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Trumpenfreude 

The glee or satisfaction experienced by Democrats watching the Republican Party slit it's own throat. Coined by columnist Paul Krugman, 12/28/15.
When the leading republican candidate insulted American POWs, I felt a rush of Trumpenfreude.
Trumpenfreude by dilillo fan April 8, 2016
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Trumpenfreude 

a feeling of pleasure at the bad things that happen to people who hate Trump
I should have felt sorry for Speaker Pelosi’s sudden onset of Tourette’s Syndrome during the president’s State of the Union address but I was instead overcome with Trumpenfreude.
Trumpenfreude by Freethinker62 February 7, 2019

Trumpenfreude 

Noun: a feeling of pain that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of your people where previously you could expect a feeling of schedenfruede
Dude, "Don't go there. That country is a basket case, they can't even buy toilet paper"
Gal, "I don't care.. I'm moving there. Every day I wake up and go to sleep with trumpenfreude."
Trumpenfreude by Fivebridges January 11, 2017

Trumpenfreude 

Taking pleasure in the misfortune, misery, failure, and general fuck-ups of Donald Trump or his family. Like the German word schadenfreude, but specific to them.
Every time I hear that Donald Trump has done something fucking idiotic again, I get a warm, happy glow of trumpenfreude in my heart.
Trumpenfreude by dementedfaerie March 15, 2019

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026