So there's this Boston Globe scoop going around in which internal White House sources appear to be bragging that when they write tweets for Trump's Twitter feed they write them to sound intentionally stupid so it sounds like him.
They overuse the exclamation point! They Capitalize random words for emphasis. Fragments. Loosely connected ideas. All part of a process that is not as spontaneous as Trump’s Twitter feed often appears.
[...] Some staff members even relish the scoldings Trump gets from elites shocked by the Trumpian language they strive to imitate, believing that debates over presidential typos fortify the belief within his base that he has the common touch.
This is either true or it isn't, and it's a coin flip as to which. I'm not immediately buying it, partly due to this White House communications staff being liars about everything, all the time, and partly because a hallmark of idiot speech is claiming I meant to do what when called out on grammatical errants or using the wrong worbs. Ha ha, they will say, I only did that to get a rise out of you for doing that! In reality I knew the correct way to do that all along, I only did it the wrong way to prove your elitism!
But we could take them at their word—that they are dumbing down their speech to a few notches above illiteracy, including the word-spews of "loosely connected ideas" that make no apparent sense to anyone, in order to mimic their boss—and that they are intentionally dumbing down the presidency because they believe the elites who believe it should be more dignified than that need to get a good what-for.
According to them, though, this is also being done because they believe his "base" is made up of people who believe his barely literate speech counts as having the "common touch," which strongly suggests even the people working in the White House, or perhaps especially the people working in the White House, believe Donald Trump's "base" to be made up of morons. Not just morons, but morons who are damn proud of being morons and who resent elites telling them which words to CaPiTaLiZe or What Grammar Is.
They are not wrong, mind you, but it's still instructive. Conservative Republicanism has now indeed devolved into a movement where even grammar itself is considered elitist. First it was the artists, then it was the scientists, and now it is the nation's eighth grade English teachers who are elitist enemies of the common folk. The list of enemies to the people will soon include people who obey traffic signs and those who wash their hands after using the toilet. There may be no end to what is considered “elite” by the time conservatism is done knocking their own heads in with their patriotic Trump-branded hammers.
So that, too, is where we are now. Burn the dictionaries; shred the thesauri. Our nation shall not be Great Again until each of us (no Collusion!) speaks words dumb-like. And don’t trust anyone who tells you differentish.