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*** [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zig-Zagged]] in that he immediately proceeded to ignore [https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/18/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-wished-that-i-will-not-be-replaced-until-a-new-president-is-installed-report-says.html her dying wish].
* [[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 "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/fact-checker-most-repeated-disinformation/?utm_term=.7ea2e566af6a Bottomless Pinocchio]".
* [[Plato Is a Moron]]: Even before he was elected President in 2016, Trump was especially prone to making such pronouncements about himself, claiming once that he was [https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15957887/is-trump-a-better-president-than-abraham-lincoln/ an even better President than Lincoln]. And afterward he would never hesitate to inform anyone who would listen that he was smarter and better informed than any expert who dared disagree with him.
* [[Playing the Victim Card]]: Complaining about how he was the victim of any number of people, organizations and conspiracies out to get him was Trump's oratorical stock-in-trade 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.
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