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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 66 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

“You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning, and it’s fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Is that even English?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 43 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

It's as English as this is

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I can never get over the fact that this is real. I have seen this quote so often - and I've seen the video of him actually saying the words!- but still it seems surreal to me. The "Look, having nuclear"-quote. One for the history books, for sure.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It'll be a historic speech and require mandatory memorization for school children in the future idiocracy

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 4 hours ago

I generally get more coherent sentences out of just repeatedly tapping my keyboard on my phone and letting auto correct just make things up..

The thing about Trump is the point of the world cup method of the world cup method of the game for the purposes of the world cup method of the world cup method of the world cup method of the league of the league of the league of the year and the company is a good idea for a while and I don't think so but I don't think.

Yeah, maybe not. But honestly it's close.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 hours ago

Holy ... fuck.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I love how that's actually almost coherent compared to the way he talks now.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 hours ago

Good thing we fired all those scientists.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 1 hour ago

It's called American