THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL POST, IT'S A LINGUISTICS POST

Just wanted to clear some confusion about the use of the word "Literally", mostly by millenials it seems.

The word is defined as : ‘in a literal sense, as opposed to a non-literal, figurative or exaggerated sense’.

Literally literally means "to the letter" if you refer to it's latin root "litter".

For example, I've heard several people say  "Trump is literally Hitler" or "Trump is literally a clown". Both statements are false. Only one person in the history of mankind could be literally Hitler and he's dead. As for the clown thing, unless I misread or skipped parts of Mr. Trump's biography, I don't think he ever was literally a clown. He was however, elected democratically as the 45th President of the United States early on November 9th 2016. So the statement "Trump is literally the President" would be accurate.