# How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 6, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964 "2025-02-06T18:32:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 178
**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:** [January 30, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3549 "2026-01-30T14:35:24Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > As for the movie, “Melania” it’s coming out that it was a bribe and a scam. The bribe is blatant. As for the scam, it was a good idea in _The Producers_ (1967). As Gene Wilder pointed out in the film, you can make money off of a flop. Unfortunately for Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, they tried too hard. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3550 "2026-01-30T17:28:36Z")
To be fair, the last time a movie was released about a sex worker who moved to NYC, shacking up with a con artist while becoming a MAGA-esque idiot in the process, it won Best Picture. ---
**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 30, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3551 "2026-01-30T17:35:51Z")
But Dustin Hoffman is so much taller than Trump… ---
**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 30, 2026, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3552 "2026-01-30T17:48:38Z")
Also, this just came in… > **[Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/)** > > By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency ---
**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 30, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3553 "2026-01-30T18:43:49Z")
Now, this won’t do at all. Cuba is too small an island, compared to Greenland, to distract from the Epstein release (mid day right before a weekend, no less!) and the inevitable findings that the DOJ has conveniently not released some of the files (no doubt they will claim they are irrelevant without any other justification) while redacting others beyond their remit (no doubt they will claim this was done in accordance with the law). You gotta wonder why they didn’t just wait another week when most of the country would be distracted by the Super Bowl. That’s a bigger story to most Americans than Cuba ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3554 "2026-01-30T18:47:27Z")
Perhaps Trump wants to rebuild the American casinos and resort hotels that were in Havana prior to the Communist revolution? Aside from that, I really don’t understand his interest in Cuba. ---
**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 30, 2026, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3555 "2026-01-30T18:48:40Z")
Will the Navy Seals be ready in time? While up to their stomachs in water I’d guess that Trump is testing each of their ‘snorkels’ personaly. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3556 "2026-01-30T18:50:58Z")
Nobody is going to actually see “Melania” other than the brainwashed, but one Letterboxd reviewer said “even if they showed this on a plane, people would walk out.” ---
**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:** [January 30, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3557 "2026-01-30T18:51:55Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > “even if they showed this on a plane, people would walk out.” Holy crap, that’s funny! ---
**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:** [January 30, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3558 "2026-01-30T19:09:59Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Perhaps Trump wants to rebuild the American casinos and resort hotels that were in Havana prior to the Communist revolution? And drive every one of them into bankruptcy? Sounds like a plan. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3559 "2026-01-30T20:33:38Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I really don’t understand his interest in Cuba. Marco Rubio wants to be president and figures he can lock down Florida with this. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 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-2/1013964/3560 "2026-01-30T20:58:55Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Marco Rubio wants to be president and figures he can lock down Florida Exactly what I thought. We ‘annex’ Cuba and suddenly all the Cuban illegals miraculously become legal. Hell, they’ll probably even be able to vote. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3561 "2026-01-30T21:01:07Z")
I expect that the increase in deportations of Cubans is going to shake Republican support in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3562 "2026-01-30T22:26:40Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Trump now kidnapping people from Scotland. > > [https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/politics/6944194/us-oil-tanker-moray-firth-scottish-parliament/](https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/politics/6944194/us-oil-tanker-moray-firth-scottish-parliament/) > > Motherfucker is going to start World War 3 if we don’t impeach him. I wonder if the Scottish government can find some way of seizing the golf resorts Trump owns there. The resulting tantrum would be _epic_. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3563 "2026-01-30T22:56:29Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I expect that the increase in deportations of Cubans is going to shake Republican support in Florida. Yeah, if they “conquer” Cuba they can just send all the Cubans back since it will be “safe” again. Miller will be on board. ---
**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 30, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3564 "2026-01-30T23:09:48Z")
Is that the old, “my family will just dust off the deeds” trope? Bad news; people have been living on, working, and raising families on that land for 50+ years. Cuban-Americans think that they are going to ‘stomp on in’ with their big-boy boots and that the people living there will just say, “Oy Patron Let me be your Peon ! I just yearn for it…!”. Oh, I can just see that working. Also, Cuba would have free human fertilizer for 100 years if they could only build human-sized coffee grinders. ---
**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 31, 2026, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3565 "2026-01-31T05:25:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Unfortunately for Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, they tried too hard. Not that. It was the _one_ member of the audience after “Springtime for Hitler” who started laughing that did them in. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3566 "2026-01-31T09:39:38Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Nobody is going to actually see “Melania” other than the brainwashed, but one Letterboxd reviewer said “even if they showed this on a plane, people would walk out.” I heard somewhere, probably The Dope, that although lots of people had a copy of Mein Kampf and it was a common wedding present, few ever actually read it. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3567 "2026-01-31T13:53:52Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Not that. It was the _one_ member of the audience after “Springtime for Hitler” who started laughing that did them in. Which wouldn’t have happened if they hadn’t tried so hard to get the ‘worst’ Hitler they could find. Instead they ended up with the _one_ person who could make the play work. ---
**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 31, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3568 "2026-01-31T14:50:26Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Nobody is going to actually see “Melania” other than the brainwashed, but one Letterboxd reviewer said “even if they showed this on a plane, people would walk out.” Rotten tomatoes currently has the largest gap between audience and critic reviews that I have every seen. 98% fresh audience vs 6% critic. Interstingly of the 10 or so reviews on the site 70% of them occured between 5PM and 9PM Eastern standard time (no reviews since 9 last night.) Before most people in the US would even be out going to the movie. That suggests to me bots. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Perhaps Trump wants to rebuild the American casinos and resort hotels that were in Havana prior to the Communist revolution? Aside from that, I really don’t understand his interest in Cuba. I’m not sure that invasion is in the offing. If you read the link, after all that bellicose rambling and claims of extreme danger, the only actions being suggested are tariffs. It’s almost comical in its underwhelmingness. > NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the situation with respect to Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and hereby declare a national emergency with respect to that threat. > > To deal with the national emergency declared in this order, I determine that it is necessary and appropriate to establish a tariff system, as described below. It might be that he got a hint that the Supremes aren’t going to let him use emergency tariff powers without an actual emergency. So he’s trying to justify one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964.md?page=177) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964.md?page=179)