# 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:** 272
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5444 "2026-07-16T15:45:37Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Yeah - That’s why I’m torn about getting an uncirculated one from the Mint. I don’t want to buy something with the Fat Fuck’s face on it, but if any coin is guaranteed to be rare, it’s this one. Think of it this way… He’s _probably_ not earning royalties on it, so at least you’re not enriching him that way. (Fuck, though, it would just be like him to “license” his image to the government, and they pay him a fee every time it is used.) ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5445 "2026-07-16T15:49:06Z")
I can picture one of these abominations being discovered, far into the future - like when a child in England unearths an old Roman Coin- and the finder trying to figure out what’s on top of his head. Will they think it’s some kind of helmet? A small animal? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5446 "2026-07-16T15:58:53Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I don’t want to buy something with the Fat Fuck’s face on it, but if any coin is guaranteed to be rare, it’s this one. The only problem with that is that if enough people think like you do it won’t be rare at all. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5447 "2026-07-16T16:00:48Z")
What do you mean? It’ll be just a rare as my Beanie Babies and twelve copies of X-Men #1, each with a different foil cover! ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5448 "2026-07-16T16:34:06Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I don’t want to buy something with the Fat Fuck’s face on it, but if any coin is guaranteed to be rare, it’s this one. I like making money as much as the next guy, but even if this was a sure thing, I’d pass. I have to live with myself. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5449 "2026-07-16T16:57:12Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Think of it this way… He’s _probably_ not earning royalties on it, so at least you’re not enriching him that way. > > (Fuck, though, it would just be like him to “license” his image to the government, and they pay him a fee every time it is used.) You know who else made money licensing his image for government use on stamps, right? > [@](#): > > .. the Third Reich’s Postal Ministry paid Hitler 50 million marks to use his picture on postage stamps shortly before the start of World War II. > **[A Rich Hitler Evaded Taxes, Magazine Says](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-03-mn-2155-story.html)** > > Adolf Hitler was a tax evader who became the richest man in the Nazi hierarchy, a West German magazine said Friday. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 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-2/1013964/5450 "2026-07-16T17:49:10Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Yeah - That’s why I’m torn about getting an uncirculated one from the Mint. I don’t want to buy something with the Fat Fuck’s face on it, but if any coin is guaranteed to be rare, it’s this one. I dunno. How much are Happy Meal Beanie Baby collections going for these days? ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5451 "2026-07-16T17:53:34Z")
I’m just imagining some future pawn shop proprietor saying “best I can do is 2 bits” ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5452 "2026-07-16T19:47:35Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > You know who else made money licensing his image for government use on stamps, right? > > > [@](#): > > > > .. the Third Reich’s Postal Ministry paid Hitler 50 million marks to use his picture on postage stamps shortly before the start of World War II. I’m not a WW2 buff but do take an interest in history. Somehow this aspect of the Hitler story—that he used his position to enrich himself—was unfamiliar to me. It deserves to be more widely known! ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5453 "2026-07-16T20:11:15Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > 45/47 being an economics graduate from University of Pennsylvania, one might well be drawn to conclude he achieved this without attending any Econ 1.001 lectures. He listened to the part about the [Laffer curve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve) but imagined the revenue going to his own pockets instead government coffers. Getting elected President was a dream come true for him, especially the second time after he’d had an extra four years to figure out the grift. Looking back in hindsight we might have been better off had he won in 2020 instead of Biden. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5454 "2026-07-16T20:14:44Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > And it is somehow worse than the original image; he looks dopey, eyes unfocused, mouth askew. It reminds me of those bronze busts that go hilariously wrong, but in coin form. Diemakers’ subtle revenge? ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5455 "2026-07-16T20:16:18Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Diemakers’ subtle revenge? Heh, that’s a good thought. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5456 "2026-07-16T20:32:48Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > He listened to the part about the [Laffer curve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve) but imagined the revenue going to his own pockets instead government coffers. Laffing all the way to the bank. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5457 "2026-07-16T22:06:01Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Looking back in hindsight we might have been better off had he won in 2020 instead of Biden. I’ve had the same thought. But then I also thought that perhaps Don Jr. would be president right now. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5458 "2026-07-16T23:39:26Z")
Don’t worry; his turn’ll be in 2028. Unless Don Sr. “wins” reelection then. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2026, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5459 "2026-07-17T21:25:37Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Looking back in hindsight we might have been better off had he won in 2020 instead of Biden. I think you may be right with respect to the shamelessness of the corruption. If they’d been sort of transitioning from 2020 into 2021 and so on, there might not have been the Project 2025 blueprint available yet. The destruction of the US government would likely have gone much more slowly. On the other hand, the indifference of Donald and crew to the health of Americans might have hit a lot harder. COVID might not have been tamed to the level it was in the Biden Administration—there might have been more of that eugenics “let the weak die off” and that could have made a practical difference in the death toll. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5460 "2026-07-20T18:03:39Z")
He doesn’t even pretend any more that there’s no insider information. In fact, he’s making even more of a profit. > President Donald Trump’s media company is planning to charge for special high-speed access to Truth Social posts, including possibly his own affecting national security and financial markets. > > The move announced Thursday would allow Wall Street trading firms and other institutions to get news from top Truth Social contributors in milliseconds so they could profit off subsequent moves in stocks, bonds and interest rates. > **[Trump firm plans to sell priority access to Truth Social posts, possibly his own](https://apnews.com/article/truth-social-trump-media-trump-post-conflicts-of-interest-truth-api-759fa71769729a26024914dd681c1953)** > > President Donald Trump's media company is planning to charge for special high-speed access to Truth Social posts, including possibly his own affecting national security and financial markets. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5461 "2026-07-20T18:25:52Z")
Anyone, anyone surprised at ALL? The corruption continues. He has sold the presidency of the United States. Think about that. And congress does nothing. SCOTUS does nothing. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5462 "2026-07-20T22:27:46Z")
And now DJT has imposed 50% tariffs on many goods imported from Canada, because they’re not buying enough of our stuff. > President Donald Trump on Monday imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, declaring that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products. > …The official said that Trump had also requested that his aides look into additional tariffs on Canada because its wildfires hurt air quality in the U.S. > **[Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, citing disputes over cars,...](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-canada-tariffs-cars-cheese-liquor-rcna588453)** > > The move could unleash a new wave of economic chaos, pushing inflation higher and fraying relations between Washington and one of its closest allies. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/5463 "2026-07-20T22:34:35Z")
Didn’t the courts rule that he can’t unilaterally impose tariffs? [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=271) [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=273)