Trump says that when he goes to vote, he's asked for his license plate.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 37m
Trump says that when he goes to vote, he's asked for his license plate.

"You know, when you go to a voting booth and you do it the right way and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in. They even asked me. They asked me for my license plate.

I said, I don't know if I have it. They said, sir, you have to have it. I was very impressed, actually."

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/18/trump_were_going_to_stop_mail-in_ballots_need_free_and_fair_elections.html

[bamagal62]

1. He's nuts.

[GoCubsGo]

11. Yup, severely addled.

He's probably trying to say "license," but he can't come up with the right word, because that kind of thing happens with dementia. This kind of thing is becoming more and more frequent. A pox on those in Congress who refuse to utilize the 25th Amendment.

[allegorical oracle]

36. Addled and with a tiny sausage-finger near the nuclear button. His cult forgives his mental

lapses because he's "so active" -- golfs, travels the world, gilds the WH walls, plans a ballroom, is constantly on TV and social media, rips up the rose garden, gins up groups of enemies to torment. A really busy guy.

[Bev54]

56. They forgive him because they are as nuts as he is. I think they understand him.

[Maru Kitteh]

72. They have nothing to forgive him for. He hates who they hate, and

that is why they love him. It’s THAT simple. Nothing to forgive, from their perspective.

[InstantGratification]

40. Congress doesn't initiate a 25th removal

The VP and "a majority of the cabinet" have to agree that his unable to do the job, Congress votes on it if the President says he is able to do the job.


https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-the-constitutions-25th-amendment-works

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

45. Thank you for this info and posting the link.

It was very informative and I learned more about this process.

[slightlv]

53. Well, there goes any hope for the 25th amendment solution...

Was trump thinking about this as he filled his cabinet with golfing and real estate cronies?!

[Upjumpdadebil]

58. Yep. Somebody take the fork out. He's Done!!

License.
License plate.

He's probly never actually Driven a car.
Never experienced a trip to the DMV.

His Life Journey were it not for pvt jets encompasses a few square miles in & around NYC and Palm Beach Florida.

He's never read a book.
When he is a place like UAE or Saudi Arabia where he might excite his food palate, they create and bring in a truck otherwise used to transport raw garbage & tell him its his own pvt Mickey D's.

"Loser" is not quite a sad enuf appellation, but it serves it's purpose while one searches for the perfect modifier.

[FakeNoose]

59. Chump hasn't driven anything except a golf cart in over 30 years

I doubt seriously whether he's had a drivers license in all that time. Chump has full-time drivers in his employ, whether he's in Florida, New York, Washington or anywhere else. Of course nowadays the drivers are his secret service guys, but even before that, he had full-time drivers.

If he wants to show an ID to vote, why doesn't he use his US passport? Easy-peasy.

[Trueblue1968]

41. Rump is a liar. No voter has ever been asked to provide their car license plate.

I have voted for over 50 years and at no time has anyone ever asked to see my car license. #TrumpLies he is a dirty stink' liar.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

47. The idiot likely confused 'license plate" and "driver's license".

I agree with you though that this is just another lie to add to the thousands he has told.

[hauckeye]

2. I call BS- I've never been asked for a license plate and I'm 71

[Eliot Rosewater]

16. First, hilarious you made me almost laugh out loud

Oh and by the way in case anyone is curious it’s unconstitutional to require ID when you vote, ID is required to register, requiring that you go spend money to get anything before you can vote after having already registered is a poll tax.

And even if they give the IDs away for free unless it’s hand delivered to you without you getting up from your couch, it’s a poll tax.

Allowing any state to require ID at the point of voting is unbelievable to me.

[MagickMuffin]

38. Yep, and the year 2000 changed everything

Before then you went in showed your voter certificate and pick up your ballot, go to your polling booth, cast your ballot, drop off in the tabulator, make sure the US flag waves at you and be done for the day!

Since 2000 republicans have made it harder to vote.

And at the Texas DMV I had to provide my birth certificate to receive a new license, otherwise I would not get it removed. I also had to get an appointment before being seen. That was over a 3 month waiting period.


I suppose there’s no going back to the good ol days of sanity.

[allegorical oracle]

39. Florida does-- and it's got to be a real ID type license if you drive. nt

[More_Cowbell]

48. Trump said license plate, not license

He's demented. .

[spooky3]

52. you have to show ID when you vote in VA also, or alternative rules apply:

https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/voterid/

[MIButterfly]

46. Every time I go to vote, I have to hand them my driver's license and they swipe it in their little machine.

Every. single. time.

