Hugh Gladden

The Dumbkins Dictionary Hugh Gladden

At a campaign event in South Carolina on December 30, 2015, Donald declared, "I'm very highly educated. I know words. I know the best words." In the summer of 2020, after four years of hearing Dumbkins ladle gooey praise on himself every day, extolling his "good brain" and his "hair blowing beautifully" and his "extreme" sanity and the beauty of all of the women whose pussies he has grabbed, Donald's odd blurt about his professed command of words seems relatively harmless, just more passing oddness, another window to his bleak world of self-obsession. Back in our real world, though, his riffs and tweets and proclamations feature a striking lack of "best words," except possibly in a context of some kind of reality-TV show, like the ones with every character calling every other character a "bitch." As a U. S. prezident, Donald's "best words" are most often rash, inane, and even nonsensical. The pages of this book will demonstrate that his limited vocabulary forces him to use mostly short, easy words which are imprecise in meanings, and that on the occasions when he attempts to broaden his use of words, he often does so in laughably ignorant ways, with awkward phrasing and misguided usage.