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{{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."|[https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/shortlist-2018 OED shortlist, 2018]}}
* [[Great Wall]]: Invoked by Trump when he promised that he would build a "big beautiful wall" along the United States' southern border to protect poor helpless Americans from ravening hordes of illegal Mexican immigrants. He also promised to make Mexico pay for it, though offered no means of doing so. Only about a hundred yards of it were ever actually erected during his administration, mostly to test various construction methods and designs, and it started collapsing from poor construction and cheap materials before his single term was over.
* [[Hey, You]]: His endorsement for the 2022 Missouri Senate primary was "Eric". Whether he meant Eric Greitens or his opponent Eric Schmidt, [[Refuge in Audacity| he didn't specify]].
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Assuming Trump wasn't being sarcastic]], he [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html asked Russia to hack his opponents' emails... live on TV... during a news conference].
* [[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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