Trumpoid

However, the IP is currently in disarray, split between the Buchananites and the Trumpoids. Even though Trump is not in the presidential race, the Trumpoids would prefer to endorse no-one for president and concentrate on state politics. Trump has recently started working on behalf of Giuliani to sieze the IP nomination.

2000 May 12, Alex Elliott, “Putting the "head" back in "Campaign Headquarters"”, in alt.peeves (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

One of our local guru type pigeon keepers is a Trumpoid no masker...the same guy who defied the governor's order and kept his barbershop open when everything was closed down...

2020 October 26, LaRocca (Tony), “Final Report 70th GSC”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

The USA has far too many Trumpoid anti-vax idiots to make herd immunity a reality.

2021 May 8, Omni Vore, “Opinion | We'll Have Herd Immunity by April”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

(US politics, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A supporter of Donald Trump.


Rocketman

Coined by Donald Trump in September 19, 2017 for a United Nations speech, in reference to Kim's launch of military rockets.

coined

Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.

Little Rocketman has totally misrepresented denuke plan we offered. Deals can't get made when there is no trust! Fat kid blew it and will be sorry. Sad!
[…]
Rocketman's sister IS NOT North Korea's IVANKA. Ivanka is 6 feet tall. She's got the best body. Rocketman's sister is flat as a board!

2018 August 7, Dr Jeffrey Lewis, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC:

It wouldn't surprise me. I thought Trump was using Bolton as the "bad cop" in
North Korea, and would use him to annoy Rocketman, then fire him and be the
"good cop".

2019 October 2, Rick Sabian, “THE WHISTLE BLOWER IS”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Today in North Korea we see the lasting Karma of those events where the Japanese mutilated millions for the sheer lust of it. And North Korea's Rocketman wins the fearful adoration of his peoples in consequence.

2019 October 23, RANCE DEWITT, AMAZON COVENANT 2020 TRUMP and BOLSONARO, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(slang, humorous, derogatory, neologism) North Korean politician Kim Jong-un.


Italygate

(US politics) A QAnon-affiliated conspiracy theory alleging that the 2020 United States presidential election was rigged, with satellites and military technology used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden from the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy.


Trump country

[Title:] This Is Trump Country

2016 March 5, Thomas Kaplan, “This Is trump Country”, in The New York Times, page A14:

Still, of the state’s 95 counties, Biden won 91, with Sanders only taking the lead in four counties. From this breakdown, it appears that Democratic voters deep in Trump country think that the center-left approach of Biden is the best bet for the 2020 general election contest.

2020 March 4, Katie A. Cahill, Andrea Kent, Rey Junco, “Super Tuesday results show how Latino voters, moderate Democrats and Trump supporters are shaping the election”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2024-01-04:

Now, Iowa is solidly red Trump country. We'll wave as she [Kamala Harris] flies over us.

2024 July 23, Todd Dorman, “Biden ends a career marked by Iowa punches”, in The Gazette, volume 142, number 196, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, page 5A:

(slang, politics, US) Rural areas in the United States where the majority of voters lean conservative and support the Republican politician Donald Trump.


Cheetolini

Blend of Cheeto + Mussolini, referencing the resemblance of Trump's facial complexion with the color of Cheetos and his perceived political similarity to Benito Mussolini.

"We don’t know the scope of involvement he has planned. The New York Times, though, reported that Obama’s team rushed to preserve intelligence regarding possible contacts between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia."
Trying to keep Cheetolini from destroying incriminating evidence hardly qualifies, IMO.

2017 March 7, Futbol Phan, “Worse than Carter, twice?”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

“[…]But her being trans has nothing to do with those privileges; her gender identity is separate from the fact that she is not very smart and voted for Cheetolini.[…]”

2018 May 22, Franchesca Ramsey, Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist, Hachette UK, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

Fang Fang went Bang Bang (important China collusion hoax news involving
money laundering, trade wars and presidential emolumenting). Did you
see where the Supreme Court did not follow Presidential Ordering and
throw away all the democrat ballots and declare an incredible landslide
for Cheetolini The Truly Great and Amazing?

2020 December 12, mixed nuts, “Here's one source for CCP troops in China...”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):


GEOTUS

Acronym of God Emperor of the United States, a blend of God Emperor + POTUS, in reference to the fictional God Emperor of Mankind from the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and the common acronym for the President of the United States.

acronym

President of the United States
Warhammer 40,000


hamberder

From a 2019 tweet by Donald Trump, in which he misspelled hamburgers as hamberders.

Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamberders etc. Within one hour, it was all gone. Great guys and big eaters!

2019 January 15, realDonaldTrump, Twitter, archived from the original on 2019-01-15:

Donald Trump has bragged about serving a table groaning with McDonalds^([sic]) ‘hamberders’ to a football team visiting the White House. In a misspelt tweet issued Tuesday, the president wrote: ‘Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. ‘Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamberders etc.

