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​STARTING ON DECEMBER 1, 2025,
AND THEN DAILY THROUGHOUT THE MONTH, WE AT THE


U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WORDS

WILL POST THE BIGLIEST WORDS FROM THE PAST YEAR.
ON DECEMBER 31ST, WE'LL POST THE ULTIMATE
5-STAR GENERALIST WORD OF THE YEAR,
NOT SOME FAT AND FLABBY WOKE WORD,
BUT A MACHO MANLY MASCULINE WORD
​THAT CAN DO ONE-ARMED PULL-UPS.
WE'RE EVEN PLANNING A PARADE
WITH ARMIES OF LOGOPHILES
​DRIVING NON-SQUEAKY TANKS!
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DECEMBER 31:
IS HE DEAD YET?
The word  of the year for 2025 -- or in this case, the WORDS of the year -- is a phrase spoken, uttered, voiced, expressed, wished for, articulated, communicated, and/or posted by millions every day, if not every hour; and the magic of the phrase: no one ever has to say about whom they are talking -- no name is ever given or needed.  His is the most anticipated obituary of modern times.
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When it happens, you will know.  You will hear horns honking, sirens wailing, fireworks exploding.  There will be shouts and whistles.  There will be dancing in the streets.  Texts and messages on your telephone will EXPLODE!

When it happens... You. Will. Know. 
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Below, left and right:  Some posts from December 30th. 
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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

PREVENTATIVE MRI, PERFECT MRI, MRI REVEAL PARTY:  
Yeah, the  "high IQ" piggy n the White House doesn't quite understand what an MRI is
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DECEMBER 30:
NO KINGS
When asked if he has to follow the US Constitution, Trump answered, “I don’t know.”  When asked what the Declaration of Independence meant to him, Trump said the document was a statement of love, unity and respect.  He has absolutely no idea what those two defining documents mean to our democratic republic -- and he has no respect for the laws of the land.  As a result, a series of political demonstrations, “NO KINGS” – the largest protests in our nation’s history – occurred around the country in protest against the authoritarian rule of Trump and his corrupt administration.
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DECEMBER 29:
EPSTEIN FILES
During the Trump-Musk Twitter Ultimate Smackdown on Twitter last June, Musk tweeted "Time to drop the really big bomb:  @ real Donald Trump is in the Epstein files."  

Seriously?  That was the "really big bomb"?  Tell me, WHO thought he wasn't in the files?  I mean, seriously.  WHO doubted Trump was in the files?  And does it even matter?  I mean, the richest man in the world KNEW Trump was in the files -- yet he still threw his money, his loyalty, and Big Balls in favor of Trump in the presidential race.   Do Maggots even care if Trump is in the files (which we now know is 100% the case)?  No -- they only care about OTHERS in the files.  And what's so ironic about it all -- GOP Maggots railed for years about a pedo ring run by Democrats in the basement of a pizza parlor in DC -- and now it turns out that Trump was the GOP pedo ring leader all along!  Go figure!   

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DECEMBER 28:
TARIFFS
Watching Trump through the year with his on-again/off-again/then on-again/off-again tariffs, it's no wonder he's a failed businessman -- with how many failed companies and bankruptcies to his name?  He really has no idea what he's doing. He even called for a 10% tariff on the McDonald Islands, which are inhabited solely by  penguins. Bless his heart.  And maggots -- they don't understand at all why tariffs mean higher prices for all of us.  They're stuck in that "Mexico'll pay for the wall" mentality.  They think that other governments are paying all the increases.  Bless their hearts too!  And all the maggots are watching their mailboxes, waiting for the tariff dividend checks Trump promised to all of them -- and they're waiting for their $5,000.00 checks from DOGE too!  And they're waiting for....   Oh, never mind.  You get the picture. 
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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

INSIDER TRADING: 
The filthy rich LOVED Trump's flip-flopping on tariffs!  They manipulated the market by buying  high when stocks dropped low, and some made millions on millions overnight!

