[Hostage]

Such terms are appropriately described as “colloquial”. There is no need for precise phrasing because the President was messaging the public in colloquial terms that everyone could understand.

[shanover]

There is no need for precise phrasing because the President was messaging the public in colloquial terms that everyone could understand.

It is all a game to the left to confuse and obfuscate issues for dumb-downed sheeple. There are countless words and phraseology in use today such as "wiretap" that are outdated yet understood in the modern sense.