street money

Mr Davis: Would it be feasible to use the taxpayers['] money without any checking as you're talking about here for what is commonly known as walk-around money or street money? Because under the FEC, that is now legal...
Mr Lott: ... I guess since walk-around money is now considered legal, I guess th[e]y could use that. Some States do rely very heavily on walk-around money in their primaries and general elections as the record will show.

1979, “Statement of Hon. Trent Lott...”, in Hearings before the Committee on House Administration ... on H.R. 1 and Related Legislation, page 264:

walk-around money
walk-around money#English

(US politics, colloquial) Synonym of walk-around money.


Obomber

This was definitely staged event intended
to show how caring Obomber is..

2013 October 25, seth...@aol.com, “Re: Phony business: Obama's fainting woman a hoax”, in independent-progressives (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, US politics) An epithet of Barack Obama.


Black Panther

For example, does that huge Black Panther there in the hallway, the one shaking hands with Felicia Bernstein herself, the one with the black leather coat and the dark glasses and the absolutely unbelievable Afro, Fuzzy Wuzzy-scale in fact—is he, a Black Panther, going on to pick up a Roquefort cheese morsel rolled in crushed nuts from off the tray, from a maid in uniform, and just pop it down the gullet without so much as missing a beat of Felicia's perfect Mary Astor voice. . . .

1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:

(US politics, historical) A member of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982.


pool spray

When we are not holding we are most likely "rolling"—hustling to get on a bus to go to things like a "bilat pool spray" (a photo-op of a bilateral meeting between the president and some world leader).

2002 July 2, Martha Brant, “West Wing Story: Pool-Duty Survival Kit”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2015-03-04:

Pool spray is the term for an event where a representative pool of journalists is brought in to record the president meeting with a foreign leader or discussing a policy initiative.

[2010 February 4, Peter Baker, “Few News Conferences, but Still Taking Questions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

First comes the “pool spray,” where the two leaders exchange pleasantries before the cameras.

2010 November 13, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Reporter’s Notebook: Heartfelt Moments on an Up-and-Down Global Trip”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-03-04:

At an international summit […] [t]he press is let in only for a few moments at the beginning or the end in what is known as a "pool spray." Sometimes the world leaders say a few words; other times, they pretend not to notice the reporters and keep interacting in a stilted way.

2014 November 16, David Nakamura, “Watch: President Obama reacts to media scrum in Brisbane”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-03-04:

(US politics, journalism) An event in which photographers and other members of the news media are allowed to visit briefly with the US President or other top US government officials, especially on the occasion of a meeting with leaders or high-level officials from other countries.


post-Gregg

(US politics) Subsequent to Gregg v. Georgia, a 1976 legal case that reaffirmed the United States Supreme Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States.


pre-Furman

(US politics) Prior to Furman v. Georgia, a 1972 legal case that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty, leading to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States until 1976.


Bull Moose

Journalists quoted Roosevelt saying "I feel like a bull moose" shortly after the new party was formed.

(historical) A member of the Progressive Party (United States, 1912), an American political party formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt after a split in the Republican Party.


Bull Moose

A township in Cass County, Minnesota, United States, named after the Bull Moose Party.


Reagan Democrat

en-noun

Reagan Democrat (plural Reagan Democrats)

Undoubtedly, there were some who thought that the party, once defined and consolidated, would appeal to “Reagan Democrats,” but there were also many who thought that the liberal groups dominating the party could easily splinter into diverse interest groups if not afforded the opportunity to come together as one.

2020, Theodore F. Sheckels, The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948–2016, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 103:

(US politics, historical) A moderate and conservative Democrat, in the south and midwest, many of whom had previously supported conservative Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace for President of the USA, who supported the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984.


Barnburner

(historical, US politics, slang) A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, around the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848.


CNN

Clinton News Network
Clinton News Network#English

(humorous, derogatory, US politics) Initialism of Clinton News Network.


freedom toast

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-freedom toast.wav

Anyways I guess I got to get the french out of my system before I go through immigration. From now on it's all freedom fries, freedom toast, freedom dressing, and Freedom's Mustard.

2004 October 15, Jeffrey Miller, “From French flies to freedom fries in the Bush league”, in The Lawyers Weekly:

Upset by the failure of the French government to support the war, however, the chairman of the House Administration Committee announced on March 11 that he had ordered “French toast” and “French fries” stricken from the menu of the House cafeteria. In their place would be “freedom toast” and “freedom fries.”

2006, Andrew Rudalevige, The New Imperial Presidency, page 3:

(rare, US politics, food, sometimes humorous) Synonym of French toast


freedom bread

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-freedom bread.wav

Well, pardon our ... uh ... freedom, but if we're dropping the name of a certain country from our vocabulary, we can't stop there.
Menus will have to be rewritten to include the following items: Freedom onion soup, Freedom pastries, Freedom bread, Freedom rolls, Freedom dressing, Freedom dip sandwiches, Freedom roast coffee and Freedom vanilla ice cream.

2003 March 19, Entertainment team, “Why stop there? Being mad at the French means renaming more than just fries”, in Daily Press, Newport News, VA, page D1:

Add remaining ingredients and stir. Cover and cook for 5 minutes. Taste and revise if necessary. Served with French or freedom bread, whichever is available.

2004 August 11, “Chef Todd Misener began his career as a dishwasher”, in Northwest Florida Daily News, page D5:

(US politics, humorous, rare) Synonym of French bread


workie

From work (noun) + -ie (suffix forming colloquial nouns denoting persons associated with the words to which they are affixed). Sense 1 (“intern”) alludes to work experience.

affix

(US politics, historical) Chiefly in the form Workie: a member or supporter of a Working Men's (or Workingmen's) Party, one of a number of political parties established in the United States in the early 19th century to further working class interests.


Weinergate

The now familiar story not only didn't go away, mainly because it was true, but it also morphed into what came to be called Weinergate, cashing in on the congressman's most unfortunate surname.

2015, Mark Y. Herring, Social Media and the Good Life: Do They Connect?, page 30:

(US politics, slang) A sexting scandal of 2011, involving US politician Anthony Weiner.


MTG

Marjorie Taylor Greene
w:Marjorie Taylor Greene

(politics, US politics) Initialism of Marjorie Taylor Greene.


precinct money

It also puts up what it calls precinct money, the small bankroll a worker carries and spends on election day and the few days before.

1976, William Allison Shimer, American Scholar, page 356:

Without the precinct money, you don't have poll-watchers and they can get away with anything.

(US politics, colloquial) Money paid to voting precinct leaders for get out the vote efforts, sometimes corruptly.


walk-around money

The brief order issued late yesterday clears the way for candidates and their committees, as soon as Tuesday's city elections in Baltimore, to pay so-called walk-around money to people hired for the day to distribute campaign literature.

2003 Sept. 5, Walter F. Roche Jr., "Paying of Election Day Workers OK'd" in The Baltimore Sun

Parker: I'll tell you what I would like: another 75 in cash for walk-around money.
Royce: 75, hm? Call another game.

2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:31:23

Loser's Town, the outsiders said. Washington had power. Baltimore's politics was based on election-day walk-around money, handed over with a sly wink by the precinct bosses, ensuring everybody got out the neighborhood vote.

2008, Michael Olesker, The Colts' Baltimore, page 6:

(US politics, especially Baltimore, colloquial) Money from a political campaign for use ensuring supporters bring voters to the polls, both for legitimate get out the vote efforts and political corruption.


Obamacan

“About twice as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Obama, and about three times as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Clinton,” Rove said. “The media is all wired up about these ‘Obamacans’ … but the real story of this election is the ‘McCainocrats.’ ”

2008 April 21, John Heilemann, “Is John McCain Bob Dole?”, in New York:

However, it became increasingly bleak for Senator McCain's campaign as many of Senator Obama's endorsements came from "Obamacans."

2010, Clinton L. Sprauve, All Hail the "Messiah": Why Fox News Channel and the Conservative Clan Couldn't Crucify Him!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 49–50:

To my knowledge, there were no “Obamacans” in my family; all of the Republicans were sticking with Senator John McCain.

2012, Joan Walsh, What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was, John Walsh, →ISBN:

(US politics, slang) A member of the U.S. Republican Party who supports or supported the election of Barack Obama as president.


Obamacon

Kmiec has drawn attention because he is one of the nation's leading "Obamacons," conservatives who find Obama's call for a new approach to politics appealing.

2008 June 3, E. J. Dionne Jr., “For an 'Obamacon,' Communion Denied”, in The Washington Post:

The rise of the Obamacons is more than a reaction against Mr Bush's remodelling of the Republican Party and Mr McCain's desperation: there were plenty of disillusioned Republicans in 2004 who did not warm to John Kerry.

2008 October 23, “The rise of the Obamacons”, in The Economist:

Even New York Times Obamacon David Brooks acknowledged ObamaCare was "stuffed. . . .with gimmicks and dodges designed to get a good score from the Congressional Budget Office but don't genuinely control runaway spending."

2010, David Limbaugh, Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama, Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 69:

(US, politics, slang) A conservative (especially a Republican) who supports or supported the election of Barack Obama as president.


cuckservative

Blend of cuck + conservative. A neologism created by Internet users.

Use of the cuckservative hashtag peaked toward the end of last month, when it was used more than 5,000 times in one day, according to data from Topsy, a social media analytics tool.

2015 August 13, Alan Rappeport, “From the Right, a New Slur for G.O.P. Candidates”, in The New York Times:

Her shtick has always involved cultivating an extreme online persona, and lately that seems to mean deliberately stoking the cuckservative-obsessed crowd, only to distance herself ever-so-slightly when the Twitter fur flies.

2015 September 18, David French, “‘Cuckservative’ Has Got to Go”, in National Review, retrieved 2022-02-10:

“Hey Reddit, I’m Corey Stewart. Republican Candidate for Governor of Virginia and former State Chair for Donald Trump for President,” he began. “The primary election is June 13th. I am opposing the establishment's handpicked candidate, former Bush guy, RNC chairman, and cuckservative, Ed Gillespie.”

2017 March 24, Laura Vozzella, “GOP Chair Slams Va. Gubernatorial Contender for Calling Rival a ‘Cuckservative’”, in The Washington Post:

Nothing captured the alt-right mentality better than cuckservative, with its taunt that moderation is unmanly and certain conservative males are cuckolds.

[2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 2022-02-10:

(US politics, slang, derogatory, neologism, politics) A weak-willed political conservative politician who is willing to capitulate to other political stances.


hopenosis

Blend of hope + hypnosis, in reference to the Barack Obama "Hope" poster.

But what should the Obama Cult do now? The man has turned off the switch on the "Hopenosis" and has revealed the "Change Brigade" for the useful idiots they were.

2009 January 22, Alex Knepper, “Obama's cabinet appointments contradict with message”, in The Mirror (Fairfield University), volume 34, number 15, page 3:

they've all by ^([sic]) hopenotized by the hopenosis of the obamanation.

