# Other than that, Mr. Trump, how did you like the play **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 5, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-that-mr-trump-how-did-you-like-the-play/853185 "2020-05-05T15:28:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-that-mr-trump-how-did-you-like-the-play/853185/21 "2020-05-06T18:16:45Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > For someone so keen on projecting toughness and that he is not to be messed with, the Current Occupant sure does a whole damn lot of whingeing. A whiny cowardly wimp who can’t take criticism. Whatta wuss! And 40% love this most pathetic of humans. Yikes. _It’s not my fault. The [insert target here] did it! They’re always picking on me. Nasty women! Don’t touch me. You’re all poo-poo heads. My fingers ae NOT small! High school was my Vietnam._ Does America get the leadership it deserves? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-that-mr-trump-how-did-you-like-the-play/853185/22 "2020-05-06T18:45:43Z")
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-that-mr-trump-how-did-you-like-the-play/853185/23 "2020-05-11T06:12:51Z")
“Why do you use descriptive words that could be classified as bullying” “could be”? Oh, I can take that to the bank. One guy against the entire media is “bullying”? SERIOUSLY? :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > […] it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies—unless one counts journalists. —George Orwell, “Homage to Catalonia” (1938) > [@](#): > > It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. > > Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.[…] > > …the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only… —Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Norvell (June 11, 1807) > **[Image 2 of Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807](https://www.loc.gov/resource/mtj1.038_0592_0594/?sp=2&st=text)** > [@](#): > > I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, & mendacious spirit of those who write for them […] These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste, and lessening it’s relish for sound food. As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief. that this has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit I agree with you[…] —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Walter Jones (January 2, 1814) > **[Founders Online: Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 2 January 1814](https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0052)** > > Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 2 January 1814 ---
**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:** [May 11, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-that-mr-trump-how-did-you-like-the-play/853185/24 "2020-05-11T07:06:07Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > One guy against the entire media is “bullying”? SERIOUSLY? Of course it’s bullying. He’s not “one guy” - he’s the President of the United States. He’s literally the most powerful man in the world. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-that-mr-trump-how-did-you-like-the-play/853185/25 "2020-05-15T00:57:03Z")
**Moderator Note** > [@QuickSilver](#): > > Only platform that feckless cunt every successfully stood on was when she was selling her ass to the highest bidder. I realize you are quoting Samantha Bee here, but let’s keep the C word out of this forum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-that-mr-trump-how-did-you-like-the-play/853185.md?page=1)