# 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:** 44
**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:** [June 9, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/861 "2024-06-09T22:58:59Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > [quoting trump] “…So I have a choice of electrocution or shark, you know what I’m gonna take? Electrocution. I will take electrocution every single time.” Trump has an irrational fear of sharks. > **[Trump confirms Stormy Daniels claim that he's 'terrified' of sharks](https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/21/donald-trump-sharks-speech-stormy-daniels)** > > President said he’s ‘not a big fan of sharks’ at Pennsylvania event while in 2011 Daniels claimed he said ‘I hope all the sharks die’ ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/862 "2024-06-09T23:05:31Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Trump has an irrational fear of sharks. Biden should use the _Jaws_ theme when he comes onstage for the debates, like they might in a boxing match. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/863 "2024-06-10T00:21:25Z")
I thought, with Trump being the America-saving action hero, he’d bait the shark into attacking then do a flip over it as it lunged at him and electrocuted itself on the boat battery. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/864 "2024-06-10T01:21:37Z")
After watching Meidas Touch mercilessly skewer Trump on YouTube all year, I finally realized that what keeps the crowds\* showing up is that DJT gives them a better comedy routine than anything on TV. It’s not politics, it’s entertainment. \*Excluding the paid shills, of course. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/865 "2024-06-10T01:24:15Z")
> [@bobsmom101](#): > > I finally realized that what keeps the crowds\* showing up is that DJT gives them a better comedy routine than anything on TV. It’s not politics, it’s entertainment. To me, I think it’s more like the [Two Minutes Hate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate) from _1984_, only it’s a rambling, 90-minute speech. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/866 "2024-06-10T02:03:43Z")
So, again, right there is a good example. It’s a weird incoherent anecdote, but in 2023 you get the story he’s trying to tell. 2024 not so much. 2023 > [@dasmoocher](#): > > “But if I’m sitting down, and that boat’s going down, and I’m on top of a battery, and the water starts flooding in, I’m getting concerned,” Trump said at an event in Iowa in Sunday. “But then I look 10 yards to my left and there’s a shark over there. So I have a choice of electrocution or shark, you know what I’m gonna take? Electrocution. I will take electrocution every single time.” 2024 > [@Smapti](#): > > It must be because of my relationship with M.I.T., very smart, I say, what would happen if the boat sank, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater…. Do I get electrocuted or do I jump over by the shark? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/867 "2024-06-10T02:10:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m up here sweating like a dog. Dogs don’t sweat. But then, trump knows nothing about Man’s Best Friend. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/868 "2024-06-10T02:13:12Z")
Nobody wants to see Trump _panting_ like a dog. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/869 "2024-06-10T02:51:59Z")
I agree, that’s a really good juxtaposition. It’ll be interesting if he tells that story again in a couple of months. Maybe it will be absent any verbs. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/870 "2024-06-10T03:26:10Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Maybe it will be absent any verbs. Given the war on pronouns can verbs dare to think themselves safe? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/871 "2024-06-10T11:06:48Z")
First they came for the pronouns, but I did not speak out… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/872 "2024-06-10T12:05:36Z")
Then came for the verbs, but did not speak out… ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/873 "2024-06-10T12:10:41Z")
Then for the adverbs, but not… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/874 "2024-06-10T12:27:52Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > Yeah that’s what I mean right there. No amount of adding the odd missing word will make that make sense. It’s gibberish. He was about to say something immigrant related, God knows what …trafficking? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/875 "2024-06-10T17:51:35Z")
@Smapti, are you writing for another site now? Y’all take this quiz and see how you do (I did terrible). I’ll tell you there’s more fake ones than real ones but they all sounded like DJT to me. [Is That Donald Trump Quote Real Or Fake, And Are You Emotionally Stable Enough To Tell The Difference? (wonkette.com)](https://www.wonkette.com/p/is-that-donald-trump-quote-real-or) ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/876 "2024-06-10T20:59:21Z")
Dark Brandon strikes again. > ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/877 "2024-06-10T23:16:00Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Wtf was that bit about shark attacks and batteries about? Here is the final bit that puts it into a policy context. > But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted? I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that, we’re going to end it for boats, we’re going to end it for trucks. So its anti electric vehicle because if you are on a boat with a battery you might have to choose between getting electocuted or eaten by shark. Which is why we shouldn’t have electric trucks because there are all these sharks on the interstate… (Ok maybe it doesn’t provide context) Also given that he has already established that getting electrocuted is better than being eaten by a shark, isn’t that a reason in favor of electric boats? Since if the boat is sinking it gives you an opportunity to euthanize yourself before the shark gets to you. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/878 "2024-06-11T00:05:29Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Also given that he has already established that getting electrocuted is better than being eaten by a shark, isn’t that a reason in favor of electric boats? Since if the boat is sinking it gives you an opportunity to euthanize yourself before the shark gets to you. Being a Trump supporter is like watching an action film. Shut off your brain, don’t ask questions, and just enjoy it. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/879 "2024-06-11T00:22:50Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Which is why we shouldn’t have electric trucks because there are all these sharks on the interstate… Land sharks. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/880 "2024-06-11T00:57:44Z")
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