# 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:** 370
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7389 "2019-12-27T08:38:57Z")
It’s 2 months old but worth a click if you’ve not seen it. [Jimmy Kimmel does a “mash-up” of Obama’s and Trump’s speeches about killing a terrorist chief.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsBOWSjOLsE) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7390 "2019-12-27T10:06:22Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > nm You’re in the Pit, Goddamn it. Just spit it out. > [@](#): > > Location: Further 😕 Google Maps is taking me to Further Education Co., Ltd. in Bangkok’s financial district. but that doesn’t sound right. Can you share co-ordinates? Will I need a visa to travel there? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7391 "2019-12-27T10:59:07Z")
Bill Maher thinks [the sub-literate Donald Trump is an appropriate President for a sub-literate America.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOAtztz8fc) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7392 "2019-12-27T20:38:00Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Bill Maher thinks [the sub-literate Donald Trump is an appropriate President for a sub-literate America.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOAtztz8fc) _He read…so…slowly…they had to set the teleprompter speed to Shatner._ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7393 "2020-01-07T12:10:04Z")
Ah, the [Roman Hruska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Hruska) argument: > [@Sen Roman Hruska about Nixon SCOTUS nominee G Harrold Carswell](#): > > Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7394 "2020-01-08T02:02:23Z")
Are we still doing this thread? Today he pissed me off because he’s started a war with Iran. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7395 "2020-01-08T03:58:14Z")
How has the orange ape pissed me off… his continued fucking existence. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7396 "2020-01-08T12:56:58Z")
Post #5, and quite a few sine then. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7397 "2020-01-09T23:53:35Z")
His repetition, from the presidential podium, of the lie that we “gave” Iran googobs of money. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7398 "2020-01-10T01:20:58Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > His repetition, from the presidential podium, of the lie that we “gave” Iran googobs of money. John Kerry was on [Lawrence O’Donnell’s show last night](http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/the-last-word/2020-01-08)and mentioned something I wasn’t aware of. The US was apparently paying interest on the Iranian money we were holding: > [@](#): > > (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) > > TRUMP: Iran`s hostility substantially increased after the foolish Iran > > nuclear deal was signed in 2013. And they were given $150 billion, not to > > mention $1.8 billion in cash. > > (END VIDEO CLIP) > > O`DONNELL: Your reaction to that, Secretary Kerry? > > KERRY: It is an outright lie, an outright lie by the president of the > > United States that they were given $150 billion. They were not. And the > > money that they did receive was their money because they sued the United > > States of America and won in court and were being paid interest. > > So, American citizens were paying interest every single day that was > > accruing, more and more billions of dollars that were going to go to Iran. > > We cut that short. We negotiated a deal that greatly reduced the amount of > > money they were, in fact, supposed to receive under court order, and they > > would have received it eventually. And we transferred that to them, most > > of which they owed to other countries and other people in a massive debt > > that Iran had accrued. Here’s the Washington Post’s fact checker on this money: [Fact-checking Trump’s address on the Iran missile attacks](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/08/fact-checking-trumps-address-iran-missile-attacks/) > [@](#): > > \*\*“Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013 and they were given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash.” > \*\* > The final deal was signed in 2015, but that’s not the least of Trump’s factual problems in this sentence. It includes two misleading statements, including one Bottomless Pinocchio claim. > > Trump often makes it sound as if the United States cut a check to Iran as part of the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He also always uses too high an estimate, $150 billion, for the assets involved. > > But this was always Iran’s money. Iran had billions of dollars frozen in foreign banks because of international sanctions over its nuclear program. The Treasury Department estimated that once Iran fulfilled other obligations, it would have about $55 billion left. The Central Bank of Iran said the number was $32 billion. > > As for the $1.8 billion (actually, $1.7 billion), this was related to the settlement of a decades-old claim between the two countries, not the Iran nuclear agreement. An initial payment of $400 million was handed over on Jan. 17, 2016, the day after Iran released four American detainees, including Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian. The timing — which U.S. officials insisted was a coincidence — suggested the cash could be viewed as a ransom payment. > > But the initial cash payment was always Iran’s money. In the 1970s, the then-pro-Western Iranian government under the shah paid $400 million for U.S. military equipment. The equipment was never delivered because the two countries broke off relations after the seizure of American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. Two other payments totaling $1.3 billion — a negotiated agreement on the interest owed on the $400 million — came weeks later. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7399 "2020-01-10T19:11:14Z")
