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Trump's language, overall, is really the most un-American of any president.
The Egalitarians
Sophia Rosenfeld, The Nation
Donald Trump almost never utters the words “liberty” or “equality.” With little fanfare, he has abandoned perhaps the two most traditional and aspirational touchstones of American political life... With Trump at the lectern, what we get instead are references to deal-making, money, and a temporally unspecific kind of national greatness associated with being “tremendous” and, always, “a winner.” This entrepreneurial jargon is then mixed with words and images intended to stoke anger and fear...
Trump's world vision is one of winners and losers, dog eat dog and anything goes. His world is one vast pyramid scheme. His lexicon reflects that.
He doesn't view his fellow citizens as fellow travelers or brothers and sisters in the struggle of life, to Trump people are fertile fields to be plowed.
One does not entrust the henhouse to the chicken thief.
Trump's world vision is one of winners and losers, dog eat dog and anything goes. His world is one vast pyramid scheme. His lexicon reflects that.
He doesn't view his fellow citizens as fellow travelers or brothers and sisters in the struggle of life, toTrump people are fertile fields to be plowed.
One does not entrust the henhouse to the chicken thief.
Trump's world vision is one of winners and losers, dog eat dog and anything goes. His world is one vast pyramid scheme. His lexicon reflects that.
He doesn't view his fellow citizens as fellow travelers or brothers and sisters in the struggle of life, to Trump people are fertile fields to be plowed.
One does not entrust the henhouse to the chicken thief.
Were you thinking about saying, "not entrust the henhouse to the fox", perhaps? And then realizing that foxes are regarded as being very smart?
Not that Trump is any great orator, though he seems to be able to get through to his audience, I imagine if all of us had recordings of most of our day-to-day conversations, there would be some real doozies.
Very true. He uses small words, he avoids providing complex information (indeed, he probably can't understand complex information himself), he panders to the audience by telling them they're smart, and they probably enjoy the mean jabs and the vulgarities, too.
It's sad to think that once upon a time, Americans - even less educated ones - loved having smart, eloquent, competent presidents. When FDR spoke, it was clear that he made no effort to pretend he was one of the masses, and he didn't pander. But people on even the low-end of the socio-economic scale, loved him and said it felt as if he were speaking right to them.
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Originally Posted by Hoot N Annie
Wow! Another round of meaningless LWLT blather. And yet, Donald Trump is still President.
Yes, Trump is still President.
That's because, even though Trump himself disdains the the law - whether it's a matter of his skirting racial regulations or suggesting the extra-judicial assassination of Hillary - this country still operates on the basis of law. This is why he hasn't just been dragged out so far, as would have happened in other countries.
He is a very stable genius with ine the highest IQS and the best words. On a serious note, take away his grandstanding and theatrics and it's amazing to try to decipher his incredible use of language.
“Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
Trump supporters understand this? Then there is a decoding sheet that the majority of the voters didnt receive when they voted obviously.
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