2019 January 15, Bod, “Donald Trump brags about serving McDonald’s ‘hamberders’ at White House”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

How many people were there that required 1000 hamberders? And he wasn't just serving those, there were chicken nuggets, pizza too I think.
So, two burgers per person, 500 people?
Anyone want to bet it's another gross exaggeration?

2019 January 15, trader_4, “Donald Trump brags about serving McDonald’s ‘hamberders’ at White House”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

If words could kill I would've turned Thanny into a pile of hamberder a thousand times over.

2019 September 16, gmsin...@gmail.com, “Beano O'Rourke: Police Wouldn't Go Door To Door To Confiscate Guns Under My Plan”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Soon after she started in Congress, Devil’s Due, a comic book publisher, announced its latest product: […] Grab a hamberder and cup of covfefe and prepare to enjoy this read!

2020, Caroline Fredrickson, “Introduction”, in The AOC Way: The Secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Success, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

>> Do wish to purchase a hamburger today?
>
>Don't forget the On!ons.
Indeed, a hamberder with ketchup, lettuce, tomatoes, pickle and ONIONS is not really a hamberder.

2020 September 21, "Sir Hømer Hall, Esq.", “MOST HILARIOUS LIBTARD MELTDOWN E-V-E-R-!”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

food should not be a problem for Trump, given how much he loves McDonald's "hamberders" as he refers to them in his tweets. McDonald's is inexpensive, provides plenty of coupons, and must not be unhealthy because Trump eats them daily, his doctor reports he is in flawless health in spite of having suffered covid. He eats McDonalds^([sic]) as he alleges that it is harder to put poison in fast food, because you do not know which hamberder will be handed to the victim.

2020 November 26, marika, “Food Shortage?????”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

>> Also, if convicted and jailed, would he have Secret Service protection in the mess hall and showers?
>
> He'd be in Club Fed. Private accommodations, like other rich crooks get.
Would he get the hamberders and ice cream that he needs to stay alive? What about golfing facilities?

2021 January 7, Athel Cornish-Bowden, “It's over”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

(humorous) Deliberate misspelling of hamburger.


Trumpwave

Blend of Trump + vaporwave, equivalent to Trump + -wave.

In title, Trumpwave may once have evoked a certain ironic response, to be interpreted as derisive or polysomic. However, in current political times this genre risks becoming newly sincere.

2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine the Future?:

A subgenre of fashwave music focusing on American politician Donald Trump.


Orange Man bad

Intentionally used without a verb, playing into the trope that barbaric or primitive people omit copulas such as is.

CNN BREAKING NOW: ORANGE MAN BAD Is this supposed to be a news site? This looks more like parody news that is not to be taken seriously. Obviously this is the first place you go to when you install the Dissenter app lol CNN IS FAKE NEWS[…]

2019 May 4, Scott Barry, 609 Pages of Horse Shit, Lulu.com, →ISBN:

Orange Man bad. Orange Man wanted to drain the swamp and create some balance again. Orange Man was also a complete stand for the sovereignty and independence of America. He was an advocate for all peoples living great lives.

2021 July 20, Mike Shereck, Manhood Manifesto: How Men Must Lead at Home, at Work, and in the Public Sphere, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Because, because, because Orange Man Bad: ThinkProgress continues, “...even worse, the climate policy agenda President Donald Trump is pushing — actions that include rolling back U.S. laws that reduce carbon pollution and abandoning the[…]

2022 June 8, Matt Teahan, We Are America, We Are Americans (HB), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 438:

(Internet slang, US politics, sarcastic) A statement used to mock opposers of the American politician Donald Trump, implying that they only oppose him because it is either popular to do so, or have no idea what their own political stances really are.


Orange Man

Many people consider Trump's skin to be unusually orange. It is probable, but uncertain, that the term was first used in Orange Man bad.

We want to be in charge damn it, and that Bad Orange Man is in the way. Oh, and so are all of you who support him. In their minds President Trump isn't the only problem. You are a problem too. You are in the way, and that's why every[…]

2020 July 7, Kurt Schlichter, The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and you!), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Trump must really be a bad guy. Orange Man bad. Orange Man wanted to drain the swamp and create some balance again. Orange Man was also a complete stand for the sovereignty and independence of America. He was an advocate for all peoples[…]

Its three signatories were later received by Scott Atlas, recently appointed as Donald Trump's health advisor., ... Rather, it's more virtue signaling via the irrational “Orange Man is anti-lockdown therefore all good “liberals” will,[…]

2021 September 2, Simon Foley, Understanding Media Propaganda in the 21st Century: Manufacturing Consent Revisited and Revised, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 153:

(Internet slang, humorous) Donald Trump, current US president and politician.


