshire rally: 'That guy's got a serious weight problem'](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/08/16/trump-mocks-supporters-weight-at-new-hampshire-rally/23794936/) ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6831 "2019-08-16T16:31:33Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > That was Old Mexico. This is New Mexico we’re talking about. It’s slightly used. Don’t pay full price. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6832 "2019-08-16T16:56:06Z")
Jeeze, you let some aliens crash at your place and the property value plummets. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6833 "2019-08-16T17:49:55Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Is that land, or including ice cover? Because if it’s the latter it’s already shrinking. I don’t think it matters in this case. The Arctic has a ton of floating ice, and Antarctica has huge shelves of ice that jut out past the land, but I think Greenland is basically just ice sitting directly on top of land. So the average altitude of Greenland will decrease as the ice melts, but the surface area stays about the same. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > When I lived Out West, people there were always complaining about comparisons to Rhode Island. RI is smaller than a lot of western _counties_. Wyoming’s almost 100,000 square miles, so Greenland could make about eight REAL states. (at least as far as westerners are concerned). > > Hey, Little Rhody is small, yes, but it has nearly twice as many people as Wyoming! (1.05 million to .563 million.) And in politics, it’s people who should count, not empty miles of rock, sand, and tumbleweeds. Why does a Wyomingite’s opinion carry twice the weight of a Rhode Islander, hmm? Let alone 70 times that of a Californian? (39.8 million) > [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > You get to be a senator and you get to be a senator and … Exactly! ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6834 "2019-08-16T18:20:34Z")
[cite](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/netanyahu-considers-blocking-omar-tlaib-from-entering-israel-ahead-of-a-planned-weekend-visit/2019/08/15/d69983ce-d15b-4074-8590-c6f69bd4a084_story.html) Apparently, he’s asking other countries to bar members of Congress from traveling there. I get that he doesn’t like them. But dragging other countries into his squabble is disgusting. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6835 "2019-08-16T20:29:15Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > It’s slightly used. Don’t pay full price. You drive a new state off the lot and the value immediately drops by 20%. ---
**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 16, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6836 "2019-08-16T20:52:22Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > On the other hand, that’s certainly enough for them to change the official language of the United States. (I wonder how hard it is to learn Danish?) Don’t you mean _establish an official language of the United States_? The US currently has no official language. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6837 "2019-08-16T21:24:57Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Don’t you mean _establish an official language of the United States_? The US currently has no official language. Try telling MAGAbots that. I’m still rolling my eyes from that goob who insisted to Jake Tapper that you had to swear into office with your hand on the BYE-BULL. Then his wordless blinkblink at the camera after Jake ‘corrected’ him – one of my true pleasures to watch. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6838 "2019-08-16T22:36:49Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > Try telling MAGAbots that. I’m sti rolling my eyes from that goob who insisted to Jake Tapper that you had to swear into office with your hand on the BYE-BULL. Then his wordless blinkblink at the camera after Jake ‘corrected’ him – one of my true pleasures to watch. That was such a good moment I had to go find it: This doofus was an elected official? He should not even be allowed to vote if he thinks he lives in a theocracy. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6839 "2019-08-16T22:56:15Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That was such a good moment I had to go find it: > > This doofus was an elected official? He should not even be allowed to vote if he thinks he lives in a theocracy. Thank you! I love the point where you can actually see his mind go into lockup. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6840 "2019-08-16T23:22:54Z")
> [@Bouncer](#): > > Frankly he’s just exhausting. I was thinking yesterday about the influencing of Israel to ban Congresswomen, and I wake up today to find out he wants to buy Greenland. > I mean… fuck dude, take a day off from doing batshit/stupid things. > It’s like trying to drink from the firehose of stupidity. It’s keeping Epstein out of the news, though, isn’t it? Or at least it’s limiting the amount of time that can be devoted to the Epstein story. Job done! > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > In large part, this raid was about sending a message to undocumented workers. That message is “If you complain about harassment and abuse and call attention to yourselves, you will feel the consequences. You’ll be deported and you might lose your kids”. > > [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-koch-foods/allegations-of-labor-abuses-dogged-mississippi-plant-years-before-immigration-raids-idUSKCN1UZ1OV](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-koch-foods/allegations-of-labor-abuses-dogged-mississippi-plant-years-before-immigration-raids-idUSKCN1UZ1OV) Yes, quite true. It may yet backfire on Trump, though: the Koch Brothers are not happy. (It was their plant.) They’ve been unhappy for a while, but this won’t have made them more happy. > **[Koch Donor Network Won't Support Trump in 2020](https://www.newsweek.com/koch-network-wont-support-trump-2020-1278141)** > > Koch will focus on influencing gubernatorial and congressional races, prioritizing issues including poverty and drug addiction. ---
