# 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:** 89
**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 25, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1794 "2024-08-25T21:42:20Z")
I’m in Vegas right now and in a gift shop they’re selling a magnet with a picture of Trump “dancing” and the caption, “Has anyone tried turning him off then on again?” ---
**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, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1795 "2024-08-25T21:44:47Z")
I didn’t crop that, BTW. “Who wants the” is the end of the post. ---
**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 25, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1796 "2024-08-25T22:16:46Z")
At least we can be sure he actually typed that one out himself. ---
**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 25, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1797 "2024-08-25T22:54:42Z")
I’m shocked he spelled “czar” correctly. 🤔 ---
**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:** [August 25, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1798 "2024-08-25T22:57:43Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > I’m shocked he spelled “czar” correctly All the better to impress Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1799 "2024-08-25T23:07:40Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > I’m shocked he spelled “czar” correctly. 🤔 Yeah. I’d have thought he would spell it with a big gold T. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1800 "2024-08-26T00:08:56Z")
Powerfulnnz is how you feel after three cups of Cofefe. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1801 "2024-08-26T16:47:25Z")
So is it his whining winning strategy? ---
**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 26, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1802 "2024-08-26T20:58:37Z")
“I told a very respected person in terms of leadership in Europe is from Hungary” > “I would be doing it if I was the president of such, I would have been doing better than them. My prisons would be totally empty. They are emptying their prisons” [https://x.com/Acyn/status/1828144979405087226](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1828144979405087226) “We were getting out with dig knee” [https://x.com/Acyn/status/1828138203771215895](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1828138203771215895) “I don’t need resting unlike other people that we know” [https://x.com/Acyn/status/1828136574879703142](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1828136574879703142) ---
**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 26, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1803 "2024-08-26T22:57:05Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “We were getting out with dig knee” I heard “dig-a-knee” which is worse, it’s like something a little kid would say if they’d heard the word and was trying to repeat it without knowing what it meant. ---
**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 26, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1804 "2024-08-26T23:07:36Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > 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) Donald has room for a LOT more notes… ---
**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 26, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1805 "2024-08-26T23:16:04Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > something a little kid would say if they’d heard the word and was trying to repeat it without knowing what it meant [![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0026930390_10.jpg) ](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0026930390_10.jpg) ---
**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 26, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1806 "2024-08-26T23:48:43Z")
He had to say “dig-a-knee” because the Kaiser had stolen his word for “twenty.” ---
**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:** [August 27, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1807 "2024-08-27T00:11:21Z")
It is capitalized, damn it! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1808 "2024-08-27T00:14:04Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Yeah. I’d have thought he would spell it with a big gold T. In Russian it is _Tsar._ ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1809 "2024-08-27T00:34:33Z")
In most crossword puzzles, too. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1810 "2024-08-27T00:47:53Z")
Every time he tips his head that way and then looks off to the side a bit when he speaks, he’s lying. Of course, he’s lying every other time he speaks, too. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1811 "2024-08-27T13:36:47Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > In Russian it is _Tsar._ Well, in most English language romanizations of Russian it is “ts,” but it can also be “cz” (or even “cs”) depending on the system. The actual word in Russian is царь. Also, romanizing for other languages, it can be “c” or “z.” There is no “t” or “s” of any kind in it; it uses the letter “ц.” > [@Borborygmi](#): > > In most crossword puzzles, too. In the New York Times, it can be either. Generally, the ruler is spelled with a “ts” and the phrase “border czar” is spelled with a “cz,” but that’s not 100% consistent. Sometimes the ruler is also “cz.” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1812 "2024-08-27T13:50:21Z")
And yet “Border Tsar” sounds uncomfortably weird. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1813 "2024-08-27T14:32:50Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > And yet “Border Tsar” sounds uncomfortably weird Generally, _tsar_ is British and _czar_ is American, but they should be pronounced the same. And any US government official (border czar, drug czar) is always a _czar_. So “Border Tsar” just looks funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=88) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=90)