A dictionary’s Twitter account continues to be one of the most effective online trolls of President Donald Trump and his administration.
Merriam-Webster was back at it again Thursday, tweaking Trump over the claim that he invented the term “prime the pump.”
In an interview with The Economist, Trump said he came up with the term, which means “government investment expenditures designed to induce a self-sustaining expansion of economic activity,” according to Merriam-Webster.
After being asked whether it’s OK if his tax plan increases the deficit, Trump said, “It’s OK, because if won’t increase it for long. You may have two years where you’ll ... you understand the expression ‘prime the pump?’ ”
“Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just ... I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good,” Trump said during a discussion about his tax plan.
[Team Trump’s greatest enemy on Twitter? A dictionary.]
Merriam-Webster, which has been using Trump’s words as fodder for its Twitter account throughout his presidency, quickly set the record straight.