maybe if they tried learning english...
Posted on 07/01/2017 3:57:38 PM PDT by mandaladon
WASHINGTON — The Trump White House no habla español. Well, un poquito.
After a succession of administrations that embraced Spanish-language content, President Donald Trump's White House is all but ignoring Spanish speakers even though he has a robust online presence in English.
His administration has yet to offer a Spanish White House website. It has eliminated the position of director of Hispanic media outreach. And its Spanish-language Twitter account is heavy with English text and features sloppy translations.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in January that the administration had its "IT folks working overtime" to roll out a new Spanish language site after WhiteHouse.gov/espanol went dark in the hours after Trump took office.
"Trust me, it's going to take a little bit more time, but we're working piece by piece to get that done," Spicer said at the time. More than five months later, the site still urges readers to "STAY TUNED."
The White House's Spanish Twitter account, @LaCasaBlanca, is also far less active in the Trump era.
The account has tweeted just 41 times since Trump's inauguration; more than one-third of those posts came on the day of his address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28. Of the 41 tweets, about half were written in English.
The Spanish tweets are sprinkled with typos — 11 in all. While most mistakes are minor flubs such as missing accents, those accents often change the meaning of words significantly. For instance, they turn "medical" into "medicate" or "is" into "this."
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“’activists’ say”
Well, that settles it
I’m sick and tired of going into stores like Home Depot and see signs in English then below in Spanish.
Well, that’s just a shame. How is he doing with American citizens?!? Has he started OK with them???
I am tired of the word “activist.” It seems only people who want to change America are activists. The rest of us are racists, homophobes, or worse.
Pregúntame si me importa una cagada?*
*Ask me if I give a $hit?
How about this headline: Mexican president Enrique Nieto off to bad start with English speakers.... Do you think anyone in Mexico would give a Shiite?
They also don’t have versions of the website in Chinese, Tagalog, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, French, German, Hindustani, Arabic, Cherokee, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Russian, Hebrew ...
Give Puerto Rica back to Spain.
All this spanish stuff amounts to is pandering.
Here’s the Presidential message to “Spanish speakers” :
LEARN ENGLISH!!
No language should be banned but no government business should be conducted in any other language than ENGLISH.
No entiendo en espaniol.
There is that Lower Slabbovian site, though.
Speak English. You are in America.
Puerto Rico unless its a girl then it’s Puerta Rica.
Well, we’re in the process of cutting out all the BS from the top down, so...
EVEN THOUGH?? Well, pardon is for speaking English in the U. S. of A. NBC. "Even though" -- sheesh.
maybe if they tried learning english...
sob.
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