I wonder if the president’s favorite song might be Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue.” My folks were bridge nuts so we learned young, listening to them talk the game. So I understand somewhat The Don’s problem, and in that attempt pulled out our Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
• trump (noun) a card of a designated suit any of whose cards will win over a card that is not of this suit.
• trump (verb) to play a trump when another suit was led.
• trumped-up (adverb) fraudulently concocted: SPURIOUS.
• trumpery (noun) 1: worthless nonsense. 2: trivial articles: JUNK.
It helped me explain to myself why the president can be so compulsive in behavior, so angry at the truth and so appealing to enraptured evangelists.
