Trump-proof

English

Etymology

Verb

Trump -proof (third-person singular simple present Trump-proofs, present participle Trump-proofing, simple past and past participle Trump-proofed)

(transitive) To protect policies against change by a future Donald Trump administration.
- 2016 December 11, Anita Kumar, “[Barack] Obama rushing to Trump-proof White House”, in The Monitor, McAllen, Tex., page 4A
- 2017 January 6, Timothy Egan, “Erasing Obama”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-06:
  In advance of his farewell address next week, the president has tried to Trump-proof a climate pact that commits the world’s second leading producer of earth-warming pollutants — the United States — to making this little orb of ours a less perilous place for Sasha [Obama]’s and Malia [Obama]’s and Ivanka [Trump]’s kids.
- 2017 January 15, Michael Molinski, “Are your finances Trump-proof?”, in Knoxville News Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn., page 7B, columns 1–3:
  “Probably the best advice to Trump-proof your finances is to become an asset superman,” says Carla Dearing, CEO of SUM180, a financial wellness service. […] Municipal bonds could be attractive to Trump-proof a portfolio because you generally don’t pay federal taxes on income. […] Making sure you are sufficiently diversified is probably the best way to Trump-proof your portfolio.
- 2024 October 9, Patrick Wintour, “‘Trump-proof’ European security by setting up ‘Nato bank’, thinktanks urge”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-10-09:
  Europe, the UK and Ukraine urgently need to “Trump-proof” their collective security by setting up a “Nato bank” to aid defence spending, a report suggests.
- 2024 November 1, Betsy Klein, Lauren Fox, Ella Nilsen, Kayla Tausche, “White House works to Trump-proof [Joe] Biden’s legacy ahead of tight election”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-11-06:
  “The power of the presidency is such that it is quite difficult to Trump-proof agencies and programs from someone who is determined to break the guardrails and shift the direction of the country if the courts and Congress fail to play their proper role of constraining that overreach,” said Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat and close Biden ally.
- 2024 November 7, Andrew Gumbel, “How California has been ‘Trump-proofing’ itself against federal reprisal”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:
  “We’ve been Trump-proofing the place,” said Elizabeth Ashford, a political consultant who has worked for governors on both sides of the aisle and was Kamala Harris’s chief of staff when she was California’s attorney general.

Adjective

Trump -proof (comparative more Trump-proof, superlative most Trump-proof)

Protected against Donald Trump.
- 2015 December 8, Claire McNeill, “[Rick] Kriseman ‘bars’ Trump from St. Pete”, in tbt* (Tampa Bay Times), St. Petersburg, Fla., page 7, column 2:
  Another: “We need a rigorous screening process with 100% accuracy and a 20 ft. high Trump-proof fence around all of St. Petersburg.”
- 2016 August 7, Phil Reisman, “It will be [Hillary] Clinton or Trump, but likely not for too long”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, 231st year, number 327, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., page 12A, column 4:
  The primary process might not be Trump-proof, but the democratic governing process, as outlined by the Constitution, is designed to stifle would-be dictators and buffoons.
- 2016 November 20, Donnelle Eller, “Iowa’s clean energy likely is Trump-proof”, in Des Moines Sunday Register, Des Moines, Ia., page 1D
- 2017 January 15, Michael Molinski, “Are your finances Trump-proof?”, in Knoxville News Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn., page 7B, column 1:
  And more importantly, is your money and family Trump-proof?