2009 February 27, AllEmailDeletedImmediately [username], “Re: What's Up With Food Prices?”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, rare, derogatory) Credulous political enthusiasm for Barack Obama.


Lügenpresse

From German Lügenpresse (“lying press”).

When a video of two Donald Trump supporters shouting “Lügenpresse” (lying press) started to circulate Sunday, viewers from Germany soon noted its explosive nature. The defamatory word was most frequently used in Nazi Germany.

[2016 October 24, Rick Noack, “The ugly history of ‘Lügenpresse,’ a Nazi slur shouted at a Trump rally”, in Washington Post, →ISSN:

(US politics, derogatory) lamestream media


porkmeister

Representative Young is the porkmeister who championed the notorious Bridge to Nowhere.

2008 April 21, “The Road to Somewhere Shady”, in New York Times:

(US politics, informal) A politician involved in "pork barrel" politics, using central funds for regional projects designed to appeal to voters.


republicà

ca-adj

republicà (feminine republicana, masculine plural republicans, feminine plural republicanes)

republicana (feminine)
republicans (masculine plural)
republicanes (feminine plural)


republicà

ca-noun

republicà m (plural republicans, feminine republicana)

republicans (plural)
republicana (feminine)


third partier

(US politics) A member or supporter of a third party.


Liberal Republican

en-noun

Liberal Republican (plural Liberal Republicans)

(US politics, dated) A member of the Liberal Republican Party, a third way party that existed briefly in the 1870s.


Sanderista

From Sanders + -ista. Blend of Sanders + Sandinista. Coined in reference to the Sandinistas.

7/83 Space Wars; Micronesia vs. nukes; Green Party & Sanderistas; also Spring Books Pt. 2

1983, WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Non-violent Action, volume 19, Workshop in Nonviolence Institute, page 38:

A special approach of the Sanderista coalition has been to mobilize this complex of popular groups into an independent political force.

In other cases, groups fostered the creation of current organizations and movements, for example, PACT (tenants' rights) in Burlington, Vermont, laid the groundwork for the Sanderistas.

2012, Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism, page 152:

Call it what you will—a Sanderista cult, a brand, a following—Vermonters responded to Sanders.

2015, Harry Jaffe, Why Bernie Sanders Matters:

During the war that continued for the rest of the 1980s, Burlington's Progressives identified strongly with the FSLN, to the point of earning for themselves the nickname "Sanderistas."

2015, Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin, page 223:

(US politics, colloquial) A supporter of Bernie Sanders or his political philosophy.


Trumpism

What is Trumpism? Or, to put it more tartly, is there a coherent political philosophy underlying his candidacy?...There can be Reaganism without Reagan. There can be no Trumpism without Trump...Trumpism is not so much a theory of government as a celebration of one individual's claimed capacity to govern.

2015 August 25, Ruth Marcus, “A look inside Trump's political philosophy”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, retrieved 2022-10-02:

Given Latin America's right-wing turn’s affinities with Trumpism, it is tempting to see it as part of the global wave of right-wing populism making its way through the United States and Western Europe.

2018 April 16, Omar G. Encarnación, “The Trumpification of the Latin American Right”, in Foreign Policy:

In fact, when you review the history of Republican climate denial, it looks a lot like Trumpism.

2018 December 3, Paul Krugman, “Climate Denial Was the Crucible for Trumpism”, in New York Times:

A mixture of isolationism, cronyism, nativist rhetoric, somewhat performative authoritarianism, corporate tax cuts and personality cult, Trumpism is what the president says it is.

2020 November 5, “Trump and Trumpism”, in The Economist, →ISSN, retrieved 2022-10-02:

Few are predicting an end to global Trumpism, the nation-first, people-dividing style of governance with a hint of authoritarianism that began to gain traction in Europe and Asia well before Trump's 2016 election.

2020 November 8, “The world's populists are losing their White House ally, but global Trumpism is far from over”, in The Washington Post:

Why Trumpism will endure...Trumpism was a long time coming, and it will be a long time going...The durability of Trump and Trumpism is bringing into harsh relief many of the deeper flaws in the U.S. political system...Emerging class differences had just as much to do with today’s political polarization as race did, and this also helps to explain the continuing populist appeal of Trumpism.

2022 September 4, Michael Hirsh, “Why Trumpism Will Endure”, in Foreign Policy, retrieved 2022-10-02:

The philosophy and politics espoused by Donald Trump.

تِرَمْبِيَّةٌ

the philosophy and politics espoused by Donald Trump


Donald Trumpish

en-adj

Donald Trumpish (comparative more Donald Trumpish, superlative most Donald Trumpish)

more Donald Trumpish (comparative)
most Donald Trumpish (superlative)


Trumpish

Trumpish (comparative more Trumpish, superlative most Trumpish)

more Trumpish (comparative)
most Trumpish (superlative)

Similar to Donald Trump in action, speech, or style.


Donald Trumpesque

Donald Trumpesque (comparative more Donald Trumpesque, superlative most Donald Trumpesque)

more Donald Trumpesque (comparative)
most Donald Trumpesque (superlative)


Trumpesque

Trumpesque (comparative more Trumpesque, superlative most Trumpesque)

more Trumpesque (comparative)
most Trumpesque (superlative)

The day before Trump was presented as an egg on legs in the New York Post, the paper celebrated the re-election of Ron DeSantis, the Trump-esque Florida governor rumored to be planning a presidential run, with a front page which declared him “DeFuture”.

2022 November 10, Adam Gabbatt, “Has ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ taken a great fall from Rupert Murdoch’s grace?”, in The Guardian:


Donald Trumpian

Donald Trumpian (comparative more Donald Trumpian, superlative most Donald Trumpian)

more Donald Trumpian (comparative)
most Donald Trumpian (superlative)

Unfortunately, frequent heartburn is a common occurrence during many pregnancies, not just for moms who give birth to babies with Donald Trumpian locks.

2006, Carley Roney, The Nest Newlywed Handbook: An Owner's Manual for Modern Married Life, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 212:

A middle-aged man with a Donald Trumpian comb-over sat at the curb in an expensive Lexus.

2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 106:


Adamsite

(US politics, historical) A supporter of John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), American statesman who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829.


Trumpist

The centrão secured the firing of the Trumpist foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo, for his failure to buy vaccines;

2021 April 10, “Brazil’s army is trying to distance itself from Jair Bolsonaro”, in The Economist:

[...] people dressed in Trumpist apparel, waving Trump flags, and chanting Trumpist slogans stormed the Capitol building.

2023 May 23, Nathan L. King, Keith D. Wyma, “Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, and Intellectual Character”, in Michael W. Austin, Gregory L. Bock, editors, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

Not every right-wing judge is as blatantly ideological in their decision making as Kacsmaryk, nor is every Republican appointee a Trumpist zealot.

2024 [2023 December 5], Adam Serwer, “A MAGA Judiciary”, in The Atlantic, volume 333, number 1, →ISSN, page 41:

(politics) Pertaining to or resembling characteristics of Trumpism. Synonym of Trumpian.


Trumpist

(US politics) An admirer or fan of Donald Trump.

2016 November 18, “Neil Woodford: right-wing Trumpists could topple euro”, in CityWire (UK):

He [Scott Morrison] remains afraid of the far-right extremist fringe dwellers who make up the bedrock of his personal support and who he cultivates through the avatars of Trumpists and conspiracy theorists like Craig Kelly and George Christensen.

2021 April 10, “'PM afraid of the far-right extremists, Trumpists and conspiracy theorists': Albanese”, in Sky News Australia:

(politics) A person exhibiting characteristics of Trumpism.


Trumpist

de-noun

Trumpist m (weak, genitive Trumpisten, plural Trumpisten, feminine Trumpistin)

Trumpisten (genitive)
Trumpisten (plural)
Trumpistin (feminine)
Trumpist (nominative singular)
Trumpisten (definite nominative plural)
Trumpisten (genitive singular)
Trumpisten (definite genitive plural)
Trumpisten (dative singular)
Trumpisten (dative definite plural)
Trumpisten (accusative singular)
Trumpisten (accusative definite plural)

Trumpist (male or of unspecified gender).


libtardation

(colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Politically liberal thinking.


Bushtard

Notice Bushtards have given up on even trying to defend Bush's intelligence and just resort to mud-slinging? That debate pretty much sealed the deal on his intellectual capabilities.

2004 October 4, Tim Farrow, “Undecided voter?”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

And our life isn't exactly revered by the Bushtards.

2006 September 10, zakintosh, “They're back, with a vengenace!”, in Windmills of My Mind:

The Bushtards have gone to great lengths to change the balance of wealth in this country for a result like this to not be intentional.

2007 March 12, Robert Peard, “The Bushtard War On The Poor: Thousands Lose Medicaide.”, in The Conservatard:

Iran is nothing more than an excuse for the Bushtards to yell for another conquest.

2007 April 3, Chad Bryant, “Iran kidnaps British soldiers... and it's all the US's fault!”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Of course, the corruption and incompetence of Bush does not justify the corruption and incompetence of Obama, but please try to acknowledge the former's failures before ripping into his successor. (This is unnecessary for me, since I freely criticized Bush and called for his impeachment, but you are a Bushtard.)

2013 April 6, Dänk 42Ø, “Re: ANOTHER Green Company Goes Down - Thanks Obama for Wasting Our Money”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

Tomorrow, Donald Trump should win Florida eliminating the last of these Bushtards (Marc-go Rubio) that irritate me so much from consideration for the Republican Party.

2016 March 16, “The Enemy of My Enemy”, in Voltaire Politics:

Liberals knew powell was full of crap WAAAAAY back in 2001, when trumptards like bigdog were bushtards and wetting their diapers over every word that came out of the texas tard's warmongering ass.

2021 October 19, Molly Bolt, “RINO Colin Powell kicks the bucket”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory) A supporter of George W. Bush.


Tealiban

2013 October 20, Abraham Todd, “Re: The same business interests who created the Tealiban to fight against Obama the Socialist are now lining up to destroy the Tealiban”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet):

2013 October 24, Kickin' Ass, Takin' Names, “No doubt about it -- the Tealiban and GOTP are a resurrected Confederacy, complete with return to slavery”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

2013 November 7, Claudette Latosha Duffy, “Re:Tealiban loser in Alabama shows how not to give a concession speech . . . at the same time, shows how and why the Tealiban loses”, in alt.politics.democrat (Usenet):

The American Tealiban will make sure that Sharia, erm, Biblical law governs us again, and we will keep our military as strong as possible so we can go on Crusades against the infidels in Muslim lands, and we will, naturally, liberate the Holy Land from the nasty Muslims (and maybe the dirty Jews, as long as we're there anyway).

2014 July 2, Tom McDonald, “Re: IRS caught LYING”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

(derogatory) The Tea Party party movement in twenty-first-century American politics, when considered to be a conservative religious movement similar to the Taliban.


