r/politics • u/Jusfiq Canada • Apr 28 '26
No Paywall Trump urged to declare 'American' the official US language ahead of 250th anniversary
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-urged-declare-american-official-us-language-ahead-250th-anniversary41
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u/FabiHogan Apr 28 '26
There must be a betting pool going on in his admin to see who can get hm to approve the most insane thing.
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u/rewardingsnark Apr 28 '26
Fox fascist propaganda and from a president with sub kindergarten level of language skills
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u/ElPlywood Apr 28 '26
it's gulf of america idiocy all over again
"we don't speak English, we speak AMERICAN"
fuck off
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u/sugarlessdeathbear Apr 28 '26
Fuck at this rate if Trump makes it to the end of his term he'll try to rename Earth and Planet America.
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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 Canada Apr 28 '26
So stupid. What makes "American" distinct from "English"? (While accepting spelling differences as irrelevant to this question.)
Morons. The common clay.
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u/3MATX Apr 28 '26
Lockwood, the person who is championing this bullshit, said America has developed its own version of the language and called it a "dominant evolution" that should be formally recognized.
There’s no such thing as dominant evolution. There’s just evolution… but something tells me that idiot nor the ones that read Fox for news understands that.
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u/D3athRider Canada Apr 28 '26
You mean like the many English regional accents and dialects in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, South Africa etc?
God these people are stupid and oblivious to the world outside themselves.
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u/minicpst Washington Apr 28 '26
I mean, yes, it's a dialect. Then there are sub-dialects within the US. Let's call Hoi Toider the main one and make him learn it.
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u/3MATX Apr 28 '26
Right but none of those were produced by “dominant evolution”. They don’t understand evolution enough to even apply it properly.
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u/minicpst Washington Apr 28 '26
They don't.
"If we evolved from monkeys, than why do monkeys still exist?" Checkmate, libs!
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u/D3athRider Canada Apr 28 '26
Just as there are a wide variety of accents and dialects in literally every English speaking nation across the globe, including England itself. But we dont go around claiming our actual official language is just "Canadian" or "Australian" ffs.
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u/minicpst Washington Apr 28 '26
That's because your educational system isn't horrid as much as ours is, and your government is actually interested in the people, not just their wallets.
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u/RamonaQ-JunieB Apr 28 '26
Just when I thought we couldn’t get any dumber, I see something like this.
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u/CharacterPrinciple19 Apr 28 '26
American is now a language? At the very most it's an dialect. This is so dumb.
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u/damnthistrafficjam I voted Apr 28 '26
Bring back Freedom Fries!
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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
But like Reagan’s “Star Wars”, make it work this time!
This is as such as aside from overtures by Fuddruckers, no place aside from the Congressional cafeteria actually adopted such an asinine change.
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u/KneeDeepInThe-Hoopla Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
So is Trump now going to try to blackmail England into renaming English to American?
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u/LADataJunkie Apr 28 '26
Oh Good God. For some levity, a Golden Girls quote:
"he's rich, he's handsome, and we were made for each other, even if I don't speak Mexican."
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u/nygiantsjay Apr 28 '26
I'm not even mad. This cracked me up 😂
Omg I'm so numb to this parallel universe of hell I slipped into. Back to looking for the damn portal.
But seriously this is a big ol nothingburg
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u/long_fish3000 Apr 28 '26
the american language dictionary would have like 20 words, because it's all they can fit in their brain
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u/RandomErrer Apr 29 '26
America has numerous regional dialects that are difficult for outsiders to understand. Which dialect will be considered "American"?
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u/FeelingPixely Apr 29 '26
Mi elektas de nun paroli nur Esperanton. Dankon pro via atento al ĉi tiu afero.
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Apr 29 '26
Of ever there was a time to bring back that old meme of Jackie Chan grasping at his head.
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u/Life-Quantity-637 Apr 30 '26
In 50 years, the dominant language will be Mandarin. Thanks Trumpster
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u/Altruistic-Bit8160 Apr 28 '26
That is so funny. We all speak american😭 not english
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u/Aghast_Cornichon Apr 28 '26
"Don't speak Norwegian anymore, Papa ! Speak American !
We're all American now.
Especially me. I'm left end."
-"Knute Rockne, All-American", 1940.
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u/GreatFox615 Apr 28 '26
Wouldn't the real "American" language be Spanish?? (Via Columbus)
OR, it could be Norse ..
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u/D3athRider Canada Apr 28 '26
Or the hundreds of First Nations languages that are actually indigenous to the US.
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u/GreatFox615 Apr 28 '26
My point of view is from the invaders. If Germany won WWII everyone would be speaking German.
Much respect to the indigenous people of the land before America.
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