# 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:** 82
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1621 "2017-08-15T00:34:05Z")
Trump is considering pardoning Joe Arpaio. [QUOTE=The Cheeto-in-Chief] “I might do it right away, maybe early this week. I am seriously thinking about it,” Trump said, according to Fox News. He said Arpaio was a “great American patriot” who had “done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration.” [/QUOTE] > **[Trump says he’s considering pardon for Joe Arpaio](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/14/trump-says-hes-considering-pardon-for-joe-arpaio/?utm_term=.70d32fc6048e)** > > The former sheriff known for his extreme stance on illegal immigration has long been a Trump supporter. Fucking scumbag asshole. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1622 "2017-08-15T01:04:20Z")
Can he pardon a contempt of court charge? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1623 "2017-08-15T01:15:57Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Trump is considering pardoning Joe Arpaio. > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/14/trump-says-hes-considering-pardon-for-joe-arpaio/?utm\_term=.70d32fc6048e](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/14/trump-says-hes-considering-pardon-for-joe-arpaio/?utm_term=.70d32fc6048e) > > Fucking scumbag asshole. :mad: Both of 'em. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1624 "2017-08-15T01:21:20Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Truly hilarious that this post appeared literally one post below: > > “Ken Frazier of Merck, who is black, resigned from Trump’s Manufacturing Council in frustration at Trump’s failure to condemn racism, and now Trump is attacking him on Twitter for Merck’s prices being too high, when apparently they were not when Frazier was on his side.” And Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour, is the next to resign. > **[Under Armour, Intel CEOs quit Trump's job council over Charlottesville rally...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/08/14/under-armour-ceo-quit-trumps-job-council-over-charlottesville-rally-response/567319001/)** > > Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank joins Intel and Merck CEOs in quitting President Trump's manufacturing job council over Charlottesville rally response. Maybe it’ll become a thing. Conservatives hate it when the invisible hand of the free market favors the socially liberal. Wonder whose next. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1625 "2017-08-15T01:28:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ken Frazier of Merck, who is black, resigned from Trump’s Manufacturing Council in frustration at Trump’s failure to condemn racism, and now Trump is attacking him on Twitter for Merck’s prices being too high, when apparently they were not when Frazier was on his side. > [x.com](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/897079051277537280) I swear to God, Trump’s mental age has to be in the single digits. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1626 "2017-08-15T01:52:42Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I swear to God, Trump’s mental age has to be in the single digits. You give him far too much credit. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1627 "2017-08-15T02:36:17Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Can he pardon a contempt of court charge? I believe the President (not just Trump, but any POTUS,) has unlimited authority to pardon all Federal crimes. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1628 "2017-08-15T03:34:27Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > \*\*How has President Trump pissed you off today? > \*\* > > It’s 8/14. He’s been in office nearly 7 months now and hasn’t pissed me or any other rational person off yet. You’re trying too hard. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1629 "2017-08-15T03:42:57Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > And Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour, is the next to resign. > > [Under Armour, Intel CEOs quit Trump's job council over Charlottesville rally response](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/08/14/under-armour-ceo-quit-trumps-job-council-over-charlottesville-rally-response/567319001/) > > Maybe it’ll become a thing. Conservatives hate it when the invisible hand of the free market favors the socially liberal. Wonder whose next. And the CEO of Intel is the third. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1630 "2017-08-15T04:40:52Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I swear to God, Trump’s mental age has to be in the single digits. As I’ve said before, he is simultaneously the oldest and least mature President we’ve ever had. > [@cochrane](#): > > I believe the President (not just Trump, but any POTUS,) has unlimited authority to pardon all Federal crimes. Correct, except in cases of impeachment. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1631 "2017-08-15T05:20:00Z")
I believe I read somewhere — might even have been on the SDMB — that accepting a pardon, at least after one has been convicted, is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Is this a reasonable inference to make? ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1632 "2017-08-15T11:19:47Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I believe I read somewhere — might even have been on the SDMB — that accepting a pardon, at least after one has been convicted, is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Is this a reasonable inference to make? I read it here, too. (I might have even posted it… :rolleyes: ) It also removes Fifth Amendment protection from the person pardoned. So that’s an upside. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1633 "2017-08-15T12:22:01Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > I believe I read somewhere — might even have been on the SDMB — that accepting a pardon, at least after one has been convicted, is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Is this a reasonable inference to make? > > I read it here, too. (I might have even posted it… :rolleyes: ) It also removes Fifth Amendment protection from the person pardoned. So that’s an upside. Someone please tell that to Joe Arpaio because [he said](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/14/trump-seriously-considering-pardon-for-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html) “I would accept the pardon because I am 100 percent not guilty.” ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1634 "2017-08-15T14:35:54Z")
