Making Sense of Trumpian English

                                                               Making Sense of Trumpian English

In this post I am quoting Donald J. Trump, President of the United States as reported by The Hindu of 2025-11-29 and am trying to make sense of what he said. I have no skin in this game. A scanned coy of the statement is given below

What is the meaning of “to pause an activity”? As I understand, it is to stop an activity temporarily, with an intention to start later. Check me on that.

Yet, the US President said that he would “[P]ermanently pause migration from all Third World Countries.” Third World Countries? That classification went out with George Herbert Walker Bush. What it is now I do not know but what came after “Third World Countries” was “Least Developed Countries.” Then, Trump introduced a classification, “Shit hole countries” during his first term as POTUS.

Now, the above was merely to indicate that some enterprising entrepreneur could compile a Trumpian Dictionary of Obsolete Words and Phrases!

The most recent phrase is, “[P]ermanently pause”. Let us parse this. What Trump wants is to stop migration permanently and temporarily.

Good for me that I made sense of that. Did you?

Raghuram Ekambaram