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He is the oldest first-term president and the ''only'' US president who has never held prior political office or military rank.<ref>He joins [[William Howard Taft]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] on the list of never holding ''elected'' office or military rank, but Donald Trump was never appointed to any office either.</ref> and his wife Melania Trump is the second foreign-born First Lady<ref>English-born Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, First Lady to John Quincy Adams (6th President of the United States), was the first.</ref>
He is the third president to have been impeached (twenty-one years less a day after [[Bill Clinton]] was), the first to have been impeached during his first term of office, and the first to be impeached twice. He is also the first president to have been [[Persona Non Grata|banned from all major social media sites for misleading information and inciting violence]]. As of June 2023, he is the first former President to be indicted on felony charges.
As of March 2024, the 2024 presidential election has become a rerun of the 2020 election, with Biden and Trump both running for re-election. Both men are using the same campaign strategies that they used in their 2020 election campaigns. If Trump ends up winning, he would be the second person to serve nonconsecutive terms in office, the first being [[Grover Cleveland]].
Some editors would probably have some triumphant line of argument to add here in support or opposition of any of those, but [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|they should know better]].
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* [[Badass]]: He got a very credible threat to his life at least two weeks before his presidential election, to the point the Secret Service evacuated him from the speech he was giving, but instead of letting it stick, he simply went right back to the podium a few minutes later and continued speaking. Throughout his entire presidential campaign and into his presidency, Trump has been the target of more than one confirmed assassination attempt and refused to quit appearing in public or be cowed into doing so.
** [[Badass Grandpa]]: Trump was in his late sixties when the aforementioned threat happened, and he's now an actual grandfather.
* [[Bad Liar]]: Trump's "Pants on Fire!" count on Politifact (a designation given when "The statement is not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim") is
* [[Gannon Banned|Bannon Banned]]: Quite a bit of strife in the political fandom was caused by Steve Bannon's appointment as a quasi-Chief of Staff.
* [[Believing Their Own Lies]]: It's unclear, but Trump does at least give the appearance of believing his lies ''du jour''.
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** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/19/george-conway-what-i-really-believe/ George Conway] has described him as "the most prodigiously documented liar in American history, if not the history of the world."
** As of the end of his presidency, the ''Washington Post'' credited him with [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/ over 30,500 false or misleading claims] during the four years he was in office.
** Trump claims a golf handicap of 2.5. (When it comes to golf handicaps, lower is better.) In July 2023, [https://www.sbnation.com/golf/2023/7/15/23796059/donald-trumps-hilarious-wedge-shank-leaves-fans-trolling-former-commander-in-chief professional golfers assessed it at closer to 30].
* [[Broke Episode]]: Trump's businesses have filed for bankruptcy six times.
* [[Brooklyn Rage]]: Trump's persona, at least in the media, is that of a [[Nouveau Riche|straight-talking]], tough New Yorker - an image he's made efforts to cultivate over the years.
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** Trump received his [[The Cameo|cameo]] in ''[[Home Alone 2]]'' because he demanded it in exchange for permission to film in the Plaza Hotel, which he owned at the time. In a [https://www.insider.com/home-alone-30-an...eo-2020-11 December 2020 interview with ''Insider''], director [[Chris Columbus]] explicitly described it as "bully[ing] his way into the movie".
** In early January 2021, Trump attempted to bully his vice president Mike Pence into illegally calling the election for him by browbeating him: [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/us/politics/mike-pence-trump.html "You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy."] (Pence chose [[You Keep Using That Word|"patriot"]], enraging Trump with his "betrayal".)
* [[The Caligula]]: Trump matches many of the qualities listed in the article, most notably his extreme behavior (which was very obvious after his 2020 defeat) and his intolerance of disagreement or things he doesn't want to hear - it's not for nothing that his own press secretary invented the phrase [[Blatant Lies|"Alternative Facts"]]. And while he's never renamed a city for himself, one need only point at all the gaudy buildings he's built with his name on them, or his frequently-expressed desire to [[
* [[Calvin Ball]]: Trump would ignore many unwritten "rules" for running a successful campaign and win anyway.