From J6 (“January 6 [United States Capitol attack]”) + -er.

suf

January 6 􂀿United States Capitol attack􂁀

Judges going easy on J6ers on grounds that a little bit goes a long way evidently haven't read a word of history: light sentences for fascists are a gift to them, easy time that to their followers equals instant martyrdom, readymade (read: faux) "authenticity."

2021 August 24, JeffSharlet, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-06:

Former president Trump called all the J6ers to DC promising it’d be wild.

2022 January 20, Kevin Robbins, “Jan. 6 and BLM not the same”, in The Post-Star, volume 118, number 62, Glens Falls, NY, page A4:

A third fundraising site, the Patriot Freedom Project, lists Rehl as one of 34 detained “J6ers.” The site is “dedicated to bringing awareness to the plight of those being politically persecuted and supporting their families and friends,” it says.

2022 March 30, Laura Italiano, “How lagging prosecutions and long jail stays are fanning the flames of Jan. 6 extremism”, in Business Insider:

I pled guilty to a misdemeanor. And when you Google my name, and you look at this dossier that the government has compiled against me and every other J6er.

2023 January 19, Tucker Carlson Tonight, spoken by Brandon Straka, via Fox News:

Many of the J6ers had never been incarcerated before, and jail came as a shock. The difference, though, between them and the average person in the D.C. jail, or any American jail, is that they were going through hell together.

2024 September 16, Hanna Rosin, “The Insurrectionists Next Door”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

(US politics, neologism) A participant in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.


MAGAism

After his loss, Trump spoke of forming a “Patriot Party” that would compete with the GOP to fly the banner of true MAGAism. Such a third party, based on populist rhetoric and grievance, would be a twenty-first-century version of[…]

2021 June 22, Mike Rothschild, The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, Melville House, →ISBN, page 238:

However, the series also finds Roseanne's performative MAGAism equally humorous. Principle, whichever side of the political aisle it hails from, is set up for mockery in this reboot, and the butt of Roseanne's jokes is no longer systems[…]

2022 April 12, Karen McNally, American Television during a Television Presidency, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:


Qcumber

Qcumbers (plural)
Qucumber (alternative)

I no longer refer to them as 'Qanon people.'
To me, they will forever be known as Qcumbers.
#QcumberCult

2020 April 19, just_mice33, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-16:

(slang, derogatory) A follower of the QAnon movement.


Q+

I heard a woman ask a guy in a "Q+" hat — one of Q's signatures, he told me — what Q was about.

2018 August 3, Philip Bump, “There’s a virus in Trumpland”, in Washington Post:

The group regularly disseminates Q's messages on UCP's official YouTube livestream. Members toss off remarks like "thank God for Q and Q+, that’s Trump," actively look for Q messages and claim that real news is based those messages.

2019 April 23, Brendan Joel Kelley, “QAnon Conspiracy Increasingly Popular with Antigovernment Extremists”, in Southern Poverty Law Center:

Some QAnon devotees even believe that Mr. Trump posts himself, under the code name "Q+".

2020 February 9, Mike McIntire, Kevin Roose, “What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World”, in New York Times:

Ms. Perkins said she saw Mr. Trump as being involved in the Q effort, saying that she believed he was posting online under the pseudonym Q+.

2020 May 20, Mike Baker, “G.O.P. Voters Back QAnon Conspiracy Promoter for U.S. Senate”, in New York Times:

DAVIES: Let's just talk about some QAnon terms. When you see Q+, what does that mean?
 LAFRANCE: Well, Q+ refers to President Trump himself.

2020 August 20, Dave Davies, Adrienne LaFrance, Fresh Air, NPR:

(QAnon) A hypothetical individual believed to be in charge of QAnon, most commonly thought to be Donald Trump himself.


Trumpster diving

So, sit back, grill a Trump Steak, pour a tall glass of Trump Vodka, and go “Trumpster diving” for some billiondollar stanzas, straight from the Bard of the Deal. As the Poet himself might say, this stuff is like very, very, very good.

2015 December 15, Hart Seely, Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

He presents himself as a Strong Man who promises to knock heads and make things right again. In this, he has a lot more in common with South American populist demagogues than with our tradition of political leaders... The middle-class consensus in America has collapsed. This is the most important political and social earthquake since World War II. The conservative movement's leadership isn't up to the challenge, and a good number of voters are willing to gamble on Trump's bluster. Bad bet. Our nation's solidarity is being tested. It will only make things worse if we go Trumpster diving.

2016 January 21, R. R. Reno, “Conservatives against Trump”, in National Review, archived from the original on 2022-10-29:

Reno humorously cautions against going “Trumpster diving” for our next president (p. 38). Donald Trump was reviled for his vulgarity and boastfulness.

2017 March 8, William L. Benoit, Mark J. Glantz, Persuasive Attacks on Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Primary, Lexington Books, →ISBN:

scraping the bottom of the barrel
scrape the bottom of the barrel

(US, politics, dated, informal, humorous) The act of scraping the bottom of the barrel to find a candidate.

