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Hey, everyone. You're listening to Code Switch from NPR. I'm Bea Parker.

And I'm Gene Demby.

Gene, you know how President Trump kind of has his own language, like fake news or witch hunt or even make America great again.

Yeah, all that, like, Trumpy jargon, right?

Like, always insults for his opponents, right?

You got crooked Hillary, sleepy Joe Biden, Ron De Sanctimonious,

got Pocahontas for Liz Warren, cocaine Mitch.

I'm not going to lie to it.

It goes kind of hard.

Maybe I just listen to much Freddie Gibbs.

That would be a dope rap name for Governor Romney.

Anyway.

Sure.

But like, whether President Trump's using a term to insult a specific person or to claim a specific institution, like calling the

Department of Defense the Department of War, it's not just the president that uses those terms.

It's the people who work for him and people who follow him and his political ideology.

Yeah, like whether like certain companies put Gulf of America on their maps became this

whole like rubric for like Laotica as the president.

But you can almost like tell if a person is in line with the president just based on the words

they use in conversation like in public, right?

Like words that are like a nod to whether they're Maga or not. And it's like a very different kind of nod from like when you were, I might see another black person like, oh, it was good. Like, and acknowledge them to somebody's presence in the space. It's like a different thing. Yeah, because those little MAGA nods are meant to be kind of like a taunt or a warning to

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