INSIDER TRADING:  GOP insiders also made millions off Trump's waffling, weaseling, and switcheroos.  
DYNAMIC PRIICING: Businesses are beginning to set & change prices for products and services in real-time based on market conditions and demand.  For example, you'll be paying more for a rotisserie chicken at 6:00 p.m. on your way home for work then, say, at 10 a.m.

CONGESTION PRICING:  Congestion pricing is an added fee and/or higher tolls when entering and using busy roads.  The powers that be want us to think it's helping improve air quality and fund public transit in cities; what's really happening is that they're building private roads and express lanes for the rich. 
TRUMPFLATION:  Price increases and economic instability linked to Donald Trump's failed policies, especially his  farcical use of tariffs, trade wars, increased government spending promises, and pressure on the Federal Reserve.  

AFFORDABILITY:  As healthcare costs skyrocket, housing costs go through the roof, and prices for groceries, products and services hit all-time-highs, Trump calls affordability crisis a 'hoax."  You notice how every problem with him is a hoax?  Hmm....

GROCERIES:  Trump called groceries "old-fashioned" and defined the term as "a bag with different things in it."  He can't seem to understand why we're all so fixated on the price of groceries.  Trump just doesn't seem to understand much of anything.  
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DECEMBER 27:
ICE
As Trump, Melon Husk, and Big Balls worked to dismantle and destroy our government, Trump tasked Stephen Miller with hiring Proud Boys, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis to work as his ICEstapo to round up people of color, to fill concentration camps, to separate and cage families, to hogtie children with zip-ties, and to engage in human trafficking -- hallmarks of a free democracy!
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SHITLER YOUTH:
  The official name of Miller's staff.

DISAPPEARED:   People began using "disappeared" as a verb to report who had been abducted by MIller and his Shitler Youth; true examples:  "The beloved community ice cream man was disappeared in last night's raid"; "The four year old with cancer was disappeared by ICE in another display of the  GOP's inhumanity." 
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DECEMBER 26:
DOGE
When Trump was installed in the White House last January, one of his first actions was to appoint Melon Husk as "President," then Husk and his VP Big Balls stated up DOGE, "Damn Oligarchs Get Everything."  At that point, DOGE-bags began dismantling agencies that were investigating Husk's crimes, and they started collecting personal and private info on all American citizens.

When President Husk's approval ratings plummeted faster than Trump could slip into a teen beauty pageant's changing room, Trump announced that some woman named Amy Gleason was actually in charge of DOGE.  At that time, Gleason was on vacation in Mexico, and when reached for comment she looked like Kash Patel in the headlights and said, "What the hell are you talking about?"

Husk tried to make things better by claiming fraud was running amok at Social Security because dozens of silver-topped coffin dodgers over the age of 124 were collecting benefits, and the Commander in Sleep said we'd all receive $5,000.00 checks.  Later he promised $2,000.00 more in tariff dividends, and now he's throwing in an extra $1,776.00 (but I think that's only if you're a veteran).  BUT -- if you act now -- and click on Cap'n Cankle's personal email to you, you can donate all your DOGEcoin back to pay for Trump's legal fees.
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NAZI SALUTE: 
A non-verbal communication has made it onto our annual countdown!  Melon Husk was so excited to be appointed as "President" by Trump, he flashed a Nazi salute are his inauguration!  Trump was so touched by Husk's authenticity, he released a new photo of himself with a redacted philtrum.

REDACTED:  In order to protect the wealthy pedophiles and himself, Trump ordered his DOJ to release the files HEAVILY redacted -- so redacted, in fact, that many pages resembled bar codes. 
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DECEMBER 25:
SNAP
SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is the U.S. federal program which provides food purchasing help to low-income individuals.  SNAP was in the news this year as Trump & the GOP's "big beautiful bill" tightened restrictions so that they could transfer wealth to the top 1% of the filthiest rich.  
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GREAT GATSBY PARTY: 
Just hours before Trump was to pull the plug on SNAP to begin to starving needy Americans, he hosted a lavish Great Gatsby Party, complete with burlesque dancers lounging in giant martini glasses!
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BALLROOM: What this country REALLY needs is a 250 million dollar ballroom!  Who needs food, amirite?
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DECEMBER 24:
GOP SHUTDOWN
Since taking office, Trump, President Musk and the GOP have been bent on destroying our government, so I suppose one could say we had a bit of a reprieve when the GOP shut our government down -- but of course, Trump was then like a criminal in a candy shop -- so what did it really matter?   