VBNMW

voting for liberal candidates regardless of their record


Trump train

(US politics, informal) Political support for Donald Trump.


Teflon Don

From teflon (“able to easily shrug off or deflect criticism or blame”) + Don (diminutive of Donald), for Trump’s supposed ability to dodge legal matters.

Former President Trump – long deemed Teflon Don for his ability to dodge legal matters – is facing a series of serious criminal charges brought by the Justice Department, which unsealed a 37-count indictment on Friday related to his handling of classified documents.

2023 June 10, “Trump faces biggest challenge yet to 'Teflon Don' persona”, in The Hill:


Dear Leader

But patriotism means standing up for your country's values, not pledging personal allegiance to Dear Leader.

2017 January 16, Paul Krugman, “With All Due Disrespect”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-13:

Even as Trump commands a dwindling number of Republicans willing to say the election remains unsettled, his administration is stuck trying to carry out Dear Leader's wishes.

2020 November 14, Terry H. Schwadron, “Trump gums up the transition works”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-05-05:

Also on Tuesday, Arizona Republicans censured Rusty Bowers, a Republican and leader in the state's legislature, after he had testified last month before the committee and denied that Trump won Arizona. Fealty to "Dear Leader" remains a tribal litmus test.

2022 July 22, Lloyd Green, “Trump, modern Nero, watched the Capitol sacked from a White House dining room”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-05:

(by extension, ironic, derogatory) A nickname for Donald Trump (US president from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025), seen as engendering unthinking subservience among his followers.


Trumpcuck

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A supporter of former U.S. president Donald Trump.


mini-Trump

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mini-Trump.

(politics, derogatory) A Trumpian politician.


FDT

[Pitt] pairs [the upside-down American flag dipped in black ink] with a white surrender flag with the message “FDT” [.]

2017 January 18, Shelia Regan, “13 Artists Design Flags for the Age of Trump (with Plans to Burn Them Later)”, in Hyperallergic, archived from the original on 2023-03-21:

(US politics) Initialism of fuck Donald Trump.


Trumplandia

Mr. Trump, who believes he is always right, may be correct: he may become the forty-fifth president of the United States. […] This is history on the fly, written for the scholars of the future who will analyze Trumpian doctrine and for the schoolchildren who will memorize Trump’s pithiest quotes. […] —Carol Pogash / Trumplandia / USA!

2015, Carol Pogash, “Preface”, in Quotations from Chairman Trump, New York, N.Y.: RosettaBooks, →ISBN:

Having systematically and baselessly pronounced every objective system to which he might be accountable as invalid or illegal — a list that includes polls, data, newspapers, and actual math — Trump suggests that, in fact-free Trumplandia, he has not just the right but the obligation to hold the nation hostage while he judges the election. He alone will pronounce on its legitimacy, and the basis of his pronouncement will not be anything you — a mere outsider to his marvelous world — can measure.

2016 October 20, Lili Loofbourow, “Welcome to Trumplandia, where feelings trump facts”, in The Week, New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 2016-10-21:

In the brave, new nation of Trumplandia, it can be hard to keep things straight. Down is up and up is sideways and many words have taken on new meaning. What follows is an aid to deciphering the gibberish.

2017 July 27, Mary Schmich, “It's hard to understand Donald Trump without this Trumplandia Dictionary”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., archived from the original on 2021-06-19:

Here’s the rub. If that knowledge is produced but not consumed, it will have little impact on the quest for global social justice. Are research, thinking, reading, and producing texts like the aforementioned blog going to make a difference in Trumplandia? Reading Foucault might provide a road map for resisting Minority President Trump, but the real work of resistance is down in the trenches—organizing, making phone calls, and printing flyers.

2018, Paul Stoller, Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 43:

“He really enjoyed the battle between Marla and Ivana.” The Queens of Trumplandia are champion competitors who have never been reluctant to fight to the finish.

2018, Nina Burleigh, Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 311:

“The Color of New Media Enters Trumplandia” is a transcript of our group meeting on February 2, 2017, which was twelve days after the inauguration of Donald Trump as forty-fifth president of the United States, and the same day that alt-right agitator Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to visit the UC Berkeley campus.

2019, Abigail De Kosnik, Keith P. Feldman, “Introduction: The Hashtags We’ve Been Forced to Remember”, in #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 17:

Between Home and State: Care Workers and Labor Strategy for the New Open-Shop Era of Trumplandia / Jennifer Klein

2019, Jasmine Kerrissey, Eve Weinbaum, Clare Hammonds, Tom Juravich, Dan Clawson, editors, Labor in the Time of Trump, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, →ISBN:

If minorities consider they are cheated, they can start voting Democrats again. But they should give Trump a shot. They should try to live a life in Trumplandia.

