# 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:** 354
**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:** [October 3, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7069 "2019-10-03T17:38:43Z")
Trump picks on the teen Swede climate-change activist again: [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-greta-thunberg-tweet-twitter-mocks-climate-change-activist-1462909](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-greta-thunberg-tweet-twitter-mocks-climate-change-activist-1462909) He should pick on someone \*smaller \*than him. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7070 "2019-10-03T19:19:15Z")
He’s jealous because she’s a better actor. 😉 ---
**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:** [October 3, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7071 "2019-10-03T22:56:27Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > He’s jealous because she’s a better actor. 😉 He’s jealous because she is simply better than him, not just in acting. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7072 "2019-10-04T00:27:34Z")
> [@](#): > > The tweet by @Opinion8dKellie, posted last Monday, said of Thunberg: "What an actress! ‘I should be in school.’ She’s getting the best education socialism can steal. I don’t think they quite understand how the education system is run. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7073 "2019-10-04T05:49:14Z")
To me one thing about Kellie’s twit that’s particularly aberrant is this: > [@Kellie](#): > > I won’t be held hostage by someone who just got a learner’s permit. Uhm, let’s see: speaking as if driver’s laws in Sweden were the same as in whichever corner of the US Kellie is from, check. Assuming that a specially-activist member of a very-non-driving generation will have jumped on her chance at getting a driver’s license, check… Kellie knows less about Thunberg than I do about Kellie. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7074 "2019-10-04T08:56:35Z")
I mean, yes (also, not sure how one’s ability to drive is relevant to a debate in any way), but I figure it’s just a crack at Greta’s age. Which is just misdirection to not have to answer her actual points - not to mention, how the fuck and in what way is she holding you _hostage_, you degenerate bag of crazy ? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7075 "2019-10-04T09:58:37Z")
Yes it is (no matter what Greta says, these people would dismiss it because of her age, and if they couldn’t use her age they’d use her sex, and if not her nationality, and if not her hair color, and if not her lack of an education, and if not they’d call her an “elite” as if being good at what you do was somehow wrong…), but it’s the [blindered-ness](http://rafasantander.blogspot.com/2012/01/burro.html) of it that gets me. These are people who on one hand fear anybody not like them and on the other cannot conceive of any individual or culture being not like them. Saying “a high-school junior” would still be using an American frame of reference which would even make sense, not just to Americans, but to anybody who’s watched enough American media in English to know the expression. The reference to learner permits, though, is just completely head-up-her-exhaust-tube. It doesn’t even apply equally in all of the US! ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7076 "2019-10-04T10:41:55Z")
Has Trump shot someone in 5th Avenue yet? At the rate he is going, we might get to test that boast. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7077 "2019-10-04T14:24:02Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Has Trump shot someone in 5th Avenue yet? At the rate he is going, we might get to test that boast. The only true thing he’s said. \ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7078 "2019-10-04T14:28:06Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Has Trump shot someone in 5th Avenue yet? At the rate he is going, we might get to test that boast. If he tried, he’d probably end up shooting himself in the foot and his followers would discuss what great leadership it shows. And then he would say his bleeding foot shown on live TV was fake news and he has “The best aim, best!”. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7079 "2019-10-04T14:39:56Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > If he tried, he’d probably end up shooting himself in the foot and his followers would discuss what great leadership it shows. And then he would say his bleeding foot shown on live TV was fake news and he has “The best aim, best!”. Of course he’d insist on having the surgery done with a local rather than general anesthetic so he could give the surgeon instructions as he goes about fixing his foot, cuz dontcha know that he knows more about surgery than anybody. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7080 "2019-10-04T14:54:29Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Of course he’d insist on having the surgery done with a local rather than general anesthetic so he could give the surgeon instructions as he goes about fixing his foot, cuz dontcha know that he knows more about surgery than anybody. I hope they can work on the bone spurs while they’re in there. The poor man has been suffering for 50 years. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7081 "2019-10-05T15:34:31Z")
Don’t forget that it was all Pelosi’s and Obama’s fault, somehow. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7082 "2019-10-05T17:46:29Z")
[CNN](https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1180482443364782082): > [@](#): > > Trump told a long story about Van Jones leaving him off a list of people to credit for justice reform, then apologizing. > > Jones, who vocally credits Trump for justice reform, says none of this happened…and Trump may be confusing him with John Legend. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7083 "2019-10-05T22:45:25Z")
[Trump wants to shrink the NSA.](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-reduces-national-security-council-whistleblower-identity-john-bolton-1463386) Is this Trump punishing the agency for the whistleblower? Why, whatever made you think that? [This is being done because of new NSA adviser Robert O’Brien wanting a leaner, meaner NSA](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/464489-trump-has-ordered-national-security-staff-cut-report). :rolleyes: Oh, and I’m sure the fact that a [second whistleblower might come forward](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/us/politics/second-trump-whistleblower.html) has nothing to do with it either. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7084 "2019-10-06T00:01:59Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > [Trump wants to shrink the NSA.](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-reduces-national-security-council-whistleblower-identity-john-bolton-1463386) > Is this Trump punishing the agency for the whistleblower? Why, whatever made you think that? [This is being done because of new NSA adviser Robert O’Brien wanting a leaner, meaner NSA](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/464489-trump-has-ordered-national-security-staff-cut-report). :rolleyes: > > Oh, and I’m sure the fact that a [second whistleblower might come forward](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/us/politics/second-trump-whistleblower.html) has nothing to do with it either. Er, National Security Council, not Agency. > [@Newsweek](#): > > As Bloomberg noted, the NSC was created under former President Harry Truman’s administration in 1947 in order to provide the Oval Office-holder with experts on foreign policy matters. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7085 "2019-10-06T00:13:28Z")
Fewer witnesses ---
**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:** [October 6, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7086 "2019-10-06T00:23:54Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Fewer witnesses And what do you bet that the pruning will be along fealty-to-Donald lines? That will send a message, not only within the NSC itself, but in every other part of government. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7087 "2019-10-06T01:16:39Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Er, National Security Council, not Agency. :smack: ---
**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:** [October 6, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7088 "2019-10-06T03:28:24Z")
Trump tweets that Romney is a “pompous ass.” And he would know, having looked in the mirror at one for so many years. Good strategy for keeping Senate Republicans on your side as the Impeachment Train comes barreling down the track, too, Mr. President! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=353) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=355)