Posted on 04/20/2025 9:26:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Giorgia Meloni’s interpreter has apologized for faltering during a high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump earlier this week, prompting the Italian prime minister to jump in and translate her own comments about NATO and defense spending.
Valentina Maiolini-Rothbacher, who was interrupted by Meloni when providing a translation at the White House meeting on Thursday, said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that the mishap was the “worst thing that can happen to an interpreter, a terrible setback.”
Footage of the meeting shows President Trump asking Maiolini-Rothbacher for a translation of Meloni’s response to a question from an Italian journalist about his position on Ukraine and military spending. Maiolini-Rothbacher appears to struggle with the translation, pausing several times and looking through her notes, before Meloni cuts her off and speaks to Trump in English.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
Fire her.
High stakes meeting.
anyone remember the phony sign language interpreter scandal
I had a friend named Bob. He had a lab dog he called Tara. Neither I nor my father-in-law new the dogs name. We were bird hunting upland game birds and had reached our hunting area. We got out, let the dog out and she immediately took off going farther than Bob wanted and he hollered her name. Neither I nor my father-in-law heard what he said, so I asked Bob and he half turned and said Tara. Which we didn’t hear. I was about to ask Bob again when he got irritated and yelled “Hey dumbshit come back here’. I turned to my father-in-law and told him the dog’s name is dumbshit. Amusing hunting, not so much in world affairs. 😋
Obama had a fake interpreter, when he and Mike went to the funeral of Nelson Mandela. Nobody seemed to have vetted him before the service. He was a hoot.
Did the fake interpreter use his middle finger to sign fairly often?
All the Dems love to virtue signal with them ALL THE TIME.
It’s absurd and stage craft.
She’s Italian.
Why wouldn’t she have a hot temper?
I am retired now, but worked for many years as a (consecutive) court interpreter and as a simultaneous interpreter (in the booth, with headphones, etc.)
Until I am provided with the actual text which the interpreter fumbled, I am withholding judgement.
The interpreter may simply have been overly meticulous and perfectionistic with regards to the translation of a single technical word, attempting to find the exact, official translation of a certain legal term or slang phrase - while the Prime Minister got impatient and said to heck with it and improvised some approximation that filled the bill.
Regards,
Feisty is what I call it, perhaps Elon Musk likes his women feisty
At one time in Miami’s Criminal Courts, Spanish interpreters would “generously interpret” LEGAL advise to the defendant.
Congratulation!
Simultaneous interpreter, that’s really hard.
I know few languages, and I did some translations in the past, but I would never dare to attempt that.
It is just so hard, somehow think in two languages in the same time?!
This said, I have been in conferences, hearing both the original and the simultaneous translation, and they were often not too close!
So, if you can, skip the translator, you can often express yourself better than the translator can. Few times, I did talk over my translator in similar fashion like she did.
However, I observed, some people are using translators intentionally, just to slow down the discussion, and get themself more time to think!
E.G. Zelensky probably should do just that!
Not the first time a dogs named changed during a hunt.
Most of the names can not be repeated here.
I found a shock collar corrects most of them.
One of my friends found there was no English-Russian, Russian-English dictionary including military and diplomatic terms, so he wrote the book on those words.
Could be the same for other languages?
The global deep state never misses a trick.
Who would have thought the interpreters are all compromised?
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My wife’s Sicilian- trust me, I know…..
I can do it quite often in Spanish and yes, it is very difficult. People have no idea.
“I’ve noticed Meloni seems to have a hot temper.”
Three types of hot temper...and I’ve had the displeasure of meeting all three at some point in my life.
1 - Italian women at any time...
2 - Hispanic women when you’re talking to another female...
3 - Irish (my current experience) whenever she feels like it. She can be sweet, then all of sudden - and without warning - do a 180 and throw some nice icy barbs at you. DO NOT even think about returning them.
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