[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Fire her.

High stakes meeting.

[Mount Athos]

anyone remember the phony sign language interpreter scandal

[McGruff]

I've noticed Meloni seems to have a hot temper.

[alexander_busek]

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.

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,

[Jim Noble]

The global deep state never misses a trick.

Who would have thought the interpreters are all compromised?

[caddie]

Translating in real time is hard enough, but high-stakes politico-speak, which is full of lies, prevarication, hairsplitting sophistry and dissembling, would probably be nigh unto impossible.

Listen to the gobbledygook coming out of your average lowly congressman asked about some new sewer system in his home state. The imagine translating something as charged as this.

I would give the translator a break.

[ChessExpert]

Imagine interpreting for Kamala Harris.

[Albion Wilde]

According to Corriere della Sera, [the interpreter] is currently by the sea in the Santa Marinella area.

"Is currently by the sea" sounds so romantic; but it translates to "she when downy oushun" here in Merlin (Maryland) or "sheez doewna shoor" in Philly or New Jersey.