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* [[Weasel Words]]: In the strict sense of using ambiguous phrases, claims or appeals to vague and unverifiable sources. e.g. "[https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-people-saying-trump-tweet-000000450.html a lot of people are saying/many people have said]". He claims "[http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382378-trump-many-people-have-said-i-should-fire-muellermany people have told him]" he should fire Robert Mueller. 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 [https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/28/trump-fake-news-media-238894 accusing the media of making up sources].
* [[What Have You Done for Me Lately?]]:
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{{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."
|[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-isolated-impeachment/2021/01/13/0595675a-55b6-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html "Trump is isolated and angry at aides for failing to defend him as he is impeached again"], ''The Washington Post'', January 13, 2021}}
:* [[What Have You Done for Me Lately?]]: Trump managed to escape prosecution during his Presidency mostly due to the machinations of House Speaker (at the time) Paul Rian, Senate Majority Leader (again, at the time) Mitch McConnell, and his second Attorney General Bill Barr. Despite this, in the aftermath of the Capitol riot, he condemned and insulted ''any'' member of the Republican Party, including those three, who refused to acknowledge his fantasy of a "rigged election", going so far as to label Barr a "RINO"<ref>"Republican in Name Only", previously used as an insult towards members of the GOP who show willingness to accept Liberal ideas, [[You Keep Using That Word|now frequently used]] by Trump and his base to describe a Republican who dares disagree with him even once.</ref> because of it. ▼
* [[Wild Card Excuse]]:
**" Fake news" for any media coverage which was anything less than glowingly complimentary.
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* [[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 of the 2020 presidential election.
▲* [[What Have You Done for Me Lately?]]: Trump managed to escape prosecution during his Presidency mostly due to the machinations of House Speaker (at the time) Paul Rian, Senate Majority Leader (again, at the time) Mitch McConnell, and his second Attorney General Bill Barr. Despite this, in the aftermath of the Capitol riot, he condemned and insulted ''any'' member of the Republican Party, including those three, who refused to acknowledge his fantasy of a "rigged election", going so far as to label Barr a "RINO"<ref>"Republican in Name Only", previously used as an insult towards members of the GOP who show willingness to accept Liberal ideas, [[You Keep Using That Word|now frequently used]] by Trump and his base to describe a Republican who dares disagree with him even once.</ref> because of it.
* [[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 has been [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/02/22/trumps-word-salads-conceal-his-ignorance/known to do this on occasion], which [https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/01/behold-donald-trumps-latest-word-salad-on-climate-change/ can reveal his ignorance of the subject at hand].
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