A general term for being linguistically dumbfoundedor struggling when attempting translate or interpret someone who speaks incoherent English. Derived from the expressed
difficulty of translating President
Donald J. Trump into any language but especially Japanese, where the cultural
expectation is that a US President will sound 'presidential'.
I didn't know what to make of his remarks about Japanese companies needing to build cars in the
United States when they already have been doing so since the 80s, and his incomplete sentences totally trumpfoundedme. In the end, I just tried to guess what he was saying.
I had to translate "grab them by the pussy"
on the spot but was trumpfounded for a few seconds. Do I literally say it or
metaphorically say it, and if so what's the proper Japanese word for 'pussy' in this case?