President hosts Nathanial Rai and lifeguard Ryder Williams at White House after video of California rescue went viral
  • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    Also, rethorically perfectly fine. His language does tend to follow common phrases but only is tangentially similar anyway.

    Could have said something along the lines: don’t know if I could have done it. Probably couldn’t. Probably wouldn’t. I don’t know.

    His inner monologue is spoken out loud and his social filter barely exists. This isn’t news.

    He can make anything sound respect less, that being said.

    • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      Logical. But remember, Trump believes he’s the best at anything and everything.

      “I know all about xyz. Nobody knows more about xyz than me”.

      In his mind, he could do it if there was something in it for him, but he wouldn’t, because there isn’t.

      Quite possibly, this is one of the only times in his life he’s actually told the truth about anything.

    • WideEyedStupid@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      Are you by any chance German, or Dutch, or Danish, or a few others I’m sure? I’m Dutch and we would also literally translate it to respectless (respectloos in Dutch, just like tactless = tactloos), but in English you’d say “disrespectful.” ;)