Q+

See also: Appendix:Variations of "q"

English

Proper noun

Q+

1. (QAnon) A hypothetical individual believed to be in charge of QAnon, most commonly thought to be Donald Trump himself.
   • 2018 August 3, Philip Bump, “There’s a virus in Trumpland”, in Washington Post‎^[1]:

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

   • 2019 April 23, Brendan Joel Kelley, “QAnon Conspiracy Increasingly Popular with Antigovernment Extremists”, in Southern Poverty Law Center‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2020 February 9, Mike McIntire, Kevin Roose, “What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

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

   • 2020 May 20, Mike Baker, “G.O.P. Voters Back QAnon Conspiracy Promoter for U.S. Senate”, in New York Times‎^[4]:

     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 August 20, Dave Davies, Adrienne LaFrance, Fresh Air‎^[5], NPR:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Q+.