# Rumors--Trump Hates The Job/Fed Up/Thinking Of Quitting **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545 "2017-02-11T15:48:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/61 "2017-02-12T16:16:30Z")
> [@Butt-Hurt Trump Takes to Twitter Again (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/713): > > Slightly tangential: there is software that analyzes texts and tells you what grade level they are. Come to think of it, MSWord will do this. Is there someone with a bit of time on their hands who, for amusement, would like to analyze several hundred of his tweets and tell us what grade he is in, from a literacy pov? If the theory that a secretary is doing his tweeting is true, that might be analyzing the secre-tweeter, not the trum-peter. Many trump tweets contain spelling and/or grammatical errors, which either (depending on your slant) prove or don’t prove who wrote them. Since tweetery isn’t a hotbed of educational prowess, it probably doesn’t matter anyway. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/62 "2017-02-12T16:47:48Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I don’t dare hazard a guess about what he’ll do, because I’ve been wrong from the start. But I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if he wove a bullshit reason to take his crayons and leave if he gets tired of not being treated like an absolute authority. Honestly he’s already starting to try and steer the blame for all the bad decisions away from himself. This man really does NOT like a poor approval rating. Regarding the travel ban: > [@](#): > > "The law enforcement people said to me, ‘Oh, you can’t give a notice,’ " Trump said at a conference for the Major Cities Chiefs Association. “I suggested a month. And I said, ‘What about a week?’ They said you can’t do that because then people are gonna pour in before the toughness.” There was one other thing I saw that polled poorly and he tried to shift the blame away from himself but for the life of my I can’t remember. Basically he’s trying to play both sides of the aisle in my opinion. Doing things to keep his voters happy and then saying opposite things to try and make the rest of us like him. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/63 "2017-02-12T21:15:08Z")
I think the law being changed to allow him a third and fourth term because he is so wildly popular that we can’t imagine anyone else holding that office has a much higher probability than him quitting. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/64 "2017-02-12T21:50:12Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Speaking of Trumpish rumors…At least one political pundit, and not a radical one, thinks that Trump is of low literacy. Not illiterate, but close to it, and can’t read much at all. The evidence he gives doesn’t thoroughly convince me, but it might have some merit. That would entail some challenges about the standards at U of Penn in the 1960s… or at least the standards for sons of rich fathers in the business school, which alas would not surprise me. I rather think that he has good enough literacy but\* finds it to be a chore\*, that he’d be the kind of student who’ll read up on something that’s not immediately fun to him _only because it’s going to be in the test and count for the grade_, and in turn seek to get good grades out of competitiveness rather than scholarlyness and will have put it out of his mind two weeks after finals. Which would make him just one among millions of graduates who approached it that way and unremarkable at that. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/65 "2017-02-12T22:51:30Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > That would entail some challenges about the standards at U of Penn in the 1960s… or at least the standards for sons of rich fathers in the business school, which alas would not surprise me. > > I rather think that he has good enough literacy but\* finds it to be a chore\*, that he’d be the kind of student who’ll read up on something that’s not immediately fun to him _only because it’s going to be in the test and count for the grade_, and in turn seek to get good grades out of competitiveness rather than scholarlyness and will have put it out of his mind two weeks after finals. Which would make him just one among millions of graduates who approached it that way and unremarkable at that. Has anyone sought out DJT’s college transcript? Don’t most Presidents get theirs exposed and scrutinized sooner or later? ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/66 "2017-02-12T23:06:51Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I hate hate hate Trump, and I hope he flames out in the most spectacularly humiliating way possible. But I think this article is pretty much just gossip. I don’t think Trump is going to quit or be impeached or be removed (25th Amendment or whatever it is). As much as I wish I were wrong, I think we’re in for a long, awful four years. We’ve been hearing – and hoping – Trump is about to quit since the beginning of the campaign. He’s not going to quit. As a country we fucked up massively and there’s no getting out of it now. I can’t see the Republicans impeaching Trump. I mean just number wise, it’s unrealistic. If they impeach him…for whatever, it would make the whole party look like a complete bunch of bozos for not being able to control the nomination process. I hope the President remains in good health, but he’s 71 , overweight and not in good shape, I could see him having a stroke or a heart attack in the next 6 months to a year. God forbid that happens, because do you really want Pence on the job? What interests me is the President’s speech patterns. I’ve see some linguists break it down, and they make a good case for social manipulation in the way he talks. It’s actually fascinating. If he’s doing that, he’s had some good coaching. