Warmest condolences

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AIBU to think that 'warmest condolences' is a bit of a odd expression? Or is it just me?

I've thought for ages that something's up with Trump, his syntax is weird, way outside any dialect I've ever heard or heard of.he didn't use to to be like this. Reagan was the same, though not quite so spectacular. Tony Abbott, while still, er... functioning is odd.

I'm not an expert, but I think Trump's losing it. I've just googled "Is Trump Senile?" and came up with this:

www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/

So sorry for you all ! Sorry you were all shot at !

Such inappropriate ! useage

It's odd but at least he didn't victim blame or refuse to Condem the guy as he's done in the past

I'm glad someone else finds the rip on Facebook disturbing

Do you have link for that?

Terrible. His team should insist they take over his twitter account or resign en masse.

I once read a letter written by Roald Dahl that was signed

All the good things,

Yours
Roald

Or something like that.

I thought it was lovely. And personal. And true.

Warmest condolences is ok. Better than..

Kind regards
Barbara.

Which is all I get at work. Kind regards? Wtf.

I thought it odd too.

Also did not sit right with me.

I thought it was odd too. Heard it in the news all day and it just sounded wrong.

I wonder if he'll make a tweet about the gun laws he loves and protects so much...

Whereas I technically agree with the OP (and feel rather doubtful as to whether the individual in question is even capable of 'warm' feelings to any person other than himself), this is kind of the smallest, most trivial problem about the guy!

Hope this makes you feel better, OP - didn't work when I tried it on myself, I'm afraid!

I just find it really off. I know he meant it sincerely, but 58 people (and counting) have been killed and he says 'warmest condolences'? Wtf?? Like PP have said, it's a trivial thing to notice compared to other things that he's done, but couldn't he just check to see how it sounded before he wrote it? It sounds disrespectful because it's so off.

If you watch old interviews with him there is a huge differenceecht. It's like a different person speaking.

A sociopath pretending to give a fuck and appear as though he is horrified. Add that to an individual with poor literacy and bam - you get a trump tweet.

suggests absolutely zero genuine feeling behind it Confirms more like.

Obama: Michelle & I are praying for the victims in Las Vegas. Our thoughts are with their families & everyone enduring another senseless tragedy.

Hillary Clinton: Our grief isn't enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.

is what a President looks and sounds like when there's a shooting.

And now he gets 280 characters to demonstrate his vacuous buffoonery.

"And now he gets 280 characters to demonstrate his vacuous buffoonery."
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I read this as 'baboonery'. Either way is correct

I don't think it is lack of emotion or sincerity (not that I believe he has any). I think there is something going on in his brain. His use of language is really disturbing. I read an interview with Martin Amis recently who pointed out that 15 years ago Trump was using words like "chagrin" correctly. That ship has sailed. The use of "warmest" instead of "deepest" is the kind of slip that happens all the time when people are beginning to dement or similar. Most times people don't notice except in retrospect (yeah, thinking back mum used to use some funny phrases but we thought nothing of it ). Trump is under the worlds' microscope so it is really noticeable.

If he was anyone else's father or grandfather, there would be a family meeting to discuss how to get him to the doctor with a daughter/son to discuss their concerns. Instead he has the nuclear codes.

He has used this phrase before I think, I seem to remember he sent warmest condolences to Joe Biden after he lost his son.

Warmest seems somewhat positive or celebratory to us and we associate it more with best wishes or congratulations.

I can't believe that even Trump intends some twisted meaning like that though, so I think it must either be an American thing or just one of his ridiculous linguistic failures.

If he was anyone else's father or grandfather, there would be a family meeting to discuss how to get him to the doctor with a daughter/son to discuss their concerns. Instead he has the nuclear codes.

If he was getting ill, wouldn't his doctors have noticed something and been able to start helping him? I'm sure he's got a very good team of doctors.

People in the US were also commenting on the "warmest" condolences. It is not a phrase that is in use here. My american son came home from work talking about it.

Moi I wouldn't bank too much on his doctors noticing something. The US president doesn't have a team of doctors monitoring him - he goes for a yearly check up and sees doctors as needed same as the rest of us. No one called out Ronald Reagan who had to be suffering from the beginning stages of alzheimers while still in office.

Early stages of dementia are notoriously difficult to spot - many families look back and see what was really happening but couldn't see it at the time. Also there are often people around compensating for the individual. My friend had the double whammy of her father getting a diagnosis of a brain tumour and discovering that he was completely compensating for her mother who was well down the road to dementia. No one noticed anything significant until he wasn't there to cover up.

I can't diagnose Trump but I will say if he was my father I'd be worried. His personality hasn't changed much but his speech has dramatically changed.

Inappropriate and bizarre choice of Presidential wording at times of tragedy (no2):

Always jarred with me that Bush's 9/11 speech assured the world of his commitment to hunting down "those folks who committed this act..."

FOLKS ??
As if they were a-strolling at the county fair or something.