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Donald Trump takes credit for inventing common word that's been used in sport for years

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Updated 14:14 13 May 2025 GMT+1Published 14:12 13 May 2025 GMT+1

Donald Trump takes credit for inventing common word that's been used in sport for years

The word is commonly used in sport.

Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar

Featured Image Credit: Getty

Topics: Donald Trump

Nasir Jabbar
Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar is a journalist at SPORTbible. He graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA in Media Communications. He's a combat sport aficionado and has contributed to MMA websites AddictedMMA and CagePotato. Nasir has covered some of the biggest fights, while interviewing the likes of Conor McGregor, Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Darren Till. He's also an avid Bristol City fan.

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Donald Trump has bizarrely taken credit for inventing a common word that has been used in sport for many years.

On Monday, Trump claimed he invented a 'new word' while talking about his proposal to lower drug prices by 80 per cent, having issued a criteria that could overturn Russia's 2026 World Cup ban.

As the US president signed a new order to regulate the prices of drugs, he told reporters at a White House press conference: "The rest of the world is going to have to pay a bit more, and America's going to pay a lot less. Again, because it is a smaller population than when you think of the whole world."

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Trump added: "So basically what we are doing is equalising. It's a new word that I came up with, which I think is probably the best word. We're gonna equalise. We're all gonna pay the same. We're gonna pay what Europe's gonna pay."

Despite what Trump said, Webster's dictionary says that the word actually dates back to - wait for it... 1599.

Of course, the word 'equalise' has been used in sport for years, with the term commonly used in football (soccer for Trump).

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It refers to levelling the score in a game by scoring a goal. Basically, making the two teams' scores equal.

Mikel Merino scored an equaliser for Arsenal against Liverpool. Image: Getty
Mikel Merino scored an equaliser for Arsenal against Liverpool. Image: Getty

For example, Arsenal's Mikel Merino scored against Liverpool to equalise in Sunday's Premier League fixture at Anfield, which ended 2-2.

Facundo Buonanotte also equalised as he scored for Leicester City to level proceedings with Nottingham Forest last Sunday.

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Trump, meanwhile, signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription of drugs in the US or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay.

The order calls on the health department to broker new price tags over the next month.

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