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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by frockington on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:39PM (#17136807)
Don't tell this to the hundreds of people who reply "Drumpf will be impeached #RESIST" to every single one of his tweets. The realization that he has never read a single one of their tweets might be enough cause a heart attack
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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by orf on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:55PM (#17137008)
The realization that those tweets are not really aimed at him might shock you.
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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by mieseratte on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:54PM (#17137001)
> Drumpf

On a tangent, what is the deal with the "Drumpf" thing? It was his family name some time ago, so is this just the other sides' "Barack Hussein Obama" or is there more to it?

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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by lightbyte on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:59PM (#17137642)
Other posters have not given the actual reason for this.

It is from HBO's Last Week Tonight. The joke is that Trump made fun of Jon Stewart for changing his last name in a tweet [1], which is silly because his family did the same.

>I promise you that I'm much smarter than Jonathan Leibowitz - I mean Jon Stewart @TheDailyShow. Who, by the way, is totally overrated.

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/32707672042545152...

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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by milankovic on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:57PM (#17138203)
Correct me if I am wrong here, but if I recall it correctly, Jon Stewart made that name change himself (as your comment and linked source implies), while in Trump's case, it was not done by himself, it was something that his father had done in his life (or maybe even grandfather?).

That is something fundamentally different, but Last Week Tonight is just some comedy show, so one should not expect too much here.

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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by frockington on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:02PM (#17137670)
Probably something to do with Trump being "Literally Hitler" or something because it sounds German
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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by mschuster91 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:14PM (#17137186)
> It was his family name some time ago, so is this just the other sides' "Barack Hussein Obama" or is there more to it?

No, it's not the same thing. The Hussein thing is that the Alt-Right uses it to imply Obama being a Muslim (which he is not) and thus, by extension, a terrorist supporter/enabler.

The Drumpf thing, however, is nothing more than highlighting the family origin (which Trump actually even stated himself, per https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-drumpf/).

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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by V-2 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:28PM (#17137324)
Highlighting with what purpose? What political associations could possibly go with "Drumpf" that are absent from "Trump"?
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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by RightMillennial on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:44PM (#17137502)
I don't know about that. Whenever I've seen "Drumpf" used it seems to be trying to associate Trump with Nazis (because it's German) which is very similar to purposely using "Hussein" (which is Arabic) to associate Obama with Muslim extremists.
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