** He completely ignored the "rule" that a campaign should "never put a candidate in a hat if you can avoid it" <ref>One notable violation leading to failure was Dukakis wearing a tank commander helmet and looking horrible in it, providing Bush Sr. with material for successful ads against him.</ref> and not only made his "Make America Great Again" hat iconic, but successfully wore a hard hat when accepting an endorsement from West Virginia Coal Association <ref>An endorsement he admitted right there isn't hard when running against Hillary, who said she wants their employers "out of business"</ref>.
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*** Averted when Trump was reportedly dissuaded from pardoning his children in his last hours in office by aides who raised the spectre of them being forced to testify against him.
** Possibly the worst example to date was [https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/25/trump-white-nationalist-nick-fuentes-kanye-00070825 inviting known hate group leader Nick Fuentes to a party at Mar-a-Lago] in November 2022, an act that has resulted in many of his former allies and defenders condemning him for it. As of this writing, he has yet to apologize or even admit it was a bad idea.
*** Except it went [[From Bad to Worse]] a week later when public scorn for it led to an angry rant claiming the [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/03/trump-constitution-truth-social/ Constitution must be "terminated" to reinstall him as President.] The response was almost exclusively condemnation, even by members of his own party. In the grand Trump tradition he then began denying he'd ever said such a thing and described all media reports about it as fabrications. As a final kick to the teeth, Fuentes himself condemned Trump, claiming his announcement for his reelection showed Trump was too moderate.
** His tendency to make verbal gaffes tends to make for some statements that probably needed some more thought put into them.
* [[Dodgy Toupee]]: Often when someone wants to make a sketch or joke about Donald Trump they may take the easy angle and mock the obvious toupee. ''[[Meet the Spartans]]'' did this where [[Catch Phrase|he fires]] Spiderman and cuts his web but he sticks it back onto his head and pulls the wig off.
** Lisa Lampanelli did this funnier than anyone: "What do you say to a barber to get him to cut your hair like that? I fucked your daughter?"
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* [[Egopolis]]: Trump 'brands' his buildings with the '''''Trump''''' name displayed prominently, often placing large gold [[Calling Card|"T"]] symbols throughout the interior rooms.
* [[Empty Promise]]: Usually played straight just like almost every other politician of the early 21st century, but Inverted with his promise to "accept no salary". Federal law forbids anyone from working for the government for no salary, but [https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1341/take-no-salary/ Trump donated all of his salary to various government departments during his tenure as President].
* [[Enlistment-Ending Minor Malaise]]: He was spared participation in the [[Vietnam War]] in 1968 when [https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/politics/trump-bone-spurs-vietnam-war/index.html his podiatrist diagnosed him] with [https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/heel-spurs-pain-causes-symptoms-treatments heel spurs]. This painful condition that makes walking difficult appears to have resolved itself shortly after the war ended.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: In the 2016 Presidential campaign, especially since he won.
* [[Epic Fail]]:
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:* Post Presidency it has gotten worse with his endorsements, who are mostly extremist celebrities with no experience in politics, for no reason other then gratitude for ''them'' endorsing ''him''. These include [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mehmet_Oz Dr. Mehmet Oz] in Pennsylvania, [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/J._D._Vance J.D. Vance] in Ohio, and [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Herschel_Walker Hershel Walker] in Georgia.
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Is apparently completely incapable of understanding or sympathizing with the feelings of anyone other than himself, as noted by many outside observers and reporters.
* [[Landslide Election]]: Subverted in 2016, inverted in 2020. He claimed his victory in 2016 was "the biggest Electoral Landslide in history, but it was not even close<ref>The biggest electoral landslide in history was, not counting George Washington or James Monroe, who both ran unopposed, John F. Kennedy's victory over Alf Landon, 523 votes to 8. Trump's victory in
* [[Large and In Charge]]: 6'3" and 243 pounds as of the end of 2020, with a body mass index over 30, which qualifies him as "obese", although not morbidly so as some have claimed.
