Trump Congratulates Leader of English-Speaking Country for His Good English
a year ago by threelonmusketeers to c/nottheonion
Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English,” seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English.
At my high school, if you were a senior with a job (and it wouldn't affect your graduation) you could take a "work program" class which was supposed to be about personal finance and career goals. But the teacher sucked and every Friday, we'd watch a show tangentially related to jobs. That show? The Apprentice.
She thought Trump was a good businessman and we could learn some lessons. We were also assigned Art Of The Deal. She was not thrilled that we weren't into it.
And let me tell you, anyone who watches that show and reads his book then still walks away thinking Trump is anything but a bumbling idiot is a goddamn fool.
I've hated this dude for 20 years.
I’m more interested in why the nation thought that voting for a man who is (at least) politically retarded would have been a great thing in any way, shape or form. Like no one would hire someone who has never touched a computer in their life as CTO of some company; but we would vote Donald trump into one of the most powerful positions in the nation with no real credentials, experience or education in law and governance at all. Baffles me.
Because the clowns running the show weren't willing to even entertain the thought of fixing the deeply broken status quo. When Trump, a political outsider, came and promised to take a sledgehammer to the system he was welcomed with open arms by many of the people who were most hurt by it. Of course Trump is, if anything, an escalation of the worst excesses of the system, but he was still a perfectly positioned straw to people who had nothing to hope for from the status quo. There's simply no equivalent sledgehammer coming from the left, so even people who would be predisposed to progressive politics flock to the only credible attempt to take down the system. What's going to replace it? They don't fucking care; nobody is out there selling the communist utopia so they're flocking to the all-white ethnostate.
PS: To anyone who feels the need to say "but Trump is bad!!!", yes but that's not the point.
So you are telling me that Donald Trump is a credible attempt to take a sledgehammer to the status quo because he is politically retarded and the left doesn't have someone who is politically retarded so that increases the right-wing pull? Like, I'm not even sure if Donald Trump can presently tell you what a tariff is, or the responsibilities of the 3 branches of government. I suppose this is what it looks like when the public votes for dictatorship. Appeal to peoples fear and tribal instincts and apparently the inability to rise above vanishes.
Just voting vor a "celebrity" is insane to me. He grew up so privilaged even if he were not mentally ill, he had no idea how the world works. He has no idea what a world looks like where he shits his diapers and people point and laugh.
I’m sorry you’re growing up with this nonsense.
"So many books. I can't believe how many books they had. There were books everywhere in this building."
It's going to be a long 50 years. You think it's fun now, just imagine when Junior is on the throne.
I genuinely thought it meant Trump was speaking up his own good English.
Not both?
He's lived in a bubble his entire life. for 60 years he lived in an aristocrat's bubble. and since he was in his mid to late 60s, he's lived in one where he's treated like a living god. He was raised by affluent , arrogant, racist and supremacist bastards, and that will never leave him.
remember a few weeks ago , if that. he had a fruedian slip and dropped an antisemetic remark when he was trying to talk about scammers or something?
They're "so well spoken". That's what makes them "one of the good ones".
If this turdsack actually makes it to Thanksgiving he's gonna go full racist while pardoning the turkey.
I despise Trump more than most but this article is silly. Only about half of Liberians speak English, and less than 2% speak it as their first language. It's the official language because there are 31 different languages spoken in the country and they need something to be lingua franca so why not make it English for added international appeal. India is similar
The official language of Liberia is English because the country was founded by former slaves and free black people from the USA.
Presumably the leader of a country would be able to speak its official language, like how so many Canadian PMs speak both French and English
And even then, a better person wouldn't inject narcissism into their stupidity
I was really hoping for him to be talking with someone in the UK or something
Oh gods what did we do to make them anglophones? Belize, I know what we did to Liberia
Ok, I'm just used to someone fucked around in south America in English it's probably America
Well, Belize is actually in North America (Central America and the Caribbean are considered to be part of the North American continent). There is an English-speaking country in South America as well: Guyana, which used to be known as British Guyana.
I would like to Return the compliment, but I can‘t.
tRump sucks.
"Thank you Mister President."
"Yunno, your king speaks good English too, I see a lot of people here speaking good English."
"Again, thank you Mister President."
Nice
Who said anything about "all" of "them"?
Which countries were you thinking about, as examples?
Why the skepticism about the English abilities of a nation founded by former American slaves and Americans of African descent?
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