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Defining traits of the Trumplica include an extravagant fashion sense based [[NouveauRiche more on flaunting wealth than looking stylish]]. [[EightiesHair Bouffant yellow hair]] is usually the defining part (although this hair may sometimes actually be a separate, distinct creature of some sort, such as a PuppeteerParasite). In works published from the 2000s onwards, the large yellow hair may actually be a DodgyToupee, reflecting the real Trump's own hair loss around the same time and his use of toupees and/or bizarre combovers to cover it up. Other defining traits include a wealthy parentage (sometimes combined with AbusiveParents and WellDoneSonGuy), [[NoIndoorVoice an attitude of a self-important blowhard]] (with GloryHound traits mixed in sometimes), high celebrity profile, [[TrophyWife one or more wives young enough to be their daughter]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain transparent racism, misogyny, and classism]], control over a major corporation (property development being the most likely), [[ExecutiveExcess hedonistic depravity]], and an insatiable urge to own more. From [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]] onward, involvement in reality TV may also be a prominent trait, as are political ambitions as high as the Presidency.

Defining traits of the Trumplica include an extravagant fashion sense based [[NouveauRiche more on flaunting wealth than looking stylish]]. [[EightiesHair Bouffant yellow hair]] is usually the defining part (although this hair may sometimes actually be a separate, distinct creature of some sort, such as a PuppeteerParasite). In works published from the 2000s onwards, the large yellow hair may actually be a DodgyToupee, reflecting the real Trump's own hair loss around the same time and his use of toupees and/or bizarre combovers to cover it up. Other defining traits include a wealthy parentage (sometimes combined with AbusiveParents and WellDoneSonGuy), [[NoIndoorVoice an attitude of a self-important blowhard]] (with GloryHound traits mixed in sometimes), high celebrity profile, [[TrophyWife one or more wives young enough to be their daughter]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain transparent racism, misogyny, and classism]], control over a major corporation (property development being the most likely), [[ExecutiveExcess hedonistic depravity]], and an insatiable urge to own more. From the 2000s onward, involvement in reality TV may also be a prominent trait, as are political ambitions as high as the Presidency.

The Trumplica is an [[TakeThat often unflattering]] example of an EccentricMillionaire that tends to appear in works of fiction made after 1980, designed after probably the most iconic (for better or for worse) of the decade's many corporate tycoons: UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.

** He was also parodied (although combined with Ronald McDonald) in the episode "Raphael Meets His Match", where Raphael wins tickets to a cruise line hosted by restaurant owner "McDonald Gump."

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': In [[BadFuture the alternate timeline]], the 1985-A Biff Tannen's characterization is a cross between Donald Trump and Elvis. He's a casino mogul who lives in a Vegas-style skyscraper, has a wife with obvious breast implants, and sports blond-orange hair. This all gets combined with his Elvis-like clothing, mutton chops, and Southern-style entourage. WordOfGod also confirmed that Bad Future Biff was meant to be a caricature of Trump. Interestingly, the film depicts Biff as the de-facto ruler of Hill Valley and an influential kingmaker in the Republican party, long before Trump's ascension to the presidency. In this timeline, [[PermanentElectedOfficial Nixon is still president]], having been elected four times and seeking a fifth term in the 1984-A election. It is heavily implied (and confirmed in a [[ComicBook/BackToTheFuture comic spinoff]]) that Biff helped Nixon overcome Watergate and helped extend his presidency by repealing the 22nd amendment.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': In [[BadFuture the alternate timeline]], the 1985-A Biff Tannen's characterization is a cross between Donald Trump and Elvis. He's a casino mogul who lives in a Vegas-style skyscraper, has a wife with obvious breast implants, and sports blond-orange hair. This all gets combined with his Elvis-like clothing, mutton chops, and Southern-style entourage. WordOfGod also confirmed that Bad Future Biff was meant to be a caricature of Trump. Interestingly, the film depicts Biff as the de-facto ruler of Hill Valley and an influential kingmaker in the Republican party, long before Trump's ascension to the presidency. In this timeline, [[PermanentElectedOfficial Nixon is still president]], having been elected four times and seeking a fifth term in the 1984-A election. It is heavily implied that Biff helped Nixon overcome Watergate and helped extend his presidency by repealing the 22nd amendment.

* ''Film/PresidentEvil'' is a 2018 parody of ''Film/Halloween1978'', with the resident Michael Myers {{expy}} wearing a Trump mask and motivated by [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic extreme right-wing rhetoric]] to hunt [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain black people, Hispanic people, Muslims and trans people]].

Compare with UpperClassTwit, CorruptCorporateExecutive, MillionairePlayboy, TheCaligula, MrViceGuy, ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney, InsufferableImbecile, SubParSupremacist, PresidentEvil, and OurPresidentsAreDifferent.

