God Emperor

noun

A god-king; a sovereign worshiped as a god.

Meanings

nounGod Emperor (plural God Emperors)

plural God Emperors · alternative God-Emperor

  1. A god-king; a sovereign worshiped as a god.
    1. historicalspecificThe Emperor of Japan.

      Here the God Emperor and his fanatic warlords were using this same Western civilization for one purpose and only one: to create one of the world's most powerful war machines.

      1944, United States Office of War Information, The Battle of China
proper nounthe God Emperor

alternative God-Emperor

  1. UShumorousgovernmentNickname for Donald Trump (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025).

    ... Donald J. Trump'.46 This 380,000-strong group refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' and 'the God Emperor',and gains its identity by standing against liberalism, feminism, intellectualism, and much more besides ...

    2019, Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 130
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    The meme was from Trump's cameo at WrestleMania 23 a decade prior, and in it he tackled WWE owner Vince McMahon before pummeling him on ... Several of his fellow users were congratulating him for getting “the God Emperor's” attention.

    2017, Jared Yates Sexton, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Catapult, →ISBN

    Just days after his election, Trump reaffirmed his campaign commitments to shut down Muslim immigration by signing an ... and with the election over and the man the AltRight called “the god emperor” on his way to the White House,[…]

    2017, George Hawley, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Columbia University Press, →ISBN

    To the 4chan boys Trump was a hero, the social failure in chief, a clown prince. They called him the God Emperor, a swaggering fat Daddy, who, as one commentator put it, would put a car in every white man's drive and an Aryan woman in[…]

    2018, Javaad Alipoor, The Believers are But Brothers, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

    “Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It's time to deport these people,” Anglin declared, ... and avid campaign volunteers, referring to Trump with extravagant nicknames such as “Our Great God Emperor,” “the Nimble[…]

    2018, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Springer, →ISBN, page 136

    Pepe had already been frequently portrayed as a Trump supporter on social media sites. ... a quick browse through the rabid Trump sub-Reddit the_donald will notice many of its members exalting the politician with the title “God Emperor."

    2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 190

    Synonyms: GEOTUS, DJT, The Donald, Trump, Cheeto, Dementia Don, Diaper Don, Dirty Donald

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounNickname for Donald Trump (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025).

Origin

  1. Japanese天皇
  2. EnglishGod Emperor

Its use in reference to the Emperor of Japan is a calque of Japanese 天皇 (tennō, literally “heavenly sovereign/emperor”), referring to the emperor's descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu. In reference to Donald Trump, from Trump-supporting Internet users humorously depicting him as the God-Emperor of Mankind, a character from the British science fiction tabletop game Warhammer 40,000.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 神帝, 神皇帝
  • 神帝 (Shén dì)Translations
  • 神皇帝 (Shén Huángdì)Translations
Finnish jumalkeisari
  • jumalkeisariTranslations
French Empereur-Dieu
  • Empereur-DieuTranslations
German Gott-Kaiser, Gott-Imperator
  • Gott-KaiserTranslations
  • Gott-ImperatorTranslations
Italian Imperatore-Dio
  • Imperatore-DioTranslations
Japanese 神帝, 神皇帝
  • 神帝 (Shintei)Translations
  • 神皇帝 (Kami Kōtei)Translations
Latin Deus-Imperator
  • Deus-ImperatorTranslations
Polish Bóg Imperator
  • Bóg ImperatorTranslations
Portuguese Imperador-Deus
  • Imperador-DeusTranslations
Romanian Împărat-Zeu, Împărat-Dumnezeu
  • Împărat-ZeuTranslations
  • Împărat-DumnezeuTranslations
Russian Бог-Импера́тор
  • Бог-Импера́тор (Bog-Imperátor)Translations
Spanish Emperador-Dios
  • Emperador-DiosTranslations
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APA

God Emperor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/God%20Emperor

MLA

“God Emperor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/God%20Emperor. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “God Emperor,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/God%20Emperor.

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