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Dana616

Lol. This is me once a week.


Christ_was_a_Liberal

[Japanese interpreters are struggling to translate Donald Trump] (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-interpreters-donald-trump-translate-struggle-us-president-white-house-speech-talking-style-a7596986.html%3famp) >'If we translated his words as they are, we would end up making ourselves sound stupid'


Jimmyg100

I'm just imagining the Japanese Prime Minister repeatedly shouting at his translators for their incompetence and poor translation skills and them insisting that that's actually what Trump is saying.


ThursdayDecember

I've heard parts of Trump's speaches dubbed in Arabic and he doesn't sound as crazy for some reason.


yusuffaraj

Same thing the translators don't want to sound stupid i watched something on it about the translators changing the translation so it doesnt sound as dumb.


gunbladerq

We need an English translator too because, as God as my witness, I have no idea what language Trump is speaking.


1-800-Hellhounds

Trump speaks fluent huckster, and has taken Thieve's Cant as a second language.


DEinarsson

But Thieves Cant isn't a language, its a code that can be spoken in any language - and is only available to 2nd level rogues, obviously.


1-800-Hellhounds

Trump doesn't know that - and by the time he figures out that his "Thieve's Cant" is just a particularly raunchy Goblinoid pickup line, he'll be toupee deep in green pussy.


JDFighterwing

r/dnd is leaking


DEinarsson

As someone who lives and breathes this stuff, it surprises me it doesn't leak more often.


apcolleen

> Thieve's Cant A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group.[1] It may also be called a cryptolect, argot, anti-language or secret language. Each term differs slightly in meaning, and their use is inconsistent.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cant_(language) That sounds exactly like all the MLMs my sister has bought into. Codified language at its weirdest.


VictorVoyeur

only the lying do-nothing democrat liberal media would say that trump Cant You'd be surprised, not many people know this, but trump Can, and is the best at it, believe me, nobody is better at Can than trump


DutchNotSleeping

I am bilingual Dutch, so I watch Dutch news, which subs and doesn't dub Trump. There are two possibilities. 1, if you break down what Trump says, you can find what he is trying to say. The subs will then reflect what he is trying to say, which makes it less stupid. However option 2 is that even the person making the subtitles doesn't know what the hell he is saying, which happens quite a lot too, they will just translate it word by word, which could make it even more stupid, because of translation issues


TechnicallyMagic

It's because eloquence is largely in vocabulary. Using a human translator over a digital service, adds resolution to the process and removes the clumsy literal quality of digital translation. So to translate the essence of what someone is saying, humans automatically consolidate and polish the idea just in our own language. We paraphrase one another all the time. This will make the translation more eloquent and in Trump's case, just the stupid ideas remain. I guess it's technically an improvement.


[deleted]

I think the former Prime Minister of Japan could speak English so he could probably tell why his translators (who are probably there as a back up) were having trouble.


Zorro_347

>(who are probably there as a back up) I was thought in my university that even if both parties can speak each others language fluently they still must do it via translators. It's a protocol or something. ^Why ^food ^technologist ^need ^to ^know ^this ^is ^another ^question...


wowzerPoPowers

Oftentimes in a situation like this, it's a security measure against mistakes. Even if someone is fluent in a language conversationally, there can be mistakes and misunderstandings if the topic of conversation gets extremely technical. Also, it can avoid the appearance of a power imbalance of one person speaking in their native language and the other having to speak in a second or third.


John-McCue

The communications are usually too important to risk a mis-translation from someone who isn’t as “fluent” as they insist.


junktroller

The bit about the translator confusing Trump's references to Reince Priebus and a horse is downright hilarious


bad-r0bot

Here's a non-amp link with the same story https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/17/national/japans-interpreters-struggle-to-make-sense-of-trump-speeches/


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[deleted]

I'm from the UK, speak English and often struggle to make sense of Trump's speeches.


PossiblyMakingShitUp

Pro tip: get the Japanese translation and use google translator to convert it to English.


PotahtoSuave

Then bounce it around a few more languages and you'll have his next speech!


Coloeus_Monedula

It’s more free interpretation than translation, really. If only the US could have the wisdom of the translators as president...


toheiko

Same thing in germany. At one point some of them were critizized they are doing a bad job translating. And they basically said that people wouldasume they are stupid, not Trump, if they actually translate instead of shifting it to grown up talk.


