Obamagate
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Obama + -gate. Coined by Donald Trump.
Proper noun
[edit]Obamagate
- Alleged attempts by President Barack Obama and those in his administration to sabotage Donald Trump's candidacy and administration through various illegitimate means, according to a conspiracy theory promoted by Trump.
- 2020 May 14, “Explainer: What is ‘Obamagate’ and where did it come from?”, in Al Jazeera[1]:
- [Donald] Trump unleashed a relatively unfamiliar hashtag on the world – “#OBAMAGATE!”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Obamagate.