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Etymology

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From bleach +‎ -gate.

Proper noun

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Bleachgate

  1. A 2020 controversy where then-president Donald Trump suggested drinking bleach as a way to cure COVID-19.
    • 2020 April 29, Matthew Walther, “Bleachgate is the archetype of a Trump media cycle”, in The Week[1]:
      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.