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John McWhorter
Contributing editor at The Atlantic and professor at Columbia University
... Trumps writing suggests not just inadequate manners or polishnot all of us need be daintybut inadequate thought. Nearly every time he puts thumb to keypad, he exposes that he has never progressed beyond the mentality of the precollegiate, trash-talking teen ...
... Trump, writing to the entire nation, is happy with a half-dozen flubs in one terse tweet. The sheer lack of focus on Trumps part, and by extension, the staff who should be vetting messages like this, is stunning ...
Trump is given to talking about doing things when most would choose a more specific verb. Last summer, Trump bragged of having told Britains Prime Minister Theresa May how to do Brexit. Do it? Like doing Cats, or shots? Mere do does rather gracelessly drag the statement down to the cold, hard pavement. Trump also hopes he can do a wall in Mexico: Thats 13,000 miles, he said. Here, we actually need 1,000 because we have natural barriers. So we need 1,000. We can do a wall. Were going to have a big, fat, beautiful door right in the middle of the wall ...
Trumps admirers might see him as a straight shooter, focused on telling us whats on his mind, too busy doing the right things to bother with niceties. The tragedy is that in his hurried, lexically impoverished blurts, Trump almost daily shows us that whats on his mind is very little.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/what-trumps-typos-reveal/579919/
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Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)So much to choose from in that dept.
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)n/t
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)So says he.