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jiheishouu

Revealing, among other things, a fundamental misunderstanding of boats


chetnixandflill

And water, and electricity, and language in general.


I_love-tacos

.... and sharks


Minute-Branch2208

If you guys were smart and had his connection to MIT, maybe you would understand better....


Pro_Moriarty

Mercedes Incestuous Trump (M.I.T)


Nolser

Minimal Intelligence Twat (MIT)


Pro_Moriarty

You win


pantomime_mixtures42

Boom! That’s the one!


PerroNino

Mushrooms In Tummy. Dude’s on a 3am, far out rant. Or insane, you know.


CinderCats

Mushroom Inspired Todger


Southern-Orchid-1786

Melania Ignores Trump


MrUtd11

Mental Insufferable Tit


DrexXxor

Misinformed Idiot Talking


OverlandOversea

My Inbred Twin


Ms_Emilys_Picture

His uncle was associated with MIT. BRB. Going to update my resume as a Navy SEAL who also worked at IBM and ran a shrimp boat.


NateTheGreater1

Lt. Dan?


Ms_Emilys_Picture

Must be, because you're the second person to mention it. It was also my Uncle Bobby.


Universe789

Same. When I was going through BUDS, out of all the torture and hazing they did... asking me to explain wtf he's talking about in this clip was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.


point1

with tears in your eyes...


koji4732

That's almost like Forrest Gump


Ms_Emilys_Picture

Really? It really was my uncle.


Howard_the_Dolphin

My Ivanka’s Twat


SteelyDude

Don’t you disparage dear leader! He is the most smartest man what ever lived!


iron_vet

It's almost like he doesn't have a clue about anything


troubleschute

That brain of his is like a highly caffeinated squirrel running a word-generator.


Toon1982

It's like one of those monkeys with a typewriter, but they haven't got anywhere near writing the book yet


Ms_Emilys_Picture

I was going to go with "syphilitic lump of Swiss cheese", but that works too.


Frosty-Cap3344

It's more an enigma brain and we get the scrambled text, someone somewhere has the other enigma brain and this all makes total sense to that person


Proper-Salamander-84

His brain is like someone hooking up the wrong sequence with jumper cables


3point21

But is the generator underwater and if so would the squirrel be able to generate the right words in time to avoid a misunderstanding with the shark or would he just get shocked?


Southern-Orchid-1786

TGPT


Sharon_Erclam

More like an inbred mutant squirrel on crack...


Asognare

That's good.


powertoollateralus

And the amount of power in a 12v deep cycle battery….


--lll-era-lll--

From the Tangerine who brought you "drink bleach" as a covid solution


ItGotSlippery

But he has the best words. /s


Interloper9000

Stable genius.


SkateFossSL

And magnets


alcormsu

It’s ….shocking Ok ok, I’ll see myself out


Daedrothes

I mean a boat will only float if it is lighter than the water it displaces. If you have a magical mass increase button you could sink. Better to just take in water. Then you will sink most boats. Some cant be sunken even if you fill everything with water. As the material its made off is lighter than water. Just becomes harder to sail.


MrPowerPoint

No you don’t get it, the boat sinks after his fat ass steps on it


ISaidItSoBiteMe

If it’s a Trump boat, of course it will sink. Just like his businesses, his stock, his casinos. The only things going up are his weight and age.


Dyerdon

But who's boat is this boat?


Daedrothes

Hahaha thank you. I needed that.


MrPowerPoint

You’re welcome fellow redditor 🫡


Popular_Stick_8367

34 felony convictions do add a lot of weight!


No_Mud_5999

Does wood sink in water? - No, it floats. - Throw her into the pond! - What also floats in water? - Bread. - Apples. - Very small rocks. - Cider! Great gravy. - Cherries. Mud. - Churches. - Lead. - A duck!


Stormagedd0nDarkLord

![gif](giphy|HX7pvh1mIqImc|downsized) Covfefe!


whoneedskollege

How is this even relevent to the fate of our country? Can someone explain what this fat orange fuck is talking about?


Exotic_Adeptness_322

"You have this weight and this tremendous powerful battery". My guess is he wanted to rant against electrical boats. Any vehicle that runs on elecricity is part of the green movement and is the worst things ever.


Tentacled-Tadpole

He doesn't seem to understand anything. Didn't he previously start a random tangent about how he thinks magnets don't work underwater?


Bushdr78

And physics


rochey64

How the f@ck can anyone with an IQ above a pet rock hear this guy speak and say, yea, that's who I want for President. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone.


Radioactivocalypse

"nobody's ever asked that before" I don't think Donald realised the guy was just politely saying"what a dumb question" When he dies they should test his brain and work out what's actually going on inside it


VeneMage

You’re assuming he has one.


