# 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:** 372
**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 25, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7429 "2020-01-25T03:59:24Z")
Turns out Trump _lied_ about both the number and the extent of the U.S. troops’ injuries. Whodathunkit?: [Number Of U.S. Troops Injured In Iranian Attack Grows To 34 : NPR](https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799342078/pentagon-says-34-u-s-troops-suffered-brain-injuries-from-iranian-missile-strike) ---
**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:** [January 25, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7430 "2020-01-25T04:19:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Turns out Trump _lied_ about both the number and the extent of the U.S. troops’ injuries. Whodathunkit?: [Number Of U.S. Troops Injured In Iranian Attack Grows To 34 : NPR](https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799342078/pentagon-says-34-u-s-troops-suffered-brain-injuries-from-iranian-missile-strike) “Headaches. No big deal. Not like what I’ve seen, when I was a big hero in Nam.” ---
**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:** [January 25, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7431 "2020-01-25T10:54:03Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > “Headaches. No big deal. Not like what I’ve seen, when I was a big hero in Nam.” Yeah, well, this is the guy who believes that [concussion-producing hits in the NFL](https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/a-big-nfl-hit-and-donald-trumps-love-of-violence) are a small price to pay for his entertainment. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7432 "2020-02-03T01:15:50Z")
[ **Taxpayers Get $3.4 Million Tab So Trump Can Host Super Bowl Party For His Club Members** _The president’s latest trip to his Palm Beach resort and nearby golf course brings the taxpayer-funded total for his golfing hobby to $130.4 million._](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-super-bowl_n_5e3734edc5b611ac94d6b545) > [@](#): > > Taxpayers shelled out another $3.4 million to send President Donald Trump to Florida this weekend so he could host a Super Bowl party for paying guests at his for-profit golf course. > > The president’s official schedule shows him spending two and a half hours Sunday evening at a “Super Bowl LIV watch party” at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Tickets sold for $75 each, but were only available to members of the club — the initiation fee for which reportedly runs about $450,000, with annual dues costing several thousands of dollars more. > … Gee, $75 a head and that wasn’t enough for the nachos and beer? > [@](#): > > …In response to a query, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham defended Trump’s trip and attacked HuffPost: “The premise of your story is ridiculous and false, and just more left-wing media bias on display. The president never stops working, and that includes when he is at the Winter White House.” > > Her phrase “Winter White House” refers to Mar-a-Lago, the for-profit resort in Palm Beach that is several miles east of the golf course and that doubled its initiation fee from $100,000 to $200,000 after Trump was elected in 2016. Trump frequently mingles with guests at social events there. > > On Saturday, for example, Trump appeared at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago arranged by the “Trumpettes,” a group his female supporters. The dinner did not appear on the president’s publicly released schedule, and in any case was a campaign event, not an “official” one. … How does Steph say that stuff with a straight face? :rolleyes: And (S)Trumpettes?? You can’t make this shit up. :smack: Anyhoo, this is a much better use for taxpayer’s money than, say, food stamps for able-bodied people who are faking their disabilities or flu shots for the kids STILL held in custody in immigration detention centers. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7433 "2020-02-04T02:48:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > How does Steph say that stuff with a straight face? :rolleyes: … Heavy drinking makes many things easier: > [@](#): > > …Much of Grisham’s professional career was spent in Arizona in a succession of public-relations roles, including briefly owning her own firm. Not all of it appears to have gone smoothly: The New York Times reported last week that she left two employers amid questions about her expense accounts and an allegation of plagiarism (she called the article “not honest” and “hateful” but declined to address it further). She also had two DUI convictions, which she disclosed before she began working at the White House. > > In light of that, it’s a bit jarring to see an array of liquor bottles on a prominent shelf in her White House office. > **[Stephanie Grisham is Trump’s communications czar. Only most people wouldn’t...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/stephanie-grisham-is-trumps-communications-czar-only-most-people-wouldnt-know-it/2019/08/27/b79656ba-c44b-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html)** > > So far, the woman charged with tending to the president’s image has stayed off camera and worked behind the scenes. In fairness, the article goes on to claim that the bottles collection was begun by Sarah Sanders, and Grisham keeps them “as an homage to her predecessor.” She’s quite the piece of work, with a long trail of issues in her C.V. Another example of Trump’s “best people.” ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7434 "2020-02-04T14:24:48Z")
And apparently, at this Super Bowl party, Cheato couldn’t NOT try to be the center of attention - even during the singing of the national anthem. So disrespectful. [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article239913588.html](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article239913588.html) ETA- Why is he still letting his guests bring their phones into the events - hasn’t he learned his lesson? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7435 "2020-02-04T14:34:41Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > ETA- Why is he still letting his guests bring their phones into the events - hasn’t he\*\* learned\*\* his lesson? My bold. I think I may have spotted your problem 🙂 As I think I commented elsewhere on the SDMB, I want to hear from every motherfucker who bitches that NFL players kneeling during the anthem is disrespectful. Every. One. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7436 "2020-02-04T14:45:09Z")
They’re all too busy complaining about Beyonce and Mr. Beyonce not standing up for the anthem. I hear they’re colored folks… ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7437 "2020-02-04T15:49:37Z")