特朗普

/tʰɤ⁵¹ lɑŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tɐk̚² lɔːŋ¹³ pʰou̯³⁵/

/tʰɤ⁵¹ lɑŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tɐk̚² lɔːŋ¹³ pʰou̯³⁵/

A transliteration of the English surname Trump


川普

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ pʰou̯³⁵/

/t͡sʰuaŋ³³⁻²³ pʰou⁵²/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ pʰou̯³⁵/

/t͡sʰuaŋ³³⁻²³ pʰou⁵²/

Donald Trump, male, born on June 14 1946, (lives in) 725 Fifth Avenue, NYC

2015 May 18, 北京市高级人民法院 (Beijing Intermediate People's Court), 唐纳·川普与中华人民共和国国家工商行政管理总局商标评审委员会其他二审行政判决书

Tángnà Chuānpǔ, nán, 1946 nián 6 yuè 14 rì chūshēng, Niǔyuē Shì Dì-Wǔ Dàdào 725 hào.

唐納·川普，男，1946年6月14日出生，紐約市第五大道725號。

唐纳·川普，男，1946年6月14日出生，纽约市第五大道725号。


(US politics, slang) Joe Biden, as the forty-sixth president of the United States.


Fox Newsian

en-adj

Fox Newsian (comparative more Fox Newsian, superlative most Fox Newsian)

more Fox Newsian (comparative)
most Fox Newsian (superlative)

Despite being a raging liberal, he was always mindful of my pretention-fueled, Fox Newsian conservatism.

2014, Amy D. Brooks, My Name is Amelia, and I'm a Sociopath, page 15:


Obamabot

(US politics, derogatory or humorous) A supporter of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

(US politics, derogatory or humorous) A person paid to post pro-Obama articles on the Internet.


Tea Partier

(US politics) A supporter of the Tea Party political movement.


Johnsonism

en-noun

Johnsonism (countable and uncountable, plural Johnsonisms)

(US politics) The ideology, doctrine and practice of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.


LNC

Libertarian National Committee
w:Libertarian National Committee

(US politics) Initialism of Libertarian National Committee.


LNC

Libertarian National Convention
w:Libertarian National Convention

(US politics) Initialism of Libertarian National Convention.


RNC

As RNC chair, Priebus said, he speaks “every day” with Trump.

2016 August 28, Tom McCarthy, quoting Reince Priebus, “Reince Priebus on Trump campaign hires: ‘I go with the flow’”, in The Guardian:

Republican National Committee
w:Republican National Committee

(US politics) Initialism of Republican National Committee.


RNC

Coordinate term: DNC

Republican National Convention
w:Republican National Convention

(US politics) Initialism of Republican National Convention.


Porkulus

Blend of pork + stimulus, coined by Rush Limbaugh in January 2009. See pork barrel (“local or regional state funds”).

(US politics, informal, derogatory) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.


Trumponomics

The managerial precepts popularized by Donald Trump in the mid-2000s (decade) in his books and reality TV shows

Sure, the guy is by far the biggest employer and financial force in Atlantic City and southern New Jersey and Trumponomics is a major concern to the city and the region.

1990 April 9, Martin DeAngelis, “Don't Worry About Donald Trump's Money; Worry About Your Own”, in The Press of Atlantic City:

2005, November 14, Mary Umberger, "Trumponomics 101", Houston Chronicle

While Trump has not provided specifics much beyond the 'Make America Great Again' slogan featured on his often-present baseball cap, strands of Trumponomics have trickled out amid the stream of braggadocio and ad-hominem attacks on his critics.

2015 August 17, “Donald Trump's Economic Muddle”, in Qatar Tribune:

The trouble is, the choice is a dismal one. If you think Corbynomics is wacky, take a look at Trumponomics.

2015, December 15, Matthew Lynn, "Whoever wins the US presidency, the economy is going to be the loser", The Daily Telegraph

ONE of The Donald's trump cards, if you will forgive the pun, is the economy - what he calls Trumponomics. In the finest traditions of the Republican Party he would take an axe to tax.

2016, March 4, Chris Roycroft-Davis, "His economic plan could be a trump card for Donald", The Express (London)

Yes, I know there`s a Moody`s study claiming that Trumponomics would be a yuuge job destroyer, but I really don`t know where they got that result; the best guess seems to be that they`re assuming that former spending on imports just goes away, which is not a good assumption.

2016 April 9, awouk [username], “Paul Krugman Blog: Why Cruz Is Worse Than Trump”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

Trumponomics consists of three main elements: big tax cuts that are skewed toward the rich; drastic immigration reform, including the deportation of millions of undocumented workers; and protectionist measures, like hefty tariffs on goods from China and Mexico.

2016 June 21, John Cassidy, “Getting Serious About Trumponomics”, in The New Yorker:

Of course, that’s what they all say. But Trumponomics goes beyond the usual Republican assertions that cutting taxes on corporations and the rich, ending environmental regulation and so on will conjure up the magic of the marketplace and make everyone prosper.

2016 July 4, Paul Krugman, “Trump, Trade and Workers”, in The New York Times:

Just like Teddy Roosevelt before them, Donald J. Trump, Lou Dobbs and other proponents of Trumponomics seem to admire the fierce economic efficiency of Wilhelmine Germany – notably the notion that only the coordinated efforts of a strong, centralized government working hand-in-hand with ‘big business’ can generate trade surpluses over a sustained period.

2017 January 26, M. Nicolas J. Firzli, “'Understanding Trumponomics'”, in Revue Analyse Financière:

The economic ideas and policies of U.S. businessman and president Donald Trump.


Texit

* (Texas): Blend of Texas + exit, modelled after Brexit, Grexit, etc.
* (Tasmania): Blend of Tasmania + exit, modelled after Brexit, Grexit, etc.

(US politics) The proposed secession of Texas from the United States.


Q clearance

(US) A security clearance issued by the United States Department of Energy, allowing access to top-secret material.


GOTV

get out the vote
get out the vote#English

(chiefly US politics) Initialism of get out the vote.


Black Panthers

(US politics) A Black Power political party in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s.


demòcrata

ca-noun

demòcrata m or f by sense (plural demòcrates)


ULP

Settlement of an ULP charge which required the parties to reopen the existing collective bargaining agreement did not remove the collective bargaining agreement as a bar.

1996 May 20, The Judge Advocate General's School, “The Representation Process”, in The Law of Federal Labor-Management Relations, Charlottesville: US Army, JA 211, page 21:

unfair labor practice
unfair labor practice#English

(US politics) Initialism of unfair labor practice.


clown-car primary

en-noun

clown-car primary (plural clown-car primaries)

2016, Joshua Holland, The Nation, "Big GOP Donors Are to Blame for Their Party's Clown-Car Primary"
They can shake their heads over the seething anger in the Republican electorate, but this nasty and never-ending "clown car primary" is a problem of their own creation.

The Republicans held a clown-car primary in 2012 with a dozen debates where their credo of hewing to the party line (more conservative than thou) prevented any candidate from emerging looking presidential.

2015, Michael Page, This Is Your Government On Drugs, Xlibris Corporation, page 282:

2012, Jon Ponder, Pensito Review, Two Months into Republicans' Clown Car Primary, WSJ/NBC Poll Finds Voters Turning against the GOP - Again:

(US politics, chiefly derogatory) A primary election with a large number of serious candidates, usually more than four, making it possible that the winner will have been chosen by only a small portion of the electorate.


Bushie

(US, politics) A political supporter or fan of U.S. President Bush (either Bush 43, or Bush 41, or both Presidents George Bush)


Trumpette

From Trump + -ette. Named after American celebrity, businessman, politician and President Donald Trump

named-after

Toward the end of dinner, my three Trumpettes and I did a "live" iPad interview with Good Morning Great Britain. We enthusiastically told all the Queen's men and women how excited we were and how we knew our man would win.

2019 January 9, Toni Holt Kramer, Unstoppable Me, Dog Ear Publishing, page 360:

Perhaps the Trumpers and Trumpettes should make new hats with MASA — Make America Sick Again.

2020 April 30, Marilyn Sisk, “Sensible steps”, in Traverse City Record Eagle, page 4:

In light of the above, it should be no surprise that white women are the backbone of today’s white nationalist movement. Tradwives, Mommy Vloggers, Trumpettes, and other white women's groups are the hidden movers of today’s white supremacist politics.

2022 May 31, Christina Cavener, “United by White Supremacy: Women's Contributions to a "Whites Only" Citizenship Across the Generations”, in JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, page 98:

(US politics) A female supporter or fan of Donald Trump, especially during his Presidential campaign to become President of the United States of America


jungle primary

en-noun

jungle primary (plural jungle primaries)

(US politics) A primary election in which all candidates run against each other, regardless of political affiliation, with a possible runoff if no candidate wins an absolute majority.


USMJP

(US politics) Abbreviation of United States Marijuana Party.


USMJ

(US politics) Abbreviation of U.S. Marijuana Party.


trumpista

es-noun

trumpista m or f by sense (plural trumpistas)


trumpista

es-adj

trumpista m or f (masculine and feminine plural trumpistas)

Sólo la disonancia cognitiva de la base trumpista le permite ignorar su fraudulencia.

2018, Vicente Fox, Sulay Hernández-Elhussein, Sigamos adelante: Más allá de miedos y falsos profetas, Grijalbo, →ISBN:

Only the cognitive dissonance of the Trumpist base allows them to ignore his fraudulence.


Trumpista

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A Trumpist.


Trumpiness

But if you put all these theories aside, and look instead at his personality, then something different emerges--not Trump, but Trumpiness.

2016, Martin Boroson, “The Rise of Trumpiness”, in Huffington Post:

2016, “The increased Trump-iness of the second debate, in 2 charts”, in Washington Post:

The overwhelming, suffocating, insurmountable Trumpiness may work at some place like Disney World, where the brand stands for decades of family-friendly, unadulterated joy.

2016, Emily Jane Fox, “Trump’S D.C. Hotel is a Frightful Dump — And A Scary Metaphor For The Trump Presidency”, in Vanity Fair:

If there were a cure for Trumpiness, the Koch brothers would be sneaking it into Trump’s soft drinks the way Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agents allegedly sneak polonium-210 into journalists’ cocktails.

2016, Jason Sattler, “Trump finds a foe he can beat in November: Trump”, in Visalia Times-Delta:

(informal) The property of being Trumpy, being like Donald Trump


Trumpy

en-adj

Trumpy (comparative Trumpier, superlative Trumpiest)

Trumpier (comparative)
Trumpiest (superlative)

Trouble was, that made him [Ron DeSantis] too Trumpy for those Republicans eager to move on, and not Trumpy enough for the Maga hardcore.

2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(informal) Characteristic of Donald Trump.

Trump is in trouble. Trumpy Republicans want the real thing, not an imitation. Non-Trumpy Republicans just aren’t impressed.

2023 August 16, Jonathan Rauch, “Why Not Pence?”, in The Atlantic:

The Senate GOP has gotten much Trumpier in the eight years since Mr. Trump first won office.

