Talk:buron

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Trumpism?[edit]

This week's Economist has a reference to this as a Donald Trump coinage meaning "bureaucratic moron," but I cannot find any attestation for that whatsoever (CFI-meeting or otherwise). -- Visviva 06:33, 15 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

"a buron being defined as a cross between a bureaucrat and a moron" - Donald Trump, The America We Deserve (2000). -- https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PV6qZU_xev8C&pg=PT53&lpg=PT53#v=onepage&q&f=false