# 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:** 55
**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 23, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1081 "2024-06-23T19:30:18Z")
I laughed. (Given his physical limitations and sense of royal prerogatives, he may well have an underling tasked with doing the unzipping and, er, handling. 😬) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1082 "2024-06-23T21:53:09Z")
Tweezing. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1083 "2024-06-24T03:19:35Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > (Given his physical limitations and sense of royal prerogatives, he may well have an underling tasked with doing the unzipping and, er, handling. 😬) He’ll need both tiny hands just to manage the cup. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1084 "2024-06-24T05:39:08Z")
And the TP roll is WAY too wide… ---
**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 24, 2024, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1085 "2024-06-24T05:43:16Z")
It would appear we’ve reached the “What Dear Leader MEANT to say is…” stage of things where Convict Donald’s lickspittles have to take back the empty promises he makes in order to make the person he’s talking to right now like him. > **[Campaign walks back Trump’s green card promise](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/campaign-walks-back-trumps-green-card-promise)** > > The Trump campaign has walked back remarks made by the former president last week on a podcast, with Trump saying he supported giving green cards to foreign college graduates. ---
**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 24, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1086 "2024-06-24T18:28:56Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > He’ll need both tiny hands just to manage the cup. Yeah; as a practical matter I would bet against the possibility that Trump could deal with providing a urine sample without help. I do kind of wonder why the Biden people haven’t picked up on the Trumpy demand that Biden be drug-tested, and insisted that both candidates be tested. Of course they’d have to insist that Trump actually be seen by X number of witnesses to provide his sample then and there, as opposed to bringing one in. It wouldn’t have to be a urine sample, maybe. I see that testing of Olympic athletes involves both urine and blood samples; maybe just the latter would be sufficient to prove that Trump was on Adderall, I mean, to prove that Biden is clean. Well, maybe both. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1087 "2024-06-24T19:08:18Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I do kind of wonder why the Biden people haven’t picked up on the Trumpy demand that Biden be drug-tested, and insisted that both candidates be tested. Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter yesterday included: > After months of insisting that Biden is mentally unfit, now Trump and his surrogates are saying Biden will perform well in the debate because he will be on drugs. There is no evidence that Biden has ever used performance-enhancing drugs, but curiously, Trump’s former White House physician Ronny Jackson (whom Trump repeatedly misidentified as Ronny Johnson last week) gave Fox News Channel host Maria Bartiromo a very detailed list of drugs that could sharpen attention and clarity. One of the ones he mentioned, Provigil, was on the list of those widely and improperly distributed by the White House Medical Unit in the Trump White House. ---
**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 24, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1088 "2024-06-24T19:49:23Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter yesterday included: Good cite. Of course anyone paying attention over the past eight years knows about the rumors that Trump is a drug abuser. Certainly the information HCR provides in her newsletter seems undisputed: [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-white-house-pharmacy-improperly-provided-drugs-misused-funds-pentagon-2024-01-28/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-white-house-pharmacy-improperly-provided-drugs-misused-funds-pentagon-2024-01-28/) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1089 "2024-06-24T21:58:04Z")
Never mind. ---
**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 25, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1090 "2024-06-25T00:05:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “You think of it as an ancient thing, but you know what made it… almost as big as the tug drug dealing stuff, you know what it was? The internet. It made it massive. Just out of morbid curiosity does anyone know what supposedly ancient thing Trump is claiming was made massive by the internet? ---
**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 25, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1091 "2024-06-25T00:12:48Z")
Trump’s ego? ---
**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 25, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1092 "2024-06-25T00:34:56Z")
Step 1) Identify the tug drug dealing thing Step 2) Find something almost as big Step 3) ??? Step 4) MAGA! ---
**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 25, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1093 "2024-06-25T01:22:51Z")
I found a [transcipt](https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-rally-in-philadelphia) of the speech (flubs corrected) and it seems he is talking about sex trafficking. > And then Crooked Joe Biden came to office, crooked as a $3 bill. I used to say $2 bill, but they make $2 bills, right? He’s crooked as a $3 bill. He came to office right there and there was an explosion of illegal immigration. By the way, drugs and human trafficking too. And human trafficking is mostly in women, I hate to say. You think of it as an ancient thing, but you know what made it almost as big as the drug dealing stuff? You know what it was? The internet. It’s made it massive. Human trafficking in women. And there’s more of it going on right now than anytime in the history of the world. And it’s taken place during this horrible, pathetic president’s time in office. It will surprise no one to lean that the policies of the Trump administration made human trafficking [worse](https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/3765242-how-trumps-human-trafficking-efforts-failed-immigrant-survivors/). I also found the $2 or $3 bill thing curious since the $2 bill came out in 1863 and so its not exactly a new thing. But it turns out he used the [exact same line](https://twitter.com/teddygoff/status/786026234874621952) about Hillary, complete with correction to $3 in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1094 "2024-06-25T14:36:27Z")
The phrase “queer as $3 bill” goes back to the 19th century – with “queer” applicable in any sense of the word. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1095 "2024-06-25T15:02:27Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I see reelect him and then give him as much drugs as he wants. President Lincoln would agree! > Legend has it that when critics of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant complained to President Abraham Lincoln about Grant’s drinking, Lincoln replied, “I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.” ---
**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 26, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1096 "2024-06-26T00:46:50Z")
“We lose hundreds of, think of it, hundreds of thousands of people are dying at our border, coming through our border every year because of our border.” > Lewandowski asks a question about Biden and the debate. Trump responds with… silence. Lewandowski repeats the question, then Trump apparently wakes up from his nap and repeats exactly what Lewandowski just said. > ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1097 "2024-06-26T00:52:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “We lose hundreds of, think of it, hundreds of thousands of people are dying at our border, coming through our border every year because of our border.” Man, that’s, like, _deep_, man… ---
**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 26, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1098 "2024-06-26T00:56:35Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Lewandowski repeats the question, then Trump apparently wakes up from his nap and repeats exactly what Lewandowski just said. That’s what it sounded like to me. Trump falls asleep on a call as one of his propaganda toadies is trying to push the idea that Biden is too weak and tired to engage in a debate. The irony, it burns. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1099 "2024-06-26T01:28:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “We lose hundreds of, think of it, hundreds of thousands of people are dying at our border, coming through our border every year because of our border.” I find it hard to believe that Trump is referring to the border-crossers as “we”. Is he somehow claiming that hundreds of thousands of American citizens are dying at the border every year?? ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1100 "2024-06-26T01:53:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I find it hard to believe that Trump is referring to the border-crossers as “we”. Is he somehow claiming that hundreds of thousands of American citizens are dying at the border every year?? No. I do not find Trump as hard to understand as some do here. Trump misspoke in saying that hundreds of thousands are dying annually when trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico. He quickly corrected himself, as he meant to say that hundreds of thousands are entering annually. Compared to most twentieth century poetry, understanding DJT is easy. My problem is the demagogery, not the verbal flubs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=56)