**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 16, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6841 "2019-08-16T23:36:39Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > … > > Yes, quite true. It may yet backfire on Trump, though: the Koch Brothers are not happy. (It was their plant.) They’ve been unhappy for a while, but this won’t have made them more happy. > > [Koch Donor Network Will Not Support Trump in 2020, but Will Promote Permanent Legal Status for Dreamers: Report](https://www.newsweek.com/koch-network-wont-support-trump-2020-1278141) There was an interesting story about a new book on the Koch brothers on Fresh Air this week. **[‘Kochland’: How The Koch Brothers Changed U.S. Corporate And Political Power](https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750803289/kochland-how-the-koch-brothers-changed-u-s-corporate-and-political-power)** There’s a transcript of the show that you can read in about five minutes, if you don’t want to listen. I don’t feel I can do the interview justice with a few quoted paragraphs. It’s detailed and complicated. Well worth a look/listen. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6842 "2019-08-16T23:59:30Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yes, quite true. It may yet backfire on Trump, though: the Koch Brothers are not happy. (It was their plant.) They’ve been unhappy for a while, but this won’t have made them more happy. Nope. I posted the true fact that it was founded by the wrong Fred Koch in another thread. > [@Wikipedia](#): > > Despite similarities in the names and the fact that both were founded by men named Fred Koch, Koch Foods has no relation to Koch Industries or the Koch brothers; their founders are two entirely different people. > **[Koch Foods](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Foods)** > > Koch Foods is a food processor and distributor in Park Ridge, Illinois that as of December 2019\[update\] is listed by Forbes magazine as number 125 on the list of the largest private companies in the US. As of October 2014, the company had a revenue of $3 billion, and approximately 14,000 employees. The company is owned by Joseph Grendys. > The company was founded in 1973. Until 1985, it was a "one-room" chicken processing outfit with 13 employees, primarily conducting de-boning and cutting. The co... ---
**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:** [August 17, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6843 "2019-08-17T00:10:29Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > There was an interesting story about a new book on the Koch brothers on Fresh Air this week. > > **[‘Kochland’: How The Koch Brothers Changed U.S. Corporate And Political Power](https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750803289/kochland-how-the-koch-brothers-changed-u-s-corporate-and-political-power)** > There’s a transcript of the show that you can read in about five minutes, if you don’t want to listen. I don’t feel I can do the interview justice with a few quoted paragraphs. It’s detailed and complicated. Well worth a look/listen. Yes, that book sounds great; Terry did an amazing job with the interview. The Kochs have been pushing ‘small government’ for decades, with horrifying results. They’ve truly been a force for destruction. Their differences with Trump are interesting. It’s amazing that people so powerful have had to defer to what’s essentially the power of white supremacism. I’m sure it took them by surprise. (Not that the Kochs are fans of diversity or equality by any means.) ---
**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 17, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6844 "2019-08-17T00:33:40Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yes, that book sounds great; Terry did an amazing job with the interview. The Kochs have been pushing ‘small government’ for decades, with horrifying results. They’ve truly been a force for destruction. > > Their differences with Trump are interesting. It’s amazing that people so powerful have had to defer to what’s essentially the power of white supremacism. I’m sure it took them by surprise. (Not that the Kochs are fans of diversity or equality by any means.) Thanks for following up on that. It was an incredible interview. To the Koch brothers, Donald must seem like the loosest of loose cannons. They are really the anti-trump (as in anti-matter), in the sense that they are relentlessly goal-driven and methodical and he is Mr. Shoot [del]From the Hip[/del] Shoot Off His Mouth. They are into the long game and he wants his “tweets to go off like a rocket” today–who cares about tomorrow. They eschew notoriety, and he is all about today’s headlines. And yet they are both/all forces for destruction. ---
**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 17, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6845 "2019-08-17T01:08:23Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > POTUS, who is not exactly svelte, insults an overweight supporter at a New Hampshire rally. The supporter, true to, er, form, is totally cool with that: [Trump mocks supporter's physique at New Hampshire rally: 'That guy's got a serious weight problem'](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/08/16/trump-mocks-supporters-weight-at-new-hampshire-rally/23794936/) The Trump supporter should consider wearing a really long tie. That’s slimming. ---
**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 17, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6846 "2019-08-17T01:46:26Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That was such a good moment I had to go find it: > > This doofus was an elected official? He should not even be allowed to vote if he thinks he lives in a theocracy. Thanks for the link! Oh, he, along with the rest of the 'pubbies, are likely fully aware that we don’t currently live in a theocracy. They just want us to, their whining about “No Sharia Law in the Good Ole You Ess of Ay!” notwithstanding. If they can’t get it legislated into being a theocracy, they’ll just keep talking about it as though and acting in elected office as though it is. At some point it’ll be too cumbersome for the Supreme Court (while it still has some vestige of understanding the constitution) to deal with it and then _POOF!_\* You got your Evangelical Christian Sharia full on. \*Too bad UBB code doesn’t have a [pink sparkle] tag. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6847 "2019-08-17T01:50:02Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That was such a good moment I had to go find it: > > This doofus was an elected official? He should not even be allowed to vote if he thinks he lives in a theocracy. Holy fucking shit. That is every Trump voter facing the statement: I’d like you to think about this. Response is a blank fucking mouthbreathing deer in the headlights look. Fuck. Think? Oh, I’m fucked. ---
**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 17, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6848 "2019-08-17T02:17:34Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That was such a good moment I had to go find it: > > This doofus was an elected official? He should not even be allowed to vote if he thinks he lives in a theocracy. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Thank you! > > I love the point where you can actually see his mind go into lockup. > [@bobot](#): > > Holy fucking shit. That is every Trump voter facing the statement: I’d like you to think about this. > Response is a blank fucking mouthbreathing deer in the headlights look. > Fuck. Think? Oh, I’m fucked. I got to see that live. I was surprised later to find out he was only in mindlock for about seven seconds before Tapper spoke up. It seemed to go _forever._ 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=341) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=343)