Popsugar News Tech Dictionary.com's Funny Tweets About Donald Trump 17 Times Dictionary.com Burned Donald Trump (and His Administration) 18 July 2018 by Ryan Roschke Image Source: Getty / Pool In these trying times, a hero sometimes emerges in the most unexpected of places. Case in point: in 2018, the official Twitter account for Dictionary.com seems to have leaned hard into the political sphere, and the results are rather dazzling. The account is really only using what it has at its disposal . . . which is, quite literally, the dictionary. This leads to all kinds of fodder when applied to tweets published by President Donald Trump and the other members of his administration; Dictionary.com is nitpicking spelling, misuse of words and phrases, and even more apt definitions for today's seemingly buzzy terms, like "fake news." It even had a rather pointed word of the year in 2017. But we'll stop blabbering — when it comes to words, we'll just let the tweets speak for themselves. 1 That Time It Clarified Those Pesky Homophones "Their" and "there" are homophones. They sound alike, however they are spelled differently and have different meanings. https://t.co/881VeZmKHy https://t.co/3V0uFfg3UJ— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) May 26, 2018 1 / 17 2 When It Was Clear That There's No Such Thing as an "Ex-FBI LAYER" Layer: A person or thing that lays.Lawyer: A person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.https://t.co/VnAPK4YRrC https://t.co/ZjwsYpmcmF— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 11, 2018 2 / 17 3 When It Was Like, "Just Say 'Lie' Next Time" As it happens, there's a word for "false claims" ... https://t.co/9Qw6v20NDD https://t.co/CPH04NKuqB— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 12, 2018 3 / 17 4 When a Definition For "Witchunt" Could Not Be Located Witch hunt: An intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like.Witch-hunt: To subject to a witch hunt.Witchunt: Not foundhttps://t.co/w8rm4YYCO8 https://t.co/8glGu4FAk0— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 13, 2018 How do you say that? "Wih-chunt"? "Which-unt"? 4 / 17 5 When It Simply Dragged His Decision to Use Questionable Slang Ballsy is vulgar slang that means boldly aggressive or courageous. It is an adjective form of balls. https://t.co/6Da14YAOKj— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) June 4, 2018 5 / 17 6 When It REALLY Leaned In on That Whole "State of the Uniom" Mess Still holding out for the state of the ionium. It should have great chemistry. #StateOftheUniomhttps://t.co/ngxQClWPIQ— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) January 29, 2018 In case you're not familiar, it's a real thing that happened in January: tickets to invited guests were all mistakenly printed with "State of the Uniom" on them. 6 / 17 7 When It Simply Defined "Traitor" and "Patriot" Patriot: A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.Traitor: A person who commits treason by betraying his or her country.https://t.co/Keq4fhTlRB— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 16, 2018 Right after his meeting with Vladimir Putin, of course. 7 / 17 8 That Moment When We Just Needed to Remember What "Journalism" Is Journalism is defined as the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.https://t.co/YgWTNBmj1e https://t.co/dFZiidN5QN— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 14, 2018 8 / 17 9 That Moment When It Cast Superb Shade on the Use of "Fake News" Fake news: False news stories. Also fake news: A way to characterize any information that one finds critical about themselves. https://t.co/Q1eKvv6Nr2 https://t.co/LFIZOsY6xL— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 13, 2018 9 / 17 10 When It Really Leaned Into This Hilarious Typo Boarder security = Security for a person, especially a lodger, who is supplied with regular meals.https://t.co/emfad3cK8b https://t.co/W6WBcFbF0I— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) June 18, 2018 10 / 17 11 When It Wanted Us to Be Realistic About the Amount of Sharks We Could Jump Jump the shark is an idiom. It means to begin a decline in quality, popularity, relevance, etc., after reaching a peak. #JustOneSharkIsAllItTakeshttps://t.co/Fq56N5A9XU https://t.co/o8f46aWJMP— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 12, 2018 11 / 17 12 When We Really, Really Needed to Remember What an "Immigrant" Is Immigrant. Noun. A person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.https://t.co/ue6zG4thqi https://t.co/MudCVPt117— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 7, 2018 12 / 17 13 When It Was Crucial to Clarify Exactly What Was Going On Slur: A word or phrase intended to be both offensive and disparaging by erasing the individual personhood of the target.Nickname: A name used in place of a person’s name that can be positive, neutral, or negative.E.g. Pocahontas is sometimes used as a nickname or as a slur. https://t.co/m3uutDlxqN— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 6, 2018 13 / 17 14 When It Revealed That Some Words Have Multiple Definitions, Like "Judge," For Instance Judge: A magistrate charged with the administration of justice.Also a judge: a person qualified to pass a critical judgment.https://t.co/uHb9rTRPKc https://t.co/zwEMwdaSnE— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) June 24, 2018 14 / 17 15 When It Even Managed to Sneak In a Star Wars Reference While ALSO Educating Everyone Although storm trooper may be a term known for its Star Wars association, it is also defined as a member of the Nazi Sturmabteilung. https://t.co/DvNLFbVCjJ https://t.co/8UKbLTWHzU— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) June 3, 2018 15 / 17 16 When Even Colloquial Phrases Were Not Beyond Its Reach To "take advantage of" means "to impose upon, especially unfairly, as by exploiting a weakness."E.g. Sarah Sanders says Canada has taken advantage of the United States. https://t.co/yFVa4EwNdw https://t.co/Yz7eYvBWJg— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 2, 2018 Gotta love the tweets that contain the phrase "[Name] says [this]." Usually it comes with quite a bit of sarcasm. Kind of like that Kylie Jenner situation. 16 / 17 17 And, Finally, When It Made "Complicit" the Word of 2017 We're so excited to announce that the Word of the Year is covfefe!JUST KIDDING! But it is complicit. https://t.co/duT1xbaA5D#Complicit #WordOftheYear #ScaredYouDidntWe pic.twitter.com/P8fIL5LKOk— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) November 27, 2017 17 / 17 TechUS NewsHumorPoliticsDonald Trump