Spouting Nonsense: a fifth Spoutly for Donald J. Trump based on his May 19, 2025 claim to have come up with the 420 years old word equalizing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An article by Meredith Kile at People on May 21, 2025 titled Trump says he just invented a ‘new word,’ which is now the ‘best word.’ It’s been in use since the 1500s. She quoted:

 

“Basically, what we’re doing is equalizing. There’s a new word that I came up with, which is probably the best word,” he said.

“We’re gonna equalize, where we’re all gonna pay the same. We’re gonna pay what Europe’s gonna pay,” he continued.

When you look up the noun equalizing at the Oxford English Dictionary, you will find that it first was used back in 1605, which is 420 years ago. And the transitive verb equalize shows up in 1595, and also in 1590 spelled as equalise.

Back on October 1, 2023 I blogged about Spouting Nonsense: a fourth Spoutly for Donald J. Trump based on his recent interview for Meet the Press.