Trump doesn’t like the term ‘woke’: ‘Half the people can’t even define it’

[onthedarkside]

 

Former President Trump said Thursday that he doesn’t like the term “woke,” claiming that most people “can’t even define it.”

 

“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear, ‘Woke, woke, woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Trump said at the Westside Conservative Breakfast in Urbandale, Iowa.

 

The idea of “wokeness” has been a central theme in the career and campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump’s biggest competition in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

 

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4031584-trump-iowa-dislikes-term-woke/

 

[Jingthing]

He's not wrong except it's more like 99 percent that can't define it.

[FruitPudding]

5 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

He's not wrong except it's more like 99 percent that can't define it.

What's the definition?

[scottiejohn]

6 minutes ago, FruitPudding said:

What's the definition?

Who cares!

The whole concept should be be put in the bin!

[jerrymahoney]

20 minutes ago, FruitPudding said:

What's the definition?

past tense of wake.

[Chomper Higgot]

It’s a rightwing invention of their culture wars promoted instead of presenting real policies that are not based on fear, hatred or grievance. 

 

 

[billd766]

IMO it is just another nonsense word like cofveve.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covfefe#:~:text=Covfefe (%2Fkoʊˈf,instantly became an Internet meme.

 

Covfefe (/koʊˈfɛfi/ koh-FEH-fee,[2] /kəvˈfifi/)[3] is a nonsense word, widely presumed to be a typo, that Donald Trump used in a viral tweet when he was President of the United States. It instantly became an Internet meme.

Six minutes after midnight (EDT) on May 31, 2017, Trump tweeted, "Despite the constant negative press covfefe".[4] He deleted the tweet six hours later but implied that its wording was intentional. Most media outlets presumed that he had meant to type "coverage". White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated, "I think the President and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."

 

 

[Fat is a type of crazy]

I think woke is a fair word for criticism of people or businesses putting forward ideas that do not appear to be consistent with their actions, or appear to be done simply to satisfy a particular part of society, e.g. consumers, or to avoid criticism or for other gain.  So it is a thing. 

 

Often though, the lazy and the undereducated and the haters, can use it as a blunt tool to deny likely reality, or to belittle those attempting to find a better way of doing things, or to belittle those who simply want to live differently but want to have a say. 

This type of user of the word will forget people aren't perfect and hold others to a much higher standard than that to which they hold themselves. Also, if they find one advocate of a theory or idea as being flawed they'll be happy to unreasonably make all others guilty by association, e.g. scientists and such. So normally the use of the word is tedious and predictably depressing. 

 

[riclag]

What ever it is,  the word is sticking.imop

Despite Trumps attempts to neutralize it while associating it with desantis!imop

Smart and clever!imop

 

 

 

[heybruce]

2 hours ago, riclag said:

What ever it is,  the word is sticking.imop

Despite Trumps attempts to neutralize it while associating it with desantis!imop

Smart and clever!imop

Can you give an accepted definition?

[candide]

Sometimes there is a blip and Trump says something which makes sense.

[stevenl]

Time to start using it as a positive nickname: I'm woke and I'm proud of it.

[vandeventer]

15 hours ago, Jingthing said:

He's not wrong except it's more like 99 percent that can't define it.

Your close, try 100%.I guess it may mean a new beginning, big Government will see to your every need? Go woke, go broke.

[2baht]

15 hours ago, FruitPudding said:

What's the definition?

The act of waking up...I woke up at 5.00am this morning! What more do you need to know???

[2baht]

16 hours ago, onthedarkside said:

Former President Trump said Thursday that he doesn’t like the term “woke,”

Well how about that! I don't like the term "Trump"!

[Jingthing]

7 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

Your close, try 100%.I guess it may mean a new beginning, big Government will see to your every need? Go woke, go broke.

There is the original meaning which most black people and some generally progressive people would know but the word has been perverted completely by right wingers into basically anything they don't like. 

In Trump's case he can see that his most serious challenger is fellow fascist DeSantis who has made "anti-woke" the main theme of his campaign.

So I think this is just Trump differentiating himself from DeSantis for political reasons. 

In other words if Trump made "kill woke" an important part of his campaign the right wingers would think you're just copying DeSantis -- if we really want the real deal kill woke we want the original.

