# 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:** 62
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1221 "2024-07-27T02:26:04Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Maybe he meant Imbolg and hes saying she’s a witch. Maybe it’s a dog whistle about the Confederate general [John Imboden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Imboden) 😲 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1222 "2024-07-27T02:41:36Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > The others are just Trump being Trump not cognitive decline. Note that first one is him saying Christians won’t have to vote for him again. As in he’ll have given them (he is referring to them in the third person making clear he is not one of them) everything they want by then. Does he actually say “I’m not Christian” at one point? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1223 "2024-07-27T03:02:13Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Inspired by **Jihi** , I only changed one word and deleted a sentence. Trump actually ‘wrote’ it. It’s the haiku equivalent of bonsai. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1224 "2024-07-27T03:23:43Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Does he actually say “I’m not Christian” at one point? Sure sounds like it. [https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1817023795581816869](https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1817023795581816869) ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1225 "2024-07-27T03:34:16Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Does he actually say “I’m not Christian” at one point? Yeah that is arguably part of his cognitive decline. Whether it’s garbling “I am Christian” or just coming out and saying he’s not (which is absolutely not part of the plan) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1226 "2024-07-27T03:39:49Z")
Trump apparently said this, speaking to Christians. Nothing to see here. (From Politico article). _Concluding his remarks, Trump told the audience that it was important for Christians to get out and vote in November._ _Four years from now, he argued, the country will be “fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”_ ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1227 "2024-07-27T03:44:47Z")
> **Took us off topic, no more replies to it** > > I know that Trump won’t be able to literally become a dictator if he wins, but I’m extremely worried that not only is he desiring to do so, but he’s saying it out loud and people seem fine with it. > > And this isn’t even a, “just on day one” BS comment either. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1228 "2024-07-27T04:02:50Z")
> **Off-Topic** > > I don’t think there’s any reason that he couldn’t become a dictator on day one and beyond. > The foundations of our institutions have been destablized. I don’t think it would take much to totally destroy them. Particularly with the forcesplans the other side is equipped with. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1229 "2024-07-27T04:10:21Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > > Yes; Donald Trump suffers from an advanced case of Being Donald Trump Syndrome > > As discussed numerous times up thread that’s not the case. He’s always been a hateful narcissist who spouts incoherent hateful bullshit. But he’s clearly undergoing a cognitive decline on top of that. This kind of thing (like momentarily losing the ability to say the word “abortion”) did not happen in 2020 But in terms of his ability to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of the presidency BDTS is much more debilitating than any dementia he might have. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1230 "2024-07-27T04:23:44Z")
> **off-topic** > > > [@](#): > > > > _Four years from now, he argued, the country will be “fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”_ > > Kinda makes you wonder why he didn’t do that during his first term. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1231 "2024-07-27T04:31:21Z")
> **Way off-topic, start a new thread or find an appropriate one please.** > > > [@Atamasama](#): > > > > I know that Trump won’t be able to literally become a dictator if he wins > > Why not? > > ‘But what if he _does?_’ ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1232 "2024-07-27T05:19:50Z")
> **Pretty much off-topic also** > > > [@griffin1977](#): > > > > Note that first one is him saying Christians won’t have to vote for him again. > > I don’t think “in four years you won’t have to vote anymore” is something we should be playing “What he MEANT to say was…” with. > > When he says he wants to be a dictator, take him at face value. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1233 "2024-07-27T07:26:17Z")
> **Off-topic, this is about Trump today. {WE?}** > > > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > _Four years from now, he argued, the country will be “fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”_ > > > > Kinda makes you wonder why he didn’t do that during his first term. > > He pretty much did try in the last days of it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1234 "2024-07-27T07:30:22Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Does he actually say “I’m not Christian” at one point? First truth out of his mouth. > **Off-Topic part of post hidden.** > > > [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > > > Four years from now, he argued, the country will be “fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.” > > Fuck, no one will be ABLE to vote. > > > [@Atamasama](#): > > > > I know that Trump won’t be able to literally become a dictator if he wins > > He can do anything and it is legal, and that is what he thinks. Cancel elections, have a third term, whatever. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1235 "2024-07-27T09:17:29Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Why not? > > ‘But what if he _does?_’ Because he’s an incompetent boob for starters, and surrounds himself with idiotic sycophants. Getting into the difficulty of establishing a dictatorship in the United States in 2024 is probably far outside the scope of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1236 "2024-07-27T09:38:07Z")
> **Hid very off-topic reply about Russia {WE?}** > > Look into what happened in Russia when Jeltsin took over. Look how utterly amateurish all of it seems. Coups are not streamlined affairs planned by competent government officials. They are, often bloody, messes planned by people trying to get the government officials out of the way. One cannot overstate how close the US democracy came to the edge at 1/6. There were all kinds of plans in place to keep Biden out of office. Fake electors, pressuring Pence not to certify the election, keeping the national guard out of the way. > Your ass was saved by Pence unexpectedly finding his spine. Not by any incompetence by the would be revolutionaries. They had their ducks in a row and were marching on the Capitol. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1237 "2024-07-27T12:11:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Kinda makes you wonder why he didn’t do that during his first term. “Radical leftist dumb-o-crats blocked everything! Remember how I had that wonderful replacement for the failing Obamacare? Blocked! Remember my infrastructure plan? Blocked! Remember my puppies and kittens for orphans plan? Blocked! Remember my free corvettes for everyone plan? Blocked!” MAGAts will remember all those plans. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1238 "2024-07-27T12:14:38Z")
> **off-topic enough to hide** > > > [@Horatius](#): > > > > MAGAts will remember all those plans. > > While also believing that no one will stop him this time. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1239 "2024-07-27T12:33:30Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > _Four years from now, he argued, the country will be “fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”_ When he confuses El Salvador with Venezuela, he’s confused. The repeated end to voting comments are not confused. They are an attempt to show strength and draw attention. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1240 "2024-07-27T13:01:06Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I wonder if he saw a performance of Don Quixote as a child and it scarred him for life. Also, his name is Don as well, so maybe he felt personally attacked. I guess you know and I am being whooshed, but I can’t avoid nitpicking that Don Quijote’s name is neither Don nor Quijote, it is Alonso Quijano. > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Does he actually say “I’m not Christian” at one point? That is what I hear too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=63)