Trumpology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌmˈpɒlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From Trump + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps, as Eugene Robinson stated in his column (TNT, 3-15), the Chicago protest may very well be noted as “the dawn of the resistance” to this caustic Trumpology.
ref: 2016 March 21, Sam Chandler, “We’re complicit if we don’t denounce Trump”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 9A:
text: Like Kremlinology, Trumpology cannot provide definitive explanations. But it does enable us to lay out intelligent alternative interpretations of what the hell is going on.
ref: 2016 December 7, Gabriel Schoenfeld, “Could Trump’s advisers play him on Taiwan?”, in The Salinas Californian, Salinas, Calif., page 2A:
text: Everybody used to have an old uncle like him, and Trumpology is simply that old uncle with better lighting.
ref: 2017 March 1, Garrison Keillor, “Your crazy old uncle is now president”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., page 17:
text: In the jargon of Trumpology, the president has tossed a sop to his climate-change denying chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and disappointed his green daughter, Ivanka.
ref: 2017 June 2, Simon Jenkins, “Trump wants to shut out the world. Ditching the Paris deal proves it”, in The Guardian, London:
text: Here’s our guide to Trump’s Trumpology.[…]But Trumpology defies ridicule. Critics have been forced to swallow their pride and address the creeping influence of the President’s authorism in the English language, a “post-literate” style that has inflected discourse and internet hot-takes indiscriminately.[…]The Bloomberg editor Joe Weisenthal once, rather flightily, located the providence of Trumpology in Orality and Literacy, the work of 20th-century historian Walter J Ong. “Oral culture rewards redundancy, because when an audience can’t go back and consult a text, speakers must guard against distraction and confusion. Repetition is one useful technique, and Trump is a master of it.”
ref: 2020 October 21, Samuel Fishwick, “Covfefe? It’s ’uge. Donald Trump’s linguistic legacy”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:
text: This is not, however, merely another addition to the annals of Trumpology.
ref: 2021 January 10, Talia Lavin, “Author examines what strongmen like Trump have in common”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo., page B7:
text: Further, American and Christian concepts of love, caring, respectfulness and selflessness are trampled upon, and replaced with Trumpology, a hateful, egotistical, selfish and bullying way of dealing with others. Trump trumps everything if we allow him to. Please start standing up to the lies and deceitfulness so our nation can move to a place of healing rather than be lea^([sic]) into destruction by Trumpology.
ref: 2021 January 21, Greg Hegman, “Trump Trump’s everything if we allow him to”, in Times-News, Twin Falls, Ida., page A11:
text: Reports related to Trump’s second impeachment very well reflect the Trumpology of the last four years – lie as much as you find tolerable (and the tolerance levels have been moved out extensively), and cover the truth with more lies and deception.[…]Lies, deceit and corruption – the core of Trumpology.
ref: 2021 February 11, Greg Hegman, “Same old Trump”, in Times-News, Twin Falls, Ida., page A9:
glosses: The study of Donald Trump.
Derived terms: Trumpologist