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* [[Persona Non Grata]]: After protesters stormed the Capitol immediately after attending his rally on January 6, 2021, social media outlets, online merchant sites, large banks, the PGA, and other private companies quickly and publicly started having nothing to do with him.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Despite usually having an aggressive manner towards opponents, he has been known to show compassion to them.
**In 2018, [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44390737 Trump granted clemency to Alice Johnson], a 63-year-old woman who had been serving time for a drug charge and money laundering since 1996 and had been denied clemency by previous administrations despite meeting all the criteria.
**A more literal example where Trump administration arranged for a White House meeting with of the special operations soldiers that participated in the Baghdadi raid that killed the leader of ISIS; literal because that included Conan, the special operations war dog in that raid. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(dog)#White_House_visit While the soldiers couldn’t be identified due to national security reasons from being on active duty at the time, Conan wasn’t on active duty and thus was at the meeting]. Trump also posted a declassified picture of Conan on Twitter and even considered changing the policy on military canines not being awarded military honors.
** Even mainstream media outlets conceded his sympathy for Bernie seemed genuine after Bernie was replaced by Hilary as the Democratic candidate of 2016.
** There's also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knlJWu815C0&ab_channel=C-SPAN his response to the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg].