Good Morning.
Let's have an etymology lesson today.
Donald Trump became prevalent to most of us back in the 1980s. But the
word trump has a longer history.
I'm sure that back in the dark ages, most of us played cards with actual cards. Depending on the game, you were able to play something called a "trump" card.
1
a : a card of a suit any of whose cards will win over a card that is not of this suit
— called also trump card
b : the suit whose cards are trumps for a particular hand —often used in plural
2 : a decisive overriding factor or final resource
— called also trump card
But buried deep in the list of definitions, is this curio:
: a dependable and exemplary person
I'm sure this is the "Trump" that he thinks he is. Like everything else, he gets it completely wrong.
But let's play a game and look up the antonyms of "dependable" and "exemplary" in our faithful thesaurus. Seems to me that this is the part Donnie was reading.
Near Antonyms of dependable:
disloyal, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue, deceitful, dishonest, lying, mendacious, untruthful, debatable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, fishy, problematic (also problematical), questionable, shady, shaky, suspect, uncertain, unsound, hazardous, risky, unconfirmed, untried
Antonyms of dependable:
dodgy [chiefly British], uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsafe, untrustworthy
Near Antonyms of exemplary:
bad, low-grade, poor, substandard, unsatisfactory, atrocious, execrable, vile, wretched, deficient, disappointing, failed, inadequate, inferior, average, normal, ordinary,, representative, typical, mediocre, second-class, second-rate
Plenty of ways to use all these words in everyday conversation, I'm sure!
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