# 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:** 95
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1881 "2017-10-01T00:54:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > When a different, smarter, more capable President was in office, [a major disaster was handled differently](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-responded-to-haiti-quake-more-forcefully-than-to-puerto-rico-disaster/2017/09/28/74fe9c02-a465-11e7-8cfe-d5b912fabc99_story.html?utm_term=.9b4c951a47fe): _Emphasis added_ And you can’t predict an earthquake. But the severity of Maria was known well in advance. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1882 "2017-10-01T03:36:24Z")
It is truly astonishing that there is anyone [del]left[/del] remaining who still supports Trump. There is no nuance, no shade of meaning, that would make any of his actions, either on the campaign trail or once in office, acceptable. He is incompetent, dishonest to the extreme, corrupt beyond even Russia’s imagining, bigoted, racist, a misogynist, illiterate, and evidently delusional. And those who voted for him must know this. What, at long last, will it take to get him out of office alive? If he dies, from assassination or even natural causes, while in office, there will be a bloodbath in the US, the vicims being Muslims, those who “look Muslim” (Brown), Hispanics, those who “look Hispanic” (Brown), and some other minorities. This has gone quite far past the point of amusement. This fool in the White House is nothing but a detriment and embarrassment to the country. And he’s dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1883 "2017-10-01T04:04:22Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Trump owns ships…? He plays with them in the bathtub. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1884 "2017-10-01T04:27:18Z")
The creator of\* Hamilton\* is, uh, not a Trump fan: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/30/politics/lin-manuel-miranda-donald-trump-puerto-rico-tweets/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/30/politics/lin-manuel-miranda-donald-trump-puerto-rico-tweets/index.html) ---
**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:** [October 1, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1885 "2017-10-01T14:27:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > It is truly astonishing that there is anyone [del]left[/del] remaining who still supports Trump. … And yet there are even some on this board, a highly _intellectual_ and well-informed community. Go figure. And yes, it is astonishing. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1886 "2017-10-01T14:54:32Z")
You’re forgetting Trump’s ace in the hole: He isn’t [del]Hillary[/del] Obama. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1887 "2017-10-01T15:10:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The creator of\* Hamilton\* is, uh, not a Trump fan: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/30/politics/lin-manuel-miranda-donald-trump-puerto-rico-tweets/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/30/politics/lin-manuel-miranda-donald-trump-puerto-rico-tweets/index.html) I dropped this link in the Puerto Rico thread but I want to drop it here as well, I think it’s important. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Tt-mpuR_QHQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Puerto Rico: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt-mpuR_QHQ) This link is to a John Oliver segment on the Puerto Rican debt crisis. Basically Puerto Rico was remade as a tax haven as an experiment in conservative economics - corporations and rich people were given MASSIVE tax breaks on the theory that it would stimulate the economy to record heights. It sort of worked until it didn’t and ultimately the territory was economically devasted. PR issued lots of bonds due to a specific tax break and now most of those bonds are in the hands of predatory hedge funds. And PR isn’t allowed to declare bankruptcy It’s jaw-dropping and if you watch the whole thing at the end you’ll be rewarded by Lin-Manuel Miranda rapping about it. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1888 "2017-10-01T15:22:55Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > It is truly astonishing that there is anyone [del]left[/del] remaining who still supports Trump. There is no nuance, no shade of meaning, that would make any of his actions, either on the campaign trail or once in office, acceptable. **He is incompetent, dishonest to the extreme, corrupt beyond even Russia’s imagining, bigoted, racist, a misogynist, illiterate, and evidently delusional. And those who voted for him must know this**.\ Bolding mine. Trump supporters **LIKE** that. His ‘persona’ supports their own ideals. Eye candy on the arm, the help in the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1889 "2017-10-01T17:39:41Z")
