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* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Trump can laugh at himself, like at his roast and originally at the White House Correspondent's Dinner before [[It's Personal|the jokes against him got more scathing]]. [[Frontline]] even claimed it was Obama's jokes about Trump that caused Trump to run for president seriously.
** Inverted when he became President and skipped both White House Correspondence Dinners (2017 and 2018). Comedians Hasan Minhaj<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDmSZX_zVuQ WHCD 2017] ''youtube.com''</ref> and Michelle Wolf's<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeEiq_C6j3c WHCD 2018] ''youtube.com''</ref> roasts were particularly brutal affairs. After the backlash following Wolf's roast it was announced that a presidential biographer (Ron Chernow) would give a talk in 2019 that prohibited comedians from attending Presidental dinners.<ref>[https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/2019-white-house-correspondents-no-comedian.html No Comedians Allowed] ''vulture.com''</ref>
* [[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. He did receive a "small loan of million dollars", the highest estimates putting it at 413 million<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/donald-trump-tax-fraud-fred.html Trump Tax Fraud] ''nytimes.com''</ref>, but Trump has succeeded at multiplying his wealth to several times the amount he was loaned as his current net worth is around 2 billion dollars (and going from a millionaire to a ''billionaire'' is no mean feat). <ref>[https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-net-worth/]</ref>
* [[Spanner in the Works]]:
** To a degree at least; few in the mainstream media and among the Beltway circles seriously expected him to win, which caught them by surprise.
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