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'''Donald Trump''' is a real estate mogul known for [[Egopolis|slapping his name]] on the front of his innumerable hotels, casinos, resorts and golf courses. Most of his capital is rooted in New York City, where he owns several million square feet of property, including ''half of the Empire State Building''. This is a secondary achievement to Donald's comb-over, which rivals any architecture he's built. He also hosted [[The Apprentice (TV series)|The Apprentice]], until [http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/nbc-officially-fires-donald-trump-celebrity-apprentice he got kicked out] for his controversial opinions about Mexican immigrants. But we're getting ahead of ourselves...

 

He also holds joint-ownership over the Miss Universe pageant, also encompassing Miss USA and Miss Teen USA.

 

 

In June 16, 2015, he again announced his candidacy for president, as a Republican. With his opposition to illegal immigration, and alleged "free-trade agreements" as well as non-interventionist views on foreign policy, among many other things, Trump quickly emerged as the front-runner for the Republican nomination, showing qualities that other candidates in his party lacked. His highly controversial remarks and unorthodox behavior during the campaign gave him a [[Hatedom]] and a [[:Category:Fandom|Fandom]] as massive as each other. It came to a point where Trump became the ''only'' major Republican candidate.<ref>May 2016 [https://twitter.com/Reince/status/727665447684820992 tweet] by Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee.</ref>

** Not content with prime time, Trump took daytime TV by storm when a [[Volleying Insults|tabloid war]] erupted between himself and Rosie O'Donnell, then-host of the American morning talk show ''The View''.

** After Rosie, [[Barack Obama]] was this to him somewhat briefly.

** [[Hillary Clinton]] even beyond the natural result of being presidential nominees from opposite parties, due to her alleged criminal history and the (disputed) accusation of being the creator of the birther movement.

* [[Badass]]: He got a very credible threat to his life a week or two before his presidential election, to the point the Secret Service had to evac 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. In fact, throughout his entire presidential campaign he's been the target of more than one confirmed assassination attempt and refused to quit appearing in public, even making a point of refusing to be cowed into doing so.

** [[Badass Grandpa]]: The man is over 70 now and is an actual grandfather.

* [[Brooklyn Rage]]: Made efforts to cultivate this image over the years. Trump's persona is that of a [[Nouveau Riche|straight-talking]], tough New Yorker whose face resembles a pit bull in repose.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "You're fired." Inverted regularly in the season finales of ''The Apprentice'', when he announces "You're hired."

** "Make America Great Again" (MAGA for short) was his election version.

* [[Compensating for Something]]: Trump's resurgence in business which was symbolized by the, erm...[[All Psychology Is Freudian|erection]] of a 68-story Trump Tower in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Trump was so happy with the finished product, he sprouted '''more''' "Trump Towers" in major cities throughout the U.S., including one which looms directly over the U.N. Headquarters. Now you ''can't'' ignore his girth.

* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: His first assassination attempt. Michael Steven Sandford, a illegal immigrant from the UK who had only just learned the bare minimum of shooting (having fired a mere 20 rounds, not even two full magazines. Presumably as it is the small unit of ammo that can be purchased new) at a Vegas range, attempted to grab a cop's gun and shoot Trump only to be stopped cold by the now universally standard retention holster. This attempt was so poorly thought out the court considered (though rejected) a halfway house over no bail for an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate.

* [[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.

** Inverted with his fans, who generally take the insulting nicknames Trump's opponents have given them and turn them into [[Insult Backfire]]s. Often after Trump picks up on the insult and calls it out for being such.

* [[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).

* [[Nouveau Riche]]: To a degree. His father was a very successful low income housing developer in NYC, he sent Donald to Fordham, so his family was doing very well before. Donald just took his love of construction and everything else [[Up to Eleven]]. Trump has noted his family was not welcome among the "old money" families from different parts of New York.

* [[Presenters]]: For ''[[The Apprentice]]''.

* [[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.

* [[Spell My Name with a "The"]]: Nicknamed "The Donald", after his first wife Ivana Trump referred to him as such in an interview.

* [[Terrified of Germs]]: Avoids pressing the call buttons on elevators, or even shaking hands. (Which would make him an interesting head of state.)

* '''[[Troll]]''': As demonstrated during his presidential campaign, he would purposely lure the media into writing hit pieces on him by spewing inflammatory rhetoric so they would give him publicity they otherwise would have denied him. His best troll, even acknowledged by CNN, was when he promised to speak about his views on [[Barack Obama]]'s national origin, duped the media into airing nearly half an hour of positive press about him, then made a brief comment Obama was born in America just as they were losing patience and abruptly left.

 

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