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Transparent: A Word

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Roy Blount Jr
Jul 30, 2026
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People on Fox or in the White House keep saying Trump is “the most transparent president in history.” Not just gossamer, or sheer, or gauzy, or pellucid, but “transparent.”

True enough. But don’t these people know what the word transparent means?

Transparent means easy to see through.

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