Now Congress has adjourned for the holidays, and they've made no tangible progress toward funding the government ahead of a shutdown looming less than six weeks away -- on January 30th. 
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DECEMBER 23:
BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL
All year, Trump and the GOP have been touting the "big, beautiful bill" -- but the legislation is projected to add 3.4 trillion to the national debt additionally, the law will increase by 10 million the number of people without health insurance.  OH -- it also guarantees the greatest transfer of wealth to the top 1% in our nation's history -- so the bill has ended up being nothing but a bountiful bonanza for billionaires!

While many were hoping that "Big Beautiful Bill" would end up being Trump's cellmate, it ends up being what people can expect after any visit to the hospital. 

Below:  The GOP celebrates the greatest transfer of wealth to American oligarchs!
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BUBBA: 
I doubt "Bubba" was on anyone's 2025 Bingo card, but in an email exchange between Jeffrey and Mark Epstein that was released this past November, Mark wrote to Jeffrey: "Ask him [Steve Bannon] if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba."  The exchange had people guessing if Bubba could be "Big Beautiful Bill" Clinton!
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DECEMBER 22:
SIX SEVEN
Another number has made the countdown -- well, two numbers?  Scroll down to our entry for December 4 and you'll see other numbers that made it onto our inventory this year -- but the big number (numbers?) of the year was "six seven."  Surely, if your life intersects with a middle schooler, then you've heard "six seven" more than six, seven hundred times this week alone!

As a matter of fact, "6 7" was so big this year that it ended up being the Word of the Year for 2025 over at Dictionary.com!  More info on that is HERE. 
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DECEMBER 21:
ALAGATOR ALCATRAZ
Back in June, Trump announced a federally-funded state-run concentration camp for people of color rounded up by former Proud Boys now called "ICE."   The gulag remains open despite legal challenges and environmental concerns, but the GOP and Trump Maggots -- who love posing for pics in front of caged humans -- are thrilled with the inhumane conditions and the cruelty!

Below:  Trump surveys his state-of-the-art concentration camp -- "it will be the concentrationist camp in the large world" he bragged.
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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

THE GULF OF MEXICO:  Yes, it's still the Gulf of Mexico -- at least to most in the large world.  

THE LARGE WORLD:  Earlier this year the low IQ felon in the White House croaked that the United States had "the worst education almost in the large world.  The world that people know about." 

SMART PEOPLE DON'T LIKE ME:  At a fundraiser at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, Low-IQ Trump admitted, , "Smart people don't like me."  Nope, smart people in the large world -- the world that people know about -- see the blatant corruption, the non-stop grifts, the lies, and the incompetence, and as a result, they do not like him. 

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DECEMBER 20:
COLD PLAY KISS CAM
Back in July, an HR exec and the boss/CEO of a tech company went viral after being caught on the Jumbotron "Kiss Cam" at a Coldplay concert (both were married, but not to each other ). To be honest, had they just stood there in their embrace and not over reacted, I doubt anything would have come of it -- but it all looked too suspicious.  Alas, they hid their "crime" as effectively as any unqualified member of Trump's cabinet of deplorables!
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Later, as the summer went on, other concerts and sporting events utilized the name "Cold Play Kiss Cam" on jumbotrons  at fields and arenas, and couples played their part to the hilt  with parodies and re-enactments of the incident!

Check out some of the parodies HERE. 


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DECEMBER 19:
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
Back in May, Senator Joni Ernst unveiled Trump’s healthcare plan at a town hall meeting:   "we're all going to die.”  That's it.  That's the plan. 
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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

​KILL EVERYBODY:
  In December, the Washinton Post cited anonymous sources that claimed Pete “Keggers” Hegseth gave a verbal directive, “kill everybody,” after an initial strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat left two survivors. A second strike then killed the two people. 

