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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

Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
Word of the Day on May 24, 2026
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”
Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
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