# 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:** 27
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/528 "2025-04-12T06:24:59Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > > > Flag lapel pins are out, Trump cabinet members are sporting gold lapel pins of Trump’s profile. > > Are the betting markets offering odds on when the US flag will actually be outlawed? > > I mean, allegiance to the FLAG is clearly bad and wrong. Our allegiance must be to Glorious Trump! Hmm I’m not sure, Donald seems to like it… [![](https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/40a/3b9/b22ae3001f142a69a0b671243386797f15-29-president-trump-american-flag-cpac-20.2x.rsquare.w400.jpg) ](https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/40a/3b9/b22ae3001f142a69a0b671243386797f15-29-president-trump-american-flag-cpac-20.2x.rsquare.w400.jpg) ---
**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 12, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/529 "2025-04-12T22:30:59Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Hmm I’m not sure, Donald seems to like it… Sure, but he likes _himself_ better. A LOT better. ---
**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, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/530 "2025-04-13T01:54:23Z")
You just know that flag is thinking, “Bad touchies! BAD TOUCHIES!” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/531 "2025-04-13T12:39:43Z")
Watching Good Morning America this morning (against my will). During the trivia question segment, the host stammered over a question about the Gulf of Mexico and wound up just saying “the Gulf”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/532 "2025-04-13T15:57:16Z")
Wait. GMA does Sunday mornings too? I don’t watch anything except Netflix, Amazon Prime, AppleTV, Disney+, and Hulu, so I can’t be expected to know these things, but I would have expected them to let America sleep in on Sundays. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/533 "2025-04-13T16:10:38Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > GMA does Sunday mornings too? There’s a Good Morning America Weekend show that airs both Saturday and Sunday mornings. I know this only because I just Googled it. ---
**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 14, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/534 "2025-04-14T01:51:38Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > There’s a Good Morning America Weekend show that airs both Saturday and Sunday mornings. They should call it “Why Are You Up So Early on a Weekend America”. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/535 "2025-04-14T03:46:17Z")
Well, today he’s pissed me off by forcing me and my fiancée to have a conversation that should normally be fairly unimportant. On my suggestion, my fiancée (36, black female) has decided that, despite what we would both prefer, she’s going to keep her maiden name rather than my (52, white male) last name. We had the discussion after reading about the difficulties that may otherwise arise due to the SAVE Act. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/536 "2025-04-14T03:59:56Z")
I wouldn’t worry about that @Superdude . A woman with the last name ‘Superdude’ would be odd after all. I kid of course. My wife did take my last name. I should have taken hers. It’s cool. Mine kinda sucks. I had a crush on a girl in college that had a beautiful flowing name. Also perfect for her heritage and her red flowing hair. She married a guy with the worst name I’ve ever heard. An Italian name. No disrespect, but this was BAD. I won’t disclose it here, or anywhere, but outside of losing a girl I had a crush on I was “You’ve got to be kidding me” ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/537 "2025-04-14T04:04:03Z")
My wife kept her name, primarily because it would be easier than updating all of her licenses and legal stuff. The other day she thanked me for ‘letting’ her keep her name. (A previous husband didn’t.) I didn’t ‘let’ her do anything. It wasn’t my decision to make. She was/is perfectly _welcome_ to take my surname, but I had/have no right to insist she did/does. (I think she did hyphenate on our marriage certificate, but I’d have to look.) ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/538 "2025-04-14T04:19:07Z")
I can relate. And, honestly, my fiancée has a run of the mill maiden name. Seriously, it’s in the Top 20 most common last names in the US. I have a very German last name, despite having no German heritage (my great grandmother married into a Dutch last name. When she left her husband, she didn’t want him to be able to locate her, so, rather than keep his name or go back to her maiden name, she changed the spelling by one vowel. Rather than an “EE” in her last name, she started writing it “EI,” which changed the derivation from Dutch to German). It didn’t help that the last two syllables in my three-syllable last name rhyme with “virgin.” It was torture in high school. ---
**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 14, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/539 "2025-04-14T04:56:28Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I had a crush on a girl in college that had a beautiful flowing name. Also perfect for her heritage and her red flowing hair. She married a guy with the worst name I’ve ever heard. An Italian name. Julia Gulia? ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/540 "2025-04-14T10:31:25Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > My wife did take my last name. I should have taken hers. One of my coworkers, last name Brown, was going to take his then fiancee’s name when they married. “There are enough Browns in the world,” he said. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/541 "2025-04-14T11:42:34Z")
I wonder what impact this inanity regarding surnames from the felon and his cabal will have on the population of Hawaii. When one applies for a marriage license in the Aloha State, one selects one of the options for the surnames of the happy couple. One choice is to create a brand new surname. I like that option. When the wife and I got married there, though, we selected the “each party to the marriage maintains their current surname”. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/542 "2025-04-14T15:10:24Z")
When we got married, **Mrs Magill** already had six months of airline tickets in the name of **Mrs Maiden Name**. Rather than going through the rigamarole of changing twenty-some-odd airline tickets, she took the name **Mrs Maiden Name Magill**. While I am in Raleigh this week, I will have to go the the courthouse to get a copy of our marriage licence, so she can vote. I still don’t understand how this “SAVE” act even passes constitutional muster. I thought the feds didn’t have the authority to regulate elections. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/543 "2025-04-14T16:20:30Z")
> [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > rigamarole Nitpick: ‘Rigmarole’. (Although Merriam-Webster offers your spelling as ‘less common’. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/544 "2025-04-14T18:58:05Z")
I went back to my maiden name when I had been divorced longer than I had been married. Mostly, I was tired of having two names that people always misspelled. Now I’m back to only one. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/545 "2025-04-14T20:34:29Z")
The SAVE Act is not filibuster-proof. It would need 60 votes to pass in the Senate. Democrats wouldn’t give them that. I hope. ---
**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 14, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/546 "2025-04-14T20:36:54Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > I went back to my maiden name when I had been divorced longer than I had been married. My ex-wife didn’t waste any time after we divorced. I don’t blame her, my last name is dumb. It was also my idea to have my oldest daughter’s last name changed to match my ex-wife and her family (not just because I didn’t want her to live with that last name, but also because I thought if she had the same last name as the family she lived with, she would feel more included). When I married the second time, I told my wife that she absolutely did not have to take my last name, but she did anyway. ---
**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 14, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/547 "2025-04-14T21:18:17Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > The SAVE Act is not filibuster-proof. It would need 60 votes to pass in the Senate. Democrats wouldn’t give them that. I hope. Probably depends on what blackmail-ready information DOGE has accumulated, on which Senators. > [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > I still don’t understand how this “SAVE” act even passes constitutional muster. I thought the feds didn’t have the authority to regulate elections. What do LAWS matter when the sacred duty to save women from the terrible consequences of _voting_ is at issue! (It causes breast cancer, you know!) > [@Monty](#): > > I wonder what impact this inanity regarding surnames from the felon and his cabal will have on the population of Hawaii. When one applies for a marriage license in the Aloha State, one selects one of the options for the surnames of the happy couple. One choice is to create a brand new surname. With Hawaii being notoriously Democratic in its voting habits, the virtues of SAVE in this regard are obvious. [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=26) [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=28)