Baba Yagob Melania speaks french?

Not only does Donald Trump not speak French, he barely speaks English.

MA F oh, and here I've been thinking she's intellectually challenged. But I guess one cannot be judged by who they're married to.

MA F I live in Europe (Stockholm) so I know but still remembering a languange that you dont use anymore is really difficuly. My native languange is somali but I speak swedish way better

Can we stop with this nonsense that Melania speaks 5 languages? This is some crap they put on her bio that has gotten completely out of hand. I have a really hard time she speaks 5 languages when she's been in the US since 1995 and barely speaks English. She was nothing but a nude model/ prostitute before she met Trump, not some sophisticated socialite they're selling her as.

Haha Obama was too calm, subtle and cool; there's meaning behind everything he says. Trump just spouts out endless bullcrap.

Or,Trump is the only one i understand.He speaks Idiot.

I think we need an anger translator for the Obama/Hillary supporters whom have been physically violent towards peaceful Trump supporters. I think we need a anger translator for anyone who is a liberal because their rhetoric has been influencing violence and disinformation.

Cam Peaceful trump supporters my ass, clearly you haven't heard all the shit trump supporters have put minorities through.

Cam Yeah, peaceful Trump supporters. Like the murderer from Portland, or the terrorist from Quebec.

Yes. She was trying to get as far away from that IDIOT as possible. Lol. Do you blame her?!

yeah looks like when i’m out with my girlfriends and someone gets hit on by some gross 40 year old. excuuuse me no thank you!!

I'd guess Melania is used to being used as a human shield & no doubt used to getting covered in shit! You can just see it in her face.

Literally repulsed, appropriately.

Yes! LoL!

That’s my favorite line in the whole segment, still, three years later…

Stephan Piskol No shit. That’s how we all feel. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Can u give a link

@@peggyh4805 😂😂😂😂💯💯💯

My mother also knows a translator (English - Vietnamese) who said Trump is a translator's nightmare because there's no point in what he says and he sometimes doesn't even finish a sentence, so it's just impossible to translate.

Oh that poor guy.

Yeah, because if you flirted with a women in front of your wife, that's exactly what going on in there head "I'm hotter then them so it doesn't matter"

Actually, I don't think Melania is as hot as people make her out to be. That's not to say she is ugly, it just means I personally know many people whose looks are on par with Melania and more than a couple who are better looking. Unfortunately, some of them would go for the likes of someone like Donald Trump, but none of them would like to be ignored while their man was going on about how great some other woman looked. They would put up with it, but they would care. If in fact Melania doesn't care, it's because she doesn't care about Trump as a husband, and not because she thinks she's all that and a bag of chips,

Well said ... subtle body language says SOOO much .. when we look for it...

i know. ive read a lot of chinese articles and the way they word it makes it seem less, insane.. In english we can hear his terrible grammar and always changes his meaning in the middle of a sentence but when they translate, they take a lot of it out

Same for Japan, it is an issue that people don't dare to make him sound as bad as he does.

English skills in Norway are good enough to make this far less of an issue. Thankfully

😱😱😱 That's crazy. This is happening now.

@@ludo5475 😱😱😱 that's crazy!

Link plz?

War so gut

Link please

@@tomatomtom4921 There were so many, on so many different TV stations, and such a long time ago... I doubt they were uploaded on UKposts. You could try the website archives of ORF, ZDF, ARD, Arte, etc. from 2016 and 2017.

@@MrMetalWarlock There were so many, on so many different TV stations, and such a long time ago... I doubt they were uploaded on UKposts. You could try the website archives of ORF, ZDF, ARD, Arte, etc. from 2016 and 2017.

The Americans have a word for it.... insert Trumpism here. The wall will be paid for by the super wealthy Hedge Fund - when we make it a wall of HEMP - a mile wide hedge of top grade buds, beautiful, SOLAR, and so hard to throw a 60 pound bag over, & transparent, man.

and BOTH are lies ....

He rarely changes his mind on anything. Where do you guys get that from? I'd like to see examples.

