Trump’s “Speak English” Order Explained—in Spanish
March 7, 2025
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Trump wanted to make English the official language of the United States. But Mother Jones fellow Melvis Acosta wants to speak Spanish.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating English as the country’s official language. Speaking in front of Congress on Tuesday, he again said that he had made English the official language of the US.
But as Mother Jones' Julianne McShane wrote, what the order actually does is rescind an earlier executive order signed by Bill Clinton in 2000, which required government agencies and organizations that received federal funding to offer language assistance to non–English speakers. Agencies now have to decide for themselves whether they will offer documents and services in different languages.
This isn’t the first time Trump has attacked people for speaking other languages. He mocked Jeb Bush during the 2016 Republican primary for speaking Spanish, and has warned of languages coming into the United States that “nobody in this country has ever heard of.” We assume he wasn’t talking about the word “covfefe.”
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