I never paid attention to the past elections that I have been around for. As a kid, I was naive to the political atmosphere strewn about, and it was not until this year that I decided to become interested in the election as it would be the first that I could participate in. It seems that I picked a good one to be interested in, as the political players were larger than life, multi-faceted characters, from Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump and all their associates. During the election process and beyond, I noticed new locutions being used by these personalities particularly Donald Trump and his crew. Here is a list of those that I found particularly interesting, their supposed meanings, and how I use them.

1. Fake News

Donald Trump started using this term in December of 2016 to discredit media outlets such as CNN and claim that their reportings are bogus. He loves using this phrase, especially on Twitter. Just recently The Don went on a tweeting spree saying how he's gonna change the name of CNN to FNN (F for fake of course). I use this term ironically when I don't believe something my friend says. "Wow dude that girl said she doesn't like you? That's gotta be fake news."

2. Snowflake

I first heard this word used by the infamous Tomi Lahren. She used it as a derogative word towards overly sensitive liberals, but let's be honest there are "snowflakes" on the left and the right. Everyone gets sensitive about something. I use this word when describing frozen water droplets that fall from the sky in the winter.

3. Libtard

I really don't like this one, so I don't use it. It's basically the same as "snowflake" but it combines the words "liberal" and "retard." It is defined by Urban Dictionary as "Someone who, intoxicated by being knowledgeable and right about politics and economics, forgets that they need to get actual real ordinary people to support them if their agenda is to be advanced." If I'm not mistaken this word has been around for awhile, but it more recently has been brought to light as more conservatives try to combat the liberal agenda.

4. Alternative Facts

During a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, Kelly Ann Conway broke out this gem of a phrase to defend Sean Spicer when he talked about the attendance numbers at Donald Trump's inauguration. It's a clever way to say a "lie," basically. One time my parents saw Kelly Ann Conway in church and when they told me about it I said to them, "are you sure you saw her, or are you just presenting me with alternative facts?"

5. Make America Great Again (MAGA)

I did a quick Google search to see if Donald Trump was the first person to use this mantra, and as it turns out Ronald Reagan actually used it during his 1980 presidential campaign. Bill Clinton used it as well during his 1992 presidential campaign. Donald Trump first used the slogan on November 7, 2012, and since then the sentence has taken on a life of its own. One can find this sentence on hats, t-shirts, mugs, or really anything anyone can imagine. It has become synonymous with Donald Trump himself. If you ask me though, America's been pretty great already, so I don't really get the slogan. I do love, however, that people have taken "Make America Great Again" and have made it their own. For example, John Oliver poked fun at Trump during a piece on his show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver when he said "Make Donald Drumpf Again" in reference to Trump's ancestral name.

6. Small Hands

On February 29, 2016 at one of his rallies, Marco Rubio countered Donald Trump's insult of calling him "Little Marco" by pointing out the size of Donald Trump's hands. He is quoted as saying,

"He is taller than me, he's like 6' 2", which is why I don't understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5' 2. Have you seen his hands? And you know what they say about men with small hands -- You can't trust them ."

Being The Don that he is, Donald Trump responded by claiming his hands are not at all small and that they can "hit golf balls 285 yards." At rallies, he would scoff at Rubio while showing his hands to crowds and motioning as if his hands were sculpted by Michaelangelo. "People tell me I have the most beautiful hands." Amazing.

7. Bigly

Apparently "bigly" is an actual word that Donald Trump accidentally resurrected. According to dictionary.com, "bigly" is an adverb that means "in a big way, greatly." Based on the definition, the word actually makes sense when Donald Trump uses it when he says things like "we're going to cut taxes bigly." However, "bigly" isn't even what he means to say. CNN did a piece trying to discern whether or not Donald Trump is saying "bigly" or "big league." CNN mentioned an interview that Donald Trump had with Raymond Arroyo of World Over, where it was revealed Mr. Trump has been saying "big league," but nevertheless the memes of the word lived on, and they lived on bigly. Honestly, it's a fun word to say. Say it to yourself a few times, seriously. Bigly. Bigly. Bigly. Bigly

8. Covfefe

This is my all time favorite "Trumpism." It is the cream of the crop of words on this list in my opinion. I have so much love for this word, and it's not even a word. This word is special to me because Donald Trump tweeted it on my birthday. That's right. On May 31, 2017 at 12:06am, the president tweeted a gift. It felt like it was just for me. It's as if the president knew it was my special day, and he wanted it to be particularly special. Twitter exploded, trying to figure out what the word means. I'm sure the word was supposed to be "coverage," but instead "covfefe" was born. The theatre of it all is quite beautiful, actually. No matter where one lies on the political spectrum, "covfefe" will always be an enigma. Oh! and the jokes. The beautiful jokes and memes. They are absolute treasures. My favorite ones are where people pretend covfefe is some weird form of coffee. "Yes, hello sir I'll take one covfefe please." Beautiful. I even tried to join in on the fun by tweeting my own version of the meme.

Everyone loves a good Spongebob reference right? I. Love. Covfefe.

All of these words and phrases that came about because of Donald Trump really add spice to life. People are going to look back on these words and think, "wow what was going in 2016, 2017." I am currently living in this age and I don't even know myself. I just know that I love looking at memes while drinking a nice, hot cup of covfefe, and these words have given me no shortage of memes and jokes. So in the end, I would like to say to thank you to Donald, Kelly Ann, Marco, and the like. Without you all and your kooky personalities, these beautiful words and phrases would not exist. Thank you. Thank you. They're a nice distraction from the actual political sphere (but that's something for another conversation on another day). I would also like to thank my pals Jordan, Kyle and Paulina for helping compile this list. So remember kids, when the small hands of the world try to bring you down and the fake news is presenting you with alternative facts, just drink some hot covfefe and take on the world bigly.