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Trump’s most erudite troll is the Merriam-Webster dictionary

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With his image projected upon a huge screen, US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Photo: Reuters
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Merriam-Webster is at it again.

The dictionary company, which had been using not-so-subtle tweets to troll Donald Trump (both the candidate and the president), took to Twitter again to school Kellyanne Conway on what being a feminist means.

Merriam-Webster tweeted a definition of the word “feminism” after the president’s counsellor said that being a feminist is associated with being “anti-male” and “pro-abortion.”

“Part of our social mission is to show the world how funny, timely and relevant the dictionary can be”
Lauren Naturale, content and social media manager of Merriam-Webster

“It’s difficult for me to call myself a feminist in a classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male, and it certainly is very pro-abortion, and I’m neither anti-male or pro-abortion,” Conway said during a conversation onstage with conservative commentator Mercedes Schlapp.

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“So, there’s an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices. . . . I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.”

The tweet was in response to statements Conway made at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which started earlier this week and ends Saturday.

Something similar happened a month ago - when Conway used the phrase “alternative facts” to defend false and easily disproved claims that the White House press secretary made about Trump’s inauguration crowd.

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