# 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:** 7
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/121 "2016-12-07T03:20:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > If Jared Kushner does it, can we count it as a stupid Trump idea? Kushner wants the FBI to crack down on anti-Trump dissent. > [Comey’s FBI Needs to Investigate Violent Democratic Tantrums | Observer](http://observer.com/2016/12/comeys-fbi-needs-to-investigate-violent-democratic-tantrums/) Care to tell me what the fuck you disagree with in what I said? ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/122 "2016-12-07T04:00:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Care to tell me what the fuck you disagree with in what I said? This seems unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/123 "2016-12-07T04:12:57Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > This seems unusual. Probably meant to quote Snowboarder Bo. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/124 "2016-12-07T09:11:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Care to tell me what the fuck you disagree with in what I said? Well, if Jared Kushner’s name appeared anywhere in that pile of shit I couldn’t find it. Could you maybe extract a quote so I don’t have to keep trying to read that dreck? ---
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/125 "2016-12-07T19:06:13Z")
> [@eulalia](#): > > Well, if Jared Kushner’s name appeared anywhere in that pile of shit I couldn’t find it. Could you maybe extract a quote so I don’t have to keep trying to read that dreck? It’s his newspaper! He writes the fucking editorials! ---
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/126 "2016-12-07T20:02:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > If Jared Kushner does it, can we count it as a stupid Trump idea? Kushner wants the FBI to crack down on anti-Trump dissent. > [Comey’s FBI Needs to Investigate Violent Democratic Tantrums | Observer](http://observer.com/2016/12/comeys-fbi-needs-to-investigate-violent-democratic-tantrums/) > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Holy fuck; do you ever post a link that actually contains what you say it contains? > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Care to tell me what the fuck you disagree with in what I said? > [@eulalia](#): > > Well, if Jared Kushner’s name appeared anywhere in that pile of shit I couldn’t find it. Could you maybe extract a quote so I don’t have to keep trying to read that dreck? > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > It’s his newspaper! He writes the fucking editorials! Indeed, I take exception to you asserting that this is what Jared Kushner wants or his idea. The article you linked to contains no quotes from Mr. Kushner nor was it written by him. You have a history of posting links and falsely (or wrongly) attributing things to them, in addition to your history of posting links to shitty sources. It’s cool that you want to play the game, but your cites and your habit of falsely (or wrongly) labeling the contents of your cites does no one here any good. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/127 "2016-12-07T20:17:36Z")
Do you really believe that Jared Kushner prints editorials in the newspaper that he owns, that he disagrees with? And I take strong exception to your characterization of my attributions of things I link to. but then, I’ll just consider the source and move on with my life. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/128 "2016-12-08T05:55:03Z")
After the union leader at Carrier criticized Trump’s deal, Trump went on Twitter attacking him, and now Chuck Jones, the union leader, says he’s getting death threats. > **[Trump takes to Twitter to blast union leader who had criticized Carrier deal](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article119594213.html)** > > Another day, another Twitter blast from President-elect Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/129 "2016-12-08T06:09:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > After the union leader at Carrier criticized Trump’s deal, Trump went on Twitter attacking him, and now Chuck Jones, the union leader, says he’s getting death threats. > [http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article119594213.html](http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article119594213.html) Didn’t Chuck Jones create all those Bugs Bunny episodes? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [December 8, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/130 "2016-12-08T06:13:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Do you really believe that Jared Kushner prints editorials in the newspaper that he owns, that he disagrees with? > > And I take strong exception to your characterization of my attributions of things I link to. but then, I’ll just consider the source and move on with my life. Your statements were false. Your need to fall back on ad hominem attacks underscores my point. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/131 "2016-12-08T06:15:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Your statements were false. Your need to fall back on ad hominem attacks underscores my point. Yeah, sure. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/132 "2016-12-08T08:43:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > It’s his newspaper! He writes the fucking editorials! Oh, I see. I was supposed to do in-depth research on all of Jared Kushner’s business interests in order to find out what the hell you were getting at. I don’t think so. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/133 "2016-12-12T07:01:32Z")
I’m gonna go ahead and include Mr. Trump’s phone call to Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan in the category of “Stupid”. A Chinese newspaper (one controlled by the Communist Party) has now weighed in on the phone call (note that they did not use Twitter):[ > [@Global Times](#): > > Trump, please listen clearly: ‘One China’ cannot be traded." > [@Global Times](#): > > China needs to launch a resolute struggle with him. Only after he’s hit some obstacles and truly understands that China and the rest of the world are not to be bullied will he gain some perception. > [@Global Times](#): > > Many people might be surprised at how the new U.S. leader is truly a ‘businessman’ through-and-through. But in the field of diplomacy, he is as ignorant as a child. ]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS\_CHINA\_TRUMP\_ASOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-12-12-01-27-18](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_TRUMP_ASOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-12-12-01-27-18)) ---
