mini-Trump

plural mini-Trumps

1. derogatorygovernmentA petty Trumpian politician.

   And for the EU a Johnson premiership would mean “a mini-Trump across the Channel, dedicated to its sabotage”. Britain would become “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.”

   2019 June 13, Jon Henley, “'Mini-Trump across the Channel': EU media on Boris Johnson as British PM”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   Yet most of Europe’s mini-Trumps have survived his fall, his denial of defeat and the storming of Congress by his supporters, and are now hoping that a comeback for the Republican frontrunner in next year’s US presidential election will put fresh wind in their own sails.

   2023 September 26, Paul Taylor, “Europe’s ‘mini-Trumps’ survived his fall. Now they’re hoping for his comeback”, in The Guardian, →ISSN