# Trump in one word **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 5, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436 "2025-12-05T19:56:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hideousidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/858c86/32.png) [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/1 "2025-12-05T19:56:29Z")
There are so many, I know. But if you had to choose one to encapsulate him (and would that one could encapsulate him, and hurl that capsule to the deepest trench in the Pacific) which word would you choose? I would choose “vicious.” In the first place, it literally means “characterized by vice,” which he is, in the pettiest and the largest sense of “vice.” And figuratively, it also implies a certain inhuman, animalistic, helpless sense of unthinking, unreasoning anger and hostility to anyone or anything outside of himself. And in the additional sense of “vicious circle,” it implies a certain endlessness, a pointlessness to the aggression–he is vicious just because he’s vicious. No other explanation is possible, or even to be hoped for. He is permanently entwined with vice. Go ahead, do better than that. In a single word. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/2 "2025-12-05T19:57:24Z")
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**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/3 "2025-12-05T19:58:04Z")
Moderating: This is not a P&E thread. Please let us know if you want it reopened in the Pit. For now, it is closed. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/4 "2025-12-05T20:03:28Z")
At the request of the OP, this is reopened in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/5 "2025-12-05T20:03:58Z")
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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/6 "2025-12-05T20:05:07Z")
One word: narcissist. If I’m given two words: malignant narcissist. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/7 "2025-12-05T20:09:41Z")
So going with the [Rule of Three](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)), he’s a vicious malignant narcissist. Sounds about right to me. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/8 "2025-12-05T20:12:21Z")
Pantload. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/9 "2025-12-05T20:14:19Z")
Repugnant ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/10 "2025-12-05T20:20:38Z")
Mendacious ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/11 "2025-12-05T20:21:44Z")
Disgraceful ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/12 "2025-12-05T20:27:43Z")
Pathetic. Also dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/13 "2025-12-05T20:29:20Z")
Monster. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/14 "2025-12-05T20:48:26Z")
“Me!” ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/15 "2025-12-05T20:53:39Z")
One word? Criminal ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/16 "2025-12-05T21:03:11Z")
Venal. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/17 "2025-12-05T21:13:25Z")
Disgusting ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/18 "2025-12-05T21:13:42Z")
Asshole ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/19 "2025-12-05T21:16:13Z")
Delusional ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-one-word/1025436/20 "2025-12-05T21:26:15Z")
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