# 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:** 68
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1374 "2024-08-08T22:53:19Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Hope it’s not a hijack (or at least not an impermissible one) but why is Fox saying “Harris dodges?” Being unwilling to patronize Fox, I don’t know–but I’d guess it’s something to do with today’s news that Trump has agreed to the ABC debate with Harris (on 10 September). Maybe she’s objected to some new condition Trump has floated? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1375 "2024-08-08T22:53:44Z")
He’s looking very…is “pink” the right word? ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1376 "2024-08-08T23:01:56Z")
He was orange. He always identified as orange. Now suddenly he’s pink? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1377 "2024-08-08T23:24:09Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > why is Fox saying “Harris dodges?” The knock on Harris – coming from the Trump campaign, of course – is that Harris hasn’t been taking press questions since becoming the presumptive nominee: [**Why Harris isn’t taking questions - Politico**](https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2024/08/07/why-harris-isnt-taking-questions-00173115) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1378 "2024-08-08T23:25:43Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > The knock on Harris – coming from the Trump campaign, of course – is that Harris hasn’t been taking press questions since becoming the presumptive nominee: Interesting. I saw her answer press questions when the prisoners landed at Andrews. Anyway, she’s been busy. There will be more time for press questions later. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1379 "2024-08-08T23:26:38Z")
Well, for one, she refuses to tell anyone whether she’d rather be electrocuted or eaten by a shark. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1380 "2024-08-08T23:27:24Z")
Or fuck a dolphin/sofa. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1381 "2024-08-08T23:52:40Z")
Reporter: What did you mean when you said Harris recently decided to become black? Trump: I didn’t say that, she did > ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1382 "2024-08-08T23:55:05Z")
Good grief. And there are still people who are going to vote for this brainless lying traitor? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1383 "2024-08-09T00:03:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Reporter: What did you mean when you said Harris recently decided to become black? > Trump: I didn’t say that, she did It’s like the pot calling the kettle - never mind. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2024, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1384 "2024-08-09T05:33:48Z")
Trump: Willie Brown and I were in a helicopter that almost crashed Willie Brown: I have never been in a helicopter with Donald Trump Jerry Brown: I was in a helicopter with Trump but it never came anywhere near crashing > **[Trump's ​tale of nearly dying in helicopter crash with Harris' ex-beau is...](https://www.rawstory.com/news/donald-trump-2668933093/)** > > Former President Donald Trump's harrowing tale of nearly dying in a helicopter crash with a former San Francisco mayor — who is also Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' former boyfriend — is a fairy tale, according to reporting from The... ---
**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:** [August 9, 2024, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1385 "2024-08-09T05:40:03Z")
‘When did Jerry Brown decide to become black?’ ~ DJT ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1386 "2024-08-09T12:38:38Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Good grief. And there are still people who are going to vote for this brainless lying traitor? Tens of millions. Let that sink in. ---
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1387 "2024-08-09T13:51:06Z")
The tens of millions have been prepared for this…anyone that would focus on threats to America and white people…for decades. It started under Reagan and went on the whole 2000-2020 period. Fox news did this. And even that was thanks to Reagan. News programs had to allow for the other side to respond, to make it balanced. Aftere Reagan news was not necessarily news. So it will take more than one election cycle to slightly reduce the MAGA folks number. It will stay there for decades. Perhaps 40% of voters will stay in the MAGA camp till they die. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1388 "2024-08-09T14:30:23Z")
I’ve seen a lot of clips of his press conference and he looks completely gone. I heard John Bolton has said that at this point, Trump does not know what is lies and what is truth. I think he’s confused, insular, and while not clinically insane, he’s way too bonkers(?) to even be mayor of a town. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1389 "2024-08-09T16:22:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > insular Very much so. Recall how he has someone follow him around to hand him printed copies of articles and editorials favorable to him. He needs a constant stream of affirmations. His ego is that fragile. There was this yesterday: [The Hill: Trump says abortions not ‘big factor’ in elections anymore](https://thehill.com/homenews/4819080-trump-downplays-abortion-issue/) > “I think that abortion has become much less of an issue. It’s a very I think it’s actually going to be very small issue,” Trump said. > > He added, “I think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches. I don’t think it’s — I don’t think it’s a big factor anymore, really.” He truly doesn’t have any idea how big of an issue this is. Another article: > **[Trump says abortion will be a ‘small issue’ in November, leaves door open to...](https://19thnews.org/2024/08/trump-abortion-small-issue-state-federal-restrictions/)** > > Trump said Thursday that he wants to leave abortion policy up to the states but that federal restrictions could ‘supplement’ state law. > Trump also repeated a false claim that most Americans wanted Roe v. Wade overturned. Yes, he truly thinks that the public is happy about that. > In fact, polls consistently show that about two-thirds of Americans opposed the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, which ended the federal right to abortion. It’s difficult to say how much of what he portrays on issues like this are due to cognitive impairments, or if he’s being shielded from negative opinions, or if he actively chooses to ignore anything he doesn’t want to hear. Maybe a combination of those things. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1390 "2024-08-09T16:36:31Z")
I actually forgot that his handlers follow him around with only positive articles and news about his public perception. That’s just plain bizarre. I have no more words other than to lament how we got into this situation. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1391 "2024-08-09T16:51:30Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s difficult to say how much of what he portrays on issues like this are due to cognitive impairments, or if he’s being shielded from negative opinions, or if he actively chooses to ignore anything he doesn’t want to hear. Maybe a combination of those things. I’ve always thought that Trump just has no qualms about lying. Most humans talk as a means of conveying information. We ask questions and share ideas in order to learn things and connect with others. That’s not why Trump talks. He uses words to try to manipulate people. He tells them what he wants them to believe. On some level, he probably knows it’s not true, it just doesn’t matter to him. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1392 "2024-08-09T16:52:58Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve always thought that Trump just has no qualms about lying. Most humans talk as a means of conveying information. We ask questions and share ideas in order to learn things and connect with others. That’s not why Trump talks. He uses words to try to manipulate people. He tells them what he wants them to believe. On some level, he probably knows it’s not true, it just doesn’t matter to him. If he ever takes questions again, someone should ask him point blank, “Willie Brown says he was never in a helicopter with you, do you have evidence to the contrary?” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1393 "2024-08-09T17:03:13Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > someone should ask him point blank, “Willie Brown says he was never in a helicopter with you, do you have evidence to the contrary?” He’ll just claim he never said that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=69)