![]() ![]() “We don’t call Kevin McCarthy ‘KM’ or Nancy Pelosi ‘NP,’ so we need to probe why she’s tagged AOC. “Beyond this most recent incident involving Laura Ingraham, I find it very disturbing that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s name is being abbreviated as AOC by the news media,” Flores said. Rutgers University's Flores attributes the mispronunciation of the congresswoman’s name - for example, only saying Cortez instead of Ocasio-Cortez - to people not putting in the effort to correctly pronouncing Latino or more ethnic names.īut it's not only the mispronunciation of Ocasio-Cortez’s name that Flores sees as problematic, but the constant abbreviation of her name. “If a Latina/o is perceived as such, they will in all likelihood also be perceived as having an accent and, therefore, as being a threat to the nation’s identity. Politico reported in August that Trump disliked Jeff Sessions, who quit as attorney general Tuesday, because he “doesn’t have Ivy League pedigree” and because he “can’t stand his Southern accent.“The argument that if you speak and act American (whatever that means), you'll be rewarded, is spurious,” del Valle said in an email to NBC News. To be fair to Trump, it’s not just foreign accents he has trouble understanding. The reporter’s question: “How do you focus on trade and economic issues with Japan? Do you ask Japan to do more?” Trump’s reply: “I really don’t understand you.” Later, after he apparently did understand the reporter, Trump complained “that Japan does not treat the United States fairly on trade.”įinally it was the turn of the reporter from Lebanon’s Murr Television, who asked about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s pledge to buy Iranian oil in defiance of U.S. There was the president mocking Puerto Rican accents shortly after thousands were killed and tens of thousands. Trump later called on a reporter from Japan and told him to say “hello to Shinzo” Abe, the Japanese prime minister. ![]() ![]() (“You look at the employment and unemployment numbers for African Americans and Asian Americans or Hispanic Americans, they are at an historic high.”) Trump’s initial response: “I do not understand what you are saying.”īilbassy-Charters subsequently elaborated on her question and the president provided a nonanswer. Both women are Muslim and Omar, who came to the U.S. Tuesday’s exchanges began with a question from Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, a reporter for the TV network Al Arabiya, who asked Trump about whether the election victories of Democrats Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota were a “rebuke” to Trump’s policies. Thank you, Mr President” for “I’m not thinking, Mr. You never do.” This was after he had misunderstood her saying, “I’m not. During a previous news conference, he told ABC’s Cecilia Vega, “You’re not thinking. He has reportedly mocked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s manner of speaking is said to have mocked the accents of Asian trade negotiators and has used an exaggerated Spanish accent to say “Puerto Rico.” (Nor is this tendency restricted to foreigners. Read: The 10 most dumbfounding moments from Trump’s post-election press conferenceīut it’s what Trump does next that exhibits a pattern of the president’s tendency to distance himself from people from other backgrounds. Or perhaps he simply has difficulty understanding speakers from other backgrounds-many people encounter and struggle with accents they don’t understand. The news conference was, at times, boisterous, with reporters shouting questions out of turn, which could of course have made it difficult for the president to focus. Taken in isolation, the exchanges at Tuesday’s presidential news conference could be understandable. And so it was on Tuesday-with an addition: The president had trouble understanding anyone with a foreign accent. There is by now a familiar pattern to President Donald Trump’s news conferences: He loudly proclaims his victories and deal-making prowess dismisses reporters he believes are unfair to him and rails against policies he doesn’t like. ![]()
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