Meanings
- USgovernmentDonald Trump's unexpected 2016 presidential election win.
And that, it seems, was what last night’s Trumpquake was about, a revolt against the experts, against the elites, against the out-of-touch inside-the-Beltway insiders who enforced the longstanding norms that Trump so flagrantly violated.
2016 November 9, Michael Grunwald, “What Drove the Trumpquake”, in POLITICO1 more example
I was recently at a conference about the causes and consequences of Brexit and the Trumpquake where I heard the French participants try to keep everyone calm by expressing confidence that those shattering setbacks to conventional wisdom would not be followed by the election of President Marine Le Pen.
2016 November 19, Andrew Rawnsley, “The shock lessons for liberals from Brexit and the Trumpquake”, in The Guardian
Origin
From Trump + quake, modeled after earthquake.
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