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I've recently read that when Trump’s speeches have been translated for non-English speakers, they are wildly different than what he is actually saying.
And when bilinguals translate for them directly, they aren’t believed because the literal translation is pants on the head crazy.
That makes since as they are pants on head crazy in English.
*sense
*autocorrect is a ducking asshole
yes is is.
You two... Get a room.
I quite believe that. And it's not the first time I heard this. But I'm yet to see any of these translations. Starting to feel like an excuse after hearing it multiple times without any sources.
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20250924/k00/00m/030/024000c
I don't have tabs on Spanish, but I can confirm, the Japanese language has a tough time conveying how batshit insane Trump's speeches are. It means they end up sanewashing him all the time. This article is about Trump's UN ramble this year.
Title reads: "Trump strongly criticizes UN, says climate change measures are 'fraudulent' in his general debate speech"
It's been a long time problem since his first term: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-interpreters-donald-trump-translate-struggle-us-president-white-house-speech-talking-style-a7596986.html
Isn't that just a mainstream news thing?
The mainstream US news has been sanewashing him since he first ran in 2016 by summarizing or even over explaining what he 'really means' instead of using his actual words until extremely recently.
Right, but the difference is that foreign language translators are putting their own reputation on the line on representing the original speaker's words accurately, because local media will use the translator's account to make the story. When the original speaker is incoherent, translators have to convey what they are saying in a short time, otherwise they will sound stupid.
“You know, the press is always on me because I say this,” Trump began. “Has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs? The late great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums, they’re emptying out their insane asylums.”
My translation: 「記者らはいつもこれに追いかけてる、」トランプは述べた。「誰かは羊たちの沈黙をみたか？昔あの偉大だったハンニバル•レクター。夕食に誘ってくれる人だ。病院から狂人を全員放り出してる。」
Leaving aside that the sentences are barely relevant to one another, you can't even begin get in the translation that Trump doesn't appear to understand the difference between an insane asylum and a refugee claim of asylum. So translators just have to say: they're letting out insane people from institutions.
Sanewashing has to be a part of translating heads of state because how many nutjobs/crazies have become leaders of their countries?
It can't have been just two. Though I daresay the audacity of the current GOP to run/support an old man in an obvious state of mental decline has to be a novel strategy for the 21st century.
I heard King George III was all b-b-b-b-b-b and beebe beepabeep, but they didn’t put him in front of a microphone every day.
This article is rage inducing.
The 70-year-old Venezuelan cannot say that he is “regretful” of having voted for the Republican Party, a faction that, he says, aligns with his interests as a Christian and a conservative. But he no longer knows what to think. He arrived from Venezuela in 1994 and, once he had obtained American citizenship, his first vote was for Barack Obama, a guy who seemed “charismatic” to him; he liked the idea of the first African-American in power. But in the following two elections he distanced himself from the Democrats. “Because of the debauchery of the Joe Biden administration,” he says. And by “debauchery” he means issues of gender identity in education or the participation of trans people in sports, with which he does not agree.
So, fuck this Asshole especially very much. Enjoy the deportation you voted for you intolerant dick.
For Ferro, the reasons are clear, and almost the same as those of a community like the Cuban diaspora, settled in the south of Florida, where 68% voted for the Republican. “We Venezuelans have a kind of post-traumatic syndrome with the dictatorship, and that makes us dream that a messiah is going to come to save us from the misfortunes that people are experiencing in our country. That is what made many Venezuelans dream,” he says.
Because dictators NEVER come with messages of being the messiah. What a fucking shocker 😐.
Americans don't actually hold an enforceable monopoly on stupidity, it just seems that way.
No, man. Ignorant hicks are everywhere. Not just Alabama.
TRANS People are RUINING that Man's Love of ~~WNBA~~ ~~NWSL~~ ~~PWHL~~ ~~Women's College Sports~~ WELL if he wasn't Working so HARD to AFFORD Biden's Economy in 2025 he would have TIME to Watch Women's sports!
Religion is the cancer of the mind of the people.
Opiates are the drugs of the bodies of the people of the country in the world today.
My Cuban family and the extended clan who share my heritage are largely morons with regard to voting. All because of the Bay of Pigs.
"Debauchery of the Biden administration" yeah sure ok.
You mean his documented history of lies wasn't a hint that he was lying to you? You deserve whatever happens to you.
Well it’s ok when conservatives lie, they’re doing it for the right reasons, to uphold traditional values and make sure the undeserving underclasses don’t get uppity
Sheep: "They used us as bait for other sheep when they herded us to the slaughterhouse."
