How Trump uses verbs to evade responsibility. Plus: Pope Leo XIV’s first Easter

Simon Brooke and Emma Nelson unpack how US president Donald Trump uses language to his advantage. Plus: the founder of chocolatier Plaq, Kitkat’s creative response to a PR disaster and Pope Leo XIV’s first Easter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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