# 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:** 93
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1874 "2024-09-01T18:40:58Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Though, didn’t he try to brand himself “_The_ Donald” at one point? [Carleton](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZPrrLve2Eo) definitely called him that. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1875 "2024-09-01T20:21:31Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Though, didn’t he try to brand himself “_The_ Donald” at one point? IIRC that rather Melania (or maybe the prior wife?) called him that in private to piss him off. And somehow it got leaked. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1876 "2024-09-01T20:27:11Z")
“The transgender thing is an incredible thing… your kid goes to school & comes home a few days later with an operation the school decides what’s going to happen with your child & you many of these childs 15 years later say “what the hell happened who did this to me?” > ---
**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:** [September 1, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1877 "2024-09-01T20:36:11Z")
“And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’” ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1878 "2024-09-01T20:56:39Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Although these days he may be conflating the two and admitting he can’t remember her last name. Doubt it. In at least one (and probably many) instance(s), he just used her last name immediately before saying no one knows it. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1879 "2024-09-01T21:10:37Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What’s the “no one knows her last name” thing with Kamala? I think it is similar to him calling Nikki Haley “Nimarata”. He wants something he can use to _other_ Kamala by scaring people with an exotic last name. Her mother’s maiden name is Gopalan but since she got married before Kamala was born, Kamala’s last name has always been Harris. Someone should clue Trump in that the racists have probably already decided they aren’t going to vote for her, there’s no need to oversell it. But with Trump you never know. He probably saw the episode of Chappelle’s Show with the blind KKK guy (who turned out to be black) and thought it was a documentary. So as far as he’s concerned, he’s just making sure this crucial demographic of visually impaired racists knows what they are getting into. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1880 "2024-09-01T23:13:48Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > IIRC that rather Melania (or maybe the prior wife?) called him that in private to piss him off. And somehow it got leaked. As I remember it, Ivana called him that during their divorce. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1881 "2024-09-01T23:52:25Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > As I remember it, Ivana called him that during their divorce. You are correct! And in textbook Trump fashion, Ivana and The Donald fought over who owned the rights to that little pet name: > **[Trump vs. Trump in Battle of the Exes](https://observer.com/1999/01/trump-vs-trump-in-battle-of-the-exes/)** > > Donald Trump and his ex-wife Ivana Trump are brawling again. In an intellectual property scrap perfectly suited to this new gilded age, they’re tussling over who owns the name “The Dona… > Donald Trump and his ex-wife Ivana Trump are brawling again. In an intellectual property scrap perfectly suited to this new gilded age, they’re tussling over who owns the name “The Donald.” Ms. Trump believes she has the right to use it because she coined the nickname and has filed an application to trademark it. She said she plans to exploit its commercial possibilities on behalf of her son, Donald Trump Jr., a 21-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania. MOM!! The “Party of Family Values” is at it again!!! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1882 "2024-09-02T00:05:29Z")
Like the saying says: > The family that grifts ~~together~~ one another, stays … at each other’s throats (?) That’s a harder aphorism to complete than I expected it would be when I started. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1883 "2024-09-02T00:13:02Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I _think_ there are implied quotation marks there: > > They say “It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen”. Alternatively the English professors that are saying that its the most brilliant thing that Trump has ever seen, as a way of saying that Trump is not at all well read. 😉 ---
**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:** [September 2, 2024, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1884 "2024-09-02T00:28:20Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What’s the “no one knows her last name” thing with Kamala? His advisors have been telling him to stick to the issues, so that’s what he’s doing. What? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2024, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1885 "2024-09-02T01:28:34Z")
“God thinks I’m going to straighten out our country” > “Bleach bit, it’s basically acid” (eight years and he STILL doesn’t know “Bleachbit” is software) > “Who ever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it” (that sound you just heard was Trump’s lawyers begging him to stop confessing to crimes on TV) > “I don’t like to use the word progressive. It’s such a pretty word. Progressive means you’re thinking to the future. They’re actually thinking to 3000 years ago” (I’ll have the word salad, extra covfefe) > “I learned about trucks by talking to them. In five minutes I knew as much as I’m going to have to know to make decisions that are going to be Earth shattering for transportation, for moving cargo and moving a lot of other things.” (And what else are the trucks saying to you? Are the trucks in the room right now?) > “China paid me hundreds of billions of dollars” (STOP CONFESSING!) > “When I came in, they announced we had no ammunition. I said who is the stupid person saying that?.. Now, we don’t have ammunition” > ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1886 "2024-09-02T03:05:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I learned about trucks by talking to them. I wish Idiocracy would stop coming true. (for those who haven’t seen it, Secretary Not Sure wins an argument about irrigating plants with a sports drink versus giving them water by telling the audience that he can talk to plants and they told him they want water) ---
**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:** [September 2, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1887 "2024-09-02T03:38:31Z")
“The way Kamala Harris treated Mike Pence was horrible” -The man who tried to have Mike Pence killed > ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1888 "2024-09-02T11:43:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > (And what else are the trucks saying to you? Are the trucks in the room right now?) He was talking about having conversations with truckers. The bad part isn’t his pronoun usage, it’s thinking that he can understand enough about Logistics in 5 minutes to make earth shattering decicions about the industry. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2024, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1889 "2024-09-02T11:49:32Z")
> [@Smapti (quoting Trump)](#): > > “Bleach bit, it’s basically acid” Hm. > The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14, with 7 being neutral. A pH less than 7 is **acidic** , and a pH greater than 7 is **basic**. Each number on the scale represents a 10-fold change in acidity or alkalinity. The man is – quite literally – an oxymoron. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2024, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1890 "2024-09-02T11:50:54Z")
Easily. And with 4 minutes 50 seconds to spare: [![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/44b6c2841b0376970060d90d26f089687a495532/0_153_2622_1573/master/2622.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6547a9e93800165406622bf141134d2f) ](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/44b6c2841b0376970060d90d26f089687a495532/0_153_2622_1573/master/2622.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6547a9e93800165406622bf141134d2f) ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1891 "2024-09-02T11:53:16Z")
The bad part is also that he thinks other politicians don’t talk to people before making decisions. He thinks that 5 minutes with some truckers is far more than other Presidents would research a topic before making major decisions. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1892 "2024-09-02T12:17:24Z")
I read it more like he can fully understand a topic in 5 minutes, while it takes the average person days of study. He is a Super Genius©™, after all. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1893 "2024-09-02T12:27:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > They’re actually thinking to 3000 years ago” What was happening 3000 years ago? The Young Earth people are gonna hate him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=92) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589.md?page=94)