JUST KILL 'EM:  During a September segment of “Fox and Friends,” host Brian Kilmeade and others were discussing mentally ill homeless people, and he advised, “Just kill ‘em.”  
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DECEMBER 18:
** SILENCE **
Silence speaks volumes.  Yep, what isn't said -- or cheered or clapped -- can be more powerful and meaningful than words. 
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That was certainly the case when Commander in Sleep, Cap’n Donald “Bonespurs” Trump, and his ill-qualified minion Petey Kegseth summoned top military brass to Washington, and both performed their well-honed fraudville act on stage.

Below: The exact moment caught on camera when P-Kegs was met with total silence. following his fat-shaming speech.  Awkward!
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By the way, this is not the first time “silence” has made our annual inventory of Words of the Year.  Check out December 22 from 2022, HERE; December 19 from 2016, HERE; and December 26 from 2014, HERE. 
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DECEMBER 17:
DEI
The second coming of Ol’ Diapered Don has been characterized by chaos, incompetence, corruption,  and cruelty – and even many Maggot voters are realizing that they, too, are exhausted from the three-ring clown show. (See FAFO below in the Honorable Mentions).
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One of the Furious Felon’s first areas of vengeance was a multi-faceted attack on all people of color.  He ordered his flying monkeys to dismantle DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programs across the country (interestingly, the only DEI 80% of the country was interested  in was in a rearrangement of the letters).
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Matters got completely absurd:  Trump blamed a collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people on DEI. He even called for the removal if info on historical pages honoring the contributions of women and people of color, such as information about the Tuskegee Airmen and Jackie Robinson

Matters got completely absurd:  Trump blamed a collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people on DEI. He even called for the removal of info on historical pages honoring the contributions of women and people of color, such as information about the Tuskegee Airmen and Jackie Robinson.

Recent absurdities: Trump has cancelled free National Park Free Days on MLK Day and Juneteenth -- and he added his own birthday.  He’s also cancelled the minting of US quarters with depictions of abolition and women’s suffrage.  

In Trump’s America:  “If it ain’t white, then it ain’t right.”  Is it just coincidence the Pantone “color of the year” is WHITE?
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​FAFO:  
Fuck Around and Find Out:  Trump voters are posting videos in droves about their regrets for casting a vote for the con man. Last September, hundreds of Arkansas farmers gathered to pray and plead with their congressional delegation for emergency federal aid (isn't that...um...socialism?), facing a crisis of skyrocketing costs, low crop prices, and lost export markets (especially with China), with many fearing bankruptcy.  The latest to "find out":  Tyson Foods is permanently closing a beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska -- a devastating loss for a town that voted overwhelmingly for a failed, low-IQ businessman; the closure of the plant is being called a "deadly blow" for the town.
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DECEMBER 16:
I DON'T KNOW
A journalist asked a convicted felon and rapist residing in the White House, "Do you have to follow the Constitution?" If ever anyone lobbed an easy question, this is it.  

I repeat, a journalist asked the career con-man installed as the "president' of the United States, "Do you have to follow the Constitution?" and the vile toad croaked, "I don't know."

I repeat:  He answered, "I don't know."
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​I cannot understand why this man is allowed to remain in office -- for obvious corruption, for blatant crimes, for other stunning remarks and questionable actions (including treasons) -- but especially for stating to our citizenry that when it comes to following our Constitution -- he does not know if he has to follow the law of our land.
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LOVE, UNITY AND RESPECT:   When asked what the Declaration of Independence meant to him, Trump said it was all about about "love, unity, and respect."  Seriously?  He has NO IDEA with the Declaration is about -- and he claims others are "low IQ."  EVERY INSULT the toad hurls is projection. 

