Meanings
nounTrumpwave (uncountable)
- uncountableA subgenre of fashwave music focusing on American politician Donald Trump.
In title, Trumpwave may once have evoked a certain ironic response, to be interpreted as derisive or polysomic. However, in current political times this genre risks becoming newly sincere.
2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine the Future?
Origin
Blend of Trump + vaporwave, equivalent to Trump + -wave.
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Trumpwave. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Trumpwave
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“Trumpwave.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Trumpwave. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Trumpwave,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Trumpwave.
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