Sunday, January 7, 2018

Mike Pence gets trolled by Dictionary.com as a 'sycophant'

http://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-donald-trump-prayer-twitter-dictionary-756401
"On Thursday, the official Twitter account for Dictionary.com tweeted a jab at Pence for fawning over President Donald Trump for three straight minutes, dishing out a compliment every 12 seconds on average, during a prayer session at Trump's last cabinet meeting of the year Wednesday. "There's a word for a person who would praise someone every 12 seconds," tweeted the 22-year-old online dictionary, which is based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary. Below the text was a link to the noun "sycophant," defined as "a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite"."