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* [[Kicked Upstairs]]: Picking South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, a critic of his, as Ambassador to the UN has been described as this. The position would give her a position with no actual power to an organization Trump has repeatedly called a joke and would make South Carolina's lieutenant governor, who is more supportive of Trump, the governor.
* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]]: It was a frequent boast of his during his presidency was that he ''always'' knew more than any expert. According to Trump, he was a military genius, a prodigy in economics, and a master of all matters medical, among many other fields. This was how he was able, for instance, to confidently declare COVID-19 was a hoax, a mild flu, ''and'' a dangerous disease that would never enter the United States, all at once.
** Many other examples could be given here, but ''The Washington Post'' tracks his claims regularly (such as the pre-election era circa 2016)<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/04/17-issues-that-donald-trump-knows-better-than-anyone-else-according-to-donald-trump/?utm_term=.023786155911 19the thingspre-election Donaldera Trumpcirca knows better than anyone else, according to Donald Trump (10/4/162016])] ''washingtonpost.com''</ref> and specifically in this interview (27/11/18)<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/27/president-trumps-full-washington-post-interview-transcript-annotated/?utm_term=.ee0b33f542cf Trumpthis InterviewNovember Transcript27, (11/27/18)2018 interview] ''washingtonpost.com''</ref> wherein Trump epitomised this trope:
{{quote|'''Trump''': One of the problems that a lot of people like myself — ''we have very high levels of intelligence'', but we’re not necessarily such believers [in climate change].}}
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Is apparently completely incapable of understanding or sympathizing with the feelings of anyone other than himself, as noted by many outside observers and reporters.