U.S. President Donald Trump arriving at the White House on Feb. 22, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)
The Conversation: Donald Trump thinks some accents are ‘beautiful,’ but what makes them so?
As written in The Conversation by Nicole Rosen, Canada Research Chairs in Language Interactions, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba.
United States President Donald Trump has recently been commenting on accents while meeting foreign leaders and taking questions from foreign journalists. Trump praised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “beautiful” accent, saying he would have been president 20 years ago if he’d had that accent.
He didn’t answer an Afghan journalist’s question, saying her accent was “beautiful” but that he didn’t understand it, and he completely dismissed the question of a journalist from India during a joint news conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he didn’t understand his accent before abruptly moving on.
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Research at the University of Manitoba is partially supported by funding from the Government of Canada Research Support Fund.