Trumpisms

Not to be confused with Trumpism.

Trumpisms are unconventional statements, phrases, and freudian slips made by former United States President Donald Trump that may be regarded as unusual. "Trumpisms" is a play on the word "euphemisms".

Examples

• "They say a wall is medieval. Well, so is a wheel. A wheel is older than a wall."
• “You ever have second thoughts about something?”
• (Referring to North Korea) “I believe it’s a rough situation over there. There’s no question about it.”
• “Well, I haven’t actually left the White House in months.”
• (Referring to John McCain) “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK?”
• (Referring to women) "They let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy."
• (When talking about hurricanes) "I got it, I got it. Why don't we nuke them? They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?"
• (Referring to the American Revolution) "Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do,"
• "We've ended the war on beautiful, clean coal. And it's just been announced that a second, brand new coal mine where they're going to take out clean coal — meaning they're taking out coal, they're going to clean it."
• “Remember two things. Number one, I said, we’re going to be saying Christmas again. And, number two, I said I was going to give you a Christmas present.”
• “And when you’re talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over.”
• (Referring to Syria) “We’re talking about sand and death. That’s what we’re talking about.”
• (Referring to Hurricane Florence) "This is a tough hurricane. One of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water."
• (Referring to Hurricane Dorian) "We don't even know what's coming at us. All we know is it's possibly the biggest. I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of a Category 5. I knew it existed. And I've seen some Category 4s — you don't even see them that much."
• (Referring to wind turbines) “They say the noise causes cancer.”
• (Referring to Puerto Rico) "This is an island, surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water,"
• (While suggesting a cure for Covid-19) "So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn't been checked because of the testing. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too. Sounds interesting. Right, and then I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that."
• (Referring to Covid-19 testing) "“When you test, you create cases.”
• (When asked about his feelings on gay marriage) "It's like in golf... A lot of people - I don't want this to sound trivial - but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive... it's weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can't sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist."
• "Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."
• “The world is not doing well and we’re going great.”
• "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible."
• (When asked about his feelings on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine) “Well, and I said this a long time ago, if this happens, we are playing right into their hands. Green energy. The windmills. They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They kill all the birds. They ruin your landscapes. And yet the environmentalists love the windmills. And I’ve been preaching this for years. The windmills. And I had them way down. But the windmills are the most expensive energy you can have. And they don’t work. And by the way, they last a period of 10 years and by the time they start rusting and rotting all over the place, nobody ever takes them down. They just go on to the next piece of prairie or land and destroy that.”
• (Referring to a picture taken by the FBI during its raid on Mar-a-lago) "A lot of people think that when you walk into my office, I have confidential documents or whatever it may be ― all declassified ― but I have confidential documents spread out all over my floor, like a slob, like I’m sitting there reading these documents all day long or somebody else would be."
• (When asked if he would run for president again) "The question I get asked more than any other question: ‘If you had it to do again, would you have done it?’ The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are."

See also

• Bushisms
• Bidenisms

References

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