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Trump +‎ -ster

Noun edit

Trumpster (plural Trumpsters)

  1. (informal) A political supporter of Donald Trump.
    • 2016, Douglas Kellner, American Nightmare:
      Moreover, for the past two days Paul Manafort and other Trumpsters had aggressively insisted that there was no plagiarism, revealing the spokespeople of the Trump campaign as liars and hypocrites who modify their party line []
    • 2017, Paul Schwartz, A Citizen’s Perspective: Society, Hypocrisy and the 2016 Election Season:
      These Trumpsters were bamboozled into believing that all of the economic ills of our society can be attributed to the poor who depend on government assistance to survive.

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Proper noun edit

the Trumpster

  1. (informal) Donald Trump
    • 2005, Timothy L. O'Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      Phineas Taylor Barnum, godfather of the modern age of hot press and selfpromotion, was Donald's direct precursor, the man who anticipated the Trumpster more than a century before the Trumpster was born.
    • 2016, Andrew Shaffer, The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN, page 105:
      How long before he grew his thinning hair long enough to comb it over his receding hairline in the Trumpster's signature style?
    • 2012, Jeff Foulk, Jay A. Blum, Over the Ocean and to the Links: A Golfer's Journey, Malcolm Press, →ISBN:
      This guy, who sounds like what we might call a “Scottish redneck”, adamantly refused to knuckle under to the Trumpster, and sell out, or even clean up his “eyesore” property.

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