# 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:** 170
**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:** [November 4, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3414 "2024-11-04T21:23:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I wonder what would have happened if he had tried to stay? Just last night I rediscovered this on YT. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_QybcBH6rSw/maxresdefault.jpg "FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE - a Parody | Don Caron") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QybcBH6rSw) ---
**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:** [November 4, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3415 "2024-11-04T21:30:43Z")
It still boggles my mind that we have a popular presidential candidate who consistently talks like a crazy person ranting on a street corner and it doesn’t faze his supporters at all. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3416 "2024-11-04T21:38:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > and it doesn’t faze his supporters at all. The number of people walking out of his rallies says otherwise. That wasn’t happening in 2016 or 2020, or even this summer. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3417 "2024-11-04T21:39:13Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > it doesn’t faze his supporters at all. It doesn’t faze them because Trump’s supporters are the crazier person ranting on a street corner. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3418 "2024-11-04T21:44:55Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Just last night I rediscovered this on YT. Genius. Thanks. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3419 "2024-11-04T21:54:34Z")
“Put Mike Tyson in the ring with Kamala. That will be interesting” > “I had oil at… $1.84 a gallon. The day after the election, if something bad happens, you’ll see oil at $10, $12, $15” > "“I have to say those french fries when you get em right out of that fat. Whatever the hell they cook em with. Fat! I don’t know if it’s good for you but they are really good.” > “We had a Congress that was not behaving. I said, I don’t care, this is an invasion of our country, I’m taking it out of the military.” > “We have a person in this room who was saved by right to try. Where ah – you know a space agedroug” > “The funny thing is the ones most against it where the drug companies and the labs and we have the greatest labs in the world. We are doing space age things and we had it started. It was dying before I came along. Nasa was dead.” > ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3420 "2024-11-04T22:24:09Z")
How much are those people behind him getting paid? It’s not enough. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3421 "2024-11-04T22:32:55Z")
One ad shows FreeTrumpBookDOTcom, which doesn’t exist. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3422 "2024-11-04T22:33:04Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It still boggles my mind that we have a popular presidential candidate who consistently talks like a crazy person ranting on a street corner and it doesn’t faze his supporters at all. A lot of people who are voting for him but are not MAGA purposefully avoid hearing or seeing anything he says. Deep inside they know that it would make them feel uncomfortable and they don’t like feeling uncomfortable. They have some particular reason for voting for him (immigration, the economy) and it’s just easier to focus on that and pretend all the other stuff doesn’t exist. Actually, they should be pretty well suited for fascism because they are adept at this. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3423 "2024-11-04T22:48:50Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > One ad shows FreeTrumpBookDOTcom, which doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, it does exist. But if you sign up, your child gets not 1, not 2, but THREE free books. And then 2 more books every 3 to 4 weeks, at 17 bucks each. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3424 "2024-11-04T22:55:45Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “I had oil at… $1.84 a gallon…" 42 gallons per barrel. $1.84 x 42 gallons = $77.28 per barrel. Price of West Texas Intermediate as of November 4, 2024 = $71.72 per barrel. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3425 "2024-11-04T23:05:18Z")
I’m sure he meant to say gasoline, but said oil instead either because of the dementia or because he’s never handled a gas pump in his life. Notwithstanding, of course, that the reason gas was so cheap at the end of his term was because there was a pandemic and nobody could go anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3426 "2024-11-04T23:06:50Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > $71.72 per barrel. No wonder McDonald’s fries are so cheap and/or expensive! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3427 "2024-11-04T23:09:06Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Maybe Trump doesn’t understand what kind of General Walker was. More evidence that Trump is confused and he owned the team. I got to see a Generals game with Walker back in the day. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3428 "2024-11-04T23:09:24Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > > > I just think winning is the sole rationale for what he says and does. > > I think this was also true in 2016 and 2020. He wants to be President just for the adulation and attention. Certainly that, but I think it’s mostly because he doesn’t want his daddy’s ghost to call him a loser. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3429 "2024-11-04T23:13:01Z")
Like his dad’s current state of corporealness changes anything. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3430 "2024-11-04T23:32:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m sure he meant to say gasoline,… Probably, so. When Trump and his accolytes start forgiving verbal gaffes by his opponents, I’ll start forgiving his. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3431 "2024-11-05T00:00:45Z")
> [@Smapti quoting CFSG](#): > > “I have to say those french fries when you get em right out of that fat. Whatever the hell they cook em with. Fat! I don’t know if it’s good for you but they are really good.” As has been discussed before, he’s probably never before eaten a MickeyD french fry that was less than 20 minutes old after being delivered to his penthouse. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3432 "2024-11-05T00:57:43Z")
Is “Best oil for French fries? 10w30 or 10w40?” better suited for a CS thread? ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3433 "2024-11-05T01:23:12Z")
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