"It's not that {he} has changed his mind, but that rather a number of words in the English language have ..." [View all]

"... suddenly and spontaneously changed their meaning."


From a famous 18th- or 19th-century British politician -- can't remember who. I was thinking about Trmp's flip-flopping (didn't that used to be a BAD thing ?) on the war/not-a-war in Iran, and this quote burbled up from the recesses of decades-old memory. It seems to fit Trmp -- he genuinely seems to believe that if he claims he didn't say something, he didn't say it, no matter what that lying videotape says from however many different angles.