Gotta control the flow of information any way you can when you’re this corrupt.
TintedApostle on
Its a sorry state of affairs when you have to hire a MAGA sign language person to edit sign language before airing on Fox news.
travio on
So, the “President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public” is more important than ensuring deaf people can understand White House press briefings?
jimboiow on
I have some sign language for him. 🖕🏻
thieh on
They have to repeal the ADA first, no? Just ask trump’s betas in congress.
Historical_Bend_2629 on
Gravity must be abolished! It is interfering with Trump’s ability to walk. Also please stop time. It is making our president look bad.
OhGodSoManyQuestions on
Again, the Right is all about enforcing caste. The term originated with *left* and *right* wings of the Assemblée Nationale during the French Revolution. The *left* wanted equality and the *right* wanted to preserve the unearned privilege and power of the aristocracy. The local caste systems change but the same fight about equality and inequality continues.
The American Caste System is about Race, Sex, Orientation, Wealth, Membership in an inverted Christianity, and ability/disability. Your caste is a sort of weighted sum of your position in all of these axes. We can’t seem to talk about our caste system directly. But people in the middle of the system can be made to feel threats to their positions and manipulated. This explains everything about MAGA.
While it’s the lowest-weighted dimension of the American Caste System, providing people with disabilities with the same rights and privileges as people without disabilities breaks caste. And the White House continues their obsession with vengeful reassertion of caste and inequality.
its-a-baka on
Why? Sign language for him is just the interpreter giving a perpetual double bird. Is that not the image he wants to project?
Lostinthestarscape on
Lol – it must be distracting when the ASL translator just repeats the sign for “Bullshit” for the length of his speeches.
themattboard on
This is the controlled image?
Historical_Bend_2629 on
Wow. Another group he just alienated. Big surprise. Such a man of the people.
MadAstrid on
Cool. If he wishes to be a private citizen and tightly control his image he can resign from public service. Currently he works for the people of the US and so must use sign language interpreters.
citizenjones on
This is an ‘optics only’ administration. It’s comes from a long line of *keeping up appearances*. Control the message, control the messenger and kill it when needed with firehouse of falsehoods.
CrystalVibes52 on
Are we really surprised? This administration hates disabled people.
monkeywithgun on
>Trump administration ~~says sign language services ‘intrude’ on Trump’s ability to control his image~~ displays it’s ability to be a bigoted as it is racist.
OhGodSoManyQuestions on
MAGA figures say they prioritize (dog whistle) “Real Americans”. Which Americans aren’t in the group called “Real Americans”? Black Americans. Female Americans. LGBTQ Americans. Poor Americans. Non Christian nationalist Americans. And Americans with disabilities. These are “Woke Americans” unless they overtly participate in enforcing the caste system that excludes them. Milo is gay but he’s a white man and a Nazi. Owens is a Black woman but she is rich and promotes right-wing hate and lies. They will never be what MAGA calls “Real Americans” but they will be welcome in the cause.
Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 on
Obligatory throw back to the article “Interpreters say it’s nearly “impossible” to translate Donald Trump’s rhetoric into other languages” because my god what a feat the ASL interpreters are forced to pull off when they’re interpreting babble and drivel.
The same can be said about the english language of which he often can’t constrain himself within the confines.
InsideAside885 on
In MAGA world, accessibility, disability, and handicap equals DEI and laziness.
They would get rid of all ADA laws if they could.
Luciliusardens on
Or, the gibberish he is spouting becomes even more obvious.
smiama36 on
So this administration is now against the visually impaired and the deaf populations in our country. Why? To what end? So Trump’s “image” isn’t tarnished? More than it already is?
slo1111 on
Yeah, he is not an emotional of a wreck of a man. Wow
VanguardAvenger on
Honestly I didn’t know anyone at the White House actually knew the signs for “babbling incoherently”
Stillwater215 on
Is this their way of saying “no sign language interpreter can follow what Trump says.”
samgam74 on
No one is in control of their public image. That’s not something that is possible to control.
Plantron1 on
I don’t envy the people who have to interpret his gibberish into American Sign Language
yorapissa on
Actually, it’s would be near impossible for sign language translator to switch thought gears like the demented president and no provider is willing to take on the strain of trying to deliver Rambling Don.
CAM6913 on
Trump has a long history of hating everyone with a disability. When the elevators in trump tower were installed he demanded that the buttons be changed because they had braille on them and didn’t want them and when told blind people need them to find the right button to push his response was “there will never be any blind people in my building!” He’s made fun of handicapped reporters VETERANS even stated that no one wants to see them they are losers.
FF36 on
This timeline man….just when you’ve seen it all and heard it all holy dog shit does this maga shit show provide more insanity
Suilenroc on
It’s true, his public image is better when you can’t hear a word he says.
AnonEMoussie on
I’d pity the translator trying to keep up with his train of thought. Imagine a sign language interpreter stopping and saying “Sir, did you want me to sign ‘I love minors”, or “I love miners”?
Wax_Paper on
In other words, we’re at a point when communicating with deaf people in a language they’ve grown up with is too woke, and he’s afraid it will make him look weak with his base. Cruelty is a sign of strength in Trump’s America, for whatever infantile reason.
kalidorisconan on
Fucking scumbags. They probably have some ridiculous notion that deaf people don’t vote or something weird.
