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MAGA
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Appendix:Variations of "maga"
English
en :initialism make America great again<ety:from<make><America><great><again>>
Alternative forms
en Maga UK
Pronunciation
en /ˈmæɡ.ə/ /ˈmɑ.ɡə/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-MAGA.wav UK
en en-us-MAGA.ogg US
en æɡə ɑːɡə 2
Phrase
phr
en US politics en w:Make America Great Again.
en California schoolgirl arrested in Trump hat classroom fracas w:BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45335855 BBC 2018-08-29 The 17-year-old told a CBS affiliate the Maga hats - a staple of President Trump's campaign - are a "racist and hateful symbol." ¶ According to the sheriff's office, the student began verbally attacking her peer on Monday because of the Maga hat, before grabbing and hurling it to the ground. https://web.archive.org/web/20180830182128/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45335855
en w:The New York Times 2020-10-31 Campaign 2020: Let's Never Do This Again Matt Flegenheimer https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/politics/2020-campaign.html “Four more years!” the incumbent’s backers called out even louder, largely unencumbered by face coverings. ¶ “Black Lives Matter!” ¶ “Black Lives MAGA!” https://web.archive.org/web/20201101004700/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/politics/2020-campaign.html
en Richard Fausset; Jonathan Martin In Georgia, a Republican Feud With Trump at the Center w:The New York Times 2020-11-18 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/georgia-recount.html 0362-4331 “Mitch knows he can’t take Trump off the table there,” Scott Reed, a longtime G.O.P. strategist, said of the calculations of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. “He needs him to energize the MAGA crowd.” https://web.archive.org/web/20201118022238/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/georgia-recount.html
Derived terms
en Dark MAGA MAGAbilly MAGAdom MAGAism MAGA Mike MAGAnomics MAGAphone MAGAsphere MAGAt MAGAtard MAGAtino MAGAland MAGAlomaniac MAGAverse MAGAstan maple MAGA MAGA world Nicki MAGAj MAGA Minaj MAGA Minaj
Related terms
en KAG
en KAGA
en MAHA
en MIGA
en Appendix:Snowclones/make X Y again make X Y again snowclone
See also
en America First
Adjective
en US politics Following the political philosophy of Donald Trump; Trumpist.
en MAGA Republicans
en-GB w:Laura Ingraham Jeremy Barr Maga media stars back Trump on Venezuela … mostly: ‘It doesn’t make any sense’ The Guardian 2026-01-07 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/maga-stars-trump-venezuela 0261-3077 The coverage among opinion hosts on Fox News has also been overwhelmingly positive. Fox News host Laura Ingraham called the capture of Maduro “quintessentially Maga”.
Noun
en US politics A follower of the political philosophy of Donald Trump.
en John Pansini Election 2220: Night of the Voting Dead RtS Publishing 2020 978-1-7351873-0-3 A terrified mob of these MAGAs in their red hats had gathered in the town square screaming: “Where’s Sarah? Where’s Sarah? She promised to make Stars Hollow great again! She’s the only one who can save us!”
en w:Kurt Andersen Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History w:Random House 2020 267 9781984801340 A different study by political scientists found that Trump’s anti-immigrant ravings actually inspired more white people to vote against him than it did white MAGAs to vote for him.
en Rick Wilson The Trump 2020 War Machine Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump—and Democrats from Themselves New York, N.Y. Crown Forum 2020 part 3 (Army of Darkness: Trump’s War Machine) 138 9780593137581 Trump, a man devoted to television like it’s religion, likely couldn’t give a damn, but the RNC, the state parties, and the various victory committees will be working their asses off to deploy MAGAs into the field.
en Erbil Gunasti; Daphne Barak [[Coming Home] Trump Extended Hand] Celebrating Christmas at the White House Struggling for One America: Trump vs. Hollywood: The Two White Houses w:Skyhorse Publishing 2021 978-1-5107-6808-6 There were two problems for an African American in Washington DC, during a MAGA rally. First, there were too many pro-Trump MAGAs in town. Worse, there were lots of police officers too. At Harry’s Bar a few blocks from the hotel, Money B had apparently made friends because these MAGAs turned out to be fans of his famous songs, like “The Humpty Dance.”
en w:Peter York (Most) Populists aren’t what they seem… John Mair; Tor Clark; Neil Fowler; w:Raymond Snoddy; w:Richard Tait Populism, the Pandemic and the Media: Journalism in the age of Covid, Trump, Brexit and Johnson Abramis Academic Publishing 2021 section 2 (UK politics and the media) 103 978 1 84549 785 9 Many of the founders and leaders of today’s populist parties now just aren’t like their followers. The followers either don’t know – there are plenty of vox pops where Magas (Make American Great Agains) still describe Trump as a self-made man – or don’t care: all this fussing about class origins and elite linkages is just what bitter, twisted liberals do.
en Andrew S. Weiss Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin First Second 2022 198 978-1-250-90607-6 MY LIBERAL RUSSIAN FRIENDS STARTED TO CALL THOSE PEOPLE KRYM-NASHI (“CRIMEA’S OURS”-NIKS) MUCH AS AMERICAN LIBERALS CALL DONALD TRUMP’S FANS MAGAS. on
en George Waas Social Media Musings: Book 4 w:AuthorHouse 2022 978-1-6655-7742-7 For DeSantis, it’s “Ron De-sanctimonious.” It doesn’t matter whether his MAGAs know what sanctimonious means; Trump makes the point and his loyal servants get a good laugh.
en Amanda Sturgill National Security We Are #ALTGOV: Social Media Resistance from the Inside w:Rowman & Littlefield 2022 146 978-1-5381-6209-5 Taylor tweeted about the bind that Zelenskyy found himself in: “Ukraine, of course, is desperate for US support. The biggest risk they face is falling out of favor with the American public. And that explains any upcoming recapitulation of ‘no pressure.’ They can’t afford to piss off the MAGAs. They are truly hostages in this.”
en Michael Bond Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging Picador 2023 978-1-5290-5250-3 In this pop-culture milieu, political parties are like personality cults, and their leaders are symbolic of their group’s identity. So in addition to Janeites (fans of Jane Austen), Beliebers (Justin Bieber) and Swifties (Taylor Swift), we now have MAGAs (Donald Trump), Corbynistas (Jeremy Corbyn) and Boristas (Boris Johnson).
en Jack B. Walters Who are MAGA- Republicans? One Last Attempt (The Last Angry Man) w:Trafford Publishing 2023 978-1-6987-1381-6 I am sure he reasoned that as an Independent all he would have accomplished would be the sure election of Hillary by splitting MAGAs and Republicans, as Teddy Roosevelt did when he tried to regain the Presidency.
en James Oliver Goldsborough 16 The Devil’s Presence City Point Press 2023 978-1-947951-66-2 The adults were to blame, not just the crazy MAGAs but ordinary people who don’t know any better.
Anagrams
en aagm Gama agma
en Donald Trump Fans (people)