1st in history: President of France speaks better English than US President.

[L. Coyote]

Link to tweet

[Cha]

1. The bar's low but hell yeah, Betty Bowers!

Too bad Hillary or President Obama aren't our leaders now to help the world with Macron and Trudeau

[Docreed2003]

2. That pic of Trump always makes me lol...

Then I sadly remember that he's our "so called President"!

[world wide wally]

10. That is not the face of a sane man

[Docreed2003]

11. Agreed!

[Ezior]

3. So Hollande speaks no English at all?

Is that what's implied here?

[DFW]

6. Hollande certainly didn't speak better English than Obama

Although speaking better English than Trump or Bush Lite is something most first graders can accomplish.

[Ezior]

7. Oh, yeah. I thought the first time was on 2017-01-20. Of course. :-)

I still remember that moment like a really bad nightmare.

[DFW]

9. We've had other nightmares. They fade with time.

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]

4. Sad, but true. Hell, Vicente Fox speaks better English than cheeto

[jmowreader]

5. Kim Jong Un probably speaks better English than the President of America

[dalton99a]

12. Kim Jong Un can speak English, German and French

His German is reported to be fluent

[burrowowl]

8. Many world leaders speak better English

than dump, w, etc.

[MurrayDelph]

13. My not-quite-six-year-old

Sasquatch (Malamute/Great Pyrenees mix) speaks better English than Trump.

[montana_hazeleyes]

14. Hell, my cockatiel does!

And he's smarter too.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. Europeans tend to learn several other

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]

21. Millions of Americans live..

within driving distance of Quebec or Mexico.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. But how many of those millions actually bother to go to either country?

Not really very many. Or all they ever do is just cross the border for a few hours.

[tblue37]

16. Did everyone forget George W. Bush? nt

[Vinca]

18. Dubya was an oratorical genius compared with Trump.

[HAB911]

17. K&R

[madokie]

19. Hell I speak better English than tRump

and I barely can talk

[Lucinda]

20. KNR

[Gothmog]

22. Betty is correct