# Stupid Trump Idea Of The Day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 11, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443 "2016-11-11T02:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/1 "2016-11-11T02:14:38Z")
[You asked for it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19771583&postcount=164), you got it, **Bryan Ekers**! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/2 "2016-11-11T02:50:23Z")
Weapons grade stupid: To put in his short list for his cabinet people like Ben Carson. Trump wants him for Secretary of Education. :smack: Yeah, no problem that he is a snake oil salesman, a creationist, a climate change denier, and an ignorant of history. Great surgeon, but he should stay away from other fields and education. > **[Nonreligious Questions](https://www.patheos.com/nonreligious-questions/)** > > Whether you’ve been turned off by religion in the past or have a question about one of the world’s religions, check out what Patheos has to offer. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/3 "2016-11-11T03:01:21Z")
Jesus, **Snowboarder Bo** , are you trying to crash the fucking server? The poor hamsters will die from exhaustion! ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/4 "2016-11-11T03:03:34Z")
Why. oh why did I subscribe to this thread? It’s going to make me either scream or cry every time i open it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/5 "2016-11-11T05:47:09Z")
This is going to be YUUUGE! ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/6 "2016-11-11T13:28:16Z")
It has it’s own thread, but I think [this](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/796900183955095552) should be included here as well. Trump’s tweet: > [@](#): > > Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair! Pay no attention to the “election is rigged” rhetoric. That was yesterday. And wtf are "professional protesters anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/7 "2016-11-11T13:34:46Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > …Pay no attention to the “election is rigged” rhetoric. That was yesterday. > > And wtf are "professional protesters anyway? Trump still doesn’t have that “acting Presidential” thing down. Why not condemn property damage or violence? Protests will continue & I doubt professional protesting has become a career option. I hear some “Anarchists” made things ugly in Portland. But those guys impress me as worthless trust-fundies. A familiar subject for The Donald. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/8 "2016-11-11T14:52:01Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > It has it’s own thread, but I think [this](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/796900183955095552) should be included here as well. > > Trump’s tweet: > Pay no attention to the “election is rigged” rhetoric. That was yesterday. > > And wtf are "professional protesters anyway? The soon-to-be most powerful man in the world\* is still complaining about things being “unfair”. Sad! \*God it was painful to type that. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/9 "2016-11-11T23:46:31Z")
It’s rumored that the degenerate Steve Bannon is under consideration for chief-of-staff. Watching these clowns trying to govern would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic and damaging. ETA: Trump is back on Twitter. Real presidential you big fucking baby. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/10 "2016-11-11T23:55:47Z")
[Sarah Palin in charge of the Department of the Interior?](http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-could-put-sarah-palin-charge-oil-gas-natural-resources-after-drill-baby-2444793) Start the giveaway of the national parks in three … two … one. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/11 "2016-11-12T00:08:39Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > It’s rumored that the degenerate Steve Bannon is under consideration for chief-of-staff. Watching these clowns trying to govern would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic and damaging. > > ETA: Trump is back on Twitter. Real presidential you big fucking baby. You mean the white supremacist Steve Bannon? Wikipedia has a glowing review of him. > [@](#): > > Personal life > > In February 1996, Bannon’s second wife accused Bannon of attacking her at their home. Bannon was charged with domestic violence, battery and attempting to dissuade a victim from reporting a crime, but the case was dropped when his wife did not show up in court. In court records, she later claimed that Bannon instructed her to leave town to avoid testifying.[18][19][20] She also accused Bannon of making anti-semitic statements about their children’s schools.[21] > … > Bannon was, as of mid-August 2016, registered to vote in Miami-Dade County, Florida, at the former residence of Diane Clohesy, Bannon’s third ex-wife, but the residence was vacant and slated for demolition.[25][26] On August 26, 2016, Bannon’s voter registration information was changed to an address in Sarasota County, an address associated with venture capitalist Andrew Badolato, who has been involved in films produced and directed by Bannon.