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** [[Reality Ensues]]: Trump's constant attacks on truth mean we must wait for the truth to be revealed, and for reality to ensue.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: You've got to admit he 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]], which is unusual for someone so card-carryingly vain. According to [[Frontline]], Obama's jokes about Trump were the turning point that caused Trump to run for president seriously.
** Subverted when he became President and skipped both White House Correspondence Dinners (2017 and 2018). Comedians Hasan Minhaj<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDmSZX_zVuQ WHCD 2017] ''youtube.com''</ref> and Michelle Wolf's<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeEiq_C6j3c WHCD 2018] ''youtube.com''</ref> roasts were particularly brutal affairs.
* [[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. His "small loan of million dollars" may well have been $413 million.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/donald-trump-tax-fraud-fred.html Trump Tax Fraud] ''nytimes.com''</ref>
* [[Spanner in the Works]]:
** To a degree at least; few in the mainstream media and among the Beltway circles seriously expected him to win, which caught them by surprise.
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