Trumplandia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Trump + -landia.
Senses: examples: text: 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!
ref: 2015, Carol Pogash, “Preface”, in Quotations from Chairman Trump, New York, N.Y.: RosettaBooks, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2016 October 20, Lili Loofbourow, “Welcome to Trumplandia, where feelings trump facts”, in The Week, New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 21 Oct 2016:
text: 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.
ref: 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 19 Jun 2021:
text: 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.
ref: 2018, Paul Stoller, Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 43:
text: “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.
ref: 2018, Nina Burleigh, Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 311:
text: “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.
ref: 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:
text: Between Home and State: Care Workers and Labor Strategy for the New Open-Shop Era of Trumplandia / Jennifer Klein
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2019, Tiberiu Dianu, Trumplandia: Stories from New America, Chennai: Notion Press, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2021, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020), New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2023, Joseph Russo, “Queer Rot”, in Daniel Lukes, Stanimir Panayotov, editors, Black Metal Rainbows, Oakland, Calif.: PM Press, →ISBN, page 138:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: Alternative form of Trumpland.