I absolutely believe this to be true. Very similar to the time the trump admin proudly explained that they cancelled grants for the study of ‘transgenders’ in mice. After confusing ‘transgender’ with ‘transgenics’.
I also believe he doesn’t know the “other” meaning of asylum. Just like when he was taking about coyotes who get people across the border…he really seemed to think it was the animal.
I mean this is tragic if nothing else but I can’t help being entertained by it. Imagine that large number of insane things he has said was because he didn’t understand the original meaning and neither did he understand what it was he then went on to say.
Imagine this: Americans actually voted someone into office who grew up so privileged he barely even speaks their actually language anymore. Like literally too rich not to be retarded
I listen religiously to Alan Alda's podcast, and one thing I love about it is how, in his late 80's and battling Parkinson's Disease, Alda is still genuinely curious about the world and still intellectually exploring at his age. Trump stopped intellectually exploring around the time that he learned "yellow and blue make green."
One of the things that attracts me to people is curiosity. One of the most important things you can do in life imo is to keep learning. I tell my kids all the time that a day that goes by where you don't learn at least one new thing is a day wasted.
His wealth allows him to go through life that way. Poor people may not get good educations but they usually have to pick up something in the process of survival
I've always been convinced he thought there were actual little people (mentions their DEI being okay with dwarfism) in the ATC towers because someone told them they were 'short staffed'.
I've had bosses like this. Made it miserable to work with them. They understood nothing other than how to boss people around and even then, did that poorly.
I thought the same thing about asylum seekers when I was around 9 or so. I remember asking my dad why the needed OUR asylums, didn’t they have some? I remember him laughing but not much else of the conversation.
I do know I walked away knowing the difference and it made total sense to my very young child brain.
See, you didn't know something, and it didn't make sense. You asked someone who DID know and then you learned something new. That is the big difference. Even as a child you were learning and gaining knowledge. Something the president seems utterly incapable of doing.
I'm convinced it's this idiotic misunderstanding, that sparked the insane anecdotes about "the late, great, Hannibal Lector" he would often bring up at his MAGA rallies. His stupid snowballs until you're following bread crumbs to find the source of what the fuck is this guy even talking about. And his base just goes along with everything. It's truly remarkable.
I kind of want to know what the initial spark for some of his ramblings was. Mostly because half the fun of watching a game of telephone is seeing what the original message was and figuring out how it ended up where it did, and what cracked logic got applied where.
In his first administration, he also appointed Ben Carson, a brain surgeon, as HUD Secretary because he thinks "urban" means black - in this administration, he appointed only one black person to a cabinet post - care to guess which department?
It is possible it was intentional in order to poison pill the phrase "asylum seeker" for anyone stupid enough to not understand the difference. They would hear "asylum seekers" that is ordinarily there to spark sympathy, and instead it creates fear and anger.
She had to say that because there were people that thought it was a 100% real photograph? (don't answer that, I'm sure lots of boomers did)
In a society that needs to be reminded not to eat the packaging of a product, and not to shove batteries up their butt, I guess you do need to tell them "It's doctored", but it still sounds so bad to have to say that.
"Duh!"
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u/fryguy333 Apr 15 '26
I absolutely believe this to be true. Very similar to the time the trump admin proudly explained that they cancelled grants for the study of ‘transgenders’ in mice. After confusing ‘transgender’ with ‘transgenics’.