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MineralMan

(146,254 posts)
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 02:14 PM Jul 2017

Fake President Donald Trump Is a Man of Few Words

Literally. He knows few words. He uses few words. He understands few words.

That is why he communicates on Twitter, where fewer words are valued more than many words. That is why he doesn't read long briefing materials. He doesn't know a lot of the words in them, so he wants them digested into simple sentences that use words he knows and understands.

Now, he may once have known and used more words than he does now. I don't know, but I do know that his vocabulary is extraordinarily limited, especially his active speaking vocabulary. He is a simple man, and I don't mean that in a positive way.

Life's complicated. The world is complicated. Our Fake POTUS is simple. Much is beyond his understanding.

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Fake President Donald Trump Is a Man of Few Words (Original Post) MineralMan Jul 2017 OP
There is a border collie who has a vocabulary of 1,022 words. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #1
LOL! MineralMan Jul 2017 #2
Please ... that's a really cute little salamander. Don't insult him/her/it like that. hedda_foil Jul 2017 #6
How about liver fluke... 3catwoman3 Jul 2017 #11
How about this one? Brain eating parasite that's 100% fatal. hedda_foil Jul 2017 #12
Sounds good... 3catwoman3 Jul 2017 #13
A border collie is smarter than Trump meow2u3 Jul 2017 #4
watching that clip of him and Putin ginnyinWI Jul 2017 #5
A border collie in the Oval Office... Dave Starsky Jul 2017 #15
Off script... yallerdawg Jul 2017 #3
I too have been referring to our FAKE pResident MagickMuffin Jul 2017 #7
I pretty much stick with standardized capitalization rules. MineralMan Jul 2017 #8
I have often used... 3catwoman3 Jul 2017 #10
The first 4 letters of Twitter... 3catwoman3 Jul 2017 #9
Usually people Jamaal510 Jul 2017 #14
What's funny is how excited some pundits get by his Teleprompter speeches oberliner Jul 2017 #16

MineralMan

(146,254 posts)
2. LOL!
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 02:20 PM
Jul 2017

But wait...we already have a turtle in our government, Mitch McConnell. Trump needs to be some other kind of amphibian. Not a Newt, because there's one of them hovering around the government, too. Maybe a salamander. A yellow salamander:

3catwoman3

(23,946 posts)
11. How about liver fluke...
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 04:46 PM
Jul 2017

...or tapeworm. Parasites that damage the host, and have no redeeming values. I don't think we need to fear insulting those organisms.

hedda_foil

(16,371 posts)
12. How about this one? Brain eating parasite that's 100% fatal.
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 11:01 PM
Jul 2017

Brain-eating amoeba: Naegleria


http://theconversation.com/five-deadly-parasites-that-have-crossed-the-globe-35944

Brain-eating amoeba under a microscope. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CC BY
Naegleria fowleri – commonly known as brain-eating amoeba – is single-celled and free-living and thrives in warm bodies of water. This parasite can cause a rare brain infection called meningoencephalitis, which causes severe brain inflammation. The amoeba also causes a whole host of other neurological symptoms and has a fatality rate approaching 100%.

If water containing the amoeba enters the nose, the parasite can travel via the olfactory nerves, which are responsible for detecting odour molecules and transmitting them as signals to the brain. Initial symptoms appear in less than a week after infection and include fever, headache, nausea, stiffness in the neck, and vomiting. As infection progresses patients develop lack of attention, loss of balance, seizures, hallucinations, and finally coma and death.

The parasite has been detected in South America and Asia but cases have also been reported in Australia, US and the UK.
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Naegleria fowleri infection is diagnosed based on microscopic examination of the fluid present the central nervous system, where active amoebae may be detected

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
15. A border collie in the Oval Office...
Sat Jul 8, 2017, 06:36 AM
Jul 2017

Would be a huge improvement over what we have now and may even help us regain our standing in the world.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
3. Off script...
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 02:24 PM
Jul 2017

he is incoherent and incomprehensible. That includes his ad-libbed comments as he seems to see the material he is reading for the first time.

And he is a pathological liar.

I despise the people who claim to have voted for him as much as "that person" himself.

MagickMuffin

(15,932 posts)
7. I too have been referring to our FAKE pResident
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 03:12 PM
Jul 2017

However, as you can see he doesn't deserve the capital letter p. But he does deserve the lower case p followed by a capital R, because he is a Squatter in the Nation's White House.





3catwoman3

(23,946 posts)
10. I have often used...
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 04:44 PM
Jul 2017

...pRezident. Rezident is a Russian term for an embedded spy, IIRC. Seems to fit.

3catwoman3

(23,946 posts)
9. The first 4 letters of Twitter...
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 04:43 PM
Jul 2017

...are perfect for him - twit. He tweets the same way he speaks.

Years ago, I had an adorable 2 1/2 year old little neighbor girl who spoke in more complex sentences than POSUS. She was pedaling away on her tricycle one day, and then stopped, saying, "I must pause to rest."

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
14. Usually people
Sat Jul 8, 2017, 02:09 AM
Jul 2017

amass a great amount of wisdom as they age. I can't say that about him. This is a man who thinks he has all the answers and thinks he is the smartest man in the room. All too often, he has gotten caught in the middle of crucial mistakes when it has come to both the country and himself. He is a real-life Simple Simon.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
16. What's funny is how excited some pundits get by his Teleprompter speeches
Sat Jul 8, 2017, 06:42 AM
Jul 2017

As if Trump himself has anything to do with them

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