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Bleachgate
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English
Etymology
From en bleach -gate.
Proper noun
A 2020 controversy where then-president Donald Trump suggested drinking bleach as a way to cure COVID-19.
en Matthew Walther Bleachgate is the archetype of a Trump media cycle w:The Week https://theweek.com/articles/911392/bleachgate-archetype-trump-media-cycle 29-04-2020 What some of the world's most insufferable people are already calling "Bleachgate" is a perfect reductio ad absurdum of the relationship between the president and the media. https://web.archive.org/web/20251113233703/https://theweek.com/articles/911392/bleachgate-archetype-trump-media-cycle 13 November 2025
en Donald Trump