DU Braintrust: We, and the media, need a good catchy name for this Trump scandal, like Watergate

[ZonkerHarris]

Something the media can use.
Teapot Dome and Watergate being the best examples
I mean the GOP weaponized the word Benghazi for gosh sakes
They wont use something like "Traitorgate" or such
But what can we tag this as?
This is where we need to match and better the GOP for Benghazi, and Monicagate etc.
Branding and messaging

[NameAlreadyTaken]

1. Mar-A-Lagate

[viva la]

2. That's good!

Spygate.

Top-secret-gate.

[ZonkerHarris]

3. that is good

[LeftInTX]

14. I like it. It paints an accurate picture

Pompous lifestyle with buffoonery in plain sight...Also Mar a lago has huge gates!

You just picture the gold toilets, the MAGAT crowds, the flotillas, the beautiful chocolate cake, the messy papers, papers locked by the pool, classified papers mildewing in the humidity, Chinese people sneaking in USB drives, cheesy reality star, cheesy grifter, trophy wife, Florida man, Florida, golf with poop stained pants. It has it all there in one picture!

You know how Discovery has those "ghost hunter" shows? Mar a lago would make a perfect episode. Also, it be fun to do a makeover episode, because Florida has lots of mold, rats and roaches. I bet Mar a lago is teaming with rats! I bet it has roaches. It bet it has leaks.

[LeftInTX]

16. MAR A LA GATE

[viva la]

4. Trump-dump-gate?

[Enter stage left]

5. Treason-gate!

[Haggard Celine]

6. That's immediately what came to my mind.

Espionagegate doesn't roll off the tongue like Treasongate, and Treasongate would absolutely inflame the Trumpers.

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[ZonkerHarris]

13. media wont use it

[Kingofalldems]

28. That's it.

[HariSeldon]

8. The Mar-a-Lago Files

[Captain Zero]

10. I've always liked MaraLoco

Because the fucker is nuts.

Not sure how you expand that to encompass all the criminality.

[wyn borkins]

9. Derived From Haggard Celine (at 6 just above) :: Espi O'Nage Gate

Or maybe: 'The Espi O'Nage Files' (by way of HariSeldon at 8 just above)

[tritsofme]

11. United States of America v. Donald J. Trump will do just fine.

[GoCubsGo]

25. Yes. That says it all. nt

[DFW]

12. Litigate

Top Secragate

Filegate

Fedsatthegate

Barthegate

Oopsagate

Docugate

and, if it turns out Manchin's somehow involved, Coalgate!

[mopinko]

15. trump crime wave.

[LeftInTX]

17. Mar-a-la-gate

[kentuck]

18. In my opinion, we don't need another "gate".

It is way beyond that and there is no need to minimize it.

[wyn borkins]

19. 'The MAGA SPO'Nage Files'

[lindysalsagal]

20. #TRE45ON

Posted by a du-er just now.

[TomDaisy]

21. how about BoxGate? that is something the media would actually say

[ZonkerHarris]

32. That's not bad

[gibraltar72]

22. Shit Show By The Sea!

[mackdaddy]

24. The Never Ending Trump Shit Show.

What it seems like to me.

[Novara]

23. Naw, I'll bet he has classified documents at his other properties, so limiting the name to one won't

Let's see what else they find.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Do each of the other investigations get their own name?

Link to tweet

[ZonkerHarris]

33. It would help if they could. Branding!

[Ilsa]

27. Trump the treason-weasel. nt

[maxrandb]

29. There's so many scandals surrounding that POS

I think we should call it DonnyGate, or TrumpGate.

Maybe Orange Bafoon Gate.

CoppertoneGate

TurdGate

Tiny Hands Gate

PilferGate

TreasonGate

[Chainfire]

30. The Mar-a- Loco incident.

[Amishman]

31. 'gate' anything is overused and punchless.

These things organically name themselves if it punches through to the forefront of the country's collective consciousness.

Trying to do this stuff artificially is pretty much doomed to failure. This is why all the various disparaging nicknames for Trump never caught on outside of politically engaged Democrats - yet we had how many countless threads trying to coin the right one.

[LeftInTX]

34. They had a coal scam in India. It named itself: Coalgate!!

They speak English in India and they have Colgate toothpaste. So.......