Gonna build a bunch of windmills on the border. They will give migrants cancer. The number of dead birds will be horrifying.

Hypocrisy...that was hilarious!!

MovieBuffGinna LMAO, that is so funny! LMAO still!!!

knowing few foreign languages, you really don't get the full Trump experience with them. They make him sound coherent and composed. To think that he still has only 22% approval worldwide with this handicap...

Those translations just reveal how devoid of any meaning his rambling is. The German translators usually try their best not to make him sound like a preschooler by giving more of a brief coherent summary.

Wonder how they'd translate this word salad: “Look, having nuclear - my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart - you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world - it’s true! - but when you’re a conservative Republican they try - oh, do they do a number - that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune - you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged - but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me - it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are - nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? - but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners - now it used to be three, now it’s four - but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years - but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.” (Yeah, he said that. Word for word. Google it.)

+Lorenz Zahn: Yeah, Problem is: most Germans (especially the younger generations) speak english pretty well. I daresay a large portion of them has a better grasp on the language than Trump does. Though that's not saying much, considering he talks - to quote Colbert - like a sign language gorilla that got hit in the head. But the thing is: they don't need a translator. They Germans can understand him without translation. Which might be one of the reasons why he's so extremely unpopular there. Well that and unfortunate parallels to certain leaders in their own past.

very poetic that ..

She was amazing!!!

Facial expression always help in sign to.

I went to a drag show and they had an ASL interpreter there. She became a part of the show in a way because she really got into the performance. She was "singing" with her hands and dancing. It was really cool. I suppose in order to show someone's tone of voice to someone who cannot hear, you have to be a sort of character who acts it out physically. It's quite fascinating.

However, as an ASL interpreter I have to convey the message as it was sent. If the speaker's grammar is incorrect, that fact MUST be clear in my sign. If a speaker's message is incoherent, my sign MUST be incoherent. Errors must be conveyed as spoken.

But, as an interpreter, his job isn’t to protect people’s feelings. It’s to convey the message, connotation, AND tone of said message. Terrible interpreter.

Is that even possible?

@@edsanchez1893 I mean, yes and no. He has to worry about losing his job, and about confusing the Spanish speakers with Trump's gobbledygook. As the Japanese and the Syrian translators said, if you translate something so that it sounds stupid, ungrammatical, or self-contradictory, it will just sound like you're a bad translator or stupid yourself. As a multilingual myself who has had to translate, I can tell you that it's impossible to translate languages word-for-word, because often there is no direct word correspondence that conveys the same definition *and* connotation, so you instead have to translate the *idea*, not the *words*. And when the ideas make no sense, how can you translate them on the fly? What, figure out a way to turn the message into something that sounds dumb in the other language? I'm telling you, languages don't have a 1:1 correspondence of grammar and words, so it's impossible to be 100% accurate in translation, and it's worse when the guy you're translating is a bumbling idiot. Don't call the Mexican translator incompetent. If he was assigned to translate a US president, he must be quite good.

Exactly. Interpreters just have to interpret what speaker have said after all.

Spanish translator: Este cabron esta mas loco que una puta cabra.

american tax payer gona pay for the wall

Definitely not wrong.

Not if Democrats have anything to say about it. And any Republican serious about cutting spending should too

😂😂😂 I was cracking up at that part

Couple million dollars could of build some of the wall... But it was used in the 4th of July parade.. In one day.

I'm a translator and interpreter. I can tell you these guys are purposely exaggerating. His words are actually really easy to translate, because he uses everyday language and easy sentences which anyone can understand.

I think you missed the point,@@undyingsoul3949. It's mostly about his incoherent speech, confusion, vulgar vocabulary, and lack of sensitivity that are making the translators uncomfortable.

@@SweetAlis1 There is nothing incoherent and confusing in his speeches. A professional interpreter should also be able to easily deal with vulgar and insensitive speech. You barely have any time to overthink specific words or phrases and feel more uncomfortable than you already are if you have to listen closely, remember everything said, immediately translate everything in your head and deliver the interpretation while this process continues with the ongoing speech. It's not the interpreter's job to correct what the speaker says. It's just unrealistic for a professional interpreter to have such issues with "insensitive", but easy-to-translate speech. However, it makes sense for this show to have these guys pretend to have these issues for comedy purposes.