2024 November 13, Cameron Joseph, “John Thune’s leadership win shows limits of MAGA’s reach in Senate”, in The Christian Science Monitor:


Trumpy

(informal) A political supporter of Donald Trump.


Trumper

Political observers who say that Youngkin was a Never Trumper — proving the viability of that movement — are deluding themselves. He was a Stealth Trumper and Sorta Trumper who took pains not to offend or alienate Forever Trumpers.

2021 November 3, Frank Bruni, “There’s a New Wizard of Oz. It’s Donald Trump.”, in The New York Times:

But it wasn’t just Mr. Thune’s victory but the poor showing by the MAGA favorite in the race that signaled most Senate Republicans are still a breed apart from hardcore Trumpers.

A political supporter of former president and current president-elect Donald Trump or his MAGA movement.


Trumpean

Trumpean (comparative more Trumpean, superlative most Trumpean)

more Trumpean (comparative)
most Trumpean (superlative)


Drumpf

From German Drumpf, an old form of the surname of the Trump family. Coined by British comedian John Oliver in his February 2016 segment "Donald Trump" of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The form has been confirmed by German officials.

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)


Calexit

Blend of California + exit, modelled on earlier Brexit.

(US politics) The (possible) act of California's secession from the United States.


Filegate

(informal) The White House FBI files controversy of the late 1990s.


Travelgate

(informal, US politics) The White House travel office controversy of 1993.


Pardongate

Newly elected Senator Hillary Clinton suddenly found herself caught up in Pardongate's swirl, as prosecutors began reviewing her husband's grant of clemency for four upstate New York rabbis whose village voted for her […]

2004, Carl Limbacher, Hillary's Scheme: Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House:

[…] hearings on Pardongate, Clinton's eleventh-hour clemency spree, were still under way.

2006, Lynn Vincent, Robert Stacy McCain, Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party:

Nicknamed “Elvis,” Clinton is considered a “rock star” by the left wing of the Democratic Party, perhaps because he left the White House in shambles after his presidential tour. Whitewater, Travelgate, Monicagate, and Pardongate […]

2017, BusinessNews Publishing, Summary: The Clinton Crack-Up: Review and Analysis of R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.'s Book:

(informal) The 2001 controversy around Bill Clinton's pardons of 140 people, including Patty Hearst, on his last day in office as President of the United States.


Emailgate

(informal, US politics) A 2015 controversy around Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account and server, in violation of federal security and transparency guidelines.


Debategate

(informal, US politics) A 1980s political scandal affecting the administration of Ronald Reagan, where Reagan's team somehow acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for a debate with Reagan.


Chinagate

(informal, US politics) The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy.


alternative fact

en-noun

alternative fact (plural alternative facts)

This term gained prominence after it was used by Kellyanne Conway in January 2017 and widely repeated in the US media.

They are creating their own facts, but one need not be in Government to create alternative facts.

2017 February 25, R. E. Guyson Mayers, “A GUY"S VIEW: Season of discontent”, in Barbados Advocate:

According to Donald Trump we live in an era of "fake news" where his "alternative facts" should be swallowed whole, and without scrutiny.

2017 March 3, “Private Sydney: Celebrities quick to present their own 'alternative facts'”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Prime ministers have not been immune to spreading alternative facts.

2017 March 3, Chantal Hébert, “It's not just Donald Trump who shifts the truth, Canada's politicians have been using alternative facts for years”, in Toronto Star:

― Secretary: Now, I did not mislead you. That was merely an alternative fact.

2017 May 30, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, iOS, Android, scene: Season 6, Chapter 6:

2018 March 26, “Association of Herpes Viral Infections, Antiherpetic Therapy, and Dementia: Real or Alternative Fact?”, in Neurotherapeutics, volume 15, →DOI, pages 415–416:

(politics, media) Something presented as a fact for reasons of political expediency; a fiction, a falsehood, a lie.


共和黨人

ㄍㄨㄥˋ ㄏㄜˊ ㄉㄤˇ ㄖㄣˊ

гунхэданжэнь

/kʊŋ⁵¹ xɤ³⁵ tɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/

/kʊŋ²² wɔː²¹ tɔːŋ³⁵ jɐn²¹/

/kʊŋ⁵¹ xɤ³⁵ tɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/

/kʊŋ²² wɔː²¹ tɔːŋ³⁵ jɐn²¹/

Republican Party
w:Republican Party (United States)

(US politics) Republican (member or supporter of the Republican Party of the United States)


Trumpification

Donald later tells me about the Trumpification of all that he surveys.

2005, Timothy L. O'Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald:

The Trumpification of Republican politics during the summer of 2015 provided gaudy confirmation that something is amiss.

2016, E. J. Dionne, Why the Right Went Wrong, page 2:

The Trumpification of the Latin American Right

2018 April 16, Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Policy:

But getting rid of Modly will only slow, not stop, the growing Trumpification of the military.

2020 April 7, Max Boot, “Capt. Crozier’s firing shows the growing Trumpification of the military”, in The Washington Post:

(US politics, neologism, originally derogatory) The implementation of Donald Trump's political ideas or influence.


Trumpmania

Even Fox News couldn't seem to make a dent in Trumpmania.

2015, McKay Coppins, The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House:

Trumpmania, on the other hand, was still going strong after five years from the time he declared his presidential candidacy in June, 2015.

2020, Michael Maccoby, Ken Fuchsman, “Conclusion”, in Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump, →ISBN:

(US politics, neologism, originally derogatory) Strong attachment or commitment to Donald Trump.


TrumpCare

Blend of Trump (“Donald Trump”) + healthcare influenced by earlier ObamaCare.

blend

If he got elected, you could sign up for Trumpcare and feel manly too.

2016, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right:

(US, neologism, originally derogatory) The possible replacement of ObamaCare that would be introduced by Donald Trump.


de-Trumpification

From de- + Trumpification. In the political sense used by opponents of Trump, possibly influenced by denazification and de-Baathification.

De-Trumpification has already begun at the Taj.

2016 October 7, “Trump’s name officially exiting a beleaguered Atlantic City”, in Associated Press:

(neologism) Opposite of Trumpification.
Removing the Trump brand name.

If we expect America to ever again be more than a squalid kleptocracy, we’re going to need a comprehensive plan of de-Trumpification, including wide-ranging investigations and legal reforms.

2018 February 23, Michelle Goldberg, “The De-Trumpification Agenda”, in New York Times:

Once President Trump leaves office, a “de-Trumpification” process will have to course through the Republican Party’s veins if it is to again be a worthy part of the American experiment in self-government.

2019 January 30, Chris Stevenson, “After Trump, the Republican Party will need to do some soul-searching”, in The Washington Post:

Listening to a podcast about the Iran-Contra scandal in 2020 doesn’t provide the frisson of excitement that listening to a podcast about Watergate did in 2017, when the Trump Administration was new, our stress was primal, and the show’s dominating conceit—Watergate took longer to reach a breaking point than we might have realized—seemed to portend a comforting, if distant, de-Trumpification.

2020 March 13, Sarah Larson, “The podcasts to listen to while you're social-distancing”, in The New Yorker:

(US politics) Removing Trump from power or undoing the effects of his presidency.


Trumplike

en-adj

Trumplike (comparative more Trumplike, superlative most Trumplike)

more Trumplike (comparative)
most Trumplike (superlative)

Like or resembling Donald Trump; Trumpish


soft bigotry of low expectations

en-noun

soft bigotry of low expectations (uncountable)

A term used by US president George W. Bush; attributed to speechwriter Michael Gerson.

The practice of expecting less from members of a disadvantaged group and thus implicitly encouraging those people not to reach their full potential.


ترامپ

terâmp (romanization)
trâmp (romanization)

[t̪ʰɪ.ɾɑːmp]

[t̪ʰɪ.ɾɑːmp]

[t̪ʰɪ.ɾɑːmp]

دونالد ترامپ

A transliteration of the English surname Trump


ترامپ

ug-proper noun

ترامپ • (tramp) (plural ترامپلار (tramplar))


alt-left

From alt- + left, by analogy with alt-right.

The alt-left trolls are not over it - now they decided to bus in protestors to protest against a democratic result. The alt-left media have been slow to bash these undemocratic revolting bussed in peasants.

2016 November 24, 7, “The alt-left media cooking up glow ball wumming anti-Trump racket Group”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet):

Sadly, the alt-left's previous apoplectic chicken little month is not limited to nominations, though...is it? It is focused on anything trump does, says, thinks, might have thought, could have thought...etc etc....

2016 December 10, Irie, “Just so I can save the alt left from wasting time posting on future Trump nominations/actions/thoughts, words or deeds”, in Political Euwetopia (Usenet):

Instead, today, a subversive alt-government is emerging, in line with the alt-left's growing resistance to use any means necessary to slow, stop and obstruct Trump’s agenda, from inside the government, to make America ungovernable.

2017 February 13, Joe Cooper, “There's An Alt-Left, And It's Trying To Make America Ungovernable”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

The President then explicitly and aggressively made the case for why the anti-racism counter-protesters were as much at fault as the armed white militias—a contention at odds with local police accounts. "What about the alt-left that came charging at the – as you say — the alt-right?" Trump challenged the reporters. "Do they have any semblance of guilt?"

2017 August 16, Noah Bierman, “Trump again decries both sides' actions in Virginia”, in Los Angeles Times, page A1, A10:

(US politics, derogatory) The part of the political spectrum that is considered too left-wing; the extreme or radical left.


nature faker

(literature, derogatory) A nature writer who misrepresents animals as having thoughts and feelings similar to those of humans.


Bushitler

Blend of Bush + Hitler, in reference to Adolf Hitler.

(derogatory) A nickname for U.S. president George W. Bush, unfavorably likened to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.


dumbocrat

Blend of dumb + Democrat, equivalent to dumb + -o- + -crat.

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A foolish Democrat.


Twitler

Blend of Twitter + Hitler, in comparison with the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and due to a tendency for former President Trump to tweet on the social media platform Twitter during his presidency.

This rule is precisely why the 68% of America who would never have voted for Resident Trump must keep a viable vigil in the streets and in the courts. “Twitler” Trump was allowed to insult, embarrass and engorge every individual and institution he wanted to for an entire campaign cycle. We taught him well.

2017 February 10, Vincent Hall, “Quit Playin': To Allow is to Teach?”, in The Dallas Weekly:

A pleasure to see that two attorneys generals, from D.C. and Maryland, just slapped Dum Dum with another emoluments lawsuit. We can’t have enough of these actions jammed up Twitler’s tailpipe.

2017 June 15, Bruce Van Dyke, “Too true to be good”, in Reno News & Review:

How long will Hair Twitler reign – And will he get out what he Putin? So now the world waits – and worries, to see What he will get up to next, the new fuhrer – A malicious clown has the nuclear codes Yet can't even acquit himself on Twitter.