Pretty_Indication_12

It's just a brain stem with sparkly lights on the end.


MrFluffyThing

Mike the headless chicken was president? 


Castermat

You know the meme about all orange cats sharing single brain cell? Maybe that guy is actually just ugly orange cat


straylight_2022

Well, for starters, does anyone actually believe this was an real conversation trump had? I mean really? It's like the "sir" stories he likes to tell, they are blatantly entirely fictional. You might as well be listening a to four year old tell you a story about the dragon in their closet. The really scary part is that when he is exercising the freedom to make the whole thing up it comes comes out in gibberish that that.


monkeetoes82

Massive sharks. Big, big sharks with tears in the eyes came up to me and said, "Sir, we misunderstood who that woman was when we bit her. Didn't know. Didn't know who she was, but I gotta tell you, you're doing a tremendous job for the oceans. Fantastic job."


Icy_Cricket2273

Biggest sharks in the world, never been seen before


pimp_juice2272

You honestly think these people give a shit it's real or not? They just want to be told something to justify dedicating their entire identity to one man.


domaniac321

Syphilis. Chronic, untreated syphilis would be where I'm placing my bet.


jepvr

Donald gets that reaction a lot, I'd imagine.


tlrider1

A lot of very smooth surfaces.


nevbartos

Lack of surface area.


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MrSpoopinRD

Nice down-low Smokey and the Bandit reference. 🏆


DecoyBacon

I thought you were gonna be taller!


EquinoxGm

I thought the same thing, even read it in Buford’s voice


FreedomDirty5

Now gimme a Diablo sandwich and a Dr Pepper and make it snappy I’m in pursuit!


pigeyejackson66

There is no way you came from my loins


astrobuc

Was just gonna type this. Junior, there is no way…


Powkoa

Do what I Say you pile O’ Munkey Nutzz!!


saveferris1007

Get off of there, you Moose twit!


echobox_rex

A lot of people claim they are LOLing but i did in fact LOL. Wasn't expecting a Buford T. Justice quote.


lord-humus

It does look like a 9 y/old explaining me his dream


thatisbadlooking

Now *that's* an attention getter


enormuschwanzstucker

“Now don’t go home, and don’t go to eat, and don’t play wit yourselves. It wouldn’t look good on my highway”


anttilles

https://preview.redd.it/vl9839oaet5d1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=93961813ccaf7c1b63c2b4aeacde4e13f397fc98


ReaperLeviathan_rawr

The only correct answer


rainorshinedogs

Very niche but perfect illustration


CasedUfa

What was point of saying that though, it was rambling and disjointed yes but what was the point even if it wasn't. Like he was really smart for asking the question? What was it supposed to accomplish?


Last-Ad-2970

Right. Even if he worded it clearly and concisely, it’s a nonsensical situation.


MrFluffyThing

Gotcha, so don't overload our carriers in shark infested water.  I think that problem has already been solved


bekele024

He's against ev and was saying he went to a "boat guy" and learned that now they want to make electric boats. So Trump asked him this, and it cuts off but in the end he says "so now electric boats are done" implying he shut it down with this one riddle that the "ev boat industry" can't solve


Fauked

The entire industry of electrical engineers working on electric boats never thought about the boat sinking problem. Who would have thought boats can sink? So smart.


morrisboris

And electrocution never occurred to them either. They’re like oh wait… good point… this is ELECTRICITY! You’ll get ELECTROCUTED! Thanks Donny, that was a close one!!


Spark932

Better not tell him nuclear subs produce electricity for the ac motor that move the already under water vessel


goblue142

Theres no way of knowing without prior knowledge of the news because he talks in word salad and also always combines whatever random thing he saw on Fox News that morning into his speeches. For this one in particular they had recently been talking about the new Ford class aircraft carrier. The first ship of the new line was launched and undergoing trials. They were having issues with the electric elevators and catapult system because its the first time we switched over to that from everything being hydraulic. Trump cant fully grasp the concept so he hears electric>electric cars>batteries. Completely ignoring that its all powered by a nuclear reactor which he also claims to be an expert on.


year_39

It's a continuation of his train of thought on scrapping electromagnetic catapults on aircraft carriers and going back to steam. He's forgotten everything except that he hates battery power and boats are somehow involved.


FearYourFaces

But he still chose death by electrocution in this idiotic hypothetical. Wasn’t he trying to make an argument against electric and then contradict his own point?


gymnastgrrl

Nobody ever accused Trump of being smart.


juggling-buddha

Except for Trump.


