Is Trump confused?

Clearly the answer is “14 k of g in a f p d”.

Sadly, I can guess roughly what he is saying. I am unaware of the backstory, but someone (perhaps in the Department of Labor) must have questioned the recent jobs statistics and said, "they are overstated [by some #, probably something that has an 800 in it]. The Right must have jumped on this as proof that any positive stats coming out of the White House are false.

I’d be surprised if that is not approximately correct.

Ah, here is something from Raw Story that might explain it a little. Although the cite is from August, so maybe not. (Or maybe … Trump is confused?)

I wouldn’t be surprised if he passes away onstage.

That’s what I was wondering. Has Trump finally solved this years-old brain stumper?

Naw. For him solving anything is too much work.

Watch the audience behind him in this clip. They are all utterly bored, except possibly for the black garbage man, who nods at one point maybe in agreement or maybe falling asleep. Most of them are looking all around for some reason.

“Think about it” is one of Trump’s tells. It means he’s realized that he isn’t making sense.

Nancy Pelosi seems to be on the Trump is confused side:

Pelosi says Trump’s brain is “deteriorating”

I do not see any connection between making death threats and mental deterioration. Lots of younger criminals make death threats. And the complex nature of the threat, what with the claim that the reporters were located at a gap in the bulletproof barrier coverage, is somewhat clever. I think this demagogue is going to be with us for many years yet.

Trump’s latest campaign promise is to put a CTE-afflicted failed political candidate famous for flashing a toy badge and pretending to be a cop in charge of (checks notes) Intercontinental ballistic missile defense.

I hope SNL is already working on a skit.

So where did the whole Al Capone thing come from? Something must have prompted that in his little pea brain. And why is he calling him by his full first name Alphonse?

If things go as it looks like they’re going to, next week will be the last time SNL ever makes a sketch about him.

Should obviously go with Deion Sanders instead. You want a cornerback for missile defense, not a running back. Doesn’t Trump know anything?

They will be- if he wins.

Yep, another threat- if he wins, network
TV will become Fox & Friends.

IIRC, he calls people stupid all the time.

IIRC the poster did a flyby and never came back. Clearly he got it wrong somehow.

A mark of respect for an even bigger criminal. :crazy_face:

He found out a while back that he has been indicted more times than Al. He talks about it occasionally to prove he is a tough guy. Why Alphonse? Who knows?

He only found out a few months ago that Al was short for something, so he assumes nobody else knew it either and thinks he’s showing off how smart and knowledgeable he is.

You know, like a first grader who just found out that peanuts are a kind of legume and not true nuts.

It’s total word salad, but he meant to say jobs. Still don’t know what he’s talking about, though.

Oh, great idea. How about, let’s see…Dr. Phil for Surgeon General. Mike Lindell for Secretary of the Treasury. Marjorie Taylor Green for Secretary of Defense, since she knows so much about space lasers.

Ah, I give up-- I can’t even come up with a joke answer more ridiculous than the idea of putting Herschel Walker in charge of building a missile defense shield. I don’t envy the Onion’s writers.

Step Two is putting the missile defense shield in charge of building a Herschel Walker!

A connection could certainly exist, though.

One high profile example with more than one instance:

“We all circled around him and Barbara for a photo, and I was right next to him,” Grolnick told the website. "He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, ‘Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?’ As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, ‘David Cop-a-Feel!’ "

I do not believe a younger GHW Bush would have done this.

I also wonder if loss of inhibition, and judgement in general, due to mental deterioration could be contributing to his increasingly ridiculous lies. I mean, yes, he’s always lied outrageously, but during this election cycle his lies have just become nutballs kookoo: “6 states allow abortion after birth; schools are giving children transgender operations without their parents’ consent; Venezuelan gangs with weapons more powerful than even the US military have seen are terrorizing a town in Colorado; etc. etc.”