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/67 "2017-02-12T23:10:27Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Speaking of Trumpish rumors…At least one political pundit, and not a radical one, thinks that Trump is of low literacy. Not illiterate, but close to it, and can’t read much at all. The evidence he gives doesn’t thoroughly convince me, but it might have some merit. > > If it is true, it’s not surprising – someone with that much power (and powers of bullshit) could certainly cover up such a liability by having lackeys read for him. > > There are supposedly no videos showing Trump using glasses, but there is one where he says he needs glasses to read. And reportedly, his tweets are sent by a secretary. As I said, not very convincing, but [David Pakman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGuJlTVXfw&t=1s) might be on to something. I’m appalled by the Trump Presidency but this is fucking ridiculous. One only has to see him reading from the teleprompter when he’s giving a speech to know he’s literate. Granted, he sounds choppy and halting but he’s still reading. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/68 "2017-02-12T23:12:33Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > If they impeach him…for whatever, it would make the whole party look like a complete bunch of bozos… Too late. ---
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/69 "2017-02-12T23:47:50Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I’m appalled by the Trump Presidency but this is fucking ridiculous. One only has to see him reading from the teleprompter when he’s giving a speech to know he’s literate. Granted, he sounds choppy and halting but he’s still reading. You don’t remember him criticizing others for using teleprompters? He even said that he thought it should be illegal for politicians to use teleprompters. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/70 "2017-02-12T23:49:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Too late. Well, let me say, I’m really, really enjoying the articles on constituents standing up for themselves to their representative. You go American democratic process!! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/71 "2017-02-12T23:51:52Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > …I hope the President remains in good health, but he’s 71 , overweight and not in good shape, I could see him having a stroke or a heart attack in the next 6 months to a year. God forbid that happens, because do you really want Pence on the job?.. Honestly yes. We’d see the exact same policies, judicial appointments, etc. under President Pence as we’re seeing under President Trump. Except Pence isn’t going to kowtow to Putin, overrule the Joint Chiefs to satisfy his ego, or blunder his way into a war. Pence isn’t going to be any worse than Trump. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/72 "2017-02-13T00:58:21Z")
I think I predicted he would do that before he was even elected. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/73 "2017-02-13T01:08:29Z")
Here it is. I said it on August 2 > [@Would Trump survive a term?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-trump-survive-a-term/761539/12): > > He would resign in less than a year. After a few months of having to go into the briefing rooms and listening to people he could not possibly understand. It won’t be as much fun as he thought it would be. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/74 "2017-02-13T01:29:14Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > It won’t be as much fun as he thought it would be. Yeah, all that bad press has not allowed him to enjoy being President. Poor baby! ---
**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:** [February 13, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/75 "2017-02-13T02:05:46Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Yeah, all that bad press has not allowed him to enjoy being President. Poor baby! Besides, it’s just \*hard \*(whiny tone). You have to read stuff and go to meetings and shit. And people are mean to you. And maybe all you want to do is sit around in your underwear and eat Cheetos and watch reality shows and instead you have to put on a suit and a tie and spray your hair down and go to work (_ **WORK!** _ a la Maynard G. Krebs). Steve Bannon told me this would be fun. Maybe _he’s_ having fun, but I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/76 "2017-02-13T02:43:38Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > God forbid that happens, because do you really want Pence on the job? I survived four years of Pence as governor, I could survive four years of him as PotUS. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/77 "2017-02-13T02:48:43Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Correction: Never heard from again. No, that’s the [Vice-President and his sea-faring brother](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829748,00.html). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/78 "2017-02-13T02:48:49Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And people are mean to you. ‘To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.’ ― Theodore Roosevelt ---
**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, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/79 "2017-02-13T02:58:06Z")
I want him to stay and keep doing crazy things and appointing crazy people and in four years I want to see him leave office a broken, tired and humbled man. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545/80 "2017-02-13T03:02:14Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if the rumors about his attitude were true, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he stays on regardless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors-trump-hates-the-job-fed-up-thinking-of-quitting/779545.md?page=5)