"Trumpery" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From Trump + -ery. Etymology templates: {{af|en|Trump|-ery}} Trump + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Trumpery (uncountable)
  1. (usually derogatory) The beliefs and practices of former US president Donald Trump. Tags: derogatory, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Donald Trump
    Sense id: en-Trumpery-en-noun-NrWgPpcm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery

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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "\"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.",
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          "ref": "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",
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          "text": "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.",
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