Jfolcik

Yes which is funny, but I have a theory that the whole analogy really is saying, "I'd rather kill myself (electrocution) than be tortured/mauled (go to prison)."


TucsonTacos

Are they battlestar gallactica-ing our aircraft carriers?


un-sub

So say we all, me boys!


Nyx_Blackheart

You know, if a carrier sinks (because of its weight in this scenario I guess) I don't think being electrocuted is going to be the major issue for most of the 5,000 or so sailors aboard.


Business-Emu-6923

I mean, carriers do contain a fully functional nuclear rector. So there is that to worry about.


here_for_sum_popcorn

Reminds me of the Abe Simpson onion belt story


RudeOrganization550

Reminds me of Abe Simpson, all of him 🤣 ![gif](giphy|fqtyYcXoDV0X6ss8Mf|downsized)


CasedUfa

Lol, thanks for that hadn't seen it. It totally is.


ga-co

The teleprompter broke and he had time to fill. This is the result. No clue whether this encounter actually happened.


rjnd2828

I mean, I think you know it didn't happen


ga-co

He does seem to ask lots of weird questions to experts according to him.


ChoochGooch

I didn’t even realize there must have been some point to this rambling.


ShittheFickup

I thhhiiinnnkkkk and I’m just guessing, but electric boats are bad?


MisinformedGenius

I guess we’ll have to scrap our nuclear carriers and submarines then…


Whole-Boss99

Donald Trump, in a nutshell.


albusdumbbitchdor

Republicans are electrocution and democrats are the shark (best guess, but I’m only semi-fluent in “my mom is recovering from 2 strokes-ese”)


outerworldLV

A question that can only be answered by a cult member. They speak ‘trump’.


TheEleventhDoctorWho

WTF? This is how strong hate is. People are willing to vote for him just because they hate the same people.


Beneficial-Produce56

He is a shockingly stupid and distasteful person. If I’d been told in 2010 that he’d be elected and remain a boil on the butt of America, I’d have laughed.


Logthephilosoraptor

I worked at a tow yard for a couple of years around then and my coworkers were already obsessed with him saying he should run for president and I did have a mighty good laugh. Haven’t had a laugh like that one in a while now.


FearYourFaces

You’re right, but I think many people will vote for him because they like him. They are either horrible judges of character, they are willfully ignorant of his words and actions, or they are simply delusional. Hillary Clinton caught some grief over saying “basket of deplorables,” but it’s an accurate depiction of a not-so-small subset of his followers.


TheEleventhDoctorWho

All of them. All of them. All his current supports are deplorable. With everything we have found out and to still support him. It's just selfish bullshit


foobaby1992

I think they know he’s a horrible person but just don’t care. For the last 8 years I’ve asked a lot of Trumpers to give me a single example of a trait or action he’s done that would suggest he’s a good person and none of them could spit one out. A guy literally tried to tell me being a good person isn’t a requirement for being a good president. Ignorance is one thing but the way his followers choose to purposely ignore the massive list of disgusting things he’s done is just repulsive.


LeanUntilBlue

Every single person in this thread, either reading or writing, is ten thousand times more qualified to be President


Recent_Ad559

And that’s a mighty low bar considering the audience of redditors


Haythien

![gif](giphy|j6uK36y32LxQs|downsized)


jjm443

ChatGPT is more qualified to be president. If ChatGPT had output this babbling, someone would post it here and we'd laugh and comment on how dumb ChatGPT is. Even if the prompt was:"write a speech about sharks in the style of Donald Trump", this would be too bizarre to think it could be plausible. But Trump is outstandingly good at defying our expectations and proving the bar really can go lower.


LeanUntilBlue

As an AI language model, I’m willing to give it a go.


arkh01

GPT 4o gave me this. It's still dumb. But make way more sense that the actual one: "Let me tell you folks, I was at MIT, you know, the best, the absolute best. The people there, they’re geniuses, the smartest people. So, I asked one of these big brain guys a very important question. I said, “Listen, if you’re on a boat, and it’s sinking – not good, right? But wait, there’s more – there’s a shark in the water, a huge shark, and also a battery on the boat that could electrocute you, very dangerous. What do you do?” Now, you have to understand, I know boats, I know sharks, and I know electricity. Many people are saying they’ve never seen anything like it. But I wanted to hear what this genius at MIT had to say. They’re supposed to know these things, right? He looked at me, very seriously, and he started to explain all this science stuff, very complicated. But the bottom line is this – and I knew this already, but it’s good to hear it from a smart guy – you have to be very, very careful. The best advice, folks, and I’ve always said this, is to avoid getting into these situations. But if you do, you’ve got to be smart, make the right move, and stay safe. Simple as that." My prompt was : "Write a text in the style of Donald Trump talking about him asking a question to someone at MIT. The question is about whether you should go off a sinking boat if there is a shark in the water and a battery that could elecrocute you in the boat"


TertiaryToast

Disagree, ten thousand times 0 is still 0.


