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5. Ha-ha - his speechwriter's fault. They put it in a speech that was trying to back out

Thu Jun 18, 2020, 02:39 PM

Jun 2020

his "good people on both sides" of Charlottesville crap, and Merriam-Webster made a post explaining it, since many had looked it up:

Lookups spike following a Trump speech clarifying his position on racist violence over the past weekend.
14 Aug 2017

President Donald Trump bowed to overwhelming pressure that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend — labeling their racists views “evil” after two days of equivocal statements.

“Racism is evil,” Mr. Trump said. “And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the K.K.K., neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
—Glenn Thrush, The New York Times, 14 Aug. 2017

https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/trump-calls-racism-repugnant-20170814

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I received a legal agreement from a foreign company to evaluate, with the words "repugnant to..." [View all] NNadir Jun 2020 OP

I think you misspelled your Google search: it's "Too Repugnant"! n/t DonaldsRump Jun 2020 #1

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Holy crap. Couldn't be clearer lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #4

Ha-ha - his speechwriter's fault. They put it in a speech that was trying to back out muriel_volestrangler Jun 2020 #5

Nevertheless it works for me, and strikes me as a kind of justice, since he was never serious... NNadir Jun 2020 #6

Miriam Webster! leftieNanner Jun 2020 #2