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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We speak English in this Country. If I were to live in a foreign country I would learn the language of that country.
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I was fortunate that in all my ‘trips’ to foreign lands (including Tijuana Mexico) ALL the people I was in contact with spoke (or tried) English.
Not that ‘we’ were ‘Ugly Americans’, we had money. They wanted money. Someone in ‘high places’ figured better they learn us etc etc etc....
I can order a beer or confirm price in about 15 different languages, other communications could be handled with a type of ‘sign language’....
We did manage to get properly inebriated, and coupled on most occasions.
Thank you - my sentiments exactly
But he is doing quite well with AMERICANS!
I will speak or write any language I want but I deal with the government in English only.
That is a bad thing.
No Habla
Ten years ago our neighborhood was just a typical American suburb.
Now going to places like the grocery store, Home Depot or Wal-Mart is like a free trip to Mexico, Honduras, Haiti and the Mid-East all rolled into one.
It's getting close to the bar scene in Star Wars!
Learn English.
This is the United States of America.
We speak English.
Leave if you don’t like it.
Then maybe they should learn English.
It’s called a ‘siesta’.
Toughee Sheetee.
Lets have legislation making English the official language and then reprint all documents in English only.
Exactly. If private businesses want to have Spanish, let them. But not government agencies funded by taxpayers.
in AMERICA we speak ENGLISH
Can you imagine what the Esperanto speakers are going through?
I could take care of that and clearly write what needed to be written in correct Spanish. Submitted a resume months ago, but no contact. Oh well.
Ask me if I give a shi...er...Dorkbama.
Just change the text on each page to "Learn English". Problem solved. /s
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