[...] with posters featuring caricatures of Trump as Hitler, but that is no easy swipe at Twitler.

2018 April 12, Jack Helbig, “Hate has a home here”, in Chicago Reader, volume 47, number 27:


South Park Republicanism

South Park Republicans
South Park Republican#English

(rare, US politics, colloquial) The center-right political ideology held by the South Park Republicans.


Calexiter

Could it possibly be, #Calexiters, that maybe it's you who don't the share values with rest of the country?

2016 December 15, “California's Latest Ballot Initiatives Prove Residents Live In Fantasy World”, in The Federalist:

The Calexiters think that California would be better off as its own nation, and, taking a page from the British and their “Brexit” election last year, thinks that the rest of the state’s voters can be convinced that separation would be a good idea.

2017 July 13, David Ross, “The cuckoo “Calexit” movement”, in Valley Roadrunner:

The decision marked a revival of sorts for Calexiters: initial efforts at winning support for a ballot initiative collapsed in the spring after it was discovered that a prominent figure in the movement, Louis Marinelli, head of an organization called YesCalifornia, was living in Russia, and maintained close ties to a Kremlin-funded group.

2017 August 3, Casey Michel, “California Secessionists Retain Russian Connection”, in EurasiaNet:

Undeterred, Calexiters regrouped and strategized anew. Late last month, they returned with a new proposal they're certain will catch on.

2017 August 24, Ben Boychuk, “Calexit is our state's latest delusion, all three versions”, in The Sacramento Bee:

We'd like to think such a kooky idea has no shot at getting on the ballot, like the previous attempts by the two main Calexiters — Marcus Ruiz Evans and Louis J. Marinelli — to get some sort of secession proposal on the ballot. But crazier things have happened.

2018 August 7, “Save us from another kooky California breakup plan”, in The Los Angeles Times:

(US politics) Someone who supports Calexit.


Griswold

(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Griswold v. Connecticut. A 1965 U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized contraception, allowing access to contraceptives for married couples; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


MAGA

The 17-year-old told a CBS affiliate the Maga hats - a staple of President Trump's campaign - are a "racist and hateful symbol." ¶ According to the sheriff's office, the student began verbally attacking her peer on Monday because of the Maga hat, before grabbing and hurling it to the ground.

2018 August 29, “California schoolgirl arrested in Trump hat classroom fracas”, in BBC News, BBC:

“Four more years!” the incumbent’s backers called out even louder, largely unencumbered by face coverings. ¶ “Black Lives Matter!” ¶ “Black Lives MAGA!”

2020 October 31, Matt Flegenheimer, “Campaign 2020: Let's Never Do This Again”, in New York Times:

“Mitch knows he can’t take Trump off the table there,” Scott Reed, a longtime G.O.P. strategist, said of the calculations of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. “He needs him to energize the MAGA crowd.”

2020 November 18, Richard Fausset, Jonathan Martin, “In Georgia, a Republican Feud With Trump at the Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Make America Great Again
w:Make America Great Again

(US politics) Acronym of Make America Great Again.


MAGA

en-adj

MAGA (comparative more MAGA, superlative most MAGA)

more MAGA (comparative)
most MAGA (superlative)

MAGA Republicans

(US politics) Following the political philosophy of Donald Trump; Trumpist.


MAGA

A terrified mob of these MAGAs in their red hats had gathered in the town square screaming: “Where’s Sarah? Where’s Sarah? She promised to make Stars Hollow great again! She’s the only one who can save us!”

2020, John Pansini, Election 2220: Night of the Voting Dead, RtS Publishing, →ISBN:

A different study by political scientists found that Trump’s anti-immigrant ravings actually inspired more white people to vote against him than it did white MAGAs to vote for him.

2020, Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History, Random House, →ISBN, page 267:

Trump, a man devoted to television like it’s religion, likely couldn’t give a damn, but the RNC, the state parties, and the various victory committees will be working their asses off to deploy MAGAs into the field.

2020, Rick Wilson, “The Trump 2020 War Machine”, in Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump—and Democrats from Themselves, New York, N.Y.: Crown Forum, →ISBN, part 3 (Army of Darkness: Trump’s War Machine), page 138:

There were two problems for an African American in Washington DC, during a MAGA rally. First, there were too many pro-Trump MAGAs in town. Worse, there were lots of police officers too. […] At Harry’s Bar a few blocks from the hotel, Money B had apparently made friends because these MAGAs turned out to be fans of his famous songs, like “The Humpty Dance.”

2021, Erbil Gunasti, Daphne Barak, “[[Coming Home] Trump Extended Hand] Celebrating Christmas at the White House”, in Struggling for One America: Trump vs. Hollywood: The Two White Houses, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

Many of the founders and leaders of today’s populist parties now just aren’t like their followers. The followers either don’t know – there are plenty of vox pops where Magas (Make American Great Agains) still describe Trump as a self-made man – or don’t care: all this fussing about class origins and elite linkages is just what bitter, twisted liberals do.

2021, Peter York, “(Most) Populists aren’t what they seem…”, in John Mair, Tor Clark, Neil Fowler, Raymond Snoddy, Richard Tait, editors, Populism, the Pandemic and the Media: Journalism in the age of Covid, Trump, Brexit and Johnson, Abramis Academic Publishing, →ISBN, section 2 (UK politics and the media), page 103:

MY LIBERAL RUSSIAN FRIENDS STARTED TO CALL THOSE PEOPLE KRYM-NASHI (“CRIMEA’S OURS”-NIKS) MUCH AS AMERICAN LIBERALS CALL DONALD TRUMP’S FANS MAGAS.

[2022, Andrew S. Weiss, Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin, First Second, →ISBN, page 198:

For DeSantis, it’s “Ron De-sanctimonious.” It doesn’t matter whether his MAGAs know what sanctimonious means; Trump makes the point and his loyal servants get a good laugh.

2022, George Waas, Social Media Musings: Book 4, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

Taylor tweeted about the bind that Zelenskyy found himself in: “Ukraine, of course, is desperate for US support. The biggest risk they face is falling out of favor with the American public. And that explains any upcoming recapitulation of ‘no pressure.’ They can’t afford to piss off the MAGAs. They are truly hostages in this.”

2022, Amanda Sturgill, “National Security”, in We Are #ALTGOV: Social Media Resistance from the Inside, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 146:

In this pop-culture milieu, political parties are like personality cults, and their leaders are symbolic of their group’s identity. So in addition to Janeites (fans of Jane Austen), Beliebers (Justin Bieber) and Swifties (Taylor Swift), we now have MAGAs (Donald Trump), Corbynistas (Jeremy Corbyn) and Boristas (Boris Johnson).

2023, Michael Bond, Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging, Picador, →ISBN:

I am sure he reasoned that as an Independent all he would have accomplished would be the sure election of Hillary by splitting MAGAs and Republicans, as Teddy Roosevelt did when he tried to regain the Presidency.

2023, Jack B. Walters, “Who are MAGA- Republicans?”, in One Last Attempt (The Last Angry Man), Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

The adults were to blame, not just the crazy MAGAs but ordinary people who don’t know any better.

2023, James Oliver Goldsborough, chapter 16, in The Devil’s Presence, City Point Press, →ISBN:

(US politics) A follower of the political philosophy of Donald Trump.


Bryanite

From Bryan + -ite, after William Jennings Bryan.

A supporter of William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925), US orator and politician, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party.


Bryanite

From Bryan + -ite, after William O'Bryan (born William Bryant).


Trumpland

From Trump (after Donald Trump) + -land.

In Trumpland, psychology trumps reality, which helps explain how a candidate proposing one of the largest transfers of weatlh^([sic]) from the bottom to the top could effectively brand himself as a populist hero.

2016 December 27, Journalist?, “Expert Who Has Studied White Supremacy for Almost 50 Years Explains Why Racists Flock to Trump's Rhetoric”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), message-ID <cecee0c8-7bd6-4d2a-a5fa-14f4ffb95fdd@googlegroups.com>:

United States of America
United States of America

The United States of America under the presidency of Donald Trump.

Four out of the six vulnerable Senate Democrats in Trumpland — lost.

2018 November 7, Greg Gutfeld, “Gutfeld on the Kavanaugh effect on midterms”, in Fox News Network:

The parts of the United States of America where Donald Trump finds high support; Trump's geographical support base.


Russiagate

Her [Fiona Hill's] time as special assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian Affairs, a role that put her at the center of domestic and geopolitical intrigue, follows the arc of the Russiagate scandal that dogged Trump’s presidency almost from its inception.

2019 September 30, Natasha Bertrand, “The Russia Hawk in the White House”, in POLITICO Magazine:

(US politics, informal) The controversy and Russia investigation that ensued after the 2016 US presidential election regarding the discovery of myriad secretive links between Trump associates and Russian officials.


Foggy Bottom

Perhaps in reference to the smoke from industrial facilities.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked boldly about smart power projection, but by the time she left Foggy Bottom, she was still stuck deploying the same meager, smart power tools that she inherited.

2019 October 7, Chris Murphy, “How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work”, in The Atlantic:

(US politics, metonymically) The United States Department of State, whose headquarters are nearby.


Berniecrat

(US politics) A Democratic supporter of Bernie Sanders or his policies.


Trumpistan

The essay helpfully applies lessons she learned in the Putinsphere to the Trumpistan she sees unfolding in the United States.

2016 November 11, Jonathan Chait, “Trumpistan Week One: The Unthinkable Slowly Becomes Normal”, in New York Magazine:

Welcome to Trumpistan, a country two weeks into the tumultuous rule of a miserable, cruel and seemingly captive president.

2017 February 3, Joy-Ann Reid, “In Trumpistan, Things Fall Apart”, in The Daily Beast:

So what’s it going to be, America: a democratic republic, or Trumpistan?

2018 May 23, Gene Lyons, “Welcome to Trumpistan, my fellow Americans”, in Chicago Sun-Times:

The United States under president Trump.


Trumpistan

de-proper noun

Trumpistan n (proper noun, strong, genitive Trumpistans)


Clintonist

A word of caution however is needed in Clinton's relationship with Indochina, bearing in mind that his foreign policy is being determined by Carterites, Reagan Democrats and Clintonists.

This MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) professor, however, is neither a Seguinist nor a Chevenementist but... a Clintonist.

1993, Daily Report: West Europe, page 33:

(US politics) A supporter of Bill Clinton.

Many Clintonists invested their campaign with a self-mythologizing notion that theirs was a historic quest—to achieve, at long last, the greatest of all gender breakthroughs in the history of the nation, or even the world.

2015, Alan H. Levy, The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998: Electoral Failures and the Vagaries of Identity Politics, →ISBN, page 336:

“We find that individuals with only a few followers and individuals with hundreds of followers make up a larger share in the Trump camp than in the Clinton camp, while by contrast individuals with a few dozen to 200 followers have a larger presence among the Clintonists,” say Wu and co.