* During the 1980s to the early 1990s, there was the heavily promoted image as a successful mogul of a set of casinos. Declarations for bankruptcy protection and the gradual failure of the casinos exposed cracks in the image of success and business genius. "Joker's Wild", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', featured Cameron Kaiser, a showboating, celebrity casino mogul who is actually on the verge of bankruptcy.

* ''Film/KnivesOut'' has Joni Thrombey, a Gwyneth Paltrow-esque "lifestyle guru" who has the Trumplica's signature blond hair and fake tan. Ironically, despite the clear visual invocation, Joni is actually shown in-universe to ''despise'' Trump and his politics.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Micro Managing" has the Micro-Puffs (sprite avatars of the girls) bringing in a micro version of the Mayor to negatively influence him. When Ms. Bellum questions his behavior, the Micro-Mayor coerces the Mayor to fire her which he does the same way Donald Trump did on his reality show ''The Apprentice.''

* In ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' the President is a more subtle example, being TheFaceless but having Trump's mannerisms and self-confidence, at one point asserting that he's "done more for the country than Franchise/{{Superman}}".

* In ''4001 A.D.: ComicBook/{{Shadowman}}'', there is Drub Tarley, a golden-haired blowhard who takes over the post-apocalyptic city of Gethsemane by stoking resentments about their peace treaty with nearby Sanctuary, wherein every year, three young people from Gethsemane must present themselves to Sanctuary in order to be sacrificed to maintain the mystical powers that protect both cities from the wasteland that surrounds them.
* The fourth and final issue of ''ComicBook/DiabloHouse'' had a backup story titled "The Art of the Deal", where an unlucky author is hired by an unnamed celebrity chef to ghostwrite his book ''The Art of the Meal''. The celebrity chef resembles a cartoonish caricature of Donald Trump and is shown to be crass, lazy, perverted and prone to insulting his subordinates and using ad hominem attacks on his opposition. The story ends with him becoming President of the United States and riding a nuke heading towards the country ''Film/DrStrangelove''-style, while the author who ghostwrote his book [[DrivenToSuicide jumps out of his apartment window due to his horror at his actions making his client President]].
* A brief instance of this in ''ComicBook/{{Hillbilly}}'', when Esther attempts to unite the hill clans against the incoming invasion of {{wicked witch}}es. One unnamed character, drawn to look an awful lot like Trump, keeps drowning out [[CassandraTruth Esther's words]] with cries of "Fake! Fake!", to the laughter of a gang of sycophantic hangers-on.

* In ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'', one-time Mayor Chuck Worthy has a number of Trump parallels, including his background as a real-estate developer, his use of "law and order" policies as an excuse to harass minorities, his campaign slogan of "Chuck Them Out!" (a parallel to Trump's "Lock Her Up" chant), and his army of followers in baseball caps. Unlike most examples, however, he is not visually modelled after Trump; he looks more like controversial Internet personality (and Trump supporter) Milo Yiannopoulos.

* {{Inverted|trope}} for ''Super Bernie World'', a parody game of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' for the UsefulNotes/BernieSanders 2020 campaign, which depicts FinalBoss Donald Trump as a KingKoopaCopy. [[spoiler:Though, unlike King Koopa, Trump is portrayed as a DirtyCoward who doesn't even put up a fight, just begs Bernie to not kick him out of the White House.]]

* {{Downplayed}} in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey''. During Perikles' symposium, Aristophanes talks about his impression of [[CorruptPolitician Kleon]], who he refers to as "the Orange Ape", which is almost certainly not a coincidence.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/AceCombat7'', which was developed during Trump's presidency: during one mission that involves a border crossing during a war inflamed by nationalist rhetoric between the equivalent of America and a monarchist version of the EU, your wingman points out a massive and unfinished border wall between a not-America ally and the rest of the not-EU states, calling it crazy.

--> '''Mayor''': I will build a great great wall and zombies will pay for it!

* In the ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'', Metropolis real estate mogul Morgan Edge appears to have an extremely devoted fanbase in wide swaths of rural America, much like the real Trump, despite playing a key role in its economic decline, as [[https://tv.avclub.com/the-cw-s-superman-lois-premiere-is-surprisingly-sombe-1846321624 this review]] of the pilot of ''Series/SupermanAndLois'' points out. He also harbors a hatred of the media...which is amusing, since the original Morgan Edge from the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comic books is a media mogul.
** ''Series/{{Batwoman|2019}}'' has Roman Sionis, who vaguely resembles Trump as he was when he first tried to get involved in politics - obsessed with law and order and constantly complaining about how Gotham is corrupt and how the cops need to be given more power. This version of Sionis also has a daughter whose beauty he enthusiastically promotes, much like Trump constantly raves about his daughter's beauty.

* "You and the Cockroach" by Music/HoboJohnson features a president who is "pudgy, orange, and has little sausage fingers" who causes the apocalypse due to an itchy trigger finger for nuclear weapons. The president is never named, but the music video for the song makes it look like Trump.

