Saturday, July 29, 2017

Adjective Abuse

Donald Trump is not the only person in government to abuse the use of adjectives.  It's all too common in politics, especially among Republicans (use of disastrous, failing, fake, etc). To be clear, I define adjective abuse as being the use of adjectives to misrepresent reality. Trump's transgender tweets illustrate the con which adjectives can be. He tweeted about "tremendous" cost of transgenders in the military. But transgender medical costs are estimated on the high end to be .13 of 1% of the military budget and only 16% of Trump's golf trips so far this year. If transgender costs are defined as tremendous cost, what adjectives should be used for cost of Trump's pleasures on the American people?