Fulminate:
v. ful·mi·nat·ed, ful·mi·nat·ing, ful·mi·nates
v.intr.
- To issue a thunderous verbal attack or denunciation: fulminated against political chicanery.
- To explode or detonate. [The Free Dictionary]
Noted in “Trump & Co. engineered the pullout from Afghanistan. Now they criticize it,” Max Boot, WaPo:
As recently as July, [Trump’s Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo was eager to “applaud” the [American withdrawal from Afghanistan], saying he wanted “the Afghans to take up the fight for themselves.” On Sunday, by contrast, he was fulminating that “weak American leadership always harms American security.” He went on to ludicrously accuse the Biden administration of being “focused on critical race theory while the embassy is at risk.”
Boot himself rather blew it in a later column, however. I chose not to critique it as it was several days out of date by the time I read it, and it seemed unfair.
