# 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:** 355
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7089 "2019-10-09T23:34:38Z")
Hey, remember Ed Meese? Mired in scandal, was the target of many investigations, and held Richard Nixon’s belief that if the President does it, it’s not illegal? [Here’s your Presidential Medal of Freedom Mr. Meese](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZQB05fL9Cs) ---
**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 10, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7090 "2019-10-10T00:18:17Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Hey, remember Ed Meese? Mired in scandal, was the target of many investigations, and held Richard Nixon’s belief that if the President does it, it’s not illegal? > > [Here’s your Presidential Medal of Freedom Mr. Meese](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZQB05fL9Cs) Also adding to the fun: one of Meese’s signature causes was pornography. So getting that medal from Mr. Appeared-in-Several-Playboy-Videos (not to mention Mr. Consorted-with-Porn-Star-While-Wife-was-Home-with-their-Newborn) must have been an extra-special feature of the day for ol’ Ed. > [@](#): > > … Meese sought to establish tough policies against PORNOGRAPHY. He appointed a Commission on Pornography, which issued a controversial two-volume report in 1986 that stated that there was a causal link between violent pornography and aggressive behavior toward women. The report also claimed that nonviolent, sexually explicit material contributed to sexual violence, a conclusion that many social scientists challenged. … [https://law.jrank.org/pages/8524/Meese-Edwin-III.html](https://law.jrank.org/pages/8524/Meese-Edwin-III.html) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7091 "2019-10-10T00:22:39Z")
I love it when all of Rachel Maddow’s good points show up on the Dope. Sent from my SM-G935P using Tapatalk ---
**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 10, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7092 "2019-10-10T00:31:03Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > I love it when all of Rachel Maddow’s good points show up on the Dope. > > Sent from my SM-G935P using Tapatalk They tend to percolate all over Twitter, too. (Possibly Facebook as well, but I don’t look at that so couldn’t say.) ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Morrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Marion\_Morrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Morrison)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7093 "2019-10-10T00:46:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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! You cling to that, cupcake, you got a long 5 years coming up. 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 10, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7094 "2019-10-10T00:46:48Z")
Fucking Ed Meese. One of the biggest shitheads of the Reagan Administration. I had no idea he was still alive. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7095 "2019-10-10T00:47:50Z")
> [@Marion\_Morrison](#): > > You cling to that, cupcake, you got a long 5 years coming up. 🙂 And who might YOU be, little man? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7096 "2019-10-10T01:01:32Z")
> [@Marion\_Morrison](#): > > You cling to that, cupcake, you got a long 5 years coming up. 🙂 14 posts total, 12 of them today. Fuck off, troll. ---
**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 14, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7097 "2019-10-14T18:09:21Z")
Polls show support for impeachment grows: [2020 Vision Monday: Polls show a 17-point swing toward impeaching Trump, which could drag down his reelection bid](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/10/14/polls-show-17-point-swing-toward-impeaching-trump/23836927/) Not that it will make much difference to timid, willfully-blind Senate Republicans. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7098 "2019-10-14T21:12:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Polls show support for impeachment grows: [https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/10/14/polls-show-17-point-swing-toward-impeaching-trump/23836927/](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/10/14/polls-show-17-point-swing-toward-impeaching-trump/23836927/) > > Not that it will make much difference to timid, willfully-blind Senate Republicans. It would need to be happening in their home state, and hence be a direct threat to their job. ---
**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 17, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7099 "2019-10-17T02:17:32Z")
Nice economy you have there in Turkey, Trump writes. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it: [Trump's extraordinary letter to Turkey's Erdogan](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/10/16/trumps-extraordinary-letter-to-turkeys-erdogan/23839194/) ---
**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 17, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7100 "2019-10-17T03:25:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Nice economy you have there in Turkey, Trump writes. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it: [https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/10/16/trumps-extraordinary-letter-to-turkeys-erdogan/23839194/](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/10/16/trumps-extraordinary-letter-to-turkeys-erdogan/23839194/) I wonder why he didn’t just ask Erdogan to do him a favor. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7101 "2019-10-17T07:24:13Z")
There were … \ … 14 things in [this article](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/trump-turkey-kurds-false-claims/index.html) that pissed me off, if we discount repeats. I was planning on enumerating them, but that might make me grind my teeth to the point that some of them shatter, so I’ll just leave it here and invite the group to come up with your own respective totals. Post 'em if you wish, but remember, this is not a competition. ---
**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 17, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7102 "2019-10-17T07:51:32Z")
> [@mjmlabs](#): > > There were … \ [hijack] I teach my students here [Chisanbop (지산법)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop). Heck, I even taught it to my wife (who happens to be South Korean). I also use Chisanbop quite often when I need to do some quick addition or subtraction. How were you introduced to it? I learned it when I was a college freshman in Seoul. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7103 "2019-10-17T08:13:10Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [hijack] > I teach my students here [Chisanbop (지산법)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop). Heck, I even taught it to my wife (who happens to be South Korean). I also use Chisanbop quite often when I need to do some quick addition or subtraction. > > How were you introduced to it? I learned it when I was a college freshman in Seoul. > [/hijack] Hippie/progressive, tiny, expensive, private New England elementary school for gifted kids back in the '70s. Forgot anything useful by the time I was 12. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7104 "2019-10-17T12:44:33Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [hijack] > I teach my students here [Chisanbop (지산법)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop). Heck, I even taught it to my wife (who happens to be South Korean). I also use Chisanbop quite often when I need to do some quick addition or subtraction. > > How were you introduced to it? I learned it when I was a college freshman in Seoul. > [/hijack] Pretty much the same way most people my age in the USA were - through TV commercials touting some mail-order system of teaching it. I even remember a game show where someone tried to set a “world record” of some sort by using it, even though (a) I could do the problem in my head faster than the contestant could using it, and (b) in the end, she made a mistake when she thought the answer to the final problem was 100 more than it actually was. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7105 "2019-10-17T13:32:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Turkish presidential sources told BBC Turkish: “President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected it and put it in the bin.” > > [Turkey's Erdogan 'threw Trump's Syria letter in bin'](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50080737) Remember that this is the letter that Trump leaked to a Fox News host because he was super duper proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7106 "2019-10-17T13:36:59Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > Remember that this is the letter that Trump leaked to a Fox News host because he was super duper proud of it. I heard an interview of a Turkish diplomat this morning on NPR (didn’t catch her title, some sort of envoy or something). Anyway, when asked what the Turkey thought of the letter she said “We ignored it. It lacked a certain diplomatic finesse.” Another award for understatement of the year. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7107 "2019-10-17T13:48:08Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > Remember that this is the letter that Trump leaked to a Fox News host because he was super duper proud of it. No doubt he was proud. Much better than he could have done on his own though. I wonder who helped him? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7108 "2019-10-17T13:53:19Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I heard an interview of a Turkish diplomat this morning on NPR (didn’t catch her title, some sort of envoy or something). Anyway, when asked what the Turkey thought of the letter she said “We ignored it. It lacked a certain diplomatic finesse.” > > Another award for understatement of the year. This from an administration whose diplomatic finesse amounts to ethnic cleansing of Kurds. And even they find a way of looking down on Trump’s “third grade” diplomatic effort. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=354) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=356)