I don’t remember when it started, but it's been that way for years.

P.S. I'm in Michigan.

[The Blue Flower]

3. Since when are felons allowed to vote in Florida?

wut?

[whopis01]

15. He was convicted in New York, not Florida

Florida's rules allow felons convicted in other states to vote unless they lost their voting rights in that other state.

[Omnipresent]

27. Well didn't he lose the right to vote in NY?

[frogstar0]

42. No NY does not remove felons right to vote

[whopis01]

66. No - the laws in NY are different than Florida

In NY a person convicted of a felony has their rights restored immediately upon release from incarceration, regardless if they are on parole. Basically if they are not incarcerated they are eligible to vote.

So since he isn't restricted from voting in NY due to the felony, Florida law allows him to vote in Florida.

[Walleye]

4. We know every sir story is a lie, fiction

[senseandsensibility]

5. That must be awkward to carry around

Maybe that explains why he has to wear such big baggy suits.

[milestogo]

6. Its important to bring a screwdriver when you vote.

[leftstreet]

13. LOL

[MrWowWow]

7. Is it tough for tr💩mp to see it?

-there riveted to his hippo-scale ass.

[Emile]

8. Can you imagine if Joe Biden said something that stupid?

[AZJonnie]

14. Well, for sure Jake Tapper would be breathlessly writing an entire new chapter

[Diamond_Dog]

9. And nobody corrected him?

[brush]

10. He's lying, or he's never voted.

[AZJonnie]

20. Guessing he probably meant to say drivers license but license plate came out

Fumbling words like this, as he does often of late, may be a sign that the day for the 25th amendment remedy is on the horizon.

This is not to disparage anyone else who has any similar sort of issue, this is part of aging for a great many people. But I know for sure no such other person is the President of the United States.

[brush]

22. Agreed. The 25th Amendment is recommended.

[WestMichRad]

54. Or both.

I’m leaning toward both.

[gab13by13]

12. I doubt that Krasnov has a driver's license or drives a car,

He will probably keep The Beast if he gives up the presidency.

[indigovalley]

17. I have never owned a car, license plate or driver's license so...

have I been voting illegally for 50 years? Yeah, just when you think Trump couldn't show more signs of dementia he comes up with this nutty bananas comment..

[allegorical oracle]

18. He acts like an F-ing space alien -- just now discovering everyday life on Earth. Yeah, you

need ID to vote. A driver license will work. An official double-checks that license with the state records -- then you sign the voting book and your signature is compared to your license signature. Then they hand you a ballot.

How did he vote before he was POTUS -- or did he? Did he ever have a driver license? He mostly rode in limos all his life.

Life is a brand new trip for him, like Edward Scissorhands. Yet he's in charge of all our lives. Scary.

[MineralMan]

19. Trump scrambles words all the time when he speaks off the cuff.

He meant "driver's license" but said "license plate." And, since gis brain isn't connecting words properly any longer, he wasn't even aware he had made a mistake, So, he just blundered on, changed the subject and scrambled some other things. "I ended six wars in six months" There aren't six wars and he hasn't ended any wars at all. But, in his muddled consciousness, he is sure that everything he says is true, because he cannot remember what he said beyond a minute or two.

Confabulation. A very common symptom in dementia. Nonsense just comes out, sounding like complete sentences, but making no sense at all and having no relationship with any known facts.

Trump is rapidly losing the ability to communicate, but doesn't know it and just blathers on. Nobody corrects him. Nobody dares to.

[leftstreet]

21. +1

And worse, since he's such a flaming narcissist, he doesn't care!

Anyone who's dealt with friends, family experiencing onset cognitive decline knows how much the sufferer PANICS when they start screwing up words. They try to correct it, they worry they'll do it again, they apologize....

Not Trump!

[MineralMan]

25. Yes. I've seen it develop more than once in people I know.

It's very disturbing to see someone who is lost in their own mind. And the more they slip away,. the more they try not to seem messed up. It never works.

I do not have any answers about how to deal with the issue, not with people close to me and certainly not with the President of a nation.

I just hope there are people who will act to get help for someone like that. Very, very difficult, though, if the person affected doesn't recognize the issue. I dealt with that with a close relative. I managed to keep things from boiling over for awhile. And the person died before they could do anything disastrous.

Anyhow, this is familiar to many people. Sadly, none of us are in any position to do anything about it.

[Vinca]

23. OMFG. Is that why all the people are taking their license plates off their cars at the polls??

[Brainfodder]

24. We know he SHOULD have meant drivers license! SPIN that, good luck!

They really are just going to let him be nuts in public?

