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Is this "class"? Is it "breeding"? How come King Charles speaks Italian to his hosts but the high spot of Trump's stumbling parody of the English language is "Kissing my ass". No, it's neither class or breeding. It's simple respect for the feelings and intellect of one's audience, and respect for other people. At the moment, and sadly, the whole world is Donald Trump's audience and he chooses to address it with expletives and mind numbingly poor use of the English language - the language that Trump recently proclaimed was the national language of America. It's a shame, therefore, that Trump himself (and many of his followers and supporters) are quite incapable of speaking, spelling or writing any kind of acceptable approximation of English. Clearly Trump et al have not come across the concept of irony - and if they have they clearly didn't understand it!
That, however, is a side issue. The central point and give away is that his poor use of language betrays him; it shows him to not only have a limited language facility but also, to put it politely, to be significantly and worryingly intellectually challenged - a frightening diagnosis given the power that this man holds and can wield. It is through language that we think and understand and hIs paucity of linguistic skills shows him to be a man of poor thought and even less understanding - but we all knew that didn't we!
Sadly, half of the electorate of America voted for him and seem not to be bothered by these failings - which says much about them too: little class, low breeding, a total lack of respect for those he and they communicate with, functionally illiterate and of severely limited intellectual powers. That seems to sum up the man and his followers.
King Charles on the other hand..........
