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Trump pronounces Yosemite as "yo-Semites" at White House event. (Original Post) bluewater Aug 2020 OP
Oh I want video underpants Aug 2020 #1
Here! soothsayer Aug 2020 #6
You know.... underpants Aug 2020 #16
He's a rambling man soothsayer Aug 2020 #18
Doing they best he can underpants Aug 2020 #21
He was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Dave Starsky Aug 2020 #29
Agree. But can't help but think about what he did about college Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2020 #30
If it's not about him he doesn't care underpants Aug 2020 #33
Yes. He doesn't care. He has got to be one of the strangest Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2020 #34
He's probably heard of it, but never read its name in print... JHB Aug 2020 #36
Good point. Never thought of that. Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2020 #38
That is difficult to believe Yeehah Aug 2020 #32
Ah jeez... louis-t Aug 2020 #2
It would be funny, if it wasn't so tragic. Coventina Aug 2020 #3
Just like I did... Aristus Aug 2020 #4
"stupid idjit galoot" DinahMoeHum Aug 2020 #5
Open that bridge I say 💥 Bam 💥 close it close it underpants Aug 2020 #19
Heh heh. I'll raise you one. . . DinahMoeHum Aug 2020 #22
😁 underpants Aug 2020 #24
That's how he greets Jared SoonerPride Aug 2020 #7
Oh snap! Alacritous Crier Aug 2020 #15
LMAO underpants Aug 2020 #17
DUzy worthy! Brother Buzz Aug 2020 #23
And don't forget Rex Tillerson, who added a famous expletive before the "moron." Mike 03 Aug 2020 #8
Good point! bluewater Aug 2020 #12
There is a difference Cirque du So-What Aug 2020 #25
Thanks for the information! bluewater Aug 2020 #27
as in "Yo! Semites! I want you to vote for me!" CTyankee Aug 2020 #9
So he thinks Half-Dome greymattermom Aug 2020 #10
LOL, what a maroon Baclava Aug 2020 #11
I gotta try that at Shul Friday night!!!nt PCIntern Aug 2020 #13
I have a t-shirt with that Sympthsical Aug 2020 #14
That is almost - dare I say it? - prophetic. Tactical Peek Aug 2020 #28
LOL, that's the one I have! n/t Sympthsical Aug 2020 #31
Trump is decidedly dyslexic. He makes W look good. no_hypocrisy Aug 2020 #20
"When they gaze upon yo-Semites". blue neen Aug 2020 #26
... demmiblue Aug 2020 #35
Yo! Semites in the House! chriscan64 Aug 2020 #37
When I was little, and first saw it .. ananda Aug 2020 #39
Wonder if he pronounces Arkansas "Ar-Kansas" LW1977 Aug 2020 #40

underpants

(182,788 posts)
16. You know....
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 11:26 AM
Aug 2020

Taking the time to read the material before you just start winging it in public (without his reading glasses too) might just help.

Yesterday he dry read what I thought was the healthcare plan but it turned out to just be ramblings about several topics. The speech writing is terrible too. That doesn’t help either.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
30. Agree. But can't help but think about what he did about college
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 12:15 PM
Aug 2020

He ONLY wanted to learn about one thing - commercial RE. Like we would get the context - Sequoia and Yosemite. Related. It's like he may never even heard of Yosemite.

underpants

(182,788 posts)
33. If it's not about him he doesn't care
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 12:22 PM
Aug 2020

No he may have never heard of Yosemite. Still reading through it beforehand if only so as not to give the “yeah whatever” impression would help. I guess he was busy with Executive Time.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
34. Yes. He doesn't care. He has got to be one of the strangest
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 12:31 PM
Aug 2020

mix of crazy and sane and perverted and psychologically defective people ever to exist. Colleges should have a degree for it in the future.

JHB

(37,159 posts)
36. He's probably heard of it, but never read its name in print...
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:57 PM
Aug 2020

...so he has no mental connection between the spelling and pronunciation.

Yeehah

(4,587 posts)
32. That is difficult to believe
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 12:18 PM
Aug 2020

This is the President of the USA.

We must abolish the electoral college.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
8. And don't forget Rex Tillerson, who added a famous expletive before the "moron."
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 11:16 AM
Aug 2020


Trump does bear one distinction. He's been called a moron by more subordinates than any other president in American history.

Cirque du So-What

(25,934 posts)
25. There is a difference
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 11:54 AM
Aug 2020
According to British legal stature, an idiot is an individual with an IQ of less than 20, an imbecile has an IQ of between 20 and 49, and a moron an IQ between 50 and 69. Cretins are specifically persons with a deformity or mental retardation caused by a thyroid deficiency; cretinism is now more commonly called hyperthyroidism. Idoit isderived from the Greek for "private person" (as in idiosyncracy); moron is from the Greek for "foolish"; imbecile is a construction from a Latin phrase meaning "without a stick"; cretin comes, via the French, from the word "Christian" and implies a holy person - God's fool" as it were.

I'm going with idiot.

Sympthsical

(9,073 posts)
14. I have a t-shirt with that
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 11:21 AM
Aug 2020

There's a gift shop in SF next to a synagogue, and they have t-shirts with nature graphics of Yosemite that say, "Yo, Semites!"

It's amusing.

no_hypocrisy

(46,090 posts)
20. Trump is decidedly dyslexic. He makes W look good.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 11:33 AM
Aug 2020

You'd think he'd get Yosemite correct from Looney Tunes.

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