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** Trump's [https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 seemingly endless repertoire of lies about ''everything''] led [https://www.sctimes.com/story/opinion/2021/01/15/donald-trump-and-gaslighting/4167553001/ more than one observer] [https://www.varsity.co.uk/opinion/19909 to note that he was] [https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/03/trump-classic-gaslighter-abusive-relationship-america-column/1445050002/ attempting to gaslight the entire country].
** The Oxford English Dictionary placed "gaslighting" in the top words of 2018, something The Washington Post credited Trump (among other sources) for ''that''.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/16/toxic-is-oxford-dictionaries-word-year-gaslighting-techlash-are-among-runners-up/?utm_term=.eea3da958751 'Gaslighting' is a Word of the Year, 2018] ''washingtonpost.com''</ref>
{{quote|"The concept has also been applied to political contexts this year, with the term used extensively of President Donald Trump; his frequent assertions that the media are spreading ‘fake news’, and implications that his administration is the sole arbiter of truth, have led to Trump’s presidency of the United States being compared to an abusive relationship."
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Assuming Trump wasn't being sarcastic]] he asked Russia to hack his opponents' emails... live on TV... during a news conference.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html Trump Russia Clinton Emails] ''nytimes.com''</ref>
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Trump's permanent bans from multiple social media platforms have been held up as examples of the right of businesses to deny service to anyone they care to -- a right [[wikipedia:Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission|supported all the way to the Supreme Court by Trump and his conservative backers]], who only imagined it being used by their side in the so-called "culture wars".
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