de-Trumpification

noun

Removing the Trump brand name.

Meanings

nounde-Trumpification (uncountable)

alternative detrumpification

  1. Opposite of Trumpification.
    1. neologismuncountableRemoving the Trump brand name.

      De-Trumpification has already begun at the Taj.

      2016 October 7, “Trump’s name officially exiting a beleaguered Atlantic City”, in Associated Press
    2. USneologismuncountablegovernmentRemoving Trump from power or undoing the effects of his presidency.

      If we expect America to ever again be more than a squalid kleptocracy, we’re going to need a comprehensive plan of de-Trumpification, including wide-ranging investigations and legal reforms.

      2018 February 23, Michelle Goldberg, “The De-Trumpification Agenda”, in New York Times
      2 more examples

      Once President Trump leaves office, a “de-Trumpification” process will have to course through the Republican Party’s veins if it is to again be a worthy part of the American experiment in self-government.

      2019 January 30, Chris Stevenson, “After Trump, the Republican Party will need to do some soul-searching”, in The Washington Post

      Listening to a podcast about the Iran-Contra scandal in 2020 doesn’t provide the frisson of excitement that listening to a podcast about Watergate did in 2017, when the Trump Administration was new, our stress was primal, and the show’s dominating conceit—Watergate took longer to reach a breaking point than we might have realized—seemed to portend a comforting, if distant, de-Trumpification.

      2020 March 13, Sarah Larson, “The podcasts to listen to while you're social-distancing”, in The New Yorker

Origin

From de- + Trumpification. In the political sense used by opponents of Trump, possibly influenced by denazification and de-Baathification.

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APA

de-Trumpification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/de-Trumpification

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“de-Trumpification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/de-Trumpification. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “de-Trumpification,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/de-Trumpification.

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