# 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:** 344
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6869 "2019-08-19T16:00:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > What kind of idiot appoints a “highly unstable” man, a “nut job” and a “fool,” to a top government post?: [Trump lashes out at ‘highly unstable' Anthony Scaramucci](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/08/19/trump-lashes-out-at-highly-unstable-anthony-scaramucci/23796918/) I feel sorry for Scaramooch not-at-all. ---
**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 19, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6870 "2019-08-19T16:06:39Z")
I asked the question in the Clusterfuck thread. > [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/35355): > > Where’s our resident Trump Whisperer? How would he manage to answer that question without admitting that he was wrong? > > Possibilities: By saying it wasn’t his idea to hire Mooch? By saying Mooch lied about his qualifications? By saying he never liked the guy or trusted him, but was just trying to help out an undeserving loser? It is answered here: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > What kind of idiot appoints a “highly unstable” man, a “nut job” and a “fool,” to a top government post?: [Trump lashes out at ‘highly unstable' Anthony Scaramucci](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/08/19/trump-lashes-out-at-highly-unstable-anthony-scaramucci/23796918/) > [@](#): > > The stable genius is on the warpath against to Mooch, calling the former White House communications director a “nut job" and a “fool” > > President Trump lashed out toadie-turned-critic Anthony Scaramucci saying they were never friends before the Mooch’s ill-fated 11-day stint close to the seat of power in 2017. > > “I barely knew him until his 11 days of gross incompetence,” Trump wrote in an acerbic breakfast tweet. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6871 "2019-08-19T16:52:15Z")
If Trump ever held an actual press conference, I’m sure a reporter would ask the burning question: “Then why did you hire him?” I guess that’s why Trump doesn’t hold press conferences. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6872 "2019-08-19T17:29:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > What kind of idiot appoints a “highly unstable” man, a “nut job” and a “fool,” to a top government post?: [Trump lashes out at ‘highly unstable' Anthony Scaramucci](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/08/19/trump-lashes-out-at-highly-unstable-anthony-scaramucci/23796918/) apparently 60 million americans. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6873 "2019-08-19T17:41:53Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > If Trump ever held an actual press conference, I’m sure a reporter would ask the burning question: “Then why did you hire him?” I guess that’s why Trump doesn’t hold press conferences. Obviously, Scaramucci was not properly vetted by the media. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6874 "2019-08-19T18:17:51Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Thus if it melts, a breach in the rim will undoubtedly be found, the sea floods in ala the Mediterranean, and you’ve got yourself a gigantic atoll. We’ve already got a gigantic atoll, the subject of this thread, and hardly need another. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 19, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6875 "2019-08-19T19:17:48Z")
One of these days you’re going to have to do something about that speech impediment… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6876 "2019-08-20T02:30:23Z")
COTUS (the Coward of the United States) has now backed off of any gun control after “consulting” with La Pierre, the head knuckle-dragger of the NRA. Spineless motherfucker. ---
**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 20, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6877 "2019-08-20T03:34:41Z")
Surprising me not in the least. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6878 "2019-08-20T12:28:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > COTUS (the Coward of the United States) has now backed off of any gun control after “consulting” with La Pierre, the head knuckle-dragger of the NRA. Spineless motherfucker. Trump was no doubt surprised that the NRA was opposed - who knew they had strong opinions on the subject? Kudos to La Pierre on his timing - as always, the last one to talk to the CFSG wins. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6879 "2019-08-20T13:44:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Surprising me not in the least. Yep. I would’ve bet thousands of dollars that Trump would not lift his very tiny, minuscule, little pinky to advance any sort of gun control after the latest rounds of gun massacres. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6880 "2019-08-20T14:30:29Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Yep. I would’ve bet thousands of dollars that Trump would not lift his very tiny, minuscule, little pinky to advance any sort of gun control after the latest rounds of gun massacres. According to the [Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goes-dark-on-gun-control-after-pledging-background-checks-like-weve-never-had-before), the guy with the concentration ability of a goldfish has forgotten about the issue. > [@](#): > > That Trump’s attention span drifted elsewhere before Congress could even reconvene to debate gun control reform was hardly a surprise. The president has promised to tackle background checks before, only to drop the idea once the mass shooting that precipitated his apparent interest faded from the news cycle. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6881 "2019-08-20T15:40:36Z")
Which will work until it happens again. As is so often the case, the good news and the bad news are the same news. Crazy as a duck on acid. The _brown_ acid. ---
**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 20, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6882 "2019-08-20T15:52:33Z")
That’s an insult to ducks everywhere. ---
**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 20, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6883 "2019-08-20T15:55:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > That’s an insult to ducks everywhere. Or a compliment to the brown acid. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6884 "2019-08-20T15:55:59Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > COTUS (the Coward of the United States) has now backed off of any gun control after “consulting” with La Pierre, the head knuckle-dragger of the NRA. Spineless motherfucker. Still, it’s good to know there’s somebody that Trump will listen to. Maybe we could get La Pierre to tell Trump how tariffs work. But it’s probably better to hold him in reserve in case we need to stop Trump from starting a war. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6885 "2019-08-20T16:12:39Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Yep. I would’ve bet thousands of dollars that Trump would not lift his very tiny, minuscule, little pinky to advance any sort of gun control after the latest rounds of gun massacres. Trump’s election strategy is this: if he can get 100% turnout of his 40% base, vs. a Democrat’s 65% turnout of their 60% support…he wins. So everything he does between now and the election will be designed to fire up the base. And since his base also contains a not-insignificant number of gun nuts and white supremacists, he will do _nothing_ that will make them think about not going to the polls. He can’t afford to disillusion any of his deplorables. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6886 "2019-08-21T02:33:57Z")
Aug. 20, 2019 Individual 1: “any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat” are either uninformed or show “great disloyalty.” [Trump: Jewish people who vote Democratic show 'great disloyalty'](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-jewish-people-who-vote-democrat-show-great-disloyalty-n1044621)? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6887 "2019-08-21T02:39:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1: “any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat” are either uninformed or show “great disloyalty.” > [Trump: Jewish people who vote Democratic show 'great disloyalty'](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-jewish-people-who-vote-democrat-show-great-disloyalty-n1044621)? Obviously this has nothing to do with actually trying to persuade Jewish people to vote for him, since Jews are a minuscule percentage of the US population and are mostly clustered in solidly blue areas anyway. I agree with **jsc1953** that this is all about “firing up the base”, specifically stoking anger against “disloyal Jews”. I wonder how many of the people who are, for instance, gleefully calling Ilhan Omar an anti-Semite every chance they get on the basis of a few stupid and insensitive remarks about “Benjamins” and the like are going to get equally outraged about Trump’s blatant invoking of classic anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish “disloyalty”. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2019, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/6888 "2019-08-21T03:05:52Z")
We know Jews can’t be real Americans, because they are only loyal to their own kind. Their own stinkin’ usurious, money-grubbing, media-owning, putting-Christian-blood-in-the matzoh kind. Likewise the Cathlicks, ring-kissers who owe their allegiance only to da Pope a Rome. Yeah, right-wingers are the TRUE enemies of xenophobia. Keep piling on those brown congresswomen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=343) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=345)