2019, Tiberiu Dianu, Trumplandia: Stories from New America, Chennai: Notion Press, →ISBN:

In Trumplandia, history begins when we wake up; and the future starts the morning after, with a new outrageous “executive order” against the poor, the migrants, the sick, the elderly, “criminal foreigners,” queers, rebel artists, the beluga whales, the sequoias, etc.… And, as if this weren’t enough, the refrigerator is empty. And I have jury duty next Monday. The rest is academic discourse. Trump is in power & every day feels like a new episode of a 24-hour post-apocalyptic reality TV show titled The President of Designed Chaos.

2021, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020), New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:

The subjects of these explorations were “resisting,” and they were “coping,” and they were “innovating”—they were doing and generating and being and growing under and despite the imperial lash. And now the good benevolent ethnographer wants to help them decolonize, as if the dull infection of the colony was not gift enough. But having returned home to the locus of rot that is the American scene, they find something now to see there: it is fundable thought. Trumplandia scowled them into this interest, but no matter. Here the genres bewilder us if we spend time looking.

2023, Joseph Russo, “Queer Rot”, in Daniel Lukes, Stanimir Panayotov, editors, Black Metal Rainbows, Oakland, Calif.: PM Press, →ISBN, page 138:

They were assigned the task of keeping a certain minimal order in species composition in the backyards of Cleveland Avenue. It works, if one does not question the birds too closely. No one who counts on this block is any longer overwhelmed by rats. It keeps my mind on living and dying in noninnocent combinations; it situates me in Trumplandia.

2023, Donna Haraway, “Revisiting Catland in 2019: Situating Denizens of the Chthulucene”, in Cynthia Huff, Margaretta Jolly, editors, Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web (Routledge Auto/Biography Studies), Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:


Trumpkin

From Trump + -kin, modelled after munchkin.

He concedes that yesteryear's Fascists are “not exactly” like Trump's populist armies, but the collective noun he assigns—“Trumpkins”—usefully diminishes them as tiny Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.

2017, Harold Evans, Do I Make Myself Clear?:

(derogatory) A follower, supporter, or protégé of Donald Trump.


girther

Girthers averred that President Trump had lied about his weight.

2022, Timothy J. Redmond, Political Tribalism in America, page 107:

physical examination
physical examination

(slang, US politics) One who believed that Donald Trump was shorter and heavier than suggested by his presidential physical examination in 2018.


Trumpery

From Trump + -ery, especially as a pun on trumpery.

"Trump: The Art of the Deal" (fresh drumroll, please) is more forthcoming about the first wing of the Trump attack than it is about the second. The reason goes to the dark heart of Trumpery: the book is itself a craftily designed piece of public relations. That a businessman should thus use himself as a sales gimmick is hardly a crime against literature. But "The Art of the Deal" does deserve at least a warning label.

1988 February 1, Louis Menand, “The Triumph of Trumpery”, in The New Republic, New York, N.Y.: Republic Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-07:

In American alone, after 18 months of trumpery, the editors of Merriam-Webster are still playing catch-up. If new terms aren't being hatched, like narcissocracy or pluto-populism, then recent inventions (infoganda, feardom, Spinnish) are fast gaining traction.

2018 August 28, David Astle, “Wordplay: OK cracy-ness rules, OK?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, NSW: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-31:

So American people are going to be called on. I think they'll repudiate Trumpery. That's why I think Trump has to be front and center. I'm not in agreement with the people who say, "No, never talk about Trump." He needs to be discussed. Trumpery, not Trump, Trumpery needs to be a part of every conversation. The 2024 election is going to be a referendum on both Trump and Trumpery, because if he's alive, he's running.

2022 May 25, Dahlia Lithwick, quoting Norm Eisen, “The Four Boxes to Defeat Trumpery”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-16:

Trumpery is like a virus in a zombie movie, infecting the unlikeliest think-tankers, politicians, and columnists. People you have down as solid Reaganites will suddenly, like the ravening monsters in those films, start telling you that tariffs are a terrific negotiating tool or that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is more dangerous than Russian President Vladimir Putin.

2024 February 8, Dan Hannan, “When the Republicans get back to normal, Trump and Trumpery will pass”, in Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C.: MediaDC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-28:

(usually derogatory) The beliefs and practices of former US president Donald Trump.


Dark MAGA

"I am on a mission now to expose those who say and promise one thing yet legislate and work towards another, self-profiteering, globalist goal," Cawthorn wrote. "The time for genteel politics as usual has come to an end. It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak members of our own party. Their days are numbered. We are coming." (Cawthorn originally misspelled "genteel" as "gentile.")