QUIET PIGGY:  When questioned by reporters, Trump cannot take the heat.  Of course, when they lob him softballs, his ignorance shines through.  When they ask serious, hard-hitting questions, he lashes out like a spoiled child.  When one reporter -- a woman -- asked, "Mr. President, what did Jeffrey Epstein mean in his emails when he said you knew about the girls?"   Trump wagged a bony old finger at her and eructated, "Quiet. Quiet, piggy."
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DECEMBER 15:
AI SLOP
The "Architects of AI" were named TIME's 2025 Person of the Year -- and "AI Slop" was crowned "Word of the Year" for 2025 by Macquarie Dictionary's selection committee (info HERE).  

Sooo...“AI Slop,” of course, is a pejorative term for vast amounts of low-quality, law-effort, AI-generated digital content flooding the internet, designed to exploit algorithms for ad revenue, engagement, or influence, but lacking depth, originality, and often creating misinformation or devaluing human creativity -- and TIME honored those architects who created it!  LOL.

I have to admit, my experience with AI has been -- to be kind -- sloppy!  I documented the sloppiest interaction with it HERE. I called another post of an odd experience with AI, "A.I. Yi Yi," and the moral of the story was "Always Investigate."  That article is HERE.   And those are just two of many SLOPPY encounters I have had with AI. 
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​Shown at the left:  Old Man Trump after just having signed an executive order directing the federal government to file lawsuits and cut funding for states that regulate artificial intelligence.  Some argue that the pic is AI generated -- but  that doesn't look too sloppy to me. Asa matter of fact, it looks pretty darn real.

And doesn't the FOTUS' EO seem odd ?  Esp when Trump and the GOP are always the first to shout about "states' rights"?  I s'pose that's only when convenient. The hypocrisy is astounding, no?
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DECEMBER 14:
EVERYONE IS WELCOME HERE!
**WARNING** **WARNING** **WARNING**:  The poster shown below may be offensive to Maggots, people from most of Idaho, and to any and all who believe "All Lives Matter."  Viewer discretion is advised.

The “Everyone is Welcome Here” sign shown below was banned from classrooms in Idaho schools and sparked a viral nationwide controversy.  Hmm...seems that all lives don't really matter after all.  Only certain lives do.
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DECEMBER 13:
TACO
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Back in May, Robert Armstrong published an opinion piece that discussed tariffs and their effects on the US markets. In the piece, part of a series titled "Unhedged", Armstrong said that markets were realizing that "the US administration does not have a very high tolerance for market and economic pressure, and will be quick to back off when tariffs cause pain."  Armstrong called this "the Taco theory: Trump Always Chickens Out" -- and the TACO trade was born!  Traders were buying stocks cheaply after a tariff announcement pushed stocks lower, then selling them at a profit after the tariffs were delayed or reduced and the market rebounded.
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In addition to "Taco Trump," many other monikers popped up throughout the year!
TACO BELLE: A nickname bestowed on both Malaria Trump and KKKarolin Leavitt. 
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BOTUS:  Boss of the United States
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FOTUS:  Felon of the United States​
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MANY new nicknames surfaced for Trump after he fell asleep on multiple occasions -- WHILE ON LIVE TV!!!

SLEEPY DONZALES, THE NODFATHER, COMMANDER IN SLEEP, & RAPE VAN WINKLE
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FAKE SNOOZE:  Fox "news" was at a loss about how to cover Sleepy Don's tendency to nod off on live television.  They had to downplay the situation to assure Maggots that Trump was still effective at the helm -- so they began assuring their Sheep that he was merely closing his eyes -- or that sleeping in the Oval Office and/or at Cabinet Meetings was normal because the man works 'round the clock.  LOL -- you think they bought it?  Many online began referring to Fox's coverage as "Fake Snooze."
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DECEMBER 12: 
P3D0
Think abut this:  Musk KNEW Trump is a pedophile and that he is in the Epstein Files, and yet he put his money behind him to get him elected (and what's their "little secret"?).  It was difficult to discuss Trump's love of miners -- er, minors -- on social platforms because most prohibited the word "pedo" -- so many changed his name to P3D0 (pee-three-dee-oh) -- as if he were a new Star Wars character (shown below right with R2JD.
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HONORABLE MENTION:  PORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS
At least 188 Christian & Republican leaders have been accused of child abuse this year -- and they claim they are the party of "family values" -- what a joke!  Even the former "pious" state superintendent of schools in Oklahoma supposedly had nude women displayed on a screen during a state school board meeting.
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DECEMBER 11:
SWAZTICARS
Hmm...Elon Musk and Donald Trump share a little secret about the 2024 election.  Gee, I wonder what that could be?  BUT -- somehow before polls even closed, Musk knew the results.  Later, when the two had a falling out and a meltdown on X worthy of a SpaceX-plosion -- with a surge in traffic that paralyzed "Truth Social" like Mitch McConnell at a presser -- the world knew Musk was on the verge of letting the catzerie out of the bag -- but I'm getting ahead of myself.  Let's go back.(following the pics below) to when times were convivial (emphasis on "con") between the two. 

