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== M-O ==
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: See some of the entries under "[[Troll]]" below.
* [[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].▼
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: Has referred to his proposed US/Mexico border wall as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM7mPl20GhQ a big, ''beautiful'' wall].
* [[The Nicknamer]]: His ability to give people nicknames that stuck was considered one of his greatest rhetorical strengths in his 2016 election campaign. The nicknames reflect basic sorting of threat levels, with more minor opponents being called "[[The Napoleon|Little]] Marco" or "Low Energy Jeb" while his biggest primary opponent was "Lying Ted" and general election opponent dubbed "Crooked Hillary".
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* [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity]]: Trump managed to sail through the 2016 Republican primary with minimal spending by ensuring the media '''never''' stopped talking about him. Their constant airing hit pieces against him ensured that by the end of the primary ''everyone'' knew Trump wanted to build a border wall despite minimal ads on the subject. This continued in the general election where over sixteen major publications redistributed a graphic he posted, claiming its use of a six pointed star (supposedly a Star of David) was supposedly a hidden anti-Semitic agenda at no cost to him.
* [[No, You]]: Another thing regularly attributed to Trump. There was that time he [http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37187531 called Hillary Clinton a 'bigot'], for instance.
▲* [[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].
* [[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.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Trump has a brash persona (and a reputation for ignorant statements) that belies his keen mind. Trump did go from an outlying candidate to President. Also see [[Troll]] and [[The Wonka]] below for more examples. Even Trump's detractors have grudgingly acknowledged that he is intelligent (such as Michael Moore, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Gk-IAyM0o&ab_channel=Weldingandstuff who considers Trump a genius and respects his ability - albeit Moore called him an "evil genius"]).
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** Managed to upstage the failure of the failure of the Obamacare repeal by a dramatic 49-51 vote.
* [[The One Thing I Don't Hate About You]]: Downplayed. While not about an inherent trait of the man himself, Hillary Clinton cited Trump's children at the debates as her compliment.
* [[Open Mouth, Insert Foot]]: In a virtual [[Call Back]] to famously admitting to obstructing justice in https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-reveals-he-asked-comey-whether-he-was-under-investigation-n757821 Trump/Holt the Lester Holt interview in May 2017], in [https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/14/transcript-trump-daily-caller-interview/ an interview with The Daily Caller published 11/14/18], Trump openly stated that he thought the Mueller investigation was illegal and shouldn't have been started. The firing of Jeff Sessions (who had recused himself from the investigation) and subsequent appointment of Mike Whitaker (a known critic of the Mueller investigation) as acting AG was, for Trump, an obvious solution, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/trump-attorney-general-sessions-unconstitutional.html in spite of its apparent unconstitutionality]. Trump [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/11/15/trump-cant-stop-blurting-out-his-desire-to-obstruct-justice/?utm_term=.a2961f7aa270 seems unable to prevent himself from admitting his corrupt intent to obstruct justice].
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