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Trump praises health care of Nambia, a nonexistent African country
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Empyrean Heaven
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At least, unlike my father, he knows that Africa is made up of separate countries, and isn't one giant country.
Latvian Hitman
Member
The POTUS doesn't just hit the podium and start speaking off the cuff. A member of the White House staff wrote the speech. It's entirely possible that the "i" got dropped when the speech got loaded into the teleprompter, or it may just be that Trump didn't see the "i" when reading it back.
This is more like a technical gaffe than anything truly dastardly. We've got plenty of real, dark shit to discuss when it comes to Trump. This isn't really on the list.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Oh, not saying he knows shit about anything, only that this isn't even worth caring about.
Unlikely.
This is nothing, he just messed up the name of a country (he probably knows nothing about). There is a vast amount of extremely worrying facts about Trump and he spouts dangerous ideas and lies just about every day, but this doesn't really concern me at all in the realm of Trump fuckups.
He's in a position that was once listed as "Leader of the Free World" just last year. Maybe standards have slipped a bit since Trump was elected. I will say that he's doing a fine job representing a portion of the United States by showing he has zero knowledge regarding the African continent.
BobTheFork
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99% of 'poor' homes own a wardrobe. WAKE UP
Straight Edge
Member
lol this
Still not a big deal in my book, most Presidents probably themselves don't/didn't know Namibia existed until it came under their strategic aims/interest. Do not give the people who claim anything Trump does would get negative flak the satisfaction.
Non-issue.
Skellig Gra
Member
Yeah let's focus on this silly little gaffe instead of talking about how he said he would blow up North Korea or how his friends use Africa to get rich.
Frank the Great
Banned
The press dinging him for nonsense like this trivializes their criticisms of his true fuck-ups in the eyes of those that barely pay attention.
Yeah that's a way bigger deal
The title of the CNN article is pretty clicky/misleading. So the dude mispronounced the country. He wasn't talking about a nonexistent place.
Look I'm all for dumping on Trump but this is the kinda shit that doesn't help anyone. Unless there's actually more to the story than him simply mispronouncing the country's name he was referring to.
I was expecting this to actually be Trump making shit up, again
Lol.
Look I'm all for dumping on Trump but this is the kinda shit that doesn't help anyone. Unless there's actually more to the story than him simply mispronouncing the country's name he was referring to.
I was expecting this to actually be Trump making shit up, again
Lol.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
There's probably a lengthy list of European countries he could have made this same flub with that will garner more reaction and occupy the public conscious for far longer than this ever will. I'm surprised that anything about Africa even made a blip to be honest.
Part of me wants to give trump some cyanic-laced-props for even speaking to anything African in spite of his... beliefs. It especially conjures up the Chappelle joke of Bush trying to kiss a African baby. I think surely the moment of Trumps pivot is upon us.
This is one in a long line of flubs on basic shit.
This isn't like Iraq, "eye-rock" "ee-rock," or Qatar "ka-tar" "cutter." There's no alternative pronunciation to Namibia as "Nambia." Trump spoke aloud the name of a country he should have known doesn't exist.
I dunno about other people, but personally, my standard for the POTUS is that they know if a country in a speech they are given exists or not. It would be like him saying Czechoslovakia or Bombay (at least those were real places once).
The lowering of the bar for Trump is disgusting. He's bad and the country deserves better.
I dunno about other people, but personally, my standard for the POTUS is that they know if a country in a speech they are given exists or not. It would be like him saying Czechoslovakia or Bombay (at least those were real places once).
The lowering of the bar for Trump is disgusting. He's bad and the country deserves better.
Costa Kid
Member
This. Making a big deal out of things like this delegitimises opposition when hes actually done something bad.
RustyNails
Member
I heard they have the best blitzball. Lot of people didn't know that.
Zap Rowsdower
Banned
I want some of that Wakandan health insurance.
Skellig Gra
Member
No its really not. It's leaving off one letter in a word. It would be like him calling Germany "German" or Spain "Span". The bar isn't lowered, its about priorities. He does tons of horrible shit, we shouldn't waste precious space with this dumb gaffes like this, it should be focused on the worst shit he does.
If the dude said "Span" twice, I'd be like, "he actually doesn't know Spain and is winging it." Because, come on.
It's a gaffe, but it strikes me as one that stems from an ignorance of Africa that's acceptable in a real-esate mogul or reality TV star, but that's beneath a president. If he said it once, okay, that's mispeaking, but saying it twice means he's saying it wrong, which is different than simply mispronouncing it.
Well the mistake should still obviously be recognized but CNN leading with TRUMP TALKS ABOUT NON-EXISTENT COUNTRY is bullshit.
DontBeThatGuy
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The point is that he's an unqualified doofus who doesn't know jack shit about anything, which should be pointed out at every opportunity.
Someone should really ask him about Zamunda though. I wanna hear his thoughts.
Someone should really ask him about Zamunda though. I wanna hear his thoughts.
Byakuya769
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hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
He did actually do something bad here though. The argument you are making is that he's done so many worst things that people should overlook the "small" stuff and go after the big fish. It's this sort of attitude that leads to desensitization on his bullshit.
Skellig Gra
Member
Dude reads off a teleprompter, either he misread it or the letter was missing. He didn't make up a country on the fly which is what the CNN article implies for who knows what reason.
Yeah... .I mean, he's still a dumb fuck but there's far worse things to be getting upset about right now, such as his cabinet officials taking the piss with private jets and such.
Sensationalist title for clicks
He should know that Nambia is wrong and saying it twice means he didn't know.
cpp_is_king
Member
Those Aurochs, amazing team, a shame what happened to them. We'll try to help, we have to talk to them first, we'll see what happens
Skellig Gra
Member
Clearly he doesn't know the correct pronunciation of Namibia. That's not really in question.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
One is a person who actually knows there's not 57 states and slipped, the other is an unqualified windbag who's actually really fucking stupid who can't stop letting the world know about it.
So, no, that's actually bad comparison tbh.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
How long do you think it'll be before someone tricks him into mentioning "Kekistan" as a real place?
Holy fucking shit.
always crazy bacon
Banned
Exactly, being blown out out proportion.
Laughing at the idea of him saying "watch the fake news politically correct media not air this" right before he reads it off the prompter.
*Awkwardest pause for applause in political history*
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