Meanings
proper noun
- A 2020 controversy where then-president Donald Trump suggested drinking bleach as a way to cure COVID-19.
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.
2020 April 29, Matthew Walther, “Bleachgate is the archetype of a Trump media cycle”, in The Week
Origin
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APA
Bleachgate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bleachgate
MLA
“Bleachgate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bleachgate. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bleachgate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bleachgate.
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