Trump: "If I lose to Biden, get ready to have to learn Chinese"

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-if-i-lose-to-biden-get-ready-to-have-to-learn-to-speak-chinese?ref=home

Ramping up his incendiary rhetoric towards his 2020 opponent, President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that China would be in control of the United States if former Vice President Joe Biden wins this November. Better get ready to speak Chinese, the president told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.

“All they’re waiting for, and China too, is that I’m defeated. Because if I’m defeated, China will own the United States,” Trump bellowed. After wondering aloud whether Biden’s team is engaging in “backchannel talks” with China, Trump added: “If I don’t win the election, China will own the United States—you will have to learn to speak Chinese!”

[Storr]

Does anyone actually believe this stuff?

[soundchaser]

I mean, that would be fine. Mandarin is fast becoming the lingua franca of the business world. (Also it probably wouldn't hurt for Americans to learn another language in general.)

[Rand]

Won't we be too busy learning Mexican?

[MikeIrvine]

Didn't they already have this ad in 2010?

[Ancestral Republican]

China already owns the US.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Does anyone actually believe this stuff?

I'm sure the NYT will find some rednecks at a rural diner in Hicksville, Kentucky, that do.

[American2020]

If he loses to Biden, We can tell it in English: Good Riddance. Period.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

What a ludicrous statement. It's clearly impossible to expect repeat Trump voters to be able to learn anything.

[Xing]

我已經會說中文，你嚇不到我，川普

[ProudModerate2]

trump is a racist POS.
These continued bigoted statements cause hateful attacks (verbal and physical) on many Asian-Americans.

[It’s so Joever]

He is correct, I am going to learn (continue to learn) Mandarin Chinese if Biden gets elected.
I will also learn Mandarin Chinese if Trump gets re-elected
But seriously, how can you people claim this isn’t race baiting?

[It’s so Joever]

I mean, that would be fine. Mandarin is fast becoming the lingua franca of the business world. (Also it probably wouldn't hurt for Americans to learn another language in general.)

I say they should start with Spanish because it’s technically easier and will adjust people to common linguistic patterns/concepts. Plus lots of people here speak it. Chinese should come next due to practicality and business reasons.

[President Johnson]

I heard it's easier than Russian.

[Hammy]

Funny coming from somebody who can barely speak English.

Does anyone actually believe this stuff?

As far as Trump is concerned his base are the only people that are real Americans and should be voting in the first place, so he's talking to them and them alone, and they'll buy whatever word salad comes out of his mouth or off his twitter feed.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Trump colluded with a ex KGB agent to rig the 2016 election in his favor. Trump is so pro America, that he took Putin's word over his own intel agencies.

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

If my mom couldn't make me learn Chinese after sending me to Chinese school for 3 years, Biden isn't going to either.

[Progressive Pessimist]

At least there's an admission hidden in here that he may actually back down at some point and let Biden become President.

[Non Swing Voter]

Trump is acting predictably unhinged.  It's going to get worst.  Running against Biden/Harris was probably worst case scenario to begin with.  With the pandemic it's like worst case scenario x 2.  He doesn't do well under pressure.

[͘]

I heard it's easier than Russian.

Did you know that Russian has a neuter case? Definitely harder than Spanish. Give up now.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Won't we be too busy learning Mexican?

How about Arabic?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-if-i-lose-to-biden-get-ready-to-have-to-learn-to-speak-chinese?ref=home

Ramping up his incendiary rhetoric towards his 2020 opponent, President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that China would be in control of the United States if former Vice President Joe Biden wins this November. Better get ready to speak Chinese, the president told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.

“All they’re waiting for, and China too, is that I’m defeated. Because if I’m defeated, China will own the United States,” Trump bellowed. After wondering aloud whether Biden’s team is engaging in “backchannel talks” with China, Trump added: “If I don’t win the election, China will own the United States—you will have to learn to speak Chinese!”

Benedict Donald was almost as much of a lapdog for Xi as he is for Putin, until he decided that pointing a blamethrower at China (and falling back on his reflexive racism) could be his ticket to escaping accountability for his abysmal handling of his job in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic (and the prosecution he likely faces if he loses in November).

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[Former President tack50]

I mean, that would be fine. Mandarin is fast becoming the lingua franca of the business world. (Also it probably wouldn't hurt for Americans to learn another language in general.)

No it isn't? Chinese is way too insular and concentrated in a single country to be the lingua franca of anything.

English is the actual lingua franca of the world; and it's not even close

Only remotely close competitor is French, which behaves as the Lingua franca of most of Africa.

Even Spanish and Arabic, despite being very widespread do not fulfill such a role

[Agonized-Statism]

Oh boy, it's the "which party can be more racist" episode again

[cg41386]

Oh boy, it's the "which party can be more racist" episode again

We already know which party it is, why need any episode at all?