Dictionary.com defines 'traitor' in a brutal Donald Trump subtweet

The dictionary has spoken.
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Nicole Gallucci
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Dictionary.com defines 'traitor' in a brutal Donald Trump subtweet
President Donald Trump, burned again by a dictionary. Credit: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images

Hell hath no fury like Dictionary.com after Donald Trump's joint press conference with Vladimir Putin.

In true 2018 woke dictionary fashion, following Trump's comments in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, the official Dictionary.com Twitter account brutally subtweeted the U.S. president.

For today's burn — after listening to Trump trash the FBI, the Mueller probe, and Hillary Clinton (again), all while congratulating Russia and failing to defend his own country — Dictionary.com felt compelled to define two very different words: "Patriot" and "Traitor."

According to Dictionary.com, a patriot is "A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion." A traitor, on the other hand, is "A person who commits treason by betraying his or her country."

Ouch.

Trump's comments were met with fury by many Americans, including CNN's Anderson Cooper, who called Trump's performance "one of the most disgraceful by an American president."

So it should come as no surprise that Dictionary.com's Twitter wasn't the only digital wordsmith to get in on the Trump shade. As always, Merriam-Webster was there to subtweet the heck out of the Commander-in-Chief, dropping definitions for "complacent," "treason," and "collusion" throughout the day.

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Nicole Gallucci

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.

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