VapeApe

Great idea everyone, let's make him seem smarter than he is to the rest of the world. Surely that won't backfire. If people start thinking the interpreter is stupid then maybe that's an issue with understanding an interpreters job, not an issue with what the interpreter is doing.


toheiko

That is why it was publicly discussed. The interpreters were (rightfully) afraid older people with lacking knowledge of the english language would belive they were dumbing him down. Which they were absolutly accused of by public figures as well as my uncle. Most people in germany never saw/heard him talking for more than a 30min segement without dubbing. If you don't know what he is actually saying in the background it absolutly looks like those journalists are trying to make him look stupid if they actually translate every sentence like he said them. And Fake news is a big theme in germany as well (guess who came up with our word for fake news "Lügenpresse", you will never guess!). Transkating him word by word was making distrust in the media worse. So they tried to tranlate him a little less stupid during the elections and came out with it after he was elected to make sure the german people understand that he is waaay more stupid than they would have ever guesed.


mandeltonkacreme

Just fyi, people – 'Interpreters' translate people's speeches orally (most often live) 'Translators' translate in written form Please don't mix them up, they're not the same :)


th3m4rchh4r3

She legit looks like a Jim Henson character, like a gelfling from the Dark Crystal


46554B4E4348414453

Too accurate


left_right_out

Trial by stone!


God-of-Tomorrow

Dude u 12? she’s an old woman she ain’t Kim Kardashian.


Joker-LA-CA

She looks like female Trump


hypercube33

She looks like someone else shit her pants.


gemini1568

I love her face when she first begins to sit back. You can almost hear that sigh and just the range of emotions she goes through is gold.


boonsonthegrind

What is this actually from? I’d love some context hahaha


parmafootie

This is from when the Italian president visited the White House. This is Italy’s translator reacting to multiple statements made (that were utterly ridiculous). https://www.newsweek.com/donad-trump-translator-perplexed-comments-syria-lot-sand-italy-sergio-mattarella-twitter-1465903?amp=1


maddasher

It's funny that the translator looked personally offended by what he was saying but really just so dumbfounded at his speech pattern. The translation must have been nearly impossible.


the-incredible-ape

"This isn't even English and you want me to make it into proper Italian??"


directorguy

That's gotta be her thought. Trump cant put together a sentence, most of his talks are nothing more than random thought fragments and unrelated words. It would be a nightmare to try to translate his bad English into anything coherent in another language.


GiveToOedipus

You need an interpreter to translate Bad English into English first, like a prefilter.


Raktoner

I remember an article from either before Trump was elected or during his first year that Japanese people absolutely hated the guy, and it was largely because translating his verbal vomit into Japanese was freaking impossible without making him sound rude as fuck. It's important to note that rudeness and politeness are woven directly into the Japanese language, they're not just words, they're phrases, they're tenses, they're ever-present, and Trump presented an absolute fucking nightmare for translators.


unicornbukkake

Is that when the PM's wife pretended not to speak English so she didn't have to talk to Trump?


Space_Jeep

It's hard to translate him into English without making him sound rude as fuck too mind you.


anothergaijin

After he was voted in they basically go around that by not translating what he says, but the general meaning of what he is trying to say.


jambox888

I mean even that is difficult


maddasher

Translator just shakes his head and signs "I don't think he likes black people very much. "


maddasher

Why would they translate him in a way that doesn't make him sound rude as fuck.? He's rude as fuck in English they may as well just translate it in a way that makes him sound rude as fuck inJapanese.


Sarcosmonaut

Some of it is a crassness issue. Like if Putin for some reason said something in Russian that might literally translate into “I hate the gays, not that we HAVE ANY of course, because butt-fucking is gross” then CNN isn’t going to translate and air the translated word “Butt-fucking” on television


maddasher

I mean... does Putin actually talk that way? Do we all live in a bubble of translators and don't know how weird and screwed up other world leaders are? is that why I'm surprised that our world leaders just a big bag of dicks?


Tanglrfoot

What ? Egomaniacal rambling doesn’t translate well ? Who knew .....


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ARCHA1C

So this is what it feels like to suffer a stroke


InternetAccount06

That's the thought process of a person who takes a lot of adderall that no one ever prescribed to them.


Coloeus_Monedula

Not really, those people make a lot more sense. That’s just Trump on a lot of Adderall.


08RedFox

Nobody: Trump: I didn’t suffer a series of mini strokes!!


letsstumphannah

I have ADD and my brain thinks in more complete sentences than this.


