# 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:** 48
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/941 "2024-06-14T18:19:16Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Man he was greasy looking in the video. There have been reports (from Michael Cohen and Adam Kinzinger among others) that Trump…smells. Unchanged diaper problems, apparently. I wondered, looking at the footage of him being greeted by fawning Republicans on Capitol Hill yesterday, what genuine reactions their obsequious smiles might be concealing. > **[\#TrumpSmells Ad Campaign Could Take American Politics In A Foul Direction](https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2024/01/03/trumpsmells-ad-campaign-could-take-american-politics-in-a-foul-direction/)** > > Although personal hygiene should not be a part of political conversation—that is the world we are in now ---
**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 14, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/942 "2024-06-14T19:41:58Z")
Convict Donald’s pitch to the CEOs of Chase, Citi, BofA, and Apple is… vote for me and I’ll exempt your tips from income tax. > **[CEOs laughed at Trump suggestion during D.C. meeting: report](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-business-leaders/)** > > Donald Trump promised a room full of business leaders he would cut taxes and roll back regulations, but they also laughed at one of his proposals.Sources who attended the meeting Thursday in Washington, D.C., told CNBC that the presumptive Republican... > [@](#): > > Trump then floated a proposal to eliminate taxes on worker tips, which he trotted out over the weekend at a campaign rally in Nevada, but the CEOs were apparently unmoved by that proposal. > > “Trump then told the CEOs a story about how excited tipped workers were about his proposal, prompting laughter from the corporate leaders, according to multiple people,” CNBC reported. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/943 "2024-06-14T19:54:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Raw Story](#): > > > > “Trump then told the CEOs a story about how excited tipped workers were about his proposal, prompting laughter from the corporate leaders, according to multiple people,” CNBC reported. Apparently he means his caddies there. > **[Trump plan to eliminate tip tax garners Capitol Hill interest - Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2024/06/13/trump-plan-to-eliminate-tip-tax-garners-capitol-hill-interest/)** > > Former President Donald Trump again trotted out his desire to eliminate federal taxes on income from tips. > The idea was warmly received by some of the former president’s own employees: the caddies at Mar-a-Lago, who “hugged him when he got back,” [Senator Kevin] Cramer said. ---
**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 14, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/944 "2024-06-14T19:58:17Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > The idea was warmly received by some of the former president’s own employees: the caddies at Mar-a-Lago, who “hugged him when he got back,” [Senator Kevin] Cramer said. 1. Like hell they did 2. As if Trump tips anyone ---
**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 15, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/945 "2024-06-15T00:49:23Z")
“CNN has their reputate, they are doing very badly in the polls” > “We don’t need your vote. We have so many votes, we don’t need them” > “We’re going to have a big beautiful iron dome over our country” > “107,000 people in New Jersey two weeks ago” (the venue holds 3,000) > “77,000 vehicles were left in Afghanistan” > “The one beauty was here’s a parachute landing, everybody is watching and he turned around in the other direction.” > “I gave you record inflation, was knocked out, inflation like you have never had it” > “We have regulation that nobody has ever cut regulations to the extent that’s I did” > ---
**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:** [June 15, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/946 "2024-06-15T01:49:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [X.com](http://X.com): > > > Trump: We’re going to have a big beautiful iron dome over our country. Iron Dome is the name of Israel’s anti-rocket defense system. Which has been remarkably effective, if a bit pricy versus what they’re shooting down. He’s promising, or at least pushing, an anti ICBM system for the USA. Which is pie in sky BS, but also the defense industry’s wet dream. And that of lots of know-nothing hawks who imagine US expeditionary warfare everywhere but with the homeland safe behind an impenetrable shield. So just political posturing, but within normal parameters. The rest of your cites of senile drivel are, well, senile drivel. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/947 "2024-06-15T01:55:34Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > So just political posturing, but within normal parameters. Thanks for the education. To be gratuitously snarky, I bet there are Trump supporters who hear “iron dome” and think Trump is literally going to enclose the US. Why not? It would keep those pesky immigrants and foreign steel out! And he wouldn’t have to worry separately about building a wall as the dome would take care of it. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/948 "2024-06-15T01:56:51Z")
No more rain. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/949 "2024-06-15T02:01:02Z")
