• Zaidan Ali Jassem

  Author

This paper aims to show that U.S. President Donald Trump tweets in Arabic and speaks deviant
Arabic and that English is as much an Arabic dialect as are European and Indo-European
languages. More precisely, it shows that, by using a consonantal radical or lexical root theory
perspective, his infamous and notroious utterances Facts are lies, CNN's fake news, You're rude
are entirely Arabic word by word and morpheme by morpheme. The data consists of the above
utterances, words, and their affixes like factual, factuality, de facto, feat and formally similar but
semantically different others including fuck, fake, fig, fog, lie, lay, and so on. The results clearly
manifest that Mr. Trump speaks Arabic deviantly because all such related words have true
Arabic cognates, with the same or similar forms and meanings whose different forms, however,
are all found to be due to natural and plausible causes and different courses of linguistic change.
Furthermore, they prove the adequacy of the consonantal radical theory in relating Indo-
European languages to Arabic as their origin all because, unlike any other language in the group,
it not only shares true, natural, and plausible cognates with all of them but also resolves
uncertain, controversial, and unknown word origins in English and the so-called Indo-European
languages. Besides, Arabic has a huge linguistic repertoire phonetically, phonologically,
morphologically, syntactically, and semantically.

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