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Immediately after Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, President Donald Trump lashed out on Truth Social, calling the Puerto Rican superstar’s performance “disgusting,” a “slap in the face,” and “an affront to the greatness of America.”
But one of Trump’s biggest complaints is also one that is blatantly not true.
“Nobody understands a word this guy is saying,” Trump wrote.
The 41 million Spanish-speaking Americans in the U.S. and 500 million Spanish speakers worldwide would beg to differ.
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Trump’s statement is not just inaccurate, according to census data, it is actively erasing whole communities, said Damián Wilson, a professor of Spanish at the University of New Mexico.
“If the President is saying ‘nobody,’ it’s excluding all the Spanish speakers in our country, and erasing them,” he said.
“This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish,” Trump said in 2015, dismissing the 350 languages spoken throughout the nation.
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