Trump's simplistic language is a bad sign

[sweetroxie]

http://nautil.us//blog/what-trumps-simplified-language-means?utm_source=Nautilus&utm_campaign=3e5aa8c40a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dc96ec7a9d-3e5aa8c40a-60252177

"“Trump’s language borders on incapacity.” When the president was asked to explain his reversal on branding China a currency manipulator, Trump said, of President Xi Jinping, “No. 1, he’s not, since my time. You know, very specific formula. You would think it’s like generalities, it’s not. They have—they’ve actually—their currency’s gone up. So it’s a very, very specific formula.” This response could count as an example of “gross and pathological inattention or indifference to, or failure to understand” the mandatory duties of the president mentioned in the 25th Amendment, Tribe said."

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“There’s some interesting research that has looked at the correlation between simple language and the tendency of U.S. presidents to behave in authoritarian ways,” Sedivy said. “There is a predictive relationship that speeches that are expressed using very simple basic language tend to precede very authoritarian acts like the use of executive orders … That certainly plays out in the use of the heavy reliance on simple notions like amazing, sad, bad, unfair. These really strip away a lot of the complexities that are behind them. They reduce information into very gross impressions.

[MedusaX]

1. Even worse... 45 uses simplistic language which then devolves into incoherent rambling when he

Has to lie on the fly

In the example cited (china/currency), 45 had not prepared or practiced a response for the question he was asked.
He could not afford to state his true motives for changing his position...
but did not have the 'alternative motivation' response ready to give.

Plus, he has no idea what currency manipulation is or how it works...

So, the result is an incoherent ramble made up of nothing more than gibberish....
.

[Orrex]

2. His idiocy is part of what appeals to his idiot supporters

[elleng]

4. Right.

[yurbud]

6. like Baby Bush (who looks like Gandhi, FDR, and Aristotle rolled into one compared to Trump)

though one thing people noticed about Bush was the words flowed pretty well when he was making threats or talking about cruelty.

Compassion or lying made his English sound like Yoda after he had a stroke.

[Hortensis]

8. Very short statements made with great authority

and conviction and devoid of information.

No need to move on from that fun reaction mode to analysis at all. Yup.

[Orrex]

9. What kind of analysis would please you?

And am I required to post a lengthy dissertation in every response?

Will you read every word?

[Hortensis]

10. 45's idiocy and what his admirers eat up.

[Phoenix61]

3. That's not languge

That's the ramblings of an Alzheimer's patient.

[yurbud]

7. or he's just not that bright. some consultants realized his ego is bigger than his discretion

and that when he goes down in flames, they can walk away unscathed with their pockets full of cash.

I'm in the middle of watching GET ME ROGER STONE on Netflix, and that's sure as hell what it looks like.

As soon as I saw Roger Stone's name connected to Trump, I took his candidacy a lot more seriously. What I didn't know was Paul Manafort was a partner of Stone's.

Trump is like the Republican politicians elected as Tea Party candidates: not that different on the issues, but very different from other Republicans that they are so damn stupid they are willing to saw off the branch they are sitting on if the money people tell them to.

[world wide wally]

5. Yep. Back when I was a kid, we called it bullshit