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** As Congress prepared to impeach him a second time for riling up an angry mob and aiming them at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump insisted that he'd done nothing wrong and the last-minute impeachment was yet another "witch hunt". |
** As Congress prepared to impeach him a second time for riling up an angry mob and aiming them at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump insisted that he'd done nothing wrong and the last-minute impeachment was yet another "witch hunt". |
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* [[With Us or Against Us|With Me or Against Me]]: Either you were [[Undying Loyalty|100% loyal]] to Trump, or you were an enemy to be crushed. Republicans who criticized him were blasted as "RINO"s (Republicans in Name Only), and when long-time boosters FOX News actually reported something that did not reflect well on him, he attacked them instantly. |
* [[With Us or Against Us|With Me or Against Me]]: Either you were [[Undying Loyalty|100% loyal]] to Trump, or you were an enemy to be crushed. Republicans who criticized him were blasted as "RINO"s (Republicans in Name Only), and when long-time boosters FOX News actually reported something that did not reflect well on him, he attacked them instantly. |
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** He had no compunctions about savaging his vice president, Mike Pence (who had been loyal to him to a [[Lickspittle]] degree for four years), when Pence refused to break the law to overrule the electoral college and declare Trump the winner. |
** He had no compunctions about savaging his vice president, Mike Pence (who had been loyal to him to a [[Lickspittle]] degree for four years), when Pence refused to break the law to overrule the electoral college and declare Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election. |
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* [[The Wonka]]: Trump has made some major accomplishments in politics partially due to his idiosyncratic approach to politics and his personal traits, despite this confusing many around him and making some question the quality of his character or his state of mind. Chief among them is successfully becoming President of the United States despite being an outlier with no prior political experience and succeeding in the face of significant media scrutiny and criticism. There have been others before and since, such as his role in [[w:Abraham_Accords|setting up the joint statement of the Abraham Accords with aims of promoting peace in the Middle East]], the first peace agreement of its kind since the Israel-Jordan peace treaty of 1994. Other examples including taking advantage of a (mostly hostile) mainstream news media to get more coverage (see [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity]] above) and winning despite bucking numerous social trends (see [[Calvin Ball]] above). |
* [[The Wonka]]: Trump has made some major accomplishments in politics partially due to his idiosyncratic approach to politics and his personal traits, despite this confusing many around him and making some question the quality of his character or his state of mind. Chief among them is successfully becoming President of the United States despite being an outlier with no prior political experience and succeeding in the face of significant media scrutiny and criticism. There have been others before and since, such as his role in [[w:Abraham_Accords|setting up the joint statement of the Abraham Accords with aims of promoting peace in the Middle East]], the first peace agreement of its kind since the Israel-Jordan peace treaty of 1994. Other examples including taking advantage of a (mostly hostile) mainstream news media to get more coverage (see [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity]] above) and winning despite bucking numerous social trends (see [[Calvin Ball]] above). |
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* [[Word Salad]]: Trump has been [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/02/22/trumps-word-salads-conceal-his-ignorance/known to do this on occasion], which [https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/01/behold-donald-trumps-latest-word-salad-on-climate-change/ can reveal his ignorance of the subject at hand]. |
* [[Word Salad]]: Trump has been [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/02/22/trumps-word-salads-conceal-his-ignorance/known to do this on occasion], which [https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/01/behold-donald-trumps-latest-word-salad-on-climate-change/ can reveal his ignorance of the subject at hand]. |
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