“Penius”. Always go for the penius.
I am the very model of a genius stable president,
I’ve information - all the best- on every single element,
I know the czars of Russia and I hate the way the Media lies,
The massacres in Bowling Green the Fake News will not publicize
I can forgive someone for the occasional “like” in spoken communication. But in writing? And not ironically? That is something that, like, nobody does!
It’s an odd verbal tic of Trump’s–he’s on record several times with the “I’m, like, a very smart person” construction:
April 2016 speech; sound bite here:
A list of other uses (with links) appeared in NY Magazine:
It’s a strange verbal habit. And, as John Mace noted, even stranger that it seems to bleed into his written English. Or Trumpish.
More like a verbal crossing of the fingers while he tells a whopper of a lie even he doesn’t believe.
Yeah, you’re probably right. He never says it straightforwardly; there’s always this air of ‘stepping out onto the high wire’ when he says it (or presumably, when he writes it).
He’s defensive about so many things (with good cause); possibly his defensiveness over his IQ may exceed all others–even hand size.
It’s not that strange, except for someone thump’s age. Listen to anyone under age 20, and “like” used that way will be, like, just about, like, every other, like, word.
True enough about the youths.
But I’m thinking that T uses it only in connection with claims of his being “smart”. Could be mis-remembering, but I think the ‘like’ erupts only when he’s really, really defensive.
Interesting. I wonder if thump plays poker. I’m guessing he has a million tells.
ETA. No, of course, he doesn’t play poker. Way too much to remember. :smack:
Which is why I’m thinking that if I could wander into the White House (a la Michael Wolff) and get a poker game going, I could probably win Air Force One from him…
Right, it’s a verbal tick but he writes it out. It’s like typing “um” or “er”. I wonder if he’s using the speech to text feature instead of trying to spell all the words.
It’s completely bizarre that he would write it out in a place where there is a character limit. :dubious: You’re probably right: he’s speaking the tweets. It IS hard to picture him actually knowing how to spell some of the words he uses.
Just what I was going to say. Since he’s practically illiterate he probably relies heavily on speech to text.
Maybe the commas are mistakes. He’s like a smart person, but isn’t.
Hmm… First thing I noticed is how many - I’s and I’m - are in it.
Ted Lieu going for the extra point:
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"Me: I want to let you know I'm very stable.
Our son Austin: That sounds weird.
Me: I also want to let you know I'm like, really smart.
Austin: You seem mental today."
A child points out again that the Emperor has no clothes.
#stablegeniusWasn’t George HW Bush at least a primary candidate in 1980?
If he does rely on speech-to-text, it’s probably because he needs glasses and refuses to wear them out of vanity. We’ve seen him have to put on reading glasses to read prepared remarks in the past.
Now I have to wonder what combination of syllables flowed out of his mouth to get the phone to come up with “covfefe”, though. 
Haters got to hate but, as the new biography implicitly admits, Dear Leader does NOT eat a McDonald’s burger in bed every evening. This has been confirmed by one of the Trumpettes:
[QUOTE=Tiffany Trump]
‘That’s what he does, he loves McDonald’s!’
When asked whether he eats it every night in bed, Tiffany wryly replied: ‘He wishes.’
[/QUOTE]
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It would surprise me. IIUC, Trump’s best friend is so shriveled by now, he doesn’t even let Melania see it anymore.