# US President Unhinged **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176 "2018-11-08T03:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [November 8, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/21 "2018-11-08T14:53:47Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Yep, he’s gonna lose his shit. Acosta from CNN asked a question and lost his press credentials. What’s he gonna do to Pelosi, take out a hit? Scary shit. Sarah should change her name to Huckabee Slanders. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/22 "2018-11-08T14:53:55Z")
> [@EscAlaMike](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > Yes, but if he and a few thousand of his fellow citizens of Michigan had bothered to get off their asses and vote, it would have made a difference. > > And IF millions of Michiganders had written in Barry Sanders, then he would have won their electoral votes. Your point is? I thought my point was obvious, but apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/23 "2018-11-08T14:59:12Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I thought my point was obvious, but apparently not. Your point was very obvious, and I thought mine was as well. I answered your meaningless hypothetical with another meaningless hypothetical. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/24 "2018-11-08T15:33:09Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I don’t know whether it’s dementia or just what works—the kind of speech that gets him the reaction he likes at Trump Rallies. I think he is definitely showing signs of dementia. If you see him speak 10-15 years ago, he was much more coherent and “normal.” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/25 "2018-11-08T15:35:46Z")
It keeps getting more and more obvious that this guy should be in a straitjacket in a rubber room. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/26 "2018-11-08T15:52:24Z")
Seems a good place to drop a quote I ran across the other day: From the author Phillip Roth “I found much that was alarming being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W Bush. But whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything as humanly imoroverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/27 "2018-11-08T17:00:06Z")
> [@DB\_Coopa](#): > > He’s an entertainer. Politics is part of the entertainment industry. It’s amusing to watch when you realize it doesn’t really have much of an effect on your life. if no one else has already taken it, I’ll bet on this for “Dumbest SDMB Post of 2018”. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/28 "2018-11-08T17:07:06Z")
Djonald Unhinged ---
**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:** [November 8, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/29 "2018-11-08T17:14:35Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Sarah should change her name to Huckabee Slanders. And now she is passing along a doctored film clip of the Acosta exchange [that she got from Infowars.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/cnn-claims-white-house-press-secretary-sarah-sanders-shared-doctored-n933911) The only excuse I would accept from her at this point was that the White House was holding one of her kids hostage. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/30 "2018-11-08T17:47:29Z")
> [@DB\_Coopa](#): > > It’s amusing to watch when you realize it doesn’t really have much of an effect on your life. Yep, you Venusians have got it good. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/31 "2018-11-08T18:32:56Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > And now she is passing along a doctored film clip of the Acosta exchange [that she got from Infowars.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/cnn-claims-white-house-press-secretary-sarah-sanders-shared-doctored-n933911) > The only excuse I would accept from her at this point was that the White House was holding one of her kids hostage. Nope. Check out the side-by-side videos [here.](https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/wow-liberal-media-hacks-defend-jim-acosta-after-abusive-wh-stunt-lie-and-insist-video-was-doctored-video/) ---
**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:** [November 8, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/32 "2018-11-08T18:47:35Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Nope. Check out the side-by-side videos [here.](https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/wow-liberal-media-hacks-defend-jim-acosta-after-abusive-wh-stunt-lie-and-insist-video-was-doctored-video/) Show me a _real_ side-by-side. This is just a right-wing idiot showing the same hacked film twice. When you post crap like this, do you actually think nobody would notice the source? ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/33 "2018-11-08T18:49:10Z")
Yeah, if you can’t trust the Gateway Pundit… well you can’t trust the Gateway Pundit. [Here’s a thorough breakdown showing the clear edit.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TSpgB0QS0g) ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/34 "2018-11-08T18:56:38Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Nope. Check out the side-by-side videos [here.](https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/wow-liberal-media-hacks-defend-jim-acosta-after-abusive-wh-stunt-lie-and-insist-video-was-doctored-video/) They clearly sped up the portion where his arm moving downward to make it look worse. Major fail. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/35 "2018-11-08T19:08:39Z")
One of my conservative friends texted me during that news conference complaining that the press was being rude. I with-held comment until I could see the interaction for myself, which I did when I got home. I think Acosta was being a bit aggressive and pushy, and I think he decided this was his moment to die on the hill of truthfulness. However, Trump was clearly cornered and failed in every way to handle a hard-ball question from an unfriendly reporter. He could have brushed it off, but he chose to keep engaging, and when he saw Acosta was kicking him in the balls with the questions, he stepped away from the podium - as if to run away (like he usually can). The interaction reinforces my belief that Trump is surrounded by a bubble of sycophants and yes-men that will not tolerate any dissension at all. When the questions got tough, he tried to run away, and realized he could not, so stood there and tried to bite back. Trump is the world’s biggest pussy. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/36 "2018-11-08T19:40:11Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I don’t know whether it’s dementia or just what works—the kind of speech that gets him the reaction he likes at Trump Rallies. > [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > I think he is definitely showing signs of dementia. If you see him speak 10-15 years ago, he was much more coherent and “normal.” It’s not just that he talks that way to reach and fire up his base at rallies, he wasn’t all that coherent at yesterday’s press conference. **64 truly remarkable lines from Donald Trump’s otherworldly post-election news conference** [https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/donald-trump-press-conference-election-2018/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/donald-trump-press-conference-election-2018/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/37 "2018-11-08T20:09:49Z")
Donald Trump really, _really_ needs to not be POTUS anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/38 "2018-11-08T20:13:39Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Nope. Check out the side-by-side videos [here.](https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/wow-liberal-media-hacks-defend-jim-acosta-after-abusive-wh-stunt-lie-and-insist-video-was-doctored-video/) And holy shit you fell for gateway pundit AGAIN. You are just one dumb motherfucker, aren’t you? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [November 8, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/39 "2018-11-08T20:32:51Z")
The WH uses lies like this to assert dominance and to humiliate. Not because any of them actually think Acosta assaulted the woman (who approached him and tried to pull the mic out of his hand). ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-president-unhinged/824176/40 "2018-11-08T20:57:35Z")
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