Kennedy Center Bans Concert

[Mandryka]

It is listed in this excellent British slang database with the etymology coming from "trumpet." There's also "trumpton" meaning the fire department.

They had a fire brigade which was a sort of 60s meme, because the firemen had a catchy roll call in each episode "Hugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub."

My own favourite was Windy Miller

[Opus131]

Insulting Trump is a waste of time. Never understood why people kept going that route even though it clearly always rubbed off him without leaving any mark. People have been throwing insults at him for almost 10 years now and not a single one seems to have landed. You can't shame someone with this much guile. Name calling is basically his thing and if you stoop to his level he'll just beat you with experience.

Always thought criticisms of Trump should come from a more adult place but it seems there's no adults left in politics, from any side.

[Brian]

I engaged with the previous off-topic post because it was silly and harmless, but discussions of American politics are disallowed on this board.

[Iota]

I know this is off topic but it is funny.
Maybe our English friends can confirm this.
I have read that "trump" is slang in England for breaking wind.

Indeed. As children we used to go and stay with a family we were close to sometimes, and once at breakfast their oldest child said to his parents, 'I've just done a trump', (which we'd all heard anyway  ) ). I'd never heard the expression before and never did again, so I guess there's a portion of the population who use it at least, but I wasn't in that portion.

[Opus131]

I engaged with the previous off-topic post because it was silly and harmless, but discussions of American politics are disallowed on this board.

Oh, i didn't know that.

[arpeggio]

Another artist pulls out of the Kennedy Center:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/banjoist-b%C3%A9la-fleck-pulls-out-of-kennedy-center-concert/ar-AA1TItZB?ocid=BingNewsSerp