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YOUR GUIDE TO POLITICAL METAPHORS USED IN AMERICAN MEDIA – ANDREW J. GALLAGHER, PH.D. This week we learned in the news that Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, may be leaving by the end of the year.  His departure would be one in a long series of Trump advisors resigning or being forced out of office in the past two years, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, EPA director Scott Pruitt, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and many more.  I have noticed that there is a wide variety of metaphors used to antique cabinet at the Palace of Versailles in Paris Before we get to the metaphors, first a word about the word their meals.  This is an example of synecdoche (sih-NECK-duh-key) in which a part of something refers to the whole.  Moreover, the word trustees.   The table where the experts met came to refer to the group of people who met there. Back to the metaphors, we find that the process of people being hired and then fired in Donald Trump’s cabinet are described in terms a colorful variety of metaphors.  Of course, changes in a president’s cabinet are not unusual. All presidents have had advisors come and go.  However, President Trump has had an unusually large number of cabinet members resign or be fired.  The metaphors listed below are all “ripped from the headlines.”  The source of each quotation is provided, linked to the word “example” at the beginning of each First of all, there are several metaphors used to describe the confusion that occurs when cabinet members are fired.  One way to abstract concept of movement in a process is often compared to the physical movement of objects. The confusing process may also be We also find many examples of metaphors being used for the actual process of leaving.  In some instances, we see neutral metaphors such other more active metaphors being used, suggesting the use of physical force to move the person.  For example, perhaps the most common