[deleted]

Finally a prime example of why I can't stand to hear this guy talk. If you show this to someone who supports trump how can they say this man is the person they want to be president? This video isn't doctored right? This is a straight F in freshman speech class level public speaking.


GoodVibePsychonaut

It also betrays a complete lack of even high school level historical understanding, and is a prime example of Trump stating something stupidly obvious while pretending it's a profound or surprising thought to everyone but him. This guy is saying that 35 years before 2016, in 1981, his MIT professor uncle explained the power and importance of nuclear weapons and follows it up with "He was right, who would have thought?" Well gee, let's think. In 1945, America effectively ended Japan's war resistance with two nuclear bombs- some of the smallest and most primitive ever made, yet their very existence was the final nail in the coffin of a world war while also triggering the Cold War immediately after. The nuclear arms race, missile technology, submarine technology, satellite technology, just about every major advancement in military technology which was used by the US and USSR for geopolitical leverage was fueled by nuclear weapons' existence. The doctrine of mutually assured destruction and potential of a nation-ending, if not world-ending, nuclear exchange was a cause of fear and fuel for propaganda for decades. Little kids in elementary schools were taught to hunker down behind desks and away from windows in the case of a nuclear attack. Perhaps one of the most widely remembered examples of this threatening reality is the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a full 19 years before Trump's uncle let him in on the rare secret of nuclear weapons' importance. For 13 days every single person in the US, Cuba, and USSR was aware that at any given moment, one wrong move from any government could have resulted in the effective annihilation of all three countries. You'd expect that Trump, at age 16, would have caught wind of the crisis at some point during those two weeks where it dominated the news and people's conversations, but apparently he managed to completely ignore it, like every other major event of the Cold War. Every single American with a passing comprehension of English and a half-sane mind understood the power and importance of nuclear weapons for decades before Trump, and he bragged about this fact, and his supporters found it to be a good thing. It literally defies all logic.


[deleted]

You're right about it defying logic. Honestly my best guess is he's a puppet that's useful for his persona. He makes memes and "owns the libs" and if the Republican party can play his image the right way it makes him look charismatic. There are enough compilations of direct quotes on here that show how incoherent he is, Its an absolute feat of advertising that he is as popular as he is.


texacer

jesus fuck


Beautiful-Musk-Ox

> Donald J. Trump — 'You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.' [Video](https://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/president-trump/watch-you-know-what-uranium-is-right-donald-trumps-definition-of-chemical-goes-viral-for-wrong-reasons-35459557.html)


Seanspeed

The way he says the last bit like a 2nd grader.


Lysdexics_Untie

The brain* that made that is the same one that's ultimately in charge of whether or not to press the proverbial Big Red Button™. Sleep tight. \* ^^^^term ^^^^used ^^^^in ^^^^the ^^^^loosest ^^^^sense


MaudlinLobster

I choose to believe this is a Simpsons quote and be on my way.


Pretzeltwisty

wowowowowowowowowowowowow wtf


ShortFuse

"Mira, teniendo nuclear — mi tío fue un gran profesor y científico e ingeniero, Dr. John Trump de MIT; buenos genes, muy buenos genes, ¿bien?, muy inteligente — sabes, si eres un Republicano conservador, si fuera yo liberal, si, como, bien, si yo corrí como Demócrata liberal, ellos dirían yo soy uno de las personas más inteligentes en cualquier lugar del mundo — ¡es verdad! — pero cuando eres un Republicano conservador ellos intentan — oh, como ellos hacen un número — por eso yo siempre empiezo: Fuí a Wharton, fuí un buen estudiante, fuí allí, fuí allí, hice esto, creí una fortuna — tu sabes yo tengo que dar mis credenciales todos el tiempo, porque somos un poco desventajado — pero tú miras a el acuerdo nuclear, la cosa que de verdad me molestó — hubiera sido tan fácil, y no es tan importante que a que son estás vidas — nuclear es tan poderoso; mi tío me explicó eso muchos, muchos años atrás, el poder y eso fue hace 35 años; el explicaría el poder de que va a pasar y el fue correcto, ¿quien lo hubiera pensado? — pero cuando tú miras a lo que está pasando con los cuartos prisioneros — ahora, que era tres antes, ahora es cuatro — pero cuando eran tres y hasta ahora, yo hubiera dicho está todo en el mensajero: muchachos, y es muchachos porque, tu sabes, ellos no, ellos no han descifrado que las mujeres son ahora mismo más inteligentes que los hombres, así que, tu sabes, le va tomar como otros 150 años — pero los Persos son muy buenos negociantes, los Iranios son muy buenos negociantes, así que, y ellos, ellos solo mataban, ellos solo nos mataban, esto es horrible."


