portmanteau formed from trump + petard (in the sense of Shakespeare's "hoist with his own petard')
def: a linguistic "reveal" of pathological liars (like Trump), wherein a statement is "exploded" (revealed to be completely devoid of veracity) by an immediately following conflicting/contradictory statement.
def: a linguistic "reveal" of pathological liars (like Trump), wherein a statement is "exploded" (revealed to be completely devoid of veracity) by an immediately following conflicting/contradictory statement.
by Eppypotamus March 30, 2020