Trumpology

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.

2016 March 21, Sam Chandler, “We’re complicit if we don’t denounce Trump”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 9A

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.

2016 December 7, Gabriel Schoenfeld, “Could Trump’s advisers play him on Taiwan?”, in The Salinas Californian, Salinas, Calif., page 2A

Everybody used to have an old uncle like him, and Trumpology is simply that old uncle with better lighting.

2017 March 1, Garrison Keillor, “Your crazy old uncle is now president”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., page 17

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.

2017 June 2, Simon Jenkins, “Trump wants to shut out the world. Ditching the Paris deal proves it”, in The Guardian, London

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.”

2020 October 21, Samuel Fishwick, “Covfefe? It’s ’uge. Donald Trump’s linguistic legacy”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7