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Speaker 1st. A viral image of Donald Trump is making the rounds online.
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It's become the latest source of questions about his health and what is happening behind the scenes at the White House.
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Now, take a look at this image showing a sort of slack jawed Trump with what is sometimes known as dementia face.
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Now, before we go any further,
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I want to be very upfront with everybody and establish something that I think is important.
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Nobody can diagnose dementia from a photograph.
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We can't diagnose Parkinson's from a picture.
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We can't really diagnose any neurological condition from a single frame captured of Donald Trump in his limo.
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That's not really what this is about.
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This is about the political problem that this raises for Donald Trump,
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because this picture is not going viral in a vacuum.
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If this were the first weird image,
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strange physical appearance, first question about Trump's health and he otherwise was confidently presenting as healthy as he claims to be,
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nobody would really care.
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But that's not what's going on.
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This photograph is landing in the middle of this growing pile of questions
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that the White House keeps insisting everybody should ignore a president who tells us he's in perfect health,
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put out a very concerning,
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unusual medical report at 11 p.m after his third physical in 13 months,
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not looking particularly healthy, not even looking particularly healthy for a lot of the circumstances,
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including the best health care anybody can get or any of that stuff.
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He insists that he's perfect and that everything we and yet everything we see raises different sorts of questions.
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He's bragging about cognitive tests that he thinks are intelligence tests.
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And we've got the ankles and the hand bruising.
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And I'm not going to repeat all of it endlessly,
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but we have an environment here where after years of claiming Biden didn't know where he was,
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Biden's got dementia, Biden's confused,
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Biden can't can't govern, can't do anything.
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Trump all of a sudden has a growing list of health issues and problems,
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questions around his health.
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And he appears with this slack jawed look
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that sometimes this is what can sometimes happen to people as they age and particularly when they have dementia,
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is that they lose muscle tone in the muscles required to hold the mouth shut.
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You might not think of it,
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if you sort of just put your,
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your, your face at rest to keep the mouth closed,
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that does actually require some muscle.
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And sometimes you see that ability diminish in people with dementia.
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So this image comes out and it's another sort of medical mystery.
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And the questions are starting again.
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Was this taken out of context?
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What explains this?
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We have it happening at the exact same time as the delayed medical report.
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And when you zoom out,
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you see that the explanations we get for stuff never really satisfy and make us go,
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okay, yeah, that's, that's what that is.
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That makes sense.
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We were told the bruising on both hands is from shaking hands and taking aspirin.
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Trump doesn't shake hands with his left hand,
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so it doesn't really make sense.
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We're told you shouldn't be speculating.
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You shouldn't be asking questions.
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This is not right.
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And then this image appears.
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They made health, age and virality a central part of their political brand and a central attack against Joe Biden.
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So then we have to be able to hold them to the same standards.
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Now, I think it's also important to mention Republicans established this standard.
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They said even back before Biden was president,
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when it was Biden versus Trump,
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Trump running for re-election in 2020,
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they said Biden has the facial expression of dementia,
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which is what we're talking about here.
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Biden is making verbal mistakes,
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many of which were Biden stutter.
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Biden, we need more transparency from Biden's doctors and there are all these signs of aging.
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And what the primary issue around presidential health is that it's the most important thing.
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We need to know that the president is healthy.
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If you apply the same standard to Donald Trump,
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you have to come away concerned.
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And they told us Americans have a duty to scrutinize the health of every candidate and every president.
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If that applied to Biden,
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it has to be applied to Donald Trump as well.
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It's called consistency.
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And I want to try to be consistent now in being as charitable as I think Trump deserves.
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Maybe this photograph is nothing.
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Maybe the photograph was taken sort of at a weird moment or the angle made Trump look confused.
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And I don't know, maybe there's a completely ordinary explanation.
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Maybe he was chewing a piece of saltwater taffy and it was getting stuck to his teeth.
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And I don't know.
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It looked like his mouth was hanging open in what some people call dementia face.
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It's possible.
