Similar to grifter: "someone who swindles people out of money through fraud" but rather than small scale sleight of hand tricks to cheat people out of money, a Grifter in Chief seeks not only to steal money from their own country, but also to steal from countries or large international organizations through unsubstantiated claims of debt.
Rep Maxwell Frost (Feb 2025): "people like the Grifter in Chief Trump, and President Musk are openly using their public offices to enrich themselves to the tune of billions of dollars..."
church hurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the church hurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.