President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday designating English as the official language of the United States, according to the White House.
The order will allow government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer documents and services in language other than English, according to a fact sheet about the impending order.
Designating English as the national language “promotes unity, establishes efficiency in government operations, and creates a pathway for civic engagement,” according to the White House.
Within hours of Trump’s inauguration last month, the new administration took down the Spanish language version of the official White House website.
Hispanic advocacy groups and others expressed confusion and frustration at the change. The White House said at the time it was committed to bringing the Spanish language version of the website back online. As of Friday, it was still not restored.
No importa
Except it does matter. A lot.
No, it won’t stop anyone from using whatever language they choose, but it will cause tons of confusion when they have to interact with the government.
If there is a white supremacy angle, they’re obviously taking it.
SMDH at the improved performance Donnie diaper had with Hispanics this cycle, the leopards feasting.
You’d think they’d be upset! But I know too many Latinos who take pride in distancing themselves from other Latinos. There was at least one celebrity who apparently forgot her *monolingual* native accent after a few months abroad because of course she did. 🙄
English? Sounds too foreign to me.
Why not call the official language American?
And even American was from that Italian Amerigo. Why not call the official language Magaian or Trumpish…?
/s … if needed.
Yeah it’s kinda surprising actually, saying that the official language is Murican is way more up his alley.
Plains sign language, the first language to be a unifying language of differing people in this area.
Or asl which is the only colonial language to be American
King Krasnov’s English, to ensure it’s differentiated from Queen’s English our friends speak across the pond.
Excuse me you mean Murican!?
M’rican
tips fedora
Looks too French! Deport it!
Please no one show Trump this joke… after the Gulf of America shit I’m half convinced he’d actually do it.
I’m confused I thought it already was.
Na, part of being a free country means you should be able to speak whatever language you want and follow whatever religion you wish. Slowly have to squeeze every freedom out of America.
I’ve never fact checked this but IIRC my highschool civics teacher said something like the US made a point not to have an official language
Here’s a current screenshot from USA.gov.
Trump’s greatest accomplishment, surpassing the DuoLingo owl in being the most annoying thing to make me want to learn Spanish. Pendejo.
Ahora que puedo conversar un poco en español, es mi método preferido para expresar mi desprecio por personas en público. Por ejemplo, Trump es un llorón pinche guero cagaleche que solo puede poner su pito erecto si Jingping y Putin lo follan como a un pollo en un asador.
ᴵ ʰᵒᵖᵉ ᴵ ˢᵃᶦᵈ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᶜᵒʳʳᵉᶜᵗˡʸ.
What about the damn grocery store prices?
They are already in English
If by English you mean Arabic
Glad this dipshit is focusing on the important things.
I was really getting concerned about the Gulf of Mexico being named the Gulf of Mexico. And the 10 trans people that serve in the military. Those things were really weighing on my mind.
As long as you don’t remember that the transwomen who are being put into a men’s prison. Nope. Nothing to see here.
Of course, English, so you mean it as the brits speak it right? I expect it to be spoken proper.
The Queens? Learned it well from Would I Lie To You.
Everyone is a product of their time. That’s why you have Trump.
So the founding fathers chose to NOT have an official language, and orange muffin boy thinks he’s smarter then the founding fathers?
What an idiot
Maybe don’t put slavers and murderers in a pedestal to behind with? Actually, never mind, I’m sure your founding fathers would be proud of Trump.
Sure they were products of the time period. You had to own land at least to have any kind of power back in the day. They were not perfect but they did have a vision of a government that could work without traditional kings.
They would be pissed about Trump trying to overrun the other branches. I’n the end, they wouldn’t give a fuck about slaves. As long as their land was worked and they survived. They wouldn’t have cared.
I always thought it was just taken as granted rather than an intentional decision, but I never looked into it. That said, the founders got a whole bunch of shit very wrong, so there’s that.
The proper one would be Latin
… creates a pathway for civic engagement
Literally the opposite. Love the doublespeak.
I love how
civicengagement is only for people who speak English
Here’s for hoping he finally learns how to speak it.
He can barely speak it
It’s less that he has poor English ability and more that he has dementia.
Oh he has poor English ability. Very poor. The poorest English, I mean, some people say “Trump why are you so poor at English?” and he says “I know, that’s why the made me president.”
This has no practical effect other than virtue signaling to xenophobic racists. It’s called a dog-whistle.
Government agencies no longer providing forms or information in any language but English will definitely have a practical effect and harm.
More like a dog klaxon.
It’s all vice signalling
