What’s a ‘panican’? Dr Trump’s view of non-MAGA state of being?
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Donald Trump is hard at work on the English language.
Not content with gutting parts of the US government and its settled system (not least USAID, the Forest Service and a contract with the non-profit Acacia Center for Justice that funds legal aid groups representing 26,000 unaccompanied immigrant minors), Mr Trump is busy re-tooling English.
He’s coining words.
On Monday (April 7), the US president pushed back on criticism over his mass tariffs regime, calling on Americans to be patient and not be a “panican”.
Mr Trump wrote this exhortation on his social media platform Truth Social:
“The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!”
He added:
“Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place”.
Talk about mangling English (as she is spoke!) though Mr Trump would probably say he is resetting it to “never before” glory. Remember hours after his so-called “liberation day”, when he imposed worldwide tariffs (except on Russia and North Korea), Mr Trump pretended to great medical expertise. He wrote on his social media site in all-capital letters: “The operation is over! The patient lived, and is healing”.
The hubris.
