# The argument that Trump will do whatever he wants and no one can stop him is really fucking boring **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 12, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527 "2024-12-12T02:36:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/661 "2025-04-15T03:51:26Z")
Given Trump’s ability to dismiss every other measure of his success as “Fake News!” the notion that his actual approval rating matters to him is precious. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/662 "2025-04-15T03:54:03Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > He’s got his MAGAtrash MAGAfans. His cult following. Who now disapprove of his handling the economy and immigration, according to the latest polls. > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > the notion that his actual approval rating matters to him is precious. Which is why he stuck to his guns on tariffs and didn’t back down, right? How’s the annexation of Canada coming along, BTW? Seems like it wasn’t long ago that your lot were 100% certain that it was inevitable and that I was a fool to say that he’d forget about it as soon as something else distracted him. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/663 "2025-04-15T03:58:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Which is why he stuck to his guns on tariffs and didn’t back down, right? Oh, there are no Trump tariffs at this moment? I must have missed that. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/664 "2025-04-15T04:05:23Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Oh, there are no Trump tariffs at this moment? Put those goalposts back where you found them. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/665 "2025-04-15T04:06:01Z")
Remember that Congress can hold him accountable for his contempt of SCOTUS through impeachment. OK, even I can’t keep a straight face typing that. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/666 "2025-04-15T04:06:24Z")
Umm, you mean the tariff goalposts that you put on the field? If you can’t see that he flipped on tariffs because they were threatening to tank the economy and not because of his approval rating I can’t help you. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/667 "2025-04-15T04:09:55Z")
I mean the “Trump will do whatever he wants and no one can stop him” goalposts you’re leaning on to absolve yourself of any moral responsibility to do anything about it. Is Canada our great 51st state yet? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/668 "2025-04-15T04:10:45Z")
Shouldn’t you be busy summoning demons? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/669 "2025-04-15T04:12:05Z")
That starts on Monday, which you’d know if you’d been paying attention instead of threadshitting and trying to Pit me in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/670 "2025-04-15T04:20:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > instead of threadshitting and trying to Pit me in MPSIMS. Damn, I clearly missed that mod note/warning! If you would, could you link me to it? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/671 "2025-04-15T04:24:57Z")
And here I assumed the warning another poster received in that thread would have suggested to you that maybe you shouldn’t do the same thing either. Of course, that would require you to possess common sense and a moral compass, and as you’re quite aptly demonstrating in this thread you lack either, since you’ve given up on defending your political inaction to mock my spirituality instead. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/672 "2025-04-15T04:27:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And here I assumed the warning another poster received in that thread would have suggested to you that maybe you shouldn’t do the same thing either. Are you really this obtuse? I didn’t receive that warning therefore I did not do the same thing. Please, report my offending posts and prove me wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/673 "2025-04-15T04:31:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > 'Festival! Festival!" That only lasted six hours. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/674 "2025-04-15T04:35:37Z")
Report yourself if you want to waste the mods’ time on posts from two weeks ago. You know full well what you were doing. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/675 "2025-04-15T04:40:40Z")
Yes, I do know what I was doing and it wasn’t threadshitting or trying to Pit you in MPSIMS. Also, since when is there a statute of limitations of two weeks on rule breaking here? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/676 "2025-04-15T04:52:38Z")
You weren’t worth reporting two weeks ago and this weird “Report me harder, daddy!” performance you’re putting on now isn’t inspiring me to grant your wish. I’ll accept your utter abdication of your argument on the actual topic of this thread, though. Why does being reported matter so much to you? Does breaking the rules only count if you’ve been formally declared to be in violation? 'Cause that sounds a lot like you’re acknowledging that Trump HASN’T explicitly violated the Supreme Court. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/677 "2025-04-15T04:55:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’ll accept your utter abdication of your argument on the actual topic of this thread, though. If you’d stop changing the subject we wouldn’t be here. Ya know, like when I was talking about approval ratings and you shifted to tariffs. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/678 "2025-04-15T04:56:49Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Ya know, like when I was talking about approval ratings and you shifted to tariffs. If you don’t understand the connection then maybe you should sit this out. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/679 "2025-04-15T04:57:05Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Does breaking the rules only count if you’ve been formally declared to be in violation? Yes, yes it does. Until your summoned demon makes you a mod here your opinion on what is or is not a rules violation means nothing. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/680 "2025-04-15T04:58:43Z")
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