# 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:** 28
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/541 "2024-05-02T00:20:48Z")
The vaigan bit is probably not confusion but his way of mocking vegans. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/542 "2024-05-02T00:29:32Z")
Are you sure it’s not Vogon poetry? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/543 "2024-05-02T00:35:47Z")
That too. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/544 "2024-05-02T05:17:01Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Just wondering … has anybody made a list of Trump’s verbal gaffes? Covfefe, hamberders, Nambia, bigly, and now infratruckershire. There are others, but has anybody listed all of them? I believe “covfefe” was in a tweet, so a textual gaffe rather than a verbal one. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/545 "2024-05-02T06:46:08Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > The vaigan bit is probably not confusion but his way of mocking vegans. I don’t think so. He didn’t sound mocking, he was praising one of his supporters. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/546 "2024-05-02T12:46:53Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > [@What\_Exit](#): > > > > The vaigan bit is probably not confusion but his way of mocking vegans. > > I don’t think so. He didn’t sound mocking, he was praising one of his supporters. I would give him a soft pass on “Venezueler”, though; there are those who naturally change words which end in “a” to end in “er” instead. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/547 "2024-05-02T12:48:26Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Spoons](#): > > > > Just wondering … has anybody made a list of Trump’s verbal gaffes? Covfefe, hamberders, Nambia, bigly, and now infratruckershire. There are others, but has anybody listed all of them? > > I believe “covfefe” was in a tweet, so a textual gaffe rather than a verbal one. They were all verbal gaffes, but “covfefe” was textual rather than _oral_. 🤓 ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/548 "2024-05-02T13:21:31Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I would give him a soft pass on “Venezueler”, though; there are those who naturally change words which end in “a” to end in “er” instead. Right; it’s a New Englander type pronunciation, for example; a place where one can say “Asier Minah” and be understood geographically. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/549 "2024-05-02T17:00:29Z")
Venezuela, run by bad boy Huggo Chabbez. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/550 "2024-05-02T17:04:24Z")
He’s been dead for a decade. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/551 "2024-05-02T20:57:04Z")
If only… Oh, you meant Chávez. Pronoun trouble. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UxxpLdQ1IX0/hqdefault.jpg "Pronoun Trouble - Daffy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxxpLdQ1IX0) ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/552 "2024-05-02T23:05:57Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > He’s been dead for a decade… He’s still struggling in his fight to remain dead. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/553 "2024-05-03T00:57:54Z")
Franco however is doing just great at that remaining dead stuff. After all, he’s got lots more experience at it. Different topic … Actually, I’ve figured out what’s going on in trump’s head. (Can’t quite call it a brain and certainly not a mind.) During a wild party at Elon Musk’s palace a couple years ago Musk used massive suck-uppery to convince trump to get a Neuralink installed. Musk’s goal of course was to make trump his zombie puppet. Conversely, trump’s goal was to get the infinite IQ and infinite mental and physical longevity that Musk promised would be delivered some day “real soon”. Of course the Neuralink is a buggy POS and is glitching trump’s already enfeebled head something fierce. The fact the guy trying to steer trump’s head by remote control using the Neuralink is a ketamine fiend and an all around spoiled psycho jerkwad isn’t helping. It’s Max Headroom in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/554 "2024-05-04T15:42:42Z")
And Chavez would be more of a “bad hambre”. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/555 "2024-05-04T15:48:34Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I would give him a soft pass on “Venezueler”, though; there are those who naturally change words which end in “a” to end in “er” instead. Oh yes, I still can hear JFK talking about Cuber. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/556 "2024-05-04T15:55:14Z")
I saw on my newsfeed, but can’t find a reference to it on the web, that at his recent Wisconsin rally he claimed that the GOP had declined under Biden. It was pretty clear he meant that the GDP had declined (which it hasn’t) and misread it off the teleprompter. Is my memory off, or did this really happen? When reading off a teleprompter, aren’t you supposed to parse the meaning of what you’re saying? It seems to me this would be an easy mistake to make, but also one that would be caught right away and corrected. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/557 "2024-05-04T16:07:33Z")
This?: > ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/558 "2024-05-04T17:58:34Z")
Thanks, Beowulff. That was it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/559 "2024-05-04T21:07:50Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Oh yes, I still can hear JFK talking about Cuber. And the way Jimmy Carter said Nuclear drove some people nuts. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/560 "2024-05-04T21:30:36Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > And the way Jimmy Carter said Nuclear drove some people nuts. Which is especially confounding given his education in nuclear reactors and nuclear physics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=29)