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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDU Braintrust: We, and the media, need a good catchy name for this Trump scandal, like Watergate
Something the media can use.
Teapot Dome and Watergate being the best examples
I mean the GOP weaponized the word Benghazi for gosh sakes
They wont use something like "Traitorgate" or such
But what can we tag this as?
This is where we need to match and better the GOP for Benghazi, and Monicagate etc.
Branding and messaging
NameAlreadyTaken
(977 posts)viva la
(3,298 posts)Spygate.
Top-secret-gate.
ZonkerHarris
(24,226 posts)LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)Pompous lifestyle with buffoonery in plain sight...Also Mar a lago has huge gates!
You just picture the gold toilets, the MAGAT crowds, the flotillas, the beautiful chocolate cake, the messy papers, papers locked by the pool, classified papers mildewing in the humidity, Chinese people sneaking in USB drives, cheesy reality star, cheesy grifter, trophy wife, Florida man, Florida, golf with poop stained pants. It has it all there in one picture!
You know how Discovery has those "ghost hunter" shows? Mar a lago would make a perfect episode. Also, it be fun to do a makeover episode, because Florida has lots of mold, rats and roaches. I bet Mar a lago is teaming with rats! I bet it has roaches. It bet it has leaks.
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)viva la
(3,298 posts)Enter stage left
(3,396 posts)Haggard Celine
(16,846 posts)Espionagegate doesn't roll off the tongue like Treasongate, and Treasongate would absolutely inflame the Trumpers.
dalton99a
(81,495 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,226 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)HariSeldon
(455 posts)Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)Because the fucker is nuts.
Not sure how you expand that to encompass all the criminality.
wyn borkins
(1,109 posts)Or maybe: 'The Espi O'Nage Files' (by way of HariSeldon at 8 just above)
tritsofme
(17,378 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)DFW
(54,384 posts)Top Secragate
Filegate
Fedsatthegate
Barthegate
Oopsagate
Docugate
and, if it turns out Manchin's somehow involved, Coalgate!
mopinko
(70,105 posts)LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)kentuck
(111,097 posts)It is way beyond that and there is no need to minimize it.
wyn borkins
(1,109 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)Posted by a du-er just now.
TomDaisy
(1,870 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,226 posts)gibraltar72
(7,504 posts)mackdaddy
(1,527 posts)What it seems like to me.
Novara
(5,842 posts)Let's see what else they find.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,243 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,226 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)maxrandb
(15,330 posts)I think we should call it DonnyGate, or TrumpGate.
Maybe Orange Bafoon Gate.
CoppertoneGate
TurdGate
Tiny Hands Gate
PilferGate
TreasonGate
Chainfire
(17,539 posts)Amishman
(5,557 posts)These things organically name themselves if it punches through to the forefront of the country's collective consciousness.
Trying to do this stuff artificially is pretty much doomed to failure. This is why all the various disparaging nicknames for Trump never caught on outside of politically engaged Democrats - yet we had how many countless threads trying to coin the right one.
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)They speak English in India and they have Colgate toothpaste. So.......