# 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:** 265
**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:** [December 25, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5281 "2023-12-25T02:35:30Z")
You’d think at least some percentage of his followers would be getting tired of the reruns. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5282 "2023-12-25T03:21:32Z")
That’s because you _would_ think; however, his followers _won’t_. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5283 "2023-12-25T08:38:08Z")
What’s pissed me off today was [this tweet](https://x.com/shakes19berry/status/1739101420802941179?s=46&t=cxOF0Ffj0iX4osCcMPzvag) by one of his MAGA supporters, regarding the thought of Michael Flynn being appointed head of the FBI in the next Trump term: “I love Flynn, but you need a tough lawyer to head the FBI. We need him to clean all the woke trash out of our military. President Trump’s 2024 Cabinet and Administration VP Matt Gaetz or Rand Paul Chief of Staff Dan Scavino Senior Counselor Steve Bannon Press Secretary Charlie Kirk Attorney General Kash Patel Director of FBI Greg Steube Director of CIA Dan Bishop Director of Homeland Security Paul Gosar Secretary of State Ric Grenell Secretary of Defense Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn Secretary of Treasury Peter Navarro HHS Secretary Dr. Robert Malone Abolish IRS (instead have a 12% flat tax) Abolish Dept of Education Abolish ATF” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5284 "2023-12-25T08:45:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I wasn’t too far off. No, you weren’t. Your ability to channel Trump’s likely reactions is scary. But I’m glad you can, and that you share them with us. Thanks! But we have yet another all-caps Twuth, taking about rigged elections, election interference, yada, yada, yada. Yawn. Trump, you’re getting boring. Come up with some new material, willya? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5285 "2023-12-25T09:21:46Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Your ability to channel Trump’s likely reactions is scary. But I’m glad you can, and that you share them with us. Thanks! I have such a vast and terrible power, and yet I choose to use it selflessly rather than for evil. I’m kinda like Luke Skywalker crossed with Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5286 "2023-12-25T10:01:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m kinda like Luke Skywalker crossed with Jesus. Oh my goodness. That gives, “Luke, I am your father” a whole new meaning. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5287 "2023-12-25T15:56:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m kinda like Luke Skywalker crossed with Jesus. Be careful. The last guy crossed with Jesus was Saint Dismas! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5288 "2023-12-25T16:02:37Z")
If Jesus was a Sith would He be able to project Force Lightning on would He just be a human stun gun? ---
**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:** [December 25, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5289 "2023-12-25T17:23:52Z")
Vader is the Father, Luke is the Son, and Obi-Wan is the Holy Ghost. This will change Star Wars for me forever. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5290 "2023-12-25T17:30:15Z")
> Thanks for the idea! ---
**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:** [December 25, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5291 "2023-12-25T20:09:30Z")
Very clever! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5292 "2023-12-25T22:02:58Z")
Trump has put out a few Christmas messages since last night. All of them are, of course, rants about the haters and losers persecuting him. But I think this truly demonstrates his grasp of the season. > [@Trump](#): > > …are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS! That’s the spirit! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5293 "2023-12-25T22:22:03Z")
I’m just going to throw this in here because I stumbled across it today. Chris Columbus, the director of _Home Alone 2_ (released in 1992) said in a recent interview that when they made a deal to film part of the movie in the lobby of the Trump Plaza hotel in NYC, Trump insisted on insinuating himself into the movie. The condition of the deal was that he have a role in it, so they had to give him a cameo appearance. The shameless narcissism of this man-child really knows no bounds. It was almost a case of lovely schadenfreude because although the cameo was filmed, Columbus felt it would likely end up on the cutting-room floor. But that was 1992, before Trump became widely reviled, and test audiences loved the cameo, so unfortunately it stayed in. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 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-1/942178/5294 "2023-12-25T23:13:33Z")
Yeah, I’ve heard that story about Trump demanding a film appearance in exchange for allowing the Plaza to be used. I read about Trump’s ownership of the Plaza in a book on the hotel’s history. Trump by all accounts nearly let the Plaza collapse during the period he owned it; he paid way too much for the property and did not do any sort of upkeep on it while he owned it (apart from adding tacky gold leaf to seemingly every surface that would take it). Employees at the hotel were reportedly joking that the fake hotel suite Kevin McCallister stays in in the movie was significantly nicer than a typical Plaza suite in those days. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5295 "2023-12-26T00:34:59Z")
Its an Onion headline! If only he was being funny on purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5296 "2023-12-26T00:51:59Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > It was almost a case of lovely schadenfreude because although the cameo was filmed, Columbus felt it would likely end up on the cutting-room floor. But that was 1992, before Trump became widely reviled, and test audiences loved the cameo, so unfortunately it stayed in. And now, when the film is broadcast on a regular network, that scene is typically deleted. Nothing to do with Trump; the scene doesn’t change the plot in any way. But when you need to edit a film’s running time down to allow for commercials, then it seems to me that those are the scenes you look to cut out. Of course, Trumpists refuse to believe that simplest-of-any explanation. They claim that it’s all due to the woke leftist mainstream media’s war on Trump. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5297 "2023-12-26T02:39:35Z")
I > [@Spoons](#): > > And now, when the film is broadcast on a regular network, that scene is typically deleted. Nothing to do with Trump; the scene doesn’t change the plot in any way. But when you need to edit a film’s running time down to allow for commercials, then it seems to me that those are the scenes you look to cut out. > > Of course, Trumpists refuse to believe that simplest-of-any explanation. They claim that it’s all due to the woke leftist mainstream media’s war on Trump. In Canada, it was a matter of some celebrity: - [CBC report](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-trump-scene-home-alone-2-1.5408809) - [National Post report](https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-screening-of-home-alone-2-is-missing-its-trump-scene-twitter-loses-its-mind) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5298 "2023-12-26T03:29:34Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I’m just going to throw this in here because I stumbled across it today. Chris Columbus, the director of _Home Alone 2_ (released in 1992) said in a recent interview that when they made a deal to film part of the movie in the lobby of the Trump Plaza hotel in NYC, Trump insisted on insinuating himself into the movie. The condition of the deal was that he have a role in it, so they had to give him a cameo appearance. That’s also how he wound up in Ghosts Can’t Do It. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Z9SFY2tumWA/hqdefault.jpg "Ghosts Cant Do It (1989): Donald Trumps Scenes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9SFY2tumWA) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5299 "2023-12-26T04:32:04Z")
I must admit, Trump’s acting there . . . it made Bo Derek look like Meryl Streep. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2023, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5300 "2023-12-26T06:52:23Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I must admit, Trump’s acting there . . . It actually made Donald Trump an [award-winning actor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award_for_Worst_Supporting_Actor). [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=264) [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=266)