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* [[Third-Person Person]]: Reported as speaking that way on occasion, such as the meeting with Bill Barr cited under ''It's All About Me'', above.
* [[Throw It In]]: One of the greatest frustrations suffered by Trump's staff during his presidency was his inability to follow a script. Without someone able to force him to stay on-topic, Trump would invariably throw out his prepared notes to expound, often fact-free and at great length, about his political enemies, his grievances and anything else he thought would make make him look good to the audience.<ref>In a lot of ways, this was due to his distain towards President Obama, whose detractors often claimed [[Insane Troll Logic|he could not give a speech without a tele-prompter]] something which most would agree, is preferable to trying to recite a ninety-minute speech from memory.</ref> Averted in the wake of the mob attack on the Capitol he instigated on January 6, 2021; his staff refused to let him make any kind of live speech, instead taping all his announcements and watching closely to ensure that he did not improvise and undo the carefully scripted condemnations of the insurrectionist violence that they had worked so hard to produce and distribute. Even so, the recording they used was the fourth "take".
* [[Too Soon]]: Defied; he waited all of 24 hours after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell Colin Powel's] death to [https://www.rawstory.com/there-really-is-no-bottom-trump-buried-for-spiteful-statement-about-colin-powell-s/ criticize and insult him.]
* [[Trash Talk]]: A favored tactic -- some would say his ''only'' tactic -- in any kind of debate or presentation; Trump never dealt in facts or reasoned argument when he could insult his opponent, their family, or even an idea.
* [[Troll]]: As demonstrated during his presidential campaign, he would purposely lure the media into writing hit pieces on him by spewing inflammatory rhetoric so they would give him publicity they otherwise would have denied him. His best troll, even acknowledged by CNN, was when he promised to speak about his views on [[Barack Obama]]'s national origin, duped the media into airing nearly half an hour of positive press about him, then made a brief comment Obama was born in America just as they were losing patience and abruptly left.
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