# Changes in Trump since the DNC **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 27, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314 "2024-08-27T15:38:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/21 "2024-08-27T18:12:49Z")
His face looks pinker. I don’t think he’s lathering up with the orange stuff as regularly these days. And his hair looks thinner. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/22 "2024-08-27T18:27:30Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > He appears to me to have lost a considerable amount of weight over the past months. I’ve noticed that, too. Since he doesn’t seem like the type to lose weight the proper way – i.e., by improved diet and exercise – my guess would be he’s seriously ill or on one of the new diabetes drugs. - If he’s seriously ill: Is he waiting for a big moment to disclose it and earn sympathy votes? Too stubborn to admit he’s too sick to run? - If it’s drugs: Are there cognitive and/or energy-related side effects? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/23 "2024-08-27T18:43:27Z")
Besides all the good points already made, let’s not forget that he has been shot at just a few weeks ago. I think such an experience does something even to a psychopath. Maybe especially to a psychopath. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/24 "2024-08-27T20:59:30Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > He doesn’t play his tiny according as much when giving speeches. I assume that was auto-correct messing up “tiny accordion”. Ha, I noticed that, too. There’s been so much parody over his tiny invisible accordion, culminating in the hilarious bit that Obama did at the DNC, that Trump has been quite obviously (and badly) trying to suppress the invisible accordion. In one clip I saw recently, he very self-consciously had his left arm planted stiffly at his side, while his right arm was flailing about playing a sort of one-handed accordion. And then he forgot himself, the left-arm comes shooting up, and there’s the full-fledged invisible accordion again in a virtuoso performance! It was quite comical. 🤣 In other news, if Trump has been having bad days, today just got a whole lot worse as the Special Counsel **[files a brand new superseding indictment](https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/politics/trump-superseding-indictment-january-6/index.html)** on the Jan 6 insurrection case. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/25 "2024-08-27T21:31:31Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > And his hair looks thinner. Well, who wants fat hair? ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/26 "2024-08-27T21:36:17Z")
The thin hair and bad makeup suggests to me that Trump’s ADHD is flaring up like never before, making it impossible for his makeup people to do their thing. It’s almost like he has a compulsive need to keep moving his head around because if he stays still for too long something terrible might happen… Guess what Donald? That feeling is _never_ going away. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/27 "2024-08-27T22:10:14Z")
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, personal fixer, and Inarguably The Most Objective Man In The World When It Comes To Trump (\), swears that the tiny accordion is one of Trump’s most prominent ‘tells’ that lets you know when he’s lying. I’ll leave the laundry list of obvious related jokes (eg., “The other one being breathing”) out for now 😉 ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/28 "2024-08-27T23:03:48Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > > > He doesn’t play his tiny according as much when giving speeches. > > I assume that was auto-correct messing up “tiny accordion”. You are correct, sir! I usually check for those things, but this one got by me. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/29 "2024-08-27T23:24:39Z")
[Yesterday in Detroit:](https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/trump-speaks-at-national-guard-conference-in-detroit) > [@](#): > > And I hate to say this, but we have a president who went on vacation a week ago and now he came back and he went on vacation again. And we have people that are fighting all over the place and threatening our country as we speak. I don’t think we’ve ever been closer to World War III than we are right now. > . . . > Crazy Nancy Pelosi sued me. She was always… She’s crazy as a bed bug, that one. She’s nuts. She’s a nut. But at least Joe Biden likes her a lot. No, I don’t think so. Think he’s angry? He fights for a year and a half in a primary system. He ends up getting 14 million votes, and they have somebody that didn’t get one vote. Is this policy? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/30 "2024-08-27T23:43:44Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > In one clip I saw recently, he very self-consciously had his left arm planted stiffly at his side, while his right arm was flailing about playing a sort of one-handed accordion. And then he forgot himself, the left-arm comes shooting up, and there’s the full-fledged invisible accordion again in a virtuoso performance! It was quite comical. 