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Trump sounding coarse (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rough

'coarse' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'trump sounding' is the wordplay.
'trump' becomes 'ruff' (synonyms).
'sounding' shows a homophone (sound like).
'ruff' sounds like 'ROUGH'.

(Other definitions for rough that I've seen before include "Delinquent" , "Hooligan - lacking refinement" , "Not smooth, even or regular" , "Unpolished" , "Hard - coarse - inexact" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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