Yo yourself, bro
We know Trump doesn’t read much. He’s apparently never seen the name “Yosemite” in writing before.
It’s also worth noticing that little spasm of exuberance or whatever it is when he gets to say “Old Faithful” – he perks up and bounces his head back and forth when he says it. He loves stupid nicknames for some reason. “Honest Abe” “Old Faithful” – these are his happy places.
But Yo Semite – yeah. That’s one for the ages.
Yo-semite Sam, the rootin’-est tootin’-est mohel in the West!
To fess up here: I used that pronunciation the first time I saw the word, too. In my defense, I was 7. And the mocking I got from my older siblings implanted firmly in my head how that word is pronounced.
Trump is like a toddler. I know, we’ve noted that before, but it bears saying again.
I don’t remember the first time I pronounced it in front of others, but I know when I first read it I too thought “yo-se-might”, and definitely less than 10 years old.
On a slight derail, If Sarah Cooper is reading this please please do this clip! :D
I’ve started working on a song with ‘Yo Semite!’ as part of the refrain.
Yo Semite!
My call out’s in the news,
Yo Semite!
My history’s all a ruse,
Yo Semite!
No anti in my views,
Yo Semite!
Proves I don’t hate the Jews.
A work in progress.
The National Museum of American Jewish History has had this shirt since 2011, but it’s suddenly very popular, as they note on the page.
I’ve never heard of this Philadelphia museum before. I’ll have to visit sometime. Yet another reason to visit Philadelphia.
https://www.judaicashop.net/p-2426-yo-semite-cotton-t-shirt.aspx
Coincidentally I’m (re)-reading* Roughing It, and just discovered that Twain spells it Yo Semite. No idea how he pronounces it.
*It’s been so long since I read it that it’s almost like the first time.
They could have wrote Yo-semma-dee and put an image of Yosemite Sam by it. I blame the speech writers for not making appropriate adjustments for his illiteracy. Then again, his speech writers are part of his team, ergo…
twiliter, he’d have taken one look at Sam’s moustache and thought his writers were taunting him with John Bolton.