# Most Explosive Thing to happen right when Trump Assumes Office? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 20, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619 "2017-01-20T13:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 20, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/21 "2017-01-20T15:08:42Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I suppose wet dreams are a kind of “explosive”. Please do not say or imply that your fellow posters achieve sexual gratification or soil themselves in glee/distress due to recent news reports, political iconography, contemplation of ideological positions, etc. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/22 "2017-01-20T15:13:34Z")
After I heard the Marines were doing a flyover with several V-22s, my explosion worries for today shifted from leftist nutjob to aircraft safety concerns. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/23 "2017-01-20T15:15:28Z")
Putin invades Ukraine or some other east European country/s moments after the inauguration, with the goal of creating a new Russian Empire/Soviet Union. He figures Trump and his administration are either unwilling, or too disorganized and incompetent to do anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/24 "2017-01-20T15:17:32Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Snopes says [Unproven.](http://www.snopes.com/trump-hotels-lease-violation-action-alert/) Snopes says that the assertion that the GSA was tallying complaints about the matter was unproven. As the post you are replying to said nothing about contacting the GSA, I do not think that that was what they were referring to. Can you point to where they said that the terms of the lease were unproven? That seemed to be more the poster’s argument, and I did not see contradicted in the snopes article, in fact, it seemed to affirm that there was in fact a conflict there. ---
**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 20, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/25 "2017-01-20T15:18:10Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Please do not say or imply that your fellow posters achieve sexual gratification or soil themselves in glee/distress due to recent news reports, political iconography, contemplation of ideological positions, etc. > > [/moderating] Wait…what? ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/26 "2017-01-20T15:19:04Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > After I heard the Marines were doing a flyover with several V-22s, my explosion worries for today shifted from leftist nutjob to aircraft safety concerns. If anything happens, it’ll be on Trump’s head. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/27 "2017-01-20T15:21:59Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > After I heard the Marines were doing a flyover with several V-22s, my explosion worries for today shifted from leftist nutjob to aircraft safety concerns. I’m willing to bet that the Marine pilots selected for this show are pretty good pilots and that they won’t have any incidents. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/28 "2017-01-20T15:28:34Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > If you read that link, what Snopes says is Unproven is that there is a specific number at the GSA for folks to call and lodge their protest. Never mind! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/29 "2017-01-20T15:35:37Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Please do not say or imply that your fellow posters achieve sexual gratification or soil themselves in glee/distress due to recent news reports, political iconography, contemplation of ideological positions, etc. > > [/moderating] Insertion withdrawn. 😉 ---
**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 20, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/30 "2017-01-20T15:51:25Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > … > > - Your own digestive system at the thought of Trump assuming office? 😉 > > … This for sure. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/31 "2017-01-20T15:56:15Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Never mind! Yeah, when Obama’s and W’s ethics lawyers join up and are outraged at what they are seeing - you could hear the passion and emotion in their voices as they cited specifics and laid out the situation - well, it feels substantive. I don’t know if they didn’t discuss who could function as plaintiff or it just jumped out of my brain, but is suspect we’ll find out soon enough. I would be more worried if no legit plaintiff comes forward - what could be suppressing action on such an illustrative case? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/32 "2017-01-20T16:02:35Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Yeah, when Obama’s and W’s ethics lawyers join up and are outraged at what they are seeing - you could hear the passion and emotion in their voices as they cited specifics and laid out the situation - well, it feels substantive. I don’t know if they didn’t discuss who could function as plaintiff or it just jumped out of my brain, but is suspect we’ll find out soon enough. > > I would be more worried if no legit plaintiff comes forward - what could be suppressing action on such an illustrative case? But to be clear, if this is the “most explosive” thing to happen today, it’ll be a pretty quiet day. It’s just a lease deal. You re-write it or restructure it or something. I suspect if it becomes a real issue and Trump decides to fight it, it’ll be tied up in courts for years. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/33 "2017-01-20T16:14:23Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > But to be clear, if this is the “most explosive” thing to happen today, it’ll be a pretty quiet day. It’s just a lease deal. You re-write it or restructure it or something. I suspect if it becomes a real issue and Trump decides to fight it, it’ll be tied up in courts for years. I am ignorant of the process to be followed, but similar to Bill Clinton and MLewinsky, if the opposing party has a legally-plausible way to tangle up, let alone impeach, the President, don’t you think they would pursue it? ETA: that’s not to say your basic point, that it could be a whole lot worse, is out there. ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/34 "2017-01-20T16:35:22Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > After I heard the Marines were doing a flyover with several V-22s, my explosion worries for today shifted from leftist nutjob to aircraft safety concerns. As one of the original developers of the Osprey’s GPS, I wish I had put an easter egg in it to navigate to 100 feet above the podium today. No harm intended, I just want to see what that combover would look like in a 2000HP downdraft. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/35 "2017-01-20T16:44:53Z")
Obama leaves a clogged toilet at the White House for Trump to find, with a message written on the TP “I’ve been a Muslim all along, and I was born in Kenya! Bwahahaha!”. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/36 "2017-01-20T17:15:49Z")
> [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](#): > > Trump will stop funding to Occidental College until they turn over Obama’s application and school records so that Obama can be revealed as a fraud. In additional, he will send troops to Hawaii to get Obama’s real birth certificate from the department of health. > I’m not saying Obama is a fraud but this is what Trump will do. Occidental College is a small private college. What funding could he possibly cut off? ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/37 "2017-01-20T17:32:10Z")
Perfect music [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-Nle-rCzpHo/hqdefault.jpg "Nuclear weapons and Brahm's Requiem") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nle-rCzpHo) ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/38 "2017-01-20T17:45:20Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Obama leaves a clogged toilet at the White House for Trump to find, with a message written on the TP “I’ve been a Muslim all along, and I was born in Kenya! Bwahahaha!”. [Indeed](https://i.imgur.com/W5itcmG.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/39 "2017-01-20T17:49:42Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > When the big hand is on the twelve and the tiny hand is on the Bible, it may burst into flames. Hopefully a fire extinguisher is on hand. > > I hope the protests are long and raucous but not violent. The only violence will be instigated by those who follow the Orange Fuhrer. That wasn’t true last night. ---
**Author:** ![Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619/40 "2017-01-20T17:54:48Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Occidental College is a small private college. What funding could he possibly cut off? Most colleges receive federal money directly or indirectly through grants or student loans or non-profit status. I say anyone who wants to attend Occidental not get loans subsidized by the Federal government until Obama’s records are made public. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-explosive-thing-to-happen-right-when-trump-assumes-office/777619.md?page=3)