I thought the quote was "I know he's a pathological liar, but I trust him".
Is there no hope for America?

I found this quote yesterday. Is it true or F**e news?

"Speaks for itself. Wyoming woman interviewed about Trump by @nytimes at a rally of his: "I can't really say that anything he says is true, but I trust him."

Lets expand that.

The best description I can give is the gentle art of the veiled insult. It's very difficult to give examples, as it's normally something that's specific to two people, unless, of course, they are politicians. The idea is to insult someone in such a way so that it takes them a while to even work out if they've been insulted.

A few years ago, if you had gone up to someone and said "Donald" what would their response have been? I would expect close to 100% would automatically reply "Duck".

These days I'm not so sure what the response would be. Would it go along party lines? Would you expect a Democrat to say "Duck" and a Republican to say something else?

Just my bit of fun (at least from this side of the Atlantic).

Either way, some of the posts above seem to have gone a bit far.

Got it exactly. It's NOT a funny joke. It's a way of commenting on a situation that (at least on this side of the pond) raises a mild smile.

Suggesting that a duck is MORE important than a president is the whole point. As all the posts above show, you simply DON'T "get" it.

Why is a duck more important than a president?

You simply don't "get" English humour at all, any of you.

Read a bit more closely and focus on the "English" name used in the post.

Does a light start to shine yet?

As I said, you haven't yet picked up on the whole point of the post.

Next post will have a clue.

After a few more replies I will explain.

I understand that Americans don't always 'get' English humour, so thought I would try a small experiment.

The following text was submitted to The Attic with the title 'Naming Conventions'

Anyone who does 'get' it, please reply.

One thing I wonder about (amongst others) is where the trend for naming children with "strange" names, like Drew or River, came from.
I'm not talking about "English" names like Donald (its actually Celtic in origin). I understand there's a duck called that.
On both sides of the Atlantic there are "celebrities" who choose some very strange names for their children, but I don't understand where their choices come from either.
I know that back in the 1800's, there were a lot of biblical names used, but that doesn't seem to have continued into the twentieth or twenty first century.
Can anyone suggest just where this affection to strange names comes from?

Doesn't work, that's the first place we look.
It might work if you had a duck for POTUS. I'm sure there are similarities.

See what happens when a UK person tries to insult the US and they don't even notice.
Two countries divided by a common language.

One thing I wonder about (amongst others) is where the trend for naming children with "strange" names, like Drew or River, came from.
I'm not talking about "English" names like Donald (its actually Celtic in origin). I understand there's a duck called that.
On both sides of the Atlantic there are "celebrities" who choose some very strange names for their children, but I don't understand where their choices come from either.
I know that back in the 1800's, there were a lot of biblical names used, but that doesn't seem to have continued into the twentieth or twenty first century.
Can anyone suggest just where this affection to strange names comes from?

and breed (and do!)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45154903

Agreed, amusing, but for some people the chance to identify why they have a problem that has not, until now, been possible to investigate.