# Is Trump confused?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [January 24, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589 "2024-01-24T13:53:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2454 "2024-10-07T21:31:15Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> [Trump:] “I don’t like flies. Get out of here fly. This is a very aggressive sucker. Like I’m going to be aggressive for our county”

The flies seem really attracted to Trump at his rallies. I guess what people say about his body odor is true:

“So if you take like armpits, ketchup, makeup, and a little butt. It’s probably like that all mixed up.” --Adam Kinzinger

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**Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2455 "2024-10-07T22:14:32Z")

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Makes me think of the last scene of _One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest_ when Chief Bromden lifts the tub room control panel and throws it though the window to escape. Great movie!  
Now picture trump as a perpetually losing sumo wrestler. Such a beautiful body, splat! sunbathing on the beach.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2456 "2024-10-07T23:04:17Z")

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Deranged old man with a giant grin on his face while holding a picture of an Israeli hostage at a 10/7 memorial, because the most important thing is that he’s in front of a camera.

> <https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1843415687114699150/photo/1>

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2457 "2024-10-08T01:33:15Z")

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“I was watching the airplane highways and they were all heading this way as I was going that way”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1843455264965701986>

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**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2458 "2024-10-08T03:27:04Z")

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_I was watching the airplane highways and they were all heading this way as I was going that way?_  
Lyrics that didn’t make the cut for America’s _Ventura Highway_ Alex.

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**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2459 "2024-10-08T08:12:32Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> “I was watching the airplane highways and they were all heading this way as I was going that way”

This is the response of a four-year-old when asked how his trip to the airport was.

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**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2460 "2024-10-08T16:00:49Z")

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Saw a meme this morning about TFG attending an October 7 commemorative ceremony in Queens, being handed a Torah and offering to autograph it. Was holding off sharing until I could find some backup for it. And…[here we go](https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-he-s-what-s-called-a-putz-internet-reacts-trump-asking-rabbi-lubavitcher-rebbe-s-gravesite-wants-autograph-prayer-book).

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2461 "2024-10-09T01:14:05Z")

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“[Biden] actually said, don’t go after their nuclear. Well, that’s going to be the problem. Their nuclear, because they’re going to have nuclear soon and it’s going to be a much different world. We’re not going to be able to do that. It’s just the opposite of what he said.”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1843792296971772025>

“I got the Mexican government to give us their military free of charge”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1843793904736325720>

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2462 "2024-10-09T01:27:43Z")

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The guy on the left looks like he’s reconsidering his life choices.

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2463 "2024-10-09T09:31:59Z")

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If he’s on Newsmax already, he probably doesn’t have many life choices.

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2464 "2024-10-09T09:36:24Z")

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“Well, I got my start at XYZ TV, where I was the weatherman; then I moved to WANC TV, where I did sports; then I moved to KLCS, where I anchored. Then, I moved to Newsmax.”

“Next!”

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2465 "2024-10-09T20:27:46Z")

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“Steve Moore was a great guy. Do you know who Steve Moore is? Great economist. He wrote a book and the book is number one… You know, whose book is also like number one? Melania. Melania. Her book is number one.”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844109920200962137>

“The windmills aren’t wind. There’s no wind tonight. You can’t watch, darling. We’re not going to be watching tonight. Maybe we’ll catch him another time. These people are crazy.”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844100510250594471>

“We’re making a play for New Jersey. We’re making a play for Virginia, we’re making a play for New York”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844099490854396327>

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2466 "2024-10-09T20:41:56Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> “We’re making a play for New Jersey. We’re making a play for Virginia, we’re making a play for New York”

Ok, this, to me, is the surest sign yet that he’s losing and he knows it.

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2467 "2024-10-09T20:52:09Z")

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“They’re going, like, slow … the wind in bullshit”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1844100771052159297>

“They want to clean the air so that when China comes here and takes us over, they will have a nice clear atmosphere”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1844100281606271132>

“You take a child who’s five years old, he knows more about Russia than my son”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844115327074099530>

“Tampon Tim, you know why they call him that? Because they sell tampons with special legislation in boys locker rooms.”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844114712289739243>

“So when women say, ‘oh, I don’t know if I like Trump’-- I was the one – that is the most heinous thing. Human trafficking, mostly in women. Gee, I wonder what that’s all about, right?”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1844101874846138771>

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2468 "2024-10-09T20:53:17Z")

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ETA: Darn you @Smapti; I can’t write two sentences before you add more posts! 😉

  

> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Ok, this, to me, is the surest sign yet that he’s losing and he knows it.

_If_ anything he’s saying is in any way connected to what his campaign is actually doing. It’s real easy to brag that “We’re gonna take all 50 states with our yuge and effective campaign.” Which is just one more of his incessant insecure “everything about Meeeee is the very very bestest.” taglines.

It’s rather harder to actually mount that campaign, much less pay for it or have it succeed. I’d like to see evidence they’re trying to take NY.

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2469 "2024-10-09T21:22:08Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> “You take a child who’s five years old, he knows more about Russia than my son”

Wrong discussion. This is the _Trump is confused_ thread, not the _Trump is coherent_ thread.

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2470 "2024-10-09T21:31:43Z")

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I mean, I’m legitimately not sure what he was trying to say there, because I doubt he was trying to deliberately insult his kids. They came from him, after all, and he’s the single greatest human being to ever live, so surely his offspring must be at least in the top twenty.

(Well, maybe not Eric.)

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2471 "2024-10-09T21:33:20Z")

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Eric may not make the top 20 at the Trump Thanksgiving table.

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2472 "2024-10-09T21:45:54Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> not the _Trump is coherent_ thread.

More Trump actually making sense:

> [@Smapti](#):
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> So when women say, ‘oh, I don’t know if I like Trump’-- I was the one – that is the most heinous thing. Human trafficking, mostly in women.

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**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2473 "2024-10-10T01:44:56Z")

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“Your child goes to school and they take your child. It was a he and comes back a she. And they do this. And often without parental consent.”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844164154258751862>

“The women are going to like Trump. I think they like me anyway. I think it’s all bullshit” (note: disinhibition is a common sign of dementia)

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844177104902160398>

“I have hired Whoopi to work for me as a comedian Her mouth was so foul, every word out of her mouth was like the F word. I was with a group of nice people. We had to leave. She was so filthy, dirty, disgusting. Oh, what a loser she is”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844176050340888954>

“Howard Stern is a weak guy… he’s weak… I used to think he was good but then I dropped him. I dropped him like a dog.” (I’m not sure Trump even knows what dogs are at this point)

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844175593577050307>

“That means essentially that I have more Indian blood in me than she has. I have none. I’d like to have some” (lol wut?)

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844174581373993093>

“If we win, this country will become the automobile manufacturing place eyo, we are blah, we will bring plants back at levels that haven’t been seen for 50 years in this country”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1844170304404259213>

“She didn’t send anything or anyone at all, days passed, no help as men, women, and children drowned. North Carolina has 8 military bases. Fort Bragg. They changed the name. We won two wars from Fort Bragg”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1844166586028130478>

““I didn’t have to be here. I could be in a beautiful beach. I could be in a gorgeous beach somewhere in the world. The sun beaming down in this beautiful body in a bathing suit.”” (Note: Trump owns a swimming pool and never swims, and has never taken his shirt off in public)

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1844161889598677247>

“Her father is a Marxist economist. I don’t know what that means. I’d love to meet the father. Where’s the father? I want to meet the father … I mean, I like Barack Hussein Obama’s brother very much”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1844177235927822462>

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