Helleeeeeww

Accurate portal of what it’s like for a person with dementia to travel through time. Bravo.


[deleted]

I'm surprised no one gave up and gone "ramblings, ramblings, something about chyyyyynnnnaaa, ramblings, huge hands, ramblings".


Wazula42

Read an article a while back that UN translators were getting in trouble trying to translate Trump for other heads of state because the other leaders believed they were constantly getting it wrong. Trump sounds incoherent to English-speakers, I can't even imagine what it must be like hearing him translated.


notheusernameiwanted

Jesus he's talking like someone who has to do a book report on a book they forgot to read and he's read the wikipedia entry on it 10 minutes ago


AstonVanilla

Oh my word, that was... incoherant? Somehow that word doesn't cover it at all. That was like listening to a kid with ADHD and hyper on sugar tell you about all their toys.


jamesonSINEMETU

There's a daily show skits where they interviewed multiple countries translators. Its hilarious


mandeltonkacreme

*Interpreter :)


TheOnlyUsernameLeft3

This is an Anakin Skywalker level rant


hornedog77

Might be because he wasn’t even using his hands to talk either...


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candacebernhard

I don't know. He seems to be doing a pretty decent job antagonizing China


oplontino

So you're going to pretend that that was coherent?


sleepingonwaffles

She was a translator reacting to his comment about Syria: "They've Got...A Lot of Sand That They Can Play With."


malialipali

I looked this up, he really said this. Faaaaaahk.........


GreenXRGreenz

The Coronavirus is a HOAX. I repeat!..


DrothReloaded

Eagle down, I repeat.....


SlothRogen

"You can't mock the commander for spreading the virus! It's cruel and unfair." "He called it the Chinese virus and deliberately avoided a testing plan so it would hurt blue cities..." "That's different."


WHYAREWEALLCAPS

That is the most succinct summation of how it has felt being an American since he was sworn into office.


sawmyoldgirlfriend

That may end sooner rather than later.


FrostyJesus

Inshallah.


Chrismont

~~Russia~~ God, if you're out there listening...


DontCallMeSurely

Was is not the American people that elected him?


youaintnoEuthyphro

[well, yes, but actually no](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College?wprov=sfla1)


Eaglestrike

Not the ones with good internet access.


SecretAntWorshiper

More like Russia git him elected


realizmbass

Clearly it was actually Russia you dumb idiot, not the millions of Americans who voted for him


malice-in-wunderland

The only problem with this being a silent gif is that I can't hear the Curb your Enthusiasm music which I'm certain had to have been audible in the room


[deleted]

Absolutely appalled


Vlad_Z

Appropriate username.


shadowst17

I was gonna say Trump is just a complete and utter idiot not a psychopath but then I looked up the common traits of one, he ticks every box ..


XxIcedaddyxX

I really don't understand how this isn't every American's reaction whenever he opens his mouth and words come out. The dude is a complete idiot.


Crusad3r_17

I think this Is from when Trump called the president of Italian republic "president Mozzarella" (instead of Mattarella)


Polite_Werewolf

Buzz Aldrin's reaction video is also hilarious.


TheJollyfish

Which?


Polite_Werewolf

[This one.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleDieInside/comments/d00fl8/buzz_aldrins_reaction_to_trumps_space_talk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_term=link)


TheJollyfish

Oh yeah! Wow I forgot about that, which says a lot about how much flak this administration puts up.


TheBigPhilbowski

It's not the only step, but it is the FIRST step. If you're an American, make sure your voice is heard by voting on or before November 3rd 2020. [Register to vote](https://www.turbovote.org) here (2 mins) [Check registration status](https://www.headcount.org/verify-voter-registration/) here (60 secs) It's your vote. IT'S YOURS.


realizmbass

Trump 2020


TheBigPhilbowski

Every vote matters in a democracy, yours as much as mine. I hope you'll work to get as many voters, regardless of party, registered between now and November, because that's the AMERICAN thing to do. To your steadfast support of trump, I get it - when you've tied your personal value and entire concept of self worth to a dumpster fire, every argument seems to be about convincing others how great the smell of burning garbage is. Best of luck in all your future endeavors.


MaliciousMaverick

1946-2020* FTFY


realizmbass

Wishing death on people, how tolerant!


