Posted on 05/08/2017 1:16:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence.
In February, acknowledging Black History Month, Trump said that “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.” Because Trump is syntactically challenged, it was possible and tempting to see this not as a historical howler about a man who died 122 years ago, but as just another of Trump’s verbal fender benders, this one involving verb tenses...
What is most alarming (and mortifying to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated) is not that Trump has entered his eighth decade unscathed by even elementary knowledge about the nation’s history. As this column has said before, the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something...
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Good Lord! I thought the title said, “George Takei .”
“WTF is up with these #NeverTRUMPers?”
Their money comes from government.
His Hillary cuck holster was getting cold after she "withdrew" from national politics... 😀
Imagine if someone had said this about obozo.
Will doesn’t understand what Trump said? How lame. Read it again George, slowly. You can do this.
Mark
george will has the GREATEST dangerous disability...he is george will. What a self-preening loser.
George has fallen so far, so fast, that his inner ears are all messed up - he doesn’t seem to be able to recognize which end is up. He’s also catering to the lib “News” job he finally went nuts enough to qualify for.
If Will's quotation is accurate, no.
The quote is, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.”
The error is, "who's done". It should be, "who did". Because the doer (1818-1895) is long gone and isn't going to be doing anymore.
Present perfect tense ("has done") vs simple past tense ("did").
While the present perfect may indicate the action is ongoing, it doesn’t necessarily. It would not be the preferred usage, but it is not incorrect.
The error would be if he used the present “is doing.”
Dear Liz,
That just exponentially multiplied the number of murders the Clintons are directly responsible for!
He’s still mostly concerned about being invited to Georgetown parties and having the “right” people come to his own affairs when invited.
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