# Trump addresses Congress (2-28)- Doper real-time commentary thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 28, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029 "2017-02-28T13:48:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/1 "2017-02-28T13:48:49Z")
I don’t plan to watch it (as I’ve had some G.I. issues recently) but maybe some of y’all with strong _constitutions_ will make the sacrifice for the good of the order, and will favor us with a _blow-by-blow_ commentary on the event. We don’t want the news media’s fake news; we want real news from real Dopers. We’ll read the fake news later. Thank you. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/2 "2017-02-28T18:57:05Z")
For whatever entertainment value can be derived, keep your eyes on Paul Ryan. Should be amusing to watch for suppressed eye-rolls and any other reactions. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/3 "2017-02-28T20:42:09Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > For whatever entertainment value can be derived, keep your eyes on Paul Ryan. Should be amusing to watch for suppressed eye-rolls and any other reactions. Pretty sure Ryan will be going to his happy place: Galt’s Gulch. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/4 "2017-02-28T20:46:03Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Pretty sure Ryan will be going to his happy place: Galt’s Gulch. He’ll probably be holding a piece of broken glass in his hand under the desk to distract himself from the Trumpster Fire going on in front of him. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/5 "2017-02-28T20:47:20Z")
I’ll have to settle for reading the ‘fake news.’ I can’t hear Trump bloviate without wanting to punch my TV. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/6 "2017-02-28T20:48:24Z")
I’m disappointed that Nancy Pelosi has told members of her caucus to behave. I wanted to hear “You lie!” after every statement. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/7 "2017-02-28T20:50:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m disappointed that Nancy Pelosi has told members of her caucus to behave. I wanted to hear “You lie!” after every statement. I want all of the Democrats to stay home. Or if they feel they must be there, to spend the whole time on their phones/tablets. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/8 "2017-02-28T21:04:56Z")
Female members of Congress are going to wear white to show their support for women’s issues. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/9 "2017-02-28T21:51:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He’ll probably be holding a piece of broken glass in his hand under the desk to distract himself from the Trumpster Fire going on in front of him. Neither Ryan nor any other of the defeated rivals now writhing can blame old Donald for their thankful losses to him ( although the old entertainer performed magnificently ) — as with Hillary, not only was it a death foreseen, but something entirely due to their own hubristic inadequacies, and not to Trump’s personal brilliance. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/10 "2017-02-28T21:57:32Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I want all of the Democrats to stay home. Or if they feel they must be there, to spend the whole time on their phones/tablets. I think the Dems should play cards during the speech. Maybe instead of “You Lie!” we’d hear periodic shouts of “Gin!” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/11 "2017-02-28T22:15:46Z")
Anybody got ideas for a drinking game? Although I could easily wind up with alcohol poisoning by the time the night is done. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/12 "2017-02-28T22:29:48Z")
How are some of you going to survive 4-16 years of this? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/13 "2017-02-28T22:35:34Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > How are some of you going to survive 4-16 years of this? By continuing to challenge, resist, mock, and ultimately (hopefully) electorally defeat him. How else? ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/14 "2017-02-28T22:53:08Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Anybody got ideas for a drinking game? Although I could easily wind up with alcohol poisoning by the time the night is done. I doubt it. Clinton and Obama could wax poetic for hours. Trump hasn’t the attention span nor the stamina. I expect that his speech won’t be much longer than his inauguration. “But wait,” you say. “What about his convention speech that painted the US as a hell-scape of epic proportions for nearly two hours?” I don’t see that as a possibility tonight. He can’t go on for hours about how bad things are. He’s in charge now! He’s going to claim that everything is sunshine and rainbows. He alone has fixed everything wrong with the country. That which is still wrong will be fixed by the end of the year. That message doesn’t have to go on for hours to be effective. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/15 "2017-02-28T23:09:20Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Anybody got ideas for a drinking game? Although I could easily wind up with alcohol poisoning by the time the night is done. How about every time he brings up the size of his…er… **win** , either popular vote or electoral college? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/16 "2017-02-28T23:37:00Z")
Every time he blames Obama for anything? ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/17 "2017-02-28T23:39:55Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > 16 years Aha! Proof that Trump plans to repeal term limits. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/18 "2017-03-01T00:36:45Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > How are some of you going to survive 4-16 years of this? Same way conservatives dealt with the past 8 years. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/19 "2017-03-01T00:49:35Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Anybody got ideas for a drinking game? Although I could easily wind up with alcohol poisoning by the time the night is done. A drinking game for those trying to stay on the wagon: Take a drink each time Trump makes a true statement. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029/20 "2017-03-01T00:55:05Z")
Here’s the drinking game: 1. Take a drink when he starts talking 2. Just keep doing that until you can’t hear him anymore. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-addresses-congress-2-28-doper-real-time-commentary-thread/781029.md?page=2)