“[Trump says he deserves Nobel Peace Prize not Abiy Ahmed](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51063149)” Mr. President, I’m going to let you in on a secret. That Nobel committee is never going to give you a Peace prize. I guarantee it. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7400 "2020-01-14T11:31:38Z")
**Trump planning to divert additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funds for border wall** > **[Trump planning to divert additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funds for border...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-planning-to-divert-additional-72-billion-in-pentagon-funds-for-border-wall/2020/01/13/59080a3a-363d-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html)** > > The move would give the administration five times more money than Congress authorized in 2020 for barrier construction — and add hundreds of miles of new barriers. > [@](#): > > President Trump is preparing to divert an additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funding for border wall construction this year, five times what Congress authorized him to spend on the project in the 2020 budget, according to internal planning figures obtained by The Washington Post. > > The Pentagon funds would be extracted, for the second year in a row, from military construction projects and counternarcotics funding. According to the plans, the funding would give the government enough money to complete about 885 miles of new fencing by spring 2022, far more than the 509 miles the administration has slated for the U.S. border with Mexico. > > Trump took $2.5billion from military counterdrug programs for border barrier construction in 2019, but this year his administration is planning to take significantly more — $3.5billion. Trump administration officials also are planning to take $3.7billion in military construction funding, slightly more than the $3.6 billion diverted in 2019. > … :smack: ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7401 "2020-01-14T14:58:41Z")
And absolutely no one is surprised. No one paying attention anyway. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7402 "2020-01-14T16:56:48Z")
> [@atimnie](#): > > And absolutely no one is surprised. No one paying attention anyway. Surprised, no. Appalled, yes. Every time he does something like this I think of how all these billions of dollars could have gone towards Health care, infrastructure , Food, education… You know, liberal ideas like that. But that wouldn’t be "winning, " would it? ---
**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:** [January 14, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7403 "2020-01-14T17:02:14Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Surprised, no. Appalled, yes. > > Every time he does something like this I think of how all these billions of dollars could have gone towards Health care, infrastructure , Food, education… You know, liberal ideas like that. But that wouldn’t be "winning, " would it? And his base either doesn’t care or doesn’t see how health care, infrastructure, food, education, etc., benefit THEM. \*“Yeah, the libs may pretend they’re gonna give us all those things, but all they really want to do is take away our guns! And make us all become moslems [sic]! Like that last boy who was president. The one married to that big black cross-dresser!” \* ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7404 "2020-01-14T17:35:58Z")
You’re doing it wrong, you need more misspelled words and no capitalization or punctuation. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7405 "2020-01-14T17:51:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > **Trump planning to divert additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funds for border wall** > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-planning-to-divert-additional-72-billion-in-pentagon-funds-for-border-wall/2020/01/13/59080a3a-363d-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-planning-to-divert-additional-72-billion-in-pentagon-funds-for-border-wall/2020/01/13/59080a3a-363d-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html) > > :smack: That’s a good idea when you’re starting a war, right ? Pull money out of the military ? That’s what people do, correct ? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7406 "2020-01-15T15:47:02Z")
He retweeted a doctored image of Pelosi and Schumer in Muslim garb and standing in front of an Iranian flag: [Trump use of doctored Pelosi-Schumer photo draws Muslim ire | AP News](https://apnews.com/b97da81a149a65c91862585a3a14025e) Stay classy, Mr. President. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7407 "2020-01-15T16:47:46Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > That’s a good idea when you’re starting a war, right ? Pull money out of the military ? That’s what people do, correct ? Well, sure. Then you tell people that nobody funds the military better than you, NOBODY. As long as the suckers believe it, then you’re golden. That’s all that matters - that the suckers continue to buy your bullshit. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7408 "2020-01-15T17:56:16Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Well, sure. Then you tell people that nobody funds the military better than you, NOBODY. > > As long as the suckers believe it, then you’re golden. That’s all that matters - that the suckers continue to buy your bullshit. I know. And it’s fucking me up. I mean on a mental health level. Like, your political assholes, mine, they’re so… transparent about it all. Brazen about their selfish goals, flagrant in their bullshitting, and the fact that they’re out to fuck you and me bareback is nigh self-evident. And yet… and yet it all works, and they still find innumerable fuckwits to not only vote for them, but believe them heart and soul. I don’t get it. Any of it. And on good days it pisses me off ; on bad days I’m thinking a lot about scalpels and warm water. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=369) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=371)