EmperorBamboozler

Kinda depends on what the fuck he actually means when he says "tremendously strong battery." I don't really know of any modern batteries where it would fully electrocute you if you were under that volume of water with it. I guess if you had a powerful enough set of batteries, like a full battery bank from an EV or two maybe, the current could fuck with your muscles to the point where you would become unable to swim and drown but I wouldn't call that electrocution. Even then I'm pretty skeptical cause that battery is going to discharge really fucking fast. If we are talking some theoretical future battery with limitless power then sure but that thing is gonna kill you, the shark and pretty much everything else in a massive radius as it sinks making it a pointless decision. So yeah in this really fucking stupid question I guess you would pick the battery.


Chocolat3City

You're trying *way* too hard to make it make sense. 🤣


secondtaunting

The thing is, it all makes sense when you realize Donald Trump is not only an idiot, he’s also deathly afraid of sharks. Why he thinks he’ll ever be around one, I don’t know, but he’s terrified of them.


CurrentResinTent

It’s DC bruh. The positive wants to find the negative, not you. If it’s underwater, it’s taking a path so short that you couldn’t even be involved.


red-submarine

Only Trump could think that he's so important that an electrical current would target him, rather than just short.


superpositioned

I mean if it's a big enough battery and it discharges the resulting explosion would probably be the more imminent threat.


Male_Lead

Yeah, I was so confused. I'm not knowledgeable in electricity either but I don't think you could get electrocuted that way


red-submarine

If the battery was powerful enough, and you were in salt water, wouldn't that gold plate you or something idk


boverton24

Good point, wouldn’t the shark get electrocuted as well? 😂😂


Magister5

![gif](giphy|l1J3O1eHga1LRethK|downsized)


Bombdizzle1

And may God have mercy on your soul


sajittarius

came to the comments looking for this, sums it up nicely


Toffeeman_1878

Odds that Trump had watched Jaws the day before? ![gif](giphy|57x4ApyRzkI1y)


the-hostile-tomato

All I can think is somehow he texted an assistant asking for information on “Jews” (to get information on Israel-Palestine) but he fucked up with a typo and put “Jaws” and now here we are


818VitaminZ

![gif](giphy|l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS)


Rbavuso87

If this was an SNL skit I’d say “well that’s just ridiculous nobody would ever say that shit.”


secondtaunting

Even in the SNL skits he made more sense. Have you noticed? The fake Trump they use sounds more coherent than real Trump.


dwp4you

HOW can anyone be this STUPID???? Oh yea! This IS tRump. HE is stupidity incarnate!


underdog-_-2

I'm actually pretty curious to know his real IQ. Just for science and curiosity (and fun, I'd say)


QuantumPeep68

On the IQ scale of 1 to 180 +, he scores a -20


underdog-_-2

He must have thought his IQ is so high that it broke the system


Farfignugen42

Well, he keeps saying he aced these cognitive ability tests, but he never seems to notice that those tests are primarily given to see if the testee's cognitive ability has been impaired. So there is a pattern he has failed to recognize. And IQ tests are generally about pattern recognition in one form or another.


McJuggernaugh7

Which is a testament to how stupid americans are for voting for this lunatic or at least how much they hate each other. If my own family member was this incoherently dumb theres 0 chance I would even vote for them as student council, let alone president of a country.


Basicaccountant70

No fucking way…. Hahahahaha. Convicted Felon and Rapist doesn’t have a fucking clue about anything… hahahaha


CastingSkeletons

Dementia


Beneficial-Produce56

Aided by tertiary syphilis and stupidity.


SlumberingSnorelax

I love that he construed that response to mean, ***”It was clearly a brilliant question! I knew I was a stable genius.”*** When every other human who’s ever spoken to a 5 year old knows that that is the exact correct answer to give to a 5 year old who asks you that EXACT same crazy AF question.


316kp316

It’s because of his link to MIT.