Below left and right:  The world watching the live-streaming Musk-Trump Royal-Rumble "Alien-Predator" Premium Live Event.
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Below right:  The Musk-Trump PLE brought Truth Social to its knees:  "NO TRUTHS" (but seriously, no truer words were spoken about the platform).
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Prior to their falling out, Musk was elated to install Trump in the White House, for Trump had promised to give him (and his protege Big Balls)  full access to the criminal investigations of his companies' crimes  and more!  Musk was so excited and energized, he flashed and hale and hearty -- or should I say Heil and (Grand Old) Party -- salute to honor his devotion to the conservative Reich...er, Right. 
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At this time, Tesla owners began to realize that the gear shift in Musk-designed cars was more than ornamental -- unquestionably  "form" over "function" -- so Cybertrucks and Tesla EVs were re-classified as SWASTICARS. 

Below left:  Last October, US Capitol Police were called to the office of Rep. Dave Taylor to investigate an American flag which included a swastika with the stripes.  At one point, Taylor claimed the design was an optical illusion.  

Below right:  Another version of the American flag was floated to represent the Trump Crime Family clown show. 
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DECEMBER 10:
BIG BALLS
And the name of the year...

** drum rolll **

BIG BALLS -- the moniker of the teenager appointed by President Melon Husk, brought on to assist the Department of Getting Even so that Husk could destroy evidence of criminal wrong-doings of his companies.  Plus, Big Balls was allowed access to personal and private information about every citizen in the country. 

In the pic at the far right, Big Balls was jumped by fifteen-year- olds in a car jacking attempt -- prompting Old Yam Tits to call in the National Guard to DC because (he said) his friends were afraid to close their car trunks .

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HARRY BOLZ: 
For a short period of time, Melon Husk changed his online name to Harry Bolz.

LEO XIV:  Born Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV is the first pope to be born in the United States. 

GULF OF MEXICO: Yep -- it's still the Gulf of Mexico -- no matter what the Orange Clown says.

$MELANIA:  The grifts just keep on coming with the Trump Crime Family, and now Melania -- who evidently has changed her name to $melania --  is in on the corruption too!  (Remember:  The family that preys together, stays together!)
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DECEMBER 9:
RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY
To be honest, I lost track of how many SpaceX rockets exploded throughout this past year; however to owner Melon Husk and his SpaceX crew, there were no losses at all due to explosions.  Instead, each rocket experienced “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – sorta like the rapid disassembly Cybertruck owners faced with their vehicles when it was discovered that defective glue sticks were used to attach exterior panels (and as a result, over 47,000 of the dumpster-on-wheels were recalled). 

Below: Shifty Don's Used Cars, the new car lot at the White House installed by Shifty Don himself!
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Below:  A rapid unscheduled disassembly at Space X.  Is it just me, or did the fireball begin to look like Piggy Trump?
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HONORABLE MENTION:  SPACEXplode

Due to the many “rapid unscheduled disassemblies” at SpaceX some suggested the company change their name to SpaceXplode..
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DECEMBER 8:
OFDONALD
"Trump’s America feels more like The Handmaid’s Tale every day" -- complete article HERE -- and there's no more telling sign that AmeriKKKa is now a dysTrumian state, overtaken by a Fascist, theocratic regime that protects an international pedophile ring and sanctions human abductions and human trafficking, than by the fact that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has legally changed his name to "OfDonald." 

