Is the figure "32,000" a trump tell?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Or just a coincidence?

After just a surface Google search... ( Wish I had lexus-nexus)

- trump admitted he stopped the Broward votes and had dirt on DeSantis, DeSantis "beat" Gilliam by 32,000. This smells to high heaven and is what made me curious. 32,000 is a benign number. Not small enough to challenge, not big enough to challenge.

- trump wanted to increase US nukes to 32,000

- trump's Eastman withheld 32,000 WH emails

- trump's "out-of-office" message was 32,000 words

- trump's PAC donated $32,000 to Arrington race

- trump announced reopening of America after 32,000 people had died of Covid

- trump exaggerated 2018 rally crowd in Grand Rapids, saying there were 32,000 there

- trump's Peter Navarro said they projected Dow to reach 32,000 in 2020

- highest raise a trump ex-WH staffer got was $32,000

May be more?

[Gaugamela]

1. Interesting connections. It might just be a number that habitually pops

into his mind. It does seem to indicate that the number is just random.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Think all that could matter is that he could have

Dictated the margin of fake victory for DeSantis in 2018

[Gaugamela]

5. Yep. The same number pops out.

[Ocelot II]

2. It's probably a number that he can comfortably pull out of his ass.

Just like two weeks was always his time frame for doing something.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. You're probably right. How do we know when trump is lying?

When he says 2 weeks or 32,000. Just seems coincidental that DeSantis "wins" by 32,000 when trump freely admitted he helped.

[Ilsa]

15. And "John Barron" is his alter-ego. nt

[flying_wahini]

4. Could it be it's his 'standard lie'? something he can remember later if asked.

A Go To answer?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Yup! And his proven lie tally is close to 32,000 believe it or not :)

[brettdale]

7. Its a template number for Trump

The one he uses every time to lie

[gratuitous]

9. Did he have any "Sir" stories?

Big tough guys with tears in the eyes, guys who don't cry, but they do when they have a chance meeting with the former guy, which happens all the time, you just never see it, and the big tough guy says, "Sir . . ." Did I mention he had tears in his eyes?

[walkingman]

10. Simple - He had a vision from a "sky god" that told him to use the number 32,000

[AZSkiffyGeek]

11. Auctioning 32000 acres of Wyoming land for oil

[dchill]

12. However you look at it, it's freaking strange!

[debm55]

13. Maybe his God told him to use 32,000 instead of the 30 that is listed freguently in the Bible.

[Ocelot II]

14. He can be bought for 32,000 pieces of silver?

[localroger]

16. 32000 is an approximation of a number that is important in computers

32768 is 2 to the 15th power, often cited as 32K and a naive person might translate that back to 32000. When Trump was younger and still paying attention to stuff (he obviously got tutored by somebody in the arts of propaganda) it's a number that appeared a lot in ads for computers and computer related business equipment. In the late 1970's it would have been the maximum RAM memory complement of a typical business 8-bit CP/M based computer system which Trump might have encountered. (The Commodore 64 leapfrogged this to 64K by using paging techniques that were not common in earlier computers.) While I'm sure Trump is as conversant with computers as I am with managing failed casinos, I think he might have been at an age when this was a number in a lot of ads which he would have seen as superlative and state of the art. In the late 1970's a small business or personal computer with 16K of RAM would have been typical but 32K would have been a Cadillac maxed-out specimen. I can believe he just saw a few ads, or maybe even one ad, with this figure that impressed him or struck his fancy and without understanding what it meant it's stuck with him ever since.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Now that is very interesting!! Makes the most sense.

[Metaphorical]

18. My thought as well.

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I suspect it is his definition of Bigly. 30k sounds like an arbitrary approximation, but 32k is likely to be remembered in a sound bite and sounds more statistically significant, even with no basis.

Of course, it could be that Trump only has an 8 bit register in his brain for numbers, meaning he only recognizes numbers from -32767 to +32767 (one bit is a sign register).

[Hekate]

19. Very interesting! His very own tic, his obsession. I wonder where the number came from? nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Maybe something long ago?

2018 New York
CNN
A Brooklyn man who registered domain names related to real estate mogul Donald Trump must pay $32,000 damages, a judge ruled Friday.

2018 US govt spent $32,000 from taxpayers money to send Donald Trump Jr to India early this year

2011
Donald Trump gave $32,000 to Ed Rendell
The Donald's cash helped Ed Rendell, Rahm Emanuel win. How will his switch-hitting play?

2018
Trump’s boardroom table from ‘The Apprentice’ sells for $32,000 at Las Vegas auction

2018
The president of white women who carry spit cups told a group gathered at a rally in Washington, Mich., that the last time he was there, in November 2016, some 32,000 people showed up.

“We couldn’t even get near the arena, there were 32,000 people,” Trump said, The Hill reports. “I finished speaking at 1 o’clock in the morning on Election Day—32,000 people.”