MAGA

[em-ey-jee-ey, mag-uh]

abbreviation

U.S. Politics.

1. Make America Great Again: a presidential campaign slogan used by Donald J. Trump.

Word History and Origins

Origin of MAGA¹

First recorded in 2016 ; from “Let's make America great again,” a slogan used by Ronald Reagan in his presidential campaign in 1980 .

Example Sentences

When it comes to the angry men of MAGA, Ocasio-Cortez had this advice for her audience on Instagram Live: “Laugh at them! Stephen Miller is a clown! I’ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he’s, like, 4′10″.”

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To MAGA’s dismay, now that Leo has begun expressing his views, there is little indication he plans to rein them in.

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“MAGA culture is rewarding a certain kind of woman that beauty pageants reward,” Mifflin said.

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And MAGA’s ascendancy has supercharged the conspiracy: The belief that 2020 was a “stolen election” is now gospel for much of the GOP, and it was at the heart of efforts to overturn the result—in court, in Congress, and, most famously, via the Capitol insurrection.

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Many of Posobiec’s attacks on election integrity in the state focused on Shapiro, accusing him of various electoral improprieties and “MAGA suppression.”

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