# Is Trump confused? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 146
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2934 "2024-10-21T16:19:25Z")
I would like to promote the safety of morphous energy now: coal. It’s much safer to transport than oil that ruins everything when spilled or blown up in tar sands pipes. (Yes i know, coal is not really very morphous either, but we can’t afford to burn graphite. It is of some use in industry.) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2935 "2024-10-21T16:38:48Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > He’s not batty as hell. He’s merely authentic! One can be both: Authentically batty as hell. I guess they want a President who’s as batty as hell, damn them. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2936 "2024-10-21T17:26:29Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I guess they want a President who’s as batty as hell, damn them. Many folks apparently think it’s funny to have a clown/freak show as entertainment in the White House. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2937 "2024-10-21T18:01:21Z")
And some folks just want to watch the world burn. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2938 "2024-10-21T18:17:55Z")
And assume they’re fireproof. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2939 "2024-10-21T18:22:14Z")
\< insert “this is fine” meme here \> ---
**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 21, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2940 "2024-10-21T20:20:54Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Years ago I recall a bond issue to extend the existing light rail from the urban / old suburban core out into the adjacent new construction white flight suburbia. > > The No campaign ran local TV ads showing swarthy folks wearing hoodies pulled down over their faces carrying big new TVs onto the train. Back when televisions had CRTs and were huge _heavy_ cubical things. 26 inches!!1! Woot!!! Believe it or not, this same kind of nimby-ism is part of what’s holding up the project to replace the 100-year-old bridge that carries I-5 over the Columbia river between Oregon and Washington. The plan calls for the bridge to carry an extension of Portland’s light rail and the nimbys in Vancouver are convinced it’ll become a conduit for scary Antifas and crustpunks to surge into their city and bring havoc and destruction with them. ---
**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 21, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2941 "2024-10-21T20:43:30Z")
…I’m beginning to suspect that Trump thinks pro wrestling is real. > ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2942 "2024-10-21T20:48:27Z")
Shame on both of them. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2943 "2024-10-21T20:56:58Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > (Linda Evans is the main guest star in the episode, and she looks uncannily like her replacement, Bo Derek, as John Derek’s wife. I guess he had a type.) Who both look like Ursula Andress, who was another of his wives. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2944 "2024-10-21T21:02:02Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Many folks apparently think it’s funny to have a clown/freak show as entertainment in the White House. This is a real problem, especially with young less-educated men. They love that he is rude and obnoxious and says whatever comes into his head. They do think he’s a funny tough guy. And they don’t know shit about history so they have no context for what he actually is about. Hopefully, they are so unserious that they won’t bother to vote. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2945 "2024-10-21T21:17:16Z")
Never mind. I was confused. But not _that_ confused! ---
**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 21, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2946 "2024-10-21T21:20:02Z")
I didn’t invent it. It’s a lifestyle associated with hardcore punk music which often involves refusing to engage with capitalism to the point of being homeless by choice and scavenging for food out of dumpsters. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2947 "2024-10-21T21:25:11Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Who both look like Ursula Andress, who was another of his wives. Could John Derek tell them apart? We know Trump thought E Jean Carroll was Marla Marples in a photo. Trump’s confused about what his ex-wife looked like. So much for Carroll not being his “type”. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2948 "2024-10-21T21:32:16Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > So much for Carroll not being his “type”. Well, my first wife was not, and is not, my type. But I get your point. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2949 "2024-10-21T21:37:44Z")
I believe she’s … [wait for it] … twelve. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2950 "2024-10-21T21:48:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I didn’t invent it. Thanks. I eventually figured that out. Hence my post disappearing. Oops. Urban dictionary had never heard of “crustpunk” and I wasn’t smart enough to try “crust punk” until after I wrote & posted my piece. _Then_ I had the inspiration to try alternate spellings. D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![DeadTreasSecretaries](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deadtreassecretaries/32/4817_2.png) [@DeadTreasSecretaries](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadTreasSecretaries)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2951 "2024-10-21T23:01:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m beginning to suspect that Trump thinks pro wrestling is real. It’s real to me dammit! ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2952 "2024-10-21T23:23:29Z")
Damn straight it’s real. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9bY28ik2Fc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9bY28ik2Fc) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/2953 "2024-10-22T00:34:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The plan calls for the bridge to carry an extension of Portland’s light rail and the nimbys in Vancouver are convinced it’ll become a conduit for scary Antifas and crustpunks to surge into their city and bring havoc and destruction with them. Washington is pretty solidly Blue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=145) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=147)