Trump has hit viral paydirt with an invented conspiracy theory that is masquerading as White House scandal. Is this a new, imaginary kind of ‘gate’?
When is a gate not a gate? When it’s a “spygate”. This is not a hinged partition in a fence for secret agents, but Donald Trump’s recent coinage for something that by all other accounts definitely didn’t happen: that Obama’s team planted a spy inside Trump’s campaign in order to help Hillary win, which also didn’t happen.
The suffix '-gate' is used with ironic hyperbole for trivial things. Or, in this case, purely imaginary things
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