Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English,” seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English.

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    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.

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      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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        me too; but at least you know it’s not you’re fault — for whatever that’s worth.

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    It’s going to be a long 50 years. You think it’s fun now, just imagine when Junior is on the throne.

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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.

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    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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    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

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      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

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    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).~