# Trump's being paranoid, blaming Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 28, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025 "2017-02-28T13:01:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/21 "2017-02-28T22:36:28Z")
Obligatory [Archer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3-zaTr6OUo) clip ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/22 "2017-03-01T00:06:00Z")
He’s now hinting that the cemetery vandalism may be a “false-flag” operation by either the liberals or. . .wait for it. . .the JEWS THEMSELVES! Basically parroting David Duke’s comments on his website. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/23 "2017-03-01T00:08:44Z")
I think some people will still be blaming Obama for everything in 2050. ---
**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, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/24 "2017-03-01T00:16:57Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > “Obama ate my strawberries!!” _If only_ we could substitute Queeg for Trumpski; we’d be much better off. But as I said elsewhere on the site: Trump NEEDS a specific villain on which to blame all that is going wrong, and will go wrong, on his watch. Hillary doesn’t serve well, anymore–she’s too much out of the public eye. Trump needs a currently-active, powerful, intelligent, capable enemy…a man who is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed–the word is passed to the ex-President, the matter is organized and carried out. The agent may be caught. In that case money is found for his bail or his defense. But the central power which uses the agent is never caught–never so much as suspected. _OBAMA!!!_ ---
**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:** [March 1, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/25 "2017-03-01T00:19:30Z")
“…like a spider in the center of its web…” Obama = Moriarty? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/26 "2017-03-01T00:24:24Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Apparently, [Obama](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/28/donald-trump-accuses-barack-obama-orchestrating-protests-leaks) is behind all the anti-Trump protests. > > The thought that people might not like him clearly hasn’t entered into his brain. > > What an idiot. > > Of course, since the program has yet to air, this might be fake news. Nah. Trumps not being paranoid. He’s delusional. Not a surprise. I suspect that the majority of his friends just became yes men with the eye on the prize. It’s probably difficult for him to discover (if he would or could) that in the position of President, his money doesn’t really mean anything anymore. ---
**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, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/27 "2017-03-01T00:24:40Z")
Well, that appears to be Trump’s theory. A shadowy figure behind all that goes wrong in Trump’s Administration: _totally_ necessary, obviously. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/28 "2017-03-01T00:36:45Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Well, that appears to be Trump’s theory. A shadowy figure behind all that goes wrong in Trump’s Administration: _totally_ necessary, obviously. Robert Reich @RBReich > [@](#): > > A defining feature of Donald Trump is he is incapable of taking responsibility for anything that fails. > > 4:36 PM - 28 Feb 2017 ---
**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, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/29 "2017-03-01T00:46:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Robert Reich > @RBReich Reich is a wise man. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/30 "2017-03-01T00:57:00Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > I think some people will still be blaming Obama for everything in 2050. They won’t teach him in any of DeVos’ schools, so no need to worry about that. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/31 "2017-03-01T01:16:51Z")
Trump himself admits he can’t take even legitimate criticism. \ How mature. :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > President Trump has never been all that willing to acknowledge his own faults. He occasionally admits he might have some, mind you, but he prefers to treat them like Voldemort. > > Such was the case in an interview with “Fox and Friends” on Tuesday morning. Check out this exchange, when Trump and Brian Kilmeade were talking about Trump pulling out of the White House correspondents’ dinner, where Trump was roasted a few years ago: > > KILMEADE: You said before, ‘I can take hits when it’s justified.’ > > TRUMP: Correct. > > KILMEADE: Right. > > TRUMP: One hundred percent. > > KILMEADE: Can you give me an example of a time when someone was critical of you and you thought to yourself, I deserved that hit, I deserved that column, I deserved … > > TRUMP: No, probably I could never do that. > > And there it is. > > … > > He had previously said that he wasn’t opposed to apologizing but was still in search of something to apologize for. “I fully think apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong,” Trump told Jimmy Fallon in 2015, perhaps jokingly. “I will absolutely apologize sometime in the distant future if I’m ever wrong.” (That moment finally came — and Trump did apologize — for the “Access Hollywood” tape in October.)… [Cite](http://wapo.st/2mGzony) ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/32 "2017-03-01T01:23:28Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I love the claims that the protesters are making $1500 a week ($78k/yr). Damn, but I’d sign up in a hot minute! > > Unfortunately for me, that’s all bullshit. > > Alternately “Gosh, and they were paying the Hoverround Brigade minimum wage!” 😛 Where can I sign up for this !!?? LOL! The only good thing about this is that the late night shows have enough material to write jokes for the next 4 years ! ---
**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:** [March 1, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/33 "2017-03-01T02:11:22Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > Where can I sign up for this !!?? LOL! The only good thing about this is that the late night shows have enough material to write jokes for the next 4 years ! Yeah, but the question is, does that job come with health insurance? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/34 "2017-03-01T02:18:04Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “…like a spider in the center of its web…” > > Obama = Moriarty? Trump has never heard of Moriarty. At age twelve, when the rest of us were reading the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trump was busy pulling the wings off flies. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/35 "2017-03-01T03:05:14Z")
The latest is Agent Orange blaming Obama for the Seal death in Yemen. The operation that Obama turned down because of insufficient intelligence about the target. Wasn’t a problem for Trump; a quick dinner discussion and it was game on. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/36 "2017-03-01T04:12:57Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I love the claims that the protesters are making $1500 a week ($78k/yr). Damn, but I’d sign up in a hot minute! > > Unfortunately for me, that’s all bullshit. > > Alternately “Gosh, and they were paying the Hoverround Brigade minimum wage!” 😛 There would be really only one way for Trump to know how much the protesters are getting paid and that is he paying people to protest so Trump will have something to whine 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:** [March 1, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/37 "2017-03-01T04:36:40Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > Donald Trump gets the secret daily briefings. Maybe he knows something we don’t. Have they determined yet which government he’s getting those secret daily briefings from? ---
**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:** [March 1, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/38 "2017-03-01T09:38:39Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled … some milk to go missing, or another Peke to be stifled? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/39 "2017-03-01T10:43:43Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Trump NEEDS a specific villain on which to blame all that is going wrong, and will go wrong, on his watch. Right, and note at the same time he made the comment about A for achievement but a C for messaging – AKA “Everything’s going great, if you think otherwise it’s on you for not realizing…do we really have to spell it out for you?”. And the “Who knew healthcare was so complex?” thing. So there it is folks: we’ve already entered the making excuses phase. It’s not unheard of for politicians to use excuses somewhat like these, but needing to do this by the start of March must be a record. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025/40 "2017-03-01T12:33:40Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I love the claims that the protesters are making $1500 a week ($78k/yr). Damn, but I’d sign up in a hot minute! > > Unfortunately for me, that’s all bullshit. > > Alternately “Gosh, and they were paying the Hoverround Brigade minimum wage!” 😛 I’d come out of retirement for that kind of dough for doing work I’d love. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-being-paranoid-blaming-obama/781025.md?page=3)