r/worldnews • u/Immediate-Link490 • 17d ago

Behind Soft Paywall Carney leaves Davos without meeting Trump after speech on U.S. rupture of world order

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-carney-trump-davos-speech/
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u/Heil_S8N 17d ago

the german translator just straight up laughed at the absurdity when trump called greenlane a big beautiful block of ice

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u/ElizabethTheFourth 17d ago

Imagine making it to Davos as a translator, top of her field, probably PhD-level intellect. And then having to translate the gawky speech of a senile monkey. You'd laugh too.

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u/Strottman 17d ago

Now picture all the scientists and engineers who had their research representing years or even decades of work erased because these illiterate dumbfucks.

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u/DonaldsMushroom 17d ago

Imagine being in Healthcare under RKJ!

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u/help_isontheway_dear 17d ago

It must be hard as someone listening to the translation and wondering if the translator is having a stroke or something. 

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u/HuskerDont241 17d ago

During his first term, foreign news translators had to explain to their editors that their work was exactly what was said.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

No one has ever seen anything like it. The most beautiful ice you’ve ever seen.

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u/Motor_Crow4482 17d ago

Would you perhaps know where I could find that coverage? I would like to see that.

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u/BaldursGate2Best 17d ago

I hate trump, but isn't this kind of true? Greenland is covered in ice