# Trump as actual motherfucking president **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331 "2016-10-01T02:07:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/101 "2016-10-04T18:09:07Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > I’ve read here for far longer. Elucidator and his friggen shit finally got me to post. > > What’s so hard to understand? Differential Calculus. Trolls are _easy_ to understand. ---
**Author:** ![HeweyLogan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heweylogan/32/547_2.png) [@HeweyLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeweyLogan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/102 "2016-10-04T18:32:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Trolls are _easy_ to understand. Sheesh. Not a troll. Some kind of test I’m supposed to take? Or is disagreeing with you all it takes to be a troll. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/103 "2016-10-04T18:33:13Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > Sheesh. Not a troll. Some kind of test I’m supposed to take? Or is disagreeing with you all it takes to be a troll. What name did you previously post under? ---
**Author:** ![HeweyLogan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heweylogan/32/547_2.png) [@HeweyLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeweyLogan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/104 "2016-10-04T18:34:05Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > What name did you previously post under? Wow. None. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/105 "2016-10-04T19:57:00Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > What you _are_ is content-free. I enjoy arguing with people, but you don’t actually say much of anything. You just keep throwing out vaguely insulting phrases. Nobody can engage with you because you aren’t actually saying much of anything to engage _with._ > [@HeweyLogan](#): > > What an odd comment to have come from you. That’s exactly what I mean. Vaguely insulting, but no actual\* content. \*Nothing to actually respond to. No point, no argument, nothing. ---
**Author:** ![HeweyLogan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heweylogan/32/547_2.png) [@HeweyLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeweyLogan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/106 "2016-10-04T20:08:31Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > That’s exactly what I mean. Vaguely insulting, but no actual\* content. \*Nothing to actually respond to. No point, no argument, nothing. And like I was trying to say, it’s a lot like what I’ve seen out of you. Only with a little less vitriol and hate. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/107 "2016-10-04T20:12:55Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > And like I was trying to say, it’s a lot like what I’ve seen out of you. > > Only with a little less vitriol and hate. And again; no actual argument or point, just vague insults. You don’t have anything to say. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/108 "2016-10-04T20:13:32Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > The weird thing is that some of the stuff he does - you would expect that to anger his base. Like attacking a gold star family, and saying that your success is a sacrifice like theirs. Or saying that he never asks God for forgiveness, because he doesn’t do anything to merit forgiveness. > > I would expect his base to bristle at least some of what he says. But they just don’t. Trump’s attack on the Khan family dropped him four points in the polls in about three days, which is one hell of a quick hit. If he wanted to lose the election, he just would have kept doing the same thing, and he’d be below Gary Johnson by now. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/109 "2016-10-04T20:17:31Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Trump’s attack on the Khan family dropped him four points in the polls in about three days, which is one hell of a quick hit. If he wanted to lose the election, he just would have kept doing the same thing, and he’d be below Gary Johnson by now. Yeah, blowing Gary Johnson _might_ do it, if done on stage during one of his rallies. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/110 "2016-10-05T05:50:21Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Yeah, blowing Gary Johnson _might_ do it, if done on stage during one of his rallies. But still Donald’s voter base would think nothing of him fellating Gary “I Left My Heart in Aleppo” Johnson at a rally, or if GJ had been allowed to this upcoming town hall debate - maybe there…in front of a serenely smiling Hillary. (Just wanted to make sure we’re staying on OP topic here.) ---
**Author:** ![HeweyLogan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heweylogan/32/547_2.png) [@HeweyLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeweyLogan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/111 "2016-10-06T03:27:32Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > …in front of a serenely smiling Hillary. I don’t think she’s into blowjobs. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/112 "2016-10-06T16:27:13Z")
Everybody’s into blowjobs. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/113 "2016-10-13T16:15:53Z")
Actually back in the 90s it seemed Hillary was the only woman in DC who wasn’t. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331/114 "2016-10-14T18:05:35Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/president-trumps-first-term](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/president-trumps-first-term) > > Technically a post-election topic, so mods - relocate this to wherever. I haven’t read every Hillary/Donald thread, so it’s possible this link has appeared elsewhere, but definitely not as a thesis statement to form a thread around. > > When I first came across it I thought ok - what kind of speculation-fest is this gonna be? The article is a real bum-dinger (bummer), that, to its credit, used many sources, thus ameliorating my concern about this turning out to be a writer’s contemplation. > > Apart from these mere scraps of consolation: > > “Some of Trump’s promises would be impossible to fulfill without the consent of Congress or the courts; namely, repealing Obamacare, cutting taxes, and opening up “our libel laws” that protect reporters, so that “we can sue them and win lots of money.” (In reality, there are no federal libel laws.) **Even if Republicans retain control of Congress, they are unlikely to have the sixty votes in the Senate required to overcome a Democratic filibuster**.” Nitpick: actually, the most important libel law is federal: the First Amendment. Defamation claims are almost always governed by state law, but the law that Trump is actually complaining about - that is, the one that requires him to prove “actual malice” when suing a reporter for defamation - is the First Amendment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-as-actual-motherfucking-president/767331.md?page=5)