Trump is enthusiastic to learn a political term that's been in use for at least 127 years
By Philip Bump July 5 at 2:40 PM
During Fourth of July celebrations at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump made a surprising revelation: He’d never heard the expression “Second Lady,” referring to the wife of the vice president.
“There is one military family here today I am especially excited to recognize,” Trump said — “our great vice president, Mike Pence, and our second lady — never heard that term before, but that’s what they say — and she is some lady, that I can tell you — of the United States, Karen Pence, are here along with their son, Marine 1st Lt. Michael Pence.”
By now, we should not be terribly surprised when it turns out that Trump is unfamiliar with some aspects of Washington decorum. After all, Trump ran proudly on his outsider status, and there are some things with which only insiders are likely to be familiar. The term “second lady,” though, is not one of them.
William Safire, who for years evaluated language for the New York Times, once wrote a book titled “Safire’s Political Dictionary.” In it, he suggested that the use of “second lady” began in the 1980s, only to be dropped in the 1990s. As it turns out, on this one, Safire was off by a century.
Google’s Ngram (pronounced “en-gram”) tool, which shows the use of words and phrases in books over the past 220 years or so, indicates that use of the phrase “Second Lady” surged a bit in the 1860s, but really came into force in 1892 or so, spiking through the turn of the 20th century.
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That was MY insinuation!!! 
...the stolen/rigged election. I try to be civil most of the time, but the Trumps do not bring the best in me.
We can share credit for verbal creativity - 
