Off-Topic:
To the extent white conservatives use diction and syntax similar to that of the GOP's current leader, there's no "down to" to go to when talking to anyone, other perhaps than ten-year-olds and younger children.
Of all people to invoke Orange Man Bad... Really Xelor, I thought you were above that. See post #19.
First:
The point of the post you quoted isn't/wasn't to expressly deride Trump but rather to communicate the actual subject of the sentence. Trump isn't the subject of the sentence; he is mentioned in the sentence's subordinate, not independent, clause.
Why the hell you chose to hone in on the subordinate clause rather than the independent one is beyond me...I'm ascribing your doing so to "reading comprehension issues" and leaving it there.
Second:
"Invoke," my ass. Other than that robot meme I use from time to time, I'm not much of a "memer." I certainly don't need memes to express my thoughts about Donald Trump.
Third, because you chose to focus on the subordinate clause rather than the subject of the sentence in my above-shown post:
Existential is it that the man, when he's not reading a prepared statement, speaks like a ten-year-old (
by some analysts' assessment, like an 8-year-old) and he expresses a ton of benighted notions. That is what it is, but it is so. You can call that "invoking a meme" if that assuages your psyche somehow. I call my saying so an accurate description of his harangue.
Donald Trump didn't always speak like a child...He also didn't express profound ideas either, but he once was articulate to the level of some stripe of adult.
Hell, the man only occasionally extemporaneously speaks in complete sentences, and less often, again extemporaneously, does he "keep it together" enough that he moves coherently from one thought to the next.
You don't have to take my word for it. Watch a range of videos wherein the speakers are people having the level of intellect and locutionary adroitness Trump has bragged about having. It doesn't matter what they're talking about; just listen. You'll find they present their thoughts in a coherent manner. Some examples of such extemporizing:
[*=2]Your pick of any Aspen Institute seminars
[*=2]Baldwin-Buckley debate at Cambridge
[*=2]Any former POTUS' or other heads of state's campaign rallies, news interviews, press conferences, etc.
[*=2]Program guests remarking on "whatever" on the Sunday morning "talking heads" programs
[*=2]CFR conference proceedings
[*=2]Corporate presentations
[*=2]Ted Talks
[*=2]Davos sessions
[*=2]Defense of a dissertation (I don't know if you'll find any on the Internet, but if you do....)
Say what you want, but I don't think it's asking too much that the POTUS be able to extemporize as well as a high school student.
Forth:
When the fact of the matter is that one speaks only ineloquently as Trump, which indeed is about as well as a ten-year-old, there isn't really a materially lower level of articulation to which an adult can descend other than to "baby talk" or "pet talk." Now whatever that study claims, folks speaking in that mode isn't it because adults don't do that with other adults, not even when speaking to demented adults.