# 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:** 185
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3714 "2025-02-06T22:42:11Z")
You can find similar things said about: Biden, Harris, AOC, etc, etc, etc. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3715 "2025-02-07T00:11:02Z")
Maybe he was just pausing to remind everyone that people like Chuck Schumer. (They do!) ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3716 "2025-02-07T00:19:07Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > people like Chuck Schumer. (They do!) Do they? I think he’s a clown and an utter dipshit who’s completely unsuited to lead an opposition party and I hope to God AOC primaries him in 2028. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3717 "2025-02-07T03:38:09Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > He doesn’t understand one fucking thing about the history of the Middle East. Just astounding. Trump’s going to transform it into the Top East. No more second-best Middle East, and certainly not the Bottom East. He has top men working on it right now. “Who?” you might ask. Top… men. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3718 "2025-02-07T03:41:11Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > He doesn’t understand one fucking thing about […] history Among so many other subjects. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3719 "2025-02-07T07:26:39Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > The U.S., working with great development teams from all over the World, would slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth. No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed! Stability for the region would reign!!! Since Trump has been repeating this idea even today after others in his admin tried to walk it back, I’m starting to think he really believes that if he builds the most beautiful resort the world has ever seen, everyone in the Middle East will be so proud of it and they will all stop killing each other. All because of his wonderful gift to them! Remember, he is an adherent of “The Power of Positive Thinking”. That’s worked pretty well for him so far so he might really think he can make this happen. And obviously, nobody is trying to tell _him_ any different, no matter what they say otherwise. It will be interesting to see how he reacts to pushback, if there is any. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3720 "2025-02-07T08:40:45Z")
He may well be confused, or just plain stupid. Netanyahoo has gifted him a golden pager. And he accepted it. > **[Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden pager during their meeting in Washington | CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/middleeast/netanyahu-trump-golden-pager-intl/index.html)** > > Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted US President Donald Trump a golden pager during their meeting in Washington on Tuesday, an Israeli political source told CNN. If the picture is real and not a random stock photo or an AI picture it is even worse than I imagined. And concerning his looks, I suspect that he is chronically overdosing on this new get slim-fast-drug, probably mixing several, because more is better. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3721 "2025-02-07T09:31:44Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > He may well be confused, or just plain stupid. Netanyahoo has gifted him a golden pager. And he accepted it. A golden pager! And didn’t ITT or AT&T present Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista with a golden telephone in 1957? And we all know what happened to him a year and a half later after accepting the golden telephone. Be careful, Mr. Trump. Accepting anything golden doesn’t have a great track record for dictators. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3722 "2025-02-07T11:56:10Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Netanyahoo has gifted him a golden pager. And he accepted it. I, for one, would not touch a pager that has been in the possession of the Israelis. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3723 "2025-02-07T12:35:46Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I, for one, would not touch a pager that has been in the possession of the Israelis. Press the buttons Don, press them. You know you want to. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3724 "2025-02-07T14:12:36Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Press the buttons Don With both hands! It is written on the screen, so you must do it. > [@Railer13](#): > > I, for one, would not touch a pager that has been in the possession of the Israelis. My point exactly. But there is a big nice _OK_ on the pager, so who knows? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3725 "2025-02-07T14:25:25Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > A water gate scandal! I’m a bit late to the party, but have I got a comedy bit for you! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vB9JgxhXW5w/hqdefault.jpg "Mitchell & Webb - Watergategate") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3726 "2025-02-07T15:33:52Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > everyone in the Middle East will be so proud of it and they will all stop killing each other. All because of his wonderful gift to them! Be fair! Muslims – especially fundamental Muslims – are _renowned_ for their love of gambling and cocktails! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3727 "2025-02-08T01:12:34Z")
Is there anything the Orange Foolius understands? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3728 "2025-02-08T01:35:40Z")
How to steal money. After that, not much. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3729 "2025-02-08T02:43:15Z")
Well, here we have Trump making America great again, one landfill at a time: > **[Trump says he’ll sign order promoting plastic straws](https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-ll-sign-order-170322283.html)** > > President Trump said Friday he plans to sign an executive order promoting plastic straws after his predecessor sought to phase out single-use plastics from government operations. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “I will be signing an Executive... ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3730 "2025-02-08T03:24:48Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Hardly anyone knows how water management works. Oh, come on. Water management, particularly for irrigation, has some pretty clear basics: - collect water as much as possible in reservoirs; - conserve it during the non-growing season; - allocate it carefully for irrigation during the dry times of the main growing season. No-where in there is “release billions of gallons of water during the winter so it won’t be available for irrigation during the dry growing season”. And do it with an hour’s notice to the people who live downstream and will get flooded? Sure, that’s water management 101. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3731 "2025-02-08T03:53:34Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > > > Hardly anyone knows how water management works. I think it was similar to the [field guidance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-the-spot_guidance) that Kim Jun Un goes around North Korea giving out. Of course Trump could not have expertise in all, or maybe any, of the technical areas he gives direction on. It’s a variation on “when you’re rich they think you really know.” Another rich-really-know Trump example was when he opined on the causes of the airliner crash., If that’s someone definition of confusion, fine 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:** [February 8, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3732 "2025-02-08T04:04:59Z")
“there’s some outside problem with eggs maybe” > **[Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lhn6bxgwbk2x)** > > Trump: Groceries, sort of an old fashioned word. The price of groceries went through the roof… You take a look at eggs today— I mean, the eggs are double, triple, quadruple, they’re going through the roof. No, there’s some outside problem with eggs... ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3733 "2025-02-08T10:27:23Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Of course Trump could not have expertise in all, or maybe any, of the technical areas he gives direction on. Anything Trump has expertise in usually can be found in the Penal Code. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=184) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=186)