King of Spain Felipe VI criticized the decision of US President Donald Trump to remove Spanish from the official website of the White House.
He expressed the hope that this is a “temporary solution.”
King of Spain Felipe VI during his speech at the event in Madrid, organized by the Cervantes Institute, the World Spanish institution engaged in language education, culture and art, reacted to the decision of US President Donald Trump to remove Spanish from the White House website.
The King of Spain recalled that the Servantes Institute has five centers in most US regions. He emphasized that Spanish has significantly surpassed other languages in secondary and university education in the USA.
The king noted that by 2050 the number of spanning in the United States will reach 100 million people.
“taking into account demographic and democratic realities, I hope that this decision will be temporary, because Spanish will become the second most common language and will have a political influence,” Felipe VI emphasized.
The Director General of the Servantes, Luis Garcia Montero, said that US President Trump “offended about 60 million people speaking this language, introducing Spanish as the language of poor and immigrants.”
noting that Trump’s decision is regretted, Montero added: “I thought that Trump would change its attitude, having received support for a significant part of the Latin American population, because the Latin American population today is a very important part of the US economy. But he did not. He. Removeed Spanish.
Trump made a similar decision in relation to the Spanish language and in his first time as president of the United States.