As the news emerged Friday that President Donald Trump would be temporarily suspending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, social media users on both sides of the political spectrum—but especially the far-right—declared Trump a “cuck.”
The decision to reopen the government came after news of airport halting operations. But the president has been sparring for weeks with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over the shutdown, the result of disagreements over funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
“Cuck,” shortened from “cuckold,” is a term with origins in porn that means a man who lets his wife cheat on him with Black men. The term, just as racist as it is sexual, is thrown around candidly on far-right forums. And it was hurled incessantly at the president on Twitter Friday alongside another far-right favorite: “soy boy.”
Many of the users appeared to be former Trump supporters.
https://twitter.com/mtdisme/status/1088881865048682496
https://twitter.com/_Drew_McCoy_/status/1088882001447399424
https://twitter.com/Darkerdesigns66/status/1088883727793573890
https://twitter.com/I_Marcism/status/1088898297438367749
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Turns out that despite being beloved by the self-proclaimed alpha males of the Far Right, Donald Trump is the biggest cuck of all.
— KillerTigger (@KillerTigger) January 25, 2019
Trump announced Friday that the federal government will remain open until Feb. 15. He said if a deal isn’t made by then, he will declare a national emergency to build a border wall.
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