🤣 Dr. Strangesqueeze. “Mein Führer I can harmonize!” ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/31 "2024-08-27T23:48:50Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Is this policy? In Trump’s world, yes. Trump is setting the groundwork just in case the Republican party grows a spine and boots him. The fantasy Trump had about Biden coming into the DNC to retake his nomination is about himself. Nevermind that the Republicans have already had their convention. Trump will find a stage somewhere, force himself onto it (as is his habit) and have his own personal January 6th, with traitors to be executed forthwith. Fealty to God-King Trump and his mercurial moods is his one and only policy. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/32 "2024-08-27T23:56:17Z")
It’s just sheer whiplash from gone from being 2 touchdowns ahead to 2 touchdowns behind. Trump had been beating up great on Biden. Now suddenly the Dems yank the carpet from underneath and switcheroo to Kamala. The solid lead Trump had slowly assembled piece by piece over Biden now vanishes into thin air. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/33 "2024-08-28T02:02:28Z")
One thong occurs to me: in 2016, by all accounts, Trump really didnt think he would win, and he didn’t really care. Once he won, it apparently gave him a thrill he’s been chasing ever sincs. 2020, he really, really thought he’d win, get another hit on that pipe. But he didn’t, and the letdown was epic enough to spawn Jan 6 and everything else. This time, on some level, he muat be _unsure_. And I don’t think he does we with uncertainty. Its not his natural habitat. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/34 "2024-08-28T02:09:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > What actual policies has Trump been putting forward lately? Come on, didn’t you see all the breakfast products? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/35 "2024-08-28T02:13:44Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > swears that the tiny accordion is one of Trump’s most prominent ‘tells’ that lets you know when he’s lying. He also does the thing where he tips his head a bit to one side and looks off to one side and then the other while he starts blathering. That’s when he’s clearly just making shit up as he goes. Of course, he’s always making shit up as he goes, but that’s one of his big tells. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/36 "2024-08-28T02:21:51Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > One thong occurs to me: in 2016, by all accounts, Trump really didnt think he would win, and he didn’t really care. Once he won, it apparently gave him a thrill he’s been chasing ever sincs. 2020, he really, really thought he’d win, get another hit on that pipe. But he didn’t, and the letdown was epic enough to spawn Jan 6 and everything else. I think that’s part of it. I think the other part is that being POTUS puts you in a fishbowl in a way that really nothing else will. Not even a self-promoting “personality” who has been in the news and on TV for decades. And some of the shenanigans that flew under the radar were brought to light. If you recall, there were predictions that if Trump didn’t win in 2020 he’d be in a real legal bind, and vulnerable in a way he wasn’t while in office. And that he’d be desperate to hang onto that job for at least 4 more years. And sure enough, we had never-ending claims of election fraud and even an attempted fraud of his own perpetuated by fake electors to steal the election somehow, and aided by a half-assed insurrection to try to delay certification of his defeat. Now he’s a convicted felon and only by a really incomprehensible SCOTUS decision and one corrupt judge in Florida is he not on the verge of more convictions. So his fear of legal jeopardy was justified. He both wanted and legally _needed_ to hang onto that power. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/37 "2024-08-28T02:26:21Z")
Let’s not discount the delayed physical reaction to being shot in the head. PTSD is real and onlookers can see behavioral changes that the sufferer is not aware of. On top of what everyone else said. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/38 "2024-08-28T02:46:32Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > > > And his hair looks thinner. > > Well, who wants fat hair? I would feel sorry for that rat on top of his head, but “you are what you eat” and that rat chose the locale. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/39 "2024-08-28T02:49:18Z")
I was actually quoting someone; was curious if anyone would recognize it. ETA: It’s probably enough of a hijack already. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314/40 "2024-08-28T02:53:07Z")
Quoted by @PhillyGuy > [@](#): > > Crazy Nancy Pelosi sued me. What? What is Trump talking about there? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-in-trump-since-the-dnc/1006314.md?page=3)