# How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 15, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178 "2021-05-15T18:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 120
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2381 "2022-10-19T19:05:40Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > interpreters in boxes Next to the binders full of women. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2382 "2022-10-19T19:27:52Z")
Probably the technology the Trump Org used. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2383 "2022-10-19T20:14:13Z")
Nah, they were big into [mimeographs](https://i.natgeofe.com/n/3c911077-06d3-4d7a-a8e7-8a496f82d04d/01_mimeograph_4x3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2384 "2022-10-19T20:17:33Z")
So, that’s it. They’re all high/brain-damaged from the fumes. ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2385 "2022-10-19T20:39:32Z")
Quite a step up from the cuneiform tablets they were using as recently as 1972. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2386 "2022-10-19T20:41:41Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > I bet he never has to eat his vegetables either. > **[Trump’s Former Doctor: I Hid Vegetables in Trump’s Food Like He Was a...](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/donald-trump-ronny-jackson-vegetables)** > > Ronny “Candyman” Jackson says he also kept ice cream out of arm’s reach. > **Trump’s Former Doctor: I Hid Vegetables in Trump’s Food Like He Was a Five-Year-Old** > > Despite being biologically 73 years old, Donald Trump has the mind of a child. We know this because at many points during his presidency, he’s acted less like the leader of the free world and more like a toddler, from the time he thought he could just buy Greenland (and threw a temper tantrum when he was told that’s not how any of this works) to his obsession with having a “space force” to his complete and utter joy at getting to pretend to drive a big rig on the White House lawn and honk the horn like a real trucker. So, really, it’s not at all surprising to learn from his former doctor Ronny Jackson that in an attempt to get him to eat healthier, the White House staff snuck vegetables into his food like a mother desperate to get her small child to consume something with nutritional value… ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2387 "2022-10-19T20:45:03Z")
There’s mental age, and then there’s physical age… ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2388 "2022-10-19T20:58:01Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Nah, they were big into [mimeographs](https://i.natgeofe.com/n/3c911077-06d3-4d7a-a8e7-8a496f82d04d/01_mimeograph_4x3.jpg) 'Cause they like the way mimeos smell. I remember walking back to the classroom carrying a stack of mimeographed pages fresh off the machine-- my nose planted in them. Xeroxes don’t have any smell. No fun. ---
**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 19, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2389 "2022-10-19T22:58:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I agree with Buck\_Godot. The President has Need To Know because of National Security. There should be no need for a court order. The translator was working for the government in a secure environment. There is no reason for her to withhold any information upon the request of the President. That logic seems sound. You have to wonder if this has been done–or if not, why not. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2390 "2022-10-19T23:13:27Z")
If it hasn’t been done, it needs to be done. If it has been done, we don’t have Need To Know. ---
**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 19, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2391 "2022-10-19T23:15:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > If it hasn’t been done, it needs to be done. If it has been done, we don’t have Need To Know - True enough about that last. But surely the DOJ and NSA might have a Need to Know, if national security is at stake as well as potential criminal conduct by Mr. Putin’s Best Buddy? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2392 "2022-10-19T23:18:57Z")
Of course. ‘We The People’ don’t need to know. DoJ and NSA do. If they do know, we don’t need to know that. It’s a little frustrating because I, personally, want to know that the President and his departments are finding out what the man-child divulged to our enemies/adversaries. But I don’t need to know. I only want to. ---
**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 19, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2393 "2022-10-19T23:25:22Z")
We want to feel like grownups are in charge and it’s safe to go to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2394 "2022-10-19T23:28:50Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I remember walking back to the classroom carrying a stack of mimeographed pages fresh off the machine-- my nose planted in them. I remember in elementary school we would get purple-printed copies of pages for class that stank like permanent markers. Apparently those were [spirit duplicators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator), which sounds like Ghostbuster technology. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2395 "2022-10-20T00:22:21Z")
I used photostats, mimeographs, dittos, and Gestetner offsets and I’m less old than 45. My parent, then I, worked in under-resourced schools. The first Xerox copier I saw in a school was at an international school in the mid-1980’s; very fancy and every copy had to be accounted for, so I mostly typed up ditto masters. When I taught at my next school in the US a year later, teachers were allowed to use the Xerox with supervisor permission, but again, I mostly used dittos and the occasional mimeograph. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2396 "2022-10-20T00:30:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The translator was working for the government in a secure environment. There is no reason for her to withhold any information upon the request of the President. If we’re discussing this now, I would hope Biden and Garland and others figured it out many many months ago. . > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > A photostat? A PHOTOSTAT? This particular technology was superseded by xerography in the 1950’s. Trump is burbling on about **70 year old “Photostat” Jesus**. [bolding mine] [because this will be my new epithet… which no one will understand… but I’ll be chortling] ---
**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:** [October 20, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2397 "2022-10-20T00:55:26Z")
Perhaps Dark Brandon will let us know at some point, say a few weeks after the 2024 Republican convention? ---
**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 20, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2398 "2022-10-20T01:20:33Z")
> [@digs](#): > > [bolding mine] [because this will be my new epithet Band name? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2399 "2022-10-20T01:46:13Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > **70 year old “Photostat” Jesus** > [@DesertDog](#): > > Band name? Reminds me of a piece of art called “8-Bit Jesus”… But these days, quirky names work for bands, social media, and start-ups. ---
**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 20, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/2400 "2022-10-20T02:11:06Z")
…not to mention screen names. The next time I need a new screen name, it’s going to be: **He’sDeadJim**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178.md?page=119) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178.md?page=121)