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New White House Begins With English-Only Website
dailymail.co.uk ^ | Jul 23th, 2017

Posted on 01/23/2017 8:42:31 PM PST by Helicondelta

Donald Trump will not be 'El Presidente,' judging from the website his White House launched on Friday.

The new whitehouse.gov, unlike the online home of the Obama administration, has no Spanish-language content.

Visiting the old White House website address for content 'en Español' brings Web surfers to an error page.

The newly minted president made a point during the Republican primary season of his preference for immigrants to learn English, mocking former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail.

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To: MHT

It’s amazing that all around the world from Beijing to all over Europe....everyone knows that to succeed in business, you have to learn English. But folks come here and they don’t want to learn English.


21 posted on 01/23/2017 9:00:24 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Helicondelta

To all Spanish speaking Americans - a country cannot be unified if its citizens speak different languages and live separate lives. You, or your parents or grandparents, came here either as legal or illegal immigrants so the onus is on you to learn the majority language. Come and be fullly Deplorable with the rest of us.

MAGA!


22 posted on 01/23/2017 9:01:02 PM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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To: Helicondelta

Alexander the Great also knew the power of language over the mind of peoples and their ability to integrate into the ruling society. People DO need to learn the language of the country they live in, and that goes for Americans living abroad, too.


23 posted on 01/23/2017 9:02:27 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: Helicondelta

I sure hope this is English-only and save taxpayer money by skipping translations. But unfortunately, I think I read Spicer or someone saying the rest is coming.


24 posted on 01/23/2017 9:03:44 PM PST by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp: Replace Ryan & McConnell; Primary Lyn' Ted and others.)
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To: uncitizen

“Not tired of winning yet!”

With Obama, I awoke every day wondering what cringe-worthy event he would shepherd into my day.

With Trump, I’m smiling every day....

Winning!


25 posted on 01/23/2017 9:03:55 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: map

Aside from the debate on whether the whole thing should be in Spanish, too, does anyone stop to realize that the labor cost doubles and slows things down to translate everything into Spanish? Then you’ve have complaints from different groups of Spanish speakers on what version of Spanish is chosen. Mexicans have their vocabulary and idioms, Cubans theirs, Castilians theirs. It’s a hornets’ nest. There are hundreds of languages and dialects spoken in the U.S.


26 posted on 01/23/2017 9:04:25 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Helicondelta

That is funny and great!

A friend had a site where he put links for foreign languages under the little flag icons. All of them redirected to a “Learn to Speak English” online course ;-)


27 posted on 01/23/2017 9:08:54 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Vendome

What does ‘Lie of Ommision’ mean?


28 posted on 01/23/2017 9:10:02 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Helicondelta

Great the win with this one is. Hmmm.

In my best Yoda.


29 posted on 01/23/2017 9:10:49 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

I have no problem with English only. Ballots should be English only. Aren’t citizens required to be conversant in our national language?

But this article was a phony attack on Trump. In fact, within its text there is a video of Spicer contradicting the whole thing.

Shoddy reporting.


30 posted on 01/23/2017 9:12:28 PM PST by map
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To: MtnClimber

It would have been humorous if they’d put the site up and offered it in UK-English, Canadian-English, Australian-English, and New Zealand-English as well.


31 posted on 01/23/2017 9:13:51 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Helicondelta

No mas!


32 posted on 01/23/2017 9:14:07 PM PST by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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To: pepsionice

Eh?


33 posted on 01/23/2017 9:15:22 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: uncitizen

No estoy cansado de ganar.


34 posted on 01/23/2017 9:16:35 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Helicondelta

I love everything this guy does so far..!!

:-) :-) :-)


35 posted on 01/23/2017 9:17:01 PM PST by gaijin
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To: HokieMom
Spicer said on twitter that the Spanish version is being updated with Trump information and will return soon.

That's ok. I'll bet El Presidente Nieto of Mexico has an English language version of his official website.

Why are you laughing?

36 posted on 01/23/2017 9:17:41 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Helicondelta

If the globalists think non-English speakers are da best, then let these non-English speakers use Google Translate to read the text at whitehouse.gov in their native language.


37 posted on 01/23/2017 9:23:36 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: Helicondelta

Germany going Arabic, America going English.


38 posted on 01/23/2017 9:26:38 PM PST by umgud
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To: Helicondelta

LMAO! LOVING IT!


39 posted on 01/23/2017 9:26:53 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Helicondelta

You know what Trump should do?

Re-direct the link for “Spanish Version” to a GoFundMe page for “Build the Border Wall”!


40 posted on 01/23/2017 9:29:31 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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