German translator caught on hot mic complaining about Trump inauguration speech: How much longer 'with this s–t?'
German translator caught on hot mic complaining about Trump inauguration speech: How much longer 'with this s–t?'
A reporter for the German TV channel Phoenix was caught on a hot mic expressing his frustration during live coverage of Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday.
you gotta respect the person who had to listen to this whole damn speech in German to catch this. Honestly it did just go on and on and was boring as hell.
The 2025 version of will you shut up, man.
Hope he gets a raise
It shouldn’t be difficult to replace the translator with an appellation d'origine neo-Nazi, or, at least, an AfD party member.
Some people say about Trump, "I like him because he's brave enough to say what we're all thinking". I say that about this translator.
For the German translation, couldn't they just play one of Hitler's old speeches? Might not be exact, but it would have the right feel.
Hitler had his faults, but spouting the baby talk shit this jackass does every day wasn't one of them.
Sounds like the start of a new Onion article. "Media giant Fox News accidentally broadcasts historical Hitler footage instead of the presidential inauguration."
"the error wasn't noticed until 15 minutes in, when the footage ended"
Just replace "Germany" with "America" and "Jews" with "woke."
I mean, depending on the far-right group in the US, replace "Jews" with "Jews."
Simultaneous translation is a difficult job. And then he has to translate words without any meaning. That's tough. I feel for him.
I did it for 4 years, and it was pure insanity.
Translating for him must be a cakewalk. You only have to know, what, 25-30 words at most?
I know this is a joke, but as someone fluent in two languages, trust me when I tell you that translating anything Trump says effectively is borderline impossible, and that's a huge problem. It plays in his favor because people in non-english speaking parts of the world don't get to fully see how ridiculously incoherent he actually is; they only get the sanitized version of his ramblings.
Personally, it's been REALLY hard these past few years hearing and seeing the shit coming out of his mouth in its original language and at the same time not being able to at least share my worries with other people in my country without sounding crazy. It's very easy to underestimate the gravity of the situation from the other side of the world if you can't grasp how low the standards have sunk and still believe DT is just an average Republican president, and not living proof that the actual meaning of words has no value anymore.
You're right. If a German politician, yet alone the chancellor, would say something like "we're not doing the wind thing" (roughly: Das Windding machen wir nicht") I would be highly irritated.
But, there are phrases similar that would be acceptable although they would be kind of unprofessional like "Den Windunfug gehen wir nicht mit"
That being said some stupid neo Nazi afd politician just said "Wir werden diese Windmühlen der Schande niederreißen" (We're going to tear down those windmills of shame/disgrace")
Maybe we've already arrived at trump's language level.
The daily show did a segment on this. Basically translators can't bring themselves to speak as embarrassingly as trump. They will think audience will assume them to be bad at translating if they tried for a more true representation. Especially if they try to imitate how the words are spoken as well as what words are spoken.
It would have to be translatable into english first.
Just play Karl-Heinz Stiegler, MdB, same phraseology.
why, it can't be that hard to produce ridiculous gibberish in any language.
And we will make America great again. I tell you, great. Great as it has never been before. We will make the Mexicans pay for it. And we will make the Panama Canal american again. American. Yes. Like it was when our constitution was founded. Great. Great Constitution. Great, I tell you. Have a nice day.
I've heard it's actually really difficult, because a good translator doesn't do it literally.
They're supposed to say something which gets the same meaning across, which often isnt what you'd get just by translating each word.
That leaves people translating trump with a problem: you can't generally turn his long rambling speeches into something with a clearly understandable meaning without putting words into his mouth, or summarising so aggressively that you'd only say a couple of sentences for every few minutes of speech
This is not just an issue in translation. Anybody who summarises his speeches in English will struggle to extract the meaning. Reporting should always mention this issue in the first line. A disclaimer like: «it’s difficult to make heads or tails from Trumps speech do to his incoherent speech. Below is our best attempt.» should be a preface to all reporting.
Subtitles would be easier
"Because I know that [incoherent blathering] [nonsensical mouth noises] and then we"
Excuse me but the PRESIDENT knows many words, he is like a real big word book. One time a tall book, strong book, tears flowing down its pages said: sir, you are the man that knows most words of all, the wordest. It's true, it's true.
It's difficult for them.
From 2017:
If only they could literally say "incoherent rambling" then take a five minute break. Alas, that’s not how it works.
Yeah, but then they have to repeat them for 4 hours straight without breathing
Alternative source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTj7K0gqdcw
(Taken from the c/ich_iel post: https://feddit.org/post/7039865.)
Also for more context, phoenix (the tv channel) was transmitting this bullshit event for over 5 hours already at that point (see ARD program on that day (idk if geoblocked)).
Boring speech from a boring public speaker. You can tell from how he rambles he’s an old, boring man
It’s even worse because he thinks he’s charming, so he’s smug and cringe while being old and boring.
How dare you impugn "the weave"? 🙃
4 years. Hopefully.
“Word salad, a few words, word salad, bigly bigly, word salad.”
It must have been his first time. Trump with teleprompter used, it won't take that long. Trump with no teleprompter, buckle up and settle in because it is going to be a long one.
I don't know. When will they declare war so the entire world doesn't fucking end?