Donald Trump took to Twitter last night to defend his use of the word “schlonged” when talking about Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2008 election to President Barack Obama. The billionaire business mogul insisted that it had no sexual connotations and that the media doesn’t know the definition of the word.
Back on Monday, Trump noted how the former secretary of state was favored to beat Obama, but she ended up losing.
“I don’t know who would be worse, I don’t know. How does it get worse? But she was gonna beat — she was favored to win — and she got schlonged. She lost,” Trump said.
Trump explained that he was only talking about Clinton getting beat and didn’t mean anything vulgar. He blasted the “biased media” for “incorrectly” defining a word for the public.
Trump has used the term before, as the Washington Post, and in the same way. He used it to describe how a female Republican Representative candidate lost to a Democrat.
“I watched a popular Republican woman [Jane Corwin] not only lose but get schlonged by a Democrat [Kathy Hochul] nobody ever heard of for the congressional seat and that was because, simply, because of the Paul Ryan plan,” Trump told the Washington Post in 2011.
The word “schlong” is considered a vulgar term for a man’s penis and has its roots in Yiddish and Middle High German, according to the Oxford Dictionaries.