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It's Like a Cancer

Definition

A July 2026 Independence Day speech line — "It's like a cancer. You've got to cut it out." — applied not to an actual tumor but to political opponents, because nothing says "unifying national holiday address" like comparing fellow citizens to a terminal illness. The medical metaphor was, notably, the good doctor's entire differential diagnosis.

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