Isn’t It Ironic?

Donald Trump gave his first speech at the United Nations.

Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.

Henry Watson Fowler, in The King’s English, says, “any definition of irony—though hundreds might be given, and very few of them would be accepted—must include this, that the surface meaning and the underlying meaning of what is said are not the same.”

Also, Eric Partridge, in Usage and Abusage, writes that “Irony consists in stating the contrary of...