# 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:** 479
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9582 "2025-01-08T06:45:57Z")
> [@duality72](#): > > Large parts of the world consider America to be one continent. Per your own cite: > Most [English-speaking countries](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world) recognize seven regions as continents. Posters here are largely from those English-speaking countries (as it is an English language message board after all). So your argument seems pretty irrelevant. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9583 "2025-01-08T10:17:16Z")
> [@duality72](#): > > Large parts of the world consider America to be one continent. Philatelists have come up with the term, BNA (British North America) to include Canada and the US while excluding Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9584 "2025-01-08T12:52:38Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I don’t much care for the nazis, but I would love to have been at one of their rallies where they surrounded the stadium with antiaircraft spotlights. You could have gone to one of Orson Welles’ Shakespeare productions in the 1930s – he used a similar “cathedral of light” set design for the background of one of the Henry plays. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9585 "2025-01-08T12:54:25Z")
With his press conference yesterday, talking about taking over Greenland, and the Panama Canal, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Trump has finally become General Esposito from Woody Allen’s 1971 film **Bananas** Go to 1:55 in: > [@](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubFgTk7m9f4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubFgTk7m9f4) > [@](#): > > - [Esposito](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0602630/?ref_=ttqu_qu): From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now… 16 years old! > - [Fielding Mellish](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000095/?ref_=ttqu_qu): What’s the Spanish word for straitjacket? > - [Luis](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0840822/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Power has driven him mad! ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9586 "2025-01-08T22:37:52Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Maybe it’s actually the People’s January on March 8, 2025? Okay, I laughed. (Out loud, as it were.) > [@enipla](#): > > I DON’T think he’s this smart, but he is a con man through and through. > > His right hand is making all of these preposterous ideas, to get our attention. > > His left hand will be in the cookie jar. Yep, this. No matter how few brain cells he has, since all of them are concentrated on the con, he does manage to come up with some effective ones. > [@kambuckta](#): > > So, like much of the rest of the world, the US is facing cost of living, climate changes, immigration issues, drug problems, pollution, unemployment and underemployment, lack of affordable housing etc etc. > And he wants to kick off his presidency by renaming the Gulf of Mexico? > > The priorities are gobsmacking. None of the problems you list has any obvious potential for making Trump money. So… ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9587 "2025-01-08T22:38:44Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > He’ll go down as the greatest con man in history, if for nothing else. For some definitions of “greatest” perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9588 "2025-01-08T22:42:13Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > None of the problems you list has any obvious potential for making Trump money. Nor do they affect him. Somewhere in his lizard brain he knows that he will die before this really matters. To Him. To hell with everyone else. That could be his motto. It is his business plan. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9589 "2025-01-08T22:44:38Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Somewhere in his lizard brain he knows that he will die before this really matters. To Him. To hell with everyone else. Yes, possibly. Or he doesn’t have any idea of dying but instead knows—through far too much experience—that he can simply lie about the problems (‘they’re all solved now!!1!!’) and be believed by millions. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9590 "2025-01-08T23:01:42Z")
And that Africa is a homogeneous country. ---
**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 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-1/942178/9591 "2025-01-08T23:28:29Z")
I said in 2016 that any treaty or contract with the US might as well be written in pencil, but now I think crayons would be more appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9592 "2025-01-08T23:43:39Z")
He’s chatting with Alito again: [**Supreme Court Justice Alito spoke to Trump on Tuesday, ABC News reports**](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/supreme-court-justice-alito-spoke-trump-tuesday-abc-news-reports-2025-01-08/) I believe this was roughly One Day before Trump’s legal team **[asked SCOTUS](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-supreme-court-new-york-hush-money-case/)** to delay the sentencing in his “hush money” case. But this call wasn’t about that. It was about a reference for a former Law Clerk to work in 47’s administration. Ahh. I find tremendous comfort in them having told me that. /s ---
**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:** [January 9, 2025, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9593 "2025-01-09T06:14:43Z")
And the keys to the 30 meter yacht that were left on Alito’s desk were just a gratuity for training such a great clerk. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9594 "2025-01-09T16:27:53Z")
Trump is taking the opportunity of the awful fires raging in LA to shit on his political opponents. What an absolute classless asshole. I would be embarrassed if this was my drunken uncle spouting this shit. But no, he’s about to become POTUSA again. [![](https://i.imgur.com/5rs3rA7.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/5rs3rA7.png) ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9595 "2025-01-09T16:58:06Z")
This would never have happened in Trumpton. Their fire brigade would have been all over this in no time. Pugh! Pugh! Barney McGrew! Cuthbert! Dibble! Grubb! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9596 "2025-01-09T17:12:08Z")
Oh no, he would have had them rake their lawns more often. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9597 "2025-01-09T17:45:51Z")
“Do you have any candy?” “No.” “Do you have any toys?” “No.” “Do you have a pen and something to write on?” “No.” “Can I draw in this bible?” “No.” “Can you really smell it when I fill my pants?” “A little. Listen to the service.” [![](https://www.ctvnews.ca/content/dam/ctvnews/en/images/2025/1/9/barack-obama-and-donald-trump-1-7169868.jpg) ](https://www.ctvnews.ca/content/dam/ctvnews/en/images/2025/1/9/barack-obama-and-donald-trump-1-7169868.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9598 "2025-01-09T17:49:58Z")
I believe we have a winner for the 2025 post of the year. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9599 "2025-01-09T18:00:55Z")
This is really about the rw media, but how long before they start expressing outrage at President Biden dissing Trump through his eulogizing of President Carter? [Here](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a63383369/president-joe-biden-jimmy-carter-eulogy-transcript/) is the transcript. "_Jimmy Carter’s friendship taught me, and through his life taught me, a strength of character is more than title or the power we hold. It’s the strength to understand that everyone should be treated with dignity, respect, that everyone—and I mean everyone—deserves an even shot, not a guarantee, which is a shot._ _We have an obligation to give hate no safe harbor. And to stand up, to my dad used to say is the greatest sin of all: Abuse of power."_ Apologies if it’s too off topic; I just didn’t know where to put it. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9600 "2025-01-09T18:37:39Z")
i appreciated it. i thought biden did very well. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/9601 "2025-01-09T18:55:45Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Oh no, he would have had them rake their lawns more often I watched about 10 minutes of Hannity last night before my TV melted from an overdose of Stupid. In those few minutes he said Mayor Bass was “nowhere to be found”; that she cut manpower to the LAFD and funded DEI programs instead; and that it’s somehow her fault that hydrants ran dry. He then said with a straight face that “Trump foresaw all this.” He ran 6 year old clips of Trump saying that California should rake their forests like they do in Finland; and a clip of him babbling about how disgraceful it is that we let rivers flow to the sea (I guess if we build enough dams we could run sprinkler systems through the millions of acres of national forest). At no time did he mention climate change. Of course. [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=478) [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=480)