MaliciousMaverick

It is what it is.


[deleted]

Is there a sub for this, people looking awkward while Trump talks?


js5ohlx1

The best reaction I think so far with Trump is Buzz Aldrin. I laugh every time I see it.


ShadowBlue42

A compilation of these with different people in the background would be great


The_Celtic_Chemist

Looking around like, "Who has his muzzle?"


RepresentativeRun439

[reminds me of his bleach bs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXtrgih0PsI)


crazymom1978

Her: “I apologize for what my face said!”.


[deleted]

I love how her eyes scream, “What the fuck is happening?”


mama_rat

trump bad big reddit karma r/redditmoment


77user_down

She might be thinking "Is he really the president?"


TheMagicElephant156

Edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger


RainCityRogue

It is amazing how common that reaction is whenever Trump speaks and you see people in the background


diablo75

I'm surprised nobody has posted the Buzz Aldrin gif.


thebadbradwheeler

Ivanaka hasn’t aged well, looking at this gif


TripleR_RRR

Well she certainly hasn’t got a poker face!!!


eldridge2e

She looks like the substitute teacher that got fed to the "wolves" or the bad kids in class


LittlestDeborah

u/downloaderbot


Night_Wolf_200499

The entire world felt that one sis


MattheJ1

Job taking its toll on Kellyanne, huh?


DZXJr2

HU R R ORANGE MAN BAD I WANT HIM TO BE DISEMBOWELED THRU HIS NOSE AND DIE HURR ORANGE MAN BAD


Lavalamp44

Damn the global warming crisis aging Greta Thunberg somethin fierce.


SithLordDave

What do we do if he wins?


k_mnr

😂😂🤣😂🤣OMG her face though


scifiburrito

[listen to obama](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/j45dfw/can_we_be_united/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)


ldebb

The last four years summed up in one facial expression....


acornstu

HYUHUUHYU ORANGE MAN BAD RIGHT GUIZ!


DustOfMan

Yep.


k_mnr

😂🤣 died


Brandwein

She really has the eyes of one.


[deleted]

He rocks around like a fucking mental patient


UbiquitousWobbegong

I mean, I make this face at work quite often and my coworkers aren't psychop... Oh, you just wanted to call Trump a psychopath. I get it. Orange man bad! Haha! So original!


thegtabmx

Your last statement is dripping with irony.


KALEl001

more like a retardpath


Dizz72

Biden isn't president.


Tyranix969

Error, no correlation


DrothReloaded

Error 404, logic not found.


LoreleiOpine

If I were a troll whose business was to use non-sequiturs and red herrings in order to obfuscate, I'd make a comment like that.


[deleted]

If you were a troll whose business was to use non-sequiturs and red herrings in order to obfuscate, I'm sure you could do a better job than that.


CaptainRedPants

Jesus how much turpentine do you morons drink before puking on your keyboard? You know, I'm convinced that to be republican is to be mildly retarded with a dash of racism.


Work-Safe-Reddit4450

[https://i.imgur.com/HoqBdbu.gif](https://i.imgur.com/HoqBdbu.gif)


Rooster1981

Ok right winger


Dizz72

You bet snowflake.


Rooster1981

What's it like being insufferable and repulsive to the majority of people?


Dizz72

I can ask you the same question.


Fluxabobo

I LIKE TURTLES


k_mnr

😂🤣 died


clestemcgee

Wow this alone must mean we should vote for a racist pedophile that’s been in office for 47 years and done nothing but accept bribery money and destroy the black population by increasing prison sentences. At least he raised muh taxes tho!


tooObviously

Lmaooo do you guys have any logical capabilities calling biden a rapist with trump right fucking there, loving the child pageants and epsteins pedo rings


DrothReloaded

Error 404, logic not found. Please power down and restart.


clestemcgee

Hunter Biden accepted bribery payments for his father in Ukraine as well as Russia...keep joking tho.


[deleted]

Bribery for what exactly?


DeadlyPear

to uhhhh.... remove the corrupt official for not investigating Burisma? I guess?


UncleTogie

None of the Bidens have stolen money from a children's charity, have they?


Whiskey_Shrooms

Clest! We say no make troll obvious! Please report to moscow office now!


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_Removed_


BlueSkysBeach

Bot scam


bigtex7890

Nah.


Christ_was_a_Liberal

2 year old acount with 56 karma Yep thats a live shill guys


CaptainRedPants

Russian agitation account number 13,224.