* The fourth and final issue of ''ComicBook/DiabloHouse'' had a backup story titled "The Art of the Deal", where an unlucky author is hired by an unnamed celebrity chef to ghostwrite his book ''The Art of the Meal''. The celebrity chef resembles a cartoonish caricature of Donald Trump and is shown to be crass, lazy, perverted and prone to insulting his subordinates and using ad hominem attacks on his opposition. The story ends with him becoming President of the United States and riding a nuke heading towards the country ''Film/DrStrangelove''-style.

* In "The Boggart Fights Back" by [[Creator/SusanCooper Susan Cooper]], the primary antagonist, Trout, is trying to build a resort in Scotland. Althought Trout grew up in New York City, he has a Scottish mother who was born off the Argyll coast which is what drew him to Scotland. He also has "tremendous hair, just tremendous", a boat named "Trout Princess", gold Ts across all of his possessions, and refers to his Trout Tower in NYC. Cooper is on the record that it was inspired by the controversy and broken promises in the development of the Trump International Golf Links outside of Aberdeen.

* President Omega, the BigBad in ''Literature/TheSecretsOfSupervillainy'', book three of ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'' is a time traveling villain from the future with elements of Handsome Jack and Kang the Conqueror. However, he also has "a bad toupee and tiny hands" while making several quotes attrtributed to Trump. He's also a former CorruptCorporateExecutive who was previously the head of the Omega Corporation that is an EvilInc.

** The spin-off ''UNIT The News Series'' has a storyline, released in November 2016 as part of the Silenced set. It is a two-parter focusing on a politician, Kenneth LeBlanc, who is firmly anti-immigration and incompetent, with no clear policies, and who unknowingly owes his popularity due to the mind control abilities of the alien Silence, who are manipulating him for their own ends. When he's elected he privately admits he had no idea he'd win and has no idea what to do. Of course, he could also be considered a parody of British politicians such as Nigel Farage, also the Leader of a fringe Party heavily opposed to immigration and no clear policies and Boris Johnson, who also has a reputation for incompetence and untidyness, both of whom gained support for being 'not like other politicians', despite being blatantly untrustworthy and racist.

* The graphic novel ''[[ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}} Dreadstar Returns]]'' features a villain named Plunddo Tram, an obese tyrant with orange skin and wild yellow hair as well as a name that is an anagram for Donald Trump. Shortly before executing Tram, Dreadstar [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rebukes him by listing the reasons he's a completely disgraceful failure as a leader]], with some of the criticisms being overt parallels to criticisms of Donald Trump's actions during his term as President. He also happened to be accompanied by a spineless sycophant named Cepen, who is a blatant stand in for Trump's vice president Mike Pence.

* The graphic novel ''[[ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}} Dreadstar Returns]]'' features a villain named Plunddo Tram, an obese tyrant with orange skin and wild yellow hair as well as a name that is an anagram for Donald Trump. Shortly before executing Tram, Dreadstar [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rebukes him by listing the reasons he's a completely disgraceful failure as a leader]], with some of the criticisms being overt parallels to criticisms of Donald Trump's actions during his term as President.

* Winston, a recurring cat-hating antagonist in the Italian animation show ''WesternAnimation/FortyFourCats'' is a rich man who constantly wears a business suit with a red comb-over hairstyle. All of this could be considered a coincidence, if it weren't for a particular episode in which said character runs for mayor with the intention of eliminating all cats from the city, with a character even stating how he's "going to build a wall to keep us cats out!". That being said, he becomes a more sympathetic character after adopting a cat of his own.

* {{Inverted|trope}} for ''Super Bernie World'', a parody game of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' for the UsefulNotes/BernieSanders 2020 campaign, which depicts FinalBoss Donald Trump as a KingKoopaCopy. [[spoiler:Though, unlike King Koopa, Trump is portrayed as a DirtyCoward who doesn't even put up a fight, just begs Bernie to not kick him out of the White House.]]

* Winston, a recurring cat-hating antagonist in the Italian animation show ''WesternAnimation/FortyFourCats'' is a rich man who constantly wears a business suit with a red comb-over hairstyle. All of this could be considered a coincidence, if it weren't for a particular episode in which said character runs for mayor with the intention of eliminating all cats from the city, with a character even stating how he's "going to build a wall to keep us cats out!". Did we mention this is a show for ''Preschoolers''?

* [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugChloeBourgeois Chloé Bourgeois]] from ''[[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug]]'' is a wealthy spoiled brat with blonde hair who regularly abuses her power and privileges as the mayor's daughter. Following the thrid season finale, her [[TookALevelInJerkass iredeemable traits were ramped up]] to the point that [[WordOfGod series creator Astruc]] [[https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1370525635366547467 compared her]] to Trump. "Reunion" even has her making conspiracy-rallying social media posts that stir up Jalil Kubdel. [[spoiler: Then she causes a coup and takes over Paris as acting mayor after her father stepped down, refusing to acknowledge her father did it willingly while projecting blame on the heroes.]]