# Say something good about Donald Trump. Can you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 23, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705 "2025-02-23T19:18:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/41 "2025-02-23T23:42:34Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > He’s married to the the second hottest First Lady ever. Yeah, she’s no Dolley Madison. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/42 "2025-02-23T23:44:52Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > He’s married to the the second hottest First Lady ever. Wait, who’s the first? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/43 "2025-02-23T23:58:33Z")
Eleanor Roosevelt. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/44 "2025-02-24T00:05:49Z")
One good thing is that he’s so incredibly fucking stupid and lazy that his incompetence and laziness at least partially mitigates the evil he can do. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/45 "2025-02-24T00:07:37Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Eleanor Roosevelt I was rooting for Mamie. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/46 "2025-02-24T00:09:40Z")
He doesn’t have a dog (or any pet). I’m really glad. Keep up the good work, Donnie! ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/47 "2025-02-24T00:12:31Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > He told SecTreas to stop making pennies. This one. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/48 "2025-02-24T00:14:37Z")
Of course disliking dogs and cats is not a positive trait for anyone, but at least it can be said that no dog or cat will be subject to Trump’s abuse. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/49 "2025-02-24T00:58:39Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Wait, who’s the first? Jackie Kennedy of course. She was American royalty. She had style, she had grace. Let’s end the hijack if we want to discuss start another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/50 "2025-02-24T01:43:42Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > She had style, she had grace Quoting Tom Jones are we? (Or, really, the writer: Paul Anka.) > Well, she’s all you’d ever want > She’s the kind I’d like to flaunt and take to dinner > Well, she always knows her place > She’s got style, she’s got grace, she’s a winner > [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Let’s end the hijack if we want to discuss start another thread. Did you read the thread title? Hijacks would be the best thing to ever happen to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![justdoit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@justdoit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justdoit)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/51 "2025-02-24T02:00:43Z")
He had a hit tv show, dodged a bullet, and doesn’t drink alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/52 "2025-02-24T02:07:46Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Quoting Tom Jones are we? (Or, really, the writer: Paul Anka.) Madonna. She had style, she had grace, Rita Hayworth gave good face. But it is possible she was quoting those old timers. ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/53 "2025-02-24T02:30:54Z")
Nope! Anything and everything I’d have to say about Donald Trump would come out as bad! I do NOT wish him well! ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/54 "2025-02-24T02:41:21Z")
Trump was right about the Universal Postal Treaty being a lopsidedly unfair deal for the US, and he did get a better deal by threatening to withdraw from it. Please don’t take this as support, I loathe the man and wish upon him bad things that haven’t even been invented yet. The number and severity of things bad things he’s done outweights any good thing he could do in the next 10 lifetimes. Just trying to honestly answer the OP with the one and only thing that I understand he accidentally was right about. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/55 "2025-02-24T03:30:12Z")
Nope - everything I could think off - avoiding paying contractors, threatening lawsuits and not paying lawyers, going bankrupt six-plus times and not paying taxes ever – are only “good” if you’re evil. ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/56 "2025-02-24T08:28:02Z")
Trump does an excellent impression of the character _Chauncey Gardiner_ in the Peter Sellers’ movie, _Being There_. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/57 "2025-02-24T10:05:21Z")
Completely agree with this. Hopefully he succeeds in getting Europe to spend 2.5%+ of GDP on defence. Having said that if he introduces material tariffs on Europe it will almost certainly reduce the chances of it happening. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/58 "2025-02-24T10:12:10Z")
He doubled the size of the list which formerly contained only the name of Grover Cleveland. ---
**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 24, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/59 "2025-02-24T11:33:37Z")
I ran across something favorable recently. While Trump didn’t originate the concept, he enhanced and extended it. Called _Community Care,_ that is the provision for veterans and military to receive VA-covered health care from (almost) any non-VA facility closer to home, if they live too far from official VA facilities. _Trump signed the Veterans Choice Program Extension and Improvement Act_ – news article, 2017 [https://www.jbsa.mil/News/News/Tag/88089/veterans-choice-program-extension-and-improvement-act/](https://www.jbsa.mil/News/News/Tag/88089/veterans-choice-program-extension-and-improvement-act/) It has allowed me to receive most medical care closer to home, and considerably reduced my medical and travel expenses. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705/60 "2025-02-24T15:08:06Z")
At first, and when he has something to gain from it, he can come across as quite affable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-good-about-donald-trump-can-you/1014705.md?page=4)