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I wonder if it's easier to make a fake speech of someone who talks the way Trump does? Not making this a political thing, but I've noticed that he's not very eloquent and frequently starts and stops in his speech and changes what he's saying mid sentence. Might it be easier to synthesize that type of speech pattern since any awkwardness can be hid in the erratic speech the real person employs?

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I've seen claims that translators struggle with Trump because of this - accurately translating what he says comes out as incoherent, which makes people think that the translator is doing a bad job.

Although I think to some extent he relies on fragmented speech. It's all about emotional pattern recognition, rather than something that people engage with rationally. Tony Blair also tended to do this, with long verbless sentences.

The Daily Show had a segment on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qL1un6NPZA

Wow, that's like 100% scripted to please the target audience

yeah. The Daily Show has got a pretty standard formula. I read an article about how they, and their spin off shows like John Oliver, basically use the same script pattern for most of their shows in order to hypnotize their audience.

Hold on, I'm going to try to find the article.

edit: well, the only source I can find after a quick search is this post on an anonymous message board, but it covers the main points pretty well: http://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1479/14/1479145599055...

a more detailed discussion is here: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/98690960/

"The SJW is the odious little Eichmann with his jackboots up on a fair trade coffee table..."

Really??? That's rich coming from /pol

Most of the political "comedy" shows are like this. If you are not 100% brainwashed with their political agenda, they are painful to watch.

I have some bad news for you about television.

To be fair, even in English he's incoherent.

I've written naive markov chains that appear way more coherent than Donald Trump on a bad day.

Politics aside, I think it is amazing that anyone would vote for the guy - I suppose it indicates how great a distance there is between the average voter and the average politician, if most can't seem to tell the difference between those that are able to string together coherent sentences and paragraphs, and those that don't.

Perhaps a stack-based representation of speech would work well? There was an interesting post on the English language StackExchange that talked about Trump's speaking style and how, due to its more off-the-cuff structure, ends up nesting various subjects in layers, pushing and popping from the stack:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/311381/donald-tr...

Seems like the kind of verbal structure that the puzzle-minded among HN might actually enjoy piecing together actually!

Wow. That makes it easier to understand, but certainly not easy.

Imagine, if you will a world, where trump speaks for obama-care.

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