When you just can’t win (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

Jimmy Carter, a US president, went to Poland in 1977 and made a couple speeches. Unfortunately neither really hit the mark. In speech 1, the interpreter translated a few things wrong. Very wrong. According to what the interpreter said, Jimmy Carter was abandoning the US, wanted to have sex with Polish people, and was ridiculing the Polish Constitution. Not to mention throwing in some Russian, which was not exactly a country Polish people liked. Unsurprisingly, he was removed and for the banquet, they had a different interpreter. On the bright side the new one didn’t make mistranslations, but he also didn’t make translations in general. He couldn’t understand Jimmy Carters accent and decided to just stay quiet (which is reasonable, but maybe they should have picked a different one anyways).
Moral of the story, maybe check the ability of the translators for that specific task. That would be my thought.

Carter, Poland and a Translator - Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

In 1977 Carter visited Poland on his first trip abroad as President. Poland had long been in the US’s cross-hairs. It was the country in the Eastern Block that was most likely to cause the Soviet Union problems and the reputation of the Polish people for resisting foreign tyrrany, of course...

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[StrayMixx]

oh, wow - that's pretty weird lol

 

[Yelena_Belova]

That’s definitely weird.

 

[StirFriedPanda]

Sounds like a good presidential speech.

 

[Selfmate]

probably still better than anything that's come out of trump's mouth!!!