{"id":1179814,"date":"2023-08-14T05:40:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=291471"},"modified":"2023-08-14T05:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:40:25","slug":"donald-trumps-original-use-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/14\/donald-trumps-original-use-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s Original Use of Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It could be considered one of Donald Trump\u2019s greatest achievements: attacking his enemies and demeaning their integrity or mental capabilities. It is not one, however, that he should be proud of. It has caused grievous harm to language, and to the civility of political discourse. During an interview with Brian Stelter, George Lakoff, a linguist  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/14\/donald-trumps-original-use-of-language\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/14\/donald-trumps-original-use-of-language\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s Original Use of Language<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/14\/donald-trumps-original-use-of-language\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could be considered one of Donald Trump\u2019s greatest achievements: attacking his enemies and demeaning their integrity or mental capabilities. It is not one, however, that he should be proud of. It has caused grievous harm to language, and to the civi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179815,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179814\/revisions\/1179815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}