Apparently, many people on social media thought the word “treason” was the best way to describe President Trump’s joint press conference with Putin on Monday.
And we got further confirmation that it was perfect from the dictionary, of all people. According to a tweet by Merriam-Webster, following the two presidents meet up, the top searched words were treason, traitor, and collusion.
?Top searches, in order: treason, abase, traitor, collusion, presser
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 16, 2018
During the Helsinki summit, Trump pretty much refused to blame Putin for Russian intelligence officers interference in the 2016 election.
“They think it’s Russia, I have President Putin – he just said it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be,” Trump said. He told reporters that both countries were to blame for the poor state of the two countries relations. Remember when Trump called the European Union a “foe” on Sunday? Well, Merriam Webster also tweeted out the definition then too.
?To everyone looking it up: yes, ‘foe’ still means what you think it means. https://t.co/Bq1oqTkXqq
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 15, 2018
Dictionary.com couldn’t help but also throw its hat in the ring to clarify the meaning of the words “patriot” and “traitor” – which frequently came up during the meeting.
Patriot: A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.
Traitor: A person who commits treason by betraying his or her country.https://t.co/Keq4fhTlRB
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 16, 2018
After CNN’s Jake Tapper called the treason summit as “an unmitigated disaster” and “embarrassing”, Thesaurus.com also tweeted multiple synonyms for the word “disaster”.
Disaster is one word. Calamity, catastrophe, debacle and fiasco are four other ways to say the same thing. #TrumpPutin #Synonyms https://t.co/aQBhYBS89L https://t.co/uef1S7huTA
— Thesaurus.com (@thesauruscom) July 16, 2018
I am all here for this dictionary joke.