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Due to using his family name as a brand name and the meaning of the word "trump", Donald Trump is referred to as Trump the majority of the time (or occasionally President Trump).
== M-O ==
* [[Machiavelli Was Wrong]]: His methods have been called "Machiavellian" by his detractors, and given his record, the Trope seems legit.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: White House insiders reported that after the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, a disbelieving Trump would wander the White House muttering, "I won. I won. I won."
* [[Medal of Dishonor]]:
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** He famously declared in front of video cameras that [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/mar/13/donald-trump-coronavirus-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-live-updates-news?page=with:block-5e6bfb108f088d75755931fa he took "no responsibility" for failures of his administration to address the COVID-19 outbreak.]
** In the wake of the January 6, 2021 mob attack on the Capitol, [https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/donald-trump-riot-impeachment/index.html Trump repeatedly refused to take any responsibility] for the violence and deaths inflicted by the crowd he had whipped into a frenzy, and in fact claimed unnamed and unidentified "people" had examined "every word" of his speech and certified it harmless.
** During the 2022 midterm elections, Trump declared that while any wins for the Republicans were entirely due to him, any losses weren't his fault.
* [[Never Accepted in His Hometown]]: Trump joins [[James K. Polk]] as the only Presidential candidate to lose both his home state and state of residence while still winning the election. Unlike Polk these are the same state (New York).
* [[New Media Are Evil]]: Whether he believes this or not is debatable, but he clearly wants everyone to think so. His war with the press is well-known, having coined the term "fake news" (a moniker he places on any media company who expresses any negativity towards him) and claiming the press is the "enemy of the people".
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** Inverted when he became President and skipped both White House Correspondence Dinners (2017 and 2018). Comedians [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDmSZX_zVuQ Hasan Minhaj] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeEiq_C6j3c Michelle Wolf]'s roasts were particularly brutal affairs. After the backlash following Wolf's roast it was announced that a presidential biographer (Ron Chernow) would give a talk in 2019 that [https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/2019-white-house-correspondents-no-comedian.html prohibited comedians from attending Presidential dinners].
* [[Self-Made Man]]: In the sense that he [[Half Truth|inherited his business]], went broke (bankrupting a ''casino'' is, as many have noted, no mean feat), and then rebuilt himself. He did receive a "small loan of million dollars", the [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/donald-trump-tax-fraud-fred.html highest estimates putting it at $413 million], but Trump has succeeded at multiplying his wealth to several times the amount he was loaned as his current{{when}} net worth is around 2 billion dollars (and [https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-net-worth/ going from a millionaire to a ''billionaire''] is no mean feat).
* [[Shame If Something Happened]]: How some commentators [https://twitter.com/sams1stdaughter/status/1187796927125032960 characterized] [https://web.archive.org/web/20191022032729/https://3ci6gd82qqe3lh3ugujrds6j-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/18918566_web1_191010-BIR-trump140-HEROS57.jpg his efforts] [https://www.noozhawk.com/article/daryl_cagle_ukraine_extortion_and_donald_trump_20190925 to bully other countries] [https://web.archive.org/web/20191022032124/https://3ci6gd82qqe3lh3ugujrds6j-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/18918566_web1_191010-BIR-trump140-HEROS45.jpg into doing things for him].
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Received one from Joe Biden in the first 2020 Presidential debate.
* [[Silent Majority]]: Has often pushed this claim to insist he and his policies are more popular than he is, although in most cases, his base seems more like [[Vocal Minority|a ''very'' loud minority.]]
* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: Many of his detractors say he ran for President as a PR stunt and never expected to win. If so, it certainly didn't help his PR.
