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== A-C ==

* [[Adam Westing]]: At one time he seemed to revel in parodies of himself, even appearing in a series of OREO commercials with Darrell Hammond (Hammond was ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s longest-running white male cast member and one of the show's best and most frequently-used celebrity impersonators) impersonating him.

* [[All Issues Are Political Issues]]: While President, he claims any criticism of his actions is a political attack.

* [[Believing Their Own Lies]]: It's unclear, but Trump does at least give the appearance of believing his lies ''du jour''.

* [[Big Bulky Bomb]]: He became the first president to deploy a MOAB, the so-called "Mother of All Bombs" (which itself is a [[Shout-Out]] to Saddam Hussein's "mother of all wars" boast) in 2017. This bomb is so big it has to be launched out the back of a cargo plane, but it's only a conventional explosive.

** "I do not tolerate ANY extreme violence." (Posted to Twitter on October 8, 2020 in response to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's accusation that he encouraged White Supremacist groups and their violence.)

** And then on January 6, 2021, [https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/06/what-trump-said-rally-speech-spark-u-s-capitol-storming/6568337002/ he told a rally "And after this, we're going to walk down there, and I'll be there with you"] before doing nothing to prevent that crowd from storming the Capitol building. He was not right there with them. As soon as he was done speaking he returned to the White House to watch the insurrection he'd launched on TV.

** He completely ignored the "rule" that a campaign should "never put a candidate in a hat if you can avoid it" <ref>One notable violation leading to failure was Dukakis wearing a tank commander helmet and looking horrible in it, providing Bush Sr. with material for successful ads against him.</ref> and not only made his "Make America Great Again" hat iconic, but successfully wore a hard hat when accepting an endorsement from West Virginia Coal Association <ref>An endorsement he admitted right there isn't hard when running against Hillary, who said she wants their employers "out of business"</ref>.

** Trump was the first major party candidate in 40 years not to release his income tax return. He claims an ongoing audit prevented him from doing so.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "You're fired." Inverted regularly in the season finales of ''[[The Apprentice (TV series)|The Apprentice]]'', when he announces "You're hired."

** Trump's 2016 campaign [[Slogans|slogans]] included "Build The Wall", "Lock Her [Hillary Clinton] Up" and "America First".

* [[The Chosen One]]: Repeatedly invoked and lampshaded by Trump himself, as well as some of his allies. Has been spoken of in religious terms among his followers, such as when Rick Perry told Trump that he was God's chosen one. Trump also refers to himself as the only one who could have done X, for a whole host of X.

* [[Compensating for Something]]: Trump's resurgence in business was accompanied by the, erm... [[All Psychology Is Freudian|erection]] of a 68-story Trump Tower in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Pleased with the finished product, he sprouted '''more''' "Trump Towers" in major cities throughout the U.S.

** Also while on the campaign trail, he assured America that despite his small hands, he had "no problems in that department".

{{quote|I believe he’s a con man, a pathological liar ... I believe he doesn’t care about, and may not even fully comprehend, the difference between truth and lies, between honesty and mendacity.}}

* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Trump never met a [[Conspiracy Theories|conspiracy theory]] too wild to embrace and retweet, as long as it made him look good or his enemies look bad. He would gladly delve fathoms deep into [[Cloudcuckoolander]] territory if it served his needs, such as the claim that Hugo Chavez, who had died three years before Trump was elected, was behind a vast international conspiracy to deny him re-election. Starting well before his political career, he has promoted dozens of them; among the most troubling were his assertion that Barack Obama was not born in America and thus not eligible to be President ("Birtherism"), that Muslims in Jersey City were celebrating the 9/11 attacks by partying in the streets as it was happening, that Ted Cruz's father was involved in John F. Kennedy's assassination, that there was widespread voter fraud in 2016 (the election he ''won''), that there was even more voter fraud in 2020, that Obama was "wiretapping" his campaign, Hillary Clinton ordered Vince Foster and dozens of others murdered (not a conspiracy theory he started, in his defense, but one he seems adamant is true), Global Warming is a "Chinese hoax", and that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered (which he did seem to make up himself). He gladly took up QAnon, the whackjob right-wing movement that was convinced that all Democrats were blood-drinking, Satan-worshiping pedophiles and that Trump was [[The Messiah|a savior]] who would defeat them all and make the world safe for fascism.

* [[Cult of Personality]] : [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/24/paleologos-on-poll-breaking-down-donald-trump-cult-like-following/4037335001/ His following], who comprise approximately a third of Republican voters by best counts, and who uncritically accept everything he says.