Donald Trump: Difference between revisions

* [[Self-Made Man]]: In the sense that he [[Half Truth|inherited his business]], went broke (bankrupting a ''casino'' is, as many have noted, no mean feat), and then rebuilt himself. He did receive a "small loan of million dollars", the [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/donald-trump-tax-fraud-fred.html highest estimates putting it at $413 million], but Trump has succeeded at multiplying his wealth to several times the amount he was loaned as his current{{when}} net worth is around 2 billion dollars (and [https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-net-worth/ going from a millionaire to a ''billionaire''] is no mean feat).

* [[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.

** In mid-December 2020, infamous GOP strategist/dirty trickster Karl Rove noted that Trump was [[Understatement|"on the edge" of looking like a Sore Loser]].