# 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:** 62
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1221 "2022-04-12T17:52:40Z")
Bzzzzt! He’s assuming God created him, rather than The Other Guy. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1222 "2022-04-12T17:59:23Z")
Well, that’s how it works, if that’s your particular flavor of religion. That said, he’s still got Daddy issues and is desperately seeking approval, even there, all the while (not so) secretly fearing he’s a failure while publicly putting on a front. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1223 "2022-04-12T19:02:47Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Bzzzzt! He’s assuming God created him, rather than The Other Guy. In Tolkien’s theology, the forces of evil cannot create, they can only mock. Which fits; Trump is a perverted twisted deformed version of a businessman/statesman. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2022, 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-1/942178/1224 "2022-04-12T22:44:43Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Which fits; Trump is a perverted twisted deformed version of a businessman/statesman. A clip from Trump’s birthing video: [https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EcstaticShortCat-size\_restricted.gif](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EcstaticShortCat-size_restricted.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1225 "2022-04-13T01:05:34Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > A clip from Trump’s birthing video: That comparison is a gratuitous and unjustifiable insult to the Orc community, most of whom are at least reasonably courageous, industrious, and responsible in carrying out their assigned duties. I concede that when it comes to abusive, malignant and evil behavior, the average Orc may not be substantially morally superior to Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1226 "2022-04-13T02:31:15Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > That comparison is a gratuitous and unjustifiable insult to the Orc community, most of whom are at least reasonably courageous, industrious, and responsible in carrying out their assigned duties. I’m not sure about _most_ of them, maybe only some of them. Wasn’t there just one of them who prevented the others from eating Merry and Pippin? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1227 "2022-04-13T02:46:40Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I’m not sure about _most_ of them, maybe only some of them. Wasn’t there just one of them who prevented the others from eating Merry and Pippin? Well, those poor, oppressed orcs hadn’t had nothing to eat but maggoty bread for three stinkin’ days! What’s a little near-cannibalism between workers in the service of the dark lord in the tower?\* \* similarities to backstabbing behavior between all the “best people” intended… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1228 "2022-04-13T02:56:01Z")
I think that one was an Urak-hai, bred in Isengard and technically not a regular Orc from Mordor. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1229 "2022-04-13T03:00:10Z")
These orcs, or Uruk-hai, whatever, they all look alike to me. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1230 "2022-04-13T03:20:38Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > …they all look alike to me. Oh, man, casual racism. Even in Middle Earth… What’s next? “My daughter brought an elf home, and I asked him if he’d ever worked in a mine. Wow, did I get the stink-eye of Sauron, you’d think I’d called him a Son of a Took. Now I’m sure plenty of them are perfectly humble folk, but I tell ya…” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1231 "2022-04-13T04:44:43Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Well, those poor, oppressed orcs hadn’t had nothing to eat but maggoty bread for three stinkin’ days! For an orc, aren’t the maggots the best part? ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1232 "2022-04-13T05:01:00Z")
Kind of like raisin bread. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1233 "2022-04-13T13:40:12Z")
Don’t get me wrong - some of my best friends are elves! ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1234 "2022-04-13T14:21:16Z")
_How has Former President Trump pissed you off today?_ Motherfucker’s still breathing, ain’t he? ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1235 "2022-04-13T15:03:55Z")
Because he only appoints the _best_ people. > **[An unintentionally revealing line in a Donald Trump un-endorsement | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/politics/donald-trump-pennsylvania-governor/index.html)** > > Donald Trump hasn't decided who he will endorse in the Pennsylvania governor's race this fall. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1236 "2022-04-13T16:14:42Z")
Sadly. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1237 "2022-04-17T21:43:41Z")
He’s the mind-boggler that keeps on boggling. > **[23% Of Spending By Pro-Trump Super PAC Reportedly Paid For Single Mar-a-Lago...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pac-23-percent-expenditures-mar-a-lago_n_625b575ce4b052d2bd628c8a)** > > Money raised for Trump ends up in his own pockets — again. > Nearly a quarter of all expenditures this year by a [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump)-supporting [super PAC](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/super-pac) reportedly paid for a single lavish event at — wait for it — his golf resort [Mar-a-Lago](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/mar-a-lago). > > [New York Times reporters](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/us/politics/donald-trump-midterm-elections.html) Kenneth Vogel and Shane Goldmacher wrote about the February event earlier this year, describing it as an “elaborate forum” for candidates endorsed by Trump and donors who gave as much as $125,000 per person to the super PAC Make America Great Again, Again! Inc. — which bankrolled the event. > > Now Goldmacher has the receipts. The get-together cost an eye-popping $318,000, which was nearly a fourth of the PAC’s total expenditures so far this year, he noted. > … > > The super PAC’s [single largest line item for the first quarter](https://projects.propublica.org/itemizer/filing/1586679/schedule/sb#SB21B.4375) of the year was the money to Mar-a-Lago for “event expense: facility rental and catering services,” [Politico noted](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/16/gop-megadonors-congress-campaign-finance-disclosures-00025693). > … ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1238 "2022-04-17T21:50:33Z")
> [@HuffPo as quoted by ThelmaLou](#): > > Nearly a quarter of all expenditures this year by a [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump)-supporting [super PAC](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/super-pac) reportedly paid for a single lavish event at — wait for it — his golf resort [Mar-a-Lago](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/mar-a-lago). Something seems a bit off with this reporting. Mal-a-Loco isn’t a golf resort, is it? ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1239 "2022-04-17T23:20:16Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@HuffPo as quoted by ThelmaLou](#): > > > > Nearly a quarter of all expenditures this year by a [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump)-supporting [super PAC](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/super-pac) reportedly paid for a single lavish event at — wait for it — his golf resort [Mar-a-Lago](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/mar-a-lago). > > Something seems a bit off with this reporting. Mal-a-Loco isn’t a golf resort, is it? - > [@](#): > > … There are almost no golf facilities at the Mar-a-Lago Club. We say “almost” because there is a single practice putting green on the grounds. But that’s it: no golf course, no other golf facilities. > > But wait, you say: Then how is President Trump playing golf every time he goes to Mar-a-Lago? > > … Trump International _is_ a golf club, and it’s located less than five miles away from Mar-a-Lago. Donald Trump owns both … > > …Mar-a-Lago Club members are not members at Trump International Golf Club, nor vice-versa. But, through pre-arrangement with their club pro, captain or secretary, they can visit the other club and use its services. … So: sorta. > **[9 Things to Know About Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club](https://www.liveabout.com/mar-a-lago-facts-4138095)** > > The Mar-a-Lago Club is Donald Trump's opulent getaway in Florida. Is there a golf course? What does the name mean? How much did it cost? ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/1240 "2022-04-18T19:32:52Z")
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