12 Times Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s Twitter Trolled Trump Team – With English (Photos)
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The dictionary's Trump administration fact-checking is hilariously shady
Donald Trump's penchant for Twitter rants, adjusted history and occasionally claiming to coin phrases has kept fact-checkers busy for months. But none are quite so expertly cheeky as those running the Twitter a...
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12. A quick reminder on "hombre"After Trump again dropped the phrase "bad hombres" during a presidential debate, the dictionary helpfully defined it -- just so everyone was clear he was talking about Mexican immigra...
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11. Trump calls Comey a showboatNot everyone always knows what Trump is talking about. Merriam-Webster occasionally checks in on trending Trumpisms, since he tends to favor phrases that aren't exactly in vogue, and ...
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10. Is he saying "bigly" or "big league?"Merriam-Webster tried to clear up the confusion. He's saying "big league." You're confused because people don't really say that anymore. They did, though, occasionally -- 100...
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9. "Atrocity, basic"When Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Comey was guilty of "basic atrocities," Merriam-Webster was there to fill people in on what atrocities meant. It also noted peo...
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8. White House counsel v. White House councilAs former Attorney General Sally Yates was preparing to testify about former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn's ties to Russia, Trump headed to Twitter. About Yates, ...
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7. You're the "vanguard"Merriam-Webster supported the Women's March following Trump's inauguration with a choice word of the day, coupled with a gif of transgender activist Sylvia Rivera.
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6. Here's what "complicit" meansWhite House adviser and Trump daughter Ivanka said in an interview she didn't know what the word "complicit" meant. "SNL" sure did when it dragged Ivanka for her big talk about women'...
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5. What's the word for when you pay people to clap for you?A Trump visit to the Central Intelligence Agency led to stories the president had cronies at the event to clap for him, while CIA agents remained silent. Di...
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4. Trump did not invent "prime the pump"Trump used the phrase "prime the pump" as a metaphor for tax policy in an interview, and then said he thought he'd invented the phrase. Merriam-Webster narrator voice: He hadn't.
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3. Not the Word of the DayMerriam-Webster has dug up some obscure Trumpisms and verified them for the world. But those words can't be made up. Turns out, Trump's use of "unpresidented" on Twitter was, in fact, unpre...
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2. On varieties of "facts"Merriam-Webster Twitter wasn't thrilled with Kellyanne Conway's assertion that things that are false might be considered "alternative facts."
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1. The word you're thinking of is...The perfect English language troll of a president who specifically admitted to sexually assaulting women, on tape, because he was a star and no one stopped him.
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BONUS: "Laughing up one's sleeve" is actually a thingStill going off about the investigation into his campaign and potential collusion with Russia, Trump tweeted the Russians were "laughing up their sleeves" about t...
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