# What to call Trump supporters? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 4, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221 "2020-12-04T19:01:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/21 "2020-12-05T18:24:09Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > You seem to be under the impression that there is a meaningful difference between Trumps supporters and republicans I feel there is a useful distinction to make, in that if a member of the Republican party speaks poorly of Trump, then the Trumpists attack said Republican. The Trumpists are forged nearly exclusively _from_ Republicans, but I do not consider them as such. Their ideology, such as it is, is whatever Trump tells them - they are a party of, by, and for Trump. However, I will grant you, that the vast majority of remaining Republicans have sold out their own previous party ideology to maintain or grown their power as Trumpists. Which leads to an interesting point. If Trumpists are the ‘true believers’ of a crazed, populist tyrant wannabe, what are those republicans like, say, Mitch, who are manipulating both Trump and his Trumpists? Crypto-Trumptists? Trumpcoaters? Trumpfluffers? The mind boggles. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/22 "2020-12-06T14:14:33Z")
Trumpists or Magabots. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/23 "2020-12-06T14:34:13Z")
I prefer to let my words be straightforward, and to do my editorializing with sentences. That is to say, I wouldn’t use a term like “trumptards” to convey the idea that Trump supporters are idiots; when I wish to convey that idea, I say “Trumpists are idiots”. Putting the “idiot” meaning in the word itself leaves wiggle room that I don’t intend to allow: “Sure, the trumptards are idiots, but I’m not one of them; I’m one of the sensible Trump supporters”. By putting the meaning in a complete sentence, I can make it clear that all of Trump’s supporters are idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/24 "2020-12-06T14:39:35Z")
Trump supporters when I’m trying to be polite. But I feel Trump’s Chumps is a more accurate term. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/25 "2020-12-06T16:32:03Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I prefer to let my words be straightforward, and to do my editorializing with sentences. That is to say, I wouldn’t use a term like “trumptards” to convey the idea that Trump supporters are idiots; when I wish to convey that idea, I say “Trumpists are idiots”. > > Putting the “idiot” meaning in the word itself leaves wiggle room that I don’t intend to allow: “Sure, the trumptards are idiots, but I’m not one of them; I’m one of the sensible Trump supporters”. By putting the meaning in a complete sentence, I can make it clear that all of Trump’s supporters are idiots. This. I’m just not a fan of name-calling in general. That’s at the intellectual level of children. It’s fine when they do it; I don’t expect any better of most of them. I do expect better of myself. Right now I favor “Trumper” for someone devoted to Trump the person and “Trumpist” for someone advocating an authoritarian _de facto_ overthrow of our constitutional norms. I doubt anyone else gets the nuances the way I intend, but it makes me feel better. There’s obviously a lot of overlap among the people in those two categories. But the Trumpers will go back to sleep when Trump dies or shuts up or becomes irrelevant. A least they will until the next authoritarian demagogue steps up. The Trumpists won’t. They’ll be all in for authoritarianism every day. And yes, I’ll need a new “ist” for that movement’s name or figurehead once it emerges. Earlier in this fiasco I used “MAGAs” as the same as “Trumper”, but I’m drifting away from that. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/26 "2020-12-07T15:35:20Z")
MAGAbots Fascists ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/27 "2020-12-07T16:05:33Z")
Deplorables. When a group of them gather, it is a basket of deplorables (like a pod of whales, but not cool like a pod of whales). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/28 "2020-12-07T20:07:57Z")
I’m in favor of Trumpists. Like Chronos, if I want to denigrate them, I’ll write it out. If I didn’t, however, and thinking of Rudy’s flatulent episode last week, I might lean toward “brownshorts”. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/29 "2020-12-07T20:22:45Z")
Where I live, I have to call them ‘Neighbors’. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/30 "2020-12-07T21:08:48Z")
There are not very many places where that is not the case, at least to some extent. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/31 "2020-12-08T01:31:48Z")
Eh, na-ga-nonna-do it! ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/32 "2020-12-08T02:51:25Z")
I kind of hoped that Trumpanzees would catch on. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/33 "2020-12-08T02:59:49Z")
And for Pandemic Deniers, ‘Covidiots’. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/34 "2020-12-08T03:06:04Z")
“Morons” has a nice ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/35 "2020-12-08T05:03:38Z")
Deluded. Deliberately ignorant. Colluders. Nasty little shits. Ethically and/or morally handicapped. People who could best serve their country by shutting up and getting the fuck out of the way while badly needed repairs to this country’s psyche and reputation are made. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/36 "2020-12-09T19:14:13Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Deplorables. When a group of them gather, it is a basket of deplorables (like a pod of whales, but not cool like a pod of whales). Despicables. When a group of them gather, it is a pile of Despicables. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/37 "2020-12-09T19:40:30Z")
I really like the term that someone else has put up TRUMPUBLICANS. It covers the deceived and deluded, but also is able to include the cynical party hacks who ride on it for political purposes and the almost criminal subset that are making whatever they can out of monetising the Trump brand such as being put into lucrative positions in return for unconditional support. I personally think that its very much the latter that are running the show and they are very much in the naked greed grab before the curtain falls ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/38 "2020-12-10T18:42:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’m just not a fan of name-calling in general. That’s at the intellectual level of children. It’s fine when they do it; I don’t expect any better of most of them. I do expect better of myself. I’m okay with name calling, but I hate hearing the same joke over and over again, so I just go with “Trump supporters.” ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/39 "2020-12-10T23:53:02Z")
MAGA Dipshits has the gravitas necessary, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/40 "2020-12-12T02:38:26Z")
Per the Chairman of the Texas GOP on [twitter](https://www.texasgop.org/chairman-allen-wests-response-to-scotus-decision/) as a response to finding their legal efforts have no standing… "_Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution.”_ I guess we could un-ironically use the name _seditionists_, at least for the Texas GOP Trumpers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221.md?page=3)