Top headline: MSNBC, 4/9/2021
Like so many before him, Trump knows how to mesmerize people as he lightens their wallets. For decades, he was the champion of brash new money, someone who played by his own rules against the establishment.
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The real kicker is that many will not admit they were defrauded. They will continue to believe in Trump, just as he will continue to tell them that he won the 2020 election. And, if they just send more money, he promises he will come back in 2024 and win another.
Bottom headline: Des Moines Register, 10/9/2021
The most compliant sheeple at the Iowa rally outdoes the home folk.
Among the revelers was T. Trump, a Vietnamese immigrant who traveled with other Vietnamese immigrants from California. T. Trump and others said they legally changed their last name to Trump out of respect for the "king."
"When you have a king that really works hard ... the people take over his name," T. Trump, 55 and wearing an American-flag themed cowboy hat, said. "Wherever Trump goes. We came here for freedom. We don't want to lose this country. You were born free, you want to live free, you want to die free."
According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'sheeple', as in people who are docile, compliant, or easily influenced, occurred in 1945,
Other coinages from the same year include:
- blip
- chugalug
- ejection seat
- name-dropping
- see-through
- squawk box
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