Of 135 "-ocracies" Trump team is most fond of "Trumpocracy"

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Paul Krugman criticizes Trump over John Lewis kekuffle

Calls Trump presidency a “kakistocracy.” Trump tweets he’ll sue while team issues list of acceptable “-ocracies”

New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman criticized President-elect Donald Trump for his response to congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis’ statement that he won’t attend the inauguration because he regards Mr. Trump an “illegitimate president.”

In the column, “With All Due Respect,” Krugman wrote:

“As you might expect, this statement provoked a hysterical, slanderous reaction from the president-elect – who, of course, got his start in national politics by repeatedly, falsely questioning President Obama’s right to hold office. But Mr. Trump — who has never sacrificed anything or taken a risk to help others — seems to have a special animus toward genuine heroes. Maybe he prefers demonstrators who don’t get beaten?”

Krugman went on to say, regarding the Trump presidency, “What we’re looking at, all too obviously, is an American kakistocracy — rule by the worst.”

This latter statement clearly ruffled Mr. Trump’s feathers, as he immediately tweeted:

 According to linguistic experts contacted by Around the Block, there are over 135 words that end in “-ocracy” which comes from a Greek word for “rule” or “authority”. 

Sensing that to carry out this suit and to deal with future slights from tedious liberal columnists who use big words that no one knows, the Trump transition team immediately elevated a junior staffer, Lewis Lingua, a recent dictionary studies graduate of the online, for profit college, Noah Webster University.

Immediately taking the offensive, Lingua said that many “-ocracy” words were more appropriate descriptions of a future Trump administration saying "we would have had no problem if Krugman used any of them." These include:

• albocracy: government by white men or Europeans
• androcracy: the rule of man, male supremacy
• argentocracy: the rule or paramount influence of money
• chrysocracy: rule of the wealthy
• gerontocracy: the system of government by old men
• agiocracy: government by persons esteemed holy
• logocracy: a system of government in which words are the ruling powers
• strumpetocracy: government by strumpets

Lingua indicated that the most appropriate and acceptable  “-ocracy” description of the Trump administration is one that is just becoming established in the American vocabulary, “Trumpocracy” or government by Trumps.