Donald Trump: Difference between revisions

** He launched a tirade of abuse at Omarosa Manigault Newman, calling her a "crazed lowlife" and a "dog". He has known and worked with her for 15 years, and has fired her 4 times (3 times on "The Apprentice", once IRL).

** Even [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/340025-tapper-so-how-is-melanias-anti-cyberbullying-campaign-going his wife Melania can't escape the iron-y grip of Trumpdom]: she advocates for the prevention of cyber-bullying while her husband - ''the most powerful man in the world'' - [http://web.archive.org/web/20200606150847/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1029010124881453056 bullies people on the internet]. [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/melania-trump-cyberbullying-john-brennan-donald-trump-tweet-twitter-cia-director-a8499666.html Ouch].

* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Outside of his own campaign team the number of political pundits, analysts, or insiders even remotely willing to entertain the idea that Donald Trump could successfully be elected President could literally be counted on the fingers of one hand. Then he proved them wrong by winning.

** Youtube has a [https://youtu.be/zT0Rjc6jKCg highlight reel of the best Trump election skepticism], complete with punchline.

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Trump can laugh at himself, like at his roast and originally at the White House Correspondent's Dinner before [[It's Personal|the jokes against him got more scathing]]. [[Frontline]] even claimed it was Obama's jokes about Trump that caused Trump to run for president seriously.

** Inverted when he became President and skipped both White House Correspondence Dinners (2017 and 2018). Comedians [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDmSZX_zVuQ Hasan Minhaj] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeEiq_C6j3c Michelle Wolf]'s roasts were particularly brutal affairs. After the backlash following Wolf's roast it was announced that a presidential biographer (Ron Chernow) would give a talk in 2019 that [https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/2019-white-house-correspondents-no-comedian.html prohibited comedians from attending Presidential dinners].

* [[Shame If Something Happened]]: How some commentators [https://twitter.com/sams1stdaughter/status/1187796927125032960 characterized] [https://3ci6gd82qqe3lh3ugujrds6j-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/18918566_web1_191010-BIR-trump140-HEROS57.jpg his efforts] [https://www.noozhawk.com/article/daryl_cagle_ukraine_extortion_and_donald_trump_20190925 to bully other countries] [https://3ci6gd82qqe3lh3ugujrds6j-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/18918566_web1_191010-BIR-trump140-HEROS45.jpg into doing things for him].

* [[Sore Loser]]: A consistent theme throughout his life and his presidency -- Trump ''cannot'' bear to be seen as losing at ''anything'', and has used lawsuits and lies to challenge anything that makes him look like a "loser". He's insisted every election he's been in has been "rigged" so as to give any loss the appearance of illegitimacy, no more so than in the wake of losing to Biden in November 2020. Trump ''immediately'' declared that there had been a massive conspiracy of organized voter fraud to deny him his rightful re-election. He and his enablers then spent ''months'' after the 2020 election filing dozens of ultimately futile lawsuits in order to overturn its results. In December 2020 he was reported to be considering declaring martial law to prevent his removal from power. In early January 2021 he attempted to bully his own vice president into illegally declaring him the winner, and when that failed he incited a mob to storm the Capitol Building in an unsuccessful attempt to ''seize'' the government. He never formally conceded, and all the way up to Biden's Inauguration refused to mention him by name.