# Trump question \[average number of words used by Trump vs. average Americans\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 15, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588 "2023-06-15T22:11:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/21 "2023-06-16T09:39:08Z")
Randall Munroe [of XKCD fame] has played with some adjacent notions to great effect in his book “Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words”. Here’s a website that lets you try it yourself: [The Up-Goer Five Text Editor](https://splasho.com/upgoer5/?i=) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/22 "2023-06-16T11:17:53Z")
Sheessss. That’s hard. I couldn’t begin to explain my job for instance. It wouldn’t even take the word ‘map’ ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/23 "2023-06-16T11:19:37Z")
If he can get 75 million votes using 1,975 words, think how many more he’d get if he used just 1,500? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/24 "2023-06-16T11:54:03Z")
Remember, politicians of any ilk have “stump” speeches. Same talking points, same bumper sticker phrasing, same slurs; delivered multiple times a day. Some tailoring (pandering) for the local audience but a consistent message (the big lie). It’s got to be exhausting, even worse for the handlers who listen to the same drivel over and over and over… ---
**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/25 "2023-06-16T12:02:51Z")
> [@Francis\_Vaughan](#): > > “No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” Wasn’t that basically P.T. Barnum’s quote too? But using less fancy wordiage, bigly > [@Chronos](#): > > I wasn’t aware that “pick up truck drivers” are a race… Not quite, but I’m sure it’s idea NASCAR would like. ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/26 "2023-06-16T19:16:33Z")
Check out his “Thing Explainer” book - the man is a genius, of which we need more, to bring the average back up to average… > **[Up Goer Five](https://xkcd.com/1133/)** > > Another thing that is a bad problem is if you're flying toward space and the parts start to fall off your space car in the wrong order. If that happens, it means you won't go to space today, or maybe ever. I took a stab at ‘map’ and got it to accept ‘world edge drawing’ ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/27 "2023-06-16T19:40:04Z")
> [@md-2000](#): > > Not quite, but I’m sure it’s idea NASCAR would like. They’ve been racing trucks since 1995. > **[NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR_Craftsman_Truck_Series)** > > The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), and is the only series in NASCAR to race production pickup truck-based stock cars. The series is one of three national divisions of NASCAR, ranking as the third tier behind the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series and the top level NASCAR Cup Series. > The 2023 season will be the first with Stanley Black & Decker holding the series' naming rights. Previ... ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/28 "2023-06-16T19:46:05Z")
[Here](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/06/opinion/trump-speech-mental-capacity.html) is a five-year-old NYT opinion piece by the linguist John McWhorter (for some reason I can’t figure out how to create a gift link) and a [six-year-old analysis](https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/) by Stat News about the changes in his speech patterns. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/29 "2023-06-16T19:49:42Z")
I printed that out at work! We have a great plotter. (I did not make it 'full size 😉) ---
**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588/30 "2023-06-16T20:33:29Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > > [@md-2000](#): > > > > Not quite, but I’m sure it’s idea NASCAR would like. > > They’ve been racing trucks since 1995. So some pickups are racially motivated. Shows how much I care… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-question-average-number-of-words-used-by-trump-vs-average-americans/985588.md?page=1)