# 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:** 49
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/961 "2024-06-15T19:57:00Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Since Mar-a-Lago has no golf, I think I agree with you on this one. It is very very close by. Like a 5 minute drive. ---
**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, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/962 "2024-06-15T21:49:09Z")
Similarly here… > **['Somehow they were surprised Trump made no sense': panel on CEOs’ reaction to...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/somehow-were-surprised-trump-made-032557091.html)** > > Biden and Trump vie for support among the leaders in corporate America. And the president tries to balance global and personal challenges, among them, his son Hunter's criminal conviction. Stephanie Ruhle sits down with Hayes Brown, Gillian Tett,... To me the obvious take away is CEOs are surprised because previously while Trump could deliver the most unhinged rants to the chumps at his rallies, he was able to tone it down in private (toned down the unhinged part that is, while still being fascist AF). Where as he can’t any more because senility. ---
**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, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/963 "2024-06-15T21:54:28Z")
> **['Where's Lorenzo?' Trump brags of meeting Black pastor — but doesn't know...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-detroit/)** > > Donald Trump celebrated the Black pastor who invited him to a roundtable at a Detroit church Saturday — but failed to recognize the man despite him sitting right next to him. > > The former president was at the 180 Church for a roundtable with the... He’s getting considerably worse remarkably fast. ---
**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, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/964 "2024-06-15T22:04:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > He’s getting considerably worse remarkably fast. Which may be the only thing that saves the USA from a trump administration where he’s stored incommunicado drooling in his oatmeal in some secure clinic somewhere while the 50 Bannon-like hangers-on who form his inner circle, WH staff, and cabinet get to work subverting and looting the government while releasing the occasional AI-generated deepfake vid of trump appearing to make enough sense that Faux tells their viewers to believe a) it’s a real vid; and b) trump’s plenty mentally together, then enough Faux Followers do believe the BS. And then the Steal, the real Steal of our whole country by trumpist scum, will be able to proceed unmolested. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/965 "2024-06-15T22:27:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Which may be the only thing that saves the USA from a trump administration where he’s stored incommunicado drooling in his oatmeal in some secure clinic somewhere Oatmeal? No way. Big Mac! ---
**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, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/966 "2024-06-15T22:59:01Z")
And they keep coming, I’m concerned this thread may not be able to keep up with Trump’s mental decline > ---
**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, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/967 "2024-06-15T23:08:01Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Oatmeal? No way. Big Mac! I know you’re mostly kidding, but … Once his brain quits he won’t know the difference. Oatmeal is pretty standard nursing home fare because the mindless patient can swallow it without chewing and not choke on it. Besides, it looks about the same going in as it does coming out either end. So the cleanup is easy. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/968 "2024-06-15T23:28:14Z")
He’s confused because Ronny Jackson _diagnosed_ him with “runny johnson”. ---
**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 15, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/969 "2024-06-15T23:55:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Which may be the only thing that saves the USA from a trump administration That’s really depressing, but at this point I welcome it. ---
**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 16, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/970 "2024-06-16T00:11:38Z")
“President is sort of covers all aspects. It’s politics. It’s executive. It’s executive. And knowing what to do and knowing the feel of a nation and the touch and all these different qualities…” > “I said to everybody, listen, we don’t need votes. We got more votes than anybody’s ever had. We need to guard the vote. We need to stop the steal. We don’t need votes. Don’t worry about votes.” > “Do you ever go into a new home where you have a shower? Where the water doesn’t come out of the shower head? I take a shower. I want that beautiful head of hair to be nice and wet. I want it to be lathered beautifully…” > “You read where they don’t want to have any water in your dishwasher, so your dishwasher won’t work, and they think that’s good” > “The problem with the Army tanks like cars and like trucks, the problem is that you would have to bring a battery pack along. You’re going to pull it like a little wagon, like a child pulls a wagon. So they want to build a army tank. But, you know, the battery is very big” > “In particular, get, oĥhhhhh, and remember this, wait a minute, Mike Lindell!” > ---
