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“You set aside all your personal emotions and become the speaker yourself. It’s a really tough thing, not being allowed to demonstrate your own judgment about what is right and what is wrong. And that’s why I quit.”

Torikai said she was sympathetic with interpreters who struggled with such ambivalence toward Trump’s language. But nonetheless, she is adamant Trumpese “neither be beautified nor be upgraded.”

“If Trump is not making sense, you don’t get to make sense, either. If his language is coarse, that’s the way you translate him,” she said.

Aside from just translating tweets, K・T-san has also put together summaries of Trump’s policies and and lists some of Trump’s most frequently used words and their meanings.

When asked if translating the tweets has helped with his English, K・T-san responded that he’s learned a lot of useful expressions. He’s also gained an interest in politics, and he’s gotten many words of thanks from Japanese people for his work with the translation, which are a huge support. As of this writing, he has over 60,000 followers, and that number just gets higher every day.

One aspect in particular that makes K・T-san’s translations so colorful is his commitment to conveying Trump’s casual language. For example, when Trump uses “you” to address the American people, K・T-san translates it as “anatagata,” a very polite “you all.” But when Trump says “you” referring to a someone he doesn’t like, K・T-san translates it is “aitsura” (an impolite “those guys”) or “omae” (an impolite “you”), words that Japanese politicians would almost never use.

K・T-san has said that he will continue to translate the tweets for as long as possible. He plans to study international economics at college and wants to use the English he’s learned in projects all around the world.

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exactly

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https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/833109003160924160
https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/833118670557675522

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Did he accidentally say the wrong country? Or was he making it up completely?

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Ok, so if you want to see something funny, watch this old skit from Dave Chappelle, doing “Black Bush” and compare it to Trump.

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Nope. Nothing happened in Sweden yesterday. He said Sweden like… 3 times in a row basically.

To be fair he didn’t specifically say it was terrorism, but he he clearly indicated something happened. Only… nothing happened in Sweden yesterday, other than I guess some show on eurovision was bad.

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I’m not usually a fan of these kinds of things but… her reactions really bug me. Between the inauguration reaction, stuff like this and… well the whole RAPE thing… It really fucking bugs me.

I don’t have any commentary or jokes or anything. I’m just in a crappy place at the moment and came across it and needed to vent someplace I guess. That shit isn’t normal.

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It was his first wife Ivana he is supposed to have raped though. Not sure if you meant it generally or in relation to Melania.

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I meant Ivana. I’m just saying seeing her reactions given his history and personality. It fucking bothers me. A lot.

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I hear ya. Personally I don’t have a lot of CPU cycles to spare worrying about Melania. But who knows, maybe she’s in her own private hell.

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Put it in context in the video and it just looks like she’s looking at the notes, she keeps doing that same motion even after he’s gone.


click through for video … ugh I hate posting Fox News

Trump is an orange-faced shit monster but we don’t need to go making stuff up. There’s plenty to dislike without doing that.

Ugh didn’t hit the right reply button. @ShivaX that’s for you (obvs).

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The former Minister of Foreign Affairs put it succintly:

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Somewhere, a terror organization has people in place.

“Shall we go ahead with the plan?”
“No.”
“But … why not? Our people are willing to die for the cause.”
“They don’t have to. We just have to wait for Donald Trump’s administration to invent the attacks for us. Have a beer while we wait.”

And thus, without any acclaim from the press, Donald Trump ends terrorism.

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So Trump has pissed off Sweden.

Fucking Sweden.

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Apparently the news director at Fox news is now the most effective contributer to the perception of terrorism, through his spokesman the President.

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The best Cyber.

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Looks like Michael Jackson has taken to hacking from the grave.

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