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had on our language.

The blaze craze. Before 2016, most often used to describe foul Dempster Dumpsters, those trash bins the size of minibuses that can be unloaded into garbage - cial aircraft. The term has been in common use since George Roby Dempster invented the contrap or spontaneou­s combustion. But according to Google, almost a third of all “dumpster fires” time the literal meaning of the term has essentiall­y disappeare­d, disastrous aspects of the Trump presidency, and fallout therefrom. Merely pairing “dump 200,000-plus Google hits.

- ter, the popular social media of 2014, a Google search reveals the expression “early- morning - actly eight times. And since then? Eight thousand. Three minutes of random sampling found not in reference to Donald Trump. about Trump, too, including one that called him “The Marmalade the next category.

The Marmalade Mussolini is just one of literally hundreds of highly distinctiv­e terms of derision for the president, most of them dependent on one or tone, his spit- flying rages and his authoritar­ian bent. There has perhaps never been a public a predictabl­e, yet still creative there but have not yet received the attention they merit: Hair Fuhrer, the Mad Hater, Hairman Corleone and the Fanta Menace.

years 2014 and 2015, the expression “beneath the dignity of the the most telling part. The most telling part is that one of the -

The very lashed resort. The verb that most often describes the mode of communicat­ion favored by the president of the United States is still “said,” but it is rapidly being challenged by the expression “lashed out at.” The expression, of course, is as old as phenomenal surge of popularity communicat­ions. In the past six months, Trump has “lashed out at” all of these and more: Sen. Bob

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