# 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:** 55
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1081 "2017-05-26T15:39:10Z")
Oddly it wasn’t the bullshit he spewed, it was the petty way he implied that the new NATO center was too expensive. Check out the 7 minute mark of [this.](http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/trump-nato-lecture/) “I never asked how much it cost.” ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1082 "2017-05-26T15:54:22Z")
Nancy Pelosi is pissed off because President Trump isn’t visiting foreign countries in alphabetical order. I can’t tell if she’s off her meds, or is mixing her meds with booze. > **[Minority Leader Comments on American Health Care Act CBO Score](https://www.c-span.org/video/?429044-1%2Fminority-leader-comments-american-health-care-act-cbo-score)** > > House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) held her weekly press briefing with reporters. Topics included the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score on the House Republican replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act, the American Health Care Act;... @18:18 time stamp ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1083 "2017-05-26T15:57:11Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > ICE agents eat breakfast, compliment chef, then arrest 3 workers [at Michigan restaurant](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-michigan-restaurant-immigration-arrests-20170525-story.html). Did they at least leave a big tip? ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1084 "2017-05-26T16:05:00Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Nancy Pelosi is pissed off because President Trump isn’t visiting foreign countries in alphabetical order. > > I can’t tell if she’s off her meds, or is mixing her meds with booze. > > [https://www.c-span.org/video/?429044-1/minority-leader-comments-american-health-care-act-cbo-score](https://www.c-span.org/video/?429044-1/minority-leader-comments-american-health-care-act-cbo-score) > > @18:18 time stamp I think you’re in the wrong thread. Try the Stupid Liberal Idea Of The Day. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1085 "2017-05-26T16:18:16Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Nancy Pelosi is pissed off because President Trump isn’t visiting foreign countries in alphabetical order. > > I can’t tell if she’s off her meds, or is mixing her meds with booze. > > [https://www.c-span.org/video/?429044-1/minority-leader-comments-american-health-care-act-cbo-score](https://www.c-span.org/video/?429044-1/minority-leader-comments-american-health-care-act-cbo-score) > > @18:18 time stamp I watched that exchange just now. Characterizing it as “Nancy Pelosi is pissed off because President Trump isn’t visiting foreign countries in alphabetical order” is somewhat misleading. In the course of questioning why Trump would visit Saudi Arabia before visiting our close allies like Canada, Pelosi made an offhand remark, “it wasn’t even alphabetical”. This was a snide way of saying, “you’re not visiting our closest allies first, and I guess you’re not going in alphabetical order, so what’s the deal?” It was somewhat clumsily worded (it was, after all, an extemporaneous answer to a complicated question, and not everyone has Trump’s gift for extemporaneous speaking). But in no way could it be honestly interpreted as “Nancy Pelosi is pissed off because President Trump isn’t visiting foreign countries in alphabetical order.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1086 "2017-05-26T16:20:10Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Did they at least leave a big tip? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1087 "2017-05-26T17:09:52Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > It was somewhat clumsily worded (it was, after all, an extemporaneous answer to a complicated question, and not everyone has Trump’s gift for extemporaneous speaking). Somewhat clumsily worded? What did she even mean by alphabetical order? “Alphabetical” and “Close allies” are not at all synonymous. And how was this a complicated question: > [@](#): > > I’M WONDERING FOR YOUR IMPRESSIONS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FOREIGN TRIP SO FAR AND DO YOU THINK IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1088 "2017-05-26T17:25:37Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Somewhat clumsily worded? What did she even mean by alphabetical order? “Alphabetical” and “Close allies” are not at all synonymous. > > And how was this a complicated question: ::shrug:: Take it how you like. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1089 "2017-05-26T17:33:18Z")
She was being snide. What she meant was “What were you thinking, dolt?” ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1090 "2017-05-26T17:38:09Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > ::shrug:: Take it how you like. We don’t have to go back and forth about whether or not her comment was “clumsy” or “snide”, but what about your claim that she was answering a complicated question? “What are your impressions about…” doesn’t seem complicated, to me. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1091 "2017-05-26T17:46:08Z")
It’s like the kind of joking that Trump’s surrogates always say he is doing. Seriously, though, do you really not understand the sentiment of asking wondering why he would go to Saudi Arabia first. She was speculating on the reasons. -It’s not because they are our most loyal allies -It’s not because he was going in alphabetical order Why visit them first, then. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1092 "2017-05-26T17:47:02Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > We don’t have to go back and forth about whether or not her comment was “clumsy” or “snide”, but what about your claim that she was answering a complicated question? > > “What are your impressions about…” doesn’t seem complicated, to me. Who cares? It doesn’t change the fact Trump’s the biggest fucking moron in the room. Any room. And you fucking _voted_ for him. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1093 "2017-05-26T18:03:32Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Why visit them first, then. Simple travel planning. If he was going to the NATO meeting anyway, and decided to extend an overseas trip, it makes sense to go to the farthest away country first, and work your way back. Hence, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Italy, Belgium, back to D.C. There doesn’t have to be some nefarious purpose for arranging the President’s schedule in this manner. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1094 "2017-05-26T18:14:45Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Simple travel planning. If he was going to the NATO meeting anyway, and decided to extend an overseas trip, it makes sense to go to the farthest away country first, and work your way back. > > Hence, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Italy, Belgium, back to D.C. > > There doesn’t have to be some nefarious purpose for arranging the President’s schedule in this manner. Nefarious? Probably not. I refer to and am guided by Trump’s Razor: “When seeking an explanation for the behavior of President Donald J. Trump, always choose the stupidest possible explanation.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1095 "2017-05-26T18:31:51Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > But in no way could it be honestly interpreted as “Nancy Pelosi is pissed off because President Trump isn’t visiting foreign countries in alphabetical order.” A stupid person could. **D’Anconia** , back me up here. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1096 "2017-05-26T18:33:41Z")
Ah, the eternal Republican motive quandary : evil or stupid ? Por qué no los dos ? ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1097 "2017-05-26T18:41:47Z")
On this trip, has he signed/agreed to any other multi-billion-dollar deals? Don’t think so, off the top of my head. Money deals first, put NATO at the back of the line to show 'em who’s who? (might have misremembered order of visits) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1098 "2017-05-26T19:18:46Z")
Jared signed a Saudi deal right before the trip, if I am remembering correctly. Even if I am not, NATO at the back of the line squares neatly with his teeny little brain. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1099 "2017-05-26T19:33:50Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Nancy Pelosi is pissed off because President Trump isn’t visiting foreign countries in alphabetical order. > > I can’t tell if she’s off her meds, or is mixing her meds with booze. > > [https://www.c-span.org/video/?429044-1/minority-leader-comments-american-health-care-act-cbo-score](https://www.c-span.org/video/?429044-1/minority-leader-comments-american-health-care-act-cbo-score) > > @18:18 time stamp That’s not at all what she was saying, but of course you’re going to want to try to spin it that way. ---
**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 26, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1100 "2017-05-26T19:43:57Z")
> [@SingleMalt](#): > > …“When seeking an explanation for the behavior of President Donald J. Trump, always choose the stupidest possible explanation.” Lemme write that down… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=56)