Definition: Snollygoster (definition of Trump)

[Fantastic Anarchist]

*snollygoster (listen)

noun: snol·ly·gos·ter ˈsnä-lē-ˌgä-stər

Definition of snollygoster
US dialect: a shrewd, unprincipled person

·Truman lamented that Dwight Eisenhower had given in to congressional “snollygosters”—unprincipled politicians.

·Trump is a snollygoster.

Source: Merriam-Webster

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Except that Trump isn't shrewd; he just thinks he is.

Nixon could be called a snollygoster. Trump is just a bloviating idiot who doesn't know when to keep his trap shut.

[unblock]

2. right. he's all bully, bribe, and bullshit. no guile, no finesse.

he certainly does have that unprincipled part down pat, though.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. It fits even better than that implies - from the Oxford English Dictionary citations:

"1895 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 28 Oct. 4/3 A Georgia editor kindly explains that ‘a snollygoster is a fellow who wants office, regardless of party, platform or principles, and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknophical assumnacy’."

What does "talknophical assumnacy" mean? Well, we can guess, but from a later citation:

"1953 Cavalier Daily (Univ. of Virginia) 12 Nov. 1/2 Former President Truman may have been making a talknophical assumnacy when he said a snollygoster is what Southerners call a man born out of wedlock."

[Fantastic Anarchist]

5. Excellent work!

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. He is also one of the most insigrievous people I have ever seen.