Trump's dire rhetoric echoes language of North Korean propaganda Read moreHe is routinely mocked as incoherent, yet gets his message across to supporters clear as day. Philip Roth has declared that Trump “speaks jerkish”, while Columbia University professor of linguistics John McWhorter calls his speech “oddly adolescent”. But why does Trump think Isis murderers would prefer the term “monster” to “loser”? Trump won’t read books or even White House memos, which he reportedly insists be limited to a page and read to him out loud. For Trump, by contrast, in two different selections, 1,604 words in all, the final total of “umms” and “uhs” was zero.

Source: The Guardian December 31, 2017 12:00 UTC