[In Full Agreement]

6 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Well how about that! I don't like the term "Trump"!

 

I prefer the term "Dump"

[onthedarkside]

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[EVENKEEL]

There wouldn't be a naickname for the crazy progressives if they didn't keep pushing obsurd agendas. Instead of a definition, let's give examples of what the far far left are pushing. 

1. unable to define a woman

2. men can be pregnant

3. trans females wanting to compete in women's sports

4. boys dressed as girls can use girls bathrooms.

and on and on and on.

 

 

 

[Jingthing]

2 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

There wouldn't be a naickname for the crazy progressives if they didn't keep pushing obsurd agendas. Instead of a definition, let's give examples of what the far far left are pushing. 

1. unable to define a woman

2. men can be pregnant

3. trans females wanting to compete in women's sports

4. boys dressed as girls can use girls bathrooms.

and on and on and on.

 

 

 

So that's your perverted definition of woke then? Crazy progressives?

[EVENKEEL]

6 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

So that's your perverted definition of woke then? Crazy progressives?

Did I say it was a difinition? No I did not, I said let's give examples which I gave a few.

[Bkk Brian]

10 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

There wouldn't be a naickname for the crazy progressives if they didn't keep pushing obsurd agendas. Instead of a definition, let's give examples of what the far far left are pushing. 

1. unable to define a woman

2. men can be pregnant

3. trans females wanting to compete in women's sports

4. boys dressed as girls can use girls bathrooms.

and on and on and on.

 

 

 

Confirmation that most people have no idea what being woke is.

[EVENKEEL]

4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Confirmation that most people have no idea what being woke is.

Please edumacate me, 

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, EVENKEEL said:

Please edumacate me, 

Well put it this way. I know what a woman is. I know that a man cannot get pregnant, I think trans people should have their own separate category in sports. I don't think its ok for boys dressed as girls to use girls bathrooms. They should have their own in an ideal world.

 

So its nothing to do with your interpretation as I consider myself woke. Which to me is "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination of all kinds".

[heybruce]

43 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

There wouldn't be a naickname for the crazy progressives if they didn't keep pushing obsurd agendas. Instead of a definition, let's give examples of what the far far left are pushing. 

1. unable to define a woman

2. men can be pregnant

3. trans females wanting to compete in women's sports

4. boys dressed as girls can use girls bathrooms.

and on and on and on.

You seem obsessed with the sexual part of cultural evolution.

[heybruce]

9 hours ago, candide said:

Sometimes there is a blip and Trump says something which makes sense.

Agreed.  However it is still embarrassing to admit that I agree with Trump on anything. 

 

At least I can disagree on the 50% figure.  I don't know of anyone who uses "woke" who can give an accepted definition of the term.  Other than the past tense of "wake", of course.

[heybruce]

1 hour ago, 2baht said:

The act of waking up...I woke up at 5.00am this morning! What more do you need to know???

Apparently the definition has been expanded in an inexplicable manner. 

[ozimoron]

53 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

There wouldn't be a naickname for the crazy progressives if they didn't keep pushing obsurd agendas. Instead of a definition, let's give examples of what the far far left are pushing. 

1. unable to define a woman

2. men can be pregnant

3. trans females wanting to compete in women's sports

4. boys dressed as girls can use girls bathrooms.

and on and on and on.

 

 

 

Boys dressed as girls. Please try to control your ignorance of gay issues and hate speech. It's disgusting.

 

The non binary nature of gender has been explained here many times. You have no excuse to continually remain ignorant and troll readers of this thread.

[Jingthing]

2 minutes ago, heybruce said:

Agreed.  However it is still embarrassing to admit that I agree with Trump on anything. 

 

At least I can disagree on the 50% figure.  I don't know of anyone who uses "woke" who can give an accepted definition of the term.  Other than the past tense of "wake", of course.

He's right for the wrong reasons.

He would love it if it he could take credit for it.

 

[2baht]

4 minutes ago, heybruce said:

Apparently the definition has been expanded in an inexplicable manner. 

The definition was never in doubt, the word has been around as long as there's been English, why morons need to recycle used words, I don't know!