* [[Sore Loser]]: A consistent theme throughout his life and his presidency -- Trump ''cannot'' bear to be seen as losing at ''anything'', and has used lawsuits and lies to challenge anything that makes him look like a "loser". He's insisted every election he's been in has been "rigged" (including the 2016, where he won) so as to give any loss the appearance of illegitimacy, no more so than in the wake of losing to Biden in November 2020. Trump ''immediately'' declared that there had been a massive conspiracy of organized voter fraud to deny him his rightful re-election. He and his enablers then spent ''months'' after the 2020 election filing dozens of ultimately futile lawsuits in order to overturn its results. In December 2020 he was reported to be considering declaring martial law to prevent his removal from power. In early January 2021 he attempted to bully his own vice president into illegally declaring him the winner, and when that failed he incited a mob to storm the Capitol Building in an unsuccessful attempt to ''seize'' the government. He never formally conceded, and all the way up to Biden's Inauguration refused to mention him by name.
** In mid-December 2020, infamous GOP strategist/dirty trickster Karl Rove noted that Trump was [[Understatement|"on the edge" of looking like a Sore Loser]].
* [[Spanner in the Works]]:
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* [[Spoiled Brat]]: So characterized by both sides of the aisle in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. "We're watching a petulant child not getting his way throw a tantrum," a senior Republican was [https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/donald-trump-pardons-stimulus/index.html quoted as saying by CNN] in late December 2020, in regards to Trump's refusal to let the election result go unchallenged.
* [[Start My Own]]: After being banned from pretty much every major social media outlet in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 insurrection attempt, Trump tried several times with mixed success to start his own social media platform.
* [[Still the Leader]]: Subsequent to his 2020 defeat.
* [[Streisand Effect]]: Trump's reaction to ''[[w:Fire and Fury|Fire and Fury]]'', a derogatory tell-all written by [[w:Michael Wolff (journalist)|Michael Wolff]], could well serve as a critic's lesson on how ''not'' to dissuade someone from reading a book. After passages of the book were leaked, Trump launched an explosive rant on Twitter condemning the book, while his wife, daughter, and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders condemned it publicly. Trump even sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher threatening a lawsuit if it was released, even as pre-sales on Amazon were reaching record numbers. As a result, the publisher actually released it four days early to meet demands, and it shot to the heights of the bestseller lists in a matter of hours. Many major booksellers reported lines outside their stores not seen since they had new ''[[Harry Potter]]'' releases, selling out stock in two minutes.
** Then he did it again two years later, threatening to sue his own niece for writing (not publishing, simply writing) ''[[w:Too Much and Never Enough|Too Much and Never Enough]]''. The threatened lawsuit resulted in the book gaining not just national media coverage but also media coverage in Canada, including an in-depth interview with the author on ''[[As It Happens]]''. As a result of this publicity, the book was released twenty-eight days early and set a record at the book's publisher for the number of preorders received.
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** When President he would go out of his way to avoid touching people or even going into crowds. Some believed it was at least part of the reason he refused to address the COVID-19 pandemic for months.
* [[Third-Person Person]]: Reported as speaking that way on occasion, such as the meeting with Bill Barr cited under ''It's All About Me'', above.
* [[Throw It In]]: One of the greatest frustrations suffered by Trump's staff during his presidency was his inability to follow a script. Without someone able to force him to stay on-topic, Trump would invariably throw out his prepared notes to expound, often fact-free and at great length, about his political enemies, his grievances and anything else he thought would make make him look good to the audience.<ref>In a lot of ways, this was due to his
* [[Too Soon]]: Defied; he waited all of 24 hours after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell Colin Powel's] death to [https://www.rawstory.com/there-really-is-no-bottom-trump-buried-for-spiteful-statement-about-colin-powell-s/ criticize and insult him.]
* [[Trash Talk]]: A favored tactic -- some would say his ''only'' tactic -- in any kind of debate or presentation; Trump never dealt in facts or reasoned argument when he could insult his opponent, their family, or even an idea.
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