# The sitting president of the United States of America tweeted this... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975 "2019-04-24T04:42:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/1 "2019-04-24T04:42:33Z")
“Paul Krugman, of the Fake News New York Times, has lost all credibility, as has the Times itself, with his false and highly inaccurate writings on me,” “He is obsessed with hatred, just as others are obsessed with how stupid he is. He said Market would crash, Only Record Highs!” “I wonder if the New York Times will apologize to me a second time, as they did after the 2016 Election. But this one will have to be a far bigger & better apology. On this one they will have to get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness-they are truly the Enemy of the People!” This shit can’t end soon enough. He’s like a 6 year old. Doesn’t he have a country to run? Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/2 "2019-04-24T04:46:12Z")
It’s interesting that you refer to him as the “sitting President.” That just reinforces my idea that when he is composing these idiot tweets, he is indeed sitting…on the toilet. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/3 "2019-04-24T05:07:56Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > “Paul Krugman, of the Fake News New York Times, has lost all credibility, as has the Times itself, with his false and highly inaccurate writings on me,” > > “He is obsessed with hatred, just as others are obsessed with how stupid he is. He said Market would crash, Only Record Highs!” > > “I wonder if the New York Times will apologize to me a second time, as they did after the 2016 Election. But this one will have to be a far bigger & better apology. On this one they will have to get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness-they are truly the Enemy of the People!” > > This shit can’t end soon enough. He’s like a 6 year old. Doesn’t he have a country to run? Ugh. Get down on your knees. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/4 "2019-04-24T05:17:42Z")
Apparently Republicans don’t care, among other things, about how frighteningly ridiculous we look on the world stage. And how helpless we appear to be to do anything about it. No one can regard this… horror show… as the “Leader of the Free World.” I doubt we will ever be trusted to lead again. Vlad wins this round bigly. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/5 "2019-04-24T05:29:33Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Apparently Republicans don’t care, among other things, about how frighteningly ridiculous we look on the world stage. And how helpless we appear to be to do anything about it. Well I say this to any non-Americans reading this, there are a \*shit-ton of us that are shocked that we can’t… and even more so that his base is OK with this doddering, pathetic, ineffectual, pathological lying asshole. \*or whatever the metric equivalent is. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/6 "2019-04-24T06:12:49Z")
God. How much more crap can come out of his mouth? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/7 "2019-04-24T11:45:20Z")
Errm, we didn’t _all_ exactly have a high opinion of y’all - or rather, your competence at choosing a president - before Trump, you know. I mean, one Obama didn’t erase our memories of the Bush years… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/8 "2019-04-24T11:51:34Z")
I sincerely hope that moron eventually spends many years in prison. He’s the most corrupt president in recent memory. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/9 "2019-04-24T11:56:54Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Apparently Republicans don’t care, among other things, about how frighteningly ridiculous we look on the world stage… This one does: [https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/23/politics/andy-mckean-iowa-gop-lawmaker-change-party/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/23/politics/andy-mckean-iowa-gop-lawmaker-change-party/index.html) "Washington (CNN)The Iowa Legislature’s longest-serving Republican announced Tuesday that because of President Donald Trump, he will be joining the Democratic Party, calling Trump “a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children.” State Rep. Andy McKean, who has served in both Iowa’s Senate and House chambers, identified with the Republican Party for 35 years before Tuesday’s announcement and is the longest-serving Republican in the state’s Legislature today, according [to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee](https://www.dlcc.org/press/longest-serving-republican-iowa-legislature-switches-party-affiliation). “With the 2020 president election looming on the horizon, I feel as a Republican that I need to be able to support the standard bearer of our party. Unfortunately, that is not something I am able to do,” McKean said at a news conference." ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/10 "2019-04-24T12:02:10Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > It’s interesting that you refer to him as the “sitting President.” That just reinforces my idea that when he is composing these idiot tweets, he is indeed sitting…on the toilet. So…the shitting president? ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/11 "2019-04-24T12:07:59Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Doesn’t he have a country to run?. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Leave him sitting on the karzi tweeting to his heart’s content. Do you really want him sitting behind the Resolute desk running the country? > [@](#): > > Well I say this to any non-Americans reading this, there are a \*shit-ton of us that are shocked that we can’t. What about all those brilliant checks and balances for governance devised by that much lauded Founding Fathers; we used to cop smug lectures here over their genius? > [@](#): > > shit-ton > \*or whatever the metric equivalent is. a “shit-tonne” or the more common hybrid a “metric shit-ton” ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/12 "2019-04-24T12:16:04Z")
