# 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")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3054 "2024-10-25T00:37:41Z")

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Senility? Not a chance.

> **['You mean President Biden': Fox News host reminds Trump that Obama isn't...](https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-thinks-obama-is-president-2669472543)**
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> Fox News host Brian Kilmeade corrected former President Donald Trump after he suggested Barack Obama was still president.The correction came during a discussion about Iran's aggression towards Israel on Wednesday."Brian, it's all coming through Iran,...

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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 25, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3055 "2024-10-25T00:39:10Z")

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Post #3010. 🙂

> [@Is Trump confused?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3044):
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> Trump has to be corrected by Fox News when he says Obama is still president.

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**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3056 "2024-10-25T00:39:46Z")

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Clearly _I’m_ not qualified to be president

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**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3057 "2024-10-25T00:44:02Z")

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Just call it a weave, you’ll be fine.

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3058 "2024-10-25T01:49:34Z")

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> [@Uniqueorn](#):
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> Not quite sure whether he does it on purpose, but listening to his delivery, his voice, the repetition of words and the unspecified nouns, verbs and universal quantifiers (“people are saying…”), is actually quite trance-inducing. I wonder if that is why people attending his rallies don’t realise what incoherent rubbish comes out of his mouth, as they are literally zonked out

Something I’ve noticed is how bored the people in back of him look while he’s speaking. Compare this [Harris](https://youtu.be/V7Qq1mNIYrU?t=457) and to [Watz](https://www.nbcnews.com/video/walz-knocks-elon-musk-for-supporting-trump-222400069718) where the people in the back seem actually engaged in what is being said. Smiling and nodding, rather than just staring into space.

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**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 25, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3059 "2024-10-25T02:37:24Z")

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They’re thinking, “Jeez, $7.25 an hour for _this?_ Assuming he pays me at all. Just shoot me now.”

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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 25, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3060 "2024-10-25T04:21:52Z")

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“I [pretended to work at McDonald’s] for 15 minutes and we had 29,000 people surrounding it”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1849660073108242828>

“You know these foreign leaders, a very very streetwise, very smart people, and they really don’t want me but in a certain way they do want me”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1849657264942035260>

“Think of the words… towns that have been invaded and conquered. They’ve been conquered, they’ve been conquered… And we have a lot of towns that haven’t yet been infected”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1849654487264395577>

“They’re called supreme guns. They’re supreme.”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1849651183792656706>

“Increasing the so-called tipalah, you know she she wants, when I said no tax on tips…”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1849645229810319551>

“We’re doing the tariffs, and you know, I charge Tiner, China was charged by me”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1849648742279913777>

“We went to a Latino restaurant”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1849644438810665329>

“Get that big fat ass of you, we’re gonna go and vote for the president”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1849643309188194798>

“Then we went to the manager. He’s been there a long time. No, she never worked here” (how old is this manager? 90?)

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1849659942862741897>

“These are the people who are doing such tremendous armj”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1849656198360072401>

“And then you look at Aurora in Caliph, take a look at Aurora in Colorado”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1849651155632283674>

“They just sent 30,000 people into Springfield, Ohio that don’t speak English. You used to be sick. You’d go into a hospital, now you’re sick. And they say, we can’t take you…”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1849651056365752618>

“And I don’t know if I’m going to have [RFK Jr.] working too much on the environment. I don’t know if I want him playing around with our with our liquid gold…”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1849647070363496879>

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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3061 "2024-10-25T04:53:48Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> “Then we went to the manager. He’s been there a long time. No, she never worked here” (how old is this manager? 90?)

Who keeps employee records for that long? If someone retired from my company thirty years ago we still have them on file because they’re getting retiree benefits. But if you’re not retired, after ten years, we might have your personnel file assuming we haven’t shredded it. Who the hell is going to keep an employee file 40+ years after the employee has left? My first job was at a pizza place way back in 1993. I cannot remember the name of a single coworker other than the assistant manager, a guy named Solly from the North Eastern part of the U.S. who pronounced my name funny. I’d be surprised if anyone from that pizza place in 1993 remembers my name or even thinks about me.

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**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3062 "2024-10-25T05:02:28Z")

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trump’s a lying piece shit. If he’s speaking he lying. The only people who believe him are ignorant, delusional magas, fools who don’t want to vote for a woman, and idiots, or maybe bros who think he’s strong. It really is pathetic.

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**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 25, 2024, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3063 "2024-10-25T08:31:04Z")

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The ads that are appearing with the Newsmax and RSBN screen caps amuse me. Ivermectin contagion emergency kit, re-fi, $15,000 free gold and silver, My Pillow – every one of them screams, “Fraud!”

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3064 "2024-10-25T09:08:35Z")

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“Ivermectin. Because during a respiratory pandemic, you’re sure to be infected by roundworms in your GI tract.”

[Sarcasm off.]

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**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3065 "2024-10-25T11:12:41Z")

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Or indeed your brain. Just ask RFK Jr.

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**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3066 "2024-10-25T12:54:07Z")

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> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> Something I’ve noticed is how bored the people in back of him look while he’s speaking.

Imagine how bored the people off-camera look. I would think there would be at least a minimal amount of vetting of the people who will be in the background—no anti-Trump or pro-Harris T-shirts, for example. Some campaign staffer must be at least doing that for the section behind Trump, right? Are these the most enthusiastic people they can find nowadays?

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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3067 "2024-10-25T13:25:30Z")

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> [@dasmoocher](#):
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> Some campaign staffer must be at least doing that for the section behind Trump, right? Are these the most enthusiastic people they can find nowadays?

Well, you wouldn’t want to be kicked out for actually engaging with what Trump says.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/J4pcZdJcpbs/maxresdefault.jpg "Smirking ‘Plaid Shirt Guy’ Upstages Trump During Montana Rally") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4pcZdJcpbs)

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**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3068 "2024-10-25T13:49:10Z")

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I’d like a few of my tax dollars to go toward Secret Service protection for these three – at least for a week or three ☹

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**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3069 "2024-10-25T13:50:06Z")

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That was from the last go-round, so I think they’re probably safe.

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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 25, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3070 "2024-10-25T19:54:25Z")

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“What she did at the town hall with Cooper was unbelievable. Allison Cooper was so angry”

> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1849882898754855146>

“Bad things happen. Lots of bad things happen. Where are those votes that I saw 2 days ago? ‘Ah, we’re painting that section and we decided to move them, sir.’ Oh, you can’t believe it.”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1849884651562651983>

“The Congo – that’s a hot place right now … It’s not even believable actually when you think … then you have the transgender operations all over the place.”

> <https://x.com/atrupar/status/1849880659000537459>

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**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3071 "2024-10-25T23:53:41Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> My apologies to anyone who thought I was suggesting that Trump started singing Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s 1973 number-one single “Sundown”. 🙂

He didn’t sing it, but I did.

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**Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3072 "2024-10-26T01:43:54Z")

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> [@Sylvanz](#):
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> The only people who believe him are ignorant, delusional magas, fools who don’t want to vote for a woman, and idiots, or maybe bros who think he’s strong. It really is pathetic.

And apparently that’s about 50% of the voting public in the United States.

I agree this is pathetic.

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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 26, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3073 "2024-10-26T03:05:54Z")

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> <https://x.com/Acyn/status/1850010482586861641>

Meanwhile, at Harris’ rally…

> <https://x.com/Yamiche/status/1849988372414312559>

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