​Another article, "
The New Nickname for Republican Women Is 'Ofdonald,'" is HERE. 



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DECEMBER 7:
MAR-A-LAGO FACE
Yesterday's entry focused on cankles; today's moves above the neck to the horror known as Mar-a-Lago Face which  -- in truth -- should be called "NightMare-a-Lago Face" with its frozen, freaky, and frightful features.

It's really no wonder, though.  Trump is "class" with a capital "K," so Trump's gaudy  face lift of the Oval Office is just as vulgar as the look his Mar-a-lago escorts achieve. 
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DECEMBER 6:
CANKLES
There was quite a bit of media scrutiny and public discussion regarding the swelling of Donald Trump's lower legs when the White House physician diagnosed Trump – the healthiest president in the history of all presidents on the planet – with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) back in July. 
Dang!  With cankles and bone spurs, it's a wonder the man can get anything done, amirite?  But he suffers through and gets in rounds of golf every weekend -- and many weekdays too!
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An  interesting article about the stigma of cankles, "Trump, 79, Covers Up Cankles for 12th Straight Day," is HERE. 

FUN FACT:  Trump is the fifth president to have been diagnosed with cankles.  Others were Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk, William Howard Taft, and Herbert Hoover. 
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DECEMBER 5:
CUTE WINTER BOOTS
You who are not saddened by the suffering of others,
Are unworthy of being classified as human.


~Saadi Shirazi


I first heard about "cute winter boots" through a post by word and branding guru Nancy Friedman, @Fritinancy, on Substack  -- but the info wasn't about the latest trendy, versatile footwear, perfect for any occasion -- with added arch support.  No, it was coded language designed to subvert algorithms.

That's right, "cute winter boots" was a phrase used on TikTok and other platforms to discuss resistance against ICE (the Trump administration's version of the Nazi's Gestapo) without triggering content moderation, shadow-banning, and outright censorship.

Below:  'Twas in Friedman's "January Linkstack" that I first came across "cute winter boots."
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DECEMBER 4:
8647
Yes, I suppose some might argue that today’s entry is a number and not a word, but if Dictionary.com can select “6 7” as their “Word of the Year,” then we can include “8647” in our inventory.  If you're hot and bothered about the choice, think of it as “eighty-six-forty-seven” and perhaps that will calm your nerves?
 
8647 made its grand entrance into 2025 back in May when James Comey posted a pic of the number formed by seashells.  "Cool shell formation on my beach walk." he quipped Comey (hmm…E. E. Cummings’ once observed, “It’s always ourselves we find in the sea”).
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Maggots, of course, were incensed, but even more so than usual because they were unfamiliar with and misunderstood the meaning of “86.”  In typical fashion, they invented their own alternative facts, and many of the nuttier nimrods thought Comey was calling for violence against old Don van Winkle.
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The Nodfather himself fanned the flames, too, against the man to whom he'd once blew kisses; later, he directed his flying monkeys in the radically weaponized DOJ to bring suit against Comey for lying to Congress.

Imagine that – Trump charging another with lying! Is that akin to a convicted  felon having the power to pardon fellow felons.  Oh – wait a minute. 

​How did our country get to screwed up?
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HONORABLE MENTIONS:
2547
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I think it's time to invoke the 25th amendment, no?

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F-47

The Air Force is developing a new 6th-generation fighter to replace the F-22.   Back in March, Trump suggested calling it the "F-47."

OMG, YES!  

There could be no moniker as apt as F-47. We could all chant, "F-47!  F-47!  F-47!"
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DECEMBER 3:
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(FIST, FLAG, FIRE EMOJIS)
I light of recent war crimes on the part of Pete Hegseth, I wrote in yesterday's update, "if only there'd been signs early on about how incompetent Kegseth was then maybe something could have been done about it." -- but then  I remembered that there were, in fact, signs early on -- yet Trump and the GOP refused to act on it:  In March, grossly unqualified Secretary of Defense discussed sensitive and secret plans for strikes in Yemen with top national security officials  on a Signal chat WITH A MISTAKENLY-ADDED JOURNALIST FROM “THE ATLANTIC." 

