Trump Grey

Over Thanksgiving, I was visiting family in Austin. On Friday, we went out to dinner to a funky TexMex restaurant. After we parked, I noticed three SUVs with similar colors parked right next to each other. They were all pale greyish green in color. It was a color palette I had been becoming aware of as a popular car paint over the past few months. I pointed the trio out to my sister, and she described it as “Trump grey”.

Three green grey cars seen in downtown Houston

It is not pure grey, like PANTONE 17-5104, aka the Ultimate Gray. The grey on these vehicles reminds me of a fall color on your computer with the saturation turned way down. Whenever I see a vehicle like this, it seems like a self-conscious display of macho stoicism. The colors look like faded military fatigues. Whenever I would see them, my thought was of pseudo-manly posers, people who want you to think they are tough, emotionless warriors. I think my sister would agree, hence her identification of them as Trumpers.