Not @Smapti; it’s a quotation by Trump: > [@Smapti](#): > > “CNN has their reputate, they are doing very badly in the polls” If CNN is doing so badly in ratings (not polls, Donald), the why are Republican congresscritters lining up to be interviewed by Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and Wolf Blitzer; and how does CNN manage to sell all those ads for prescription drugs, insurance products, windows and doors, new bathtubs, and Leaf Filters? After all, nobody wants to be seen or to advertise on a network with lousy ratings. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/950 "2024-06-15T02:09:49Z")
But when will America finally challenge its greatest enemy? The sun… providing customers with free light, heat and energy… ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/951 "2024-06-15T02:13:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Skywatcher](#): > > > > The idea was warmly received by some of the former president’s own employees: the caddies at Mar-a-Lago, who “hugged him when he got back,” [Senator Kevin] Cramer said. > > 1. Like hell they did > 2. As if Trump tips anyone Since Mar-a-Lago has no golf, I think I agree with you on this one. However, be careful who you tell it to. This guy is not confused: [Trump’s Caddy Will Put You in a Chokehold If You Criticize His Boss](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/21/donald-trump-golf-caddy-225885/) ---
**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 15, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/952 "2024-06-15T02:27:40Z")
> [@](#): > > A.J. says he came up on Sully from behind and put him in a full military chokehold, yelling, “Now, you listen to me, f-----! You’re not gonna come to Mr. Trump’s course and eat Mr. Trump’s food and then use the word ‘hate’ about my president. I won’t have it, you got me?” > > That’s not quite the way the story is told by Sullivan, who caddies for Senior Tour player Joe Durant, but his memory is a little fuzzy. “It’s possible I was hungover,” Sullivan recalls. “I don’t like D.C. anyway and I sure as hell didn’t want to be on a Trump course. Some guys started talking about Trump. I mentioned that I can’t stand the son of a b----. I said he was the biggest jerk in the world. A.J. got all worked up and said, ‘That man pays my rent. He puts food on my table!’ I said if he has to take money from that horse’s ass, then he ought to find a different loop. He kind of just grumbled off. Of course, as luck would have it, he and I got paired for the first two days. We buried the hatchet.” Makes sense that the guy whose job it is to help Convict Donald cheat at golf would be just as full of shit as his boss. ---
**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 15, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/953 "2024-06-15T02:47:05Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > To be gratuitously snarky, I bet there are Trump supporters who hear “iron dome” and think Trump is literally going to enclose the US. After he gets the walls on the border built he just needs a roof. Sun? Who needs the sun? Just spray yourself orange if you get too pasty. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/954 "2024-06-15T14:35:52Z")
And again… > This is new. This is what the mental decline of senile person looks like ---
**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:** [June 15, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/955 "2024-06-15T15:17:14Z")
Doesn’t matter, Dopers still think a senile person is better than Trump. ---
**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 15, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/956 "2024-06-15T15:37:29Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Dopers still think a senile person is better than Trump Biden isn’t senile, but perhaps you’d like to take that to a thread where it’s relevant. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/957 "2024-06-15T15:47:47Z")
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**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:** [June 15, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/958 "2024-06-15T15:49:00Z")
**Moderating** : Not sure if you’re trying to troll with an unsupported statement like this or not but as this absolutely off-topic, drop it immediately. You have a habit of dropping crap like this into threads. Unrelated and unsupported is not fighting ignorance but contributing to it. So to try and curb you of this, this is an Official Warning. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/959 "2024-06-15T15:51:24Z")
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**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:** [June 15, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/960 "2024-06-15T16:29:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “We don’t need your vote. We have so many votes, we don’t need them” I guess he’s getting tired of winning. Keep on saying that, Donnie (please!). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=49)