Yet another embarrassment today with the contingent of African leaders who braved the White House and put up with its occupant. Donald Trump was impressed by the President of Liberia speaking terrific English. And so he complimented the gentleman and asked where he studied. Liberia, was the answer. Here’s the gag: English is the official language of Liberia. Trump doesn’t know that, of course, because he doesn’t make it his business to know these things.
Trump to Liberian President Boakai: “Such good English. Beautiful English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?”
Fun fact: English is the official language of Liberia. pic.twitter.com/7If4b2rw5w
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 9, 2025
Be glad that the country of Niger didn’t send a representative. I shudder to think how Trump would have mispronounced the country’s name. We could have had a real diplomatic blow out.
At least Trump didn’t start talking about Ronald Reagan’s crack to Nixon on the phone about the African delegates at the United Nations: “Last night, to watch that thing on television … to see those, those monkeys from those African countries. Damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes.”
Yeah, they wear shoes and they speak English. And they used to get much needed help from USAID but that’s gone by the wayside.
Trump is clueless. The President of Liberia paused a moment and probably during that moment he realized that Trump doesn’t know anything about the history of Liberia. Again, there is so much that goes into being a competent U.S. president. So much hard work. So many briefings. And Trump does none of it.
We are the laughing stock of the world.
It’s 100 % guaranteed that the Liberian President, Joseph Boakai, knows more words in English than Dimwit Donny does.
The most stupid president ever, Mr Trump is famed for a vocabulary of about 300 to 400 words, or about the same as the average 8 year old.
As anyone who’s heard him speak can tell.
My 8 year old now 9 was smarter and more verbal at 8 than this privileged nazi pig.
Twump’s word salads spray out of his mouth, riding on a luminiferous aether. In doing so, it unfortunately reveals, in the delicate and nuanced light of diplomacy, how intellectual this cockwomble actually is: deep as a birdbath and as dense as a rock.
We sort of dodged a bullet with the Liberian President NOT telling Trump flat-out English is their official language. From time to time we have to put up with an age-old conservative culture war thing about officially declaring English as OUR national language.