**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 16, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/971 "2024-06-16T00:21:00Z")
“The monthly cost of a typical mortgage has doubled and triplex. We had it at $2” > ---
**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 16, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/972 "2024-06-16T01:11:01Z")
He’s got a point about votes. They don’t need votes. They need to control the counting of the votes. And his larger point is clear to his news monoculture supporters: everyone you know voted for trump. Therefore the only way he doesn’t win your precinct _and_ the national election by a historic landslide is rampant fraud by Ds. So you all need to refuse to accept losing because the only way trump didn’t win is if they stole it. He’s been very consistent in pushing that narrative for 10 years now(!) His true believers believe it too. All the rest of his senile drivel is … senile drivel. If he too has a brain worm like RFK, the worm is aggressively burrowing through his neurons leaving nothing but swiss cheese holes and worm shit in its wake. ---
**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 16, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/973 "2024-06-16T01:36:21Z")
I just had an inspiration… brace yourselves Convict trump’s rapid decline is not senility. It’s the advanced semi-expertimental mind control drugs his Kremlin handlers are filling him with. Without his knowledge and certainly without his consent. They want a drooling idiot to win. Then they start instructing him what to do. Which instructions he will follow as the dutiful zombie they made him into. Sleep tight America; 60% of your neighbors love this shit. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/974 "2024-06-16T01:45:32Z")
Not to worry, this election is in the capable, thoughtful hands of the American voters. … Oh, fuck. Brace yourselves. ---
**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 16, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/975 "2024-06-16T02:51:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city” I was driving through Milwaukee earlier this evening. On I-94, just south of downtown, someone’s put up a billboard with a picture of an angry Trump, and the quote “Milwaukee…is a horrible city.” ---
**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 16, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/976 "2024-06-16T05:26:55Z")
If it’s [this one](https://www.jsonline.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/06/13/PMJS/74092058007-milwaukee-hatred-bb-2.jpeg), the DNC paid for it. ---
**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 16, 2024, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/977 "2024-06-16T05:32:16Z")
Pretty similar, though the one I saw replaced “where we are having our convention” with ellipses. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/978 "2024-06-16T07:54:58Z")
Of course, Trump is denying that he said this. And his Xwitter followers are lapping it up, saying that there’s no video evidence of him saying it, so it’s just democratic lies. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/979 "2024-06-16T13:44:50Z")
Trump challenged Biden to take a cognitive test like he did from Doc Ronny Johnson. Trump’s doctor’s name was Jackson. > **[Trump challenges Biden to cognitive test while confusing doctor's name](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-challenges-biden-cognitive-test-confuses-name-of-doctor-2024-6?amp)** > > Trump referred to Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, who was the White House physician from 2013 to 2018, as "Doc. Ronny Johnson." ---
**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 16, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/980 "2024-06-16T21:55:09Z")
Tom Nichols has a piece in _The Atlantic_ talking about all this, and especially about how the media never holds Trump to account for his obvious mental issues. Instead, it’s all “well, that’s our Trump!”–they might as well play music cues from _Leave it to Beaver_ behind their affectionate “reporting” on his weird remarks. And of course I’m talking about ‘liberal’ outlets like MSNBC and CNN—FoxNews and the other right-wing entities never report on the weird remarks at all. Nichols had an interesting observation on how Trump’s fans react at rallies: > [@](#): > > … . Watch the silence that descends over the crowds at such moments; when Trump wanders off into the recesses of his own mind, they chit-chat or check their phones or look around, waiting for him to come back and offer them an applause line. For them, it’s all just part of the show. … The media’s blindness to this gets some pithy responses from Nichols: > [@](#): > > … A significant segment of the media—and even the Democratic Party—has bought into a Republican narrative that asking whether Trump is mentally unstable is somehow biased and elitist, the kind of thing that could only occur to Beltway mandarins who don’t understand how the candidate talks to normal people. … > **[Let’s Talk About Trump’s Gibberish](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/06/trump-sharks-las-vegas-rally-speech/678667/)** > > What the former president’s shark tirade says about American politics and media [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=50)