2016 March 18, “Twitter Facial Analysis Reveals Demographics of Presidential Campaign Followers”, in MIT Technology Review:

2017 July 23, Edward Helmore, "‘Dirtbag left’ takes aim at Clinton supporters", The Observer (UK, Sunday sister paper of The Guardian).
“The fear is we’re going to do ’68 over again and that’s the argument the Clintonists will make – that a battle within the Democratic party will help elect a conservative militia that will then, despite being a sociological minority, craft the institutions so they can remain a political majority.”

(US politics) A supporter of Hillary Clinton.


Clintonist

en-adj

Clintonist (comparative more Clintonist, superlative most Clintonist)

more Clintonist (comparative)
most Clintonist (superlative)

In the 1990s, setting his jaw against Clintonist internationalism, he moved into the public eye once more with his predictions of an impending "clash of civilizations," which made him a cause célèbre, especially among those who hoped that the end of the cold war would not mean the end of cold-war levels of military spending.

2005, Catherine Lowe Besteman, Hugh Gusterson, “Introduction”, in Catherine Lowe Besteman, Hugh Gusterson, editors, Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back, →ISBN, page 11:

(US politics) Pertaining to the politics of Bill Clinton or his supporters.

2017 July 23, Edward Helmore, "‘Dirtbag left’ takes aim at Clinton supporters", The Observer (UK, Sunday sister paper of The Guardian).
In a recent edition, Chapo co-host Will Menaker accused – and not for the first time – Clintonist liberalism of being the architect of its own defeats.

(US politics) Pertaining to the politics of Hillary Clinton or her supporters.


Trumphobia

On 9/6/2015 9:14 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > On 2015-09-06, Mike B wrote: > I wonder if the strip will be affected by his move. (He now lives in Canada.)< Has he said why he moved - new job, new relationship? Trumphobia?

2015 September 6, Mark Jackson, “Deja Vu: Questionable Content”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet):

2016 March 9, Suffering From Trumphobia? Get Over It. The Wall Street Journal.
Edwark N. Luttwak writes that if you're suffering from Trumphobia, an irrational fear of Donald Trump becoming president, get over it.

Calls to crisis and suicide prevention hotlines surge post-election By Jessica Ravitz, CNN Updated 6:03 PM ET, Fri November 11, 2016

2016 November 12, “TRUMPHOBIA driving many Americans to suicidal despair”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

Apparently, some federal employees plan to quit employment due to a sudden onset of Trumphobia, including at least one VA psychologist.

2016 November 29, “Sudden Onset Of Trumphobia Causes VA Psychologist To Quit”, in Disabled Veterans:

He was also into hyperbole topped up with a dose of Trumphobia.

2017 May 11, “Gerard Henderson: Virginia Trioli says ABC needs more comedians”, in The Australian:

Trumphobia and how it can be cured by taking a closer look at South Africa. News24. "The next time you feel you are exhibiting Trumphobia combat it by educating yourself about the politics of countries like South Africa."


Trumpster

Phineas Taylor Barnum, godfather of the modern age of hot press and selfpromotion, was Donald's direct precursor, the man who anticipated the Trumpster more than a century before the Trumpster was born.

2005, Timothy L. O'Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

How long before he grew his thinning hair long enough to comb it over his receding hairline in the Trumpster's signature style?

2016, Andrew Shaffer, The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN, page 105:

This guy, who sounds like what we might call a “Scottish redneck”, adamantly refused to knuckle under to the Trumpster, and sell out, or even clean up his “eyesore” property.

2012, Jeff Foulk, Jay A. Blum, Over the Ocean and to the Links: A Golfer's Journey, Malcolm Press, →ISBN:


Pizzagate

Battle of the Buffet
Pizzagate conspiracy theory

(slang) A 2016 conspiracy theory claiming that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, was involved in human trafficking, and alleging the existence of a secret child sex ring associated with the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington, D.C.


continuing resolution

en-noun

continuing resolution (plural continuing resolutions)

From continuing + resolution. From being an act of congress (a congressional resolution) which extends the situation.

(US politics, law) An act of Congress which extends the current governmental budget situation through allocation of further funds in the same manner as the current budget, to avoid a government shutdown due to lack of allocated funding.


Hooverize

en-verb

Hooverize (third-person singular simple present Hooverizes, present participle Hooverizing, simple past and past participle Hooverized)

Hooverizes (present singular third-person)
Hooverizing (participle present)
Hooverized (participle past)
Hooverized (past)

From Hoover + -ize, named after Herbert Hoover, who, as head of the Food and Drug Administration during World War I, encouraged Americans to ration food. Apparently coined in the poem reproduced below.

The clean plate is the slogan of today, / And we this vital war-cry must obey, / And waste no single particle or crust / And save the scraps, for now we really must / Hooverize! / The empty garbage pail is now the rage, / And in this ‘war on waste’ which we must wage / To throw away an egg shell will be sin / So if, with great success, we are to win, / Hooverize! / Things must be canned which never were before, / We must have fruits and vegetables galore, / There must be lots of corn and beets and beans, / And to us all this warning simple means, / Hooverize! / Our soldiers must be fed in France and here, / To all of us our soldiers are most dear, / And we must ‘do our bit’ and help along, / And every one of us must sing the song, / Hooverize! / ‘Conserve your food supply and win the war,’ / All of you have read these words before, / But when you red them now remember you / Have got your ‘little bit’ cut out to do— / So Hooverize!

1917, Margaret Leet Beckman, “Hooverize!”, in Table Talk, volume 43, number 3, page 21:

‘Hooverize’ is the word in our national economical situation. Let us Hooverize in the telephone service; conserve the force that plays such an important role in our present-day business methods; save time; save electricity spent on tomfoolery gossipping over the wire; keep the front door for business wide open; Hooverize for measured service.

1918, Whilhelm Bodemann, “Hooverizing the Telephone”, in N.A.R.D. Journal, volume 26, page 25:

As William Leuchtenburg writes: So pervasive were the food administrator’s messages that Webster’s gained a new entry: Hooverize, meaning to economize in the national interest. It became a household word. A 1918 Valentine’s Day card read: I can Hooverize on dinner, / And on lights and fuel too, / But I'll never learn to Hooverize, / When it comes to loving you.

2017, Barry Riley, The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(dated, transitive, intransitive) To be economical in the use of a resource, particularly food.


Trumpworld

So, several figures inside Trumpworld have been wrestling with the very dilemma that animated my fictional characters. Put simply: if you’re convinced that the leader you serve is a danger to your country and the world, where does your patriotic and democratic duty lie?

2018 September 7, Jonathan Freedland, “If you were in the White House, how would you tackle Trump?”, in The Guardian:

Donald Trump's circle of associates, employees and appointees.

The mental landscape of Donald Trump or of his supporters.


câu giờ

[kəw˧˧ zəː˨˩]

[kəw˧˧ jəː˦˩]

[kəw˧˧ jəː˨˩]

câu (“to fish with a rod”) + giờ (“time”).


Eisenstadt

en-proper-noun

Eisenstadt (countable and uncountable, plural Eisenstadts)

(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Eisenstadt v. Baird. A 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that expanded legalized contraception, expanding access to contraceptives to unmarried couples, and effectively legalized premarital sex, under the Equal Protection Clause following the Griswold ruling; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


dummymander

(US politics) A gerrymander that has narrow margins to electorally benefit the gerrymandering party and has a high probability of backfiring.


パパ・ブッシュ

From パパ (papa, “father”) + ブッシュ (Busshu, “Bush”), to distinguish him from George W. Bush, his son and the 43rd President.

af

(informal) George H. W. Bush, 41st president of the United States


macaca moment

In reference to US politician George Allen's use of the ethnic slur macaca in 2006.

(US politics, informal) A situation where a politician says something controversial that harms their chances of success.


Never Trumper

From Never Trump + -er, after one of the names applied to the Stop Trump movement.

...the Ukraine call ‘concerned’ today’s Never Trumper witness.

2019 November, Donald Trump (as quoted by AP Newshttps://apnews.com/7bc6f95f311a46dcbc0e75bdd2f25b1b)

(US politics) A conservative who opposes Donald Trump.


Bushlicker

Mike is such a Bushlicker; I spoke out against Bush's position on marijuana and he said, "How DARE you question our president's position on drugs after 9/11!"

Why the hell've you gotta be such a big Bushlicker? The way you say we should be "rallying around" him couldn't make me sicker

2003 August 24, savegra...@yahoo.com, “Funny song: Bushlicker”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet):

Pass-the-buck Bush after the bankruptcy predictably claimed that he barely knew Kenny-Boy; this lie even the most fawning Bushlicker couldn't buy.

2004, Robert Sterling, 50 Reasons Not to Vote for Bush, →ISBN, page 76:

Tell us how you are proud to be a Bushlicker.

2006 April 20, Ryd, “Is T-Bone the Biggest Bushlicker On Usenet?”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

(informal, derogatory) A person who acted or spoke sycophantically towards the authority of former U.S. president George W. Bush.


Vietnam syndrome

In reference to the domestic controversy over the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.

(US politics) Public aversion to overseas military actions by the United States.


DFLer

(US politics) A member or supporter of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.


Trumpite

en-adj

Trumpite (comparative more Trumpite, superlative most Trumpite)

more Trumpite (comparative)
most Trumpite (superlative)


Trumpite

What do an Etonian, a Trumpite and a Corbyn fan have in common? My church.

2017 December 28, Giles Fraser, Guardian:


Bernie bro

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A male political supporter of the US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.


Shillary

Blend of shill + Hillary, likely to invoke the view that Hillary Clinton serves corporate interests, lobbyists, etc. over the voters she represents.

If Shillary gets the Nomination theres^([sic]) still a chance to win via write in candidates. And even if Bernie "looses"^([sic]) the number of votes taken from Hillary will make it quite apparent that she does NOT have the support of the progressive base. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HER.

2015, §nühw¤Łf, “Re: Shillary wants your emailz”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):

Yes, please tell me how Shillary is the nicest corporate oligarchical servant, and how she will lovingly sell out the people who voted for her to her banker masters, with a twinkle in her fellating eye.

2016 February 13, Gene Lyons, anonymous quotee, “Understanding the 'Bernie Bros'”, in The Daily Journal, volume 83, number 37, page A11:

Idiot Trump is going to beat up Idiot Joe so viciously that it will be almost as satisfying as when Idiot Trump ended Shillary's career.

2020 April 18, Uchena Shorey, “Our demise”, in Daily News, volume 101, number 298, Voice of the People, page 19:

(US politics, derogatory) Hillary Clinton (born 1947), American politician and diplomat, former first lady (1993–2001) and secretary of state (2009–2013) of the United States.


Kinsley gaffe

Named after American journalist Michael Kinsley (b. 1951), who drew attention to the phenomenon.

They said it had been only a trial run, posted in error, showing hypothetical results from one small electoral district. You might call this a sort of Kinsley gaffe on a national scale.

