I'm reading "The Insidious Creep of Trump’s Speaking Style" by the linguist Adam Aleksic, in the NYT. That's a free-access link so you can read the whole argument and see all the examples. The quote above is from the very end of the piece.
We're told that "Trump’s language is predisposed to becoming 'memeified' on social media platforms" and that means it is "reshaping our reality." People are saying “sad!” and “frankly” and “believe me” — not just as an "ironic callback" but also without thinking about Trump, in ordinary speech.
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So he's an influencer.
Many such cases.
"The fact that we’re talking like Donald Trump could mean that we’re starting to think like him as well."
Whatever gets you through the night, I guess.
he speaks clearly perhaps exuberantly on issues people care about, stop the presses,
Head space. Evidently, NRA/2A-speak has already invaded Adam Aleksic's vocabulary, and in a nonsensical manner. He should adopt more Trumpisms, not fewer. At least that way, his typing would read less imbecilic. Someone might mistake him for an intellectual.
Pass the koffee. Hold the guac.
"Mr. Trump’s ideas begin as ridiculous and are easily parodied on the internet — at this point, they’re already affecting our head space."
His problem is that he is not as smart as he thinks he is. The true failure of leftist ideology is that it convinces it's adherents they are the intelligent ones and everyone else is stupid.
At that point the average leftist is unable to understand their opponents.
But leftist political opponents are able to understand them. Leftists are thieves and bullies with a facade of compassion.
Anyone who doesn't realize Trump is far more intelligent than the people who call him stupid at this point is just showing how stupid they are.
“Trump is governing like he’s been shot, indicted, investigated and impeached, and has no fucks left to give.
And it’s glorious”
—— Blondelady2024
Steeped in Marxist propaganda, they could learn a thing or five IF they had the capacity for critical thought.
"Not everything Mr. Trump says survives: People don’t say “covfefe” anymore, even though that was a popular meme. "
Popular among his haters, anyway, who have less and less influence. Can you imagine being an academic who is tasked with finding a way to bring Americans back under the spell of the monied cronies of powerful Democrats and you can't figure out why the people have adopted a man who fights back against what we know is going on.
From folklore, Trump is a kind of "trickster" character, who keeps getting out of the traps they set for him. It's not TACO, it's TAFIO, Trump always figures it out —minutes before it's too late, BTW.
Those trying to undermine him suggest some kind of policy and assure him that it is going to work, and since they are part of his administration, and supposed to know about these things, he announces the policies that they suggest, like "bone crunching sanctions" against the country that provides the rare earths and magnets that our manufacturing, and especially our weapons industry depends on. Then when Trump figures out that it was a disastrous idea, they claim he "chickened out."
I am glad I was alive during the era of his presidencies.
The Sunday ohpleaseohpleaseohplease let something work…anything…
Either Trump is twice as smart as them, or the luckiest fool alive.
I sometimes get an urge to hug Old Glory. Strongly.
Trump became a millionaire at the age of 8. I will repeat that for you, Trump became a millionaire at the age of 8. Check your IRAs, mutual funds, pensions, and SS benefits to compare. It had nothing whatsoever to do with his intelligence, talents, education, real estate dealings, or abilities. He was born with a big fat silver spoon in his mouth. I was born in a working class family. My father was a small farmer, and my mother was a kindergarten teacher, so I can't relate to Trump. Everything since then has always been about what benefits Trump, not America, not the working class. It's all about Trump and his insatiable lust for power, money, and fame.
"Insidious Creep" would be a good name for a band.
"Frankly" is a Trump word? I associate it more with Pelosi. It's what she, Biden, and other politicians say when a whopper of a lie is coming. I've never heard it from Trump.
Sad. Reminds me of the scene in the last Star Wars movie. Beloved franchise character, C-3PO is about to get his computer brain wiped, a decision made by his travel companions as a means to an end. Moments before the final step, another character asks what he is doing and he responds "Taking one final look at my friend". These "friends" never interacted with him in the other 8 movies and none are bothered about what is about to be the equivalent of his death. Finally, another Droid, voiced by the Director JJ Abrams, says "sad".
"I sometimes get an urge to hug Old Glory. Strongly."
You need to go to a rodeo. Or two.
It's all about Trump and his insatiable lust for power, money, and fame.
Know what? I've had enough of your shit.
Go fuck yourself.
Why that's the most ridiculously covfefe thing I've ever heard.
"It's all about Trump and his insatiable lust for power, money, and fame."
Projection, projection, projection. Is Trump the one spending millions at some university studying some opponent's language?
You know who used the "covefe" thing all the time? Botfly. It was never a Trump meme, just a shibboleth among Trump haters, which is why the writer mentioned it, to establish her bonafides with her media masters.
"Trump became a millionaire at the age of 8."
Okay.
"I will repeat that for you, Trump became a millionaire at the age of 8."
Good for him.
"Check your IRAs, mutual funds, pensions, and SS benefits to compare."
