Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English,” seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English.
I would like to Return the compliment, but I can‘t.
At this point, Sean Strickland would be better president than Trump
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I was really hoping for him to be talking with someone in the UK or something
Depending on the region, that might have validated him… /s
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.
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It’s a farmed turkey, it’s mostly white meat.
A lot of slightly smarter Americans wouldn’t have taken the risk of such a remark, despite remaining oblivious to the mere existence of Liberia.
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
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
It’s going to be a long 50 years. You think it’s fun now, just imagine when Junior is on the throne.
They read a lot of books in Libraryia. Many such books. Everybody says so.
Yuuuuuge books, the biggest books anyone has ever seen
Inb4 it’s a dictionary
“So many books. I can’t believe how many books they had. There were books everywhere in this building.”
Well, no one could say that to him
It’s such a trump thing to do
this is not trump being oblivious, this is trump being blatantly racist
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?
Not both?
He’s (probably accidentally) correct in this case, Joseph Boakai’s first language is Kissi
See? This is that shit i was talking about when he first ran when i was still in high school. Dude is so fucking oblivious.
I’m sorry you’re growing up with this nonsense.
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.
My theory is that a general lack of empathy caused his racist mindset combined with his his perceived superiority caused by his political power results in him not giving a fuck.
You’re neglecting a whole side dish of stupidity.
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.
I see you have not met many CTOs, unfortunately.
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.
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.
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?
The political retardation isn’t necessarily viewed as a bad thing, but that’s not the point. Trump is actively, uncompromisingly picking a fight with “them”. Draining the swamp, taking on the “deep state,” “telling it like it is,” et cetera, these things signal change to Trump voters; Trump gives his base the impression of someone who acknowledges that things are bad, promises to fix them and is willing to pick fights with people they despise to make good on that promise. Due to the American Left’s parasocial relationship with neoliberals, all major leftwing figures in America hilariously fail number three. Bernie’s fight oligarchy rallies that were apparently so significant they kept making national news? To Trump that’s just Tuesday. Because apparently that needed repeating: Yes trump is retarded, but that’s not the point.
why would putting someone who knows nothing about governance and politics in the most powerful positions in government and politics even be a good thing, or not a bad thing? Like I have aforementioned, appealing to people’s fears and prejudices isn’t something new or special. That’s like saying “there hasn’t been any change so instead of doing research and actually voting differently, I’m going to continue voting for the same 2 parties and continue to expect change. especially if one of them knows fuck-all about what’s going on and how to be a leader.” I disagree. but TL;DR…
MY point and my question to American voters is why they feel that putting a man in a position that he is completely not educated or competent in would be beneficial for anyone?
We already saw this type of behavior with Hitler. Appealing to people’s fears and prejudices. Appealing to people’s tribal instinct of the “U.S. vs them.” dichotomy. it’s not new or special just because his retarded ass does it. And it’s sad that the average American voter seems to be too historically illiterate to see the exact same signs. History truly is doomed to repeat itself.
I don’t even think trump has made good on a single promise yet — from “no new wars”, “affordable groceries”, “no taxes on tips” and yet, even though he basically flat out lied to his supporters faces, they still support him. Why?
Like I have aforementioned, appealing to people’s fears and prejudices isn’t something new or special.
It’s not, but establishment politicians on the right stuck to certain limits to keep their image as respectable moderates. Trump doesn’t give a shit about that, so he could say things like “they’re sending us rapists and drug dealers” and promise nonsense like a Muslim ban. The idea nothing new, but he’s a clear escalation on that feont.
MY point and my question to American voters is why they feel that putting a man in a position that he is completely not educated or competent in would be beneficial for anyone?
And my answer is that the people who are educated and competent have done fuckall to make things better, so people who want change now have decisively shifted towards Trump.
We already saw this type of behavior with Hitler. Appealing to people’s fears and prejudices.
Exactly. Hitler appealed to people’s fears and prejudices, yes, but he also appealed to their economic uncertainties.
even though he basically flat out lied to his supporters faces, they still support him. Why?
Because he’s hurting the people they hate, just like Hitler did. It’s the classic fascist playbook; appewl to people’s prejudice and economic uncertainty, then keep playing up the former to distract from the latter.
If that wasn’t cringe enough, here’s what the article concludes with:
“I could do this all day,” Trump mused as the leaders took it in turns to flatter him.
I want him to say that to Starmer
“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.”
I genuinely thought it meant Trump was speaking up his own good English.
