{"id":39865,"date":"2025-06-12T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/donald-trump-is-the-lord-of-the-edgelords-letters-7\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:04:48","slug":"donald-trump-is-the-lord-of-the-edgelords-letters-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/donald-trump-is-the-lord-of-the-edgelords-letters-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is the lord of the edgelords | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word edgelord may have been unfamiliar to Adrian Chiles \u2013 but <strong>Anthony Lawton<\/strong> says we\u2019re all victims of the online provocateurs, one of them in particular <\/p>\n<p>Adrian Chiles (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jun\/04\/ive-learned-a-new-word-and-now-im-seeing-the-people-it-describes-everywhere\">Opinion, 4 June<\/a>) has just discovered the word edgelord \u2013 a term that was new to me too \u2013 and now he sees it everywhere. He\u2019s not wrong: it\u2019s rife on social media, in podcasts and in YouTube\u00a0comments. But how did\u00a0he overlook the edgelord-in-chief himself?<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is the archetypal edgelord: endlessly provocative, chronically online, allergic to truth and addicted to the attention his outrage generates. He didn\u2019t just dabble in edgelordery for clicks \u2013 he built his own social media megaphone to broadcast it. It\u2019s as if\u00a0Truth Social had been handed the\u00a0nuclear codes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/11\/donald-trump-is-the-lord-of-the-edgelords\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word edgelord may have been unfamiliar to Adrian Chiles \u2013 but Anthony Lawton says we\u2019re all victims of the online provocateurs, one of them in particular Adrian Chiles (Opinion, 4 June) has just discovered the word edgelord \u2013 a term that was new to me too \u2013 and now he sees it everywhere. He\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}