The title of this proposed discussion topic comes from the fertile brain of David Schleich. As he explained in an email to me, Trump leaves concepts hanging. He ends his statements with prepositions without logic or completion, a habit up with which we should not put! The latter, as most of you will recognize, is a variation of a comment attributed to Churchill when someone objected to a sentence ending in a preposition.
[Apparently, Churchill didn’t actually utter this clever riposte, but he is responsible for a delightful response during a lecture tour in America. Churchill was served a buffet lunch of cold chicken and when he asked the hostess for some breast, she informed him that “in this country we ask for white or dark meat.” The following day, Churchill sent her an orchid with the message: “I would be obliged if you would pin this on your white meat.”]
This story, I realize, has nothing to do with the original subject, for which I feel appropriately penitent. So, on with the task at hand. Anyone care to offer some examples of TrumpSpeak that illustrate his grammatical deficiencies?
[Apparently, Churchill didn’t actually utter this clever riposte, but he is responsible for a delightful response during a lecture tour in America. Churchill was served a buffet lunch of cold chicken and when he asked the hostess for some breast, she informed him that “in this country we ask for white or dark meat.” The following day, Churchill sent her an orchid with the message: “I would be obliged if you would pin this on your white meat.”]
This story, I realize, has nothing to do with the original subject, for which I feel appropriately penitent. So, on with the task at hand. Anyone care to offer some examples of TrumpSpeak that illustrate his grammatical deficiencies?