Yeah, I’m just _dying_ to find out how conservatives/Republicans/Trumpies spin that. It’s always great to be held to a standard that the person in a position of authority doesn’t hold him- or herself to. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7438 "2020-02-04T16:11:15Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > Yeah, I’m just _dying_ to find out how conservatives/Republicans/Trumpies spin that. It’s always great to be held to a standard that the person in a position of authority doesn’t hold him- or herself to. :rolleyes: When are you people going to learn: IOWRDI :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7439 "2020-02-04T23:44:47Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > And apparently, at this Super Bowl party, Cheato couldn’t NOT try to be the center of attention - even during the singing of the national anthem. So disrespectful. > > [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article239913588.html](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article239913588.html) > > ETA- Why is he still letting his guests bring their phones into the events - hasn’t he learned his lesson? My uncle did something similar one year during the Thanksgiving prayer. We had him committed by New Year’s Eve. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7440 "2020-02-04T23:53:09Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > My uncle did something similar one year during the Thanksgiving prayer. > > We had him committed by New Year’s Eve. Hmmm… do you still have the name of the doctor? _[Did your uncle wear his underpants on his head?](https://imgur.com/vQ7gDr4)_ ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7441 "2020-02-05T04:25:53Z")
How very odd. I used Google and I also searched directly in the Fox News web site, and you know what? Fox doesn’t seem to be reporting on this. How strange.\* - In case you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7442 "2020-02-06T08:15:44Z")
He was joking about this shit during his campaign, but some people just wouldn’t listen. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7443 "2020-02-06T15:06:39Z")
> [@Rick Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1 has pinned a picture to the top of his Twitter home page showing campaign signs for him for 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, 2040, 2044 … > He really is laying the ground for a coup. The two-term limit was nothing but a tradition – started by Washington, no less – until broken by FDR. When the Republican party took control of both the House and Senate in the midterm elections of 1946, members quickly proposed the 22nd Amendment, sending it out for ratification in March, 1947. It took nearly four years to to ratify with only Oklahoma rejecting it and four other states taking no action at all. Therefore, if the Republicans have trouble extending Dear Leader’s terms beyond two, they have only themselves to blame. [Nelson]Ha, ha.[/N] ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7444 "2020-02-06T16:04:32Z")
Every time the Right tries to paint the Left as racists based on the Democratic Party of the past, the Southern Strategy and the shift following the passage of the Civil Rights Act (CRA) is correctly referenced. While it is not as stark as the racists flooding to the Republican Party following the CRA, there has been a significant realignment of party ideals over the last 60 years. Pointing out what Republicans did 60 years ago and laughing is just as bad as pointing out how racist the Democratic Party was 60 years ago. And nearly as wrong as Republicans calling themselves “the party of Lincoln”, which hurts me to even type in derision. Were I a descendant of Lincoln, I’d sue for defamation. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7445 "2020-02-06T17:39:20Z")
“Most people don’t even know Lincoln was a Republican. Right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that.” ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7446 "2020-02-06T17:55:53Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > “Most people don’t even know Lincoln was a Republican. Right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that.” But, according to Trump, Lincoln didn’t accomplish as much or wasn’t treated more unfairly than Trump. But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7447 "2020-02-07T00:12:28Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > The two-term limit was nothing but a tradition – started by Washington, no less – until broken by FDR. When the Republican party took control of both the House and Senate in the midterm elections of 1946, members quickly proposed the 22nd Amendment, sending it out for ratification in March, 1947. It took nearly four years to to ratify with only Oklahoma rejecting it and four other states taking no action at all. > > Therefore, if the Republicans have trouble extending Dear Leader’s terms beyond two, they have only themselves to blame. If the Dear Leader is still in the White House after January 2021, then the laws—for term limits or anything else—won’t matter in the least. It’s in the Constitution? Who needs a Constitution? If he doesn’t move out on 20 January 2021, then he won’t be moving out 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:** [February 7, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7448 "2020-02-07T01:36:21Z")
It’s payback time! > [@](#): > > In his combative State of the Union address Tuesday, Mr. Trump launched a broadside against one of his favorite targets: “sanctuary cities,” those jurisdictions that limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials. > > “In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed,” Mr. Trump claimed, falsely, speaking of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. > … > > For those familiar with the president’s anti-immigrant musings, it was a familiar refrain. But this time, he was not content merely to engage in fearmongering. Mr. Trump was in the mood to punish those who would defy him. > … > > On Wednesday, the administration announced that, **for the time being** , it would no longer allow residents of New York State to enroll (or re-enroll) in various Trusted Traveler Programs overseen by Customs and Border Protection, which allow preapproved individuals expedited passage through airport security and immigration > … > [Source](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/opinion/ny-green-light-global-entry.html?emc=rss&partner=rss) My bold. “For the time being”? R-i-i-i-ght. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=371) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=373)