[jmowreader]

26. I saw that on a movie once...

"May I see your license, sir?"
"What?"
"Your license. Where's your license?"
"It's on the bumper, man, back there."

[twodogsbarking]

29. They are both great guys today. Thanks.

[SheltieLover]

28. Another fixed delusion or just another lie?

[Beachnutt]

30. He's scared shitless right now

he has to answer to pooty today and Real leaders have tightened the vice on him.

[twodogsbarking]

31. You're gonna need a bigger wallet.

[synni]

32. He probably means driver's license

Just another example of his addled brain on display.

[IzzaNuDay]

33. His dementia is flaring up again!

Can’t talk about Sleepy Joe when we have Dementia Donny!

[Marie Marie]

34. He should be in prison making license plates.

[Paper Roses]

35. They should ask for a front & side picture with a number. n/t

[Karasu]

37. If the GQP wasn't fully complicit, the 25th Amendment absolutely would have been invoked by now.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. The demented guy is thinking of "driver's license" as ID, but it comes out as "license plate". . . . nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. trump does NOT vote in person-trump votes by mail

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[babylonsister]

68. He's a hypocrite, to boot.

[YoshidaYui]

49. I didn't like how he wants to

Do away with mail in ballots!

[LastDemocratInSC]

50. I think the voting officials are implying

that TSF is kinda broad in the beam.

[gfarber]

51. license plate

At the polls, Trump recalled with some weight,
"They asked me, sir, what's your license plate?"
He said, "Do I know?"
They said, "Yes, it must show!"
He was very impressed by the state.

[calimary]

55. SHEESH! Just exactly HOW out-of-it ARE you, donald?

[C_U_L8R]

57. Has he ever actually voted?

[mwooldri]

60. Has he actually ever driven?

Anything other than a Little Tikes vehicle?

[JoseBalow]

61. Do golf carts count?

If not, then no. I don't think he has ever driven a vehicle on his own.

[mwooldri]

63. Ah thank you!

I suppose golf carts do count as motorized vehicles, but you don't need a driver's license (or even a license plate) to maneuver one of those things around a golf course.

[FakeNoose]

74. Nowadays he drives golf carts but he hasn't driven an actual car since the early 90's

There was a time before he was married when he actually owned and drove a car. After college he worked for his dad, and he had to go around to the Long Island apartments to collect rent checks from the deadbeats. I read about it in one of his books. Or maybe it was one of Michael Wolff's books.

Needless to say, it was a long time ago. Once he got married and started raising a family he has always employed full-time drivers and often they doubled as body-guards.

[LilElf70]

62. Toopid is as

toopid does.

Can anyone answer as to why this loser is still in power? With all the shit he has done illegally, one would think by now that someone would have found a way to get him thrown out.

[tanyev]

64. Tell ya what, Donny. Next time toodle over there in your golf cart and drive it into the building

so the election officials can see it. That’ll really impress them!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

65. Who here has ever had to unscrew their license plate from their vehicle before heading into the voting booth?

Link to tweet

[Iris]

67. God, he's stupid. A lucky dumb ass

[Buns_of_Fire]

69. Not the plate, you boob.

The "Wide Load" banner so that they can tell if you'll require one booth or two. Geez. Some people. nt

[Wednesdays]

70. I kind of doubt TSF has had a license plate in at least 40 years.

Does anyone know the last time he actually drove something other than a golf cart since the 1980's?

[struggle4progress]

71. Senility is sad

[Jersey Devil]

73. Maybe where he votes they have valet parking

WTF?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

75. When I last went to vote, I was asked for my DNA.

Well, actually, I was asked to put my empty paper coffee cup in the trash. But, I am sure that they actually wanted my DNA. They were just pretending they wanted to keep the voting precinct area clean.

Thugs, bullies.

So these days, I push my ballots into the box outside city hall, with my coffee securely held in the cup holder.

gotv

[Omnipresent]

76. Maybe he'll drive his "Tesler" in..

Then he can brag to an uninterested DMV employee, about it being, “all computer”.

[Zambero]

77. And my bank's drive-up ATM also requires this

Every time I drive up, I need to remove my vehicle's license plate, and it's amazing how the ATM just sucks it up and spits it back. I suppose it was somewhat easier with a debit card, but hey, that's progress. Anita Bryant would have been very pleased. I can just hear her doing a public service spot: "License plates. They're just just for voting!".

[LetMyPeopleVote]

78. Voting by mail is so 20th century. Voting by license plate: the future is now.