definition for: #Scampaign

#Scampaign is a clever phrase meaning “Scam campaign.” Perhaps the one who came up with this was Ian Tuttle, the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at the National Review Institute. In any case, #Scampaign is applied to the 2016 presidential election campaign of Donald Trump. The reason is that twenty percent of the campaign’s May expenditures were reimbursements to businesses that Trump owns.

When a politician runs on one platform but secretly pushes an agenda that is in opposition to what they state publicly. A good example is a candidate who uses a word that they know resonates to their constituents (preserving our beach town) but their definition of preservation is in opposition to what they state...like promoting urban density as a means of climate control). That is a scampaign.