Donald Trump has a lot of trouble with Words. Especially with Use, Meanings, Understanding. This is one of them.
According to the Merrium-Webster dictionary, the noun “sacrifice” most commonly means
the act of giving up something that you want to keep, especially in order to get or do something else, or to help someone
Examples in the M-W definition include the “supreme sacrifice” of dying for one’s country. When I think of the supreme sacrifice I think of the Biblical “no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” That is the soldier’s sacrifice, laying down one’s life not just for one’s friends and family but for “country”— dying for an ideal, a concept, bigger than self — and for strangers, the greatest sacrifice, true of all who die in battle.
“Sacrifice” implies a “loss” of something of value, of something precious or treasured or loved. When a soldier sacrifices his life, his family sacrifices it too. And not just his friends, family, community and country experience that loss. The Future also experiences that loss.
“Sacrifice” means LOSS.
It simply does NOT include making money, working hard, providing jobs (with or without paying those who do those jobs), being on reality TV, running for president, or anything else Donald Trump has ever done. Sorry, Donald, but sacrificing two wives to your ego is not a real sacrifice; and going to work when you’d rather be golfing is also not a real sacrifice.
Even our children know the difference between making money (even if it takes work) and making sacrifices.
The problem is, the GOP candidate for president of the United States does NOT know! WHEN are GOP politicians and voters and media going to begin to admit that this is a problem?