A controversial news release issued by the White House last week has, once again, set tongues wagging for all the wrong reasons.
The article in question - titled 'Yes, Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments' - was released by the official government website on Wednesday (5 March) and consists of a series of damning remarks Trump has made about his left-wing predecessor.
The document was uploaded to the White House website immediately after the 78-year-old gave a speech to Congress - of which a huge segment was dedicated to Biden's 'wasteful' spending of American dollars.
Among the most shocking claims contained within the document are that former Democratic representative Biden, 82, spent millions of US dollars 'making mice transgender'.
The official document began by stating, 'The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual)', before accusing Biden of having spent 'taxpayer-funded grants' on the alleged projects.
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The press release then included a number of bullet-points in the form of a bill, claiming to have weighed up what Biden spent on investigations into the biology of being transgender.
It claims Biden spent '$2,500,000' on 'Reproductive Consequences of Steroid Hormone Administration', '$299,940' on 'Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes', and '$1,200,000' on 'Androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis'.
It isn't just the contents of the release that has seemingly left millions of readers perplexed, however - but the type of language used.
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Taking to social media, one critic of the Republican administration poked fun at Trump, asking on Twitter: "Does a middle schooler run the White House website?"
Another admitted: "Never have I ever read such an atrociously unprofessional sentence.
"Not even feigning professionalism or unbiased at this point," they added.
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Historian and propaganda analyst Ian Garner has since told Metro that the lingo used in Trump's latest release is indicative of the 'boundaries between institutions and politicians' 'completely collapsing'.
"It’s fairly well-established fact by academic research that when the state starts to talk in a particular kind of language, ordinary citizens start to talk in that language too," Garner told the publication of Trump's new message.
"People at the 'top' start to talk in this language too, often to the point where they can’t tell the difference between their 'real language' and the language of the state.
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"You name the state, the more control the state has, the more the state can barrage people with this kind of language, the more it changes the way that citizens begin to frame their own perceptions as well," Garner went on to warn.
"This sort of language sounds as if it could have come from one of Trump’s own social media posts – and it will become more and more normal.
"We’re seeing it from the press officers, other politicians."
Emphasising that 'reality is shaped by that language, the historian admitted he believes 'we're in for quite a wild ride' as Trump continues into his four-year Oval Office stint.
Topics: Donald Trump, US News, News, World News, Politics
Rhianna Benson