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100 Days of Gibberish - Trump has Weaponised Nonsense
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100 Days of Gibberish - Trump has Weaponised Nonsense
Lindy West
Tuesday 25 April 2017 08.09 EDT
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/
trump-100-days-gibberish-weaponised-white-house-language-presidency
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/jwfu3j9
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With only a week left of his first 100 days in office traditionally a
milestone for American presidents Donald Trump sat down with the
Associated Press to reflect on his accomplishments (sic) and preemptively
brag about future ones. This remarkable artefact, a transcript of which AP
then released in full, captures, more than any other piece of media
(except perhaps Trumps Twitter feed), the unifying ethos of the Trump
White House: weaponised nonsense.
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Trump lies relentlessly about his achievements (claiming, for example,
that hes mostly there on his 100-day plan, despite appearing not to know
what it is), admits he never realised how big a job it is to be president,
forgets how many missiles he fired at Syria, even though he got the number
right only 17 words earlier, and compares his TV ratings favourably to
those for 9/11. In my second favourite moment in the interview the first
being when he inexplicably drops the word hamlets Trump describes a
meeting with Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings:
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Well he said, youll be the greatest president in the history of, but you
know what, Ill take that also, but that you could be. But he said, will be
the greatest president but I would also accept the other. In other words,
if you do your job, but I accept that. Then I watched him interviewed and
it was like he never even was here. Its incredible. I watched him
interviewed a week later and its like he was never in my office. And you
can even say that.
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Cummings remembers the exchange differently, explaining that he told Trump
he could be a great president if he stopped doing literally everything
that he was doing and started doing other stuff that wasnt horrible
instead.
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Whether or not Trump is capable of calculation (and, judging by his
largely noun-free syntax in this interview, its debatable), his rhetorical
style, untethered from both meaning and reality, serves his agenda well.
Language is where we find common ground, where we define ourselves and
teach others how to treat us, where we name problems so we can see and
fight them. Theres a reason why social justice movements care about things
such as pronouns and racial slurs and calling a Nazi a Nazi and saying
abortion out loud its the same reason why rightwingers, Trumpists in
particular, are so eager to cast language as a frivolous abstraction and
any critique as political correctness.
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Without language, there is no accountability, no standard of truth. If
Trump never says anything concrete, he never has to do anything concrete.
If Trump never makes a statement of commitment, Trump supporters never
have to confront what they really voted for. If his promises are vague to
the point of opacity, Trump cannot be criticised for breaking them. If
every sloppy lie (ie: Just found out that Obama had my wires tapped in
Trump Tower This is McCarthyism!) can be explained away as a generality
or just a joke because of quotes, then he can literally say anything with
impunity. Trump can rend immigrant families in the name of heart, destroy
healthcare in the name of life, purge minority voters in the name of
justice, and roll back womens autonomy in the name of freedom. The
constitution? Probably sarcastic. There are quotes all over that thing!
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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