Trump on Wednesday tried to explain the Republican Party's steep election losses this week in part on a failure of language, specifically, a failure to use a "new word." Many blamed the GOP defeat on a mix of Trump's own unpopularity (his approval rating just reached a new low) and consumer frustration at continued inflation. But the president insisted everything is moving in the right direction. The only issue, he said, is that Republicans don't talk about it enough. "They have this new word called affordability,'" Trump explained during a Fox News interview. "And they don't talk about it enough."
The word "affordability" isn't new; the
"I'm very highly educated," Trump told supporters [in 2015]. "I know words, I know the best words. But there's no better word than stupid."
"Donald Trump takes credit for a new word' " a word first used in the 16th century"
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