# "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:** 25
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/481 "2017-02-09T12:48:17Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Not a bad bit of invective here](http://usuncut.com/politics/pennsylvania-senator-shit-gibbon/): That’s wonderful. It’s the Al Franken “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot” model of exaggerating the Right’s lack of civil discourse and throwing it right back at 'em. Let’s see who can dish it out, and not take it. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/482 "2017-02-09T13:33:35Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > By the highlighted he, I assume you meant Trump, right? Yes. Trump told a sheriff who was upset a judge was making asset forfeiture harder that he would ruin the judge’s career for the sheriff. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/483 "2017-02-09T13:41:51Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Yes. Trump told a sheriff who was upset a judge was making asset forfeiture harder that he would ruin the judge’s career for the sheriff. State senator, not judge. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/484 "2017-02-09T18:15:53Z")
[Poetry - thanks to the NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/opinion/to-reject-trump-the-perverse-poets-wage-a-battle-in-verse.html?ref=opinion&_r=0) _The Republican man of the hour Is a wellspring of bluster and glower. Trump is rich and he’s white, How’s he leading the fight Against entrenched Establishment power? If God made man in his image Please explain our new President’s visage That pucker and scowl Look like murder most foul What in heaven, Lord, earned us this priv’lege?_ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/485 "2017-02-09T18:46:06Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I think I found my new hero!!! > > “you fascist, loofa-faced shit-gibbon!!” 😃 Didn’t somebody post precisely those words sometime back? “Always twitter, twitter, twitter! Eh, Mr. Shit-Gibbon?” ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/486 "2017-02-09T19:07:04Z")
> [@naita](#): > > State senator, not judge. He’s going after so many, it is hard to keep them straight. I’m lucky I didn’t type Nordstrom. In other news, [Conway breaks the law](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/was-kellyanne-conway-s-ivanka-trump-fashion-line-plug-legal-n718831). Republicans and Democrats mostly silent. While it is a given the Reps won’t make any serious effort to try her, at least the Dems can make the noise and get it tried in the court of public opinion. We just went through 8 years of every misplaced comma being a national crisis. How about [gross ethical violations](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.702)? > [@](#): > > § 2635.702 Use of public office for private gain. > An employee shall not use his public office for his own private gain, for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise, or for the private gain of friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity, including nonprofit organizations of which the employee is an officer or member, and persons with whom the employee has or seeks employment or business relations. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/487 "2017-02-09T19:08:58Z")
Is it too early to start the \*Daylin Leach for President \*campaign? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/488 "2017-02-09T19:12:19Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Is it too early to start the \*Daylin Leach for President \*campaign? It’s never too late. Let’s do this. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/489 "2017-02-12T02:59:26Z")
![](https://media.giphy.com/media/RfZZhhE2v0H0A/giphy-downsized-large.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/490 "2017-02-12T03:34:05Z")
The beauty of that is that the “n” and the “m” are mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/491 "2017-02-12T04:00:01Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [donald trump GIF](https://media.giphy.com/media/RfZZhhE2v0H0A/giphy-downsized-large.gif) [This is my favorite one](https://twitter.com/TrumpDraws/status/826542931112660992). ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/492 "2017-02-12T20:23:12Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > [This is my favorite one](https://twitter.com/TrumpDraws/status/826542931112660992). Trump golf GIF ![](https://media.giphy.com/media/l3q2AA71OaQTwvLtm/giphy.gif) ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/493 "2017-02-13T12:59:23Z")
[Trump’s official inauguration poster has glaring typo](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/319170-trumps-official-inauguration-poster-has-glaring-typo) ---
**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:** [February 13, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/494 "2017-02-13T15:02:39Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [Trump’s official inauguration poster has glaring typo](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/319170-trumps-official-inauguration-poster-has-glaring-typo) > [@](#): > > On the original page, the Library of Congress described the print as one that “captures the essence of Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency of the United States.” Can’t argue with that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/495 "2017-02-13T18:19:06Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [Trump’s official inauguration poster has glaring typo](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/319170-trumps-official-inauguration-poster-has-glaring-typo) What’s the typo. Can’t see the teeny print on it. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/496 "2017-02-13T18:41:07Z")
“No dream is too big No challenge is _ **to** _ great …” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/497 "2017-02-13T18:48:07Z")
They misspelled “bigly”? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/498 "2017-02-13T20:29:53Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > They misspelled “bigly”? Yep, looks like they omitted three letters total. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/499 "2017-02-14T19:16:23Z")
[Sean Spicer, noted idiot,](http://globalnews.ca/video/3248620/sean-spicer-says-donald-trump-had-productive-meeting-with-joe-trudeau) has just told the press that Trump had a good visit with “Joe Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister”. Jesus. Someone please get this guy some professional help. He’s a fucking idiot. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125/500 "2017-02-14T19:23:04Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > [Sean Spicer, noted idiot,](http://globalnews.ca/video/3248620/sean-spicer-says-donald-trump-had-productive-meeting-with-joe-trudeau) has just told the press that Trump had a good visit with “Joe Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister”. > > Jesus. > > Someone please get this guy some professional help. He’s a fucking idiot. At least he didn’t call him Jacques Cousteau. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-donald-alone-pleads-his-press-secretary/776125.md?page=26)