There are 4th graders at the school where I teach who use the word 'Trump' to describe a bowel movement. For instance, instead of saying "I have to take a dump" they say "I have to take a trump". The first time I realized this was when I asked one student where another student was.
"He's taking a trump" the student told me.
Huh? I thought the student meant to say 'dump' but then I heard two other students that same day use the term trump instead of 'bowel movement'. One kid was laughing at another kid as he declared, "Oh man, I almost trumped my pants!"This was a head-scratcher. I decided I wouldn't say anything for the time being. However, the next day I realized that this trend was really catching on. I actually heard a dozen or more second graders using trump in this way at well. Like most things kids pick up now days, I figured they had gotten it from TV or you tube, so during my lunch break I started googling to see if I could find any examples of this. And sure enough, there were hundreds of videos in which 'trump' was being used as a synonym for 'shit'. I doubt that the grade school kids I teach know a whole lot about Trump or about politics in general, but it made me realize that as they get older, down through the years, they would always associate his name with shit.
So the question I asked myself was, "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
Just a week earlier our school had a bullying awareness assembly where we encouraged kids to deal with bullying in various ways. Teachers were shown videos of kids being bullied which we could show to our students. As I thought back to the videos I realized how similar these videos were to video clips of Trump's rallies and interviews. I did another google search and found a video of Trump making racist remarks, then several videos of him making sexist remarks. There was also a video of him making fun of a handicapped person. There was a clip of Trump having working people thrown out into freezing temperatures as he screamed 'steal his coat' at them. And then of course there was the infamous clip or Trump degrading American veterans by declaring that he doesn't respect those people who get captured.
After watching these clips and mulling over what to do about the situation, I realized that the fact that 4th graders equated Trump to a bowel movement made perfect sense. As a teacher and a father I have witnessed numerous occasions where children see straight through the facades that adults create much better than adults do. Kids have a way of immediately getting right to the truth of a matter. And when they see some arrogant tan-in-a-can, hair-plugged asshole on the nightly news and you tube clips spouting out racist comments, sexist comments, kicking people out into freezing temperatures without their coats, making fun of handicapped people and telling war heroes that they dont deserve respect because they got captured then yes, it is VERY appropriate to equate that to human excrement.
So I decided I would just let it go. And that night I went home, had a nice meal, then retired to the restroom and took one of the most relaxing trumps of my life.
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