2013 October 9, Max Fisher, The Washington Post:

Give Thune credit for candor, or at least for a Kinsley gaffe: Intentionally or not, he made clear that the game was getting the best available walk-back and moving on.

2018, David A. Graham, “Trump Can Never Go Too Far for Republicans”, in The Atlantic:

(US politics) A mistake whereby a politician inadvertently says something truthful which they had not meant to reveal.


Mango Mussolini

Mango refers to Trump's orangish skin tone; the reference to Benito Mussolini is because of Trump's conservative nationalist politics, which his opponents liken to fascism.

Also, Bill Maher is a liberal in the same way Mango Mussolini is a conservative.

2017 June 6, Freezer, “LIEberal ICON Bill Maher uses N-Word, is NOT called, "RACIST!!! by LIEberals, and is NOT suspended”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory, slang, offensive) Donald Trump.


Chimperor

Blend of chimp + emperor, compare Chimpy.

Now, pulling out a goodly number of troops and replacing them with international soldiers, plus forfeiting the "leadership" position to the UN sounds like a good deal. Fat chance the Chimperor will let that happen.

2004 April 23, Max O., “Re: Why Bush's war has already failed”, in nashville.general (Usenet):

The Chimperor lets water supplies get diluted with mercury and arsenic, led Texas to have one of the WORST water and air quality scores during his tenure as gubnor...

2004 October 9, DaveNOSPAM, “"Culture of Life" ??????? WTF?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Could be a modern day indictment against the Chimperor. Especially the "I tell you one and one makes three" part. Time to overthrow those damned activist mathematicians!

2006 May 31, Jason Todd, “Re: On the cover of National Review: 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs”, in alt.punk (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009), seen as a tyrant.


QAnon

/ˌkjʉː ɘˈnɔn/

Q clearance
United States Department of Energy

From Q + anon. From the United States Department of Energy's Q clearance + anonymous. Compare Q (“QAnon”).

2017 November 18, Amazing Answers, “RE: Who is QAnon?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

In October, an anonymous 4chan account began making cryptic posts about earth-changing political and judicial events to come. Ever since then, conspiracy theorists, journalists, and amused observers have speculated about who was behind the account that has come to be known as QAnon.

2018 May 29, Mike Rothschild, “Who is Q Anon, the internet’s most mysterious poster?”, in The Daily Dot:

The question “Who is the most hilarious person QAnon could turn out to be?” yielded thousands of responses. Here are the best and most common ones.

2018 August 6, Joe Berkowitz, “Who is the mastermind behind QAnon? Twitter has some fun theories”, in Fast Company:

In The mysterious figure called “Q” or “QAnon” first appeared online on Oct. 28, 2017, with a post on the far-right /pol/ message board of 4chan that they had inside information about a secret plot being hatched by the Trump administration.

2018 November 11, Michael Barkun, “Failed Prophecies Won’t Stop Trump’s True Believers”, in Foreign Policy:

(US politics) An anonymous poster on the Internet message boards 4chan, 8chan and 8kun, claiming to possess Q clearance, who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory claiming that Donald Trump is working against a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles comprised of his political opponents.

These bizarre results, first spotted by the NBC reporter Ben Collins, are not the result of the latest #MeToo era investigation reporting. Instead, they are the entirely unsubstantiated manifestation of a sprawling rightwing conspiracy theory known as QAnon.
[…] Joseph Uscinski, a University of Miami professor who studies conspiracy theories, said by phone that QAnon remains a “fringe” belief held by “a very small number of people”.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

It's nebulous and continuously changing to adapt to current events, but the overarching conspiracy theory has been given a name: "QAnon".
 […] The baseless core of the QAnon story is that the Mueller investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia is actually an investigation into global elites, and that the president is masterminding a secret plan to arrest top politicians and Hollywood stars for corruption and child abuse.

2018 August 2, Elizabeth Cassin, Mike Wendling, “QAnon: What's the truth behind a pro-Trump conspiracy theory?”, in BBC:

QAnon, whose supporters also call it “The Storm” or “Great Awakening,” is a wide-ranging conspiracy theory that burst into greater visibility this summer, after supporters at a Trump rally wearing Q shirts prompted a rush of national media coverage about it.

2018 September 12, Abby Ohlheiser, “Reddit bans r/greatawakening, the main subreddit for QAnon conspiracy theorists”, in The Washington Post:

Like much of the new conspiracism, QAnon began with conspiracy entrepreneurs.[…]11. For instance, on August 3, 2018, the authors consulted the discussion of “clues” by QAnon researchers on the following Reddit.com message board: https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/84sam4/does_anyone_have_the_link_to_the_current_8chan/.

2019 April 16, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy, Princeton University Press, pages 133 (Who Owns Reality?) and 195 (Notes):

(US politics) The conspiracy theory originated by this anonymous poster.

If QAnon's claims were true, they would shake the very foundations of global government and explain the confusion of politics in recent years. As it is, they are not true – but their importance could nonetheless be hugely significant.

2018 August 2, Andrew Griffin, “What is QAnon? The origins of the bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that Trump-Russia investigation is a hoax to catch pedophiles”, in The Independent:

A group dubbed "QAnon" has emerged at Trump campaign events recently. They follow and try to decipher the online posts of someone named "Q", who traffics in conspiracy theories focused on people in government and media.

2018 August 3, Jeff Brady, “QAnon: The Conspiracy Theorist Group That Appears At Trump Rallies”, in NPR:

"What a movement such as QAnon has going for it, and why it will catch on like wildfire, is that it makes people feel connected to something important that other people don’t yet know about,” says cult expert Rachel Bernstein, who specializes in recovery therapy. "All cults will provide this feeling of being special.”

2018 November 12, Renee Diresta, “Online Conspiracy Groups are a Lot Like Cults”, in Wired:

(US politics) The movement supporting this conspiracy theory.


Trumptard

@MyInfidelAnna I’m thinking Anna’s brain got grabbed, logic is hard for Trumptards.

2018, Judith E. Rosenbaum, quoting @jdgirl99, “#MAGA, #ImWithHer, and #Snowflake: Politics and Twitter”, in Constructing Digital Cultures: Tweets, Trends, Race, and Gender, Lexington Books, →ISBN, section “Tweeting with a Passion: Twitter, Politics, and Social Justice”, page 206:

Finally, Hannity cited a tweet from the account @TheResistANNce, apparently run by a self-identified progressive schoolteacher: “Oh, they’re probably Trumptards,” wrote the Twitter user, referring to the concert audience.

2018, Ben Sasse, “The Polarization Business Model”, in Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part II (Anti-Tribes), page 108:

Every one of those girls, I respected, supported in my own way. Till some became Trumptards on their Twitter, then you just gotta fap to them being disrespected. But the rest—mad respect.

2022, Miguel Syjuco, I Was the President’s Mistress!!, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

(US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A supporter of Donald Trump; a Trumpist.


Scaramucci

Anthony Scaramucci
White House Director of Communications

Borrowed from Italian Scaramucci, the measurement comes from Anthony Scaramucci's short time as White House Director of Communications.

Ardern's peroration began, “It's been three weeks now since I was asked to take this job ...” From the crowd, a laugh of astonishment. In the space of only two Scaramuccis, to steal the unit of measurement of the day, she had transformed the fortunes of the Labour Party.

2017, Toby Manhire, “The rapture”, in Toby Manhire, editor, The Spinoff Book, New Zealand: Penguin Random House, published 2019, →ISBN:

My White House tenure lasted for approximately 220 “Scaramuccis.”

2018, Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can, London: Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:

If Trump himself had been more experienced at governing, or if he'd kept some senior officials longer than one or two Scaramuccis, or if he'd surrounded himself with true pros, not sycophants and sons-in-law, things might have been different.

2020, Paul Begala, You're Fired, New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 14:

(humorous, US politics) A unit of time equal to the duration of Anthony Scaramucci's tenure as White House Director of Communications, variously defined as 10 or 11 days.


Radical Republican

en-noun

Radical Republican (plural Radical Republicans)

(historical) A member of the Republican Party or the Radical Republican Party in the United States, who supported Reconstruction as the rapid full emancipation of African Americans and continuation of the martial law regime in former Confederate states.


Three Amigos

From three + amigo. From Spanish amigo (“friend”), and there being three of them.

NORAD

North American Aerospace Defense Command

(plural only, informal, Canada, US, politics) Canada, Mexico, and the United States.


Trumpophobic

en-adj

Trumpophobic (comparative more Trumpophobic, superlative most Trumpophobic)

more Trumpophobic (comparative)
most Trumpophobic (superlative)

Now, like many other Trumpophobic Republicans, he (Lindsey Graham) fears that, should the Donald be duly nominated in Cleveland in July and then whipped by Hillary Clinton in November, Republicans will spend the next few decades hanging upside-down in a cave.

2016 March 2, “How Donald Trump happened”, in Macleans.ca:

Once again, the Trumpophobic Left has proved that it will not give President Donald J. Trump credit for anything

2017 April 18, “The MOAB Attack on ISIS Was a Beautiful Bargain”, in National Review:

the effort to turn this into an illegal campaign contribution reaches a new depth in Trumpophobic improvisation.

2018 May 9, “How a Febrile Press Whipped Up Anger At Trump, for Nothing”, in New York Sun:

Characterized by hatred or fear of Donald Trump.


Trumpophobia

At home, I see intolerance, various forms of prejudice, demonisation and the exploitation of fear – the last like shooting at the side of a barn, in the American context – at work in our Trumpophobia. This is the soft despotism of the American neoliberal.

2016, Stan Grant, Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming:

Heer, who writes a bi-weekly column with headings such as “Steve Bannon is Turning Trump into an Ethno-Nationalist Ideologue” and “Donald Trump is the Bizarro Noam Chomsky”, appears to have contracted a particularly virulent strain of Trumpophobia

2017 April 20, D McCann, “The new totalitarians: Fresh thoughts on James Burnham”, in Quadrant:

Comedian Bill Maher — currently in the midst of his 15th season on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" — has certainly been the beneficiary of increased viewership due to Trumpophobia.

2017 May 7, Zach Freeman, “Maher needed to put away his notebook and be present at Chicago Theater”, in Chicago Tribune:

Alan Dershowitz, a Clinton voter in the last election, warned that the effort to escalate perfervid Trumpophobia from criminalization of policy differences (as well as sour grapes over the lost election) to “psychiatrization” was even more sinister and anti-democratic.

2018 January 10, Conrad Black, “Michael Wolff and the Death Rattle of Trumpophobia”, in National Review:

We may disapprove of Donald Trump's crude behaviors and documented low respect for truth[3]. However, these may have created a kind of Trumpophobia that leads otherwise thoughtful people to exaggerate earlier positive influences of US foreign policy

2018, FT Manheim, “Is Donald Trump's Influence on World Affairs Really Worse than Earlier American Policies?”, in papers.ssrn.com:

(US, politics, informal) Fear of Donald Trump


Republicant

"[…]I mean ... republicant's will use anything, even a person's own humanity against them, Just don't go out of your way to mention it at every campaign stop, If somebody asks, you can tell 'em if it's any of their business a' course."

