Could US Congress ‘disenpresidentify’ Trump? 

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2016

Re: “‘Unpresidented’ Trump tweet on China sets off deluge of mockery”, World, December 19.

This article raised an issue that has long agitated my tiny brain.  That is the use of the ugly pseudo-verb “unfriend” to terminate a friendship on Facebook. If you must use “friend” as a verb (“After a long period of hostility, the US and Russia friended after Don the Con took office”), the stern rules of grammar require you to use a prefix. The proper prefix here is “de-” or “dis-”, as in deactivate” or “disengage”. In the case of “friend” this would give us “defriend” or “disfriend”.
But we are about to enter the Age of Trump, which requires us to invent a verb that is supremely grand, pretentious, pompous, braggadocious, lordly and verbose. I suggest “disenfriendify”. Applying this pattern to a possible future situation in which Don the Con might be deposed after taking office, we would get the neologism “disenpresidentify”. It could be used in a sentence like “Congress disenpresidentified Don the Con after it was revealed that, during an interview, he had grabbed Megyn Kelly by the [unmentionable word denoting a member of the feline species].”
Isn’t English fun?
Friendishly,
Ye Olde Pedant