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trump's letters to world leaders on tariffs are horrible and embarrassment to our country
It is pretty clear that trump wrote these letters himself and no one proofed these letters or trump rejected any corrections in his grammar.
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Below is a letter written by President Donald Trump.
If you were a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, evaluating a student seeking an MBA, how would you grade the letter? Use a scale from 0 to 100, as applied in a course on public communications by executives addressing the public.
Please explain the reasoning behind your grade in detail. Include specific strengths, weaknesses, and notable rhetorical or stylistic choices that influenced your assessment.
Ensure your feedback is constructive, detailed, and descriptive, and refer to the student as Donald throughout your comments.
However, be ruthless in identifying any inaccuracies, distortions, grammatical or spelling errors, and any misleading or manipulative elements.
Finally, based on the evidence in the letter, state whether you believe Donald is smarter than a fifth grader, and justify your conclusion.
If you were a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, evaluating a student seeking an MBA, how would you grade the letter? Use a scale from 0 to 100, as applied in a course on public communications by executives addressing the public.
Please explain the reasoning behind your grade in detail. Include specific strengths, weaknesses, and notable rhetorical or stylistic choices that influenced your assessment.
Ensure your feedback is constructive, detailed, and descriptive, and refer to the student as Donald throughout your comments.
However, be ruthless in identifying any inaccuracies, distortions, grammatical or spelling errors, and any misleading or manipulative elements.
Finally, based on the evidence in the letter, state whether you believe Donald is smarter than a fifth grader, and justify your conclusion.
with a sentence, I suggest YOU get off the thread.
Doesn’t he have any staff that have any brains or training?
OMD. Multiple errors in one sentence. 
Your second sentence needs hyphens.
Perhaps his Grandfather continued to write this Way in English, and it got passed down and confused over the Years.
Or perhaps he picked it up from Hitler's letters. 
BUT IT'S SEEMINGLY COMPLETELY RANDOM!!!!
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"Dear Mr. President" and you know she's a woman. They literally cobbled these together this morning.
Not just trade or Trade. But he used nevertheless, so I guess it’s like a really smart letter.
What a dumbass. 
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WHAT A JOKE: This is Trump’s letter to Japan, raising tariffs on them.
The letter is 528 words long and has 20 grammatical errors. Here they all are.
•“Great Honor” – unnecessary capitalization (should be “great honor”)
•“Trading Relationship” – should be “trading relationship”
•“Trade Deficit” – should be “trade deficit”
•“Country.” – awkward sentence structure leading into “Nevertheless,” (run-on-like transition)
•“TRADE.” – no need for all caps; “trade” would suffice
•“Number One Market in the World, by far.” – informal and poorly structured for a formal letter
•“Tariff, and Non Tariff, Policies” – should be “tariff and non-tariff policies”
(hyphen needed; unnecessary commas)
•“far from Reciprocal” – “reciprocal” should not be capitalized
•“only 25% on any and all Japanese products” – awkward phrasing; “on all Japanese products” would be clearer
•“separate from all Sectoral Tariffs.” – “sectoral tariffs” should not be capitalized
•“Tariff” – capitalized repeatedly when it shouldn’t be
•“Tariff will be subject to that higher Tariff.” – redundant and confusing phrasing
•“we will do everything possible to get approvals quickly, professionally. and routinely” – period should be a comma or semicolon
•“In other words, in a matter of weeks.” – fragment; awkward placement and tone
•“If for any reason you decide to raise your Tariffs, then, whatever the number you choose to raise them by,” – clunky and redundant
•“Please understand that these Tariffs…” – “tariffs” should not be capitalized
•“Tariff, and Non Tariff,” – again, “non-tariff” should be hyphenated and neither word should be capitalized
•“Trade Barriers,” – unnecessary capitalization
•“This Deficit is a major threat…” – “deficit” should not be capitalized
• “National Security!” – overly dramatic; should be lowercase and period, not exclamation mark
•“Great Honor” – unnecessary capitalization (should be “great honor”)
•“Trading Relationship” – should be “trading relationship”
•“Trade Deficit” – should be “trade deficit”
•“Country.” – awkward sentence structure leading into “Nevertheless,” (run-on-like transition)
•“TRADE.” – no need for all caps; “trade” would suffice
•“Number One Market in the World, by far.” – informal and poorly structured for a formal letter
•“Tariff, and Non Tariff, Policies” – should be “tariff and non-tariff policies”
(hyphen needed; unnecessary commas)
•“far from Reciprocal” – “reciprocal” should not be capitalized
•“only 25% on any and all Japanese products” – awkward phrasing; “on all Japanese products” would be clearer
•“separate from all Sectoral Tariffs.” – “sectoral tariffs” should not be capitalized
•“Tariff” – capitalized repeatedly when it shouldn’t be
•“Tariff will be subject to that higher Tariff.” – redundant and confusing phrasing
•“we will do everything possible to get approvals quickly, professionally. and routinely” – period should be a comma or semicolon
•“In other words, in a matter of weeks.” – fragment; awkward placement and tone
•“If for any reason you decide to raise your Tariffs, then, whatever the number you choose to raise them by,” – clunky and redundant
•“Please understand that these Tariffs…” – “tariffs” should not be capitalized
•“Tariff, and Non Tariff,” – again, “non-tariff” should be hyphenated and neither word should be capitalized
•“Trade Barriers,” – unnecessary capitalization
•“This Deficit is a major threat…” – “deficit” should not be capitalized
• “National Security!” – overly dramatic; should be lowercase and period, not exclamation mark
