ABSTRACT
By sending out short, provocative messages, Donald Trump has successfully exploited social media, especially Twitter, and set journalistic news media agendas. In many Western European countries, right-wing populist politicians have bypassed mainstream media by making similarly provocative statements, which can be and are termed ‘scandalous’. Even if the intersection of right-wing populism and political scandals has been eye-catching, particularly in the twenty-first-century’s liberal democracies, scandalogy has paid only little attention to the issue, remaining more focused on traditional forms of political scandal, such as the sex, power and financial scandals defined in Thompson’s (2000, 120–123) seminal work.
