Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English,” seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English.

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    9 hours ago

    They’re “so well spoken”. That’s what makes them “one of the good ones”.

    If this turdsack actually makes it to Thanksgiving he’s gonna go full racist while pardoning the turkey.

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    A lot of slightly smarter Americans wouldn’t have taken the risk of such a remark, despite remaining oblivious to the mere existence of Liberia.

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    I despise Trump more than most but this article is silly. Only about half of Liberians speak English, and less than 2% speak it as their first language. It’s the official language because there are 31 different languages spoken in the country and they need something to be lingua franca so why not make it English for added international appeal. India is similar

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      Presumably the leader of a country would be able to speak its official language, like how so many Canadian PMs speak both French and English

      And even then, a better person wouldn’t inject narcissism into their stupidity

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    16 hours ago

    It’s going to be a long 50 years. You think it’s fun now, just imagine when Junior is on the throne.

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      He’s lived in a bubble his entire life. for 60 years he lived in an aristocrat’s bubble. and since he was in his mid to late 60s, he’s lived in one where he’s treated like a living god. He was raised by affluent , arrogant, racist and supremacist bastards, and that will never leave him.

      remember a few weeks ago , if that. he had a fruedian slip and dropped an antisemetic remark when he was trying to talk about scammers or something?

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      11 hours ago

      He’s (probably accidentally) correct in this case, Joseph Boakai’s first language is Kissi

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    19 hours ago

    They read a lot of books in Libraryia. Many such books. Everybody says so.

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      Yuuuuuge books, the biggest books anyone has ever seen

      Inb4 it’s a dictionary

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        7 hours ago

        “So many books. I can’t believe how many books they had. There were books everywhere in this building.”

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      7 hours ago

      “Thank you Mister President.”

      “Yunno, your king speaks good English too, I see a lot of people here speaking good English.”

      “Again, thank you Mister President.”

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    18 hours ago

    Probably negotiating the minting more DJT Caesar commemorative proofs. Act now and you can get a SECOND DJT CAESAR commemorative proof free. ~(additional shipping and handling charges will apply).~

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      10 hours ago

      Who said anything about “all” of “them”?

      Which countries were you thinking about, as examples?

      Why the skepticism about the English abilities of a nation founded by former American slaves and Americans of African descent?