U.S. President Donald Trump hosted five West African leaders on Wednesday for a “multilateral lunch” as the region reels from the impact of U.S. aid cuts.
The surprise meeting with leaders of Liberia, Senegal, Gabon, Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau follows the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
After Liberian President Joseph Boakai wrapped his brief remarks at the start of the White House meeting, Trump asked the Liberian leader where he learned to speak so “beautifully.”
Trump seemed surprised when Boakai responded he learned in Liberia.
“I have people at this table can’t speak nearly as well,” Trump added.
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Hello Trump Translator here to help. What he really meant was "wow this african person speaks English fluently but I'm surprised because in movies they speak in clicking sounds"
It's amazing that our Dear Leader is able to find a new way to embarrass himself and our country each and every day.
😂🤣 😂
He said the same to King Charles
Stop lieing English is not the OFFICIAL language of any part of Africa. It's the colonizing language anywhere besides Europe
So condescending!! 'You africans can't possibly speak our sophisticated language!!' Pisses me off!!
One of the official languages of India is English, but few people say they speak English well. 😀
Good Lord, how embarrassing. Trump
Obviously not briefed on Liberia’s history before his trip there.
😂😂😂😂 he’s completely deranged
LIBERIA STILL UNDER COLONIAL
😂Trump gets more brainless with each passing day😂😂😂
I wonder why Liberians speak English so well. It's almost as if they were from America.
Hold on. It's bound to get worse. Knowing donny, it's gonna get way stupider.
Sadly his supporters wouldn't know what an embarrassment he is especially with world leaders.just shame and disgrace, doesn't he gets briefing on meetings before showing how ignorant and unintelligent he is on display to everyone here and abroad..
Trump flunked out of Fordham and a Wharton professor said he was "the dumbest GD student they ever had." He can barely read.
Shows the idiot IQ of 22
The way the one guy laughed right after trump told the Liberian president he spoke such good English cracked me up…😂😅😂😅
God he's such a joke. How could so many people think he's a competent leader?
It's just another F'N IGNORANT TACO Chump classic
Almost no one knows ANYTHING about fcuken Liberia. Especially, the AA community – they don’t even know if its existence and why it exists, etc. (IMV – that’s their “reparation” and shld be wakanda by now tho it isn’t). So pls give me a fcuken break with the outrage. Maybe more ppl wld know about it, if it produced something, ANYTHING of consequence to the world.
😂😂😂 cmon you gotta laugh
Cheeto is an embarrasment
Why is he surprised, he knows many African presidents are educated and got their education in Africa🙄🙄I mean English is an official language in many African countries!
Friggin idiot
Usa the country of demented presidents😂
Jesus, this is so embarrassing 🫠
America, the worlds sitcom.
Literally a page ripped out of the cringe manual. Didn't Chris Rock do a skit about Obama, "he speaks so well, he's so well spoken" … Trump's base are the people who have been doing this crap 😂 he reflects their mentality and normalizes their cringe
How many commenters here can point out Liberia on the map? Pathetic.
He treated them stupid learners
Drumpf go back to epstein island you buffoon .
Where you can talk like you always do
" me tarzan , you jane want to peel my banana ?" Ooba , gubba nobba nobba …..
African leaders should not take invitations from European Leaders. Africa want nothing from the west. So if they want to talk them should visit Africa.😅
Donald Duck !
It’s a sincere compliment from Trump
To Trump's credit, Liberians speak mostly Kreyol. You can tell by his accent. Anyways Liberia assisted in the smuggling of blood diamonds and was ran by Charles Taylor who was a vicious war lord. Also Liberia spread Ebola and did nothing about it until the world took noticed and shoved them out of the way to keep it from spreading
Great People and great application 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you, President Trump and the African leaders 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
How many languages does Orange Face speak !!!? Boy, .he doesn't quit.
আজকের USA একসময় লাইবেরিয়া সহ আফ্রিকান দেশ থেকে জোর করে মানুষদের ধরে নিয়ে যেতো।
সেই আফ্রিকান মানুষগুলোর পরবর্তী প্রজন্ম আমেরিকানদের মত ল্যাংগুয়েজ শিখেছে। তারাই পরবর্তীতে নিজ দেশে ফিরে এসে এমন ইংরেজি বিস্তার ঘটিয়েছে।
People in the comment section. There are people in America who can’t speak as well as the Liberian president. He wasn’t surprised that he spoke English but how well he speaks it. Come to the south in Florida or to Louisiana and hear how the Cajuns speak. FML
African languages sound better. I hope AI will help us revive our own language here in Ireland. English is a badge of shame.
😂😂😂😂 Trump probably still think that people get shipped into this country to work as slaves from Liberia and they speak like tribals. What kind of stupid question was that! And why would you even ask that to someone who doesn't even speak English as first language it's like questioning their ability to speak.
Nnnnnn
What a joke of a president! 😮
America must protect Africa for the world to follow suit. 😊
Ufffff… that was hard to watch! I felt second hand embarrassment. How can he be a president and not know which countries of Africa have English as an official language? And he didn’t bother to do some research before the meeting.😮