Bill Clinton wowed the world when he threw in a few lines of German in a 1994 speech in Berlin. Cory Booker once addressed a radio reporter in Spanish, only to discover that the man was Swiss. “I do not speak Swiss. I cannot even say ‘Swiss cheese’ in Swiss,” the senator responded genially. “My bet is if Trump ran against Buttigieg, he’d try to use it against him,” predicted presidential historian Michael Beschloss.

Source: New York Times April 18, 2019 00:11 UTC