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** The 2016 Republican party debates generally devolved into this.
** The first 2020 presidential debate ended up like this, for the most part (with constant interruptions, not helped by the inability of the moderator, Chris Wallace, to maintain a semblance of order).
* [[Weasel Words]]: In the strict sense of using ambiguous phrases, claims or appeals to vague and unverifiable sources. iee.g. "a lot of people are saying/many people have said".<ref>[https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-people-saying-trump-tweet-000000450.html Manya lot of people are saying] ''yahoo.com''</ref> He claims "many people have told himsaid]". heHe shouldclaims fire Robert Mueller.<ref>"[http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382378-trump-many-people-have-said-i-should-fire-mueller Manymuellermany people have saidtold him]" he should fire Mueller]Robert ''thehillMueller.com''</ref> His speech patterns are characteristically ''weaselly'' in the rhetorical sense of invoking ''an unsubstantiated mass of people who miraculously agree with your opinion''.
** He has also inverted this by accusing the media of making up sources.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/28/trump-fake-news-media-238894 Trumpaccusing claimsthe media makesof making up sources] ''politico.com''</ref>
* [[What Have You Done for Me Lately?]]: His explicit intent in seating Supreme Court justices was to guarantee they would rule in his favor regardless of the merits of the case. It didn't work out that way. After multiple legal losses in the aftermath of the 2020 election, he angrily tweeted more than once how the Republican party and all the judges he'd appointed ''owed'' him, and weren't working hard enough to overturn Biden's election for him.
{{quote|"One of the metrics by which he’s often judged any number of things is: 'Who's out there saying good things about me or fighting on my behalf?' And he never seemed to think there were enough people doing it strongly enough."
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**" Hoax" for any bit of undeniable reality he couldn't wish out of existence.
* [[Witch Hunt]]: His constant refrain regarding ''any'' investigation aimed at him.
** Trump famously declared the investigation into his campaign to be a "Witch Hunt".<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20200607232314/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/968468176639004672 "WITCHWitch HUNT!Hunt]" - Trump tweet] ''twitter.com''</ref> The [[Irony|irony]] is, that so-called "witch hunts" are supposed to be in effect when evidence is ''scarce'', whereas Special Investigator Robert Mueller III (sounds like a modern day "Witch Hunter General") has produced 8 convictions, 27 indicted individuals and 3 indicted corporations (to date, with more to follow).<ref>[https://medium.com/@KeithDB/a-running-tab-of-mueller-investigation-convictions-indictments-f518b9a72827 Runningeight Tabconvictions, of27 Muellerindicted Indictmentsindividuals and three indicted corporations] ''medium(to date,{{when}} with more to follow).com''</ref> On Dec 7th, 2018, Trump launched a tweet about the "Witch Hunt Report."<ref>[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1071036505676808194 a tweet about the "Witch Hunt Report."] ''twitter.com''</ref>
** 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".
* [[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.
** 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.
* [[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).
* [[Word Salad]]: Trump's has been known to do this on occasion.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/02/22/trumps-word-salads-conceal-his-ignorance/?utm_term=.067fcea53e67known Trumpto Worddo Saladthis on occasion] ''washingtonpost.com''</ref>, which can reveal his ignorance of the subject at hand.<ref>[https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/01/behold-donald-trumps-latest-word-salad-on-climate-change/ Climatecan Changereveal Wordhis Salad]ignorance ''motherjonesof the subject at hand].com''</ref>
* [[Worst Whatever Ever]]: During the first presidential debate (September 26, 2016), Trump [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fEb5niN8Kg said] on [[w:North American Free Trade Agreement|NAFTA]]: "This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever." The quote later turned into a [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-worst-trade-deal meme].
** In the final weeks of his presidency, Trump was hailed as the worst president ever by commentators from all points on the political spectrum.
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