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A dozen words account for about half of what he says; very (and very very), strong, tremendous, terrible, fake, horrible, fantastic. I know there are quite a few more but just coming up with them I realize what a black and white thinker he is, but I use the term thinker generously. There arent shades of grey with the simpleton. He is an intellectual child. And he not only has a childs mind, he has a childs emotions. And a particularly undeveloped child at that. Of course the lack of vocabulary can be attributed to dementia and general cognitive decline.
hlthe2b
(102,294 posts)Most of what he says does, but that and a couple of other words he constantly uses and pronounces in a weird kind of way just drives me crazy.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)That's not just a Queens accent!
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)wouldn't annoy me if a good leader spoke that way.
pwb
(11,276 posts)Trump opposite world.
sop
(10,193 posts)captain queeg
(10,208 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)Remember that? When he finally figured out what the words meant and how to properly pronounce them, he couldn't leave them alone for several days!
The man has the linguistic depth of a fucking mud puddle.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)Harker
(14,024 posts)to make this observation.
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)spanky couldn't even carry Chauncey's seeds.
nocoincidences
(2,220 posts)the point that decline started from, which was already below average.
He has never been an intellectual person, and now he is demented. And then there is that pesky personality disorder....
And that is the person trying to be a president, and failing....not really a surprise.
IggleDuer
(964 posts)When he makes a statement, Mango Musselini means that it is not to be believed Ir lacks credibility. In other words, hes admitting hes lying.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)defects. He was not elected, he was ratfucked into his position and the sooner we get rid of him the better. All the reTHUGS and cultists will go down with him too. This is what they've chosen and it
can't come soon enough...
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)He uses a lot of negative; insulting words in repetitive fashion as well...
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)creating insults.
Rhiannon12866
(205,530 posts)spooky3
(34,460 posts)2nd grader words
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)that mobster way he says it.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)triggers me right back to that 12 year old little girl
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)he often describes very strange things as BEAUTIFUL
Paladin
(28,264 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Before I posted. I ID'd the same word in my post below.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)pussy grabber, gaslighter, con man, grifter, bullshitter, asshole, then I start to run out.
i just splorted coffee on my keyboard.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)we MAKE ourselves cut off at 9....
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)brush
(53,791 posts)es466
(114 posts)Walleye
(31,028 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)right when Art of the Deal was published. And even then his concerns were the same - he praised Dave for being a very popular guy, "everybody talks about you". And he used the same words, tremendous, wonderful, fantastic. The same half-sentences, unfinished thoughts.
I used to blame dementia, but this has been this guy's schtick his whole life. I do think there's some dementia there, but only in that he's not as effective with his bullshit and bluster anymore, and can't quite recognize exactly what to say in certain situations. I see him forgetting words sometimes, and mixing up stuff like Nobel for Pulitzer - but the small vocab, the measuring of people's worth based on popularity, pulling bullshit out of his ass with the "everybody's saying".... it was all there in the 80's. He was just younger and a little faster on knowing which line of bullshit will work in the situation at hand.
ooky
(8,924 posts)Grade school age knowledge for the most part, because he is too lazy to read. He appears to be locked in at that level of vocabulary as well.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)[@ link McWhorter/ Brian Williams @msnbc 9/07/2018.]
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/linguist-expert-trump-sounds-like-your-beer-swilling-uncle-1315606083641&ved=2ahUKEwjlg4irkdDoAhURqJ4KHQ-_BSQQwqsBMAB6BAgIEAQ&usg=AOvVaw0PaQ4i9BTF5KyuSko9cD56
NNadir
(33,526 posts)niyad
(113,348 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Asshole.
Pluvious
(4,313 posts)Richard58
(239 posts)Never before have I seen an President so inarticulate. He just spews word salads and like you said, he just repeats the same words over and over again. I swear if I hear him say, "tremendous",
""fake" or "amazing" one more time I am going to freak out!
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)The wall would be beautiful.
The Dow was beautiful.
The low UE numbers were beautiful.
The CV tests (the tests everybody that wanted one could get) were beautiful.
A "beautiful" nasal Saab test! Yep!
kairos12
(12,862 posts)Danascot
(4,690 posts)He loves the word. He applies it everywhere except to himself. Projection much?
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)The cupboard was bare. We could have stopped this before.
Sounds like a broken record. Nothing new!
In case you missed it the Supreme Court ruled 8 to one in favor of the ACA. FEDS have to pay.
And there was a shooting at Duck Dynasty Estate. Maybe the shooter spotted a duck!
Yavin4
(35,442 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)And I mean very young children around age 7 and under. They do something like eat some chocolate and their face covered in chocolate but they deny to have done it. They make a mess like paint on the carpet , walls etc and they have paint on themselves but they still try to make up something and deny it.
Trump seems to have this sort of level of thinking. The kids of course do it because they are too young to to have those thinking skills where you would know nobody would believe something so obviously a lie.
But Trump fired James Comey thinking it would help him get Democratic Support and end the investigation into Russia. He thought because Democrats were angry at Comey over the comments on Clinton before the election they would be happy.
A few other things is how he offered NASA anything they wanted if they could get to Mars . The same with a cure for Covid 19 . And how he wanted to keep the numbers low by not allowing the passengers from the cruise ship in . He was too stupid to see that wasn't going to keep numbers down when there were many more other ways of it coming in or already had come in.
It's fucking gross that hideous perverted dumbfuck is supposed to be President.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)[