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Trump Congratulates Leader of English-Speaking Country for His Good English
(www.thedailybeast.com)
I would like to Return the compliment, but I can‘t.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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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.
It's going to be a long 50 years. You think it's fun now, just imagine when Junior is on the throne.
this is not trump being oblivious, this is trump being blatantly racist
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?
He's (probably accidentally) correct in this case, Joseph Boakai's first language is Kissi
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.
It's a farmed turkey, it's mostly white meat.
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
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.
Sure but that ethnic group is only a tiny minority there now and their president isn't one of them
Now you make me question whether it's a future deportation destination...
Also why the flag is almost the same I guess?
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
That's what an educated person sounds like Donald.
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."
It's such a trump thing to do
Probably negotiating the minting more DJT Caesar commemorative proofs. Act now and you can get a SECOND DJT CAESAR commemorative proof free. ~(additional shipping and handling charges will apply).~
Probably speaks better than him tbh. How long until he tries to rename English to American?
Nice
Well, no one could say that to him
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.
me too; but at least you know it’s not you’re fault — for whatever that’s worth.
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.
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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."
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 genuinely thought it meant Trump was speaking up his own good English.
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