“She got schlonged!”
That’s what GOP frontrunner Donald Trump had to say [4] about Hillary Clinton’s primary loss to now President Barack Obama in 2008.
“She lost. I mean, she lost," Trump added, just in case anyone was confused about the meaning of the term “schlonged.”
Predictably, the liberal media was offended by the brazen billionaire’s assessment but, in keeping with his steadfast refusal to apologize or even to backtrack on controversial commentary, the Trump campaign is sticking with the “schlonging”, a move which has the political punditry tracing the term’s history.
Here's Trump:
Once again, #MSM [5] is dishonest. "Schlonged" is not vulgar. When I said Hillary got "schlonged" that meant beaten badly.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2015 [6]
NPR's @NealConan [7] said "schlonged" to WaPo re: 1984 Mondale/Ferraro campaign: "That ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls." #Hypocrisy [8]
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2015 [9]
For those on TV defending my use of the word "schlonged," bc #MSM [5] is giving it false meaning-tell them it means beaten badly. Dishonest #MSM [5]
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2015 [10]
Here's an excerpt from the WaPo [11]'s take:
“Given Trump’s history of vulgarity and misogyny, it’s entirely possible that he had created a sexist term for ‘defeat’ (as far as I know there is no such slang verb in Yiddish),” Pinker wrote. “But given his history with sloppy language it’s also possible that it’s a malaprop.”
Trump’s problem? He’s a gentile who, linguistically, may have wandered too far from home.
“Many goyim are confused by the large number of Yiddish terms beginning with ‘schl’ or ‘schm’ (schlemiel, schlemazzle, schmeggegge, schlub, schlock, schlep, schmutz, schnook), and use them incorrectly or interchangeably,” he wrote. “And headline writers often ransack the language for onomatopoeic synonyms for ‘defeat’ such as drub, whomp, thump, wallop, whack, trounce, clobber, smash, trample, and Obama’s own favorite, shellac (which in fact sounds a bit like schlong). So an alternative explanation is that Trump reached for what he thought was a Yinglish word for ‘beat’ and inadvertently coined an obscene one.”
And here's a bit from the NPR piece [12] Trump references:
As it turns out, the use of "schlong" as a verb is not unprecedented in political discourse. As the Washington Post's Justin Moyer pointed out, NPR's own Neal Conan used it on the air in 2011, explaining that the Walter Mondale-Geraldine Ferraro presidential ticket "went on to get schlonged at the polls" in the 1984 election.
As it now appears increasingly likely that the general election will see Trump face off against Hillary, it's a virtual certainty that the American people will ultimately be the ones who end up getting "schlonged.
Enjoy it America.