Yeah, I don’t know if switching parties will make any difference. The Republican purity test has evolved from “you need to support these conservative positions” to “you need to support any position that the Democrats wont” to “you need to support Trump’s positions.” If the Republican party is to get back to sane, effective, compromising governing they are going to have to change (back) from within. They need some strong dissenting voices in the party, but evidently, those with principles seem to be getting run-out of the party, and it seems there are plenty of people passing the current purity test standard that are ready to take their place, sadly. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/13 "2019-04-24T13:41:17Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Errm, we didn’t _all_ exactly have a high opinion of y’all - or rather, your competence at choosing a president - before Trump, you know. I mean, one Obama didn’t erase our memories of the Bush years… It’s occurred to me how weird it is that Obama is bracketed by George W Bush and Donald Trump. After everyone seemed to agree that GWB was the worst president ever, the Republican base seemed to say, “Well, we can beat that.” ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/14 "2019-04-24T14:08:52Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > “Paul Krugman, of the Fake News New York Times, has lost all credibility, as has the Times itself, with his false and highly inaccurate writings on me,” > > “He is obsessed with hatred, just as others are obsessed with how stupid he is. He said Market would crash, Only Record Highs!” > > “I wonder if the New York Times will apologize to me a second time, as they did after the 2016 Election. But this one will have to be a far bigger & better apology. On this one they will have to get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness-they are truly the Enemy of the People!” It’s about time we have a President that has the balls to stand up to those people who constantly lie and attack him! ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/15 "2019-04-24T15:12:02Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > So…the shitting president? 😃 Indeed! From both ends! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/16 "2019-04-24T15:42:17Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It’s occurred to me how weird it is that Obama is bracketed by George W Bush and Donald Trump. After everyone seemed to agree that GWB was the worst president ever, the Republican base seemed to say, “Well, we can beat that.” “Hold our beer!” :eek: > [@MrDibble](#): > > Errm, we didn’t _all_ exactly have a high opinion of y’all - or rather, your competence at choosing a president - before Trump, you know. I mean, one Obama didn’t erase our memories of the Bush years… We were hoping Dubya was a one-off. Sadly, no. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/17 "2019-04-24T15:57:24Z")
So… this run of bad Republican Presidents? I mean, c’mon. This shit started in 1968: 68-74: Crook 74-76: Substitute Teacher 80-88: Actor 88-92: CIA Chief 2000-08: Playboy 16-??: Dotard ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/18 "2019-04-24T16:16:35Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > What about all those brilliant checks and balances for governance devised by that much lauded Founding Fathers; we used to cop smug lectures here over their genius? The first thing the founders got wrong was to not anticipate parties. Then they made the only way to get rid of a president was to convict him of high crimes, rather than stupid policies. If impeachment could be for non-criminal poor performance, it could be easier. But requiring 2/3 of a senate that takes 6 years to renew itself was the height of poor foresight. At least the House changes every two years. So yes, the FF got lots wrong. It is virtually impossible to imagine a successful conviction even after impeachment. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/19 "2019-04-24T16:18:58Z")
The House refers Impeachment proceedings to the Senate ala a grand jury. Therefore, the “impeachment” and the “conviction” are all the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975/20 "2019-04-24T16:27:02Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > It’s about time we have a President that has the balls to stand up to those people who constantly lie and attack him! Real balls means being secure enough to not respond to criticism. Weakness is getting worked up over every perceived slight. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sitting-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-tweeted-this/832975.md?page=2)