広島市にある、広島県立高校から留学生として参加しているミネソタ州の橘有紀（仮名・高校２年生）さんから、トランプさんが、大統領に当選したときの勝利宣言の演説の内容が知らされてきました。アメリカでは（日本でも11月9日から10日にかけて)テレビで繰り返しそのシーンが放送されたそうです。この時のトランプさんの英語での演説全文を、CNNのニュースから以下にコピーしました。スピーチの内容は、本当にすばらしいものだと思います。
トランプさんは、今回の大統領選挙期間中の演説では台本が用意されていたとしても、どちらかといえばアドリブ的な話のながれが多く、「イスラム教の信者はアメリカに来るな」「メキシコや南米系の不正移民は出て行け」「メキシコとアメリカ国境に塀を造る」などという過激な話がひとつの「ウリ」だったのですが、勝利宣言のスピーチでは、神妙な面持ちでカンペをしっかり読み上げたので、内容のある演説となりました。トランプさんは、この時は慎重に対応されたのだろうと、広島から参加された高校生留学参加者の橘さんが話していました。
趣旨としては、選挙でクリントンさんを応援した人々を含めて、全ての国民に団結して、一緒にアメリカを良くしていこうというものでした。あまりにも、まともな内容だったので驚いた方もおられるのではないかと思います。来年の１月の正式な大統領就任時には、すばらしい演説をされるものとトランプ新大統領に期待しています。

Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
Who would have believed that when we started this journey on June 16th of last year, we – and I say we because we are a team – would have received almost 14 million votes, the most in the history of the Republican Party, and that the Republican Party would get 60 percent more votes than it received eight years ago. Who would have believed this? Who would have believed this? The Democrats, on the other hand, received 20 percent fewer votes than they got four years ago. Not so good. Not so good.
Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace. We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.
Our Convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country.
Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities. Many have witnessed this violence personally; some have even been its victims.
I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon, and I mean very soon, come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored.
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
It is finally time for a straightforward assessment of the state of our nation.
I will present the facts plainly and honestly. We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore.
So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully-crafted lies, and the media myths the Democrats are holding their convention next week. Go there.
But here, at our convention, there will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else.
These are the facts:
Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this Administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement.
Homicides last year increased by 17% in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent. They are up nearly 60% in nearby Baltimore.
In the President’s hometown of Chicago, more than 2,000 people have been the victims of shootings this year alone. And almost 4,000 have been killed in the Chicago area since he took office.
The number of police officers killed in the line of duty has risen by almost 50% compared to this point last year. Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.
The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015. They are being released by the tens of thousands into our communities with no regard for the impact on public safety or resources.
One such border-crosser was released and made his way to Nebraska. There, he ended the life of an innocent young girl named Sarah Root. She was 21 years-old, and was killed the day after graduating from college with a 4.0 Grade Point Average, number one in her class. Her killer was then released a second time, and he is now a fugitive from the law.
I’ve met Sarah’s beautiful family. But to this Administration, their amazing daughter was just one more American life that wasn’t worth protecting. No more. One more child to sacrifice on the altar of open borders.
What about our economy?
Again, I will tell you the plain facts that have been edited out of your nightly news and your morning newspaper: Nearly Four in 10 African-American children are living in poverty, while 58% of African-American youth are now not employed. 2 million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago. Another 14 million people have left the workforce entirely.
Household incomes are down more than 4 thousand dollars since the year 2000. That’s 16 years ago. Our trade deficit in goods reached nearly, think of this, think of this, our trade deficit is 800 billion dollars, think of that, 800 billion dollars last year alone. We’re going to fix that.
The budget is no better. President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than 19 trillion dollars, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.
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An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson, many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views. Their voice is taken away.I am going to work very hard to repeal that language and to protect free speech for all Americans.
We can accomplish these great things, and so much more – all we need to do is start believing in ourselves and in our country again. Start believing. It is time to show the whole world that America Is Back – bigger, and better and stronger than ever before.
In this journey, I’m so lucky to have at my side my wife Melania and my wonderful children, Don, Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron: you will always be my greatest source of pride and joy. And by the way, Melania and Ivanka, did they do a job? My Dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest working man I ever knew. I wonder sometimes what he’d say if he were here to see this and to see me tonight.
It’s because of him that I learned, from my youngest age, to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people. He was a guy most comfortable in the company of bricklayers, and carpenters, and electricians and I have a lot of that in me also. I love those people.
Then there’s my mother, Mary. She was strong, but also warm and fairminded. She was a truly great mother. She was also one of the most honest and charitable people that I have ever known, and a great, great judge of character. She could pick them out from anywhere.
To my sisters Mary Anne and Elizabeth, my brother Robert and my late brother Fred, I will always give you my love—you are most special to me. I have had a truly great life in business.
But now, my sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for our country – to go to work for you. It’s time to deliver a victory for the American people. We don’t win any more, but we are going to start winning again.
But to do that, we must break free from the petty politics of the past. America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics and cynics.
Remember: all of the people telling you that you can’t have the country you want, are the same people that wouldn’t stand, I mean they said Trump does not have a chance of being here tonight, not a chance, the same people. We love defeating those people, don’t we? Love it.
No longer can we rely on those same people in the media, and politics, who will say anything to keep our rigged system in place. Instead, we must choose to believe In America. History is watching us now.

