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applegrove

(132,222 posts)
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 07:18 PM Dec 2025

He's going after sign language. May the best lip readers

in the world, those who are deaf, get together and bring down the mango mueselini by reading his private words to staff.

And the evil continues...The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,”

Kathleen Cottontail 🏳️‍⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 (@kathleengmaz.bsky.social) 2025-12-13T12:19:38.410Z
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He's going after sign language. May the best lip readers (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2025 OP
And don't show blind people at his press conferences BOSSHOG Dec 2025 #1
Interpreting enid602 Dec 2025 #2
Putin doesn't have a sign language interpreter, why should Trump? Jim__ Dec 2025 #3
So, Is This Sarcasm I'm Not Getting? ColoringFool Dec 2025 #6
It would be much harder to synthetically alter or deepfake alittlelark Dec 2025 #4
Good Grief! Our fellow citizens who happen to be deaf deserve to know what he's saying and they vote! Rhiannon12866 Dec 2025 #5
ASL should be taught in middle school berniesandersmittens Dec 2025 #7

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
1. And don't show blind people at his press conferences
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 07:22 PM
Dec 2025

Or people in wheel chairs or black people. Only real Americans who would be accepted by republicans.

alittlelark

(19,139 posts)
4. It would be much harder to synthetically alter or deepfake
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 08:20 PM
Dec 2025

…Having to coordinate with sign language. He also may not like the potential politics of an random interpreter

Rhiannon12866

(255,595 posts)
5. Good Grief! Our fellow citizens who happen to be deaf deserve to know what he's saying and they vote!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 08:53 PM
Dec 2025

berniesandersmittens

(13,198 posts)
7. ASL should be taught in middle school
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 09:58 PM
Dec 2025

The white house should be ashamed of themselves....(But they don't feel shame. Assholes)

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