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But when you combine the image with the administration's obsession with controlling information about Donald Trump's health,
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it's hard to assume there's nothing here.
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I start with we've got to think about what this is rather than let's not even think about it
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because it's probably nothing.
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The picture doesn't prove dementia.
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I think if anybody's out there diagnosing because of this picture, it's a mistake.
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But the story is the administration is insisting
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and they have for 10 years with propaganda documents that Trump is in perfect health.
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And every couple of days,
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something new happens that makes us say what on earth is going on.
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Corporate media will not touch it.
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They are terrified.
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They are terrified of getting sued.
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They are terrified of negative attention and they just aren't going to do it.
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And so it's left to others to ask these questions.
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And, you know, there were many of us saying about Biden,
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he shouldn't run for reelection.
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This is not only a one way thing.
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It's just to what degree does the evidence support concern?
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I said Biden shouldn't run for reelection and he didn't.
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I thought it was a mistake and it ended up in a disaster.
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And even after Biden's disastrous June 27th debate performance,
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when I said the pressure has built,
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he's not going to be able to stay in.
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Some in my audience were angry saying,
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David, you shouldn't say that you've got to just stick with it.
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But I always tell it to you like I see it.
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And this picture in and of itself is not dispositive and it doesn't allow us to make any particular diagnosis,
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but it does add to the growing list of areas of concern.
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And importantly, we don't know what's going on until there is genuine transparency.
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And I don't know if we will ever get that until it's too late.
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These questions are not going to go away.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Trump photographed with “dementia face””. Las palabras que más se repiten: Trump, Biden, dementia, Donald, image. Este vídeo tiene 136 frases y 1355 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:28. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 160 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| dementia sustantivo | /dɪˈmɛnʃə/ | demencia |
| diagnose verbo | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | diagnosticar |
| terrify verbo | /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/ | aterrar |
| insist verbo | /ɪnˈsɪst/ | insistir, empeñarse |
| bruise sustantivo | /bɹuz/ | moratón, moretón |
| reelection sustantivo | reelección | |
| slack adjetivo | /slæk/ | flojo, holgado |
| transparency sustantivo | /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/ | transparencia |
| jaw sustantivo | /d͡ʒɔː/ | quijada |
| viral adjetivo | /ˈvaɪɹəl/ | viral, vírico |
| aspirin sustantivo | /ˈæs.pɹɪn/ | aspirina, aspirinar |
| believable adjetivo | /bɪˈliːvəbl̩/ | creíble |
| confidently adverbio | /ˈkɑnfɪdəntli/ | confidentemente |
| diminish verbo | /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/ | disminuir, diminuir |
| endlessly adverbio | /ˈɛndləsli/ | sin fin, interminablemente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| come out verbo | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | revelarse, salir a la luz |
| follow up verbo | dar seguimiento, dar un seguimiento | |
| go away verbo | irse, marcharse | |
| put out verbo | sacar | |
| zoom out verbo | /ˌzuːm ˈaʊt/ | alejar el zoom, quitar zoom (el) |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 30 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, shouldn't, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: dementia /dɪˈmɛnʃə/, diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, obsession /əbˈsɛʃən/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: transparency /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/, confidently /ˈkɑnfɪdəntli/, dispositive /dɪˈspɒzɪtɪv/, neurological /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, charitable /ˈt͡ʃæɹɪtəbəl/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: slack /slæk/, scrutinize /ˈskɹutn̩ˌaɪz/, speculate /ˈspɛk.jʊˌleɪt/, stutter /ˈstʌtɚ/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: viral /ˈvaɪɹəl/, believable /bɪˈliːvəbl̩/, dispositive /dɪˈspɒzɪtɪv/, govern /ˈɡʌv.ən/, verbal /ˈvɜː.bəl/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: bruise /bɹuz/, dispositive /dɪˈspɒzɪtɪv/, limousine /ˌlɪm.əˈziːn/, scrutinize /ˈskɹutn̩ˌaɪz/, disastrous /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como dementia, diagnose, terrify.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.