# 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:** 88
**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 23, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1774 "2024-08-23T22:30:52Z")
“Kamala, have you ever heard of her? Nobody ever heard of her before.” > ---
**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 24, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1775 "2024-08-24T00:17:44Z")
The theme of tonight’s speech is supposed to be “Make America Healthy Again”, so let’s see how well he’s doing at staying on topic; > > > ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1776 "2024-08-24T00:20:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Kamala, have you ever heard of her? Nobody ever heard of her before.” Weird that he sent a woman he’d never heard of before now a couple thousand bucks back when she was running for AG. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1777 "2024-08-24T00:25:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Kamala, have you ever heard of her? Nobody ever heard of her before.” It’s like he relearns everyday who his opponent is now. Somebody should check to see if he has a “Memento” thing going on. ---
**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 24, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1778 "2024-08-24T07:29:16Z")
> Trump: Barack Hussein Obama. He was nasty to me. Michelle was nasty. They are all nasty. I was surprised, I was sort of nice to him… Who would like to be stupid enough to bet me on ~~whether~~ when this is quoted as evidence that Trump is telling us all the truth about Michelle Obama being trans? Also, “sort of nice to him”? When your baseline is buying full page ads in the Times calling for, what amounted to, lynchings I guess how he treated Obama _was_ nice. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1779 "2024-08-24T07:57:51Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Also, “sort of nice to him”? When your baseline is buying full page ads in the Times calling for, what amounted to, lynchings I guess how he treated Obama _was_ nice. He was going to use a silk rope. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1780 "2024-08-24T10:24:48Z")
Confused or not, he’s just so whiny. Why his followers think that he’s manly and masculine is beyond me. He’s whiny like you’ve never seen. No one has ever seen anyone as whiny as him. Strong men come to him with tears in their eyes saying, sir, can you be more whiny? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1781 "2024-08-24T12:08:19Z")
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! (Hold my Diet Coke.) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1782 "2024-08-24T17:09:55Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Confused or not, he’s just so whiny. Why his followers think that he’s manly and masculine is beyond me. I know! He really does come across as a weak, sad little whiny baby. A child in a playground sitting in the sand crying “no fair, no faaaaiiirr!” Really no more than a pitiable figure. And his supporters think he’s a strong man. It boggles the mind. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1783 "2024-08-24T17:17:59Z")
- [The Big Lebowski](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0399663/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Are you surprised at my tears, sir? - [The Dude](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000313/?ref_=ttqu_qu): [_Smoking a joint_] Dude, fuckin’ A! - [The Big Lebowski](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0399663/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Strong men also cry… strong men also cry. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1784 "2024-08-24T18:59:09Z")
I posted this in a different thread (I can’t remember which) in response to a linked article (I can’t remember which), but the comments section of that article included the line (paraphrased, but pretty close): “It’s hard to be a leader when you’re constantly playing the victim.” ---
**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 24, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1785 "2024-08-24T20:33:33Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Kamala, have you ever heard of her? Nobody ever heard of her before.” > > It’s like he relearns everyday who his opponent is now. Somebody should check to see if he has a “Memento” thing going on. I hope not. I really do NOT want to see Donald in the ‘reminders written on torso’ pose. > **[Memento movie review & film summary (2001) | Roger Ebert](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/memento-2001)** > > A diabolical and absorbing experience. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1786 "2024-08-24T21:45:41Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > he’s just so whiny. [“I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win,” Trump told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday.](https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/politics/donald-trump-refutes-third-party-run-report/index.html) (11 August, 2015) ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1787 "2024-08-24T22:39:28Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > He’s finally found his winning strategy: _You can’t be ‘racist’ against “Canadians”_ 😃 Oh, _I_ could. Not that I have ever tried, but it can’t be that difficult when even he manages. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > “When Canada sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re bringing **poutine**. […] ISWYDT ( **Bolding** mine, of course) ---
**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 25, 2024, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1788 "2024-08-25T09:48:46Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > > [@Horatius](#): > > > > He’s finally found his winning strategy: _You can’t be ‘racist’ against “Canadians”_ 😃 > > Oh, _I_ could. And you would not be alone, > **[Is term ‘Canadian’ used as racist word?](https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/is-term-canadian-used-as-racist-word/article_315cc6bd-84e9-53e1-9610-b33da71cd9c8.html)** > > Is Canadian’ the new black? Perhaps – that is if you’re a racist speaking in code. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1789 "2024-08-25T11:51:38Z")
Is Trump confused? You be the judge: [https://wapo.st/3z4GGMu](https://wapo.st/3z4GGMu) > [@](#): > > A brown ribbon carved a straight gash across a vast, flat desert basin, the only mark of human civilization visible on this wilderness. The partition charged up a steep hill in Montezuma Canyon, then suddenly stopped. Extra pieces lay in piles nearby, rusting monuments to an unfinished campaign promise. > > Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump came here on Thursday to heap praise on the structure standing to his right — “the Rolls-Royce of walls,” he called it — and lament the unused segments lying to his left. Joining him there, Border Patrol union leader Paul A. Perez called the standing fence “Trump wall” and the idle parts “Kamala wall,” after his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. > > Those labels were inaccurate. This section of 20-foot steel slats was actually built during former president Barack Obama’s administration. Trump added the unfinished extension up the hillside, an engineering challenge that cost at least $35 million a mile. The unused panels of 30-foot beams were procured during the Trump administration and never erected. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1790 "2024-08-25T11:54:48Z")
That union leader seems pretty confused, too. What an idiot. ---
**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 25, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1791 "2024-08-25T20:24:21Z")
[![](https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/trump-truth-social.jpg?id=53535871&width=980) ](https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/trump-truth-social.jpg?id=53535871&width=980) ---
**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:** [August 25, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1792 "2024-08-25T21:28:27Z")
A stuck key. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1793 "2024-08-25T21:33:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [“I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win,” Trump told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday.](https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/politics/donald-trump-refutes-third-party-run-report/index.html) (11 August, 2015 That’s a pretty good example of his mental decline at no point during that interview did he lose his train of thought, and the point was clear. It was petulant bullshit, but it was comrehensible petulant bullshit compare that his recent utterances. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=87) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=89)