Saturday, January 28, 2017

Translating Trump’s Inaugural Speech From the Original German

Translating Trump’s Inaugural Speech From the Original German

"You may be confused, as an English speaker. Trump, a billionaire real estate developer and serial grifter who founded a phony university that defrauded thousands, has appointed a cabinet of billionaires and multi-millionaires, the wealthiest and most elite cabinet in American history, which even includes the CEO of petroleum giant Exxon-Mobil. How, you might ask, can he represent this coup by the super-rich as ‘giving’ power ‘back to’ ‘the people’? The people wouldn’t even be allowed on the grounds of the gated communities where Trump’s officials live. The confusion arises from thinking in English instead of 1930s German."

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