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Trumpsplaining

Trumpsplaining is the present participle and gerund of Trumpsplain.

Meaning of Trumpsplain

Verb

Trumpsplain (third-person singular simple present Trumpsplains, present participle Trumpsplaining, simple past and past participle Trumpsplained)

  1. (US, ambitransitive, informal) To explain or rationalize Donald Trump (born 1946), the 45th president of the United States, or his actions, remarks, policies, or popularity.
    • "Two weeks abroad and I lost count of how many baffled Europeans asked us to explain Donald Trump," tweeted Sherry Stern, a California magazine editor who found herself Trumpsplaining in London, Cambridge and Budapest.2016 August 11, Petula Dvorak, “Americans vacationing overseas find themselves on a Donald Trump apology tour”, in The Washington Post

Questions about Trumpsplaining

What is Trumpsplaining the present participle and gerund of?
Trumpsplaining is the present participle and gerund of Trumpsplain.

Words near Trumpsplaining in the dictionary

  1. trumps up
  2. Trumpski
  3. Trumpspeak
  4. Trumpsplain
  5. Trumpsplained
  6. Trumpsplaining
  7. Trumpsplains
  8. Trumpstein
  9. Trumpstein files
  10. Trumpster
  11. Trumpster diving

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Trumpsplaining (page history and authors); Trumpsplain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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