President Trump turned the big “Shield of the Americas” meeting with leaders from Latin America at his Doral golf course into a strange, messy event this morning. He talked all over the place about interpreters, said he won’t learn Spanish, and praised Marco Rubio’s “language skills” while the leaders from Central and South America looked completely confused.
Instead of talking about security, drug groups, or working together, Trump focused on his own complaints.
He started by saying Marco Rubio “loves visiting your countries” and “likes your countries the best,” especially Chile, where Rubio “feels very calm.”
Then he rudely said he’s “not learning your damn language” because he “doesn’t have time,” even though he used to be “OK with languages.”
His answer? “Just give me a good interpreter.”
From there, it got even worse.
He went on for minutes talking about how he can tell a bad interpreter without knowing the language. He told a story about a female interpreter who made his long, nice sentence last only a quarter of the time. He joked that maybe their language is “efficient” but “not that efficient.”
He insisted that a poor interpreter makes you doubt if you were “great” when talking to Putin or other leaders.
He shared a story about an interpreter who “disagreed” and “actually changed” the words, calling her a “foreign minister” in disguise. He repeated over and over that “people have no idea how valuable a good interpreter is” and that he’s “on them all the time” and so on.
This isn’t diplomacy—it’s like a mad person’s thoughts at a serious international meeting.
While soldiers are dying in his war with Iran, gas prices are rising, terror threats are being ignored, the Epstein scandal is still going on, and the midterms look bad, Trump spends his time complaining about whatever is in that crazy mind of his.
Latin American leaders deserve better than this embarrassing show.
Trump’s falling apart on the world stage, one crazy sentence at a time.
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