2022 May 20, Eric Ting, “Kevin McCarthy tries to be nice to Madison Cawthorn. Cawthorn attacks anyway.”, in SFGATE:

(US politics, slang) A fringe movement advocating for a vengeful return of Trumpism.


many such cases

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From an X (formerly Twitter) post by Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump) in 2014, popularized after his election as President of the United States in 2016:
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
The phrase itself has been rarely attested in literature, from at least the 19th century, primarily in medical or legal context.

quote-book

1848, François Lallemand, A Practical Treatise on the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Spermatorrhœa, Lea & Blanchard:

(colloquial, often humorous) Used to indicate that an occurence is unsurprising, or that something is or was evident. Often sarcastic, mocking someone for believing that something is common, or otherwise tongue-in-cheek.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see many, such, cases, indicating that there are many examples of something or that something is a common occurrence.


double hater

double haters (plural)
double-hater (alternative)

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There's the anti-Trump forces on the right and the anti-Biden forces on the left, but there's also the anti-everyones, the so-called double haters, the people who really dislike both their choices and say they don't want to vote for either candidate. We had double haters in 2020, and they tended to ultimately break for Biden.

2024 March 17, Carlos Lozado, Katherine Miller, Michelle Cottle, Lydia Polgreen, quoting Carlos Lozado, “The Double-Hater Election”, in New York Times, page SR 11:

Double haters make up about 15% of the electorate, according to a poll this month by USA TODAY/Suffolk University, giving them significant sway in deciding the outcome of the November election.

2024 March 23, Joey Garrison, “Meet the surging ‘double haters’ who could decide whether Biden or Trump wins the election”, in USA Today:

Uhh, okay. 67% of, this is my favorite category, the double haters, and a lot of us are in this category, [laughter] including me. Look, I- I'm never going to vote for Trump and I'm never going to help Trump win. So that's not going to happen. But, you know, beyond that, uhh, I got no love for Joe Biden. So, you know, double hater? Well, maybe. Uhh. So. Anyways, that's a big number; that's a big group in America, the double haters, understandably so. And uhh...67% of them said that the- that Trump should drop out. Now that's, like, since they're not decided, that's a really important group. On the other hand, they already hate him, that's why they're double haters, so it's not that surprising that two-thirds of them- of them want him to drop out.

2024 June 5, Cenk Uygur, 7:39 from the start, in Was Trump Hurt by the Felony Conviction? Poll Results, YouTube; The Young Turks, archived from the original on 2024-06-05:

(US politics, neologism) A person who did not favor either the Democratic Party (in 2020, candidate Joe Biden; in 2024, Kamala Harris (formerly Biden)) or the Republican Party (candidate Donald Trump) in the 2020 or the 2024 United States presidential election.


detrumpification

Only a huge win in 2020 will make detrumpification possible. And only detrumpification reopens the door for American democratization.

2019 November 12, Ira Allen, “On Detrumpification: An Urgently Necessary Process After Trumpism”, in Common Dreams:

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


detrumpify

en-verb

detrumpify (third-person singular simple present detrumpifies, present participle detrumpifying, simple past and past participle detrumpified)

detrumpifies (present singular third-person)
detrumpifying (participle present)
detrumpified (participle past)
detrumpified (past)

So, no, if you want to be able to detrumpify--and if you give any shits about democratic norms or the constitutional order or any of that, you'd *better* want to be able to detrumpify government at all levels -- then you've only got one pragmatic choice.

(US politics, transitive, neologism) To subject to detrumpification.


Trumplessness

We'd switch on the car radio and there'd be utter Trumplessness all the way to work.

2017 March 6, Amy Goldman Koss, “Op-Ed: Something a lot of us could get behind — a week without Trump”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-20:

Two days later, I was minding my own business, enjoying the memory of the pastry I'd just eaten at a cafe that had become my favorite when my Trumplessness was again interrupted. In a dusty street-facing stall that sells high powered speakers and cheap cell phone cases in Jyatha, Kathmandu, I ran into Dilli Ram Kander, the administrator of the biggest Donald Trump fan page in Nepal.

2017 May 14, Erin Gloria Ryan, “Taking a Trumpspringa: My Break From 24-7 Trump News”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2023-12-07:

The absence of Donald Trump (president of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present)).


Bleachgate

What some of the world's most insufferable people are already calling "Bleachgate" is a perfect reductio ad absurdum of the relationship between the president and the media.

2020 April 29, Matthew Walther, “Bleachgate is the archetype of a Trump media cycle”, in The Week:

A 2020 controversy where then-president Donald Trump suggested drinking bleach as a way to cure COVID-19.


MAGAtard

I may sound like MAGAtard but Trump's assassination was not staged, they really wanted to kill him.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A person who uncritically supports Donald Trump


Zion Don

From Zion + Don or blend of Zionist + Donald, in the context of his pro-Israel stance. Also chosen for its quasi-rhyme.

They realized that they have overused their Zion Don to the point where one more of these attacks and his base is going to abandon him entirely.