Why? Why not compare my IRAs, mutual funds, pensions, and SS benefits to someone on Skid Row? The results will be equally illuminating.
"It had nothing whatsoever to do with his intelligence, talents, education, real estate dealings, or abilities."
Sez (without evidence) you.
"He was born with a big fat silver spoon in his mouth."
Envy is an ugly emotion. Even for an ugly person.
"I was born in a working class family."
Lots of people were, congratulations. You could have been born in Haiti.
"My father was a small farmer, and my mother was a kindergarten teacher, so I can't relate to Trump."
Not if you don't try, you can't.
"Everything since then has always been about what benefits Trump, not America, not the working class."
You can check tape on that, but you won't.
"It's all about Trump and his insatiable lust for power, money, and fame."
Awwww... poor baby. Sucks to be you, I guess.
"Everything since then has always been about what benefits Trump, not America, not the working class. "
And yet, under Trump's presidencies, native born Americans have had much better employment outcomes, and under Biden, all of the job growth was going to migrants. These are the hard figures, even the ones coming out of Biden's White House showed that. What Trump doesn't care about is the fortunes of the Democrat Party.
I would say this: Trump is the first President in half a century who attempts to communicate with the American people in a voice that does not sound like
stuff written by staff. Like it or hate it, it gives the impression (and I rather think an accurate one) that you are hearing from Trump, hate him or love him, rather than a bunch of intermediaries who turn everything into Gov-PR mush.
I think it is one of his strong points.
Lonejustice should watch the movie Back to School, if she wants to understand Trump's appeal, which she doesn't. Rodney Dangerfield sure understood why working class people liked and admired a wealthy man who made his money creating good paying jobs for people like them.
Now let this gentleman deal with the phrase "without evidence" which is sprinkled through any NYT or WaPo report on what Trump has said, done or alleged--like salt on popcorn. And popcorn is about right for the fluff that those two papers present as news.
Joe Biden spent his entire life in politics, every cent he ever made came from peddling influence. Things like George W Bush appointing his 26 year old crack head son to the board of Amtrak at 90K a year, and we know from the laptop that Hunter was expected to give half back to papa.
The fact that we’re talking like Donald Trump could mean that we’re starting to think like him as well.
Why invoke the subliminally dystopian term “think like” rather than “agree with”?
"Joe Biden spent his entire life in politics, every cent he ever made came from peddling influence."
This is what leftists admire and aspire to themselves.
Bring back covfefe!
I tune in for the zingers.
Back in 2015 Scott Adams was saying Trump's persuasion was so off the scale he would change reality - and I couldn't imagine that to be true - and now the NYT is saying that's the case. It's hard to come to grips with how non-rational we are.
Whether Trump became a millionaire at 8 or 18, the bigger point is that his starting line in life was vastly different from that of the working class. That’s not an attack, just reality. What matters isn’t envy, it’s whether policy decisions coming out of that privilege helped or hurt working people. That’s where the record deserves real scrutiny.
lonejustice is one dingleberry destined for a flush.
A lone journey… If he can shake off Ronnie Ward.
"...at this point, they’re already affecting our head space."
He's been living, rent-free, in their heads since at least 2016. They shouldn't be surprised.
No joke
" it’s whether policy decisions coming out of that privilege helped or hurt working people. That’s where the record deserves real scrutiny."
And the numbers are in, and Trump's policies have been far more beneficial to the American born working class. Joe Biden, of course, was very successful at handing out those jobs to foreigners who had zero regard for our immigration laws.
Achilles says…
“At that point the average leftist is unable to understand their opponents.
But leftist political opponents are able to understand them. Leftists are thieves and bullies with a facade of compassion.”
This coming from someone who wants to remove people from the US or from life itself who don’t share his political ideas/delusions. How can a thinking person who may work with, live in close proximity to, have average everyday dealings with people who are liberals politically have such an opinion on people they don’t know personally?
Does he ask or accuse or ask every person he meets during the course of a day what side of the political divide they are on? Does he ask his nurse, or his doctor, the fireman, or his boss, the family down the street if they are on the left and then puts them on his list of undesirables to be killed or exiled at some point in a future he envisions?
Achilles says…
“His problem is that he is not as smart as he thinks he is. The true failure of leftist ideology is that it convinces its adherents they are the intelligent ones and everyone else is stupid.”
This is AMAZING coming from the person who so obviously has “Smartest person in the room” syndrome. How can a young man have become so deluded and locked into this extremist mentality? He has skewed ideas about one half of the US population, so sure about his “observations”. Unfortunately his observations about people on the left are not based in reality of everyday people. I can’t believe he knows or interacts with anyone on the left in real life off the internet.
There are good ideas and bad ideas. Eventually the good ideas win.
"Why invoke the subliminally dystopian term “think like” rather than “agree with”?"
Like Inga, he doesn't think that the hoi polloi actually think, instead we "internalize propaganda." I would call that just more projection, since they seem not to be able to believe that people could look at the facts, take into account history and human nature, the importance of history is that it is the record of decisions that people made when the stakes were at their highest, and human motivations, and power dynamics haven't changed much.
