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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I’ll start demanding signs in Hungarian!
Yes, and once the government adds Spanish and only Spanish, it has discriminated against people who speak Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese...
There should be ONE language and thus NO discrimination.
Why give Univision a platform
See tagline.
I realized I wuz grammatically wrong after seeing the post, but no time to correct the form. The thought is still the right way to go..
“...off to Slow Start With Spanish Speakers,...”
Well, maybe that’s because we speak ENGLISH here in America. It is the official language of America.
What a concept, huh? :^)
More properly, it would be "el tougho, el shitto"
No habla español? Bueno!!
This is America, not effing Mexico. Learn the language or go home.
“Give Puerto Rico back to Spain.”
+1
Would that be great if President Trump said there would be no website in Spanish as "This is the United States. We speak English".
Excellent news! We don’t need a tower of babel.
And hearing most of their PA announcements in spanish.
All the other immigrants adapted. We are not a bilingual country. I don’t care about these invaders who are descendents of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers. They have the audacity to rant about the white man while forgetting their European roots and own history.
Gosh - this writer sounds like the concern trolls who bemoan that Trump hasn’t accomplished everything he wants to do yet.....
Build the Wall. :)
Why are even speaking Spanish in the USA anyways? I have spent some 30 years working in Latin America and they do not speak English on my behalf.
Why are even speaking Spanish in the USA anyways? I have spent some 30 years working in Latin America and they do not speak English on my behalf.
If were President i would have some choice words i would translate into Spanish. :)
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