# Trump tweets his term should be extended by two years to compensate him for the Mueller coup attempt **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 6, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534 "2019-05-06T01:05:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/1 "2019-05-06T01:05:22Z")
I don’t know how to quote from Twitter, but apparently Jerry Falwell Jr tweeted that Trump should get two years added to his term to compensate him for the attempted coup, and Trumpski has jumped on it and re-tweeted it. > **[Trump retweets Jerry Falwell Jr. suggesting his term should be extended by...](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442222-trump-retweets-jerry-falwell-jr-suggesting-his-term-should-be-extended/)** > > President Trump on Sunday retweeted a post from Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. that said Trump’s first term should be extended by two years as payback “for time stolen by this… ---
**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:** [May 6, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/2 "2019-05-06T01:14:16Z")
Trump. Our fearless twitter typer in chief. He’s a fucking moron, you know. (Of course you know that.) I don’t know. It’s a fucked up time in our country. Things that are laughably in-fucking-sane are embraced and defended and supported and perpetuated by Republicans who want lower taxes for the richest among us. Vote, people, OK? (Here’s a cool thing to take your mind off things. Let The Music Do The Talking by the Joe Perry Project. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkzvkGeLIo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkzvkGeLIo) ) ---
**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:** [May 6, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/3 "2019-05-06T01:16:08Z")
Then Obama deserves another eight years to make up for GOP obstructionism. And Garland takes Gorsuch’s seat on The Supreme Court. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/4 "2019-05-06T01:16:27Z")
I believe he’s what’s known in the biz as a “constitutional conservative.” ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/5 "2019-05-06T01:25:19Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Trump. Our fearless twitter typer in chief. He’s a fucking moron, you know. (Of course you know that.) No I don’t. I’m pretty sure that persons of below-average intelligence, by any reasonable definition of intelligence, don’t win a U.S. presidential election despite being outspent 2-1. Trump is hoping to win re-election legally but keeping his options open. That doesn’t show loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, but as a matter of self-interest, it is smart. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/6 "2019-05-06T01:29:44Z")
Trump: Tap tap tap on twitter twitter twitter. Field questions at a press conference? Oh hell no, that requires tactical and strategic thinking and speaking. Trump is a fucking doofus idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/7 "2019-05-06T01:33:16Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Trump is hoping to win re-election legally but keeping his options open. That doesn’t show loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, but as a matter of self-interest, it is smart. Ignoring with the fact that “self-interest” isn’t very high on my list of desirable qualities for the POTUS, if he doesn’t win re-election legally, what options do you think he should have? ---
**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:** [May 6, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/8 "2019-05-06T01:44:51Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > No I don’t. > > I’m pretty sure that persons of below-average intelligence, by any reasonable definition of intelligence, don’t win a U.S. presidential election despite being outspent 2-1. > > Trump is hoping to win re-election legally but keeping his options open. That doesn’t show loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, but as a matter of self-interest, it is smart. “Smart” in the same way that corrupt dictators are “smart” when they order their opponents jailed and executed. So in that way, Trump is “smart”. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/9 "2019-05-06T01:46:11Z")
A kidnapper is “smart” when they kill the victim and dispose of the remains, so the kidnap victim cannot identify them in court. “Smart” kidnapper. “Smart” Trump. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/10 "2019-05-06T01:51:21Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > … > I’m pretty sure that persons of below-average intelligence, … don’t win a U.S. presidential election … Depends on how dumb the motherfuckers who vote for him are, don’t it? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/11 "2019-05-06T02:00:51Z")
Trump hired Manafort, Flynn, Bannon, Spicer, Kelly, Scaramucci, Priebus, Gorka, Tillerson, Mattis, Giuliani and on and on… Why o why can’t people see his genius? ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/12 "2019-05-06T02:05:11Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > . . . if he doesn’t win re-election legally, what options do you think he should have? Me? In an ideal world, his only option would be to relinquish office, but he does have other options. I just read Rick Reilly’s _Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump_. If you believe that book – and I do – Trump gets the Secret Service to rush ahead and throw his golf balls out of the rough and onto the fairway. So they are already showing improper loyalty to DJT. We don’t know how much further in that direction they would go. My strong suspicion is that if the AP, NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN are all projecting a Trump loss on Wednesday Nov. 5, 2020, Trump will be telling everyone it was unfair and FoxNews will be saying that it’s up to us to decide who won. Then we get a complicated ballet where Trump recruits competing electoral college slates, and a game occurs with Mike Pence having a role. The fact of Trump being physically in the White House gives him an advantage. Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll flee to some country (Dubai?) where he’s got a fancy golf club, and stay there. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/13 "2019-05-06T03:20:03Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Trump hired Manafort, Flynn, Bannon, Spicer, Kelly, Scaramucci, Priebus, Gorka, Tillerson, Mattis, Giuliani and on and on… > > Why o why can’t people see his genius? He treats brown people like garbage, which is all his base genuinely cares about. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/14 "2019-05-06T03:35:04Z")
Many of us think the Mueller report indicates that Trump should have his term of office reduced by two years. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/15 "2019-05-06T04:09:03Z")
This is mostly just ranty. Moving from GD to The Pit. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/16 "2019-05-06T04:17:43Z")
I think I should get two extra years of life just for having had to put up with this fucking jabony. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/17 "2019-05-06T04:29:14Z")
Well since he is, by his own humble estimation, the greatest president in history, an extra two years is the least that a grateful nation could bestow on him. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/18 "2019-05-06T05:29:35Z")
He should be careful what he wishes for. Moving Presidential election to even-numbered years when the Winter Olympics are held means people won’t have Summer Games to distract them from the Republican National Convention. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/19 "2019-05-06T06:08:35Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > He should be careful what he wishes for. Moving Presidential election to even-numbered years when the Winter Olympics are held means people won’t have Summer Games to distract them from the Republican National Convention. I’m pretty sure he’ll want a second six-year term as well so it’ll balance out. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/20 "2019-05-06T06:14:09Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I don’t know how to quote from Twitter, but apparently Jerry Falwell Jr tweeted that Trump should get two years added to his term to compensate him for the attempted coup, and Trumpski has jumped on it and re-tweeted it. > > [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442222-trump-retweets-jerry-falwell-jr-suggesting-his-term-should-be-extended](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442222-trump-retweets-jerry-falwell-jr-suggesting-his-term-should-be-extended) Jerry Falwell, Jr. That figures. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534.md?page=2)