# 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:** 179
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3569 "2026-01-31T15:05:22Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 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. ummm… What? More jibberish. ---
**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 31, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3570 "2026-01-31T15:12:38Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Before most people in the US would even be out going to the movie. That suggests to me bots. There were plenty of afternoon showing of the film, and there are more than 100 verified (through Fandango ticket purchases) ratings of the film, by registered RT users. I don’t think these are bots, I think they’re MAGA lovers encouraged to review-bomb the site. Whether they actually saw the movie, who knows, but I suspect they showed up and watched with their mouths hanging open. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3571 "2026-01-31T15:25:02Z")
This send like a good place to park this article: Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion > **[Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion](https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/trumps-profiteering-hits-four-billion-dollars)** > > In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned. ---
**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 31, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3572 "2026-01-31T15:44:11Z")
How effective is it to impose tariffs when there’s no trade between Cuba and the United States? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 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-2/1013964/3573 "2026-01-31T16:02:37Z")
I assume the crisis between Cuba and the US is why we need tariffs on other nations. Maybe because they support Cuba? ---
**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 31, 2026, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3574 "2026-01-31T16:11:15Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion 🤔 Nostalgically looks back on a time when presidents put their assets in blind trusts while they were in office. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3575 "2026-01-31T16:38:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Nostalgically looks back on a time when presidents put their assets in blind trusts while they were in office. From The Onion’s archives > [@](#): > > All I had was a farm, you know? A small, precious farm. > > Seriously, it was just a few fields and a warehouse, and you idiots still appointed a special prosecutor and spent six months investigating it. > **[You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President](https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-farm-before-i-got-1819585048/)** > > For generations, U.S. presidents have gone to great lengths to avoid potential conflicts of interest. When I was elected, I followed suit by placing my small business in a blind trust to assure our citizens that I would always put the country’s... ---
**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 31, 2026, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3576 "2026-01-31T16:43:24Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I assume the crisis between Cuba and the US is why we need tariffs on other nations. Maybe because they support Cuba? That at least makes sense, if anything that originates in his twisted mind does. Of course the end result will be free trade among the entire rest of the world, with the US left frozen out. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3577 "2026-01-31T22:11:35Z")
FEMA? HAVING A DISASTER? Don’t call us, nobody’s home. Potential FACE Act violation: **Politifact FL: Under Trump, more FEMA disaster assistance applications are in limbo for longer** As of Jan. 28, FEMA listed 18 pending disaster declarations awaiting Trump’s approval. Eleven are more than a month old and some date back to October. Disaster management experts said the backlog is particularly large compared with what’s typical and that requests are sitting longer than normal. A September 2025 AP analysis found that over the last 37 years — which covers most of FEMA’s existence and the timeframe when it implemented its current assistance system — disaster declarations were typically approved in three weeks or less. Approvals are taking more than a month, on average, so far during Trump’s second term. > **[Politifact FL: Under Trump, more FEMA disaster assistance applications are in...](https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-01-29/jared-moskowitz-fema-disaster-management)** > > As of Jan. 28, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 18 disaster declaration applications awaiting President Donald Trump’s approval. Eleven are more than a month old and some date back to October 2025. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3578 "2026-01-31T22:16:45Z")
Sadly, I can post this outrage all day long. I despair. **Trump officials awarded Venezuela oil-sale contracts to firms tied to bribery** The licenses come **a year after the Trump administration gutted the foreign corrupt practices unit of the Justice Department, which brought charges against the two companies and their traders in 2020 and 2024.** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/29/trump-venezuela-oil-vitol-trafigura-bribes/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/29/trump-venezuela-oil-vitol-trafigura-bribes/) [https://archive.ph/XPGS1](https://archive.ph/XPGS1) ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 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-2/1013964/3579 "2026-01-31T22:44:12Z")
I know the “married her own brother” is a lie, but usually there is some bizarre twisting of truth to come to maga’s insane claims. What is the _real_ story here? ---