2019 April 1, D. Schlenk, “Mossad/CIA False Flag Warning”, in de.soc.weltanschauung.misc (Usenet):

Good, that’s where Zion Don belongs. I doubt, however, that Democrats have balls to do that. Also, the fact that they call prison a “niggerville” really says a lot about niggers.

2023 November 19, D. Ray, “Re: 8 NIGGERS ARRESTED IN VEGAS TEEN'S FATAL BEATING”, in de.soc.weltanschauung.misc (Usenet):

Trump supporters have also moved to the right of Trump himself: hence, accusations of Trump running a MIGA campaign (Make Israel Great Again) or even himself being a Zion Don can be found on Reddit and 4chan (Luddy 2021).

2024, Elizaveta Gaufman, Bharath Ganesh, The Trump Carnival - Populism, Transgression and the Far Right, page 59:

(US politics, derogatory, uncommon) Donald Trump.


covfefe

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English coverage
English covfefe
From a 31 May 2017 tweet by Donald Trump: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”, presumably intending to write coverage. Donald Trump later tweeted: “Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ??? Enjoy!”. Sense 1 ("deliberate misspelling of coffee") is from the phonetic similarity.

COVFEFE Act

Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act

Go ahead, read on to humankind’s honest truth, the coinciding dominion where mansplaining reality confronts feminazi theory. A covfefe amphitheater revealing women not as chattel to be bought and sold.

2017, Nathaniel Schmeling, Timing the Infinite, →ISBN:

THEN A LITTLE SPRINKLE OF COVFEFE DUST. NOT EVEN TRUMP KNOW WHAT IN IT. […] AHHHH… TREMENDOUS TRUMP ALWAYS SAVE THE DAY.

2018, Joe Dunn, “The Fecal Fiend”, in A Man-Child Covefe! (The Tremendous Trump), San Antonio, Tex.: Antarctic Press:

President Trump, I was not being delusional in calling him by the name in which he tweets out insults through a covfefe movement, as you will come to learn towards the end the use of this word, which no reasonable language can justify its meaning except to take each letter apart and turn them into our present indwelling shame that this president has brought upon the United States of America. […] For now, we look for truth, hope, and light, or some form of hope within these truths, and not covfefe, which is here taunting us to stay silent until calamity becomes America’s portion.

2018, Najah Mahir, “Preface”, in The Ransom that Lies Demand: We the People and “Covfefe”, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, pages xv and xx:

But he [Mike Pence]’s no Trump in any sense. […] The base respects Pence and his loyal service, but he just does not have the covfefe that the base needs and wants in 2024.

2020, Kurt Schlichter, The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and You!), Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN:

Covfefe, construed as a disruptive space, is a form of noise – a disturbance in the orderly sequence. […] So, even if much of the covfefe may appear as random ramblings, the disturbance as such still has political consequences and effects. The noise generated through covfefe becomes a crack in the dominant discourse, a crack that can be deepened through continued work.

2020, Simon Lindgren, Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods, Polity Press, →ISBN:

In the meantime, a battered and bruised capital has adjusted to life at a calmer pace, with quieter activities and words replacing the obscenities, characters and gibberish that used to shape how the [Trump] days were spent. Bagels over Bannon. Grandchildren over golf. Church over covfefe.

2021 February 22, Katie Rogers, “Did Washington Just Have an Actual Weekend?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-02-22:

He states he can design a better fighter jet than the military. Really? Maybe with a bit of magical covfefe.

2023 September 28, David Lubin, “[Your letters] The magic man”, in Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla., page 20A, column 1:

(humorous, rare) A notional representation of the success, discourse or ideas of Donald Trump.


MAGAlomaniac

(Internet slang, derogatory) A megalomaniacal supporter of Donald Trump.


Diaper Don

Since the results [of the investigations] are similar in both cases, in the name of fairness and equality, shouldn't Diaper Don be treated the same as Hillary [Clinton]? Lock him up! Lock him up!

2019 April 9, Hal Lichtman, “Parallel probes”, in Daily News, volume 100, number 288, Voice of the People, page 28:

After he [Josh Hawley] sticks his head in Diaper Don's soiled Depends™ he will never be able to wash off the Trump Stank.

2020 December 31, Kaboota, “Re:Sen. Josh Hawley Says He Will Suck Trump's Tiny Limp Cock On Jan. 6”, in alt.slack (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-10-16:

You know what Trumpers love more than anything? [...] Violence. Trump, too, or so he thinks. Well, unlike Diaper Don, I'm an expert on that subject.

2024 [2022], Greg Iles, Southern Man, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(US politics, derogatory) A nickname of the American president Donald Trump.


MAGAnomics

The focus of MAGAnomics is simple: Grow the economy and with it the wealth of, and opportunity for, all Americans.

2017 July 13, Mick Mulvaney, “Introducing MAGAnomics”, in The Wall Street Journal:

The willingness of "MAGA Republicans" to force a government shutdown "unless Donald Trump gets his way, shines a brighter spotlight on economic impacts of the extreme MAGAnomics agenda," campaign advisers said in an email last week.