​True to form for proving their hyper-masculinity and Trump-approved manly military manliness, some in the room flashed fist, flag and fire emojis.  Another flashed a flexing bicep. 
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HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Other new words and twists on Hegseth's name  grew out of his appointment and scandals:

KEGSETH
KEGBREATH;
CHATGOP
WHISKILEAKS

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DECEMBER 2:
A1  (or is it AI?)
Seems that Trump doesn’t have a “cabinet,” he has a “junk drawer.”  In yesterday’s post (below), I mentioned his unqualified, brain-wormed head of Health and Human Services.  Recent news has highlighted his unqualified, liver-soaked head of Defense – hmm…if only there’d been signs early on about how incompetent Kegseth was then maybe something could have been done about it?  In today’s post -- **sigh** -- yet another clown from Trump's cupboard of kooks, this one in charge of the Department of Education – and again, had there been signs early on of her ineptitude perhaps something could have been done?
Well, back in April Ed Sec McMahon, at an education summit in San Diego, referred to “AI” (artificial intelligence) as “A1,” in that “A-one” teaching would be made available to first graders.  Hmm…I wonder if she meant A1 sauce would be available in the school cafeterias?  She loves the stuff -- plus, it's highly recommended for "High Steaks Testing"!
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Below:  There were signs of McMahon's addiction to A1.  She was literally drinking it on stage at the ASU*GSV Summit. 
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HONORABLE MENTION:  PROFESSIONAL
The same woman as mentioned above, who was involved with a scandal involving child abuse, was appointed by a man connected to a scandal involving child abuse, and she is now overseeing a department refusing to recognize the professions of our country’s mandated reporters of – are you ready for this? – child abuse.  
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Who’s on the list now classified as “non-professionals”? The list includes nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, audiologists, teachers, special education educators, social workers, public health workers and occupational therapists.  Who’s NOT on the list?  Someone with a degree in theology.  

Below:  PROFESSIONAL theologians pray for Trump. 
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DECEMBER 1:
ACETAMINOPHEN

It's well known that Donald Trump's most common strategy of attack against an opponent is "projection."  

Projection is a psychological defense mechanism where one attributes his own unacceptable thoughts, actions and motives to another person, and Trump's public statements often if not always include accusing opponents of his own vulgar faults  and foul attributes.  When Trump accuses past administrations of weaponizing the government, it's because HE is weaponizing departments and agencies of the government.  When Trump accuses others of particular crimes, it's because HE has committed those crimes. If he claims someone is "low IQ," it's because HE is low IQ -- and there's no better proof of his shallow depth of knowledge than his inability to pronounce words.

Trump cannot pronounce "infrastructure," "Yosemite," "anonymous," and and whole host of other words.  He's  even grappled with “applicable" “obstacles”, "Nevada," and more!

The level of ignorance on the part of Trump is astounding. 

During a September 2025 press conference where the totally unqualified and brain-wormed head of Health and Human Services RFK Jr.* made unproven claims that acetaminophen is linked to autism, Trump could not pronounce the word -- so he settled on "Tylenol" instead -- and he blamed autism (first formally diagnosed in 1943) on Tylenol (introduced to the market in 1955).

*Yes, the same man who bolted out of the Oval Office during an actual medical emergency -- one that Old Man Trump slept through. 
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Hmm...I don't know if the image from the White House site in the post shown to the right is real or not, but comic Matt Davis published his comment with the pic, and I saw it just after typing my inaugural WotY post re: "acetaminophen."

​HONORABLE MENTION:  

FUCK:  
Breaking another presidential norm, Trump dropped the f-bomb (a word he can pronounce correctly) on camera this past June to express frustration that both Israel and Iran had violated a ceasefire -- a truce that lasted 1/11th of a Scaramucci. 

BTW:  "Fucked"  was our Word of the Year in 2002, HERE:  


"If this is America First, then America is FUCKED."
~Jon Stewart
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LAST YEAR'S "WORDS OF THE YEAR" ARE ​HERE. 


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