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{{quote|I believe he’s a con man, a pathological liar ... I believe he doesn’t care about, and may not even fully comprehend, the difference between truth and lies, between honesty and mendacity.}}
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Trump never met a [[Conspiracy Theories|conspiracy theory]] too wild to embrace and retweet, as long as it made him look good or his enemies look bad. He would gladly delve fathoms deep into [[Cloudcuckoolander]] territory if it served his needs, such as the claim that Hugo Chavez, who had died three years before Trump was elected, was behind a vast international conspiracy to deny him re-election. Starting well before his political career, he has promoted dozens of them; among the most troubling were his assertion that Barack Obama was not born in America and thus not eligible to be President ("Birtherism"), that Muslims in Jersey City were celebrating the 9/11 attacks by partying in the streets as it was happening, that Ted Cruz's father was involved in John F. Kennedy's assassination, that there was widespread voter fraud in 2016 (the election he ''won''), that there was even more voter fraud in 2020, that Obama was "wiretapping" his campaign, Hillary Clinton ordered Vince Foster and dozens of others murdered (not a conspiracy theory he started, in his defense, but one he seems adamant is true), Global Warming is a "Chinese hoax", and that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered (which he did seem to make up himself). He gladly took up QAnon, the whackjob right-wing movement that was convinced that all Democrats were blood-drinking, Satan-worshiping pedophiles and that Trump was [[The Messiah|a savior]] who would defeat them all and make the world safe for fascism.
*[[Consummate Liar]]: Averted. Trump's apparent uncontrollable compulsion to make himself look better or more knowledgeable at all times has led to him lying about things that can easily be verified or which were witnessed by thousands or millions of other people -- starting with the claim that his 2017 Inauguration had a larger crowd than any other Inauguration ever, especially [[Barack Obama]]'s -- a claim immediately disproven by the National Parks Service, which released [https://www.cnet.com/news/nps-donald-trump-inauguration-barack-obama-crowd-size/ side-by-side aerial photographs] demonstrating just how tiny the turnout was for Trump, and how immense it was for Obama.
** In the interests of fairness, it should be noted that more than a year and a half after his inauguration, the characterization of this as a deliberate lie was challenged by then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who claimed that [https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/trump-inauguration-photos/index.html Trump's boast was based on cropped photos provided by an anonymous NPS photographer which left out the vast tracts of empty space that were filled with people for Obama's inauguration, and thus Trump hadn't ''lied'', he'd been ''misled''.] This had the problem of contradicting Trump's comment that the boast was based on his own on-the-spot observation of the crowd during the ceremony.
* [[Crunchtastic]]: Trump has a ''bigly'' vocabulary of the best words. Even if a few are made up. [[w:Donald_Trump_on_social_media#"Covfefe"|Covfefe]].<ref>Unfortunately, the [[wikipedia:COVFEFE Act|COVFEFE Act]] (intended to extend to Twitter posts the same requirement of preservation that other Presidential communications have) died in committee, so future generations might not have access to this unique vocabulary.</ref>
* [[Cult of Personality]] : [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/24/paleologos-on-poll-breaking-down-donald-trump-cult-like-following/4037335001/ His following], who comprise approximately a third of Republican voters by best counts, and who uncritically accept everything he says.
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* [[Madness Mantra]]: White House insiders reported that after the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, a disbelieving Trump would wander the White House muttering, "I won. I won. I won."
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: See some of the entries under "[[Troll]]" below.
*[[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 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.
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* [[Pervert Dad]]: Trump has a [https://www.indy100.com/news/donald-trump-ivanka-inappropriate-daughter-9594016 documented history] of discussing the sexual appeal of his daughter Ivanka, including his own attraction to her, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html going back at least to 1997] if not further. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzhcaGrUG8 And he hasn't been shy about proclaiming any of it in public and on the record.]
* [[Pinocchio]]: The Washington Post created a new category of "falsehood" (as part of their Fact Checker) for false claims repeated more than 20 times publicly after attributing so many to Trump. It was called the "Bottomless Pinocchio".<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/fact-checker-most-repeated-disinformation/?utm_term=.7ea2e566af6a Bottomless Pinocchio] ''washingtonpost.com''</ref>
* [[Playing the Victim Card]]: Complaining about how he was the victim of any number of people, organizations and conspiracies out to get him was the oratorical stock-in-trade of Trump while he was President, and played a major part in his baseless contention that his defeat in the 2020 presidential election was due to massive fraud.
** In 2015, after he made unsupported statements about illegal Mexican immigrants, [[wikipedia:Miss_USA_2015#Controversy|Univision Communications decided to not air the Miss USA pageant (which Trump owned at the time) in Mexico]]. Trump proceeded to sue Univision for defamation.
* [[Presenters]]: For ''[[The Apprentice (TV series)|The Apprentice]]''.
* [[Propaganda Machine]]: The now-defunct @realDonaldTrump [[Twitter]] feed and the ecosystem of right-wing and far-right news outlets that fed off it.
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