This was a great perspective. I especially liked the part about capturing the mannerisms, tone etc. The simple words used is easy, yes, ut to capture all that makes Trump, Trump, gotta put forth more effort, like the sign lady. This was funny lol.

@@undyingsoul3949 Go ahead and translate this for me. (Remember, it's one sentence.) Look, having nuclear - my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart - you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world - it’s true! - but when you’re a conservative Republican they try - oh, do they do a number - that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune - you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged - but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me - it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are - nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? - but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners - now it used to be three, now it’s four - but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years - but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.

It was lost on him, but it may have meant something to Melania.

lily deufel I'm confident that she understood him 100%. Those are simple sentences.

I thought she was pushing out Melania infront of her to protect herself.

I’ll bet Melania divorces trump as soon as she is able

@@thynguyen911 even hard sentence people with their level of education speaks English fluently.

The translatirs

...and deported.

There very bad at translating to ask that dumb question.

it is more like mexico can't pay gor the wall... anyone that signs the paper work will lose the next election...

😂😂😂

wutup5566 working the replies like its a day job. Troll!

Luiz Alex Phoenix 😭🤣🤣 no mehicko😭😭

rotten otten o everyone in my bible belt family unfortunately

Idiots

“I have a good you know”, as he points to an empty space between his ears.

Where has capitalism king trump any christian values? I dont understand where he is the good by even bible standards?

People who know fewer of "the best words" ;P

Deciciones

I don't find the translation from English to Arabic very hard, but in his case it makes you sound like an idiot, even if your translation is very accurate, you would sound like you don't know what you're saying because in Arabic his way of speaking makes no sense

No.. boy can come before kicked. Tenses differ. The main thing is there are many words which are in Arabic and not in English and vice versa. Thus many times you cant translate a single word. Aside from that, the sentences can be structured VERY differently. For example in certain questions the number of people or gender wont even come up. While in others every verb has a gender and a tense and a number, making it hard for sentences with you or he or them. Also there is no is in arabic. I think you undertsnad.

You could say "The boy kicked the ball" in Arabic. { Al Walad Rakala Al Kura }. It would be considered a nominative/nominal sentence. Your example falls under the verbal sentence structure.

( Rakala al walad al kura ) which is "kicked the boy the ball" is more accurate tho... "verbally" :P

brandon castillo Lol he can't hold the scissors OR the candy bar

He probably has his butler do it for him since he's a douchebag billionaire.........SAD

This suppose to be an insult? "Dump is the type of dude that only flushes his toilet without closing the lid" "Dump is the type of dude that sleeps at night with his blinds open" "Dump is the type of dude that watches the same channel because he couldn't find the remote" "Dump is the type of dude that eats his hot dog with ketchup"

Rev Doe is the type of dude that holds this L

Rev Doe LMAO

agreed ... I love him most when he gets serious vs the twitler imitations ... but overall ... so impressed w his sense of humanity, humor and incredibly incisive cross cultural observations . a true gem!

Same here..I wasnt ready. But I see why Jon Stewart chose Trevor💕

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OMG! Many students I work with said the same thing! They were like "I NEVER understood Obama, but Trump talks like a kindergartner so I can understand :D" Interesting.

Were this only an educational show then I'd agree, but because of their agenda (politically, hating trump, but also, you know, valuing humor above all else) I can understand it. I don't think he would've fit within the structure of this segment. But I do wish they would've left him on there; I was curious as to how and why he differed from the others.

agree

that's right

John Evans well said.

