What's in a name?
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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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