They would rather that we forget history, since it is far too revelatory of their true motivations. No, better to convince us that thinking is bad, and we can't do it anyway, we can only repeat stuff we have heard.
Pro-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness under a Constitution that mitigates majority and minority progress.
Abortion! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
"foreigners who had zero regard for our immigration laws."
They seem to have little regard for our traffic laws, too.
I have one comment. Who among the kvetchers above have actually met Trump, talked with him?
I have … TWICE. I have also met Reagan (once). They both have sincere empathy, caring about what you have to say, CONNECTION with people who are slightly less successful than they are.
Unless you meet someone face-to-face and experience firsthand their aura, their character, you got nuthin’.
Just stay home, observe, and TRY to be objective.
According to his 2015 campaign financial statement to the Federal Election Commission Donald Trump had a net worth.
Nobody has ever questioned that.
Let me repeat:
Nobody has ever questioned his official 90+ page, submitted under penalty of perjury, signed by the man himself, campaign financial statement.
If it was wrong, surely someone, on Hilary's team or one of the Repo candidates, would have called it out.
So, $9,000,000,000 in 2015
I think it is about $6bn now.
The presidency cost him a third of his net worth. If he is in it for the money, he is doing something wrong.
John Henry
Lone Justice,
let us say that he had a $1mm in 1966 and $9bn 50 years later.
That would be an average growth of 20%.
If you had invested $1,000 50 years ago and were as smart as Donald Trump, you would have $9,000,000. That assumes that you didn't add anything to the account over the years, just let the interest compound.
How is your portfolio doing?
John Henry
Inga has never been a beacon of intellect. For some reason tonight she is striking me as particularly dim.
Maybe someone needs to relight her pilot light.
John Henry
And, since he was actually below zero by $20mm(iirc) in 1990, I don't know how you would calculate the growth rate from negative to $9bn in 25 years. It'll be a pretty impressive number.
John Henry
Trump came out of the entertainment world. He had more of an effect on our language before he even entered politics than most politicians do. So clearly, he has an effect on our ways of speaking now, but contemporaries bulk larger in our consciousness than those who are gone. That makes it hard to compare present and past politicians.
John F. Kennedy's phrases and way of speaking did influence people's ways of speaking and thinking. So did Lyndon Johnson's and Richard Nixon's. They weren't on TV or other media all the time. Still, people managed to pick up phrases, all the while distrusting Johnson and Nixon.
Joe Biden's language got to people to an incredible degree without getting us to think like him or think well of him. If you didn't like Biden, you heard every stupid thing he said and didn't forget any of them. Biden's supporters, though, were spared most of that.
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"Working class Joe" wasn't any good for the working class. Politicians, even if they don't come from the billionaire class, aren't much in tune with lunchbox guys.
"If he is in it for the money, he is doing something wrong."
Leftards see attaching themselves to the government tit as a way to make money and just assume that everybody else does, too.
Reducing crime in DC, closing the border and striking a peace deal with Russia are all clearly ridiculous ideas. That I can tell you.
Ma fella Amurcans . . . Sock it to me!
I wonder how Adam pronounces Pakistan.
""Everything since then has always been about what benefits Trump, not America, not the working class. It's all about Trump and his insatiable lust for power, money, and fame."
Does it ever occur to you to ask yourself how you "know" this?
He can't relate to Trump because Trump is not a Communist asshole filled with envy and stupidity.
Whatever stick is handy to beat him with. My experience with linguists - admittedly only about a score of people - is that because they see through about a dozen common language myths, they come to believe they see through everyone else on everything.
Trump talks like an Outer Borough guy. Always has.
I voted for Trump last time, but only on the most selfish calculation that his misrule would affect me less than the misrule of the other candidate.
He has never been relatable--as the kids say nowadays--to me as a person.
Gosh, Trump really is the second coming of FDR. I recall reading of an incident in WWII:
First soldier, FDR voice: "I hate war."
Second soldier: "EL-uh-nor hates war."
Third soldier: "Fala hates war."
The experts always looking for what was where it used to be.
President Donald Trump, 79, seemingly caught a case of butterfingers, posting a random “Bela” in a Truth Social post just after rage posting over negative coverage of his flop meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The president’s cryptic message came just after he posted, “BIG PROGRESS ON RUSSIA. STAY TUNED! President DJT.” Nonetheless, the unclear “Bela” post still managed to rack up around 5,700 likes and 1,300 “retruths.”
So the ever changing words world of DJT relates to his dementia. His fans insist on chasing rainbows, by hunting reasons for something that is logically unexplainable.
But I will play the game.
"Bela is a slang term that has been used as an insult to describe someone who is considered unattractive or unpleasant to be around. The term is typically used by younger people, and it has become increasingly popular in recent years."
I doubt that Trump has heard the slang, but an example, "Bela Alina Habba" rhymes.
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