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**Similarly, the White House excused his fervent declaration that Democrats were "treasonous" and "un-American" for staying seated during his 2018 State of the Union speech as [https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-joking-excuse-democrats-treason-2018-2 "just joking"].
** Given that Trump [[No Sense of Humor|shows no evidence he even possesses a sense of humor]], it's amazing how many jokes he told from the Presidential podium that nobody noticed until his staff pointed them out. Trump would also occasionally subvert his staff's efforts by contradicting them and insisting he really was serious.
* [[Just Plane Wrong]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htyNQ8MK3xU Famously claimed] that the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II F-35 Fighter Jet] was ''literally'' invisible. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6mZ1ofj2Vo Also famously claimed] the Continental army seized control of the airports during the American Revolution.
* [[Karma Houdini]]:
** Despite [[w:First impeachment of Donald Trump|being impeached in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress]], the Senate refused to bring him to trial.
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{{quote|'''Trump''': One of the problems that a lot of people like myself — ''we have very high levels of intelligence'', but we’re not necessarily such believers [in climate change].}}
:* The same can be said of his cabinet picks. Rick Perry (former Governor of Texas and Trump's first Secretary of Energy) didn't even ''know'' nuclear energy was part of the package when he said he wanted to “do away with” the department at a 2011 presidential debate. Steven Mnuchin, his first Secretary of the Treasury, is a known spendthrift who has been criticized for making frivolous purchases. Callista Gingrich (his Ambassador to the Vatican) seemed to have no qualifications other than being Catholic, and was likely appointed as a favor to Trump's ally Newt Gingrich. And Scott Pruitt (his EPA chief) had been best known for unsuccessfully suing the EPA ''twelve times''. Oh, and the state he represents, Oklahoma, is among the most polluted in the nation. [https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/least-qualified-people-serving-in-the-trump-administration.html/ More examples can be found here.]
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Is apparently completely incapable of understanding or sympathizing with the feelings of anyone other than himself, as noted by many outside observers and reporters.
* [[Landslide Election]]: Subverted in 2016, inverted in 2020. He claimed his victory in 2016 was "the biggest Electoral Landslide in history, but it was not even close<ref>The biggest electoral landslide in history was, not counting George Washington or James Monroe, who both ran unopposed, John F. Kennedy's victory over Alf Landon, 523 votes to 8. Trump's victory in 2020 is not even in the top 10.</ref> and he lost the Popular vote. While he and many proponents predicted [https://www.valuewalk.com/2020/10/trump-biden-electoral-vote-prediction-stunning-victory/ a 312-Electoral Vote landslide in 2020], he lost 306 to 232. Ironically, Biden's victory was a wider margin that Trump's in 2020, which Trump himself claimed was a landslide.
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