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(297,196 posts)Too bad Hillary or President Obama aren't our leaders now to help the world with Macron and Trudeau
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Then I sadly remember that he's our "so called President"!
world wide wally
(21,742 posts)Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Ezior
(505 posts)Is that what's implied here?
DFW
(54,370 posts)Although speaking better English than Trump or Bush Lite is something most first graders can accomplish.
Ezior
(505 posts)I still remember that moment like a really bad nightmare.
DFW
(54,370 posts)Bush Jr. said we shouldn't "misunderestimate him" and told about his "ecolectic" summer reading list. When my wife, who is from Germany, doesn't know a word in English, she asks me before making up her own.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)dalton99a
(81,480 posts)His German is reported to be fluent
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)than dump, w, etc.
MurrayDelph
(5,294 posts)Sasquatch (Malamute/Great Pyrenees mix) speaks better English than Trump.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)And he's smarter too.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)foreign languages starting at a very early age. In this country, foreign language instruction rarely begins before high school. So Americans, even those who actually care about learning other languages, just don't have the opportunity to gain much fluency. It doesn't help that the vast majority of Americans live thousands of miles from a country where the primary language isn't English. In Europe, you don't have to travel very far to be somewhere that they don't speak your first language.
Of course, it doesn't help that Trump's English proficiency is startlingly limited.
a la izquierda
(11,794 posts)within driving distance of Quebec or Mexico.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)Not really very many. Or all they ever do is just cross the border for a few hours.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)Vinca
(50,269 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)and I barely can talk