Trump’s own Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: “I’d like to try to prevent a nuclear holocaust.” Trump: “I’d rather you didn’t.” ������ Get it together, please. This is not fun and games. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1890 "2017-10-01T18:53:10Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Trump’s own Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: “I’d like to try to prevent a nuclear holocaust.” > Trump: “I’d rather you didn’t.” �� Get it together, please. This is not fun and games. A link: > **[Tillerson is trying to avoid war with North Korea. Trump says he's “wasting...](https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/1/16392576/tillerson-avoid-war-with-north-korea-trump-diplomacy)** > > This is not how diplomacy is done. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1891 "2017-10-01T19:02:26Z")
I’m worried that at this point it is a near certainty that Trump will back “Little Rocket Man” into a corner and a whole lot of people in Seoul are going to die. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1892 "2017-10-01T19:19:26Z")
> [@aktep](#): > > I’m worried that at this point it is a near certainty that Trump will back “Little Rocket Man” into a corner and a whole lot of people in Seoul are going to die. You and me both. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1893 "2017-10-01T19:56:48Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > You’re forgetting Trump’s ace in the hole: He isn’t [del]Hillary[/del] Obama. Related: Trump is openly white-supremacist–in a semi-plausibly-deniable fashion. His supporters have waited all their lives for such a President. They know they are unlikely to ever get another. So they will support him even as his dementia become ever more unmistakable. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1894 "2017-10-01T23:31:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And yet there are even some on this board, a highly _intellectual_ and well-informed community. Go figure. And yes, it is astonishing. Truth be told, I suspect at least a couple of those are just trolling. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1895 "2017-10-02T00:25:00Z")
Trump is ordering NFL players to stand, damn it, during the anthem. > **[Trump puts NFL players on notice: Stand for national anthem](https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-nfl-protests-trump-week-4-story.html)** > > President Donald Trump is putting pro football players on notice for Week 4 of the NFL season: He won't stand for it if they kneel in protest during the national anthem. Paul Ryan says Trump’s heart is “in the right place.” Um…Heart? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1896 "2017-10-02T02:04:25Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Maybe Trump plans to buy Puerto Rico for cheap and make it into his own personal kingdom. Raze everything, haul off the debris, evict the people, install golf courses, resorts, shopping malls, and a giant palace at one end surrounded by a big WALL. I’ll bet the idea has crossed his mind (what he uses for a mind). I would not be surprised at all. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1897 "2017-10-02T02:06:03Z")
> [@eulalia](#): > > There were already efforts to force privatization of their electrical grid before the hurricanes. > > Trump finally allowed a temporary waiver of the Jones Act, but for only ten days! Prioritizing the protection of American shipping company profits over American citizen’s lives is just disgusting. Yes it is, but I think that Jones Act nonsense was just an excuse for Chump to say “Fuck you” ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1898 "2017-10-02T02:07:11Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > This is my guess, as well. > > The now-infamous delay in distributing the food, water, fuel and medicine that are already there _could_ be attributed to Trump Administration incompetence, combined with the natural-to-the-right determination to keep anyone “unworthy” from getting ‘something they’re not entitled to.’ > > But they could also be attributed to an actual plan\* involving letting Puerto Rico become demonstrably unstable. Then you have to declare martial law and start rounding up survivors and putting them into camps. Most who survive the camps will elect to go live on the mainland. Then you can, as you mention, buy up the land for pennies, etc. > > \*No, I don’t think that Trump himself came up with anything resembling a multi-step plan. He probably just said ‘how can we profit from this situation?’ and the usual suspects chimed in with ideas. (That’s what the Heritage Foundation is for!) and Jeff Sessions. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1899 "2017-10-02T02:09:32Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Trump is ordering NFL players to stand, damn it, during the anthem. > > [Trump puts NFL players on notice: Stand for national anthem](http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-nfl-protests-trump-week-4-story.html) > > Paul Ryan says Trump’s heart is “in the right place.” > > Um…Heart? He can’t order them. We still have a Constitution. So fuck him. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640/1900 "2017-10-02T03:26:16Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Yes it is, but I think that Jones Act nonsense was just an excuse for Chump to say “Fuck you” At some point in the near future, someone is going to tell Trump that since Puerto Ricans are US citizens they have the option of moving to the mainland. Without restrictions. I dread the reaction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/777640.md?page=96)