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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trump https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trump "(transitive) To supersede. In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues." In other words, concerns about the environment trump concerns about actual human harm, at least according to mainstream environmentalists.