[Ads-l] Trump's amazing synapses

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Wed Apr 20 02:55:48 UTC 2016


Laurence Horn wrote:
> Chris Matthews on MSNBC just commented on Trump's ability
> to "think on his feet and to come out with these amazing
> synapses".  At least that's what it sounded like to me.  To
> the closed captioning service, it sounded like Trump's ability
> to "come out with these amazing sin nap seese". Not in the
> OED, to say the least.

If Matthews was crediting Trump with crafting punchy, brief summaries
of political topics then he might have said: synopses.

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