Trump-proof

Definitions

To protect policies against change by a future Donald Trump administration.

transitive

Examples

“In advance of his farewell address next week, the president has tried to Trump-proof a climate pact that commits the world’s second leading producer of earth-warming pollutants — the United States — to making this little orb of ours a less perilous place⟳ for Sasha [Obama]’s and Malia [Obama]’s and Ivanka [Trump]’s kids.”

““Probably the best advice to Trump-proof your finances is to become⟳ an asset superman,” says Carla Dearing, CEO of SUM180, a financial wellness service. […] Municipal bonds could be attractive to Trump-proof a portfolio because you generally don’t pay⟳ federal taxes on income. […] Making sure you are sufficiently diversified is probably the best way to Trump-proof your portfolio.”

“Europe, the UK and Ukraine urgently need⟳ to “Trump-proof” their collective security by setting up a “Nato bank” to aid defence spending, a report⟳ suggests.”

““The power of the presidency is such that it is quite difficult to Trump-proof agencies and programs from someone who is determined to break⟳ the guardrails and shift the direction of the country if the courts and Congress fail⟳ to play⟳ their proper role of constraining that overreach,” said Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat and close⟳ Biden ally.”

““We’ve been Trump-proofing the place⟳,” said Elizabeth Ashford, a political consultant who has worked for governors on both sides of the aisle and was Kamala Harris’s chief of staff when she was California’s attorney general.”

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