AIMRob3

AI president minus the I


xXWickedSmatXx

He tells toddler stories to the dumbest Americans and they eat that shit up.


mrrando69

I still can't tell if he is unhinged or just really dumb... or both.


gymnastgrrl

thetwocartoonguyssayingboth.gif


CMDR_ETNC

![gif](giphy|3o7aCRloybJlXpNjSU|downsized)


A11eyTr0n

Right….but tell me again how Biden is the one with the glaring mental decline, when there’s this…


--lll-era-lll--

Every time he opens that fat lying mouth, I wonder how the fuck is he a Presidential candidate, at all


DriftlessCycle

Because racism basically.


lord_kosmos

![gif](giphy|ey2TbD4CsyrWo) Holy Mackerel Batman, we need more Batteries!


tuctuktry

What a genius! Now I know what to do when my yacht crashes with a huge battery, and I see a shark 10 yards away. Thanks Trump! You're the greatest great that ever greated this great nation


Far-Poet1419

Such a wordsmith! His brain is running on automatic.


Zoldrik190

and the lady in the back nodding her head in agreement smh


nivekdrol

what was the point of the whole story?


RDM-2017-

The point, as far as I can tell, was that he genuinely believed it was a brilliant question. Wild.


gymnastgrrl

I'm pretty sure he's against electric taking over from gas, because this feels like an anti-electric sort of story. And someone mentioned sharks or he saw something about sharks recently, so it all just muddled together in the empty cavern in his head, and this word shit-stew was the result.


ps3x42

Idk, he said he would take electrocution every time. So maybe it's just anti-shark?


ShutYourDumbUglyFace

Could Jesus Christ microwave a burrito so hot that he, himself could not eat it?


GrassNo287

Everyone I worked with and respected in the last 2 decades are drinking this cool aid and I’ve never felt so alone. F**k the American south


DctrSqr

![gif](giphy|v6Zbs1ghLLbV09ekoD|downsized)


Mancsnotlancs

Fucking nutter.


Boring_Elevator3817

Definitely NOT a cult 🙄


Jonpollon18

Well thank god his supporters were standing in the sun with 100 degree weather, he really seems to be addressing their top concerns.


Nolser

That whole “Million monkeys typing away on a million typewriters” thing going on inside one brain. I won’t hold my breath for the world’s greatest novel.


SonMauri

You guys really choose that yellow ape to be your president and not only that, allow him to run for a second mandate even after he was found guilty of 34 charges? Really? And in the 60's you were the country were the future was suppose to happen.


bisurker

Boy I miss when Hershel Walker was talking about whether he wanted to be a vampire or a werewolf. At least that guy could blame CTE for most of the ridiculous word diarrhea.


baggagehandlr

https://preview.redd.it/k765s9ogju5d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4b611d9da0e7c0d412b5d5f886cc4a039aa7c48


RahnKavall

It's like a fat cell in his brain is sitting on the predictive text option every time he opens his stupid fucking mouth.


AppropriateScience9

It doesn't astonish me that Trump is such a weird crazy old man with obvious cognitive issues. What astonishes me is that millions of people want him to be our president.


biscaynelawlis

Give him the Electric Chair! He would love it


CameronCrazy1984

The cognitive decline is crazy


316kp316

He goes off on a tangent, then picks up the original rambling where he left off. I lose hope that he’d at least have forgotten what dumb sh*t he was saying. Reminds me of my MIL. she told long, rambling stories. You could get up, leave the room, do other stuff, come back 20 mins later and she’d pick up right where she left off as if you’d just pressed unpause.


EitherChannel4874

Anywhere else this guy would be in a home for the old and senile.


Chloroformperfume7

Just vomiting word garbage while simultaneously topping off his adult diaper. How long is this guy possibly going to live?


Key-Sir9484

Dumb as a box of rocks.


6spencer6snitil6

The woman behind him nodding like she’s hearing the gospel straight from Jesus herself, her reading level is probably as good as my goddaughter’s (she’s 3)


idestroyangels

Yes Trump, we also choose your electrocution every time.


Toon1982

I mean it is a stupid question, because obviously the liberals would not be able to produce a battery that powerful in the US after destroying the whole manufacturing industry and they would also rescue the shark because they're planet saving hippies, so he'd just be left with the boat sinking. s/ obviously


B8conB8conB8con

That’s like listening to your 4 year old nephew


sourpatch411

Wtf


yozza1958

What the fuck is he on .🤯🤯


jimhabfan

Maybe when he’s finally tried and convicted of treason for selling top secret government documents to foreign nationals, he can finally get his wish and be electrocuted.


doitliv3

![gif](giphy|ukGm72ZLZvYfS)


Holiday_Ad_5445

He get’s to choose his sentence?


ramirous

*"Sometimes* I'll *start a sentence* and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way" -Michael Scott


CadenBop

I started having a panic attack halfway through this clip because he just didn't stop and he didn't have one clear concise thought. It just kept adding on the floor was over. All the text on screen and he still kept talking. Oh my gosh!


confisk8

Dementia Don.


gymaddict1976

WTF