So days after one of his supporters ran someone over, Trump retweeted a cartoon of the “Trump Train” running someone over. > **[Trump Just Retweeted a Cartoon of the “#TrumpTrain” Running Someone Over](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/trump-retweets-trumptrain-running-over-cnn.html)** > > This comes just two days after a white supremacist Trump supporter was charged with running over anti-racist protesters, murdering one. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1635 "2017-08-15T14:52:43Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I believe I read somewhere — might even have been on the SDMB — that accepting a pardon, at least after one has been convicted, is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Is this a reasonable inference to make? People of that ilk(Arpaio, Trump etc) really don’t care whether you think they are guilty or innocent, as long as they get to keep their money and their freedom. For example, even if Trump is impeached and removed from office he will consider it a “win” if he makes his deals and makes an overall profit. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1636 "2017-08-15T15:12:35Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > People of that ilk(Arpaio, Trump etc) really don’t care whether you think they are guilty or innocent, as long as they get to keep their money and their freedom. For example, even if Trump is impeached and removed from office he will consider it a “win” if he makes his deals and makes an overall profit. And that is exactly why I keep saying it is not enough. He needs to have all his ill gotten gains seized, be sent to federal prison, and his cronies with him. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1637 "2017-08-15T21:03:07Z")
Orangeanus had the unmitigated gall to offer this explanation for his refusal to condemn neo-Nazis: > [@](#): > > I wanted to make sure when I make a statement that the statement was correct. The absence of a lightning bolt immediately afterwards is proof that there is no God. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1638 "2017-08-15T21:13:50Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Orangeanus had the unmitigated gall to offer this explanation for his refusal to condemn neo-Nazis: > > The absence of a lightning bolt immediately afterwards is proof that there is no God. He just doubled down on his pro-Nazi “both sides” shit AGAIN. > **[Trump again blames ‘both sides’ in Charlottesville, says some...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/trump-again-blames-both-sides-in-charlottesville-says-some-counterprotesters-were-very-very-violent/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&utm_term=.3de9c9cf8dce)** > > The president spread the blame for the rally's violence a day after he belatedly condemned the KKK and neo-Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1639 "2017-08-15T21:19:54Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He just doubled down on his pro-Nazi “both sides” shit AGAIN. > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/trump-again-blames-both-sides-in-charlottesville-says-some-counterprotesters-were-very-very-violent/?hpid=hp\_no-name\_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&utm\_term=.3de9c9cf8dce](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/trump-again-blames-both-sides-in-charlottesville-says-some-counterprotesters-were-very-very-violent/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&utm_term=.3de9c9cf8dce) [From here.](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/trump-says-there-were-very-fine-people-on-both-sides-in-charlottesville/) > [@](#): > > During an intense back-and-forth with reporters on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump came close to defending the demonstrators who gathered with white nationalists and neo-Nazis to protest the removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend. There were **“very fine people on both sides,”** Trump insisted. Nazis? White supremacists? Very fine people? _What the **FUCK** _ is that asshole thinking? ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1640 "2017-08-15T23:02:04Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He just doubled down on his pro-Nazi “both sides” shit AGAIN. > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/trump-again-blames-both-sides-in-charlottesville-says-some-counterprotesters-were-very-very-violent/?hpid=hp\_no-name\_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&utm\_term=.3de9c9cf8dce](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/trump-again-blames-both-sides-in-charlottesville-says-some-counterprotesters-were-very-very-violent/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&utm_term=.3de9c9cf8dce) If you quack like a racist duck, you’re a racist duck. Why was there ever any doubt the s.o.b. is racist? Why is anyone surprised he supports racists? Why is anyone surprised racists support him? [Here is a link for those who get the pay wall block to that same story](https://thinkprogress.org/trump-blames-alt-left-for-violence-at-white-supremacist-rally-33fdef51b1cb/). By the way, did you ever wonder why the chump is anti-Semitic even while his daughter converted to Judaism and married a Jew _whose grandparents survived the Holocaust_? IMHO, the answer is simple: the chump (a) considers the man to be "one of the good (i.e. not really one) Jews, and (b) his daughter’s conversion to be really meaningless. Trump is the most deluded person in history and you Nazi sympathizers, racists, and bigots declared your sympathies when you voted for him. No, he was not the lesser of two evils. He was and still is evil. He has never done any good. And now he’s in a position to do more and worse evil than ever before. You fucking idiots. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=83)