**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:** [December 12, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/134 "2016-12-12T22:43:24Z")
Would you like to have a 30-45 minute one-on-one conversation with a senior advisor to President Trump? Is it worth $50,000 to you? You’re in luck! > **[Ivanka Trump Auctions Off $50,000 Coffee Date](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ivanka-trump-auctions-off-coffee-date-fifty-thousand-dollars)** > > Ivanka Trump is offering deep-pocketed bidders a chance to chat with her over coffee for a cool $50,000. In a listing posted last week on auction site Charitybuzz, the daughter of the President-elect… > [@](#): > > Ivanka Trump is offering deep-pocketed bidders a chance to chat with her over coffee for a cool $50,000. > > In a listing posted last week on auction site Charitybuzz, the daughter of the President-elect and Trump Organization executive vice president volunteered 30-45 minutes of her time for a “private meet and greet.” The two winners, who must pass criminal background checks and be approved by the Secret Service, will have the opportunity to meet with Ivanka Trump sometime in 2017. Now, to be fair, the $50,000 will go to charity. The Eric Trump Foundation to Benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. And when you think philanthropy, you think Trump! > [@Wikipedia](#): > > The Eric Trump Foundation has advertised that its golf charity events raised money exclusively for St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, with 95-100% of the money raised going toward the charity. However, public tax records show that the foundation applied significant amounts of the funds raised to pay costs of the events to the Trump Organization for use of its facilities, casting doubt on the claim.[21] > > Also, the charity directed money raised for St Jude’s toward charitable causes other than St Jude’s. The foundation made grants to several unrelated charities, including at least three animal welfare organizations and the American Society for Enology and Viticulture, a California wine industry organization.[21] [Eric Trump - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Trump#The_Eric_Trump_Foundation) ---
**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, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/135 "2017-01-20T23:31:51Z")
[Trump costs homeowners with first Executive Order](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/his-very-first-hour-office-trump-moved-screw-low-income-homeowners) > [@](#): > > Earlier this month, then-President Barack Obama issued an executive action requiring the Federal Housing Administration to decrease insurance premiums on FHA mortgages, a change that could have potentially saved low-income homeowners as much as $900 per year. In his first administrative order as president, President Donald Trump suspended this Obama order, which was slated to go into effect on January 27. In practice, this means that low-income homeowners will be stuck paying higher insurance premiums on their FHA-insured mortgages. Thanks, Trump! ---
**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:** [January 20, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/136 "2017-01-20T23:49:49Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Trump costs homeowners with first Executive Order](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/his-very-first-hour-office-trump-moved-screw-low-income-homeowners) > Thanks, Trump! Trump, helping the forgotten man! ---
**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:** [January 21, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/137 "2017-01-21T00:18:10Z")
[People are claiming that He Who Must Not Be Named quoted a Batman villain in his speech, but it’s sort of just generic blah blah like anybody would use.](http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trump-quoted-batman-villain-bane-at-inauguration-w462224) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/138 "2017-01-21T01:13:50Z")
Generic blah blah like any Batman villain would use, you mean. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/139 "2017-01-21T03:17:10Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Trump costs homeowners with first Executive Order](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/his-very-first-hour-office-trump-moved-screw-low-income-homeowners) > Thanks, Trump! Any executive order issued by a lame duck is one that should never have been issued. This executive order would cost taxpayers and Obama didn’t have the balls to issue the order when he could have been held accountable for it. Also, let’s not equate legitimate policies with “dumb ideas”. Trump is going to have a lot of dumb ideas over the next four years. Fairly conventional policies like thinking FHA insurance premiums should be higher really shouldn’t fall into this category. ---
**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 21, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443/140 "2017-01-21T03:36:49Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Any executive order issued by a lame duck is one that should never have been issued. This executive order would cost taxpayers and Obama didn’t have the balls to issue the order when he could have been held accountable for it. > > Also, let’s not equate legitimate policies with “dumb ideas”. Trump is going to have a lot of dumb ideas over the next four years. Fairly conventional policies like thinking FHA insurance premiums should be higher really shouldn’t fall into this category. So Trump is not for the common man. Just used him to get votes. A legitimate policy can still be a stupid idea. Like Rick Perry shutting down the Department of Energy. Legitimate, right? The cut was reported on Jan 9. And a lame duck President still has the right to make decisions right up to the moment the term ends. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-trump-idea-of-the-day/771443.md?page=8)