Trumplican
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of Trump + Republican.
Noun edit
Trumplican (plural Trumplicans)
- (US politics, often derogatory) A Republican who supports Donald Trump.
- Synonym: Trumpublican
- 2018, Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House, unnumbered page:
- Also, the public needs to recognize that not all Trump supporters are the same. While you rail against one policy of his or another, you may not know you are speaking to a closet Trumplican.
- 2019, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, page 11:
- "Trumplicans" (Trump Republicans) seized power by promising extreme market fundamentalism reliant on fossil fuels, an authoritarianism that would have made Richard Nixon proud, and a toxic rejection of what they referred to as "political correctness," which was really just a dog-whistle invoking their hatred of Democratic values.
- 2020, Ed Raymond, “A trip to Oz”, in Duluth Reader, 28 May - 4 June 2020, page 19:
- Another Trumplican wrote this about the requirement to wear masks: […]