# 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:** 180
**Author:** ![knavette57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knavette57/32/3871_2.png) [@knavette57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knavette57)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3614 "2025-01-22T05:05:29Z")
Snakes among the snakes, the perfect place for 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:** [January 23, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3615 "2025-01-23T07:19:22Z")
“The head of a country that lives in forest. A number of them, actually. Finland told me this. Austria told me this. The head of Austria, the head of Finland. And it was beautiful they way they expressed it. They said, ‘We live in a forest. We are a forest nation.’” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lgeto5qwf52n)** > > Trump: "The head of a country that lives in forest. A number of them, actually. Finland told me this. Austria told me this. The head of Austria, the head of Finland. And it was beautiful they way they expressed it. They said, 'We live in a forest. We... HANNITY: Let me get to the economy." TRUMP: “I don’t care.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lgeutc7v5r2e)** > > Hannity as Trump rants about Biden not pardoning himself: "Let me get to the economy." > > Trump: "I don't care." “Half pipes. You see 'em all the time. Half pipes. People live in those half pipes now. You know, they have homeless living in those halftype” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lgetlltekq2d)** > > Trump: "Half pipes. You see 'em all the time. Half pipes. People live in those half pipes now. You know, they have homeless living in those halftype" ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3616 "2025-01-23T08:57:39Z")
There is a derogatory term in chiShona, a Zimbabwean language, “mararapaipi” which means “sleeps in pipes”. It refers to homeless people who (allegedly) take shelter in drainage pipes and road construction sites. I don’t expect Trump knows this any more than he knows what the MUCH more common term “half pipe” means to skaters. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3617 "2025-01-26T10:35:28Z")
Does anyone else wonder what Trump actually thinks the song YMCA is about? Maybe it’s because I grew up in the Bay Area but I always knew about the Y. I was reading Oliver Sacks’ autobiography and he was pretty informative about how the whole culture worked. Do Trump and his supporters really think it’s about a safe Christian place to stay in a new city? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3618 "2025-01-26T12:06:28Z")
Email him about it. His Secretary will print it out, so he could read it. Then, he won’t/can’t read it. So, she’ll read it to him. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3619 "2025-01-27T19:45:05Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Apparently the US enters all treaty negotiations like a complete rube and the other signatories fool us into accepting unfavorable terms. Of course that’s what Trump thinks. All those whiney, weak Presidents before him weren’t the amazing negotiator he is. They let NATO push us around, and give us all those treaties that disadvantage us like the Paris Climate Accords. We agree to that “disastrous” Iran Nuclear Deal that he saved us from. Let’s not even go near NAFTA. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3620 "2025-01-28T01:19:54Z")
Trump rambles about wanting to take US natives who have been “arrested 30 times, 35 times, 41, 41 times in a couple of cases, 25 times, 18 times” for “pushing people into subways” and “punching old ladies in the face” and deport them to Venezuela to be imprisoned there “for a very small fee”. > **['See how they like it': Trump suggests deporting US-born criminals to foreign...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-crime-2671007254/)** > > President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the United States deport not only undocumented immigrants but U.S.-born citizens who commit crimes.Trump made the eyebrow-raising comment while speaking during a House Republican members conference meeting... ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3621 "2025-01-28T01:21:19Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djb1F_VUwAE8z3_?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djb1F_VUwAE8z3_?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3622 "2025-01-28T01:35:46Z")
Confused? Well, a few days ago he told California officials, including the mayor of LA, that they need to turn on the giant water valve up north. This means that this wasn’t just a bit of campaign nonsense, he actually believes that there is such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3623 "2025-01-28T01:58:06Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Confused? Well, a few days ago he told California officials, including the mayor of LA, that they need to turn on the giant water valve up north. This means that this wasn’t just a bit of campaign nonsense, he actually believes that there is such a thing. I doubt he even knows what a valve is at this point thrashing around in his web of dementia. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3624 "2025-01-28T02:14:37Z")
You think the giant valve isn’t a real thing? > [@LA valve Trump speaks of](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-valve-trump-speaks-of/1013291/6): > > Internet sleuths have found the valve that takes an entire day to turn on or off. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/LaGNjjs.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/LaGNjjs) ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3625 "2025-01-28T02:16:17Z")
Well, you see, once they open the valve all the water will flow to California, because California is south of the Pacific Northwest on the map, and south means down. Haven’t you ever heard of gravity? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3626 "2025-01-28T02:18:11Z")
Awesome picture lol. Gravity save us! ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3627 "2025-01-28T15:12:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Well, you see, once they open the valve all the water will flow to California, because California is south of the Pacific Northwest on the map, and south means down. Haven’t you ever heard of gravity? I’d love to see a reporter start a question to Trump with “Well, as you know, rivers always flow south…” and see if he took the bait. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3628 "2025-01-28T15:58:52Z")
Apparently, they really turned on that valve. I’m shocked since I thought it was fake! 😉 I like how the water is flowing from the Pacific Northwest, “and beyond.” Haha Canada - we are taking your water! [![](https://i.imgur.com/j9bLbjd.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/j9bLbjd.png) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3629 "2025-01-28T16:08:22Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Do Trump and his supporters really think it’s about a safe Christian place to stay in a new city? Well… > **[YMCA has never been gay, says the song’s lyricist and singer](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/dec/05/ymca-has-never-been-gay-says-the-songs-lyricist-and-singer)** > > Victor Willis of Village People says the hit is an anthem to Black male friendship – and his wife threatens to sue those who say otherwise ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3630 "2025-01-28T16:44:06Z")
Well…(from 2022): > **[Trump Explains His Love of ‘Y.M.C.A.,’ the ‘Gay National Anthem’](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/donald-trump-loves-ymca-gay-national-anthem.html)** > > The former president/aspiring DJ has some details wrong here, but he’s right that the song “gets people up and it gets them moving.” > [@](#): > > “‘Y.M.C.A.,’ the gay national anthem. Did you ever hear that?” Trump asked the podcast hosts. “They call it the gay national anthem. ‘Y.M.C.A.’ gets people up and it gets them moving.” ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3631 "2025-01-28T16:49:05Z")
I suspect Willis is re-interpreting history with his claims that YMCA was not written as a gay anthem, and even if he weren’t, it doesn’t change the reality that it is the premier gay anthem in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3632 "2025-01-28T16:51:51Z")
You expect [consistency](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3573) from Donald J. Trump? [He’s co-opted the tune for his own official dance.](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/ymca-journeys-from-gay-anthem-to-trump-theme-tune/ar-AA1xwRPi) ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3633 "2025-01-28T18:25:12Z")
Which means that attempting to claim in court that Willis has somehow suffered detriment from someone new associating the song with gay people is going to be kind of a tall order. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=179) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=181)