Donald Trump: Difference between revisions

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** His apparent belief that legal cases are decided for whoever shouts loudest, regardless of evidence.

** His claim that being [[Persona Non Grata|banned from all major social media sites]] at the end of his presidency was a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The First Amendment forbids the government -- and ''only'' the government -- from regulating speech. Private entities are permitted -- in fact, ''required'' at times -- to regulate speech which they enable. Further, businesses are permitted to refuse to service to anyone they care to -- a right supported all the way to the Supreme Court by conservatives, who only imagined it being used by Christian bakeries to refuse to make cakes for gay weddings. Not to mention that the social media sites which have banned him have also banned other world leaders and political figures for identical behavior, putting the lie to his insistence that he is being specifically targeted.

** As of March 30, 2021, [https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/30/trump-campaign-non-disclosure-agreement-478648 a federal judge has ruled that the Non-Disclosure Agreements Trump had his campaign workers sign is so broad as to be unenforceable], suggesting that Trump's desire to control his employees' speech exceeds his understanding of the laws regarding the legal ways of doing so.

* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Trump rarely if ever backs down. No matter the potential foolishness or folly, he will almost inevitably double down when called on it, usually citing unspecified anonymous "people" who agree with him or certify him as being correct.

** A case in point would be his defense in 2019 of calling for the death penalty for the [https://time.com/5597843/central-park-five-trump-history/ so-called "Central Park Five"] in 1989, even after the five had been exonerated of the rape and beating of jogger Trisha Meili when murderer and serial rapist Matias Reyes ''confessed to the crime'' once DNA evidence identified him. With no evidence whatsoever, Trump painted the five as still being criminals guilty of unknown ''other'' crimes to justify his demand for their executions.

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*[[The Mole]]: During Trump's 2016 campaign for the Presidency, his previous history as a supporter of the Democratic party as well as a friend of the Clintons had no few news outlets, including [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35066940 the BBC], wondering if he wasn't actually a Democratic mole within the Republican party.

* [[Move Along, Nothing to See Here]]: Trump makes all his wives, ''alleged'' mistresses and staffers [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/everyone-signed-one-trump-is-aggressive-in-his-use-of-nondisclosure-agreements-even-in-government/2018/08/13/9d0315ba-9f15-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html?utm_term=.c19fa7eece1e sign Non-Disclosure Agreements].

*** As of March 30, 2021, [https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/30/trump-campaign-non-disclosure-agreement-478648 a federal judge has ruled that the Non-Disclosure Agreements Trump had his campaign workers sign is so broad as to be unenforceable]. So in this particular case the trope appears to averted.

** As president, Trump and his staff routinely destroyed records of meetings and phone calls in violation of federal law mandating their preservation. A small group of White House staffers who went out of their way to reconstruct destroyed paper records early in his administration were fired for doing so.

* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: Frequently referred to his never-built US/Mexico border wall as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM7mPl20GhQ a big, ''beautiful'' wall].