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* [[Spell My Name with a "The"]]: Nicknamed "The Donald", after his first wife Ivana Trump referred to him as such in an interview.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: So characterized by both sides of the aisle in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. "We're watching a petulant child not getting his way throw a tantrum," a senior Republican was [https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/donald-trump-pardons-stimulus/index.html quoted as saying by CNN] in late December 2020, in regards to Trump's refusal to let the election result go unchallenged.
* [[Start My Own]]: After being banned from pretty much every major social media outlet in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 insurrection attempt, Trump tried several times with mixed success to start his own social media platform.
* [[Streisand Effect]]: Trump's reaction to ''[[w:Fire and Fury|Fire and Fury]]'', a derogatory tell-all written by [[w:Michael Wolff (journalist)|Michael Wolff]], could well serve as a critic's lesson on how ''not'' to dissuade someone from reading a book. After passages of the book were leaked, Trump launched an explosive rant on Twitter condemning the book, while his wife, daughter, and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders condemned it publicly. Trump even sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher threatening a lawsuit if it was released, even as pre-sales on Amazon were reaching record numbers. As a result, the publisher actually released it four days early to meet demands, and it shot to the heights of the bestseller lists in a matter of hours. Many major booksellers reported lines outside their stores not seen since they had new ''[[Harry Potter]]'' releases, selling out stock in two minutes.
** Then he did it again two years later, threatening to sue his own niece for writing (not publishing, simply writing) ''[[w:Too Much and Never Enough|Too Much and Never Enough]]''. The threatened lawsuit resulted in the book gaining not just national media coverage but also media coverage in Canada, including an in-depth interview with the author on ''[[As It Happens]]''. As a result of this publicity, the book was released twenty-eight days early and set a record at the book's publisher for the number of preorders received.
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