British slang: verb. To fart. noun A bottom burp.

Yes, growing up in England, a trump was a fart.

When The Donald first announced he was running for the office of US president, I had to chuckle and tell people about this snippet of trivia. As Webster points out, it has an old meaning¹ of "to blow a trumpet", in this case the trouser trumpet or the bowel bugle. It made me snicker throughout the campaigning, right up to the end when it was clear that he was willing to go a stage further and shit over everything.

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The irony is not lost on me that he's accused of farting at his criminal trial.


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