# 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:** 90
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1814 "2024-08-27T14:55:45Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Generally, _tsar_ is British and _czar_ is American, but they should be pronounced the same. And yet neither will go ahead and just spell it “zar”. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1815 "2024-08-27T15:00:21Z")
It would make crosswords too easy. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1816 "2024-08-27T15:09:39Z")
As Woody Allen taught us, the Russian Revolution started when the serfs finally realized that the Czar and the Tsar were the same person. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1817 "2024-08-27T15:12:41Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > And yet “Border Tsar” sounds uncomfortably weird. Look, he’d just been deposed by the Bolsheviks, and needed a place to crash, so I let him rent my basement! ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1818 "2024-08-27T15:25:03Z")
Moderating: Let’s drop the ‘tsar’ ‘czar’ hijack now. Thanks. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1819 "2024-08-27T15:27:09Z")
I bet Trump doesn’t know the difference. Because he’s confused. ---
**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 27, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1820 "2024-08-27T20:41:31Z")
Trump says the White House rigged the 2020 election against him. > **[‘It was your own White House’: Trump mocked after saying president rigged...](https://www.rawstory.com/it-was-your-own-white-house-trump-says-2020-presidential-election-was-rigged/)** > > Donald Trump is being mocked for suggesting the White House "rigged" the 2020 presidential election, which he lost. Trump was President in 2020, as critics rushed to remind him.Trump was referring to a report, originally published by the Wall Street... ---
**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 27, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1821 "2024-08-27T22:16:42Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Donald has room for a LOT more notes… Undeniably. (Unless he writes them in the font size used for the typical 1st-grade reader.) > [@Smapti](#): > > Trump says the White House rigged the 2020 election against him. . Nobody told Donald that DATES were going to be on the test! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1822 "2024-08-27T23:31:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump says the White House rigged the 2020 election against him. Given his penchant for tripping over his own dick, it seems clear that the guy in the White House is the reason for the result. ---
**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, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1823 "2024-08-27T23:33:42Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Given his penchant for tripping over his own dick, it… No way, physically impossible. Wont even reach the ground if he is lying face down. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1824 "2024-08-28T03:01:49Z")
I don’t understand the reference. ---
**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 28, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1825 "2024-08-28T03:03:05Z")
Kirk van Houten, Milhouse’s perpetual-loser dad on The Simpsons, is playing Pictionary at a dinner party and is supposed to draw “dignity”. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1826 "2024-08-28T03:06:55Z")
Ah. I knew who the character was, but I missed that episode. ---
**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 29, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1827 "2024-08-29T21:51:22Z")
“We did a great job with covid. Never got the credit for it. The ventilators, the therapeutics, the robes, the gog, everything we did” > “I think I had nine indictments, far more than Alphonse Capone, who was quite well known in Chicago. He liked killing people, but he had nothing like me.” > “They were doing a man on the street, they said “Do you know Harris?”, and they would say “Who the hell is Harris?” Nobody knows who Harris is. What’s the VP’s name? They have no idea what the name is. Now, the name Kamala is. It’s a little complex because it’s about 19 different ways of pronouncing it. But Kamala is, at least it’s a name you sort of remember.” > “We will bring back the American dream better, stronger and just better, bigger, better. They don’t talk about it. They copy every thing else I do so I guess that’ll be next. They’ll be copying saying the American dream.” > ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1828 "2024-08-30T01:17:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > . He liked killing people, but he had nothing like me.” > > [x.com](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1829259126716911635) Well, experts say that anywhere from 2/3 to 1/3 of American Covid deaths could have been prevented if the White house had its shit together. So, let us take the average and say 50, of 1.2million. So trump killed 600000 Americans- I am sure Capone never got close to that. So, trump here is correct. ---
**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 30, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1829 "2024-08-30T01:35:26Z")
Canadians and most of their politicians generally wore masks and followed medical advice. American death rates during Covid might have approached Canadian values despite differences in health care. > **[Why is Canada's Covid death rate so much lower than US?](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60380317)** > > Despite protests raging in Canada, the country is managing Covid better than the US, data shows. Trump was far from the only factor resulting in lower vaccination rates, reluctance to mask or distance or medical mitigation and other policies. But Trump recommended dangerous treatments and ended up in the ICU himself. Almost as if he was the sort of guy who would stare directly at the sun during an eclipse. ---
**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 30, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1830 "2024-08-30T01:36:00Z")
Trump accidentally told a reporter he’s going to vote to legalize abortion in Florida, and now his campaign is trying to do damage control. > > **[Trump spokeswoman tries to walk back boss' claim on major ballot initiative](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-abortion-2669100417/)** > > Former President Donald Trump appeared to suggest in a Thursday interview that he would vote in favor of Florida's amendment to restore the Roe v. Wade abortion standard, overturning the extreme six-week ban passed by the legislature and signed by... ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1831 "2024-08-30T02:04:03Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Trump was far from the only factor resulting in lower vaccination rates, reluctance to mask or distance or medical mitigation and other policies. His MAGAs followed his lead. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1832 "2024-08-30T02:18:20Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > His MAGAs followed his lead. Sometimes: [Trump met with boos after revealing he received Covid-19 booster](https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/donald-trump-booster-shot-boos/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1833 "2024-08-30T03:19:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump accidentally told a reporter he’s going to vote to legalize abortion in Florida, and now his campaign is trying to do damage control. Was it an accident? Or is he trying to have it both ways? If he is confused on abortion, it is an extremely common confusion: > **[Why so many polls get American attitudes on abortion wrong](https://www.vox.com/a/abortion-decision-statistics-opinions/abortion-polling-mistakes)** > > I’ve spent years polling the public on abortion. We're not asking the right things. Trump is appealing to those on the fence concerning his candidacy. He allows them to think he is aligned to their view, whatever it might be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=91)