Donald Trump

President Krasnov, in full regalia

This visual metaphor is a several understatement of how we are experiencing Donald Trump in 2025. (There is also a representative portrait photo from 2016 if you actually want to see his face for some reason.)

About

Donald Trump is a New York wealth-inheritor real-estate magnate who first rose to fame through carefully-edited "reality TV" show appearances. Running for President some years later, he violated accepted standards of honesty and decency to an extent that would have been previously unbelievable. It was, in fact, so unbelievable that many people just assumed he was telling the truth, or that they could tell when he was telling the truth and when he was "just kidding", that they elected him – twice – with a lot of help from the usual GOP vote-suppression tactics plus assistance from foreign interests and complicit owners of the for-profit mass media.

Pages

• Lists:
  • actions
  • claims
• boycott
• racism
• TV fantasy: a lot of people believed a fictional version of Trump
• Presidency:
  • campaign
  • election
  • pre-presidency
  • administration #1 (2017-2020)
  • self-coup
  • administration #2 (2025-?)

Outlinks

Reference

• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia
• SourceWatch

to file

• 2016-11-08 A new theory for why Trump voters are so angry — that actually makes sense (via): not so much a new theory as new confirmation of the consensus theory
• 2016-08-05 Donald Trump and his followers could destroy America even if he loses (via)
• 2016-06-11 How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions
• 2016-01-18 A neuroscientist explains: Trump has a mental disorder that makes him a dangerous world leader

News

• 2025/01/28 [L..T] Trump’s billionaires will accelerate American decline. Dr. Richard Wolff explains how. «n the campaign trail and beyond, Donald Trump and MAGA right have repeatedly presented themselves as the true representatives of America's beleaguered working class. And yet, like the Capitol rotunda on Inauguration Day, Trump's administration is filled with billionaires, mega-millionaires, and corporate oligarchs whose staggering wealth is increasing year after year while working people struggle to get by. How are people, voters and nonvoters alike, supposed to square this seeming contradiction?»
• 2025/01/27 12:30 UTC [L..T] Trump tells federal employees, "You're fired!" But wait – not so fast. «As president, he is threatening to cut 50,000 federal positions. There will be federal employees whom he replaces as part of the usual political turnover, and others whom he will fire as retribution for being disloyal. But when it comes to firing most federal employees, it isn’t as easy as it appears on television. Federal employees are protected by a system that upholds accountability and fairness – values that cannot be undermined for political gain.»
• 2020/10/13 [L..T] Updating Authoritarian Nightmare «We finished editing the text of Authoritarian Nightmare on June 26, 2020 and sent the manuscript off to the typesetter. Since then four books about President Trump have shot to the top of the bestsellers lists that provide information unavailable when I tried to develop a psychological understanding of the man: Mary L. Trump's book about her family, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man; John R. Bolton's extensive account of his service as National Security Advisor from April 2018 to September 2019, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir; Bob Woodward's Rage, reporting his extensive conversations with the president and his advisors during 2019 and 2020; and Michael Cohen's Disloyal, which details the author’s service as Trump's "fixer" from 2007 to 2018.»
• 2019/11/03 [L..T] Editing Donald Trump «What I saw as the editor of The Art of the Deal, the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.»
• 2017/03/14 [L..T] Donald Trump shows why businessmen make bad presidents «Pursuit of private profit at all costs corrodes government»: True, but also this article is far too charitable in assuming that Trump (or any GOP president) ever intended to run the government well.
• 2017/02/10 [L..T] The Madness of King Donald «But all the traditional political fibbers nonetheless paid some deference to the truth – even as they were dodging it. They acknowledged a shared reality and bowed to it. They acknowledged the need for a common set of facts in order for a liberal democracy to function at all. Trump's lies are different. They are direct refutations of reality – and their propagation and repetition is about enforcing his power rather than wriggling out of a political conundrum. They are attacks on the very possibility of a reasoned discourse, the kind of bald-faced lies that authoritarians issue as a way to test loyalty and force their subjects into submission.»
• 2017/01/27 08:00 UTC [L..T] Astoundingly Complex Visualization Untangles Trump's Business Ties «Before Donald Trump was the president, he was a businessman. He came to office leading a vast business enterprise that includes real estate, casinos, and a lucrative branding operation. "The network is huge," says designer Kim Albrecht, whose riveting data visualization Trump Connections attempts to untangle it all.»
• 2016/12/12 14:01 UTC [L..T] Donald Trump's Science Fiction «President-elect Donald Trump has been twisting the facts in ways beyond what even George Orwell envisioned in his dystopian novel 1984. When PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning truth squad sponsored by the Tampa Bay Times, analyzed more than 300 assertions by Trump since he announced his presidential bid, it found that roughly 70 percent were mostly or completely false while another 15 percent were half-truths. Only 15 percent of his comments were deemed mostly or completely true.» The article goes into depth on several of Trump's then-favorite claims.