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Why dosen't Trump have a hearing impaired interprater at his coronavirus briefings?

I have noticed that all the World leaders (except Trump) have a hearing impaired interpreter at their coronavirus briefings.  I figure it is because Trump dosen't  want people taking their eyes off him. Cheers!

Posted - April 23, 2020
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  • 7408
    Lol, that’s so weird. I was wondering about that the other day too. 
      April 23, 2020 8:46 AM MDT
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  • 11112
    Sometimes I get a laugh when I watch our Prime Minister give a coronavirus briefing. Sometimes when they are translating from French to English it's a female voice so it sounds like he is a girly man. Cheers!
      April 23, 2020 9:27 AM MDT
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  • 7408

    Lol yes :) Also I can’t understand why he needs two separate people translating. He’s always switching every other question  from French  to English and has a separate person doing the translating for each language. That makes no sense to me.

      April 23, 2020 9:34 AM MDT
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  • 53509

      Is the Prime Minister fluent in both French and English?
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      April 23, 2020 9:39 AM MDT
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  • 7408

    There has not been a Prime Minister that was not fluent in both languages in my lifetime. I know there was before,  but that was a million years ago. There’s no legal requirement to speak both, but would be highly unlikely to win a Majority Gov. without seats in Quebec..and no party leader will get votes in that province  if they can’t speak French.    

      April 23, 2020 10:52 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    Oui, oui!



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      April 23, 2020 2:56 PM MDT
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  • 11112
    Ya it does get distracting but I do find a bit of comfort in his briefings. Cheers!
      April 23, 2020 9:47 AM MDT
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  • 7408
    That‘s good that you do :) 
      April 23, 2020 10:54 AM MDT
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  • 34283
    I never thought about it but I have never seen a US Presidential press conference with a sign language interpreter.  Perhaps they normally use close captioning. 
      April 23, 2020 9:02 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    Can you imagine such in interpreter trying to sign what Trump says considering that he can hardly form a coherent sentence and repeats himself frequently?  It would make the interpreter's head spin, not to mention the hearing impaired.
      April 23, 2020 9:21 AM MDT
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  • 11112
    Ya I can imagine that it would be pretty funny but sad to watch. Cheers!
      April 23, 2020 9:35 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    It's sad trying to watch Trump without being hearing impaired!
      April 23, 2020 11:03 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    Trump probably sees the sign language people as liberal media, telling lies to the hearing impaired. 
      April 23, 2020 10:31 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Maybe he simply can’t abide anyone speaking for him, or distracting from his limelight. Maybe both. 

    I’m with Spunky, Agent Orange talks in circles so often, is so incoherent, deaf folks might think the signer translating Trump’s words verbatim was either incompetent or utterly insane.
    Reading transcripts of his talks is pretty revealing in this regard. This post was edited by Don Barzini at April 23, 2020 1:58 PM MDT
      April 23, 2020 1:53 PM MDT
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  • 11112
    When Trump was looking at the building plans for one of his buildings he noticed dots by the elevator buttons and he asked  why they were there. He was told they were there for the blind and he said that they look weird  and not many blind people will be guests so get rid of them. So I figure one of the reasons Trump dosen't have a hearing inpaired interpreter is because he thinks the hearing impared and the blind are a minority and don't  have to  be catered to. Cheers!
      April 23, 2020 4:09 PM MDT
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