# Real headlines related to trump and his enablers that sound like made-up 'The Onion'-style joke headlines **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 16, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652 "2023-10-16T15:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/81 "2023-10-24T14:03:22Z")
> [@solost](#): > > True-- he’s so collosally ignorant \*_ **colossally** _ ignorant. Missed the edit window to fix the typo. Yes, I do realize the unfortunate irony of calling someone ‘collosally ignorant’ and misspelling the phrase. 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/82 "2023-10-24T14:15:01Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Yes, I do realize the unfortunate irony And that, my friend, is one big difference between you and him. Apart from all the others, of course. No offense meant by putting you both together in the same sentence. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/83 "2023-10-24T14:18:42Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > No offense meant by putting you both together in the same sentence. As long as you’re contrasting us in that sentence, not comparing us, fine by me. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/84 "2023-10-24T14:23:22Z")
Thanks a lot—now I need brain bleach. 🤮 ---
**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:** [October 24, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/85 "2023-10-24T14:35:38Z")
**[Trump tells supporters ‘don’t worry about voting’ during campaign stop](https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-tells-supporters-don-t-worry-about-voting-during-campaign-stop-196272197677)** Speaking of genius-level intelligence. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/86 "2023-10-24T14:37:14Z")
Honestly, his NH speech was an absolute goldmine of idiocy. Case in point: > **[Trump claims he is ‘genius’ for realising ‘us’ is spelled the same as ‘US’](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-us-spelling-genius-b2434774.html)** > > The former president questioned whether anybody else had ever thought to make the connection before ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/87 "2023-10-24T14:49:06Z")
Absolutely psychotic levels of solipsism. In the little video game playing inside his head, he thinks everybody in the world but him is an NPC. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/88 "2023-10-24T15:22:14Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > And that, my friend, is one big difference between you and him. Damning with faint praise? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/89 "2023-10-24T16:28:21Z")
> [@solost](#): > > If I was giving a speech, and something that should have been glaringly obvious to me suddenly occurred, I would keep it to myself. Regarding this and other things that are glaringly obvious but he claims “I just realized” or “no one ever thought of” or “very few people know” I think that part of it is that he knows his audience is similarly ignorant, and by putting things in this way it makes them feel smart, and makes him seem relatable. I think that that is one of the things that his followers find most appealing about him. He isn’t some egg head elite smarty pants who is looking down on them, he’s just like them. If they are learning for the first time that “U.S. spells us” then hearing that he learned it for the first time means he’s just like them. If (like most of us) they figured it out a long time ago then that means that they must be really smart. Dunning meet Kruger. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/90 "2023-10-24T16:45:24Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I think that that is one of the things that his followers find most appealing about him. He isn’t some egg head elite smarty pants who is looking down on them, he’s just like them. I think this is right. There’s many ignoramuses who think “if I been born richer, I could’ve been president”. And Trump proves they’re right. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/91 "2023-10-24T18:27:20Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > And that, my friend, is one big difference between you and him. “Stollen” – 'nuf said. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/92 "2023-10-24T18:40:38Z")
> [@solost](#): > > He’s an Uber example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. An Uber-Kruger. David Dunning and Justin Kruger must shake their heads and say ‘is this guy even for real?’ When they came up with their thesis, they probably had no idea there would rise up such a perfect, ‘Platonic Ideal’ of it. Dead serious. Yesterday, during lunch, I used this exact thing, to include the words _platonic ideal_, in a discussion about him. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/93 "2023-10-24T18:59:32Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > If they are learning for the first time that “U.S. spells us” My dad (born in the 1930s), once shared what he said was ‘an old joke’. As the bride who had gotten four woolen army blankets as a gift said: “Our towels may say His and Hers, but our blankets say US.” ---
**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:** [October 24, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/94 "2023-10-24T19:41:20Z")
Wait until he figures out that “US” is in “doofus”. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/95 "2023-10-24T19:45:12Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Dead serious. Yesterday, during lunch, I used this exact thing, to include the words _platonic ideal_, in a discussion about him. Glad to hear that I think like the head of the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board! Pretty good company to be in 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/96 "2023-10-24T21:43:15Z")
I’m by no means the head of the SDSAB. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/97 "2023-10-24T22:19:24Z")
Well, at least a prestigious member of the SDSAB in good standing, right? It’s not like, I don’t know, an ironic title you made up for yourself or something. Right?!? (Anyway, I will continue to think of it as great minds thinking alike, even if I’m stretching the definition in my case) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/98 "2023-10-24T22:42:20Z")
Are you the earlobe? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/99 "2023-10-25T01:49:33Z")
**[Trump compares himself to Nelson Mandela, fantasizes about punching Biden during New Hampshire pop up for GOP primary](https://nypost.com/2023/10/23/news/trump-files-new-hampshire-before-campaign-rally/)** ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/100 "2023-10-25T02:49:55Z")
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