This might help: *Trump Talk Translated:* "Many People have told me" = Voices in my head "A lot of people don't know" = I just learned "Believe me" = I just lied _(optional; if omitted, it is implied)_ "In Fact ..." = I'm about to lie "He's a great guy" = I will deny ever knowing this person after they begin to tell the truth about me "MAGA" = Enriching me off American federal-tax-payers (whom I am proud *not* to be one of) "Nobody knew" = Everyone knew except me "Huge" = moderate to below average in size "Loser" = someone who makes me feel inferior due to their talent or accomplishments "Policy Briefing" = Fox and Friends, Hannity, Carlson or Alex Jones "Reaching out to the people" = Rage-tweeting from the toilet "Liar" = Someone who tells the truth about me "Fake News" = True things said about me by others "Locker room talk" = True things said about me by me Ah yes. *Donald J Trump:* The "self made man" who had a million dollar bank balance by age eight The “patriot” whose Daddy dodged his draft for him. The “billionaire” who hides his tax returns. The “genius” who hides his college grades. The “businessman” who bankrupted 3 casinos and lost over $1B in 10 years. The “playboy” who pays for sex. The “Christian” who wants churches packed _(to worship him?)_ at the height of a pandemic. he “philanthropist” who defrauds charity. The “innocent man” who refuses to testify and prevents those who could exonerate him from doing the same.

@@Gottenhimfella Yeah, I've seen that on Twitter.

@@Gottenhimfella 😆😆😆😆 Love it!! You nailed it! 👍 He is all that. Seriously. He's mind boggling at times. He's definitely NOT all there and has major personality disorders. I'm guessing; Borderline, which is similar to bi-pilorism. Borderline? Is more common with men.

gabdominates I took ASL in high school and remember how crucial facial expressions are (have to make up for not being able to utilize tone of voice or vocal inflection) so I knew it was going to be good. I didn't know it would be THAT good though lol! I was dying

theflameoftruth My gosh, I laughed so dang hard at that. My face was still kinda hurting way afterwards! lol!!!

gabdominates She was pretty awesome!

They could suffer fates worse than that.

They'd have to kill Kellyanne first. She is the official MoS.

And for the same reason I always thought that Obama was the mouth of Karl Marx.

I've been calling Sarah Huckabee Sanders that for a while now.

Oh honey. The rest of us got eyes. If you did not see he is leering on Mrs Macron, you are amongst the lucky ones to never experienced sexual harrasement. The rest of us the unlucky ones, knows that look. Creeper look.

No shit? That is cool!

Yes. I was so happy to see that. I appreciate when people are aware but also use these gestures for the deaf and educate people of it.

Aww, didn't catch that.

I have said that for the last eight years.

However, it is easier to translate a coherent sentence, even if it has numerous complexities and local irregularities than an incoherent sentence. This is because, with a coherent sentence, the information being conveyed is clear. With an incoherent sentence, the information is not clear at all and you have to guess what the intended information is. This is why it is easier to translate Nietzche for most translators/interpreters than Trump.

theflameoftruth more likely, she looked uncomfortable n used melania as her shield lol

I agree with Tiki80. She looked like she was looking for safety, something women do when facing a lech.

Tiki80 it could have been be some of both, feeling disturbed as well as embarrassed a for Melania.

more like she tries to hide herself. All her body language scream uncomfortable.

She wanted it over as soon as possible, like all of us.

Jose F Franco García ...they are actually paying for the wall through Tariffs now...so you’re wrong ...you may or may like trump but he’s done just about everything he promised and more...

Meanwhile all the english speakers are telling them “no, your interpreters got it right” How many interpreters would it take before they realize it isn’t the interpreters, it is the person they are interpreting?

Vilant V amen

Vilant V yea I have no life so this is what I look forward to all day

So much WINNING!!! 😂😂😂

This was a high quality video. Desi did a good segment.

Vilant V me too

Moldovanca Be careful what you're getting into girl... 😁

Moldovanca it was staged

Good luck in your pursuits, Angelica!

Make the seagull one first, that embodies him pretty well.

Difícil saber quem está pior, nós ou eles...

estauricossauro pelo menos eles votaram no maluco deles

Do they also try to make him sound much more eloquent than he is? Because in German they do, I think in sheer desperation to make sense of his twaddle. They also make his tweets sound almost coherent and intelligent when they translate them. Do they do this also with his tweets in Portuguese?