Thadrea on
So he *wants* Deaf people to see him as an old, cranky, ugly buffoon with dementia rather than whatever the interpreter looks like?
Gnich_Aussie on
If you need to control your image, you’re not who you think you are OR are actively and willfully decietful.
Simple.
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Gotta control the flow of information any way you can when you’re this corrupt.
Its a sorry state of affairs when you have to hire a MAGA sign language person to edit sign language before airing on Fox news.
So, the “President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public” is more important than ensuring deaf people can understand White House press briefings?
I have some sign language for him. 🖕🏻
They have to repeal the ADA first, no? Just ask trump’s betas in congress.
Gravity must be abolished! It is interfering with Trump’s ability to walk. Also please stop time. It is making our president look bad.
Again, the Right is all about enforcing caste. The term originated with *left* and *right* wings of the Assemblée Nationale during the French Revolution. The *left* wanted equality and the *right* wanted to preserve the unearned privilege and power of the aristocracy. The local caste systems change but the same fight about equality and inequality continues.
The American Caste System is about Race, Sex, Orientation, Wealth, Membership in an inverted Christianity, and ability/disability. Your caste is a sort of weighted sum of your position in all of these axes. We can’t seem to talk about our caste system directly. But people in the middle of the system can be made to feel threats to their positions and manipulated. This explains everything about MAGA.
While it’s the lowest-weighted dimension of the American Caste System, providing people with disabilities with the same rights and privileges as people without disabilities breaks caste. And the White House continues their obsession with vengeful reassertion of caste and inequality.
Why? Sign language for him is just the interpreter giving a perpetual double bird. Is that not the image he wants to project?
Lol – it must be distracting when the ASL translator just repeats the sign for “Bullshit” for the length of his speeches.
This is the controlled image?
Wow. Another group he just alienated. Big surprise. Such a man of the people.
Cool. If he wishes to be a private citizen and tightly control his image he can resign from public service. Currently he works for the people of the US and so must use sign language interpreters.
This is an ‘optics only’ administration. It’s comes from a long line of *keeping up appearances*. Control the message, control the messenger and kill it when needed with firehouse of falsehoods.
Are we really surprised? This administration hates disabled people.
>Trump administration ~~says sign language services ‘intrude’ on Trump’s ability to control his image~~ displays it’s ability to be a bigoted as it is racist.
MAGA figures say they prioritize (dog whistle) “Real Americans”. Which Americans aren’t in the group called “Real Americans”? Black Americans. Female Americans. LGBTQ Americans. Poor Americans. Non Christian nationalist Americans. And Americans with disabilities. These are “Woke Americans” unless they overtly participate in enforcing the caste system that excludes them. Milo is gay but he’s a white man and a Nazi. Owens is a Black woman but she is rich and promotes right-wing hate and lies. They will never be what MAGA calls “Real Americans” but they will be welcome in the cause.
Obligatory throw back to the article “Interpreters say it’s nearly “impossible” to translate Donald Trump’s rhetoric into other languages” because my god what a feat the ASL interpreters are forced to pull off when they’re interpreting babble and drivel.
https://qz.com/817886/i-pursued-her-like-a-strumpet-the-hazards-of-translating-trump-into-foreign-languages
The same can be said about the english language of which he often can’t constrain himself within the confines.
In MAGA world, accessibility, disability, and handicap equals DEI and laziness.
They would get rid of all ADA laws if they could.
Or, the gibberish he is spouting becomes even more obvious.
So this administration is now against the visually impaired and the deaf populations in our country. Why? To what end? So Trump’s “image” isn’t tarnished? More than it already is?
Yeah, he is not an emotional of a wreck of a man. Wow
Honestly I didn’t know anyone at the White House actually knew the signs for “babbling incoherently”
Is this their way of saying “no sign language interpreter can follow what Trump says.”
No one is in control of their public image. That’s not something that is possible to control.
I don’t envy the people who have to interpret his gibberish into American Sign Language
Actually, it’s would be near impossible for sign language translator to switch thought gears like the demented president and no provider is willing to take on the strain of trying to deliver Rambling Don.
Trump has a long history of hating everyone with a disability. When the elevators in trump tower were installed he demanded that the buttons be changed because they had braille on them and didn’t want them and when told blind people need them to find the right button to push his response was “there will never be any blind people in my building!” He’s made fun of handicapped reporters VETERANS even stated that no one wants to see them they are losers.
This timeline man….just when you’ve seen it all and heard it all holy dog shit does this maga shit show provide more insanity
It’s true, his public image is better when you can’t hear a word he says.
I’d pity the translator trying to keep up with his train of thought. Imagine a sign language interpreter stopping and saying “Sir, did you want me to sign ‘I love minors”, or “I love miners”?
In other words, we’re at a point when communicating with deaf people in a language they’ve grown up with is too woke, and he’s afraid it will make him look weak with his base. Cruelty is a sign of strength in Trump’s America, for whatever infantile reason.
Fucking scumbags. They probably have some ridiculous notion that deaf people don’t vote or something weird.
So he *wants* Deaf people to see him as an old, cranky, ugly buffoon with dementia rather than whatever the interpreter looks like?
If you need to control your image, you’re not who you think you are OR are actively and willfully decietful.
Simple.