**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 31, 2026, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3580 "2026-01-31T23:44:19Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@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. Yes, and Trump is interested in keeping Marco happy, because Marco is currently doing four jobs. The money saved—salaries, overhead, Secret Service protection—is impressive. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2026, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3581 "2026-02-01T00:20:35Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Whether they actually saw the movie, who knows, but I suspect they showed up and watched with their mouths hanging open. You’ve got to remember that these people have no taste. They think Greg Gutfield is the height of comedy. They love Kid Rock and Keven Sorbo. They think _Trump_ is awesome. Every single one of them will eat this shit up. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3582 "2026-02-01T01:35:06Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I suspect they showed up and watched with their mouths hanging open. So… breathing normally. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3583 "2026-02-01T03:58:14Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > I know the “married her own brother” is a lie, but usually there is some bizarre twisting of truth to come to maga’s insane claims. What is the _real_ story here? The real, and uncontested, story is that Ilhan Omar’s marital history is a bit convoluted and unclear. She has had legal and/or Muslim ceremonial (recognized by Muslim society and jurisprudence even if not in accordance with secular law) forms of marriage and/or divorce with Ahmed Hirsi and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, both Muslims of Somali origin. And there apparently were some irregularities as to which one(s) she was filing joint tax returns with at various points in the evolution of her legal marital status. As of 2020, Omar is married to Tim Mynett, who AFAICT is American-born and non-Muslim (and was a political consultant working on her campaign when they began their relationship, which has also given rise to some criticism). I presume that Omar at the time of their marriage was validly legally divorced from anybody she might have needed a legal divorce from. AFAICT, conservative propaganda in 2016 began accusing Omar and Elmi of being siblings who married for some unspecified immigration status benefit to her. In fact, Omar was granted asylum status in the US with her family in 1995, when she was 12, and in 2000 at age 17 she became a US citizen. So by the time of her first marriage to Hirsi in 2002, she didn’t need any immigration status help from anybody. [Also AFAICT, there is zero reliable evidence that Elmi and Omar (or Hirsi and Omar, for that matter) are siblings.](https://www.tampabay.com/nation-world/politifact-did-ilhan-omar-marry-her-brother-the-minneapolis-star-tribune-investigated-and-heres-what-they-found-20190719/) The issue is complicated by the lack of birth records for Somali refugees. Apparently there are claims in social media posts about Elmi at one point referring to Omar’s newborn child (with Hirsi) as a “niece”, but I have no idea what that may mean in their culture. Sibling marriage is forbidden in Islam, and I very much doubt that any responsible Muslim cleric would have sanctioned such a marriage. Anyway, the salient points seem to be this: - It is indisputable that Ilhan Omar has been a US resident since age 12 and a US citizen since age 17, years before she ever married anybody; - It appears certain that Omar is now not married in any way to anybody except Tim Mynett, who is indisputably not her brother; - There is no credible evidence that Omar or any of her husbands ever committed or attempted immigration fraud. - All the Republican rumors and gossip about this issue seem to consist simply of endless chewing and re-chewing of the same insufficiently supported allegations inferred several years ago from some ambiguously worded social media posts of some of the individuals involved. **TL;DR:** Ilhan Omar’s marital history has been somewhat eventful and maybe not free from some errors of judgement (though how on earth the thrice-married serial adulterer, sexual abuser and probably rapist Donald Trump thinks **he’s** entitled to call her out for that, I have no idea). But nothing about it has affected in any way her previously established status as a US citizen. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2026, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3584 "2026-02-01T05:15:46Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > All the Republican rumors and gossip about this issue seem to consist simply of endless chewing and re-chewing of the same insufficiently supported allegations inferred several years ago from some ambiguously worded social media posts of some of the individuals involved. It’s the same kind of racist, fantastical bullshit as Obama birtherism. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3585 "2026-02-01T11:44:11Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Trump married himself. If you mean a vapid, self-centered narcissistic person with dubious fashion sense, then yes. We can just be grateful that is not too common for women to wear ties, Melania would tie a Double Windsor knot with one hand while our man Donald can barely manage the simplest tie known by himself. \* the Double Windsor is my favored option ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3586 "2026-02-01T11:52:09Z")
[quote=“Buck\_Godot quoting the US President”, post:3568, topic:1013964"] find that the situation with respect to Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat, [/quote] Dear Mr. Trump, tell me how you have no idea about the Cuban Missile Crisis without telling me you have no idea about the Cuban Missile Crisis. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3587 "2026-02-01T11:53:31Z")
I doubt he can tie his shoes. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/3588 "2026-02-01T13:06:52Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion You know how there are the claims that Trump is threatening Greenland to distract us from ICE which is to distract us from Epstein etc. All of that is to distract us from this. This is the true agenda of the Trump administration one that is indefensible and in normal times would have caused bipartisan outrage, but which has gotten little if any air time given all of the other awfult shit Turmp has done. [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=178) [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=180)