When I saw the news last week, they only translated half of the tweet which did not include the "Sad" word. But they did translate such bullcrap as: This is indeed the greatest Witch hunting in history, my son is elloquent, etc.

I'd have an easier time understanding Portugese. And im a chinese living in Southeast Asia.

I doubt translators would have an easier time with his language patterns.

and Seth Meyers

dg 4 *WHY ISNT HE BACK?!*

Thats a double edge sword because our wishes for help fell on def ears

ElChapo Junior lmao

TRUUUUUU

And Orders of margins more dignity.

Hodor at least has a moral compass.

Hodor has a larger vocabulary...

I also absolutely love Trevor clapping at the end!

And more or less correct. I studied ASL, and facial expressions are part of the language.

why do people want ww3

Oh shit really? Is that why???? You must be smart af how did you figure that out! Wow . I never seen a smarter comment in my life.

why?

😂😂😂😂Lol I didn't even realize until ur comment

@@user-ix9dy4eu9k why?

@@phantomtq oh it's because trump is alleged to have an alliance with Russia ..like they help him win elections ..so it was a joke about that

@@user-ix9dy4eu9k ohh... and right after he became president he sanctioned russia haha i dont really know how you americans think

He forgot his wife was there again. I suppose dementia will get us all if we live long enough.

@@ray7845 Dementia is tragic and horrifying. Their mistakes are honest. Trump is just...Well...That is obviously not dementia.

exactly. he has no shame

He opens his pot hole and vomits shit for brains.

Honestly, trump is sick, but who cares? This wife is far from dignified and respectable. She had a husband and kids when she started a relationship with her current husband (her student). Trash. They deserve each other's company. I bet they and the equally trashy trump's got along very well.

love love Neither does she. That undignified, classless, trashy creep had a husband and children when she started an affair with her student (her current husband). Her husband is trash for marrying someone so tacky and she is trash for being so tacky. They and the trashy trump's are like two peas in a pod.

Nicole Scott That's your issue? Really? Trump cheated on wife 1 with 2, 2 with 3, and if he hadn't become prez #4 was in the wings. Really.

Actually, Macron is the first French president to speak good English. Spanish and Italian leaders are also not that good with English, and politicians aside, I'd say at least 60% of Europeans don't speak proper English, and actually do go through the "translated Trump" experience.

crimsonwires Agreed that Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande spoke hardly any English and that Mediterranen leaders's English skills are rudimentary (with exceptions), but their command of English probably still surpasses that of Trump!

Search for Guenther Oettinger speaking English. Germany only sends its best!

J.S.A. Der war böse! LOL

- It's Trump who's the one that doesn't know even basic English.

Why did you feel the need to share this?

He was implying that trump's comments were out of line

I agree with that interpretation. BTW, it is offensive and sexist and another example of how sick this guy is.

So you're saying his doucheness wasn't superficial, you have to read between the lines to appreciate it. Ok.

NOT the fucking POTUS....if he has ANY class whatsoever!

Van Knip

The double edge of plastic surgery & being rich/famous. If you look your age people wonder why you don't get some work done, and if you look too young they say "Well, if I was rich I'd look like that too."

Helder Silva true I have softened the blow in translation more times than I can count.

A translator's true job is to convey meaning. With Trump's rambling style, it is very difficult to repeat his words to anyone without sounding off, never mind doing it in a different language. Trump is a master of the psychosis people have where they only hear what they want to, so his style translates very well to audiences who are not seeking any real information or new ideas, but wish only to be told over and over again what they already believe.

No. It's your opinion that he isn't very smart. Many people view him as very smart. Telling by his opinions and what he's been achieving, it's more likely that he's actually pretty intelligent. He just doesn't bow down to politically correct speech.

@@antonquintus578 Exactly!

@@undyingsoul3949 Please give me one policy of Trump's and one articulation of his that shows, in your view, that he is "actually pretty intelligent".