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truthsplain 

1. An antidote to mansplaining, Republisplaining, and alternative facts
2. Telling it like it is
3. Hitting someone with a dose of reality
4. Exposing someone to the reality that they have been denying and probably want to continue to deny
5. Sharing a difficult or inconvenient truth
1. When the company established an all-male panel to discuss "women in science," Teresa truthsplained why this was problematic.

2. When her white co-worker dissed Beyoncé's pregnancy announcement, Naomi truthsplained the beauty and symbolism behind it.

3. When Susie insists that her religious freedom is under attack if she has to bake a cake for a lesbian couple, Ricardo truthsplains that baking a cake in no way attacks or infringes upon her religious freedom, while refusing to serve someone based on sexual orientation does in fact infringe upon their basic human rights.
truthsplain by Windup-Bird February 18, 2017
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Trumpsplaining 

To string together meaningless phrases to convince people that you are actually answering their question (see Palindrome).
She knew he was trumpsplaining, but after a while, it sounded good to her.
Trumpsplaining by HWM December 3, 2016

Trumpsplain 

The attempt to defend and clarify what is irretrievably incoherent and indefensible.
After Trump openly invited cyber attacks on his political opponent, his henchman, Giuliani, was left trying to Trumpsplain it away.
Trumpsplain by NeverTrump July 27, 2016

Trumpsplaining 

Explanations by Trump or his supporters that make no sense. Typically full of assumptions, insults and grammatical errors.
Cleatus was trumpsplaining how bigly Trump won the election.
Trumpsplaining by TweetNanigans January 18, 2017

Trumpsplain 

1. To deliberately mislead
2. To explain in a piggish manner
3. To generate pig noises, sometimes used to denote the sounds of actual pigs,

ie: Honey, listen! That pig over there is trying to trumpsplain something to you...
I couldn't trumpsplain it to you if I tried.
Trumpsplain by Lilith Iscariot September 12, 2019

Trumpsplaining 

To profess publicly a piece of trivia which you have just learned, as if you are bringing enlightenment to the masses, even though this information is something that the vast majority of your audience learned in primary school.
The boss is in trumpsplaining mode again. He just announced that Puerto Rico is an island.
Trumpsplaining by P Venkman October 5, 2017

Trumpsplaining 

verb (used with object)
-twisting yourself into a pretzel to explain the things your idiot president had said. Typically full of assumptions, insults and grammatical errors with caps lock on.
I tried to talk some sense into Joe, but he was too busy Trumpsplaining to listen.
Trumpsplaining by Alyykins April 24, 2020