can the media just fucking stop calling him "president trump" ???

[orleans]

wtf

alex wagner (who took over for rachel) just called that pig criminal "president trump"

why the hell can't they either call him "donald trump" or "former president trump" ?

pisses me off--they give him too much respect by calling him president. ugh!

[ItsjustMe]

1. Ditto

[Mme. Defarge]

2. So did Glenn Kirschner,

or someone on the panel he was on the other night on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show. F*ck that!!!

[DrToast]

3. Former Presidents still have the title

That’s always been the case.

[UTUSN]

4. K & big R#5 for, I got flamed to Hades saying this. Was sermonized'bout "custom" &

how I dont complain'bout calling OBAMA president or Hillary "secretary". Also that I was fishing/pandering for cheap whatever.

[orleans]

8. i didn't see that post you're talking about. and fuck that "custom" crap

it doesn't apply here

when you're a treasonous douchebag and try to overthrow your own fucking government you don't get all that special treatment like a customary title of president.

it's a new tradition!

(i'd say new rule but .. you know, bill maher)

[thucythucy]

5. I also wish they'd stop plastering his image

all over the screen, even when interviewing critics.

Even when someone is making a critical point about the Grifter'n'Chief, a good half of the screen will be Mango Mussolini behind a podium, Hair Fuhrer next to a helicopter, Benedict Donald in the Oval Office.

I'm so sick of seeing that pumpkin-hued visage on my screens.

[ForgedCrank]

7. Well, the

problem is apparently undying interest in the man. Everyone appears addicted to Trump. Right now, about 1/3 of the front page posts in General Discussion are all about Trump, and it's like that every day, sometimes far worse.
It'll be the happiest day ever when I can wake up one morning and go all the way to bed without hearing his name even once.

[thucythucy]

9. I also would be happy never the hear the name again

though I understand the news interest. After all, how many times does a former president get credibly suspected of violation of the Espionage Act?

Even so it's not like we need to be constantly reminded what he looks like. When CNN for instance has Republicans on criticizing Biden, do they almost always give President Biden half the screen, scrunching the critic into a square in the corner? I suspect not.

We can get information and opinions on the man without all the presidential porn.

[gab13by13]

6. They pretty much all call the search warrant a raid.

[llmart]

10. Pretty soon they can call him Inmate #45.

Or whatever number is assigned to him in the hoosegow.

[Igel]

11. Link.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/10/21/addressing-a-former-president/74852958-5995-4068-9f91-a6851bb893a5/

That said, I'm fairly certain that as a child I was told that the title continues into retirement. "President Kennedy" was long dead when I was told this, but he wasn't "Senator Kennedy". He was "President Kennedy", even if he was dead and Johnson or Nixon was in the WH.

Note that this rules out "former president" as a title. Unless we want "former president FDR" and "former president Kennedy." "Former president Senator Kennedy". It lacks panache.

Not sure I like "Senator Obama", to be honest, as the One True Title for the man.

Then again, we have to "fucking stop calling him" "President Obama." Because there can be only one, per Ms. Manners.

[orleans]

13. i was on another thread and came back here for a link to reference my bitchy post

(other thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217107240#post11 )

and saw the link you posted. i just finished reading it -- all of it (on presidents, nicotine patches, & yawning -- 1992). all very interesting. thanks for posting that.

[Phoenix61]

12. No doubt. Ranks up there with calling it a raid on Mar-a-lago.

It was a legally executed search warrant.