2023 September 27, Megan Lebowitz, “Biden campaign highlights 'MAGAnomics' ahead of the second GOP debate”, in NBC News:


anti-Trumpism

From anti- + Trump + -ism or anti- + Trumpism.

Its emphasis has turned to anti-anti-Trumpism. Most of the magazine’s writers are too embarrassed to defend Trump’s behavior outright.

2020 September 15, Jonathan Chait, “National Review Has Elevated Anti-Anti-Trumpism to an Art Form”, in Intelligencer, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:

(US politics) General disapproval, resistance and opposition to Donald Trump and/or his policies.


Trump-proof

en-adj

Trump-proof (comparative more Trump-proof, superlative most Trump-proof)

more Trump-proof (comparative)
most Trump-proof (superlative)

Another: “We need a rigorous screening process with 100% accuracy and a 20 ft. high Trump-proof fence around all of St. Petersburg.”

2015 December 8, Claire McNeill, “[Rick] Kriseman ‘bars’ Trump from St. Pete”, in tbt* (Tampa Bay Times), St. Petersburg, Fla., page 7, column 2:

The primary process might not be Trump-proof, but the democratic governing process, as outlined by the Constitution, is designed to stifle would-be dictators and buffoons.

2016 August 7, Phil Reisman, “It will be [Hillary] Clinton or Trump, but likely not for too long”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, 231st year, number 327, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., page 12A, column 4:

2016 November 20, Donnelle Eller, “Iowa’s clean energy likely is Trump-proof”, in Des Moines Sunday Register, Des Moines, Ia., page 1D

And more importantly, is your money and family Trump-proof?

2017 January 15, Michael Molinski, “Are your finances Trump-proof?”, in Knoxville News Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn., page 7B, column 1:


Trumpquake

From Trump + quake, modeled after earthquake.

And that, it seems, was what last night’s Trumpquake was about, a revolt against the experts, against the elites, against the out-of-touch inside-the-Beltway insiders who enforced the longstanding norms that Trump so flagrantly violated.

2016 November 9, Michael Grunwald, “What Drove the Trumpquake”, in POLITICO:

I was recently at a conference about the causes and consequences of Brexit and the Trumpquake where I heard the French participants try to keep everyone calm by expressing confidence that those shattering setbacks to conventional wisdom would not be followed by the election of President Marine Le Pen.

2016 November 19, Andrew Rawnsley, “The shock lessons for liberals from Brexit and the Trumpquake”, in The Guardian:

(US politics) Donald Trump's unexpected 2016 presidential election win.


TDSer

There’s nothing – not. one. thing. – that Trump could do or say that would be received positively by TDSers.

2018 July 20, Chris Cillizza, “What is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ – and do you have it?”, in CNN:

Trump derangement syndrome
Trump derangement syndrome

(derogatory) One who exhibits Trump derangement syndrome; one who has an irrational hatred of Donald Trump.


Gulf of America

* (Nakhodka Bay): Partial calque of Russian зали́в Америка (zalív Amerika), from зали́в (zalív, “gulf, bay”) and the name of the Russian corvette Америка (Amerika) that discovered the bay.
* (Gulf of Mexico): A proposed renaming by US president Donald Trump.

partial calque

зали́в Америка

Alternative form: Gulf of Amerika


Mar-a-Lago

/ˌmɑːr ə ˈlɑːɡoʊ/

Borrowed from Spanish mar a lago (literally “sea to lake”).

bor+

The race descended into a brutal slugfest as the leading candidates, the author-turned-venture capitalist J.D. Vance, the former state treasurer Josh Mandel and a self-funded businessman, Mike Gibbons, entered the final weekend before Tuesday’s primaries accusing one another of being insufficiently right-wing or disloyal to the man in Mar-a-Lago.

2022 April 30, Jonathan Weisman, Trip Gabriel, “Once Soft-Spoken, Ohio Conservatives Embrace the Bombast”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

And it was Mr. Thiel who brokered and attended a meeting at Mar-a-Lago at which Mr. Vance began his rehabilitation and reinvention.

2022 May 5, Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, “Tucker, Thiel and Trump: How J.D. Vance Won in Ohio”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A beach resort in Palm Beach, Florida, primary residence of Donald Trump.


TMTG

Trump Media noted that risk in SEC filings, saying: “Donald J. Trump is the subject of numerous legal proceedings, the scope and scale of which are unprecedented for a former President of the United States and current candidate for that office. An adverse outcome in one or more of the ongoing legal proceedings in which President Trump is involved could negatively impact TMTG and its Truth Social platform.”

2024 March 26, Matt Egan, “Trump’s Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion-dollar valuation defies logic”, in CNN:

Trump Media & Technology Group
w:Trump Media & Technology Group

Initialism of Trump Media & Technology Group.