President Donald Trump has repeatedly demonstrated shaky arithmetic abilities and a seeming lack of grasp of basic equations and percentages.
That shortcoming was on display once more at a dinner held Thursday, Sept. 17, in the White House Rose Garden.
Roughly a hundred hunters, anglers, and officials from the outdoor industry gathered to hear the president discuss an executive order intended to loosen restrictions on hunting and fishing.
Yet Trump’s remarks may have failed to land his message. He slurred his words and bungled straightforward arithmetic as he boasted about “duck hunters” and claimed to have secured an outsized share of their votes.
“We also strongly support your duck hunters. Duck hunters, hunters,” he said, slurring the word “duck,” before adding, “The thing is a big deal.”
“And they came to us and they met with my people, and they came to me, my people and we are fully in favor of our duck hunters. Who would think that’s a big deal?” he asked in wonder.
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“I hear I got 100 percent of the duck hunter vote. What did I get 100? If there was 150, I would have gotten 150 percent,” he bragged inanely.
No, there isn’t such a thing as winning 150 percent of a vote.
He highlighted a new executive order that opens up more federal land to hunting and fishing. He also boasted about an order that rolled back a Biden-era rule banning the use of lead ammunition and tackle, The Hill reported.
Lead is toxic to wildlife. When animals consume game, hunters sometimes leave behind lead-laden ammunition; the lead poison can kill them. That’s why former President Joe Biden banned it.
His fuzzy math was again evident as he left a campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, Sept. 17. While preparing to board Air Force One in Charlotte, he told reporters that buying goods from a foreign country equates to a loss.
“For instance, if we lose $50 billion a year with a country and we say we’re not going to do trade with you anymore, we don’t lose $50 billion a year,” Trump stated absurdly.
A post on X presented the clip with this explanation.
“President Trump Explains Trade Deficits: ‘If we buy 2 billion dollars worth of Bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing 2 billion dollars. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save 2 billion dollars’. It’s just simple Economics.”
Social media quickly spiraled into a humorous frenzy, with users poking fun at the president and turning his own remarks against him.
“He’s dum with a b,” one X user proclaimed, referencing Trump’s repeated claim that most people don’t realize that “dumb” is spelled with a “b.” Most third graders know that “dumb” is spelled with a “b.”
Others chimed in. “Trump’s maths is simply ridiculous… He’s pathetic!!”
This commenter didn’t hold back. “OMG, he is such a f–king idiot. The US should be super embarrassed.”
Another added, “Once again, that’s not how math works.”
This comes from someone who constantly boasts about his IQ and claims to be smarter than former presidents Barack Obama and Biden, among many others.
For the record, Biden earned a BA in history and political science from the University of Delaware, and earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Syracuse University College of Law.
And Obama? He also surpasses Trump in educational credentials, having a B.A. in political science from Columbia University and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.
Not to mention, a perplexed Trump repeatedly boasts about “acing” IQ tests and daring others to take one. That’s fine, except he never took IQ tests. He actually took three cognitive tests within less than a year after returning to the White House in January 2025.
Trump repeatedly took the exam, known as the MoCA test, last year. It is a 10-minute screening tool for mild cognitive impairment that people with normal cognition typically pass. It includes simple tasks such as serial subtraction, rather than solving complex mathematical equations, and it involves identifying pictures of animals.