10月17日(月)Yahooニュースで配信ニュースより

今月8日、お笑いコンビ「ピース」の綾部祐二（38）が緊急会見を開き、来年4月から活動の拠点を米ニューヨークに移し、ハリウッド俳優を目指すことを発表した。一部報道では約4000万円の年収を捨てて、異国の地でゼロからスタートするという。夢に向かって挑戦するその姿勢には、「羨ましい」、「カッコイイ」と賛同する声もある一方で、英語も話せず、現地で何をするのかも決まってないという、その無計画さに「勘違いしているのでは？」「無謀すぎる！」といった厳しい声もインターネット上では飛んでいる。

さて、ここで疑問がわいてきました。綾部さんは『英会話はできるのか、英語を理解できるのか』ということ。そして『アメリカの労働ビザを簡単に取れるのか』ということです。
確かに英語が喋れないというのは、さほど外国生活で大きな問題ではなく、芸能に生きる人はチャレンジする度胸の方が重要と思われます。今までハリウッドや、ブロードウェイを目指して成功した人たちの中には、アメリカに行ってから一から英語を学習して英会話を覚えた人もいます。例えばアーノルド・シュワルツネッガーさんも、オーストリアからの移住者でアメリカで英語をマスターしてボデイビルダーのトレーニングを積んだ後に俳優、政治家としてアメリカンドリームを獲得しています。日本人では、アメリカでＭＣとして成功したコメディアンの神田瀧夢さんなど、他にも同様の例はいくらでも見つかるようです。
しかし、アメリカのコメディやコントは日本と全く質が違う『言葉プレイ』や『パンチライン』と呼ばれる落としどころやギャグ、笑い内容を理解するのに、高度な英語力が必要になります。舞台で話すピン芸人のことをスタンド・アップ・コメデイアンとアメリカでは呼ぶのですが、その人独特の個性が強く求められています。例えば、下品ネタ早口喋りのエデイ・マーフイさん、早口でウイットネタのジエイ・レノさん、ニュースショーの時事ネタに出演して笑わせるコナン・オブライエンさんなど、日本と全く異質の笑いを追求しています。
とはいえ、若くて、いかにも日本的ハンサム・ボーイの綾部さんが、英語・英会話を身に付けて日本の不思議文化を武器に独自の個性を押し出した芸風を確立して、アメリカで大成功して欲しいと思います。

エース留学センターには、フロリダのオーランドから来日して、留学生の穎悟指導を行う英語講師、シンデイ先生が在籍しています。この先生は、とにかくフロリダ・マーリンズのファンで毎日イチロー選手の活躍をネットで確認、シンディ先生のロッカールームはイチローの写真と新聞雑誌の記事だらけです。
そのアメリカ・メジャーリーグ、フロリダ・マーリンズのイチロー選手が、デンバーで開催されたロッキーズ戦でメジャーリーグ史上で三一人目となる三千本安打を８月７日に達成しました。この日は第４打席で右越えの三塁打を放って、本人がメジャーリーグへ移籍して１６年、そこで２４５２回目となるゲームでこれを成し遂げたことはすごいことです。試合は、ロッキーズ７－１０マーリンズでした。
ファンはイチローをスタンディグオベーションで祝福しました。マーリンズのベンチからは、仲間が走ってきてハグをしたので、イチロー選手は感激の涙を流しました。「達成した瞬間チームメイトが喜んでくれて嬉しいです。三千本ということより、ファンの皆さんが喜んでくれることが大切なことです。」と話しました。イチロー選手でも、緊張からか７月２８日のカージナルス戦で２９９９本目の安打を打った後で、しばらく無安打が続き、本当に苦労の末の三千本安打となりました。
「振り返るってみると、日本のオリックス入団の選手時代からの長い時間、そう、特別な時間が僕へのプレゼントです。この時間の使われ方はよかった。」と振り返りました。同時に、阪急ブレーブス時代の福元選手の三塁打の日本プロ野球の記録も塗り替えたとのことです。すばらしい記録、おめでとうございます。