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'''Donald John Trump''' is the 45th President of the United States of America. One of the few presidents to be known outside of political circles before his run, he was originally a real estate mogul known for [[Egopolis|slapping his name]] on the front of his innumerable hotels, casinos, resorts and golf courses. Prior to transferring his business assets to his children, most of his capital was rooted in New York City, where he owned several million square feet of property, including ''half of the Empire State Building''. Prior to 2015 he held joint-ownership over the Miss Universe pageant, also encompassing Miss USA and Miss Teen USA. 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...<ref> According to [http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20150227/NEWS0605/150229334/1010/Art Trump himself, he had already been considering not renewing being the host anyway due to his presidential campaign, so being officially dropped just confirmed it.]</ref>

 

 

His [[The Eighties|1987]] semi-autobiographical book, ''The Art of the Deal'', sold ''extremely'' well as people began to identify him with American entrepreneurship and shrewd power brokering. It was around this time that Trump started to appear [[As Himself]] in television [[Dom Com]]s and films, including ''[[Home Alone]] 2'' and ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'', where the characters invariably treat him with a reverence usually reserved for royalty. His golden boy image took a beating in [[The Nineties]] as the result of bankruptcies, a much-publicized extramarital affair, and mounting debt (partly as a result of the 1980s recession), but he managed to bounce back. He even has his officially licensed and voiced video game.

 

 

In 2011, Trump briefly ran in the Republican presidential nomination primary for the 2012 election, seen by some as a ratings stunt. He was a proponent of the "[[Conspiracy Theorist|birther]]" theory, so his campaign was ended after the birther train was stopped for good by [[Barack Obama]] providing his long-form birth certificate. Despite this, Trump maintained that there were still "questions" about Obama's birth certificate until he dropped the issue in 2016.

** 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>.

** Trump was the first major party candidate in 40 years not to release his income tax return. He claims an ongoing audit prevented him from doing so.

** "Make America Great Again" (MAGA for short) was his election version. He has confirmed "Keep America Great" will be his 2020 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.

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Press Secretary #2 Anthony Scaramucci. Alternates between [[Brooklyn Rage]] and effusive [[Big Brother Worship]] (not that kind of [[Big Brother Is Watching|Big Brother]]... well maybe?). Goes by [[Spell My Name with a "The"|"The Mooch"]], though his name also brings to mind [[Commedia Dell'Arte]] character Scaramouch (yes, the one from [[Bohemian Rhapsody]]) a.k.a. Scaramuccia. Scaramouch is proud and cowardly, but we have yet to see if it's a [[Meaningful Name]].

** As an example of the comic relief part, on his 6th day on the job, he called a reporter and demanded for her source on the record, then promised to fire everyone in the department if she didn't reveal the leak's source, then said he knew it was Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, while wrapping up that he wasn't going to "[[Anatomically-Impossible Sex|suck his own cock]] like [Steve] Bannon." All on the record. The incident that leaked which was "a threat to the American country"? The fact that he, the president, and Sean Hannity had dinner together.

* [[Public Relations Ad]]: He's a master of advertisement. It works, obviously… and tricky enough that it's hard to tell where it ends.

** Even the First Lady Melania Trump's [https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/first-lady-melania-trump photo]. It's impressive, but an "ambiguously dangerous" Glamour Shot, really? Is this merely something she wanted to do for fun, and why not? Is this posturing as a political move? Both? Who can tell?