# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/41 "2020-12-12T17:13:37Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I think we can start calling them Orangemen. This would be insulting to the male followers of William of Orange and to the players and fans of Syracuse’s sports teams, known as the Orange these days, but formerly the Orangemen. And to men like me who enjoy oranges. I just call them all **Trumpies** , after the aliens in the great movie, [pod people](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7408705/podpeople.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/42 "2020-12-12T17:19:03Z")
Since his supporters have been cheated, misled, lied to, manipulated, deceived, ripped off, duped, fooled and conned I’d call them all deluded. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/43 "2020-12-12T20:35:25Z")
I’d even call them late for dinner. ---
**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 12, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/44 "2020-12-12T23:21:02Z")
… if I call at all ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/45 "2020-12-13T02:23:11Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Fascists Yeah, that. It’s funny, because the WaPo has to date run two articles based around evaluating Trump against a set of Fascist metrics. Both times the answer was “not a Fascit,” although it was much closer in 2020 than when the first article ran in 2016. I think the article kind of missed the point—both times—because in each case it considered things that he had thus far been prevented from doing. That is, to the extent he didn’t check certain fascist boxes in 2016, it’s because he had no power. He was just a private citizen. Then come 2020, it seemed like all the new boxes he could have checked as President were indeed checked. Trump is only “not a Fascist” to the extent he has been restrained to an extent by the US’ built-in limits on presidential power, which he has spent four years eagerly trying to erode. That’s hardly reassuring. Like claiming a wolf in a cage isn’t really a wolf because he hasn’t eaten any sheep yet. Even as the wolf is thrashing and clawing away at its cage and it looks to be coming apart in places. So, yeah. If you support Trump, you support a Fascist. That means you’re a Fascist. ---
**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 13, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/46 "2020-12-13T02:28:00Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I just call them all **Trumpies** , after the aliens in the great movie, [pod people](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7408705/podpeople.jpg) Trumpy, you can do stupid things! - From the MST3k commentary of Pod people. It works so well in this context. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/47 "2020-12-13T02:37:19Z")
Trash. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/48 "2020-12-23T22:51:28Z")
Trumperrhoids. Just ask McEnema… Dan ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/49 "2020-12-23T23:13:47Z")
In a related question, what to call all the Republicans who are about to start claiming that they were totally secretly working on the inside to contain Trump’s impulses, and the other assorted members of the GOP who will pretend that this whole thing never happened? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/50 "2020-12-23T23:25:46Z")
I agree. Typical con man marks. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/51 "2020-12-23T23:29:04Z")
Trumplicans. I hope that in future, the name “Trump” will be synonymous with “ineffectual traitor”. Much like what happened with the name “Quisling” ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/52 "2020-12-23T23:38:55Z")
Trumplicans is very good. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/53 "2020-12-23T23:44:25Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > In a related question, what to call all the Republicans who are about to start claiming that they were totally secretly working on the inside to contain Trump’s impulses The “January Resistance”. ---
**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 24, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/54 "2020-12-24T01:41:51Z")
Made up of January Men? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/55 "2020-12-24T15:01:58Z")
I’ve used ‘MAGAts’ since 2016. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/56 "2020-12-24T17:18:08Z")
plus 1 It’ll be interesting to see over time how debased his name will get, and what it will come to represent. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/57 "2020-12-24T21:52:03Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > It’ll be interesting to see over time how debased his name will get, and what it will come to represent. I’ve taken to announcing, “I’m gonna go take a trump.” ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/58 "2020-12-25T00:38:28Z")
Love it! I might have to do the same. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/59 "2020-12-26T03:31:09Z")
Assholes. They’re all fucking assholes. But that’s not specific enough, so MAGAts it is. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221/60 "2020-12-26T04:00:29Z")
Regarding many of them: Misguided, ignorant, stupid, and/or mentally-challenged human beings who deserve our pity more than our scorn? I briefly had a Facebook discussion with a friend of a friend, who sounded reasonable enough, until she re-posted the bullshit stories floating around in Maga-land about Biden being a pedophile. She then went on to repeat every conspiracy theory out there about liberals, but I had long since bowed out of the discussion. Anyone who can believe these things, with such passion in the face of absolutely no supporting evidence, obviously have an inability to reason. I truly pity them above all else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-trump-supporters/927221.md?page=4)