# 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:** 395
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7890 "2020-05-20T23:27:03Z")
Along with tax cuts, deregulation is his real agenda, everything else is just a distraction: > **[Trump orders agencies to cut regulations that ‘inhibit economic recovery’](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/498614-trump-orders-agencies-to-cut-regulations-that-inhibit-economic/)** > > An executive order signed by President Trump Tuesday directs agencies to consider what sort of deregulatory action they might take that could spur economic growth. If he is not an asset of Russia, he might as well be. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7891 "2020-05-20T23:31:41Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > On this coast, we’re still a bit sensitive about the 1859 Pig War > > [Pig War (1859) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)) > > ETA: Potatoes were also involved, as the pig was eating them. LOL, this was the exact thing I thought of when **Horatius** made his post. 😃 It was a bit of a mash-up, for sure. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7892 "2020-05-21T01:30:57Z")
I’ve got my eyes on you. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7893 "2020-05-21T01:38:08Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > On this coast, we’re still a bit sensitive about the 1859 Pig War > > [Pig War (1859) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)) > > ETA: Potatoes were also involved, as the pig was eating them. “[Fifty-four forty or fight!](https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/fifty-four-forty-or-fight)” (Actually, there are times I’d prefer forty-seven twenty since that would put me in Canada.) ---
**Author:** ![arles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@arles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arles)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7894 "2020-05-21T05:26:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > More from the “You Can’t Make This Shit Up” Department. :dubious: > > [ **Trump Warns Farmers That Gun Control Will Leave Their Potatoes Defenseless** > _Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam fires back: “I suggest you stop taking hydroxychloroquine.”_](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-virginia-potatoes_n_5ec4b313c5b6956f416a1114) > > Who needs stand-up comedy anymore, amirite? Maybe Melania was reading him **Attack of the Killer Potatoes** as a bedtime story: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack\_of\_the\_Killer\_Potatoes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Potatoes) Or maybe this is just what goes on in that bigly mind of his, [https://youtu.be/J3IS8QMTl6c](https://youtu.be/J3IS8QMTl6c) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7895 "2020-05-21T11:31:21Z")
> [@arles](#): > > Maybe Melania was reading him **Attack of the Killer Potatoes** as a bedtime story: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack\_of\_the\_Killer\_Potatoes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Potatoes) “…to his horror, he realized that hidden within his mashed potatoes was… _cauliflower!_” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7896 "2020-05-21T14:06:59Z")
президент Trump is having another fucking toddler tantrum over states’ expansion of mail-in voting and hopes to be an [extortionate scumbag](https://www.npr.org/2020/05/20/859333693/trump-repeats-unfounded-claims-about-mail-in-voting-threatens-funding-to-some-st) about it. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7897 "2020-05-21T15:13:11Z")
That’ll last until he realizes that, because they crowded together at his rallies, a disproportionate number of MAGAts are too sick to go to the polls come election day and he’ll scream at the states who don’t get ballots out into their hands that weekend. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7898 "2020-05-21T20:41:25Z")
Hypocrisy comes easy to him: [Trump slams mail-in balloting promoted by his own campaign](https://news.yahoo.com/trump-slams-mail-balloting-promoted-193711771.html) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7899 "2020-05-22T21:07:30Z")
Chump is saying if states don’t allow houses of worship to open, he will override the governors and order them open. WTF?!? 😕 ---
**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:** [May 22, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7900 "2020-05-22T23:05:07Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Chump is saying if states don’t allow houses of worship to open, he will override the governors and order them open. WTF?!? 😕 Chest-thumping pleases the base. The base never stops to wonder if their wonderful Big Bully actually has the power to do what he brags he’ll do. People of the land. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7901 "2020-05-22T23:07:30Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Chest-thumping pleases the base. The base never stops to wonder if their wonderful Big Bully actually has the power to do what he brags he’ll do. > > People of the land. I guess once they do open, whenever that may be, he’ll jump in and claim credit. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7902 "2020-05-22T23:10:27Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I guess once they do open, whenever that may be, he’ll jump in and claim credit. Of course. Hell, he might even _attend_ one. And, naturally, give a reading from Two Corinthians… ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7903 "2020-05-23T00:48:00Z")
And of course it wouldn’t occur to Don that he might possibly end up thinning out some of his Nov. voters with these _BACK TO CHURCH_ orders. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7904 "2020-05-23T02:35:18Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > And of course it wouldn’t occur to Don that he might possibly end up thinning out some of his Nov. voters with these _BACK TO CHURCH_ orders. Shhhhh! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7905 "2020-05-23T05:34:38Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Of course. Hell, he might even _attend_ one. > > And, naturally, give a reading from Two Corinthians… No, I think that would be _Corona_thinsians XIX. You know, novel. Some book or something. Nobody reads them so it doesn’t really matter … look at that shinny object over there! ObamaGATE! ---
**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:** [May 23, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7907 "2020-05-23T06:29:25Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Chump is saying if states don’t allow houses of worship to open, he will override the governors and order them open. WTF?!? 😕 Trump is going to need the evangelical vote in November. He’s been throwing them red meat. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7908 "2020-05-23T06:33:41Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Trump is going to need the evangelical vote in November. He’s been throwing them red meat. They can’t vote for him if they’re dead. Theoretically. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7909 "2020-05-23T13:34:19Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > They can’t vote for him if they’re dead. Theoretically. Except in Texas. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/7910 "2020-05-23T15:42:08Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Except in Texas. 😉 I was going to say Chicago, but Chicago cemeteries are pretty solid blue. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=394) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=396)