[27][28] [29] He’s also an accomplished thief, just like his new boss > **[Another Goldman Sachs Alum Joins Donald Trump’s Campaign](https://fortune.com/2016/08/17/donald-trump-bannon-mnuchin-goldman/)** > > Donald Trump has a penchant for Goldman Sachs bankers turned movie producers. First it was Steve Mnuchin. Now it's Steve Bannon. > [@](#): > > Put in a major leadership role. > > Donald Trump has a penchant for Goldman Sachs bankers turned movie producers. > > First it was Steve Mnuchin, who in May joined Trump’s campaign as national finance chairman. He also is Trump’s likely pick for Treasury Secretary, and is part of the GOP presidential candidate’s recently-announced economic advisory team. > > Now it’s Steve Bannon, who overnight was named CEO of the Trump campaign. > > Bannon made his bones as a mergers and acquisitions banker with Goldman Sachs GS 1.31% beginning in the 1980’s, at the peak of Wall Street’s hostile takeover and junk bond booms. Most of his work was defending companies from such boardroom assaults ― in keeping with Goldman’s general stance on such things ― but he did later work on supporting some leveraged buyouts before moving into media and entertainment banking. > **[Steve Bannon and the alt-right: a primer](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-bannon-and-the-alt-right-a-primer/)** > > The Trump campaign's new CEO has done quite a bit to promote the internet's most notorious reactionaries > [@](#): > > Then, in 2012, Andrew Breitbartdied​, and into that vacuum he left behind stepped Steve Bannon, a rich guy-turned-conservative propagandist best known for making a fawning documentary of Sarah Palin. > > Slowly but surely, Bannon turned Breitbart into not only the most-read conservative web outlet but also the most incendiary one. It was happy to embrace fringe beliefs like birtherism and play footsie with blatantly racist notions of black criminality. It wasn’t interested in looking even faintly objective, instead inventing easily understood “narratives” of crusading conservative heroes and their many victories against the hated left. > > Buckleyite movement conservatism had always been tethered away from all that by its desire for “respectability,” the idea that it should be taken seriously by outsiders as a real intellectual force. Bannon’s Breitbart didn’t have such scruples – it was playing directly to its very specific audience – and it would follow that audience wherever it went. > … > Bannon’s Breitbart also realized that there was a large online community that naturally gravitated to Trump, a mix of people who saw themselves as far too radical to be accepted by polite society. Among them, conservative suspicions of diversity, inclusion, feminism, and political correctness had metastasized into something much darker. > > This was the alt-right, a collection of racists, pick-up artists, men’s rights activists, and other noxious trolls of the internet. > … > Offending progressives is something many conservative pundits love to do, in large part because progressives can be easy to offend. Buckey did it, Breitbart did it, and so on. The alt-right’s innovation here, in Yiannopoulos’s telling, is to take that tendency to its logical extreme. Did a Jewish author say something you disagree with? Send him a photoshop of him being sent to Auschwitz! It’s all in good fun, you see. ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/12 "2016-11-12T00:23:44Z")
Hey, everyone, remember when Trump said he’d surround himself with the best people? Well…turns out he’s so stupid, uninformed, and suspicious of competence that he’s not capable of figuring out who the best people actually are. I know. Shocking, right? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/13 "2016-11-12T00:32:09Z")
> [@Memnon](#): > > Hey, everyone, remember when Trump said he’d surround himself with the best people? Well…turns out he’s so stupid, uninformed, and suspicious of competence that he’s not capable of figuring out who the best people actually are. > > I know. Shocking, right? Many of the best and most qualified are refusing his job offers. They want nothing to do with him. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/14 "2016-11-12T02:10:43Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Many of the best and most qualified are refusing his job offers. They want nothing to do with him. I would like to believe that. Have any of these people come out publicly. Or is this a CT rumor ala the right. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/15 "2016-11-12T04:24:43Z")
Oh shit, is this going to be a long thread. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/16 "2016-11-12T14:53:56Z")
Here’s one that will be useful for his press secretary: [QUOTE=Ron Ziegler] This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative. [/QUOTE] > **[Ron Ziegler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ziegler)** > > Ronald Louis Ziegler (May 12, 1939 – February 10, 2003) was the 13th White House Press Secretary, serving during President Richard Nixon's administration. > Ziegler was born to Louis Daniel Ziegler, a production manager, and Ruby (Parsons) in Covington, Kentucky. He was raised in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod denomination.\[citation needed\] > Ziegler attended Concordia Lutheran School and graduated from the eighth grade in 1953. He graduated from Dixie Heights High School in Fort Mitchell, Kent... ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/17 "2016-11-12T15:35:58Z")
This doesn’t strictly qualify for this thread, but apparently [Mike Pence thinks the dangers of smoking are overhyped](http://uk.businessinsider.com/mike-pence-smoking-doesnt-kill-2016-11?r=US&%3BIR=T) Question for the group: What’s the likelihood that these guys, who can’t even wrap their heads around the dangers of _smoking_, are going to prove to be even remotely capable of knocking together a climate change policy that _won’t_ fuck the planet into a tinker’s bucket? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/18 "2016-11-12T16:08:39Z")
There’s a saying in the personnel management field: “First-rate people hire first-rate people. Second-rate people hire third-rate people.” ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/19 "2016-11-12T16:22:27Z")
Don’t even want to contemplate who the Surgeon General is going to be. If we even get one. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/20 "2016-11-12T16:26:50Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > Don’t even want to contemplate who the Surgeon General is going to be. If we even get one. Ben Carson can do that in his spare time while he’s running the Department of Education. And since there is black man in Trump’s Cabinet, it’s proof he isn’t racist! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443.md?page=2)