Fake News

[-Talbot-]

Donald is highly educated he knows words, some great words, some of the best words


And here is proof.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/02/fake-news-is-very-real-word-of-the-year-for-2017

His best achievement so far?

[douglas9401]

His only achievement so far.

[ducksie]

Just seen the same on tv news along with fidget spinner and another crobyalism or something - donald, trumps them all though, he'll be delighted I'm sure

[ichkeria]

The interesting thing there is that what Donald calls "fake news" isn't, actually, what "fake news" is. He's picked up the term and misused/misunderstood it.
Just for a change :-)

[jim360]

I'm hoping to popularise the word "Trumpsplain", which is like mansplaining but where the speaker doesn't even do a good job of being patronising.

Example: "The president Trumpsplained the issues surrounding aid to Puerto Rico yesterday, saying, 'All appropriate departments of our government are engaged fully in the disaster and the response and recovery effort. Probably has never been seen for something like this -- this is an island, surrounded by water, big water. Ocean Water..."

Example two:

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Trump revived the debunked conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton* gave Russia '20%' of the USA's Uranium stocks, and went on to Trumpslain the reason this was an issue:

"You know what uranium is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things. But nobody talks about that."

//

[youngmafbog]

Ah didnt take long to turn to an anti Trump thread did it !

Surely "Fake News" is a phrase, not a word?

[jim360]

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realise that providing verbatim Trump quotes that make him look and sound stupid to any objective observer was "anti-Trump" :P

[youngmafbog]

Your not daft jim, neither am I.

[ichkeria]

I thought this was merely yet another thread gently poking fun at the Trumpster from the off. His connection to the term FAKE NEWS is to misuse the term for anything he doesn’t like ;-)