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* [[Believing Their Own Lies]]: It's unclear, but Trump does at least give the appearance of believing his lies ''du jour''.
* [[Big Bulky Bomb]]: He became the first president to deploy a MOAB, the so-called "Mother of All Bombs" (which itself is a [[Shout-Out]] to Saddam Hussein's "mother of all wars" boast) in 2017. This bomb is so big it has to be launched out the back of a cargo plane, but it's only a conventional explosive.
* [[Big Lie]]: ForEver nearlysince two years (so far) afterlosing the November 2020 election, Trump and his allies -- including Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz -- claimed without proof that [[Joe Biden]]'s victory had been the result of a vast program of voter fraud executed by the Democrats. While they repeatedly insisted that they had evidence to prove this assertion, none ever materialized and no court (out of sixty lawsuits) ruled in their favor. One lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court of the United States by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in early December 2020 actually claimed that [[Insane Troll Logic|the complete lack of any evidence of voter fraud was in fact ''proof'' of the existence of a massive conspiracy that had ''perfectly'' hidden all traces of both its existence and its efforts to "undermine" the "true" results of the election.]] Regardless of the absence of any proof, the members of Trump's [[Cult of Personality]] uncritically accepted these claims, which directly led to the mob assault upon the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
** Attempts to "prove" that organized voter fraud "stole" the election continued through the summer of 2021, with recounts and audits in states with sympathetic Republican governors or legislatures -- as many as four in some states. As of this writing, all have failed to show ''anything'' close to what Trump's increasingly strident supporters demand that they should -- and one in fact revealed that Biden had actually won with ''more'' votes than initially counted.
** In late August 2022 Trump outright demanded his immediate reinstatement as President, insisting nearly ''two years after the fact'' that the 2020 election was "stolen" despite no evidence having emerged to prove his claims.