# "Leave Donald Alone!" Pleads His Press Secretary **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125 "2017-01-02T04:23:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/1 "2017-01-02T04:23:42Z")
Apparently he can dish out out but [he can’t take it](http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/01/trumps-press-secretary-begs-american-people-stop-mocking-donald-trump.html): > [@](#): > > Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer went on national television to complain that the American people are mocking Donald Trump and called on every American to support the president-elect instead of mocking him… :dubious: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/2 "2017-01-02T04:27:31Z")
Crush the cheat-o. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/3 "2017-01-02T04:43:15Z")
I know Trump’s not as well informed as we might wish. But did he really think the President doesn’t get subjected to mockery? Maybe Washington avoided it but it went downhill after him. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/4 "2017-01-02T04:47:37Z")
If nothing else, this is going to be an amazing four years for comedy. Or until the Gulag is up and running. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/5 "2017-01-02T05:05:15Z")
Yeah, not a fucking chance. You want respect? Be respectable, you chancrous scumbag. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/6 "2017-01-02T05:22:31Z")
No. fuck no. No fucking chance. You harassed Obama endlessly with the birther bullshit trying to question his legitimacy. Every single action you take will be mocked ruthlessly and opposed. Deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/7 "2017-01-02T05:34:27Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I know Trump’s not as well informed as we might wish. But did he really think the President doesn’t get subjected to mockery? Maybe Washington avoided it but it went downhill after him. From the [Mount Vernon](http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/thomas-jefferson/) website: > [@](#): > > Martha Washington often recalled the two saddest days of her life. The first was December 14, 1799 when her husband died. The second was in January 1801 when Thomas Jefferson visited Mount Vernon. As a close friend explained, “She assured a party of gentlemen, of which I was one. . .that next to the loss of her husband” Jefferson’s visit was the “most painful occurrence of her life.” > > She had come to dislike Jefferson for his frequent attacks on President George Washington as a monarchist bent on destroying the rule of the people and a senile follower of the policies of Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson even refused to attend memorial services for the President, saying in private that the “republican spirit” in the nation might revive now that Washington was dead and the Federalists could no longer hide behind his heroic image. There was bitter infighting during the Early Republic. Washington was widely respected–but _even he_ did not escape lies & mockery. Trump? Mock away. I consider it my duty as an American. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/8 "2017-01-02T05:38:03Z")
Certainly seems undignified. Trump voters, what do you think of this plea/call/whatever you want to call it? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/9 "2017-01-02T05:51:44Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Yeah, not a fucking chance. You want respect? Be respectable, you chancrous scumbag. Indeed. The man has relentlessly mocked others who have earned his disdain for decades, and now he’s asking to not be mocked? Yet another example of how thin-skinned he is. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/10 "2017-01-02T05:57:20Z")
A heartfelt message to President-Elect Donald J. Trump: FUCK YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/11 "2017-01-02T06:47:03Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Indeed. The man has relentlessly mocked others who have earned his disdain for decades, and now he’s asking to not be mocked? “I won bigly in election, but haters and losers are still being not nice. Very sad! Unfair!” ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/12 "2017-01-02T06:53:25Z")
…I certainly hope that the press get better at handling the new whitehouse press spokesman: because Sean Spicer just “trumped” that guy with gish gallop. That was a load of horseshit. ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/13 "2017-01-02T07:01:51Z")
[Leave Trump alone!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqfTLgHbhxs) He’s a HUMAN! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/14 "2017-01-02T07:11:11Z")
Moved from Elections to the Pit. [/ moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/15 "2017-01-02T07:16:01Z")
> [@ricksummon](#): > > [Leave Trump alone!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqfTLgHbhxs) He’s a HUMAN! 😃 Are we _sure_? A lot of people have been calling me, very smart, top of the field, and they’ve been saying he’s some sort of slime mould. I’ve been talking to investigators in Queens who’ve been digging up information on his childhood, you wouldn’t believe what they’re finding. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/16 "2017-01-02T08:11:47Z")
The more I see of Trump and his dummies, the more I’m sure he’s a set-up to further the success of comedy-writers and comics for the next few years. Who’d have thought that such a marginalised group could have such an asset? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/17 "2017-01-02T09:32:12Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Certainly seems undignified. Trump voters, what do you think of this plea/call/whatever you want to call it? The various Trump-regrets twitter accounts are full of people surprised that Trump and his team are actually this childish and weren’t doing it only for the campaign … ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/18 "2017-01-02T10:38:39Z")
> [@naita](#): > > The various Trump-regrets twitter accounts are full of people surprised that Trump and his team are actually this childish and weren’t doing it only for the campaign … It’'s like some weird variation of Poe’s Law, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/19 "2017-01-02T12:16:25Z")
I think that people should stop mocking him. He is actually going to build a wall and make Mexico pay. He is going to drain the swamp in Washington. Obama wasn’t born in the US. Trump’s mockery of that reporter wasn’t referencing the reporter’s disability. He did watch in Jersey while thousands and thousands of people cheered as the World Trade Center collapsed. The US is the highest taxed country in the world. Trump means what he says. No need to mock. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/20 "2017-01-02T12:19:46Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It’'s like some weird variation of Poe’s Law, isn’t it? It seems like it wouldn’t be possible to be this stupid, but I’ve checked up a couple of accounts and if they’re not genuine it’s a really long con. Singing his praise in October, and then being appalled through November and December for varying reasons, whether it be Hillary not being in jail yet, praise for Putin, the lack of nazi salutes, Goldman-Sachs taking over the administration or just the constant petty tweets about how biggly he won. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125.md?page=2)