Did he say I or I'd?

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/14/media/white-house-donald-trump-wall-street-journal/index.html

Plagiarized from the article:

Did President Trump say "I have" or "I'd have?"

The White House is disputing a quote by Trump in an interview published Thursday by the Wall Street Journal.

The quote in question has to do with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The newspaper quoted Trump as saying "I have a great relationship with him [China President Xi Jinping], as you know I have a great relationship with Prime Minister Abe of Japan and I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea."

But White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Saturday tweeted a note indicating Trump said "I'd probably have a very good..." rather than "I probably have a very good."

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There's an audio link in the article. I listened to it and heard "I'd" but it's debatable. What do you hear?

Both options are, of course, horseshit either way.

"I'd". I don't see why it matters though.

It's the difference between "I would have a good relationship with Kim" and "I do have a good relationship with Kim."

I am thinking we don't need to try so hard. Just give it some time and something obviously stoopid and foolish will be said by him. Maybe we will have it in tweet from. I am pretty positive Donnie little cock is a fucking moron. Whichever way it is that particular comment does not change that.

No shit, but we all know neither is or will ever be true so it's a mountain over a mole hill.

Either way, it's just another specious claim by Der Drumpfenfuhrer, right up there with his claims of being a stable genius. I do get a kick out of how carefully he pronounces "Kim...Jong..Un," though, like he's reading it off idiot cards.

I hear it as "I". If it's "I'd" then he says it so fast the d is skipped over.

Just some other pointless thing to bash him over. I'd have thought with the "shithole countries" comment there'd be plenty there to give him crap over that had a bit more substance to it, but leave it to the perpetual offense brigade to search for more - the more pointless the better.

I heard "I" as well. This will of course result in accusations of "You just hate him for no reason!" from the Faithful.

When you work as a medical transcriptionist (where there are sometimes a dozen or more people in the room, and the audio people invariably set the mic next to the water pitcher), you're required not only to determine who is speaking based on tone, timbre, and accent if any (because they've introduced themselves - if at all - only at the start of a six-hour seminar), the difference between one word and another while you're straining to hear past the whispers of the audio people and the clashing of ice cubes can be crucial...if you want to keep getting work.

I sometimes wish my hearing wasn't as acute.

Yeah right, now the Republicans are saying that Trump never said shithole. Teflon Don.

You no doubt have a list of the "perpetual offense brigade" as well. Unless you're implying that Kim's lurking on WF.

I don't know why anyone tries denying something like that. It's like Clinton lying about landing in Bosnia when there were news cameras there to record it. Yet it somehow works.

Well your thinking sure isn't very acute - count your blessings!

Sarah Sanders' little freak out at the media is what worries me. Crying FAKE NEWS is going to be the end of this country someday.

And yet deny they will, even though Trump's base eats this shit for breakfast. Maybe denying things is just a reflex for politicians.

That works though because of the media attacking him over stupid petty shit, though - it's basically what helped get him elected to begin with. Their attacks on him come off as their own personal grudge against them, and while Trump's approval rating is in the dumpster, public trust in the media is even lower.

Even if stupid petty shit is stupid and petty, it's not necessarily FAKE. The Trump administration is actively working to erode the public's faith in journalism. That's a cardinal sin.

Are you unaware that if one of the five senses is compromised, the others often increase to compensate? Or are you just unaware?

But with something like this, what difference does it make? So he's a braggart - we already knew that thanks to the "grab 'em by the pussy" tape. And if that didn't make a dent, this sure as hell isn't.

Someone doesn't remember the controversy that surrounded Neil Armstrong's statement during the Moon landing for decades.

I'm aware there's a lot about you that's compromised.

Probably because I'm not old enough.

Not old enough to have learned anything about the Apollo program in school? That explains a lot.

Do it again.

See, you've been using the wrong word all this time. Rather than "racist," try "bigot," as in "@Captain X is a bigot who mocks people with bad eyesight."

What other bigotries would you like to share with us?

The only significant thing about the last burble from President Pottymouth is that he's turned on the Wall Street Journal - the brokers' and hedge-fund managers' Sacred Text.

Let that sink in for a minute.

In fairness to his school, I suspect most schools don't include the Apollo program in their first-grade lesson plans.

Listened to the audio the White House put out.

He said "I'd" and not "I".

It's pretty clear if you turn the volume on your computer way up.