2008, Ross Nicholson, Hillary's Angel: The McGovern Campaign in Dallas, Texas, 1972: What Happened to Hillary Clinton Thirty-Five Years Ago, page 141:

The Kennedy family has been an inspiration to all of humanity. As I write this, Ted is in my prayers as he battles a brain tumor. And for the record, I am not a Democrat (Demobrat) or a Republican (Republicant). I am a Godsurecan!

2009, Hippie Bob, Hippie Bob & the Chocolate Factory: A True Fairytale, page 63:

And that goes double and then some for them folks that strutted around the Republicant Convention wearing Purple Heart band aids and otherwise putting down everybody that has ever fought and died for our country.

2010, Terry P. Rizzuti, R. E. Armstrong, The Life and Times of Bubba Lee Boatbum, page 29:

Congress was an ineffective mix of "blue balls" and "blue-dog" Democrats, "Republi-Dems", and "Republicants."

2012, W.J. Reichertz, Purpose Beyond 2012: The Wisconsin Idea, Occupy Wall Street and Democracy's Future:

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A member, especially a politician, of the Republican Party (with an implication that they are unable to get things done).


Cadillac tax

(US politics, informal) The excise tax levied on particularly expensive private health insurance plans, so-called Cadillac plans.


Clintonoid

en-adjective

Clintonoid (comparative more Clintonoid, superlative most Clintonoid)

more Clintonoid (comparative)
most Clintonoid (superlative)

Which Clintonoid columnist or propagandist did not employ this dramatic phrase, as their hero found himself at the mercy, not of a law 'n' order Democrat on the approved model, but of a law 'n' order Republican?

1999, Christopher Hitchens, chapter 3, in No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton:

But this, he asserted, "does not require the rhetoric of reparations," and it fit what he called "the Clintonoid tenor of sappy public apologies and maudlin psychobabble about collective pain and healing."

2005, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey, The Limits of Law, →ISBN, page 89:

Clintonoid liberals have their own narratives that minimize the lessons to be drawn from Trump's victory.

2018, Adolph L. Reed Jr., “Foreword”, in Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement:

(derogatory, informal, US) Clintonian: relating to or supporting Bill or Hillary Clinton.


Clintonoid

A Clintonoid would be able to easily dismiss it as just some sort of clerical error if it weren't so logically cohesive.

1995, Michael Cliff Kellett, The Murder of Vince Foster, page 135:

Samuel Francis sounds like a Clintonoid in his column "Will Europe Survive?" (Principalities & Powers, August).

2016, Ted Rall for Counterpunch, Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote:

(derogatory, informal, US) A Clintonite.


drain the swamp

en-verb

drain the swamp (third-person singular simple present drains the swamp, present participle draining the swamp, simple past and past participle drained the swamp)

drains the swamp (present singular third-person)
draining the swamp (participle present)
drained the swamp (participle past)
drained the swamp (past)

(figurative, US politics) To eliminate the root causes of problems, especially to rid politics and government of evils, such as corruption and bureaucracy.


小布什

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

George W. Bush, 43ʳᵈ president of the United States


老布什

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

George H. W. Bush, 41ˢᵗ president of the United States


Trumperor

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Trumperor.

(US politics, informal, derogatory) U.S. president Donald Trump, seen as a tyrant.


Hitlery

Given the perverted acts of her "husband", there were in January 1998 two alternate dramatic ways Hitlery could establish her legacy as America's Top Feminist: […]

1998 September 20, Reynmeistr, “The Legacy of HITLERY”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):

It looks as if Hitlery Clinton went to visit some wives, of Marines that are getting ready to ship out to go kick Sadam's ass. To bad for Hitlery that most of those wives did not want Hitlery to be anywhere around them.

2003 January 26, Alvin Valkenheiser, “HITLERY CLINTON IN UPSTATE N.Y.”, in nyc.politics (Usenet):

Hitlery’s most recent rhetoric about guns are the usual boiler-plate Democrat talking points: close the online and gun show loophole, ban guns for those on the no fly list, etc.

2015 December 30, Roddy D. Riggs, “Letters to the Editor: Gun Blather is Usual Rhetoric”, in Belleville News-Democrat, volume 158, number 364, Belleville, Ill., page 2C:

(US politics, derogatory) Hillary Clinton (born 1947), American politician and diplomat, former first lady (1993–2001) and secretary of state (2009–2013) of the United States.


Shrub

A play on his surname Bush, a shrub being a smaller bush, thus indicating that he is the junior Bush in relation to his father George H. W. Bush. Popularized by American newspaper columnist Molly Ivins (1944–2007), who co-wrote Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush (2000) with Lou Dubose.

Ann Richards [...] is running for reelection as Governor of Texas against George W. Bush, a Republican and the eldest son of the former President. […] She derides him as “all hat and no cattle.” […] Her followers hand out bumper stickers saying: “Don't elect the son-of-a-Bush.” They call him “Shrub.”

1994 October 20, Ian Brodie, “Lone Star governor struggles to uproot the Shrub”, in The Times, London, page 15:

For the past five days, mostly in New York and SC, the Shrub has apparently been running ads that characterize McCain’s policy proposals in what Murphy terms a “willfully distorting” way.

2000 April 13, David Foster Wallace, “David Foster Wallace on John McCain: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’”, in Rolling Stone:

If this tax-cut were proposed in exactly opposite proportions, conservatives would be screaming about communist re-distribution of wealth and having aneurysms right and left. It’s much better when the rich take from the poor. After all, the American rich are oppressed and deserve this windfall. Shrub said so. It must be true.

2001 April 4, David Hollingsworth, “Readers’ views: Tax cut helps only rich”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, volume 19, number 91, Lexington, Ky., page A10:

It seems that a recent letter opines that President Shrub deserves our loyalty simply because we can’t possibly know his decision making “unless we were to step into the role as president.” […] As to our inability to understand his choices, Shrub has a record in Texas.

2001 May 7, Dick Goodemoot, “Letters: President Bush deserves disrespect”, in Corvallis Gazette-Times, volume 139, number 127, Corvallis, Ore., page A11:

Less than 24 hours after the idiot Shrub gives that disasterous inaugural speech of his, the Shrub's daddy goes to the media to apologize to the world for his son's crazy talk. Shrub's daddy is now going around trying to reassure other countries that his son didn't really mean what he said and that he is not really going to invade them after all.

2005 January 24, AbelM...@webtv.net, “Shrub is a Certifiable Loon & The Whole World Knows This.”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

George H. W. Bush
Lou Dubose
Molly Ivins


Forrest Trump

From Forrest Gump, the slow-witted title character of the 1994 film and 1986 book Forrest Gump.

What owns Atlantic City and sits on a park bench?
Forrest Trump.

1994 October 25, Paul Kowalski, “Forrest Gump”, in alt.tasteless.jokes (Usenet):

Your assertion that getting it down to 2 people makes it easier to prevent Forrest Trump's gaining a majority is ridiculous .^([sic])

2016 March 6, halfpastdead9, “ROMNEY/KASICH”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):

(derogatory) Nickname for Donald John Trump.


Shrubya

If I believed Shrubya could learn from experience, and take correction, I wouldn't be as worried about the meanspirited manipulative rat being the Republicratic nominee.

2000 September 13, STella, “Re: Bush vs.Subliminable Messages”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

Clinton worked hard and did some good things. To his detractors: he’s gone folks, get over it. Your “Shrubya” was appointed by the U.S. Supremes. So the rich get richer, the economy heads south, public schools may begin Bible study, Roe v. Wade’s days are numbered, and the environment is secondary to corporate profits.

2001 February 21, John R. Love, “Letters to the editor: The blame game”, in Idaho Statesman, volume 137, number 210, Boise, ID, page 14:

President Shrubya expressed shock and dismay today over the fact that his energy policies have brought exploding gas prices and huge new profits to his friends in the oil industry.

2001 May 18, Doug Robarchek, “Shrubya taking big oil profits mighty hard, sources claim”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 132, number 138, Charlotte, NC, page 13B:

Years ago, in response to some political bullshit heaved by Shrubya and his ignoble Cabal of Curs, I remember seeing long lines of people outside Mexican consular offices waiting to get a Matricula Consular card.

2017 March 24–30, Gustavo Arellano, quoting Gringo Wants to Play Bingo, “¡Ask a Mexican!”, in OC Weekly, volume 22, number 30, page 8:


Obummer

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Barack Obama, mostly used by conservative detractors.


ruby red

(US politics) Extremely Republican-leaning.


老川

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

From 老 (“a prefix used before surnames to refer to heads or elder members of families”), and 川普 (“Trump”).

zh-l

(American (1980–), neologism, endearing) Donald Trump


DSA

Until very recently, it wasn’t that socialism was toxic in a red-scare way. It was irrelevant, in a dustbin-of-history way. But then came Bernie Sanders’s 2016 candidacy, then the membership boom of DSA, then the proliferation of socialist cultural products like Chapo, and then, finally, the spectacular rise of Ocasio-Cortez.

2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine:

Democratic Socialists of America
w:Democratic Socialists of America

(US politics, socialism) Initialism of Democratic Socialists of America.


Chimpy McFlightsuit

From Chimpy (“George W. Bush”) + Mc- + flightsuit. Referring to the flightsuit that Bush wore in his "mission accomplished" stunt in 2003.

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2006 April 26, the scarey internet, “Chimpy McFlightsuit selects Max Headroom as his spokesperson”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

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2007 February 5, anonymous author, “Chimpy McFlightsuit wants $ for Iran War”, in alt.military.retired (Usenet):

For 76 minutes, President Chimpy McFlightSuit prowled the stage Wednesday in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, giving a speech and answering questions about everything from his opposition to tax increases to his veto of a bill to expand children's health insurance.

2007 October 4, BizarroBush, “Audience Endures 76 Mins Of Chimpy McFlightSuit”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet):


LaRouchebag

Your meaning was always clear. Equally clear is how adherance to LaRouche "philosophy" effectively negates one's ability to have a meaningful impact on most discussions, if for no other reason than others' inability to take a LaRouchebag seriously.

2003 August 21, Jamie, “#HOT! US deploys nuclear missiles in Israeli subs”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

Larouchebag is a racist douche bag who was one of the originators of Urban mythology.

2005 November 14, George, “Many in Jordan See Old Enemy in Attack: Israel”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

..., 29, is a follower of cultish, crypto-anti-Semitic pseudo-leftist Lyndon Larouche, also known as a LaRouchebag.

2010 August 9, Twitchell, “Crazy Town Hall Lady Wants To Win Barney Frank's Seat, Colonize Mars”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A political follower of Lyndon LaRouche.


Russiagater

(US politics, derogatory) One who strongly believes or advocates that there was and possibly still is collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign/subsequent administration and the Russian government.