Oh, really?
it's worse than that... they realized they were used for bait, they know they are on the way to the slaughterhouse and yet, every single one of these articles states, they STILL do not regret their vote for the republitards.
This one is incredibly on the nose... the first interviewee claims he was tired of the "debauchery" from the Biden admin; by debauchery he means anything that resembles respect for LGBT people, so he votes for a serial sexual predator and pedophile!
Dumb fucks. If you vote for a man who tried to illegally win a prior election, you should expect to get betrayed. Elect a rapist and expect to get fucked. It’s really not that hard.
‘They used us to win votes’
Um, yeahh. That’s why we kept telling you that.
Zero sympathy for anyone regretting voting for this guy in 2024. What fucking idiots each and every one of them is.
Trump: I hate you, my voters hate you, and if I win I'm going to hurt you.
Minorities voting for trump: of course he means the other minorities I hate
Minorities that city voted for trump after he won: who is he hurting us 😭😭😭
These people are impossible to get through to. They were being told they were just being used and now that they realize it they feel cheated. Cheated. They don't feel like fools they don't accept they were stupid. Just cheated.
Trump is to Taylor Swift as MAGA is to swifties.
These are just fans who are upset the administration is torturing their families. They're not gong to stop being fans. Best case scenario is one of his fans does the John Lennon thing to him.
Did you mean, "Trump is to MAGA, as Taylor Swift is to swifties"?
That is, the MAGA cult around Trump is comparable to the fan-cult around Taylor Swift? (Neither of which can accept imperfections in their idol?)
The way it was originally written compares Trump and Swift to each other (and MAGA and swifties to each other), which doesn't make much sense. But from the context it's clear you're comparing the nature of their fans. It follows more to switch a few words around.
Not trying to be a jerk, just trying to make sense of things that don't add up with my tired, stressed, autistic brain.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure a lot of us said that from the beginning.
But they never listen. It's a white supremacist party. It has direct lineage to J Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and the Confederacy. Conservatives have never been honest, as honesty is against their policy. Power at all cost is their policy. It has always been their policy.
The political party names are bullshit. Liberal is a meaningless term in this country, but they spew it like a firehose to call all opposition it. There are conservatives and progressives. The difference? Conservatives believe some are more equal than others, and progressives believe that equity is more important than most other issues.
And you'd still sell out black people for a chance at whiteness if you had the chance.
Calliate pendejo.
"Gee, ya think?"
As a Latino myself I can say I am so disappointed at my brethren... I could not believe the support the Cuban and Venezuelan community would have for Republicans AT ALL, let alone MAGA turds.
Hope they learn their lesson... better late than never I guess
In the meantime, have the day you voted for!
I don't know about Venezuelans, but there are a lot of Cubans who would vote for a guy running on closing public schools, libraries and hospitals if you showed them a quote where Fidel said anything remotely positive about them.
There are two other things that also ought to have made this less of a surprise. For a lot of older, first-generation immigrants from all over Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, they still really buy into a politician who presents themselves as a strong man that gets stuff done, and will be tough on crime. I heard it from coworkers from Mexico, DR, Peru, Ecuador and plenty of other places. The other part of it is also key in keeping them like this. Spanish-language media in the US presents itself as neutral and professional, but is pretty far-right, and manages to put a more respectable dressing on crazy, conspiratorial shenanigans than Fox do in English. They also know that a large chunk of their audience isn't going to be able to fact-check English sources when they publish lies.
If I go over and watch the news with my mother-in-law, they're always very deliberate with pretending to faithfully translate, while tending to take non-Republicans' statements and changing a key word or two from an indisputably better translation of the English, to a related word with much more negative connotations. I've also seen them present a translation as being a full translation of the English audio, while omitting key parts that provide crucial context to the bits they do decide to translate. They also love to keep on airing debunked right-wing conspiracies, weeks or months after they've fallen out of the English news cycle and have been accepted as debunked. It's really annoying to watch.
I do not understand why people cannot see him for what he is. He’s shown everyone over and over again exactly what he is. Yet somehow they tell themselves this time he’ll actually do something right.
Duh doy
awww. you mean the conman in chief conned you? Who could ever have seen this coming?!
Fuck off you dumbfucks.
I like stupid people so much more when their stupidity only affects them.
Maybe Trump is right. They aren’t sending their best. Please don’t come to my country and voted to fuck it up like you did back home. That’s why you’re here not there.
Have the life you voted for
This is the result of ubiquitous propaganda.
It’s that simple. Corporate news sewers only swish it around, they never stop it.
These are people who thought that they were special and that they wouldn't be subjected to the same problems as others. Simple as that.
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