Trumpian
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[edit]Trumpian (comparative more Trumpian, superlative most Trumpian)
- Resembling or pertaining to the philosophy, rhetoric, and style of Donald Trump, President of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
- 2017 January 31, Elise Jordan, Time:
- Operating in a command climate of Trumpian instability, the most senior and public White House officials are party to profoundly destabilizing acts.
- 2017 October 14, Tom Phillips, quoting Steve Tsang, “Chairman Xi crushes dissent but poor believe he’s making China great”, in The Observer[2]:
- China is internationally much more accepted as being in the top league and is calling the shots … In Trumpian terms, he’s managed to make China look great again.
- 2018, David Brody, Scott Lamb, The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography, →ISBN:
- The made-up "bible verses" were of course in the form of Trumpian tweets.
- 2020, Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, Chuck Schumer Needs to Watch Himself, 6 March:
- Beyond that, Schumer’s threat was Trumpian—a judge who displeases me will pay a price. His retraction was equally Trumpian: I didn’t threaten anyone. It would be okay if I had because in Brooklyn we threaten people all the time, but those aren’t threats, and anyway I would never, ever do what I just did.
- 2022 August 24, Alex Shephard, “Two of the GOP’s Worst Ghouls Lost Their Primaries”, in The New Republic[3], retrieved 2022-08-24:
- Both, in true Trumpian fashion, refused to concede.
- 2024 July 10, Cameron Joseph, Story Hinckley, “With no clear path forward, more Democrats affirm support for Biden”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- And he’s dismayed that Mr. Biden has resorted to what he sees as Trumpian tactics to shut down dissenting voices in his party.
- Synonyms: Donald Trumpian, Trumpean, Trumpesque, Trumpish, Trumpite, Trumplike
Translations
[edit]resembling or pertaining to the philosophy, rhetoric, and style of Donald Trump
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See also
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[edit]Trumpian (plural Trumpians)