And now, Asster Piece Theater presents - Trump's thoughts on language and interpreters [View all]

The president speaking at his golf course to the leaders of Latin American nations at the “Shield of Americas.”
Try to read it.


“I'd love to get to your countries at some point. Marco loves going to your countries. He's always at one of these countries. He likes your countries the best, OK? You know, where are you? I mean, Chile, how good, how is Chile doing? Good. He likes it. He feels very calm. We all like him, right? It helps. He's got a language-- he's got a language advantage over me. Because I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time. I was OK with languages. But I'm not going to spend time learning your language. That much I want to. Just give me a good interpreter. Interpreter? Very important. And I know if somebody's good. I may not speak the language. But I know I had an interpreter recently that wasn't good, talking to a very strong person from a different part of the world. And I could tell, even though I-- even though I don't speak the language, I could tell the interpreter was not good. When you go, uh, uh, uh, when I give a long flowing, beautiful sentence, and in this case, it was a woman. And she gave it in about one fourth at the time. I said, well, their language may be efficient. But it's not that efficient. And I could also tell one half great interpreters. Interpreter is very important. You have a bad interpreter. You think you're doing well? What did I do a good job talking to? This one of that was I great when I spoke to Putin today. Was I great when I spoke to President? And she was I great. But if the interpreter is speaking right or is weak or is ineffective or not good or not interpreting your words correctly, um, in one case we had an interpreter who once you disagreed with what we were saying, you actually changed it. We considered her a foreign minister, right? But what no, the interpreter is-- I talk about it all the time. Interpreters are really important. When you don't speak the language, they don't speak the language. It's you people have no idea. People have no idea how valuable. And I'm on them all the time. People have no idea how valuable a good interpreter is.”

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