Trumponomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Trump + -o- + -nomics.
Senses: glosses: The managerial precepts popularized by Donald Trump in the mid-2000s (decade) in his books and reality TV shows
examples: text: Sure, the guy is by far the biggest employer and financial force in Atlantic City and southern New Jersey and Trumponomics is a major concern to the city and the region.
ref: 1990 April 9, Martin DeAngelis, “Don't Worry About Donald Trump's Money; Worry About Your Own”, in The Press of Atlantic City:
text: 2005, November 14, Mary Umberger, "Trumponomics 101", Houston Chronicle
text: While Trump has not provided specifics much beyond the 'Make America Great Again' slogan featured on his often-present baseball cap, strands of Trumponomics have trickled out amid the stream of braggadocio and ad-hominem attacks on his critics.
ref: 2015 August 17, “Donald Trump's Economic Muddle”, in Qatar Tribune:
text: The trouble is, the choice is a dismal one. If you think Corbynomics is wacky, take a look at Trumponomics.
ref: 2015, December 15, Matthew Lynn, "Whoever wins the US presidency, the economy is going to be the loser", The Daily Telegraph
text: ONE of The Donald's trump cards, if you will forgive the pun, is the economy - what he calls Trumponomics. In the finest traditions of the Republican Party he would take an axe to tax.
ref: 2016, March 4, Chris Roycroft-Davis, "His economic plan could be a trump card for Donald", The Express (London)
text: Yes, I know there`s a Moody`s study claiming that Trumponomics would be a yuuge job destroyer, but I really don`t know where they got that result; the best guess seems to be that they`re assuming that former spending on imports just goes away, which is not a good assumption.
ref: 2016 April 9, awouk [username], “Paul Krugman Blog: Why Cruz Is Worse Than Trump”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):
text: Trumponomics consists of three main elements: big tax cuts that are skewed toward the rich; drastic immigration reform, including the deportation of millions of undocumented workers; and protectionist measures, like hefty tariffs on goods from China and Mexico.
ref: 2016 June 21, John Cassidy, “Getting Serious About Trumponomics”, in The New Yorker:
text: Of course, that’s what they all say. But Trumponomics goes beyond the usual Republican assertions that cutting taxes on corporations and the rich, ending environmental regulation and so on will conjure up the magic of the marketplace and make everyone prosper.
ref: 2016 July 4, Paul Krugman, “Trump, Trade and Workers”, in The New York Times:
text: Just like Teddy Roosevelt before them, Donald J. Trump, Lou Dobbs and other proponents of Trumponomics seem to admire the fierce economic efficiency of Wilhelmine Germany – notably the notion that only the coordinated efforts of a strong, centralized government working hand-in-hand with ‘big business’ can generate trade surpluses over a sustained period.
ref: 2017 January 26, M. Nicolas J. Firzli, “'Understanding Trumponomics'”, in Revue Analyse Financière:
text: Tariff-induced higher prices and supply chain problems are just the start of the pain Trumponomics will inflict.
ref: 2025 May 13, Dean Baker, “Never Mind the Stock Market, the Economy Is Blinking a Big Warning”, in The Nation, retrieved 13 May 2025:
glosses: The economic ideas and policies of U.S. businessman and president Donald Trump.
Related terms: Trumpish
Trumpesque
Trumpism
Trumpster fire
Rogernomics
Thatchernomics