# 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:** 70
**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:** [July 19, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1381 "2017-07-19T14:46:33Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > In that photo, Manafort looks a bit like Steve Bannon before he was injected with Nazi experimental rapid aging serum. Heh. I think it was Colbert who called Bannon “the best-looking guy at the liquor store.” ---
**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:** [July 19, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1382 "2017-07-19T18:34:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Heh. I think it was Colbert who called Bannon “the best-looking guy at the liquor store.” Bannon looks like one of the guys in the liquor store five minutes after it opens, buying a half pint of the cheap stuff and carefully putting out the exact change onto the counter. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1383 "2017-07-19T19:42:51Z")
By way of Talking Points Memo: U.S. Office of Government Ethics director Walter Shaub resigned in shock, horror and dismay. Among the incidents: > [@](#): > > …Shaub said he was “horrified” by an incident in which Trump’s lawyer asked if the President could file his financial disclosure form without signing it… I swear, I am not making this up. Maybe they are, but I’m not… > **[Former Ethics Chief: I Was ‘Horrified’ By Trump Lawyer Request](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/former-ethics-chief-was-horrified-trump-lawyer-request)** > > The day after he left his post as head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, former director Walter Shaub appeared on CNN Wednesday morning, spouting off a list of ethical abnormalities he… ---
**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:** [July 20, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1384 "2017-07-20T04:53:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Trump tells the British PM he won’t visit the UK until he can be assured a warmer welcome, soooo I guess that means he’ll never see that scepter’d isle again: [https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/07/17/trump-reportedly-asked-may-to-fix-warm-welcome-for-him-in-britain/23034285/](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/07/17/trump-reportedly-asked-may-to-fix-warm-welcome-for-him-in-britain/23034285/) Fire is warm. They could burn him in Effigy, which is an hour outside of London. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1385 "2017-07-20T05:56:23Z")
If the resulting smoke drifted that way, all of Ireland might be suddenly and bitterly sober. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1386 "2017-07-20T12:32:11Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Exactly. > > [Trump passes the buck – and how it could hurt him going forward](http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/politics/trump-the-buck-stops-elsewhere/index.html) That’s nice and all, but I won’t believe Trump is at risk of being “hurt going forward” until quotes like that come from actual names, rather than “top Republicans,” “administration officials” and “sources close to the White House.” ---
**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:** [July 20, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1387 "2017-07-20T14:42:28Z")
[You really can’t make this up; it’s so far off of rational](http://nypost.com/2017/07/19/trump-warns-mueller-not-to-probe-into-his-finances/?ref=yfp). Trump tells special counsel investigating Russia’s interference, collusion, etc. not to investigate Trump’s finances. Trump then criticizes the special counsel “running an office rife with conflicts of interest”. And why doesn’t Trump want Mueller investigating Trump’s finances? Trump says “This is about Russia”. NO KIDDING, YOU ORANGE BABOON! And thanks for basically admitting you’re in Russia’s pocket. Apparently you don’t have the decency to resign. So, hurry up and die already. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1388 "2017-07-20T14:56:10Z")
POTUS says he wouldn’t have hired his AG if he knew the guy would _recuse_ himself. I mean, jeez! What good is having a lawyer who won’t help you with the coverup?: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/politics/donald-trump-interview-jeff-sessions/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/politics/donald-trump-interview-jeff-sessions/index.html) ---
**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:** [July 20, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1389 "2017-07-20T15:10:43Z")
And so now, Trump says he talked about “adoptions” with Putin in that 2nd meeting. Which means he was talking sanctions. It’s times like these I wonder if he’s just trolling everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Pippers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5a626/32.png) [@Pippers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pippers)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1390 "2017-07-20T15:45:05Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > And so now, Trump says he talked about “adoptions” with Putin in that 2nd meeting. Which means he was talking sanctions. It’s times like these I wonder if he’s just trolling everybody. The things that piss me off more than trump are the brain dead voters that still believe in him and the butt head republicans that support him rather than their constituents. Seriously, who votes for a “business” man with that many bankruptcies? Help us geezus :smack: trump has been a troll from the moment he took his first breath. