Tantrum(p)?
I usually write “the temper tanTrump in the White House”.
temper tantrum is an established concept:
And a fitting concept for him, IMO.
If I put a “p” at the end, the reference to DJT is clear. Capitalizing the second T makes this reference even clearer, and separates the tan at the beginning, making this allusion to his makeup.
Am I getting on your nerves with this? Do you think I should stop? I like it, you know. May not be the best of jokes, but it is mine.
Use it if you want, but in English, it doesn’t really work unless explicitly prefaced by ‘temper’. And even then, it sounds forced.
Basically, nobody is going to be annoyed by it (maybe confused but probably not annoyed) but, by the same token, it’s not especially clever. Perhaps it works better for non-native speakers?
Ah. Thanks. I haven’t heard the phrase in 40 years or so, so I didn’t make the connection. I’ve never had kids.
No, it’s not getting on my nerves. It’s just that I couldn’t figure out what the insult was, and thought there may have been a non-English explanation.
You have a toddler as POTUS now…
FWIW, this non-native speaker likes it, and I made the right connection the first time I read it. It may not be the most clever pun in history, but I would have been proud if it was my creation.
Native (British) English speaker here.I completely get the insult.
No, I get the insult. But it is apparently a joke worthy of pride?
Could be it doesn’t fit my sense of humor or could be the language thing. Either way, it didn’t really work for me
I completely missed that he was going for ‘temper tantrum’. (I would just say ‘tantrum’.) So I assumed that ‘tan’ or ‘temper tan’, or having bad tan makeup and a tempter, had a connotation in non-English languages. I did not connect temper tan Trump to ‘temper tantrum’. I was totally whooshed.
Given the way steel (although not gold) is tempered, I’d advise a blacksmith to go all out on Mr. Trump.
Who knows, they could forge a whole new president.
The president is already a forgery.
I didn’t get the pun for years. It’s not super obvious. For a long time I just thought it was a reference to his spray tan, and thought it was kind of a weak insult.
Exactly.
I never realized that “tanTrump” was a pun of “tantrum” until now. I thought it only referenced his skin color, which is kind of lame, although somewhat poetic given Trump’s own color-based bigotries.
I wonder if there’s a subtlety of pronunciation going on here. For me, “tanTrump” has two equally stressed syllables, while “tantrum” has a second syllable that’s not stressed. Which changes the vowel quality in a way that I don’t associate with “tanTrump”.
I came to say exactly this.
I got the insult, English only speaker (embarrassingly), and feel it is worthy of pride. FWIW (that and $8 will get you a cup of coffee)
In my dialect of English, the emphasis is on “tan”, rather than “trum” or the alternative “trump” version. (Almost, both syllables get near equal treatment)
Living in an area with beautiful beaches and summer sun… my biggest objection would be that weird orange man is not tanned, he appears to have been dyed. I mean, I have seen some strange body modifications, but they tend to be done by professionals. Orange skin is not one I have seen.
My friend at work said that replacing noam with mullins was like shittig your pants and going home to change your shirt.
Scudsucker that is a picture in my mind that puts a smile on my face.
There’s a brand new statue of Trump and Epstein on the National Mall in Washington DC. This one has them in the Jack and Rise pose at the bow of the ship from the movie Titanic
Another Statue Of Trump And Epstein Appears On National Mall — This Time Inspired By ‘Titanic’
The group known as The Secret Handshake is back at it. On Tuesday morning, a 12-foot statue of President Donald Trump gently holding Jeffrey Epstein à la the star-crossed lovers Jack and Rose from the film “Titanic” was erected near the U.S. Capitol and will be on display, according to the group, for several days.
And in a nod to the Justice Department’s heavy hand redacting the Epstein files, the statue is also flanked by 10 foot banners depicting a photo of Epstein and Trump with a logo made to look like the Department of State logo — except the “State” part is redacted.
In a statement Tuesday, the group said they are flying the banners because it’s been a “banner year for President Trump.”
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