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What's in a name?

| November 1, 2024 1:00 AM

From Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, unabridged 1934, page 2725:

• Trump: To deceive, to impose on, to mock.

• Trumped up: Unscrupulously concocted.

• Trumper: A deceiver

• Trumpery: 1. Deceit; fraud; trickery (archaic). 2. Deceptively showy things of no value; rubbish, trash, nonsense.


GREG FLINT

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