# Is Trump confused?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
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**Created:** [January 24, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589 "2024-01-24T13:53:03Z")\
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Does anybody know what the real point is supposed to be with that WTF battery and shark story, if anything? Unless I missed it, I’ve only seen joke answers. I’m guessing something about being against the auto industry going electric, or something…?

trump has a similar WTF stock story where he pantomines grunting and struggling to lift a heavy weight, making him look like he’s crapping his pants, which had me thinking “ooohhkayy…he has finally lost it completely”. That turned out to at least have some sort of point, however stupid and offensive, about being against trans athletes competing against biological women.

BTW, @ThelmaLou has a post in the ‘disgraced trump’ thread about a NY Post article: “Is Donald Trump OK?” Specifically in reference to the battery and shark story:

> [@How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former President Trump pissed you off today?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today/942178/7163):
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> Finally someone in the media says it out loud! It is irresponsible to obsess over President Biden’s tendency to mangle a couple of words in a speech while [Donald Trump](https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) is out there sounding detached from reality. Biden, [who is old](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/09/special-counsel-biden-memory/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2), at least makes sense. Trump, [who also is old](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/28/trump-biden-false-equivalency-media/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2), rants like someone you’d cross the street to avoid. We in the media have failed by becoming inured to Trump’s verbal incontinence — not just the rapid-fire lies and revenge-seeking threats, but also [the frightening gl…](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/02/time-magazine-interview-donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4)

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