# trump's most ridiculous, stupid ideas, political or otherwise **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 4, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041 "2020-06-04T13:43:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/41 "2020-06-08T14:18:33Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Running for Re-Election. Well, from _his_ point of view – is there any other? – it’ll keep him out of prison four more years. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/42 "2020-06-08T16:01:57Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Dammit, now I have cancer. > > Personally, I think the injecting disinfectant idea is less stupid than trying to inject sunlight. Maybe he just thought we should [eat more cucumbers](https://www.enotes.com/topics/gullivers-travels-jonathan-swift/quotes/extracting-sunbeams-out-cucumbers)? Have we mentioned [clean coal](https://www.factcheck.org/2018/11/clearing-up-the-facts-behind-trumps-clean-coal-catchphrase/) yet? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/43 "2020-06-09T00:17:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I remember that fad. I think Josh Brolin got sunburned where the sun don’t shine. Well, that was a goonie thing to do… Hmmm, could we start a woo fad, get Fox & Friends to report on it, and get Trump to use it? (Or claim to… I’m not sure he ever actually used hydroxychloroquine) Remember the fad in the 60s, of baking banana peels, scraping the insides into a joint and smoking it? Turns out a radio DJ made it up, but the placebo effect got a lot of hippies really high. \* “Electrickle bananas/goin’ to be a sudden craze…”\* - Donovan ---
**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:** [June 13, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/44 "2020-06-13T00:23:56Z")
Trump, in an interview on FOX today with Harris Faulkner: > [@](#): > > “So I think I’ve done more for the Black community than any other president, and let’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good, although it’s always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result —” Trump said before Faulkner interjected. > > “Well, we are free, Mr. President, so I think he did pretty well,” she said, referring to Lincoln. Absolutely breathtaking. If this thread is a contest, I’ll have my winnings now, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/45 "2020-06-13T10:26:23Z")
And in that moment, Harris Faulkner died a little more inside. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/46 "2020-06-13T13:20:36Z")
Again, it’s really disturbing that he feels the need to compare his presidency with previous ones. It’s always all about him, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/47 "2020-06-13T13:56:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Again, it’s really disturbing that he feels the need to compare his presidency with previous ones. It’s always all about him, isn’t it? “ObamaGate” :dubious: :smack: :rolleyes: Trying to distract from his own fuckups. Or it’s projection or both. Seems most crooks assume everyone is a crook. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/48 "2020-06-13T15:14:00Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And in that moment, Harris Faulkner died a little more inside. I wrote this in another thread: _“Trump says Abraham Lincoln ‘did good’ for the Black community but that ‘the end result’ is ‘questionable’“_ I’m actually giving Trump a pass on this one — he surely meant that racial bias and disparities were (are?) unfinished business for long after emancipation was achieved. But the overall gist, of Trump comparing himself favorably to Lincoln, is of course ridiculous. Especially since he’s actively hurting attempts by Americans to bring us closer to remedying that unfinished business. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/49 "2020-06-17T02:46:51Z")
I’d be very happy when we can compare Trump’s last accomplishment to Lincoln’s final act: dying. I really cannot think of anyone else I’ve had to endure in my entire life who, I wished, were dead. Trump is such a disaster, only his death would be just. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/50 "2020-06-17T14:43:58Z")
Geeze, Monty, I’ve said for years I _don’t_ want him dead but rather sitting in a prison cell, watching his gilded empire get dismantled, contemplating how he coulda kept on grifting indefinitely if he only hadn’t taken that escalator down. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/51 "2020-06-17T15:46:48Z")
I’ll smile either way. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/52 "2020-06-17T16:57:11Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Geeze, Monty, I’ve said for years I _don’t_ want him dead but rather sitting in a prison cell, watching his gilded empire get dismantled, contemplating how he coulda kept on grifting indefinitely if he only hadn’t taken that escalator down. …and to live to see the trump name rendered unto all as anathema, for all time. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/53 "2020-06-17T18:30:17Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Geeze, Monty, I’ve said for years I _don’t_ want him dead but rather sitting in a prison cell, watching his gilded empire get dismantled, contemplating how he coulda kept on grifting indefinitely if he only hadn’t taken that escalator down. Sure, but given how devoted half of the government is to being pro-crime, I think him choking on a hamberder is a _much_ more likely outcome. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/54 "2020-06-18T05:16:56Z")
Trump is a President who has an R next to his name; that means he won’t be punished for\* anything\* he did. He could eat a child alive on national television and not be punished. The instant he ran for office with that letter next to his name he became above the law. Protecting the privileged position of the Right and catering to them is the function and purpose of our society and culture. He won’t be fined and he won’t be imprisoned, he’ll just go on basking in his sycophants’ praise until he drops dead. And _then_ we’ll all be lectured about how terrible it is to criticize the dead (but when Hillary Clinton dies the Right will openly celebrate and nobody of note will dare condemn them for it). ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/55 "2020-06-22T12:48:14Z")
I upvote Der Tris’ post. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/56 "2020-06-23T12:34:16Z")
Nothing to add. But there is a pic of Notre Dame in the OP’s link: [![](https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/105852910-1555350291548gettyimages-1137422977.jpeg?v=1555350321&w=740&h=416) ](https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/105852910-1555350291548gettyimages-1137422977.jpeg?v=1555350321&w=740&h=416) Is that a dragon?? ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/57 "2020-06-24T18:41:56Z")
It goes away in April. I told my people to limit testing. Thanks to this idiot, not only are even more Americans gonna die, but probably the rest of the world will gradually get better while we are all stuck here sick with no one able to get in or out. MAGA /s ---
**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:** [June 24, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/58 "2020-06-24T18:51:40Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > probably the rest of the world will gradually get better while we are all stuck here sick with no one able to get in or out. The EU is already considering restricting travel from the US. Americans are currently not allowed to go to Canada, except for essential needs. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/59 "2020-06-24T18:57:08Z")
Yep. It feels kind of scary. How is this making us “great again”? These trumpists aren’t able to think about short-term restrictions potentially producing fewer restrictions long term. Now we’re gonna be basically locked in for who knows how long and possibly not even know what’s really going on because the would-be dictator doesn’t want to support testing. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041/60 "2020-06-26T00:09:19Z")
trump said AGAIN today at a speech in Wisconsin “if we didn’t test so much there wouldn’t be so many cases”. My brain can’t process that anybody who is the freakin President of the United States can be that stupid, so I keep giving him the benefit of the doubt, thinking he must mean “we do more testing than other countries, which reveals more cases that would otherwise go undetected, making us look bad in terms of caseload”. Which in itself is a stupid and wrong thing to think or claim. But even if that’s what he means, he makes no effort to make that more clear. This is the 3rd time at least by my count he’s literally just said “if we didn’t test so much there wouldn’t be so many cases”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-most-ridiculous-stupid-ideas-political-or-otherwise/855041.md?page=4)