Note: This article contains spoilers for the first season of the Apple TV series, Pluribus.

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“They said, ‘Skeddadle!’ The word ‘skedaddle.’” Last November, during his address before McDonald’s investors, President Donald Trump—as he is wont to do during public speeches—went on one of his ...