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1391 "2017-07-20T15:52:33Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [You really can’t make this up; it’s so far off of rational](http://nypost.com/2017/07/19/trump-warns-mueller-not-to-probe-into-his-finances/?ref=yfp). > > Trump tells special counsel investigating Russia’s interference, collusion, etc. not to investigate Trump’s finances. Trump then criticizes the special counsel “running an office rife with conflicts of interest”. And why doesn’t Trump want Mueller investigating Trump’s finances? Trump says “This is about Russia”. > > NO KIDDING, YOU ORANGE BABOON! And thanks for basically admitting you’re in Russia’s pocket. Apparently you don’t have the decency to resign. So, hurry up and die already. He doesn’t have ANY decency, so give up on that idea. I hope Meuller and company find EVERY ugly crooked little thing. I hope the resulting stink is so foul there is no choice BUT to send him, his family, and his accomplices to prison for the rest of their lives. Yes, this is about Russia. The election meddling, the fake “news” sites, the media complicity, the crooked real estate deals, the sudden 180 degree turn in the Republican stance on sanctions and aggression in Ukraine, the mob money laundering, the denigrating of NATO, Flynn, Pence, Sessions, Rex EXXON Tillerson, Manafort, it’s **ALL** about Russia. Every last stinking piece of it. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1392 "2017-07-20T15:55:59Z")
You misunderstand. I know the sumbitch has no decency and never has had any. I actually wish he would die. That’s the only thing that will stop the huge embarrassment. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1393 "2017-07-20T16:11:45Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > You misunderstand. I know the sumbitch has no decency and never has had any. I actually wish he would die. That’s the only thing that will stop the huge embarrassment. I understood, and I was agreeing with you. I’m originally from NYC. I knew about and despised that lying cheating filthy son of a bitch decades before he “went national”. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1394 "2017-07-20T16:45:50Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [You really can’t make this up; it’s so far off of rational](http://nypost.com/2017/07/19/trump-warns-mueller-not-to-probe-into-his-finances/?ref=yfp). > > Trump tells special counsel investigating Russia’s interference, collusion, etc. not to investigate Trump’s finances. Trump then criticizes the special counsel “running an office rife with conflicts of interest”. And why doesn’t Trump want Mueller investigating Trump’s finances? Trump says “This is about Russia”. > > NO KIDDING, YOU ORANGE BABOON! And thanks for basically admitting you’re in Russia’s pocket. Apparently you don’t have the decency to resign. So, hurry up and die already. …and right on cue, [sources say that Meuller is doing exactly that](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/20/trump-set-a-red-line-for-robert-mueller-and-now-mueller-has-reportedly-crossed-it/?utm_term=.14117e925a71) (investigating Trump’s financial dealings). Who could have guessed that an investigator might find it necessary to investigate things that the person being investigated told him not to investigate? Hee. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1395 "2017-07-20T17:08:48Z")
Mueller smoke signal analysis: “Go ahead. Fire me. I dare ya!” ---
**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:** [July 20, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1396 "2017-07-20T17:22:49Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Mueller smoke signal analysis: “Go ahead. Fire me. I dare ya!” Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong: AIUI Trump can’t directly fire the Special Counsel. That would normally be the job of the AG, but since the AG has recused himself from all things Russia investigation, Trump would have to go to the next person in the line (deputy AG Rosenstein, who seems unlikely to be cooperative) or fire Sessions and order his successor to do it. Seems it may be a bit difficult to stuff this particular genie back in the lamp. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1397 "2017-07-20T17:42:47Z")
Trump is just dumb, impulsive and self-pitying enough that I won’t be terribly surprised when/if he fires Mueller, or tries to. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1398 "2017-07-20T18:30:53Z")
You know what pisses me off? Today at work I am going through a couple of yearly refresher training sessions, one for data security and one for ethics. (I am an employee of a govt contractor, and we have about half a dozen of these different trainings we have to do every year.) And as I’m sitting through these presentations, I can’t help but think how I, as a lowly drone, am being held to a _much_ higher standard of conduct than the freakin’ POTUS. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1399 "2017-07-20T19:19:09Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong: AIUI Trump can’t directly fire the Special Counsel. That would normally be the job of the AG, but since the AG has recused himself from all things Russia investigation, Trump would have to go to the next person in the line (deputy AG Rosenstein, who seems unlikely to be cooperative) or fire Sessions and order his successor to do it. He’d have to go even further down the ladder than Nixon did. But even then, it wouldn’t be enough to make Ryan start impeachment hearings. Nothing would make him recognize he represents the country, not his party. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1400 "2017-07-20T23:08:08Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > He’d have to go even further down the ladder than Nixon did. Dig up Bork and make HIM do it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=71)